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Our Daily Thread 12-20-14

Good Morning!

5 Days!!!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Kare.

*It’s now Sunday the 21st, so I believe someone has a birthday today.

Happy Birthday Linda. 🙂

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On this day in 1790 the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.

In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union. 

In 1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ. 

And in 1968 author John Steinbeck died at the age of 66.

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Quote of the Day

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

Dale Evans

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 This one is a request.

And this one is because I like it. From King’s College Choir

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Anyone have a QoD?

7,368 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-20-14”

  1. I’m heading down the hill to the Training Centre in a couple of hours. I can see it from my windows, but it is another part of centre from where usually roam. A team from Australia is putting on a women’s retreat for us. I will be sleeping at home, but attending the retreat. Us introverts need our quiet time.

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  4. We are looking forward to the supermoon eclipse tomorrow night. I don’t believe you will be seeing it where you are. But it will be early in the night here, so should be fun if it is not cloudy.

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  5. Women’s Retreat is over. We ended with lunch. We had asked the kitchen crew out to thank them. Then ended and all lined up for lunch. We waited in line about 15 minutes and then someone got on the microphone and said there was no lunch. She had miscommunicated. Such a let down. They were trying to figure out what to do for the MAF ladies who had flown from Mt. Hagen and were waiting for a flight back.

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  7. Monday morning here and this thread is very quiet. Haus meri is here working and, since I only have two rooms, time to me be off to school. Trying to sort through some things that haven’t been sorted in ten years. And, since I have changed the curriculum, get rid of things no longer used.

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  8. Good morning here. We had a nice visit with my folks up in Moscow, yesterday. Left the boys here to do their thing, so just had the younger four. We left after church and returned in time for the eclipse.

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  13. So here we are, over 2,200 posts. Does anyone realize we broke a record? The record for the old WMB was the Scrabble thread with 2,100 some posts. There were 2,129 words (I kept a file with all of them) and several posts that did not add words. But I don’t think there were enough to go over 2,200. Hard to tell now that that blog doesn’t exist.

    At any rate: Congratulations, Ladies.

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  15. Thanks Peter. I imagine that this thread also has a record for longest time running. We have made posts most days. Though my comments always seen to have a different date on them then the actual date where I am!! 🙂 🙂

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  16. Just in time for 2222. Thanks for the set-up, Jo. 🙂

    Neat that the “secret room” thread has now apparently passed up the Scrabble thread in the post count, Peter. I wasn’t part of the Scrabble game — it was before my time at WMB — but this thread has been fun (as it sounds like the Scrabble one was, too).

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  18. I think it is afternoon right now here on the east coast, as it is 12:40pm. Unless I have accidentally slipped into a parallel universe where the time is different. That happens sometimes.

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  22. An evening of raging for the boy last night. Lots of threats to kill people. He is on the waiting list for a residential treatment center, but has been for several months. Husband is having a hard time putting up with the lad.

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  27. went out and did some trimming in the yard. The yard meris that construction is sending do not do any trimming. In fact, I am having trouble figuring out what they do. I do know that if I trim things they will remove the clippings whenever they get here. Construction now owns 1/4 of this building so we are letting them take care of the yard and they charge us. However they let bushes grow and grow, one was blocking my second story kitchen window when I returned.

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  29. Also my driveway now blocks the pathway to the house. hmmm…. must also have some bushes moved there to create a new pathway. It is tricky to hire someone just for a small amount of work.

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  30. Everybody has a task and a task for everybody, no disturbing the status quo. I have run into that before. Though I did have a lady who came to clean in Okinawa, and I was so embarrassed at having a sixty plus year old clean the house of a thirty plus year old, that I convinced her to just iron the uniforms for husband and to cook for us, teaching us a few Okinawan tricks. But I felt it important to hire her as that was her way of making a living. She also took all of our surplus clothing and such to distribute however she did that. I appreciated her but was intimidated for sure.

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  31. I’m pretty sure that if I ever had a cleaning woman, I would clean up before her arrival.

    In the past, I’d often think that if we were ever rich, I would still do my own cleaning rather than hire a maid or cleaning woman. But then I realized that having wealth would enable me to provide another person with a needed job. And now that I am older, I wouldn’t mind having someone else to take care of the floors & windows, or other heavy cleaning.

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  33. Just got to facetime with my Colorado daughter and little Ginger. They could see me the whole time, but my screen blacked out after a while. You have to facetime when others aren’t on the internet. So I made lots of silly faces for Ginger.

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  34. Haus meri is here cleaning so time for me to leave. Still trying to find a ride at least to the next town for a couple of hours. Might be a few groceries there that we don’t have.

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  36. Thanks. I stayed to visit with him for the first few hours, and then came home to check on the children and reassure them before heading back over. The older boys will run over to visit in the morning, it is only about forty minutes away. Then I will go over with the younger two while the others are in school, and back home to meet them from the bus.

    Mike is doing well, though he will probably be there a few days. They think it is related to the arthritis and know it is related to the meds. Complications. Thanks for praying for us.

    By the way, nine year old boy was baptized today! We were planning to be there but told them to go ahead without us. He was excited!

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  37. So glad that there is some good news and even excitement for the nine year old.

    Feeling rather down. I will post on the prayer thread when Aj begins the new day.
    So hard to get off this centre as an older single woman. And feeling rather invisible.

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  40. Well, I certainly give Him plenty to work on. It is neat to see how He continues to love us and work on us and bring us closer to fitting His likeness, and then we look and see what a mess we still are. But we will get there!

    I don’t know about the cloud. I like to think of them as being those who have gone before, testifying to the Love of God, and rooting for us. But I have heard that is not accurate. But I don’t think I have heard a better explanation so I will stick with mine until proven otherwise.

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  41. Mumsee – My heart is aching for you & Mike, & the children, & I am lifting you all up in prayer, pleading for healing for Mike (among other things).

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  45. Karen @ October 3 10:09
    When Elvera went back to work, she had a lady come in once a week to do a “thorough” cleaning. Elvera always had the dishes washed, beds made, etc. The house was spotless when the cleaning lady came in. But I think she found something to do.

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  46. How nice to see Chas stopping by for a visit.
    Water restrictions continue. One pump is failing so it is hard to get the ditch water to the top of the hill. That is what we use to flush toilets. But… there was some in my tank this morning. A cause for rejoicing.

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  48. Yes, Mumsee there is a lot going on here. The folks I see daily at school have changed. Several near my age are on furlough. The principal is difficult to work with and I am sure that she feels that I am difficult to work with. No feeling that she hears your concerns. You just get used to something and it changes. I think it is mostly that I don’t feel connected to anyone. No one to really have a conversation with. Though I know that I need to make that happen and actually sought two different folks out today.
    The administrator made a decision about security without taking the feelings of folks into consideration. A plan we have been working on for several years is all of a sudden scrapped.
    The lack of water does add some stress. The lack of appreciation. This blog is a lifesaver. I Skype with one of my daughters and we enjoy talking, the others are difficult to get in contact with just because of schedules. So I mostly know my own children from facebook.
    I did join a fellowship group, but we only meet biweekly to share prayer requests.
    I think it is mostly the aloneness. I am an introvert. But at home there are many my age and when I came here there were more my age. so many have gone finish. Very few continuing at my age. I have my health and freedom as my parents died many years ago. Just can I be this alone.
    on furlough I was in several weekly Bible studies and women’s groups. Places to be friends with others. Here I work fulltime and haven’t found places to socialize.
    I did have that, but they have all gone. Some will return , it just makes it a very hard year.

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  50. I understand wanting some privacy, and I also understand the loneliness. Having lived over seas a number of times, there was a big difference between being one of the many in an age group (military wife) and being the only older person around (the Olympics where all of the other expats were either younger, or their spouse stayed back in their home country), It is difficult to find somebody to spend time with or talk to. Perhaps God is calling you to rely on him while giving an example to the youngers (the ones who already know everything as opposed to us old fogeys) or He is calling you back home. I don’t know and I suspect it will only be you who will know. Meantime, I encourage you to continue to seek Him and seek fellowship with others. God knows who else is there who may be weeping on the inside in loneliness. Praying for you as always. And feel free to email me if you want to talk about things important or unimportant. I am on your list.

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  51. And the fact that I have lived here around eighteen years and have no friends says something. Possibly as there are not a lot of people around here with eleven adopted children and not many fifty eights with an eight year old. But probably more because I am a religious nut in a Catholic region. Though even in my own church of two plus years, I have several people to say hi to but no more than that. So, I do understand.

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  54. As a quiet introvert being able to express myself here does help. Another couple is leaving finish and they are my age. The folks sharing today mentioned how close their Bible study group is. I never had that sort of group. I had a good group, but mostly women, and they have all left. I asked another group, but was told they would need to vote on me or something. So I began going to the Wycliffe associates potluck and study. That was open to everyone. Now that has also ended and most everyone at that was only here shortterm. I am now in another group, but they only meet every other week.
    I did self medicate and started taking a herbal supplement that I brought with me to boost my serotonin levels. I think it is helping. Also taking slightly more vitamin D.

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  55. We are designed for relationship. With Him, and with people. So when one is missing, it does put us out of kilter. I will be praying for one friend for you to show up. Your job will be to watch for her arrival. And to be open to the fact that you won’t be of one accord but it will be a gift God is sending you to make you more like Him.

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  58. So, has He delivered yet? I remember telling eldest son to pray for a friend to come, when he was in about fifth grade. He prayed and he waited. A boy came to the house and asked son to come out and play, but he was reading. The boy came again, and again, and again, but son was always busy. Finally, he asked why God had not delivered. The boy stopped coming eventually.

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  62. Yes, in my introvert mind, I have had to learn that other people are also lonely, for their own reasons and it is up to me to be the talker. I don’t do it very well so I am generally content in my loneliness surrounded by children. And I have the added benefit of my husband who talks with me. I have learned that I am only new at church once, after that, I need to speak up and introduce. And I am often wrong and Charley and Betty are not new but missed the first week and have been attending for fifty years but oh well.

    Did the results of the meeting reach some satisfaction all around?

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  63. Have you ever had an answer to prayer that later turned out to seem to be a seemingly (or for real) bad thing?

    When Chrissy was elementary school age, she went at least a couple or more years with no friends. (One friend she did have for a while, turned on her & ended up bullying her a bit.) She did have “Allie”, the daughter of my friend, but they lived in a different town, so the girls didn’t see each other much, except during school vacations.

    For a while, I prayed for God to bring a good friend to Chrissy, particularly a good Christian girl, even one to live in our own neighborhood.

    (I’ll post this story in separate comments, to help bring us up in the Top Posts more. 🙂 )

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  64. Around middle school, Chrissy & Allie (who have known each other since they were very little) started becoming best friends, instant messaging each other on the computer, & seeing each other when Allie’s mom came here for Bible study when Allie was on school vacation (by this time we were homeschooling).

    Then we decided we needed to rent out the upstairs, rather than living in this whole house by ourselves. I thought it would be great if we could rent to the McKs (Allie’s family) because we were all friends, & I knew they were not happy where they lived. But I didn’t think they were looking to move.

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  65. Well, it turned out that they were indeed wanting to move, & were thrilled at the opportunity to move here.

    God had given my daughter a good friend, & now this seemed like the answer to the rest of the prayer – a friend in our own neighborhood, right upstairs!

    And we enjoyed having the McKs here, for quite a while.

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  66. You know the rest of that story, don’t you? Allie turned out to become a lesbian, an “activist” one at that (she started the Gay-Straight Alliance at her high school, & ran a gay newspaper at the community college she goes to). She & her sister, although raised in a conservative Christian home, have both embraced very liberal, ungodly views. (The “YF” I write about sometimes is Allie’s older sister.)

    These two sisters have had an undue influence on my Chrissy, & have led her away from her faith & her home. I have sometimes heard YF’s words come out of Chrissy’s mouth, occasionally even in the same cadence YF uses. (People with Asperger’s often take on the traits of their close friends.)

    This is all quite heartbreaking to me, & I often wonder if Chrissy’s & Alllie’s friendship, & the McKs moving here, really were answers to prayer. They seemed so “right” at the time.

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  67. Recently, I was crying to God about the situation with Chrissy, & I asked Him why He allowed this to happen. What I thought I “heard” from the Holy Spirit was “So the glory will be greater,” which I took to referring to when Chrissy (& hopefully the McK sisters, too) come back to Him.

    I hope that was truly God, & not merely my imagination.

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  68. I’ve actually been thinking of sharing those thoughts here on the blog, so I think I will copy-&-paste this to today’s daily thread later.

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  69. Hey, Jo & Mumsee! Look what came in my email today. (I get these brief messages from Charles Stanley every day.)

    It begins, “Most of us don’t like being alone for extended periods of time. In fact, we are not designed to live in isolation. Even at the very beginning, God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). But sometimes situations in life leave us separated from others. Or perhaps we simply feel lonely, even though we live with our mate or family. But whatever your situation may be, if you are a believer, you’re never alone.”

    http://www.christianity.com/devotionals/in-touch-charles-stanley/in-touch-oct-12-2011.html

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  70. Since I don’t drive anymore, I am “homebound”. The good thing about that is that I am an introverted homebody anyway, so I don’t get restless. I can go weeks only getting out to go to church on Sundays. But I have Lee, Emily, & Forrest here (& I see Chrissy three days a week), so I don’t get lonely.

    I have found that being on this blog & on Facebook, along with a couple email friendships, helps fulfill a lot of my need for connection. (I realize it is not the same as face-to-face, but it is what I have for now.) And God seems to use me to encourage or minister to some people on Facebook or via email.

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  73. Mumsee, the meeting did not reach a conclusion and many are frustrated. The Director simply told us that he was not going to continue with the security plan that had been developed over the last few years. We even agreed to higher fees to pay for it. He made his decision and didn’t leave the rest of us any alternatives. We will see how God will use this to bring us all together.

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  74. So, he is a new director with a new security plan that might not have all the needs addressed that have been discovered over the past few years? And probably a little of “this is the way we have been doing it and we don’t want to change”, is what he is seeing? That is what I have seen causes friction like that in the past. The new guy wants to make things with his stamp on it and the been there longer folk have seen what was working and are leery of changes that may not be addressing the real threats. Tough times to get through until people are all on the same page. And from an outsiders viewpoint: you all are there to spread the gospel, what is the challenge? Without even seeing that the day to day struggles are the same as any where else but with a local flair. Reason to pray for our missionaries. Still praying for a strong friendship to blossom for you.

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  76. Choosing not to complete the old plan, is a new plan. He may think you all want to shut yourselves off from the people and you all may be thinking, we need some boundaries here!

    Anyway, continuing to pray for regular fellowship for you, not to complete you, but to continue to point you to the One Who is our true fellowship. May you be a blessing to those around you as you are to me.

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  77. A bit of a kerfuffle here yesterday. I expected to lie awake wondering what to do, but I got a good night of sleep instead. Almost too much, to get fourteen year old off on his walk, since he is not allowed free run of the house, he needs an adult to supervise him.

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  79. Interesting conversation on being alone. I feel that way at school. I have little in common with the other teachers, so I don’t go to the teacher’s lounge for lunch, especially since the athletic director has lunch then also. With the other coaches there, it is more like a high school locker room than I want. So I go to my classroom and read Google+ or come here.

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  80. Interesting Peter. I eat lunch in the staff room here, but the staff is very young. One new gal is an extrovert and never stops talking. We have a very small staff. But, others will be returning and some of these are leaving. I have been quietly listening.

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  83. Peter – In the Moebius Syndrome Facebook community, there is a teacher who has written about the problem of workplace bullying, particularly in schools. She says it can get pretty ugly. Your comment about the teachers’ lounge being like a high school locker room reminded me of that. Have you ever seen any bullying among teachers, or from the administration?

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  85. Good morning, those of us who really know what time it is!

    We are off to a slow start this morning. I made the sad discovery that two of our baby rabbits are missing. Their feeder was not in its place, leaving a small opening. Either they fell out or were extricated. Since I think it takes some force to remove the feeders, they have to be pulled forward and then back, I suspect maliciousness. Perhaps that mule that keeps coming on our property. Perhaps those two canines that did not look like coyotes, I saw leaving our property as we drove up yesterday after the game. Mystery….

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  92. Afternoon here.
    I have a gripe: the top posts and pages list seems to me to be a list of where folks have made the most posts during the current week. Otherwise we should remain at the top.

    However, this gripe is not with Aj. I am sure he has nothing to do with it. It must be a wordpress issue.

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  93. I suspect it is the real. He has wanted us to move along for years….see how easy it could be to start a rumor????
    Nope, I appreciate what the real has done in setting this up and keeping it going.

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  94. I notice this post tends to be more toward the middle of the list when I come on here early in the morning, and it moves down toward the bottom soon after the new posts for the day start getting more traffic. Interesting. But I’m glad to still be able to access this page, and am thankful for this whole blog. Thanks, AJ.

    And might this be 2,300? 🙂

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  95. Yes, 6 Arrows. You got the century post.

    Karen- Yes, I have seen/heard verbal bullying in the teacher’s lounge. It is mostly teasing, but I still don’t like it.

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  97. A foggy morning today. I saw the morning star rising at about three this morning, but when I next looked, clouds, and now it is fog. Ever changing.

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  99. I have to break the news to fourteen year old boy today, that he will be walking as he refuses to wear his reflective vest and I got yet another comment from a driver. Makes it easier because now fourteen year old girl can now ride her bike (she got kicked off the bus yesterday) and, though she would have been going the shorter way by a mile, she claims she does not know it. She rides it every day on the bus and it is a straight line…..

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  100. Keeps life interesting, Mumsee.
    Back from market and there are still things to buy. Prices have gone up, but that is what is keeping families fed so no worries. The dollar is strong right now so the Americans are doing fine.

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  101. This fourteen year old continues to baffle me. Rather than have him walk to school today, I decided to let him ride the bus. But before doing so, thinking exercise is good for the mind, I told him to walk around the block but to be at the end of the driveway at seven so he could eat and take the bus. He did not get there until seven fifteen. Now, rather than doing the chores with eight year old, I will be driving him to town. Or I may just have him ride his bike and be late for school. But walking three miles before riding five miles is too much like the iron man competition. Decisions.

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  103. Amen!
    (It’s telling me I’ve already said this, so I must have said an “amen” to some other comment sometime in the past 10 months. But by adding this, it should go through. Take that comment censor!)

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  104. Story of what it took to post my last comment:

    As I said above, I got a message that I had already said that. When I clicked the back button, the comment was still looking like it was ready to post, so I added the rest of it, & clicked “Post Comment'”.

    But nothing happened. Tried again – nothing happened.

    Then I copied the comment, refreshed the page, & pasted the comment in the box. Still wouldn’t post. So I left the comment as it was, not deleting it, & shut the computer down for the night, to see if by any chance it would still be here when I turned the computer (laptop, actually) on again, but doubting it would be.

    But it was still here. I tried clicking “Post Comment” again, & it went through. 🙂

    Computers & websites can be so picky.

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  106. So silly – I was brushing my teeth this morning and thought, this is how I like my hair to look. So I tried to take a selfie. It was funny, because I have bifocals I automatically look through the bottom of my glasses at anything up close, so I had to make myself glance up where I knew the camera to be. I tried different angles and got a good view of outside on the reflection on my glasses. I did finally get one I liked and it is now posted on facebook. So easy to do when you take the photo with your ipad.

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  108. Good morning. Praying for Saeed Abedini this morning. An update on him was in World magazine. Sometimes I forget to pray for him, I need reminders. He does not need reminders to pray as he is living in constant need of prayer, everything is a reminder.

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  112. I haven’t prayed for Saeed Abedini and his family for a while now. Thanks for the reminder. I should check out that article at the World site. I have the site bookmarked, but rarely go there anymore.

    I’m behind on reading the World print magazines that come to my door, too. Should do something about that.

    Maybe sit in my “new” living room chair we found along the roadside last week, with the Free sign on it, and catch up with magazine reading in my free time.

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  118. The other gal in this block of flats is a translator from New Zealand She said that she was looking for books for a library in her area. Interesting to look through the offerings in the book order thinking of what would be good for a village child. Most of the orders, there was nothing. I did find a few books that were science oriented, like one of animal life cycles.

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  119. That is one of the things about reading a lot, and helping the children understand the vocab. It widens their lives. They can read a lot but if they are just skimming over the ideas, seems kind of flat.

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  121. I am currently reading to eight year old daughter: Anne of Green Gables and Chronicles of Narnia (again). She is reading to me: the Mandie series.

    With nine year old boy: I am reading GA Henty books (he loves history even if it is British) and Hardy Boys. He is reading to me: Dr. Seuss and McGuffy readers and some other simple reading.

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  125. all of mine are beginning to read. Though the child that I am concerned about did not recognize the word I today. He knew the short I sound, but did not know the letter name or the word. But he is making progress.

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  128. I believe it was Peter who told me last year that you all are moving away in the time zones. I think Aj will now be posting at 10pm my time. Too late for me to still be online except for rare occasions.

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  132. Glad to hear your tanks are filled, Jo. We are getting quite a bit of rain here, finally. Yesterday, I had a chance to get out and plant some perennials so the rain is even better. This morning, I have a few more bulbs to put out and some pasture grass seed. The rain should be very helpful.

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  133. it is interesting that here we have more flowers than ever before. Turns out, according to the gardeners among us, that the stress of drought causes plants to put out more flowers.
    Now if I can just learn to flower in the hard times….

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  134. Yes, when plants are in distress they have a God given drive to reproduce. More flowers. Which is why, when living in a cold climate, disturbing the roots to the tomato plant hastens the ripening of the fruit.

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  137. Actually it did go very well. God gave me some unique ideas and I listened. Got out some tubs of leveled readers and introduced them to the class and then let each one choose one to read or attempt to read. Something new is always good. Also got out the game of checkers on a rug. Funny to watch them play when they have no idea which way to move.

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  138. I have learned that I cannot get out all of the books to let nine year old go through. Others tend to read them to him and then, when it is his turn to try reading them aloud, he has them memorized so no reading actually happens. Terrific memory, now if he can just apply it to his ABC’s and 123’s.

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  140. I have been writing my own stories for nine year old as he is so distracted by books. Just a lined notebook paper with a story, usually about him. Time to change it to first person so he sees I a lot. Thanks, Teacher!

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  145. Thanks for the positive word on my newsletter, Mumsee. It takes me so long to get them done. The last page was inspired in church this Sunday as I happened to sit next to Hilkka, someone I have been wanting to get to know. And then it was a celebration of all the New Testaments and scripture portions published in the last year and a half. So exciting to see them all come proudly marching in. One young fellow was holding the translation done by his parents, who almost died in a boating accident. Another was a widow whose husband died recently. So much cheering and applause.

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  146. Playing with Forrest before his bedtime. This time of day is called “quiet play time”. Not easy for a five year old boy to play quietly.

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  147. We had reasonably good teacher conferences yesterday, though I forgot to ask why my children were being given so much candy by their teachers.

    The mighty hunters are off to the woods this afternoon.

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  148. Well, they did not go. The boys were asked to rake some guy’s leaves and their boss wants them to stay another day to get a project done. It was supposed to take four days, but it has been over two weeks. The boss had to renegotiate the deal.

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  173. Finally getting a haircut today. It has been too long and I am quite scraggly. My aide has thick hair only an inch long so doesn’t understand wild hair. I keep a brush on my desk to sort it out a bit and she laughs.

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  174. Hard to imagine, based on your pic. Have it together Jo is the image given. I do not project that image. Perhaps that is why my pic is not on here.

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  177. My new haircut is a little shorter in back than I like it, but nice and full on top. Why or why do I say to cut off an inch?? I need to say half an inch and realize it will look to me like they have taken off an inch.
    I paid with a toblerone candy bar! She does it for free, but I left a treat.

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  181. So everyone is still here, huh?

    People have been coming and going here all day, or so it seems. Except me. I didn’t even go as far as the mailbox.

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  182. Six posts in one day, my goodness gracious!
    I expect that 6 arrows will be around soon as it is almost time for a new room.
    Who will decorate and organize the room this time?
    Too bad that Kim never drops by as she is quite the decorator.

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  183. I expected that was the case, that you took it with you. But it is still good stuff. Sorry, this would be time for the children to spend just with their daddy.

    Speaking of which, he took the youngest two with him to his doctor appt in Boise. I hope that goes well. They are my mainstay here, they are my chore doers. Guess who gets to do all of the chores alone this morning? Well, one of the eighteens is always offering, and the sixteen takes care of the horses so, actually, I am doing it because it guarantees I get something done around here.

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  184. it is nice that you share the chores. And the young ones learn so much, and animal chores have something special as they relate to the animals and care for them.
    okay, this is 2390, who is going to start a race to the new room????

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  198. Notice that someone had six comments in a row on November 7, and that same someone had seven in a row the very next day.

    Yep, we’ve got a thread hog alright.

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  200. I think the statute of limitations has expired on those offenses. I was talking about a more recent one. But I wouldn’t want to gossip and use her name, 6 Arrows.

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