An interesting article in today’s “Times-News” illustrates how much difference small things can make. The article is about “Love’s Kitchen”. FBCHNC has a Love’s Kitchen meal every Thursday. It’s a free lunch for those in need. The article mentions a change and the difference it makes.
Dianne Miller, who first organized the Love’s Kitchen at the church two years ago discovered the difference a little love can make in people’s lives not long after the program began. Miller stopped using paper plates and started using the church’s dishes and silverware in an attempt to save money.
But not long after making the change, Miller noticed that dishes and silverware meant more than she could have imagined. While walking among the guests at the weekly meal, Miller noticed a man who seemed tearful as he ate.
“He said, ‘I can’t believe I’m eating off a real dish. I haven’t eaten off a real dish in years.’” Miller said.
Chas – Lee & I were once at a dinner with a woman who ran a “soup kitchen” in her town. She told about accepting a donation of some kind of gourmet-type food, & someone saying that the needy people wouldn’t appreciate it or didn’t need it, or something like that. She replied that the needy are still people, & yes, they did appreciate the chance to have something “fancy” now & then.
Treating people with dignity & respect can help them want to rise above their circumstances.
😦 My poor little guy. (Referring to what I wrote about on the prayer request thread. He was throwing up most of the night.) My normally-active little sweetheart is still tired, & just hanging around on the couch, watching kid shows on Netflix. (We have our Wii connected to the internet, so we can watch Netflix on the TV.)
😦 I don’t want to get this yucky virus, but being in close contact with Forrest so much, it’s almost inevitable.
🙂 Dozens of eagles, and a camera that worked well enough to let me photograph them.
🙂 Half-price Entenmann’s (sp?) donuts.
🙂 We’re inside where it’s warm while 😦 we get yet more snow piled on the February accumulation. So far this year, November had more snow than December, and February more than January. So does that mean we’ll have a snow-free March and get socked with a blizzard in April?
🙂 My husband and I both had good weeks as far as making progress on things we’re working on.
Praying he is back to normal soon and that you don’t get it, Karen. You may be immune to that particular strain. 🙂
😦 I have a bad cold. I seldom get sick and have already been hit with the flu back in December. I am spoiled, I suppose. I have been able to stay home, but will have to be out and about tonight. Not looking forward to that.
🙂 Our neighbor plowed the end of our driveway last night. My husband snowblows the driveway, but the country snowplow pushes a hill of hardened snow onto the end of it quite often. The neighbor will do this for us, once in awhile, and we sure appreciate it.
🙂 Another neighbor left a plate of cookies by the front porch. Good thing they were noticed before an animal tore into them. We don’t use that door often. The cookies had the recipe and a tract in them. I believe I know who left them. I wish they would stop by and visit a bit, though, instead of making assumptions. I think this is one of the disadvantages of tracts. God bless them for caring, however. And, yes, I have brought them cookies and visited briefly with them.
🙂 Our port labor standoff was (finally) settled yesterday, under threat of the feds calling both sides back to Washington if they didn’t figure it out by the end of this week.
😦 Lots of container ships still all backed up inside and outside the harbor, waiting to get unloaded. There will be a lot of work for everyone on the docks for some time to come.
🙂 The union guy who’s haranguing me for our lack of coverage of the “union side” on FB will maybe be quieter now? 😦 🙄
🙂 Michelle may have Timmy from “Lassie” as a neighbor, but I (may?) have the guy from Animal Planet’s The Cat From Hell in my ‘hood. Someone on FB snapped a shot of him in his famed pink Lincoln, with his camera crew in the back seat, just 1/2 block from my house the other day, assuming they were filming a troubled cat household nearby. But another commenter said she thought he lived just up the street as she sees the car parked all the time there.
🙂 🙂 We *may* get some light rain/showers this weekend (today and Sunday). Bad news for the Oscar red carpet show, but good news overall. But we need so much more …
🙂 Concealer cream & makeup. I’ve developed these odd (very tender & ugly) red patches on my face, some kind of skin infection according to the pharmacist. He recommended using cortisone cream on them which I’ve been doing. They’re getting a little better, but it could take up to a week apparently. Ugh. I’ve never had anything like this before. From what I read online, it could be that my immunity was down from that flu I had which opened the way for a skin infection … ? If it doesn’t clear up by next week sometime, I’ll have to get in to see the doctor. I’m due back anyway, had to cancel a scheduled followup blood test when I got so sick a couple weeks ago.
Donna, I finally learned that I need ointment not crème. The crème made everything worse, but ointment clears it up quickly. So, the cortisone and also an antibiotic crème is what the doctor recommended for my bites and rashes.
🙂 Seven small relatives in the house this afternoon. Eldest sibling and family are up for a visit and youngest sibling came over with the two baby nieces.
🙂 😦 Think the transcript mix-up is finally straightened out. Still waiting to hear from the school.
🙂 We have some rain coming our way. Hasn’t hit us yet, but it is now very cloudy & it is raining on Catalina Island just off our coast. Won’t be long …
😦 A missed opportunity to show some grace yesterday.
I was at the dog park and, as I’ve been doing for a few months now, I’d shut Tess in the enclosed/separated dog run because she is so snippy with other dogs — she doesn’t seem to mind being separated and actually looks like she enjoys running back and forth and watching the goings on, feeling less stressed because there is a chain link fence in between her and all the rowdy action.
So yesterday was an especially busy day at the park I was chatting with someone when a guy says to me, ‘Hey, I think someone’s letting your dog out’ — Turns out there were a couple girls, around 10, there with their mom, who apparently felt sorry for Tess and opened one of the gates to visit with her.
Well, predictably, she came running into the park and started snapping at dogs that came up to her. I called her (she’s good about recalls), quickly leashed her up and led her back to the enclosed dog run. I sort of threw my hands in the air to express my frustration with the girls — they were too far away to talk to — and later I was sorry I didn’t go over to them to thank them for paying attention to Tess, she loves people, but she’s locked in there because she can be a bit of a threat to other dogs.
It was an accident, I know, the kids were just trying to visit with her — they apparently were negligent in leaving the 2nd gate, leading into the park itself, ajar behind them and Tess predictably took advantage.
(Although I am a big surprised that their mom — I assume that was their mom with them — wouldn’t have stopped them and gathered that the dog must be confined to the run for a reason.)
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An interesting article in today’s “Times-News” illustrates how much difference small things can make. The article is about “Love’s Kitchen”. FBCHNC has a Love’s Kitchen meal every Thursday. It’s a free lunch for those in need. The article mentions a change and the difference it makes.
Dianne Miller, who first organized the Love’s Kitchen at the church two years ago discovered the difference a little love can make in people’s lives not long after the program began. Miller stopped using paper plates and started using the church’s dishes and silverware in an attempt to save money.
But not long after making the change, Miller noticed that dishes and silverware meant more than she could have imagined. While walking among the guests at the weekly meal, Miller noticed a man who seemed tearful as he ate.
“He said, ‘I can’t believe I’m eating off a real dish. I haven’t eaten off a real dish in years.’” Miller said.
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Chas – Lee & I were once at a dinner with a woman who ran a “soup kitchen” in her town. She told about accepting a donation of some kind of gourmet-type food, & someone saying that the needy people wouldn’t appreciate it or didn’t need it, or something like that. She replied that the needy are still people, & yes, they did appreciate the chance to have something “fancy” now & then.
Treating people with dignity & respect can help them want to rise above their circumstances.
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😦 My poor little guy. (Referring to what I wrote about on the prayer request thread. He was throwing up most of the night.) My normally-active little sweetheart is still tired, & just hanging around on the couch, watching kid shows on Netflix. (We have our Wii connected to the internet, so we can watch Netflix on the TV.)
😦 I don’t want to get this yucky virus, but being in close contact with Forrest so much, it’s almost inevitable.
🙂 God could protect me from getting it.
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Wash your hands in hot water with lots of soap often.
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🙂 Dozens of eagles, and a camera that worked well enough to let me photograph them.
🙂 Half-price Entenmann’s (sp?) donuts.
🙂 We’re inside where it’s warm while 😦 we get yet more snow piled on the February accumulation. So far this year, November had more snow than December, and February more than January. So does that mean we’ll have a snow-free March and get socked with a blizzard in April?
🙂 My husband and I both had good weeks as far as making progress on things we’re working on.
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Praying he is back to normal soon and that you don’t get it, Karen. You may be immune to that particular strain. 🙂
😦 I have a bad cold. I seldom get sick and have already been hit with the flu back in December. I am spoiled, I suppose. I have been able to stay home, but will have to be out and about tonight. Not looking forward to that.
🙂 Our neighbor plowed the end of our driveway last night. My husband snowblows the driveway, but the country snowplow pushes a hill of hardened snow onto the end of it quite often. The neighbor will do this for us, once in awhile, and we sure appreciate it.
🙂 Another neighbor left a plate of cookies by the front porch. Good thing they were noticed before an animal tore into them. We don’t use that door often. The cookies had the recipe and a tract in them. I believe I know who left them. I wish they would stop by and visit a bit, though, instead of making assumptions. I think this is one of the disadvantages of tracts. God bless them for caring, however. And, yes, I have brought them cookies and visited briefly with them.
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🙂 Our port labor standoff was (finally) settled yesterday, under threat of the feds calling both sides back to Washington if they didn’t figure it out by the end of this week.
😦 Lots of container ships still all backed up inside and outside the harbor, waiting to get unloaded. There will be a lot of work for everyone on the docks for some time to come.
🙂 The union guy who’s haranguing me for our lack of coverage of the “union side” on FB will maybe be quieter now? 😦 🙄
🙂 Michelle may have Timmy from “Lassie” as a neighbor, but I (may?) have the guy from Animal Planet’s The Cat From Hell in my ‘hood. Someone on FB snapped a shot of him in his famed pink Lincoln, with his camera crew in the back seat, just 1/2 block from my house the other day, assuming they were filming a troubled cat household nearby. But another commenter said she thought he lived just up the street as she sees the car parked all the time there.
🙂 🙂 We *may* get some light rain/showers this weekend (today and Sunday). Bad news for the Oscar red carpet show, but good news overall. But we need so much more …
🙂 Concealer cream & makeup. I’ve developed these odd (very tender & ugly) red patches on my face, some kind of skin infection according to the pharmacist. He recommended using cortisone cream on them which I’ve been doing. They’re getting a little better, but it could take up to a week apparently. Ugh. I’ve never had anything like this before. From what I read online, it could be that my immunity was down from that flu I had which opened the way for a skin infection … ? If it doesn’t clear up by next week sometime, I’ll have to get in to see the doctor. I’m due back anyway, had to cancel a scheduled followup blood test when I got so sick a couple weeks ago.
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Donna, I finally learned that I need ointment not crème. The crème made everything worse, but ointment clears it up quickly. So, the cortisone and also an antibiotic crème is what the doctor recommended for my bites and rashes.
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Thanks Jo
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🙂 Seven small relatives in the house this afternoon. Eldest sibling and family are up for a visit and youngest sibling came over with the two baby nieces.
🙂 😦 Think the transcript mix-up is finally straightened out. Still waiting to hear from the school.
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🙂 Forrest seems to be feeling much better now.
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🙂 We have some rain coming our way. Hasn’t hit us yet, but it is now very cloudy & it is raining on Catalina Island just off our coast. Won’t be long …
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😦 A missed opportunity to show some grace yesterday.
I was at the dog park and, as I’ve been doing for a few months now, I’d shut Tess in the enclosed/separated dog run because she is so snippy with other dogs — she doesn’t seem to mind being separated and actually looks like she enjoys running back and forth and watching the goings on, feeling less stressed because there is a chain link fence in between her and all the rowdy action.
So yesterday was an especially busy day at the park I was chatting with someone when a guy says to me, ‘Hey, I think someone’s letting your dog out’ — Turns out there were a couple girls, around 10, there with their mom, who apparently felt sorry for Tess and opened one of the gates to visit with her.
Well, predictably, she came running into the park and started snapping at dogs that came up to her. I called her (she’s good about recalls), quickly leashed her up and led her back to the enclosed dog run. I sort of threw my hands in the air to express my frustration with the girls — they were too far away to talk to — and later I was sorry I didn’t go over to them to thank them for paying attention to Tess, she loves people, but she’s locked in there because she can be a bit of a threat to other dogs.
It was an accident, I know, the kids were just trying to visit with her — they apparently were negligent in leaving the 2nd gate, leading into the park itself, ajar behind them and Tess predictably took advantage.
(Although I am a big surprised that their mom — I assume that was their mom with them — wouldn’t have stopped them and gathered that the dog must be confined to the run for a reason.)
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I just think the kids probably felt bad afterward and I could have helped ease that — especially since they were trying to do something nice.
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Rain! has arrived.
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