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Our Daily Thread 4-15-15

Good Morning!

It’s Tax Day. 😦

And today’s header photo is from Donna and Annie!

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On this day in 1784 the first balloon was flown in Ireland.  

In 1861 President Lincoln mobilized the Federal army.

In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.  

In 1912 the ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before.

And in 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. 

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Quotes of the Day

“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”

Albert Einstein

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“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.”

Ron Paul

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This seems appropriate for today.

And it’s Roy “Lightning Fingers” Clark’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-15-15”

  1. Good morning! The broken record plays again, “it’s raining, it’s pouring, my husband is not snoring!”

    I like that Ron Paul quote. Times can only get worse given that reality of falseness our monetary system floats on. Sorry to sound so gloomy. ‘Tis the season.

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  4. Good Morning Janice….hopefully after today you will once again see that familiar face of your sweet husband 🙂
    One last day of Spring…then the snow begins to fall….moisture most welcomed…icy roads…not so much!

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  9. Checking back in for late arrivals. The rain has quit for now. We may need to change the name of this urban area to Sog City. At least all the red clay mud should be washed away from our driveway. Maybe the driveway is washed away, too. Funny how one problem can fix another problem like that! 😉

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  11. morning all. Looking to the next thing to do as I got both my boxes of teaching materials sent off to North Carolina for sea freight to PNG yesterday. So glad to have those thing gone. I will see them in September??

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  13. “Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.” ~ Timothy Keller

    A good reminder to me.

    Yes, a cat with a collar. Getting Annie to wear a collar was kind of like what they go through to get a horse to accept a saddle, except with claws involved.

    I’m going in to work late today, I have a 5 p.m. school board meeting to cover that should include a fair number of fireworks. Not looking forward to it, but at least I get much of the morning “off.” I slept until 8:30 a.m., really late for me.

    It’s April 15 so I think I’ll check the “Where’s my refund?” site …

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  14. Annie likes to perch on the rail on my front porch to watch over her domain. She can watch all the neighbors walking their dogs by.

    You can also see our poor, drought-struggling landscapes (and my parked Jeep). My house, like many in town on the hillside overlooking the port (though I don’t have a “view”), is set up high and back from the street, which I’ve always liked.

    Except for the steps. They’re becoming a hassle the older I get, especially when I have lots of groceries, the laptop from work, and, every month or so, a 25-pound bag of dog food to lug up to the house.

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  15. So Janice, will life get easier for your husband now that April 15 is about gone? Or is it still busy after that?

    Still no record of my tax returns on the “where’s my refund” sites. Maybe my guy got backed up and he’s entering a bunch this week. Sounded like he’d finished up with mine at least 10 days ago, though.

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  16. Donna, can you get something with wheels to load and pull up the hill beside the steps. If the area is landscaped then that would not work unless it is just grass.

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  17. No, there’s a wall that goes up from the sidewalk to my “lawn” (cough, cough). But I can haul things in through the back at the end of the driveway — I’ve done that sometimes, just unload the Jeep up there and then pull everything in through the back gate & sliding glass door in the back, no steps up there to deal with.

    It’s just faster to do it from the front, provided I can carry things — sometimes i need to make a few trips. Oh well. Keeps me limber.

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  19. That’s true, Kim. 🙂 That’s a bush that was planted years ago and it remarkably survives. It’s beautiful when it blooms.

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  20. Chas- Some communities require cat collars so animal control officers know it’s not a stray cat. Ones without collars are taken to the pound and destroyed if not claimed after so many days/weeks. We lived in one town that required cats to be on leashes when outside or there was a $75 fine.

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  21. Annie has a tag, too, with my cell # on it — it’s a precaution also in case someone thinks she “needs” a home and takes her in or starts feeding her. But she sticks pretty close to home, she’s almost always on the patio in the back (snoozing on the cushioned chair) or on the covered front porch.

    She will occasionally visit my neighbor to the north who sometimes gives her treats.

    The growing politically-correct move to force all pet cats to be indoor-only is bothersome to me.

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  25. Donna, Art will continue to be too busy since other work gets behind. Also, his largest corporate account has a sales tax report due around the twentieth and he always struggles monthly to get that in on time. So, it will feel like a relief, but he is probably filing lots of extensions and those will be waiting to pounce later. If you recall, last year on October 15th, extension deadline, he was in the hospital. I don’t think he ever got a sense of being caught up from last year.

    On the home front, Miss Bosley is missing Art. He always plays the rough bat and bite games that she adores. She tries to play that with me, but I am not very receptive most of the time. I give her a bop on the nose sometimes. My friend with new kittens said that’s what they were told to do because that is how mama cat handles misbehavior.

    I’ve been trying to catch up on laundry. Today was the first time I ever remember sending a ball point pen through the wash. It still writes. I could do a commercial.

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  26. I got a text message from the accountant who regularly does my taxes asking if I needed an extension today.
    Mr P did our taxes this year but I told the accountant I would be back next year. I am back to the itemized long form

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  28. Donna,

    The steps into the front door is one thing we got rid of when we moved to Redwood Country. We have no steps or raised door sill to the front door. We had the house built to our design and that had no steps!

    When you come north to visit Michelle you can go north another 6 hours or so and see. We have a guest room waiting any who venture to the end of US 101 in California.

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  29. I am still working on that one. Due to extenuating circumstances, we were unable to go last opportunity. As husband’s health improves, our possibility of making it to the coast increases. But there is still the other knee surgery. And Bob and his beloved even included the children in the invitation. Was that before learning about thirteen year old peeing in the trashcan out of anger? Regardless, the invitation has been issued, no turning back….

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  31. We have a split level, not so good for older folks. Gotta use the stairs to get to one bathroom or the other unless one takes the route of angry child at Mumsees.

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  32. Mumsee,

    We have a concrete pad beside the garage for your trailer along with our upstairs “Finished storage room” above the garage – – with a full bath! You can use it also! Oh, there is also a 4 ” hole to our sewer/septic tank.

    Just remember to buy gas in Oregon before you cross the border. California taxes gas 35 to 40 cents more than Oregon does.

    If you miss your farm animals you can help Mary Anne with her canaries. 100+ of them.

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  33. 100 canaries, a cat heaven.

    If you see the concrete bar that goes right behind Annie’s chest in the photo — that’s the top of the wall that leads down to the sidewalk. Some people grow draping flowers over the sides, which is a pretty look — I’ve thought of just going all lavender in the front yard since it seems to be pretty resilient and I kind of like the “meadow” look.

    Don’t know how many steps I have, probably 12-15? The 2nd set, which leads up to the porch from a short landing, are quite steep, but there are only maybe 5 of them.

    Passed by H&R Block on the way home from work last night, one of their signs out front said “Why Wait?”

    I think if people had waited this long, they might as well wait another day …

    I had to do a story on last-minute filers a couple years ago — people coming in carrying paper sacks crammed with random papers.

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  36. Thank you for that, Kim. It is good to be reminded of the basics – and good to know that friends are thinking of me.
    I think my decision is basically made. I’m just catching my breath before I make the dive. There are so many little things that I will have to do – sometimes I feel a little dizzy and get butterflies in my stomach, just thinking of them. I am grateful for the advice an unknown woman gave to me when I was studying in the city, “God will help you be an OR nurse [what I was studying at the time], day by day.”
    My family and surrounding friends are slightly amusing. They hardly even blinked at the prospect of me returning to Africa. Apparently, I have lost the power of surprising them. There is one thing which concerns me. My parents’ health, especially my mother’s. She is suffering with a lot of strange symptoms. Thankfully, she finally agreed to go to the doctor, and is having tests done. It will be hard to leave her in such poor health. She has made it clear, however, that she does not want her problems to stop me from doing what I should.

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  37. Well Roscuro, I am not getting married again so people can donate to your mission. We are going to have to find another reason.
    How much will you need to return?

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  40. Kim: Well, who else can we marry off? 😉 😛 I assume I will need around the same amount (slightly more probably); but I haven’t got that far yet. You aren’t the only one already asking – I got a phone call yesterday from a family connection on the same subject. I think it might be a sign 😀

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  41. I still have an unmarried son, was praying about you this morning and that very idea occurred . . . 🙂

    I’m laughing, nothing serious.

    And Mumsee, we’d make room for you if you came through here south from Bob’s place . . .

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  43. Just had a weird texting experience — thought I was texting the editor reading my copy, but it was some stranger.

    “Hi Sam, I used the word aghast in one graph, can you change that to furious?”

    “Who r you?”

    “Donna, looks like you’re editing my story in the system.”

    “What are you talking about?”

    “My story that I just turned in, aren’t you in it now?”

    “Who are you? What is this about?”

    Sigh.

    Wrong number.

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