Good Morning!
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On this day in 1615 the fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege.
In 1783 a hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.
In 1812 the Louisiana Territory had its name changed to the Missouri Territory.
In 1911 gold was discovered in Alaska’s Indian Creek.
And in 1985 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law that provided for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
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Quote of the Day
“Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.”
♕ George III
And we all know how that worked out…… 🙂
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Today is Robert Merrill’s birthday.
And it’s John McCormack’s too.
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Wandering Views 
Good morning everyone.
Today is Thursday. Not much happening today.
So far.
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Good morning ! We are off to White Sands today with 7 of the grandchildren. Nice pictures of the doe and fawn. I had a close call with an elk this morning.
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Yikes! Be careful! Lyme disease carriers!
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What a sweet photo of mother and babe….we have seen so many fawns about lately…
I’m off today and having a long overdue morning breakfast with girlfriends… 🙂
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In honor of the Alaskan Gold Rush—you just knew I would have a song for it, didn’t you?
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I thought about that song too, Kim.
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The most meaningful line in the song is
“I’d trade all the gold that’s buried in this land,
For one small band of gold to plane on sweet little Ginny’s hand”..
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🙂
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Relating to something I posted on the Prayer Thread:
The news commentator Paul Harvey used to have a saying:
“Trouble always starts out being fun.”
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getting ready to mail two more boxes of books to PNG. Who knows how long it will take them to arrive? I mail them to JAARS in North Carolina and then they come sea freight.
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Sweet pictures. We have a moose hanging out a few miles from us. They were almost hurt by a semi truck. Fortunately, the driver managed to slow down enough to avoid them. The DNR thinks they are yearlings, whose mother had new calves. I would love to see them, but at a safe distance.
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I remember when the movie North to Alaska was playing in the fancy, brand new round theater (Cinerama Dome, which opened in 1963 & is still on Sunset) in Hollywood. My best friend’s parents went to go see it there, which was kind of a big deal at the time. The Dome was the high-tech theater of its day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama_Dome
And interestingly, the film North to Alaska with John Wayne was mostly shot in Point Magu, CA. Go figure.
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Jeep’s lights got fixed (again) yesterday. This time he found a wiring issue, so I’m hoping this will be the end of the tail and brake lights going out on me every few months.
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If any of you have 25 minutes to listen to a radio broadcast, you might enjoy this interview of a shepherd from England’s Lake District: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-june-4-2015-1.3099810/thousands-flock-to-twitter-to-follow-a-shepherd-in-lake-district-1.3099846
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I saw something about that several weeks ago and follow him on Twitter — fun
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Beautiful day to be at the beach. Too bad I am stuck inside. BG is down the beach with a friend–a good influence– and the mother is doing some snooping for me.
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For my Facebook friends: Could you guess that the young woman who wrote a very long comment on one of my posts, pretty much lecturing me, is the one & only YF? Yup, that’s her, once more misinterpreting & misrepresenting my words. One of the reasons I no longer comment on her posts.
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Karen,
I’ve known who she was for quite some time from your FB posts. 🙂
She’s a little hard to miss. Hence my “It’s a Trap!” message. 🙂
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That comment of hers was actually pretty mild compared to how condescending she can be when commenting on her own posts.
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It was very long. 🙂
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A total idiot woman day for me today. I actually slept last night for the first time in about a week, bounced out of bed raring to go.
I’m only at my desk now, nine hours later . . .
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Snarky Southern Belle is putting in an appearance.
Plus, Karen, she has gauche friends. If you can’t afford a wedding:
1. Perhaps you should reconsider what type of wedding you are planning
2. Perhaps you should reconsider getting married in the first place
3. You MOST CERTAINLY do not turn to friends, friends of friends, and strangers to finance your wedding!
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Kim – Are you referring to YF’s post about the two young women who are trying to raise money for their wedding? If so, I’m surprised you can see that, as I thought YF had pretty strict privacy settings. Could you see anything else she posted?
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Donna – Yes, she can write some very long comments. One time she had to break one comment up into several because it was too long for Facebook to accept.
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YF very rarely comments on my posts, because she doesn’t like having other people debate with her. She once bowed out of a comment thread of mine, telling me via private message that “somebody had to be mature”. And yet all the other comments were mature, just a couple were maybe too firm for her liking.
But often she “comments” by writing her own post. The first time I noticed that was when I had shared a humorous thing about not getting tattoos so as not to cover up this natural piece of art. I had also mentioned that I am not against tattoos, I just thought it was funny.
She wrote that if one has dyed hair (& some other things like that, I forget all the things she mentioned), then one had better not speak against tattoos because “No one needs that kind of hypocrisy.” (I remember those words.)
Since then, there’ve been other times when it is clear she is making a comment about something I’ve posted, but if I commented (when I was still commenting, which I’m not now), I avoided letting on that I knew what she was doing.
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I have a distant relative, a guy. He wants to marry his girl friend.
They don’t have enough money to have a nice wedding.
So, they are living together until they can afford a proper wedding.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
So I’ve heard.
This person is not close to me.
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What I wrote a little while ago, about YF’s claim that “somebody had to be mature” reminded me of a thought I’d had. YF has used the words “mature” & “immature” on a number of occasions, as well as implying the words, as when she wrote something like, “I haven’t had to deal with that kind of thing since middle school.” It had occurred to me, even before my interactions with YF, that people who talk a lot about maturity in that way (especially comparing theirs to others) are usually not nearly as mature as they think they are.
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We got our computer back. There was a RAM issue, possibly left over from the lightning a few weeks back.
And we got our minivan back. It had a/c issues that cost $570 to repair.
And D3 decided on a car today: a 2003 VW Jetta. No, Donna, daddy is not taking away the T-bird. It’s a Malibu of mine she has been using.
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I showed my husband the doe/fawn pictures and he thought they were the ones I had taken just this morning on my way to work! Beautiful little brand new fawn and its mama. So very cute.
Once a few years ago, visitors to the park “rescued” a fawn whose mother “was nowhere to be found”. They brought it to the warden office and thankfully had good directions to where they had found it. Husband took it back (holding it on his lap while driving). He put it back and watched from a distance as the mom returned for her baby! A happy ending!
The interesting thing about it was that our dogs did not pay any special attention to how my husband smelled when he came home. Usually, when he’d been handling any sort of animal, they would follow him around sniffing and sniffing, noses glued to his pants. I’d always heard that fawns were scentless. That confirmed it for me. 🙂
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Yes, Karen, I could see all of her facebook page. I scanned down a bit just for informational purposes. Nothing I cared too much about. I will tell you again to stay off of her page, ignore her, and I would even go so far as to delete the comment she made on your post. I would pretend she didn’t exist.
I wrote someone else off today because he is a lazy idiot and he caused me to look like an idiot—not for the first time. I will be nice, but trust is broken and I will not go out of my way to do anything for him.
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Putting a post on the prayer thread
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Go VW Jettas — I had 2 of them, an ’84 and an ’04, fun cars, both manual transmissions.
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And both lasted a very long time (10 years and 12 years, respectively, with the last one getting over 200,000 miles). I had a great VW repair guy, a German-American family, that kept them in good running order for far less than I’d pay elsewhere, I’m sure.
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Karen, next to the date on each post you can see the symbol indicating who can see posts — the globe or earth symbol means it’s been designated as a “public” post (and the ones you can see on her page all have that symbol).
Many/most of my posts have that “public” designation, which means anyone can see them. Others I limit to just “friends” and still other posts I designate to go out only to my private “Christian/seeker” group of friends which most of you are on.
I have a lot of regular ‘friends’ I don’t really know, they’re linked to me mostly via having many mutual friends through the community (most are very liberal, some are gay and married, a few are very opinionated and not at all fond of God or Christianity). So I feel more comfortable sharing my more focused Christian posts with those whom I know won’t completely freak out over them 🙂 .
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Oops. Make that an ’84 and a ’94 for my two Jettas.
Still can’t do math.
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