34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-25-15”

  2. Up and at ’em everyone. Today is another day. I reached out to my former client who manages a temp service/ employment agency. She sent a message back that she had a job for a warranty admin. I don’t know what that is. I am sort of shying away from the word administrative.
    I went to the Austal site to see what they had. There was something interesting but of course they want you to upload your resume and since I upgraded to Windows 10 finding old files is not easy. I couldn’t find one that I had had to update it. Part of what holds me back is the terror that having to write a resume strikes in me. I can write a great resume for any of you but I am paralyzed when it comes to writing one for myself.
    So my friends today’s project is to find the old resume, update it and start plugging it in to various places.

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  3. Or get some to write one for you Kim.
    Don’t let job titles scare you way from a potential position.
    My position description was “Physical Scientist” whatever that means.
    😆

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  5. Jo, to repent obviously means recognizing something as being sinful. Many people in our country just don’t recognize anything as being sin. I think if we had a National Day of Repentance it would only be mocked and used as a holiday to glorify sin. 😦

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  10. No, the pictures were not taken in August!! The wolf is one my husband took on a helicopter patrol. The wolf pack followed the helicopter as it circled above the lake and this guy just seemed to say “just come down a little closer and step out of that thing!” 🙂

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  12. We have a fox family living in the park above the ocean. No wolves yet.

    A National Day of Repentance is an interesting concept – but Janice is right, we wouldn’t “get” it.

    There’s another night meeting on homelessness tonight but I’m not going — I don’t expect anything new to be brought up and if it is I’ll just catch up on it by phone tomorrow.

    I’m having a hard time kick-starting myself today, meanwhile. I worked until 7 last night, I’m going to have to try to get out of there by 6 tonight so I can have part of a life anyway. By the time I got home and did a few things last night (after also having to stop at the store on the way home to pick up some lightbulbs), it was already 9 p.m.

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  13. I love the wolf. 🙂

    And that look in it’s eyes is clearly one of deep thought. He’s probably thinking……

    “I wonder if that big bird will taste like chicken?”

    😯

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  18. The other day a friend said she has decided her two least favorite months are probably January and August, and August “because it’s hot.” For that, July would be a better choice. One of my frustrations with the Midwest is it just doesn’t know how to do August. It begins to feel like fall before it’s over, and sorry, our cool months last too long to give up August. Today’s high isn’t supposed to reach 70–and that is really ridiculous. It isn’t reliably warm until sometime in June (this summer never did get hot, although we had some unusually humid days), and summer doesn’t officially start until late June, so at lest let us have the entire months of July and August for summer.

    In Chicago, in winter I’d step out of my bedroom in the morning and immediately look right–because that gave me a view of the garage in the backyard, and I could see if there was snow on the roof. I caught myself doing that in July one day, and knew I’d lived in snow country too long. Now at least I’m here with a husband, but I still despise how much space winter and other cool months take up, and how many months the trees are leafless.

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  19. We received a package from China yesterday, same province son was in a few weeks ago. Turned out to be some fabric I ordered from Amazon for eight year old’s birthday. I had no idea it was coming from China. And I have no idea how it got here so quickly. Amazing.

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  20. Smoke continues to be very dense around here. In the “extremely dangerous” category, so we are mostly inside these days. Not that it matters as we keep all of the windows open and there is a gray pall in the air indoors as well. But the asthmatics are doing well so far. I don’t know if people are continuing to lose their homes or not. Rumor abounds.

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  22. cheryl, we have the opposite problem in LA — way too long “summers” with heat spikes (though usually fairly short-lived) sometimes as early as May and not leaving sometimes until mid-late October. I’m over it. 🙂

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  23. Donna, yeah, we had the same in Phoenix, only worse. I probably wouldn’t enjoy it today, but I liked Phoenix weather a whole lot better than I like the weather in the Midwest. It gets hot, you adjust activity and sweat, and you survive. You don’t have to shovel it. And I just don’t like cold, and I don’t like wind. Nashville was great, kind of a sampler package as far as weather is concerned, but the Midwest’s weather isn’t my thing.

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  24. It is suppose to get down to the low sixties tonight. I feel a hint of fall in the air and all the beginning signs of seasonal transition.

    I have until tomorrow to make my initial decision about choir. I would like to be in the older people’s choir like I started in last year that got canceled. Not sure I am ready for prime time all the time choir.

    I got to see where that tree got hit by lightening by the office today. I had forgotten there was a natural gas tank for the house next door by that tree. I realized it was a miracle that did not explode which could have killed my husband who was alone at the office.

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  26. We have a meeting in a half an hour with the teachers of the three we are sending in. Actually, just two of them, but the third will come into the discussion. It will be an interesting year at Nezperce School, this year.

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  28. Friday I found a package of chicken in the freezer that hadn’t been divided before being frozen–four pounds, which is a lot of meat for a family of four. I baked it all with salt, pepper, a little bit of olive oil and garlic, and some poultry seasoning (and found out only after it went in the oven that neither girl would be here for supper); I figured we’d have supper and then leftover chicken for other meals. I served it with a side of pasta made with olive oil and garlic, and my husband really liked the combination; we ate the same pairing for lunch Saturday.

    Sunday I chunked the chicken and all four of us ate it in wraps. Yesterday I didn’t serve chicken; one daughter made supper.

    This noon I found just a little bit of a white spaghetti sauce left in a jar, and some leftover spaghetti, so I chunked up some chicken and combined those three items, and it was yummy.

    Tonight I cut the last of it into chunks and made chicken-with-rice soup that fed three of us, and put several servings of soup into the fridge.

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  29. Cheryl, I saw on Barefoot Contessa years ago that anytime she needs chicken for anything that is the way she cooks it. Olive oil, salt, pepper, and bakes it in the oven. I started doing that and it really does make a difference. How do you make chicken and rice soup. My rice always expands and turns to mush.

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  31. Kim, my rice always expanded and turned to mush, too . . . until I finally learned that rice for soup really has to be brown rice. Brown rice expands some, but it doesn’t soak up any water within 100 yards like white.

    I cook the rice in a lot of water (about twice the package directions) and put some slices of carrot in at the same time. I sometimes add a can of chicken broth (and this time added the juices from the pan I baked it in), and various seasonings (salt, pepper, poultry seasoning, bullion, garlic, etc.). I add the chicken at the end. I usually don’t put in anything at the beginning except the water, rice, and carrot; I add the seasonings after the rice is cooked.

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  32. Depending on avaiable time, you could also cook the rice a day or two ahead and keep it in the fridge until the rest od the soup is close to finished. Then if you put the soup in and it warms up and gets some flavor adhering to it, it does not disintegrate because it does not cook very long. I sometimes enjoy a can of pinapple chunks, and extra garlic or onions in chicken and rice soup. We’ve had it with small bits of firm tofu, too.

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  33. Janice, I never had a problem even with white rice on the day I cook the soup. It’s leftovers in the fridge that tend to expand with fat, less tasty rice and no broth.

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