39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-23-15”

  3. Lovely fall photo! Well, Jo, I was up well before 7:00, and a little after 7:00 I figured it might be up, so I came over and checked out old threads. Then I saw “news” got up, then “prayer requests,” so I watched for this one to appear and I pounced.

    I don’t watch for fall. As lovely as the colors are, I dread the colder months and don’t much like watching the calendar after it gets to about mid-August.

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  4. Such a nice header to celebrate my favorite season – which somehow is missing over here.

    Shall I repeat my facebook post about the dead caterpillar falling out of my cooked broccoli taking away my appetite? No! Okay I won’t mention it.

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  6. Good morning everyone.
    I have to take the car to the shop. Elvera hit something and wiped out the right side mirror yesterday. I don’t know what she hit nor if it was damaged
    This is the second minor accident she has caused by misjudgment. I hate to make her stop driving.. That will be a major inconvenience.

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  8. I have no Fall and Winter clothes. I have plenty of Spring and Summer clothes. Don’t tell anyone but I have on white pants today with a silky top. Peter would recognize it. I looked in my closet this morning to see if there was anything transitional since it is almost October. No there isn’t. The realization is that I HATE Fall and Winter. I do not like the clothes. They are so heavy and confining and I feel like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man when I am dressed in them.

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  10. 7 am is all it takes to be first on the East Coast? If I lived there I’d always be first! I woke up at 4:50 this morning. Of course I turned out the light and –thanks be to God–was asleep by 9:15 last night, making that close to 8 hours.

    I may act like a real person today!

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  11. I have clothes. I don’t know if they are for Fall or Winter or Spring or Summer. They are what I wear. And every day, I have plenty to choose from. Though I always choose the night before so they are ready to get going right away.

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  14. Yay fall!!

    We’re still in the 80s this week, but the nights are getting cooler so walking the dogs after dark isn’t like a forced death march in a dark sauna.

    Annie brought a friend home last night, but I never had a chance to meet him. They stayed up most of the night entertaining each other, though.

    She’s very tired this morning. I cannot find her house guest who stayed out of sight under the furniture last night. Maybe he’s tired and is sleeping too. Slumber parties are exhausting.

    Oh well, mysteries, mysteries. He’ll turn up dead or alive at some point. I love having a cat.

    Got my salad packed for lunch (no caterpillar in the broccoli that I could see) and am sipping my healthy breakfast shake. Could have stayed in bed a bit longer, but I really got plenty of sleep (8+ hours), I would have no excuse to do that other than being what my mom used to call a lazy bones.

    Chas, sorry about the accident. 😦

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  16. Our alarm went off at 3:45 so we could be at the hospital by 5 a.m.

    He had five shock treatments but did not get out of AFib. The saga continues with more meds, more appts., more procedures and more wondering about the business commitments.

    We had what seemed like miracle green lights going to the hospital. Husband counted them all 9n our return trip, and there sre twenty-seven between home and the hospital and we got them all green. Memorable!♡

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  18. Happy Autumn! I like the cooler weather that is coming, but not the cold that follows.

    Jo- The caterpillar was cooked, so it shouldn’t be dangerous to eat. It would add extra protein to the meal.

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  19. Barney and Jake found somebody to play with this morning. I did not go into the cattails to help them, because it could have been a bear or mountain lion or coyotes. I took the small people home, left them out front to escort the dogs to their pen if they got home, and went in to get a gun. Barney was escorted to his pen but Jake played with the porcupine. She went to the vet and they will get to her when they get time. But it is fair time, so it may be a bit. She was thorough. I hope she learned, and I expect she has.

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  20. Looking at the photo it seems to be marred by the power lines and poles, but when you think of it those people in those little towns, and up those mountains were happy to see power come to them.
    I would love to be in a cabin looking down on this right now.

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  22. My hubby and I got a nice first-day-of-fall walk. AJ, I got some wood duck photos–though they were all in the shade, or distant, or with stuff in between me and the duck, or all three, so nothing great. Oh well. I also got a photo of some warbler with a berry that would have been a beautiful photo except the light wasn’t on the bird. But we had a very nice walk, and a much-needed chance to “get away” for a few hours.

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  23. Kim, in general, unless I’m taking photos of people, I tend to avoid getting any evidence of human presence in my photos. No powerlines, no cars, no houses. (If possible–sometimes there is no angle from which to take the photo without a powerline or a street in it.) But my husband will point out lovely barns, and he likes boats, and he’ll show how the light hits that house so beautifully, or he’ll tell me a certain photo needs a person in it so you can see how big the natural wonder really is, and so forth. So now I take some photos of any of those things if I see something that I know he would like, though “for myself” I still take the photos with no hint of humans, if possible.

    Though I admit that when I saw today’s photo, after “that’s really lovely” was “I would have taken it without the house showing, but really it probably needs the house.”

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  24. Chas, you wrote this on yesterday’s thread this morning, and since you’re unlikely to go back there again, I’ll answer it here: “Cheryl, if you listen to your husband, you will learn some things.
    “Like the rules of football.
    “How can you not care?”

    Let’s see, I have five brothers, only one of which cares a plugged nickel for any sport, and to the best of my knowledge basketball and tennis are the only ones he has ever cared about.

    So I figure that I am doing well to watch English football (what Americans call soccer) with my husband, and periodically part of an IU basketball game, and I don’t need whatever bonus points I would get if I sat down to watch the occasional game of American football he watches. It’s only his third favorite sport, and it’s about my 99th favorite, so I’m happy to skip it, and most of the time so is he.

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  25. I’m with Cheryl on photos. I have often wondered why calendars featuring photos from all over the country show a harbor scene for the New England picture, instead of the natural beauty on mountains or fall colors. They use scenic pictures for the Western states, why not the Northeast?

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  27. I like the houses in the above photo. It makes me want to live there. The power lines are a little startling but then I thought about people who lived in the back woods or the mountains and how thrilled they must have been to get electricity.
    I live in an area where I rarely see a power line anymore. An effort was made to put as many of our utilities underground because of hurricane’s===why now we are almost civilized when we have a major storm these days and are quite upset if our power isn’t own within 24 or 48 hours. I personally have lived through 2 weeks with no power. I wouldn’t want to do it again.

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  28. Jake is back from the vet. She is looking rather rugged. They said they get about two of those a month and she was the worst they had seen in a long time. Probably since the last time I took Brutus in, several years ago. Like I said, she was thorough and it is possible she killed it, according to them. Barney is being nice to her and letting her rest.

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  31. Cheryl, that was a “tongue-in-cheek” comment.
    For the record. Elvera has watched one football game. I took her to a Carolina-Duke football game on our first date. I have never taken her to another football game.
    OTOH she used to watch Oprah.

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  33. I am feeling sad about the giant “sunburn” type round place on my husband’s chest where he got the shock treatments. He did not complain earlier about it so I forgot to get hydracortizone creme at the pharmacy. Tonight I have put aloe jui e on it and then witch hazel. I don’t like to go out so late, but I will if I need to. I am hopeful what I have will do ok until the morning. We have another doc appt. then. We were joking earlier about, “A doc a day and you don’t need any apples.”

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  35. Chas, I know. I just got thinking about how it’s funny that I’ve probably seen more televised sports in four years than any of my brothers, most of them older than me by several years, have seen in their lives, maybe more televised games than four out of the five have seen in real life or on TV. (I’m assuming most of them don’t attend games either, though I can’t say that for sure.)

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  36. Poor Jake is a mess. Her face is swollen, her forelegs are swollen. She is discolored, which seems difficult to achieve when you are furry. She is medicated. She has meds for the next several days. They probably took photos of her, poor thing. But, she is not one to let such things get her down. She will be fine in a couple of days.

    You and your husband, on the other hand, have much more serious issues you are dealing with. And it is difficult and scary and exhausting. Your husband probably feels poorly, has scary thoughts, and has been pummeled by the doctors and the meds. Much tougher, I can assure you. I am praying for you both.

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  37. Poor Jake, poor Art.

    Too bad we don’t live closer, Janice, I have a couple tubes of OTC cortisone creams, but if you have a prescription for a stronger formula, that’s the one you need.

    If only there were those little drone deliveries available ….

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