42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-1-15”

  1. Good morning everyone, except Jo & Tychicus.
    I hope you’re ready for October.

    Rain, thunder and lightning in Hendersonville.
    I don’t mind, I have plenty to do inside.
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  2. Happy October! We’re on our way to the fair.

    Mumsee, I left you a couple of comments on yesterday’s thread; today’s wasn’t up yet, and it was continuing a discussion from yesterday. You can answer either place.

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  3. Good morning, all, from Houston! Becca’s been home sick for last three days with an ear and upper respiratory infection. Thanks to antibiotics, she’s much better and can go back to school today.
    We are so blessed by her teacher this year. She’s truly a superior educator; Becca adores her.

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  4. I thought I turned off my alarm last night and had big plans to sleep late, but I didn’t so I am up. Mr P has a doctor’s appointment this morning in Pensacola for a 6 month check up. This afternoon he will have an appointment in Pascagoula with the pain management specialist. This is the really important one. This is the discussion on inserting the neuro stimulator that will short circuit the pain receptors. It isn’t a complete fix but if successful, it will reduce the pain to a more manageable level and he won’t have to take the dosages he currently is taking.
    Please say a prayer for that appointment.

    YES! We closed on the house yesterday. Wooo Hooo . The plan was to closed, come to this house, start hauling boxes to the new house. We each loaded as much into our vehicles as we could and drove over. (I spied a couple of boxes that could have gone straight to the street for the garbage to pick up this morning…but I digress). As I was bringing in the last box from my truck Mr. Wonderful handed me a glass of champagne. He had gone by earlier and left a bottle in the refrigerator (did I mention before that the fridge is a massive hunk of stainless steel with French doors up top and a freezer drawer on bottom?) I was very touched that he thought to do something like that. I didn’t!!!! And I’m the girl in this relationship. Aren’t I supposed to be the romantic, sappy one? ( See? I have told all of you before that I probably am not a good wife)

    Today I will be hauling more boxes and squaring away the kitchen. There is lots to do so I am sure I won’t run out of things to do. 🙂

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  5. The photo above was taken in front of some friend’s house on the Boardwalk in Point Clear, on Mobile Bay. The property has been in his family since the 1890’s. There are 2 houses. One is the Big House that belongs to my friend’s uncle. He inherited the South Cottage. It seems that his great-great grandfather didn’t like children, so he built a cottage next door to the main house that was the nursery where the nanny and children stayed when the family was “over the Bay” from Mobile to escape yellow fever in the Summertime. This was taken Labor Day Weekend. On any given weekend they may open the house on Friday night and friends and family are welcome to come and go all weekend. People bring food and whoever cooks, does the cooking. There is lots of sitting on the dock talking and it is a short half mile walk to the Grand Hotel
    http://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/grand-hotel-marriott-resort-golf-club-and-spa/history.php

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  7. Good night all. I just got home from all day at the teacher’s professional focus retreat. I would have come home earlier, but was giving rides to others. I came home to this section of the centre in the dark. I used my itouch as a flashlight to find my way and find the keyhole. No power so I was just going to bed and then saw the security light was on outside. So, yeah, the power is back on and I can check in. Now to read old posts.

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  8. OK. Where do we stand on hanging baby pictures on the wall? I am not talking about professional photography (portraits). I am talking about snapshots.
    Even the professional ones I think should be hung in the more private areas of the home. They are more personal.

    Thought? Discuss it amongst yourselves. I am off with my first load of the day.

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  11. Ha! Friday funnies fooled me. My days are a maze.

    It is cool and overcast so I am mowing. I am taking my first break and Miss Boz already got up in my lap. Mowing in cooler weather is almost a joy. I am sweating more inside the house than I did in the cool breeze while mowing. I need to get back out before it rains.

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  13. And, I’m glad your hubby was so thoughtful. I’m sure it made for the perfect ending to y’alls special day.
    I don’t think it really matters which partner is the romantic…in my house, I am. I think it’s important someone is, but I don’t think it necessarily has to be the woman.

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  15. A friend of mine (with 2 daughters, now in their 20s) took each of their school pictures (from EVERY year) framed them & lined them up all along her hallway. Kind of fun to see the changes from year to year in each of them. 🙂

    Kim also gets a new refrigerator with the new house, sweet. My refrigerator is the same style (french doors, freezer drawer at the bottom) but it’s white and is certainly smaller than Kim’s (my house has rather restrictive cabinet space to squeeze in new appliances).

    I love the look of it and I’m generally happy (it’s big enough, for the most part, for just this one-person household) — but I wish there were more freezer space, that drawer is usually packed very full.

    Well, I’ve been working on a story all week that isn’t going to pan out, but sometimes that happens. And today I’m hoping to get an appt with my gardener to discuss how we go about trimming all my giant trees. It’s been a few years since they’ve done it and the trees are way overdue, so it will be expensive. But with this drought, I want to make sure none of them are dead (and about to fall onto my house!) — also, with the heavy rains they’re still predicting for us this winter, I want to trim them while there’s still time.

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  17. Love the picture, by the way — and I like those sheltered dock spaces. very nice.

    My friend’s kids also played soccer growing up so there are framed soccer collages on her walls, too. 🙂

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  18. I don’t think anybody around here is romantic in the traditional sense, but we are definitely enjoying each other in our advanced age.

    As far as freezer space goes, we solved that problem by adding a second refrigerator and four freezers out in the garage. We call it “going to the store” when we go out there.

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  19. Kind of amusing in a pathetic little way, that I just signed a permission slip for a seventeen year old, who will be eighteen on the date, to go on a field trip with his school, while the other seventeen year old, who won’t be eighteen for a while, could sign herself into college and take on a college loan without us knowing.

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  20. I could run a small restaurant out of Mumsee’s “pantry”. I would just stand in the center of the room and look around. (Think a large utility room with floor to ceiling shelves packed full).

    Donna, we have to have the covered docks for shade and for when summer squall’s blow up. They don’t last long and it would be too much trouble to haul everything back to the house. One family I know has a beat up old pram that the use “for the wharf”.
    Getting another load and heading back.
    I thought I had the everyday china in the right place until I realized that it would make more sense for the coffee maker to go by the kitchen sink so I had to move them.
    The yard men are there now cutting the grass, edging, pruning, and hacking back the bamboo–stuff is worse than kudzu.

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  21. Eighteen year old daughter is moving to Canada. She loved her trip up there. Turns out it was not just over the border. It was six hours north. Her friend and friend’s brother got lost heading back up north, and the trip took ten hours instead. Oops. But she loved it. Loves the weather and the idea of lots of snow. She has always wanted to move to Alaska but I think Canada wins.

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  22. Like I said, we aren’t romantic in the traditional sense, but husband knows I enjoy security and he provides it. A trip to town is not all that easy. But I suspect we will be downsizing on the freezer space after this hunting year.

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  23. I have lots of family photos on our hallway wall. It leads to the bathroom and bedrooms, so strangers should not be there for the most part. I also have large pictures of the grandchildren sitting on tables and on the fridge. My mother had no photos around the house. She did bring a couple to her new home: of her grandparents, her mom and one of my cousins,who lived with us for a summer before tragically dying. None of her children.

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  26. I hope Ann is wrong that at least one person in a relationship has to be the romantic, because neither of us are. I guess that makes us pretty boring, but at least no one is ever disappointed. Of course, it gives us a lot of material to make jokes over what other people do. When we moved into our first house, we walked to the door and he stopped. He went back to the car and got his bowling ball to carry over the threshold. I thought that was hilarious.

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  28. Regarding kid pictures, we still laugh about this one. We had those frames that have a big oval in the middle for a graduation picture surrounded by twelve small ovals for each year’s school picture. When first son was in fifth grade, an acquaintance (of the “dizzy blonde” variety) was in the house, noticed it, and said, “Oh, you have five sons and they all look alike.”

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  29. Batten down those hatches, you east coasters

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/hurricane-joaquin/

    ______________________________
    (CNN) It’s October. A powerful hurricane is lashing the Bahamas. The whole system is threatening to head straight north to the United States.

    You can’t blame the people along the East Coast if they’re having a Superstorm Sandy flashback when it comes to Hurricane Joaquin.

    The powerful tropical system became a major hurricane overnight. And over the next day, the Category 3 storm is expected to only get stronger.

    The good news: If current projections hold, Joaquin won’t be another Sandy.

    The not-so-good news: Hurricane projections are notoriously unpredictable.
    ___________________________________

    Kim, makes sense about the squalls.

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  31. Well, Mumsee, I hear British Columbia is gorgeous, so I can understand her wanting to live there. Also, the people are pretty nice too 😉 I hope all goes well for her.

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  32. I suspect she will not be moving tomorrow or next week. Her last ambition was to move to Alaska, but before that it was Wyoming. Meanwhile, she is content to look after grandma and chuckle at grandpa.

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  33. Our anniversary is next Wednesday. We agreed that we bought each other a house.
    In one house I had a long hallway between two bedrooms ( the bedrooms shared a Jack and Jill bath) I put family photos all along the wall. I just don’t like them hanging in a living room or dining room.
    Most designers frown on it, because it “isn’t romantic” but I love having family photos in my bedroom. In the house before this rental we had all of the military photos hanging on one wall. Mr. P’s dad from WWII, my dad in his Navy Uniform, Mr. P in his, oldest son, middle son… Having book shelves is a great way to work photos in.
    Consider that Mr. P has three boys if he hands a photo of each of them until they are 7 that is 21 photos then if I have BG’s hanging there would be 7 more….that is just too overwhelming for a living room and now there are grandchildren so he wants 8×10’s of each of them (times how ever many photos he likes). I like smaller photos sitting on a table. We will have to work this out. Right now they are all in our closets

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  34. Mumsee, 🙂 I’m glad it is going well with her and your parents.

    Kim, I’m so happy you are enjoying the new house. I have no idea what the protocol for pictures is. I don’t have photos up in my room, because I try to cut down on dust collecting objects, so I just have three art pieces, a plaque and a cork board on my wall, and keep my photos in books, boxes, or on the computer. Most people I knew growing up, including my parents, put family pictures up wherever they could whether they had frames for them or not. Eldest sibling made up a scrapbook for my parents’ wedding photos, and my father’s childhood photos in those days when scrapbooking was popular. Now, when any of my siblings want my parent to have some photos, the two eldest make them up those photo books one can get printed, while the youngest prints them off copies from the machine in the grocery store.
    My parents have an electronic frame to show digital pictures, but they always forget to use it. Sometimes, I think we’ll drown in all the photos, although I really like the printed books, because they are compact and easy to store. My mother brings them out to show people all the time; and I think people are relieved, because there is only a limited number of photos to look at in the books. My siblings, a cousin and I have a standing joke – a quote from a short story by Canadian author and humourist Stephen Leacock, about a polite vicar who can’t get up the courage to say goodbye to his overly hospitable hostess and goes insane as a result – and when my parents haul out another album for a visitor, we quote, “More tea and more photographs!”

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  35. I have a couple of those electronic frames, I never remember them. But it is interesting that this has come up as I have been thinking I have been remiss is putting out photos of the children. It helps them connect when they see they are valued with pictures. I just hung some on a poster board over the piano. Even mister strong and silent mentioned he had seen his picture up.

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  36. We have each daughter’s high school graduation photo in the living room, and ancestral photos (so far not including mine) next to the piano, also in the living room. It’s mostly us who sees them, and occasional visitors who we assume already care about our family. (We don’t host people for business or anything like that.)

    Mumsee, I’ve been at the fair all day, but I checked yesterday’s thread as soon as I got back. I’m in full agreement that we treat ex-cons, especially felons, and especially those guilty of sex crimes, reprehensibly, laying an all-but-impossible burden on them. (Hundreds of dollars of fines before they can get their drivers license restored, no going outside the county even to attend church, most companies won’t hire convicted felons, they can’t “associate” with other ex-felons even if they happen to be their own relatives, and on and on and on.) But I think that in this case they were taking his crimes and sins far too lightly. (And while I could only speculate on the motives for why people did things–which is a dangerous thing to do–the facts are stark on their own.) But I do hope he is fully repentant and that at this point they’re only being extra-super cautious.

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  37. The fair was fun. We started the morning with watching the big draft horses pull thousands of pounds (pairs of horses pulling 6,000 pounds to start, and the winning team pulled 12,500, 27.5 feet) and ended the day watching miniature horses in teams pulling hundreds of pounds (they started with about 800, pulled 9 feet, and were up to 1200 or so when we left since my husband had had enough cigarette smoke headed our way). In between we ate fair food, looked at exhibits, etc. I’d wanted to enter a photo or two this year, but never actually chose which one to enter. (I did get several enlarged with the idea of choosing, but simply never chose one and never framed any. Oh well, life has been crazy busy the last couple of months.)

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  38. We are done for the day. My back hurts so I can’t imagine Mr. P’s. I think we got a lot done.
    Many of you know that I really wanted the Jameson Hurricanes from Pottery Barn but they were $149 each and I wanted 3 of them. I went to Tuesday Morning this afternoon and found something very, very similar for $19.95 each. They only had two but a store in Mobile is holding a third one for me until next Wednesday when ex-husband calls on a print shop next door and he said he would bring it across the Bay to me.
    I explained to Mr P that in Wife Logic I had saved him $400! He wasn’t familiar with the concept but he understands now.

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  40. Chas, you have a wise and frugal wife, and you truly have saved much money through the years, I’m sure.

    For the record, my husband and I ate at the Lions booth today.

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  42. Most of our photos are digital, but whenever Walgreen’s offers a free collage, Tim makes one. So far, they’re all of our oldest, but we’ll soon do one of the twins. We have a few of those scattered around the common areas of our manse rather than lots of individual ones.

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