Hendersonville Lions collected over $100 yesterday to buy bottled water for midstate SC. It isn’t on national news, but people all across the SC Piedmont and western NC are rallying to help the people in SC. Volunteer construction gangs from churches, etc. are going down to help. It really is bad down there. Several thousand are without drinking water. That’s the reason for the collection.
I heard on the radio, that a truckload of water left yesterday. If a truck leaves from Hendersonville, there must be a convoy on I-26. Hendersonville is not a large place.
A guy at the Lions yesterday told of a phone call his SS Class got last Sunday. One of their members, a woman, called during SS. She was down near Columbia and she was sitting on top of her car. “Pray for me!”. She called again before the class was over. She had been rescued.
😦 TSWITW left the toaster oven on all night. Probably since lunch yesterday, because I can’t think of anything she would have used it for while fixing dinner. I had lunch with Lions.
I’m going to have to start checking the kitchen every night.
I noticed it while I was making coffee.
No big deal and no harm done.
But I need to be alert.
Mine turns off automatically when I want to use it because I can never remember to push the right buttons. I probably would have selected a less computerized model but I am happy with the one husband bought me.
😦 Really bad couple of days at work. Somehow I booked 2 rental groups for the same weekend!! So not good.
🙂 Thankful for an understanding boss (who used to do my job at another camp). The problem has been resolved but one of the groups will be going elsewhere as they did not want any of the other weekends I offered them.
😦 I HATE making mistakes like that. Especially since I don’t know how it happened so I can’t make sure it doesn’t happen again. I guess I will be checking and double checking and triple checking everything now. And then checking again.
🙂 Beautiful Thanksgiving weekend – supposed to get to 75F today. A great day to ‘vacuum’ the leaves up.
😦 My husband drives to San Jose (100 miles one-way) once a week to meet with his boss at the corporate offices. He leaves at 5 am to make the drive within a reasonable amount of time (90 Minutes).
🙂 I went with him on Thursday because we were going down to Carmel Valley (near Monterey) so he could attend an Energy Conference that included a night in a lovely hotel.
🙂 It was our 38th wedding anniversary–which just proves we got married at the age of 2.
🙂 I brought my computer and since I only had phone Internet connection, I wrote most of the four hours we were there and got a lot done. 🙂
🙂 Had a nice time in Carmel; views were lovely and yesterday after the conference ended we hiked Point Lobos State Park–a place we’ve loved since we lived in Monterey, yikes, 29 years ago! (When we were 11 and had three kids).
😦 We knew traffic would be bad–and the reports were miserable–so we strategically used Google maps and missed most of it (A miracle–but we were acting like teenagers).
🙂 For once, we stopped in the city and went to the movies to avoid the worst of the traffic (see Daily Thread for details) for 3 hours.
🙂 Got home with just a tiny slow down.
😦 Haven’t slept in a couple nights, but got praying done . . .
🙂 God’s in his heaven and all is right with my world as a result. 🙂
😦 I don’t currently own a toaster oven. To me it’s one of the most important items in a kitchen (above a microwave), but we don’t have enough counter space.
😦 Somehow we do have enough counter space for a juicer that takes up more space than a toaster oven and hasn’t been used since we got married.
😦 I also didn’t bother to keep my stand mixer because I knew he had one . . . but didn’t know till we got married that he had a bad one.
🙂 My husband took me out to eat one dinner this week, and made supper himself another one.
🙂 I’m nearly finished with the big book I’ve been working on (rewriting/editing) for two or three months–should complete it today.
😦 I underpriced my bid on same book. (I bid it as a large project, but not as the massive project it turned out to be.)
🙂 I have another book expected Monday, which will still give me two projects to work on. It’s unheard of to have two projects at a time into October. Two at a time is ideal for me, since I can go back and forth between them if I’m waiting on an author for something. More than two and I feel pressure to finish one and get it off my schedule.
🙂 Happy anniversary, michelle. Early, toddler weddings are the best, or at least that’s what everyone says now. 🙂
🙂 Kim’s new house! Yay. Celebrate. Relax. Hang out in the yard. Enjoy your new domain.
😦 Health issues among members (and family members) here.
😦 We continue to be woefully understaffed at work and everyone is doing triple duty, as in covering things not normally on their beats (like elections and campaigns), writing 2-3 stories a day sometimes. Exhausting. And we’ve lost 2 out of our 3 features writers, so we barely have a features section left. Two more copy editors/designers left recently also and they’ll only replace one of them as (this is what I heard) they wouldn’t want to have to lay someone off at Christmas if we hit the end of the year and things look even more dire.
🙂 It can provide some diversity in one’s day. We’re versatile Jacks-and-Jills-of-all-trades now, though that’s always been pretty much the case, just more so now. Yesterday alone I did a business story (we no longer have a biz writer), a weather story (found out what HX means in weather charts) and a political story (no political writer right now either, and we have some important local and regional races coming up quickly now).
😦 The LA Times is laying off (again) in their newsroom — difference is they offer generous buyouts (up to a year’s salary for longtime employees). We get, what, 2 weeks pay? and a curt “see ya.” Ugh.
😦 Just sorry to see the entire world of working print journalists being rocked so badly and going on for so long. But there (still) doesn’t seem to be a solution in our dismal search to find a new business model that will work in the era of the Internet. Giving it (all our content) away for free certainly didn’t pan out. 🙄 Who knew 20 years ago when Al Gore launched the Internet that the business ramifications for us would linger for so long?
😦 Our nation is in a mess. Lord, have mercy.
🙂 But …. It’s SATURDAY. And our God is good, he is faithful, our rock and strength and comfort in times of trouble.
🙂 Tomorrow we’re back to our 10 a.m. worship service in our leased *church* space, it’s no cathedral, but it’s home. AND a beloved older church friend is visiting, she and her husband (who died, in his 90s, late last year) relocated to Colorado about a year ago and we’ve all missed her so much. Her family is all in Colo. now but I think she misses her west coast home of so many years, especially after losing her husband. 😦 They were both originally from the upper midwest but settled near the ocean in California and never looked back.
🙂 We may get some RAIN by mid-week (although for now we’re mired in another one of our famous October heat waves — and I know all of this, with all the technical details, as I had/got to do our weather story yesterday and interviewed a meteorologist from the NWS 🙂
🙂 Finally connected this week with my gardener(s) to discuss what will be a major, major tree-trimming job. Dreading how much it will all cost. But it needs to get done, along with some other things around here.
🙂 😦 We’re on track to get some major El Nino rain this winter — it’s both good news and bad news as there will be probably flooding and mudslides (and plenty of leaking roofs) that come with the needed rainfall. Watching SC this week and thinking “we’re (maybe) next.”
Cheryl – We have very little counter space. We keep the toaster oven on top of the microwave, which sits on an old sewing machine stand-thingie (with the sewing machine inside it, upside down). Our mixer, a more-than-25-years old Kitchen Aid, is on the floor next to a rolling cabinet.
We have a lot of counter space but we got rid of the microwave. I got tired of cleaning it up after others exploded stuff in it. It is in the guest room. The toaster oven is on a shelf in the indoor pantry. Not very accessible, but there when I want it. And it is fun. And I always think of Donna when I use it.
We use our toaster oven more than our regular oven, I’m pretty sure.
😊 for the beautiful weather we’ve had in Kentucky lately.
😊😢 that all the churches in our denomination were spared, though dozens of families in those congregations lost everything
😊 for everyone’s response to the flooding.
Cameron, when I was single I most definitely used my toaster oven more than my regular oven. For several years I had a large one, and then I really used it a lot. I’d make meatloaf or brownies in it–basically I used it for everything except baking cookies or roasting a turkey. I used it pretty much every day, my oven only once a month. A microwave is useful for thawing meat or if you’re in a hurry, but I can live without one. I don’t like not having a toaster oven, as I’ve had one all my adult life and really got spoiled by something that heats up quickly and takes little enough energy that you don’t feel bad if all you’re cooking is a pan of biscuits.
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Hendersonville Lions collected over $100 yesterday to buy bottled water for midstate SC. It isn’t on national news, but people all across the SC Piedmont and western NC are rallying to help the people in SC. Volunteer construction gangs from churches, etc. are going down to help. It really is bad down there. Several thousand are without drinking water. That’s the reason for the collection.
I heard on the radio, that a truckload of water left yesterday. If a truck leaves from Hendersonville, there must be a convoy on I-26. Hendersonville is not a large place.
A guy at the Lions yesterday told of a phone call his SS Class got last Sunday. One of their members, a woman, called during SS. She was down near Columbia and she was sitting on top of her car. “Pray for me!”. She called again before the class was over. She had been rescued.
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😦 TSWITW left the toaster oven on all night. Probably since lunch yesterday, because I can’t think of anything she would have used it for while fixing dinner. I had lunch with Lions.
I’m going to have to start checking the kitchen every night.
I noticed it while I was making coffee.
No big deal and no harm done.
But I need to be alert.
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Yes, you do. That is what my dad does. It is neat to see their love continue to grow through this.
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Our toaster oven automatically turns off when the timer goes off, I think.
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Mine turns off automatically when I want to use it because I can never remember to push the right buttons. I probably would have selected a less computerized model but I am happy with the one husband bought me.
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Ah, so here we are again.
Talking toaster ovens …
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🙂 Chas caring for Elvera
😦 Really bad couple of days at work. Somehow I booked 2 rental groups for the same weekend!! So not good.
🙂 Thankful for an understanding boss (who used to do my job at another camp). The problem has been resolved but one of the groups will be going elsewhere as they did not want any of the other weekends I offered them.
😦 I HATE making mistakes like that. Especially since I don’t know how it happened so I can’t make sure it doesn’t happen again. I guess I will be checking and double checking and triple checking everything now. And then checking again.
🙂 Beautiful Thanksgiving weekend – supposed to get to 75F today. A great day to ‘vacuum’ the leaves up.
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You’re a good man, Chas.
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I’ve never owned a toaster oven.
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😦 My husband drives to San Jose (100 miles one-way) once a week to meet with his boss at the corporate offices. He leaves at 5 am to make the drive within a reasonable amount of time (90 Minutes).
🙂 I went with him on Thursday because we were going down to Carmel Valley (near Monterey) so he could attend an Energy Conference that included a night in a lovely hotel.
🙂 It was our 38th wedding anniversary–which just proves we got married at the age of 2.
🙂 I brought my computer and since I only had phone Internet connection, I wrote most of the four hours we were there and got a lot done. 🙂
🙂 Had a nice time in Carmel; views were lovely and yesterday after the conference ended we hiked Point Lobos State Park–a place we’ve loved since we lived in Monterey, yikes, 29 years ago! (When we were 11 and had three kids).
😦 We knew traffic would be bad–and the reports were miserable–so we strategically used Google maps and missed most of it (A miracle–but we were acting like teenagers).
🙂 For once, we stopped in the city and went to the movies to avoid the worst of the traffic (see Daily Thread for details) for 3 hours.
🙂 Got home with just a tiny slow down.
😦 Haven’t slept in a couple nights, but got praying done . . .
🙂 God’s in his heaven and all is right with my world as a result. 🙂
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😦 I don’t currently own a toaster oven. To me it’s one of the most important items in a kitchen (above a microwave), but we don’t have enough counter space.
😦 Somehow we do have enough counter space for a juicer that takes up more space than a toaster oven and hasn’t been used since we got married.
😦 I also didn’t bother to keep my stand mixer because I knew he had one . . . but didn’t know till we got married that he had a bad one.
🙂 My husband took me out to eat one dinner this week, and made supper himself another one.
🙂 I’m nearly finished with the big book I’ve been working on (rewriting/editing) for two or three months–should complete it today.
😦 I underpriced my bid on same book. (I bid it as a large project, but not as the massive project it turned out to be.)
🙂 I have another book expected Monday, which will still give me two projects to work on. It’s unheard of to have two projects at a time into October. Two at a time is ideal for me, since I can go back and forth between them if I’m waiting on an author for something. More than two and I feel pressure to finish one and get it off my schedule.
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Some very curious math in Michelle’s post, I see. 🙂
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🙂 Happy anniversary, michelle. Early, toddler weddings are the best, or at least that’s what everyone says now. 🙂
🙂 Kim’s new house! Yay. Celebrate. Relax. Hang out in the yard. Enjoy your new domain.
😦 Health issues among members (and family members) here.
😦 We continue to be woefully understaffed at work and everyone is doing triple duty, as in covering things not normally on their beats (like elections and campaigns), writing 2-3 stories a day sometimes. Exhausting. And we’ve lost 2 out of our 3 features writers, so we barely have a features section left. Two more copy editors/designers left recently also and they’ll only replace one of them as (this is what I heard) they wouldn’t want to have to lay someone off at Christmas if we hit the end of the year and things look even more dire.
🙂 It can provide some diversity in one’s day. We’re versatile Jacks-and-Jills-of-all-trades now, though that’s always been pretty much the case, just more so now. Yesterday alone I did a business story (we no longer have a biz writer), a weather story (found out what HX means in weather charts) and a political story (no political writer right now either, and we have some important local and regional races coming up quickly now).
😦 The LA Times is laying off (again) in their newsroom — difference is they offer generous buyouts (up to a year’s salary for longtime employees). We get, what, 2 weeks pay? and a curt “see ya.” Ugh.
😦 Just sorry to see the entire world of working print journalists being rocked so badly and going on for so long. But there (still) doesn’t seem to be a solution in our dismal search to find a new business model that will work in the era of the Internet. Giving it (all our content) away for free certainly didn’t pan out. 🙄 Who knew 20 years ago when Al Gore launched the Internet that the business ramifications for us would linger for so long?
😦 Our nation is in a mess. Lord, have mercy.
🙂 But …. It’s SATURDAY. And our God is good, he is faithful, our rock and strength and comfort in times of trouble.
🙂 Tomorrow we’re back to our 10 a.m. worship service in our leased *church* space, it’s no cathedral, but it’s home. AND a beloved older church friend is visiting, she and her husband (who died, in his 90s, late last year) relocated to Colorado about a year ago and we’ve all missed her so much. Her family is all in Colo. now but I think she misses her west coast home of so many years, especially after losing her husband. 😦 They were both originally from the upper midwest but settled near the ocean in California and never looked back.
🙂 We may get some RAIN by mid-week (although for now we’re mired in another one of our famous October heat waves — and I know all of this, with all the technical details, as I had/got to do our weather story yesterday and interviewed a meteorologist from the NWS 🙂
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🙂 Finally connected this week with my gardener(s) to discuss what will be a major, major tree-trimming job. Dreading how much it will all cost. But it needs to get done, along with some other things around here.
🙂 😦 We’re on track to get some major El Nino rain this winter — it’s both good news and bad news as there will be probably flooding and mudslides (and plenty of leaking roofs) that come with the needed rainfall. Watching SC this week and thinking “we’re (maybe) next.”
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Cheryl – We have very little counter space. We keep the toaster oven on top of the microwave, which sits on an old sewing machine stand-thingie (with the sewing machine inside it, upside down). Our mixer, a more-than-25-years old Kitchen Aid, is on the floor next to a rolling cabinet.
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We have a lot of counter space but we got rid of the microwave. I got tired of cleaning it up after others exploded stuff in it. It is in the guest room. The toaster oven is on a shelf in the indoor pantry. Not very accessible, but there when I want it. And it is fun. And I always think of Donna when I use it.
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We use our toaster oven more than our regular oven, I’m pretty sure.
😊 for the beautiful weather we’ve had in Kentucky lately.
😊😢 that all the churches in our denomination were spared, though dozens of families in those congregations lost everything
😊 for everyone’s response to the flooding.
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Cameron, when I was single I most definitely used my toaster oven more than my regular oven. For several years I had a large one, and then I really used it a lot. I’d make meatloaf or brownies in it–basically I used it for everything except baking cookies or roasting a turkey. I used it pretty much every day, my oven only once a month. A microwave is useful for thawing meat or if you’re in a hurry, but I can live without one. I don’t like not having a toaster oven, as I’ve had one all my adult life and really got spoiled by something that heats up quickly and takes little enough energy that you don’t feel bad if all you’re cooking is a pan of biscuits.
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🙂 A lovely, sweet afternoon excursion with Lee & Forrest today. (See Our Daily Thread for details.)
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