72 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-12-15”

  5. Good morning Janice. The stars are beautiful here this morning. Two bright planets in the eastern sky. Off to fight balloon Fiesta traffic in Albuquerque. Hubby had a dentist appointment and we need tires on the Subaru.

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  11. Oh, some of you make presumptions. I have a son, and it could be his wedding. But it is not. D2 this time. And there is still D3 who just turned 21 last month. I think she’ll wait a while.

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  14. Janice, not all girls are equally expensive about getting married. My siblings were very economical, and still had lovely weddings. They managed to pay for most of it themselves. I don’t think my parents had to spend more than a couple hundred dollars on each wedding.

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  15. Good Morning All. I was awake at 4, gave up at 5 and made the coffee. Sat in my sunroom with the windows and door open reading.
    I spent most of yesterday unpacking and putting away in the dining room. Still not complete, but there is a dent.
    We bought a rug Saturday. Mr. P was a man on a mission. It was $100 more than we wanted to pay, but he didn’t mind and that is one of the things I really appreciate about him. Every expenditure isn’t a budget crisis and the sky is not falling. Than we ran into the people we bought the house from and they reminded him to use his military discount so we ended up paying $19 LESS even after the taxes. They checked out behind us and the man help load the rug in the truck.
    Now if I can keep him from hanging pictures until I am around. I want to unpack them all, look at them, and carefully decide where they go. We have time you know.

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  16. Peter, it seemed more likely to be a girl who would care whether or not you mentioned her engagement. And anyway, I believe you had mentioned your daughter bringing home someone special some time back.

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  17. As to the photos, you probably all know those are blue jays in both. They have a nasty disposition at times, but I really think they are beautiful, especially against green and especially in flight when all their feathers are fanned out on display. (Landing and braking by spreading their tail, which comes out to a point in the middle, is particularly pretty.)

    Anyway, I like the top one because I had the camera on action mode, hoping to get the birds in flight, and I did get two frames of the fellow at left flying past the other jay. But when the front jay went past enough that the back one can be seen, I had this “Don’t even think about landing too close to me. I’ll peck you, and don’t think I won’t” attitude on the rear bird.

    It’s funny to me that birds never seem to just hang out together calmly, unless they are a mated pair (like two doves). You’ll get eight or ten of some species that chooses to be a flocking bird, like goldfinches or pine siskins, and some argument or another is going on nonstop. Five or six blue jays come to the yard together, and you would think they can’t stand each other. One would think all the fighting would use up more energy than they’d save by flocking together, but I guess it must work. Keep your distance far enough from the other bird that he can’t hurt you with his beak and claws (and don’t take his food, whatever you do, unless you’re stronger than he is), and you’ll all get along.

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  18. Michelle, you said on yesterday’s thread that you and Donna (with Tess and Cowboy) didn’t make it to the (chilly) dog park. I’m beginning to wonder if all the dog park stories are fiction. Donna did take me to the dog park, but conveniently for her, it happened to be closed, and so we sat on the benches outside it . . .

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  19. Cheryl, the picture on your new gravatar is lovely, but we still have similar pictures. They are both of butterflies, only mine is the nebula and yours is the insect. 🙂

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  20. Well, Roscuro, I thought about posting the red-headed woodpecker as my gravatar, but I want to send that one to AJ so I used this one instead. I love yours, by the way.

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  21. RKessler, I have been watching those planets! Aren’t they beautiful? One is Venus, but I don’t know what the other one is. But every morning it is a beautiful wake up call, reminding what a creative and powerful God we serve. This morning, I woke up about three thirty to heavy cloud cover and thought there would be no morning stars. But just above the horizon, in a little window in the clouds, Venus was shining through and God was praised.

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  22. I’d ask Stargazer for you but he’s been housing sitting . . . dogs.

    Home Depot gives deductions to veterans. We always shop there, though the local hardware store waives the sales tax (which is close to 10% here anyway).

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  25. Donna in reference to your 11:34 yesterday, you could send the guy here. There are lots of contrailists here. And, interestingly, all of the ones I know hail from …..drum roll……southern California. In fact, I met a woman here a few months after we moved in. We were chatting and I commented there was a new doctor up here who was really into contrails and the devastation being rained down upon us. She said she had heard of that. Turns out she is from California and a doctor and new here and it was her. Oops. Watch your mouth, mumsee.

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  27. We love our conspiracy theories but all of my dog park stories are absolutely true.

    And simple explanation, it was an alien dog park, not MY dog park, that cheryl and I went to that time so the freeze dome wasn’t in place there.

    Did I tell you there was a drone suspiciously hovering — just hovering — over *our* dog park one afternoon? We were all suspicious about that, wondering who was behind it and what the motive may have been.

    Someday when I’m no longer working, I’ll be one of those people calling the newspaper all the time.

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  29. I am not entirely convinced that “dog parks” exist. Remember, I have lived in many places around the world and owned many dogs, and I have never been to one.

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  30. Mr. P takes Lulabelle and Amos to the dog park a couple of times a week. The Little Traitor acts like riding in my car makes him car sick, but will leap right up in the Dawg Daddy’s truck to go to the park. Lulabelle thinks any time you go near her leash it means a trip to the park. They have had to limit the time there because something is wrong with one of her hind legs and she limps afterwards because she runs and plays so much.
    That is one of the good things about the yard we have now. It isn’t very deep but it is wide, also fenced so it gives her a good length to run and get some of her energy out.
    Now I have to teach her that she isn’t a red neck dog and the neighbors don’t want to listen to her bark for the fun of it.

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  31. My dogs watch the shoes (which happens way before it’s time to go for the leashes).

    Any hint that I’m about to go for my sneakers, they start running back and forth in the living room and, as I’m changing shoes in the bathroom, poke their nosey faces in to see if the magic shoes have been applied.

    Once that’s confirmed, all systems are go.

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  36. Mumsee, I once saw a sign saying “Dog Park”, but I’ve never seen one.
    I didn’t know dog parks existed until Donna started talking about one.
    They all seem to be too cold for me.

    People in Hendersonville take their dogs for walks. In our community, someone is almost always out walking a dog. Some at night with flashlights.

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  38. KBells, that’s just disturbing 😯

    Cheryl @10:11: Thanks, but I can’t claim credit for the photo 😀 The credits go to NASA. The nebula pictures are available copyright free from Wikimedia Commons.

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  39. A vet who is close to me tells a story about taking her dog to work with her. He’d actually go into the operating room–such as it were–when she was spaying dogs. She would then toss the, um, removed part to the dog to eat. He loved –whatever those were.

    One day, he was in with her while she was amputating a cat’s leg. It slipped off the table and the dog snapped it up and ran out of the room and into the waiting room.

    A woman –not the owner–waiting sat up straight and shouted, “is that what I think it is?”

    “Why no.”

    And they wrestled the dog back behind the desk with his, um, specimen . . .

    Vets tell the wildest stories . . . .

    This was in Idaho, by the way, where they don’t have dog parks.

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  42. So California has places to park dogs? Those Californians think of everything.

    Cheryl- Funny how blue jays seems so angry all the time, yet the game Angry Birds has red birds instead of blue.

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  44. Cheryl, she probably is a redneck dog or at least a ghetto dog. As a puppy she was found roaming the streets of Pensacola. I just don’t want her disturbing the neighbors. There is something really rude about that and since I have been on the griping end I don’t want to be on the offending end.

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  46. I was going to suggest a bark collar but I did not want to appear to be a know it all. But I will support Michelle’s suggestion because nobody would accuse her of being a know it all. She is too kind.

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  47. Or bring the dog inside … ?

    I thought bark/shock collars were illegal in California. 😉

    They have some that spray citronella or something on the dog, but people with barking dogs told me they’re dog just ends up drenched, the collar drained of its supply.

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  52. We got Chasey a bark collar because she would bark the whole time we tired to keep her in the yard. She would just brave it. It was like; bark! yelp! bark! yelp! bark! yelp! After awhile it is just cruel when a dog is that stupid and stubborn. She now spend most of her time in he house.

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  55. Training collars take a lot of training along with them. You cannot just put it on the dog and leave it like that. Same as a shock collar for hunting dogs. You have to work with them so they know what they are supposed to do when they hear the beep or vibration before the shock. But it is funny when they don’t get it and want to out stubborn it, like the porcupine thing is funny. Not that we would laugh at a dog in pain, but the situation.

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  57. http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-off-leash-dog-areas-in-atlanta/
    The dog park which is close by to us is the Mason Mill park. I see they have moved it. It use to be in a very nice green area where our family hiked when Wesley was young. The area had the feeling of being in the mountains. It is between where we live and Emory University. It could be a bit scary to be out hiking and have dogs roaming off leash. It looks like with the newly created park that they have probably reduced the excitement level of what we use to experience. Makes me wonder if there were any “incidences.”

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  58. I sure didn’t feel nice when I buckled that collar on Suzie. She didn’t like it either. Did you ever see the America’s Funniest Home Video’s set where the guy tried one on himself and the shock knocked him out of the chair?

    I bought the collar in California about 10 years ago, Donna. I don’t know if they’re legal still but it solved our problem and meant she could be outside where she was happier when we weren’t home.

    Most importantly, the neighbors never complained.

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  59. If you have ever tested one on yourself, the first few numbers are very light. One would not want to ramp it up unless the dog was well trained and in imminent danger of being hit by a car or something. None of them are too bad but doing it over and over could cause the dog serious mental problems.

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  64. We had a bark collar for one of our dogs, after a while he stopped barking and we didn’t need to use it anymore. Then one day he started again at every random thing, but we just had to pull out the collar and make sure he saw it and he did not bark again unless it was important (like a bison hanging around just outside the yard and that’s fine with me.

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  65. We had a cute little skunk in our shop/garage today. Pretty stinky when we accidentally tipped a board on him while carefully dismantling his hidy hole. But the shop got cleaned out and we started constructing a storage loft in the one corner.

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  66. Michelle, I heard on the radio today that those adult colouring books are great for insomniacs as they put your brain into the right state for sleep. I don’t know – might be worth a try and could be fun!

    Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Roscuro!

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  67. Happy Thanksgiving, Kare & Roscuro!

    Internet is back in — for the time being anyway. And I can still see the print on here really well. Don’t know what the problem was with the color before, but it’s nice to be able to read comfortably again.

    I went to the eye doctor today. It’s been several years since my last appointment. They were talking bifocals back then, but I declined them.

    However, they are very needed now, and I am getting no-line bifocals. I hope the adjustment period isn’t too difficult, especially where it concerns reading music. My next piano performance is November 14, and I will be using music for it rather than memorizing. My glasses will be ready about a week from now, so that will give me a little less than four weeks to get used to them.

    I suppose I could wear the glasses I have now if the bifocals are problematic on the concert date, but I have to bring my glasses down to the tip of my nose to read music, and it hampers my breathing, such that lately I’ve had to breathe through my mouth while reading music. I don’t like that feeling.

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  70. It was a trick list, mumsee

    skunks, ugh.

    6 arrows, good luck with the new glasses, I had very few problems adjusting to progressives (although I do also get a pair of just dedicated reading glasses as they’re easier for long-term computer work

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  71. 6 Arrows, I just went with no-line bifocals (my first bi-focals), and they were much harder to get used to than I expected. There is no way I could have safely driven with them the first day, for example–the car ride home, everything was blurry, enough to almost make me carsick. The scenery was going up and down and fuzzy. And it took three or four days not to feel almost dizzy every time I turned or moved my head.

    But you know what? I can read again–clearly. So immediately I had that benefit. It had gotten to where reading was extremely difficult, and that was when I knew it was time for bifocals, since my other vision was still OK. Within an hour of getting home I picked up a book and knew it had been a good choice, though seeing other things was still hard.

    And as hard as those first days were, within a week I was pretty much fully adjusted. I think they told me it could take up to two weeks, and I was expecting it to be that for me, but it wasn’t. It was one day of surreal vision, two or three days of consciousness of every movement of my head, and another two or three days of consciousness of major head movements, and since then I pretty much only notice it when I go between glasses. (I made a mistake of getting the two pairs in two different frames, and apparently the “lines” are in different enough places within the frames that if I go from one pair to the other, I know it for a couple of hours. And for driving or doing stuff outside, I use my sunglasses, which aren’t bifocals, so going back and forth between those and the bifocals is momentarily difficult, but nothing to write home about. I mean, that prescription worked for everything but reading, so it’s still fine for those uses.)

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