94 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-31-15”

  2. Evening Jjo. I thought I had already posted.
    I wonder what happened to my post?
    I hope it’s lost. I was questioning whether “sit” or “set” was the correct term for turning clocks back.

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  5. Good Morning Everyone. I have been awake half the night. Months ago I agreed to let BG go to New Orleans to a concert. At the time I thought her two older cousins were going with her. That didn’t happen so I let her go with two friends. The guy and girl are boyfriend/girlfriend. I have known the guy’s parents for years. As a matter of fact the families were close enough that ex husband called the guys grandparents Aunt and Uncle and their children called my in laws Aunt and Uncle. Confused yet? I also taught the guy in Kindergarten–he was such a sweet little boy.
    Anyway C (the young guy’s mother) convinced me that he is super responsible and had the whole thing planned out, so I agreed and let her go. She checked in with me from time to time via text. I slept for a little while. I knew the concert started at 10 and would be over around 1:30 so I was awake again at 2. I sent a text. They were on their way home. I sent another and another and finally around 5 am I decided they were close enough to home that I dozed off. This house has alarms on all the doors and windows so when BG came in at 5:28 there was a ding dong sound. I got up, laid eyes on her, kissed her, told her I loved her, and tried to go back to sleep. No such luck.
    The coffee is made, the dogs have been out, and I have eaten something.
    Another step for this mother/daughter duo. Of course when I was her age I was smart enough to have had a hotel room and not had to drive home.

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  6. It isn’t as smart as it sounds to allow kids to have hotel rooms.
    But you have an extra hour to sleep tonight.
    I mentioned BG in a prayer last night. That she might have wisdom not to do something she’ll regret later.
    Teens can be thoughtless.
    I really was.
    It was my teen years that worried me most when Chuck was a teen.
    But nothing bad happened in either case.

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  8. My first thought this morning when I saw the picture was “Quoth the raven, Nevermore!”

    It’s a rainy Saturday. This is birthday weekend. Today we go 70 miles West to celebrate D1’s 30th birthday. Tomorrow we drive 90 miles North to celebrate my MIL’s 81st. Lots of cake and ice cream!

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  9. Peter, I think he’s actually saying, “caw, caw, caw, happy Halloween!”

    Crows are hard to photograph, since their black eyes and beaks just blend in and you get only a silhouette shot, unless you’re pretty close and the light is on them right. This is actually the first really good shot of a crow I’ve gotten. (I also got a good one or two of his full body, but he wasn’t cawing.) This was at Turkey Run, too. We were waiting for the nature center to open, and my husband sat in the car while I walked around the parking lot taking photos. And this guy was in a tree making a lot of racket, so I got some photos of him.

    I also got some good photos of a red-bellied woodpecker that was flying around and saying “Right here, right here” so I kept finding him easily when he landed on some new spot. Only he was slurring it a little, into “rye-cheer, rye-cheer.”

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  10. Granola look: Being a bit of a granola myself, longish hair, no makeup, longer skirts the three times I wore them in the past eight years, I am continually amazed at the feminist viewpoint. Makeup and immodest clothing are essential to be correct? I don’t think so. I don’t appreciate that men can wear suits or other covering clothes to present the news and weather, but women are to be in short skirts with legs neatly folded and in clear view, with tops open to the belly button. Bizarre to me. Why can the women not be comfortable as well? I realize some men wear uncomfortable suits but my understanding is it is due to poor fit. They don’t freeze in the air conditioning or out in the snow or rain. They don’t have people staring at their chest instead of listening to their words. They don’t wear shoes that will potentially do permanent damage to the achilles and other leg structure. Bizarre, I say, bizarre.

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  11. I suppose, just as my dad, the logger, was an environmentalist before it was cool, I was a feminist before it was cool. My dad cares about the care of the trees and lands. He does not leave trash and picks up what he sees. He is careful about which trees to cut. I care about the well being of women, even small baby women. And about the worth of each individual. But that does not cut it with the modern day feminist. Kill the baby and flaunt the body does not seem very valuing to me.

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  14. We are at the office today. The weather, overcast but with a yellow tinge in some areas, is not what they (men in suits or ladies in Barbie outfits) said to expect for Halloween. Maybe it will turn out sunny later.

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  16. Perfect Halloween photo. 🙂

    The crows around here are gigantic.

    So it’s actually chilly this morning, for the first time the heater crossed my mind. But I can usually hold out using that until well into November.

    My mom used to say that the term conservationist, after all, was connected to being conservative — people who want to conserve and preserve.

    I’m having coffee this morning for the first time in a while. I tend to drink a cup in the mornings for a while and then forget about it altogether for weeks on end. But it hits the spot this morning.

    Glad BG got home after the concert. The teen years and early 20s are survivable, though few make it through without at least making a misstep here or there, it’s how it works.

    Is it true we get an extra hour of sleep tonight? I’m ready for that.

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  20. And because it’s Reformation Day ….

    Just think about Luther on Twitter. Wouldn’t he have just loved to stir the pot on a medium like that?

    But we do have his quotes still being posted

    Martin Luther ‏@LutherQuots
    Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

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  22. The Caterpillar Cowboy book is free for Kindle at Amazon today.

    I just posted on my blog about “back burner” people if anyone is interested.
    http://www.janicegareyblog.com I still need to figure out how to post the daily picture. Just scroll down past the photo blanks to see the list of blog posts. 🙂

    Trying to not celebrate Halloween today with sweets! I can tell my husband has lost weight. That is good!

    We do not celebrate Halloween except for the view of our neighbor’s front yard giant blown up smiling pumpkin. We smile back at it sometimes. I am sure Miss Bosley would like to sink her claws into it and hear a big whoosh as the air left it flat..

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  23. Isn’t no makeup and long skirts normal??? I don’t wear pants here, it never gets cold enough to need them and skirts are more comfortable than capris. Always surprises me the moms who always wear makeup here. I look good in makeup, but have allergies so look very bad the next day. I try once every several years. 🙂

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  28. I have heard that, but, make up and I do not get along. Because it makes me feel like not me. Several people have tried, but it just does not take. Both of my daughters in law suggested they get some make up on me and I let them, but daughter did not.

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  29. One of the things about Martin Luther that makes me wonder is his antisemitic writings. Some people totally dismiss him because of them, unfortunately. According to Wikipedia, he was kinder in his attitude towards the Jews in his younger years, but grew increasingly bitter towards them as his health (& maybe mental faculties, too?) deteriorated. Such a shame that those writings tarnish his reputation.

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  30. Well, when you have a “funny face” like mine, you do what you can to look better. 🙂

    For most of my adult years, I wore eye make-up & lipstick, occasionally some blush. I would not go anywhere without it, even though the eye make-up was usually only eyeliner, unless I was going to church or somewhere special, like out to dinner.

    Having to wear glasses also makes me feel like my eyes don’t stand out as I would like them to.

    Then sometime in the last couple years, the watery-eye problem I have made it difficult to keep that eyeliner on, especially since I rub my eye when it gets too watery. So since that problem developed (it is Moebius related), I have stopped wearing eye make-up. Sounds silly, but that was really a hard decision to make, & I felt so awkward being seen without it in the beginning.

    But I still wear my lipstick. 🙂

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  31. Luther was persecuted by the RC church for his faith.
    He, in turn was not tolerant of others. He was opposed to everyone who didn’t agree with him.
    He opposed the Catholics, Jews, and Anabaptists alike.

    Elvera has always worn, lipstick. That’s all. Just lipstick.

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  32. One of my friends wished me a Happy Halloween in a comment on Facebook. After wishing her a Happy Halloween, too, as we are both devout Christians, I was about to wish her a Happy Reformation Day. Then I remembered that she is Catholic. 🙂

    I guess I could have wished her a Happy Reformation That Led to the Catholic Counter-Reformation Day. 🙂

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  33. About ten years ago, an elderly friend of mine told me I should start wearing lipstick. And I ought to for sure when I turned fifty. Did not happen.

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  34. Mumsee, I fought the makeup battle in my younger years, tolerated people putting it on me once or twice, had one person who hardly knew me but was much bigger than I hold me down and apply plenty of it (she thought it funny, I did not–she was the roommate of a friend, which isn’t exactly a close enough relationship to decide to apply makeup on someone who is struggling and saying a clear “no”). Eventually I started wearing some, but really quite hit or miss. I try to think of it for my husband, but probably wear it less than once a week on average, and I wear little enough that I doubt whether people at church (or my husband) notice on a given week whether I’m wearing it or not. But if he and I are going out to eat, or I’m trying to look extra nice for him, I’ll put on more than I personally like. And he will, likewise, wear a tie if we are going out somewhere nice and I ask him to.

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  35. I wore lipstick once.
    I was in a beauty contest on senior day in high school.
    Jere W. the school beauty queen (she really was a beauty) fixed me up with makeup and a bosom. I pranced out on the stage.
    I didn’t win, but I came in second. The winner was a tackle on the football team. He played for Clemson after HS.

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  36. This talk of make reminds me of a Paul Harvey blurb. He reported on a boy at an FFA convention in Chicago who saw a young woman with a lot of make up on. The boy commented, “With all the dressing the ground must not be very good.”

    Personally, I like women who let their natural beauty show. A little make up is okay, but not a lot of it. When we met Kim , she didn’;t have on too much. In fact, I hardly noticed any. Mrs. L has only worn make up at my daughter’s wedding. Once in the 33 years since we’ve been married. She didn’t wear much at our wedding either. But I guess she’ll be wearing it again in May.

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  38. That’s alway the goal, Peter — you don’t even notice it.

    If you notice it, well, unless you’re Megyn Kelly or are still in your 20s and also dressed to the 9s, anything goes. 🙂

    Yeah, Luther wasn’t perfect. And chaos ensued during that major church rift. I still remember that line of Luther’s as depicted in the 2003 film, asking his barber, “Did you think there wouldn’t be a cost?”

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  39. And clearly part of the unintended aftermath was the Protestant church breaking into dozens of little wings — that wasn’t the idea at all, but people being people … 🙂

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  42. We were anxious to start wearing makeup as teens (my mom made me hold off until my sophomore year, though she allowed me to play with it during the summer time so I’d at least know how to use it well).

    she only wore foundation, blush & lipstick — eye makeup was considered a step too far in her generation.

    But in the mid to late ’60s, you could forego all the rest of it but eye makeup was a must.

    Guess I’m glad I got used to using it early — and I’ve gone periods were I wear less and then more again, depending. Now I wear it very lightly, but a touch of warm brown color on the eyelids and cheeks and a bare wash of brown mascara does wonders for me. 🙂

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  45. Donna, yeah, I pretty much wore it daily when I was an in-house editor.

    Peter, I actually bought special makeup for my wedding day . . . but I hadn’t bought it for years, and I had in mind both that ya only get one wedding day and that I wanted to look perfect for the photos. Funny thing is, I’m still using the blush, so it’s not like I buy makeup every day.

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  47. Home again, great trip. Lots of decisions for the Idaho fam. I’ve been singing silly songs for four days, not sure I have much of a brain left.

    Don’t wear make up because I’m not skilled enough to put it on. Alas. 😦

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  48. Chas, my dad did something like that for some college skit (only I think he just put on a dress), and Mom said if she’d known about that before she married him, it might have given her second thoughts. (I assume she was joking, but I don’t know.) I dressed as a man once, and initially got away with it. My sister and I dressed as hobos and crashed a men’s steak fry at church (though you had to have a ticket and they didn’t feed us). But I’ve probably told that story. My husband required the photographic evidence before he would marry me.

    Yeah, and we inadvertently offended my sister in the process. I got a photo of me in that garb, and showed a bunch of photos to Mom. When she got to that one, she asked, “Who is that? Do I know him?” and I said, “That’s Charles” and she said OK and moved to the next picture. (Cheryl is the feminine of Charles.) So I’d told my hubby the Charles story, and he jokingly insisted on seeing the Charles photos. Well, I’d never used that name with my sister, and she didn’t know that part of the story. Furthermore, she had once dated a Charles. So my then-fiance told her, laughing, “Cheryl showed me the photo of Charles.” And she said with frost in her voice, “Why on earth would you have kept a photo of him? And why did you want to show it? Should I show him photos of your old boyfriends?” or something like that. I had to jump in really quickly and explain, “Not that Charles!”

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  49. When I went to wearing contacts is when I realized my eyebrows needed help. 🙂 Luckily, there’s now the serum you can use at night to prompt eyebrow growth (and it also helps darken them), so that got resolved in a semi-natural way. 🙂

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  50. This was a strangely quiet Halloween night … Usually there are kids running and screaming up and down the streets from 6 p.m. on.

    Tonight … Nothing. I kept thinking, “This is Halloween night, right?”

    Weird.

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  53. Donna, it may be the first time ever that Halloween night and time-change night have coincided. (Well, how many years have we been on the new schedule? It used to change right before Halloween and now it changes right after.) We get no trick or treaters out here, which is fine, though Misten used to love it in Nashville when children would come to the door and they’d say hi to her. (I kept her barricaded behind a low bench, and I’d tell her “sit” before I opened the door. But some children remembered her name from one year to the next, and they’d say hi to her.) November 1, when it came to the time of the day the children had begun coming the night before, she’d begin pacing and looking at the door, clearly expecting a fun new nightly ritual.

    Happy November, and good night!

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  55. Yeah, I thought of that Cheryl–also that it’s a Saturday and there were lots of daytime events in our area. But still seems strange …

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  57. Isn’t it amazing how much difference an hour can make.
    I lolled around in bed waiting for time to get up until my body said, “Just get up and at ’em”.

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  59. So!
    Chas won this week. This is the week Chas didn’t even know some of those teams existed.
    Really wild guesses. And it was my heart, not my head that picked Purdue over Nebraska.

    Now I have to work on a tie breaker. It may be GAmecociks/?Vols I don’t know yet.
    Did you see that Duke/Miami play?

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  63. She came in and asked “Does this look all right?”
    It looked all right, as it always does.
    Thing is:
    It’s what she wore last Sunday.
    Nobody would say anything, but she would be embarrassed.
    I’m having to start remembering.

    I’m wearing what I wore last Sunday. But that doesn’t matter, for some reason.
    To her, it would.

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  65. 😉 Peter say that when he met me I barely had any make up on—that is as it should be. I assure you I had it all.
    I think as one ages they should develop a lighter hand with the make-up. I no longer were a true foundation and powder. I have found that out of all the expensive items I have ever used that Garnier or Oil of Olay BB cream in a medium color works best. It is moisturizer and sunscreen with a light tint to it. I still like to go to the make up counter at a department store and let them help me with the blush, lipstick, and eye colors.

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  66. Martin Luther and anti -semitism: Once again we are judging someone in history by today’s standards. Most of the western world hated Jews at that time. It was taught that the Jews killed Jesus. Some were guilty, some were not. It happened as it should have. The Romans perpetuated the hatred by acting like they wouldn’t have crucified him and it was the Jewish Elders who insisted.
    No one in history was all good or all bad. I am sure that at some point in his early life we could find something good about Adolph Hitler.

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  67. Luther also had a brash way of speaking

    This article helps explain Luther’s struggle with the Jews and their place before God:

    http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1993/issue39/3938.html
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    …. It seemed to him that God had deserted the Jews, leaving them to wander homeless without a land or temple of their own. And if this was God’s attitude, then one might with good conscience ignore the Jews. Why would God desert his own people if he did not despair of them? He had rejected them and turned his attention to the “new Israel,” the Christian church. Luther thus accepted the existing notion that the promise given to Jews was now transferred to Christians. …

    (So) Luther was not an anti-Semite in the racist sense. His arguments against Jews were theological, not biological. Not until a French cultural anthropologist in the nineteenth century held that humankind consisted of “Semites” and “Aryans,” were Semites considered inferior.

    Alfonse de Gobineau’s views were quickly adopted by European intellectuals and politicians, and Jews became the scapegoats of a snobbish colonialist society in England, France, and Germany. The rest is history—including the Jewish holocaust perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and his regime. National Socialists used Luther to support their racist anti-Semitism, calling him a genuine German who had hated non-Nordic races.

    Luther was but a frustrated biblical scholar who fell victim to what his friend Philipp Melanchthon called the “rabies of theologians”: drawing conclusions based on speculations about the hidden will of God. Luther erred because he presumed to know God’s will.
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  68. And here’s another article (which also notes that Luther was “infamously irascible” 🙂 ) but which also puts more blame on him for the political and social anti-semitism that later overtook Germany:

    http://www.reformation21.org/articles/a-legacy-of-shame-luther-and-the-jews.php#sthash.y2u9kmS0.dpuf

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    …. during the early part of the Reformation Luther entertained the hope that Jews who were disgusted by the idolatry of medieval Catholicism and had endured mistreatment at the hands of the papacy would speedily join him in working for religious reform. To win them for the Reformation he wrote, in 1523, an appealing tract entitled That Christ was born a Jew, and stated his hope that:

    ‘if one deals in a kindly way with the Jews and instructs them carefully, many of them will become genuine Christians and turn again to the faith of their fathers, the prophets and patriarchs.’

    Luther’s naivety was, however, soon disabused. His well meaning overtures were rebuffed and he, being infamously irascible responded with the summary harshness contained in his malevolent 1543 tirade, On the Jews and Their Lies. Attempts have been made to show that an older wiser Luther returned to his gentler original attitude, but they are not altogether convincing.
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  69. The Right Reverend Martyn Minns (retired Bishop) was the celebrant at church today. There was confirmation and I was excited to see a couple I had been close to years ago joining our church. They felt they could no longer remain in the Episcopal church.
    A quick Google search will tell you a lot about Martyn Minns. It is worth reading. He had an excellent sermon, so I will share this thought. What is a Saint? Someone the Light shines through.

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  70. I will also share the closing song with you. We are a little more up beat in my church with have a healthy dose of old time Spiritual-type music in our midst:

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  71. Re makeup: I do something I have never heard any expert recommend, but that seems to me to make sense. If I get “sun,” it pinkens my cheeks and my nose, so when I use blush, I apply it to the places the sun would brighten, and I figure that way it looks like natural sun and not “blush.”

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  72. Popping in before I start my hobby–laundry–to announce it’s drizzling in northern California and we’re all happy. It would be a perfect day except there’s all that leftover candy that needs to be eaten . . . 🙂

    Today at our Lutheran Church we remembered all the saints who died in the last year. The organ tolls a bell as each name is read. Sobering and honoring.

    Back to the M&Ms since we don’t have a lot of food in the house . . . .

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  79. I’ve always read to smile and then dab the blush onto the apples of your cheeks — because that’s absolutely the natural place for that pop of sunny color. So Cheryl you’re right in line with all the experts 🙂

    We’re supposed to get some rain early this week but today it’s mid-80s and sunny so we’ll see.

    I’m in a minority in that I kind of prefer standard time — lighter in the morning and I don’t mind it getting darker earlier.

    We’re still making our way through Romans (11:1-6 for the past 3 weeks) and our Q&A SS hour was spent on some interesting discussions about free will.

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  81. So it wasn’t my imagination:

    LOS ANGELES >> October 2015 will go down as the hottest October ever in most of Southern California, as the average high temperature was 4 degrees hotter than the previous hottest October.

    A large pool of unusually-warm water off the Pacific Coast, called “the Blob” by climatologists, brought the warmest October nights to almost every nook and cranny of Southern California, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

    The warm water caused record high daytime readings along the coast. Unofficial readings of 95 degrees were recorded on two days at normally-cool Malibu.

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  82. Working on my Bible study–how do you define Worship?

    (If you don’t answer here, it will be the QOD tomorrow, right, AJ?)

    🙂

    In lighter news–four kids just rang the doorbell. “We know we’re late, but, Trick or Treat!”

    I wish they’d stopped by BEFORE I ate all the peanut butter M&Ms . . .

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  83. I just saw a good link on worship …

    https://www.crossway.org/blog/2015/09/5-things-to-remember-about-worship/

    Ooh, looks like we’re in for cooler weather at long last; from KTLA5:

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    Cooler weather is forecast for Los Angeles.

    Finally.

    After a hot, dry Halloween weekend, meteorologists say temperatures could drop by as much as 20 degrees on Monday. There’s even a 40% chance of rain Monday and Tuesday.

    “It’s going to be a real shocker for Angelenos,” said Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. “People can bring out their long-sleeved shirts — if they can find them.”
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  84. Good evening. We have yet to buy Halloween candy. I may go out tomorrow to see what I can find on sale. 🙂 Not that we actually need more candy in the house . . .

    I’m having fun making cards; my stock was getting a bit low, and that’s a sign I need to take a couple weekends and make some more. Shutterfly keeps offering “101 free prints,” and I keep ordering them, partly with the idea of making cards with some of them, so now I get to play. 🙂 I made a three-dimensional cardinal one I think my mother-in-law would like, and “framed” a photo of a red rose my husband got me, thinking it would be nice for Valentine’s for him, and played with rubber stamps a bit too. Fun to make and fun to use . . . and having a stockpile of homemade cards helps me be motivated to send cards to say “I’m thinking of you” or “I’m praying for you” or “I’m sorry you’re sick.”

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  88. Pastor Billy spoke some about the importance of worship in his sermon this morning. One of the things he emphasized was that, in addition to our worship as a church body, we need to have times of private worship, & that one doesn’t have to sing to do so.

    I do like to sing sometimes when I am worshiping God at home, & I am so glad that He doesn’t mind my severely out-of-tune voice. Sometimes even I am surprised that the strange notes that come out of my mouth. 🙂

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  94. Hi Janice, We got a little rain today too.
    Just finished a newsletter and sent it off to be checked. Should be done and sent soon.
    Took a vigorous walk today and made it before the rain.
    Good night all.

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