49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-10-15”

  2. Good morning Ann. You’re up early today.
    Good evening Jo.
    Good afternoon Tychicus.

    Hi everyone else!

    🙂 Rain’s gone.
    Something real bright is coming over the east. I’m waiting to see what it is.

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  4. I have been up since 4. I have a turkey in the oven. I am afraid my dressing isn’t up to standards and it’s too late to do anything about it. The turkey should be ready to pull in the next half hour.
    I am afraid that Guy is going to be demanding today and I won’t get to enjoy the fellowship with my coworkers. He really can’t stand for my time to be diverted and he will badger me until I go back to the office and work.

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  5. Phone alarms are going off in unison while husband is getting his shower. I don’t want to move from my comfy place on this hotel bed to turn his alarm off. It is serenading me with its passive aggressive notes. It’s reminding me of the endearing and infuriating Miss Bosley kneading me in the morning.

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  6. I was scanning yesterday’s input.

    I don’t understand the Starbucks brouhaha. But I’m sure Starbucks enjoys the commotion.
    I bought something from Starbucks. It’s difficult to get a cup of regular coffee there. The guy seemed not to understand that I wanted a regular, one cream one sugar. I get better service and better coffee at McDonalds.

    Sometimes I write two lines of comment. Then a wise voice speaks to me and I go back and delete the whole smash. I have no business knowing what DDS is.

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  8. Chas, I’m pretty sure it’s just a splash of colorful leaves. (It’s very pretty, AJ!) However, I’ve been amazed at the times I’ve taken a photo of some leaf or flower, and when I pull the picture up on my computer screen later, right there is a spider or an insect I didn’t even see when I took the shot.

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  9. What a gorgeous photo this morning! Paul and I both agree this reminds us of our childhood autumns….does anyone recall a school assignment in elementary school when the teacher instructed us to find the prettiest leaf you could find? The next day we would bring in our treasure to class and she would proceed to press the leaf between two pieces of waxed paper…then waalaa….instant stained glass art!! We would place our creations on the windows of the classroom…sweet sweet memories!
    Well, this morning we started calling Talulah….. Lulah….seems to fit much better….and she likes it too! I’ll send a photo to you AJ….I have a couple posted on FB….now I just have to survive the puppy stages 😎

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  10. Nancy Jill, I didn’t grow up in an area that had “autumn leaves.” In Phoenix, each tree chose a time to drop its leaves (not all at the same time) and then regrow them, but they weren’t without them long and virtually the only color was yellow. I remember making fall trees with construction paper branches and fingerpaint red, yellow, and orange leaves, but not collecting leaves. (Did the teacher in such instances think to point out what poison ivy looked like?)

    We did get robins in fall, though. So when the substitute teacher went through a poem about robins being a sign of spring, I was only about 10 but I was amused. In Phoenix, robins are a sign of fall–they’ve gotta go somewhere!

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  11. I love maples in fall. And in the mountains north of Tucson there was an aspen grove that turned bright yellow in the midst of Douglas fir trees. Quite a contrast of green and yellow. Also there were some birches up there.

    But the desert is best in Spring if there are enough rains in winter. The palo verde turns bright yellow with tiny flowers. Sometimes the desert floor had a carpet of light green grass. The saguaro gets flowers in June, and other cacti get flowers in various shades of red. At least the desert around Tucson. I always found it prettier than Phoenix since it is at a higher elevation (~1000 feet difference).

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  12. Sea shells more than leaves. 🙂 We’re always finding sea shells at the dog park because that area, once upon a time, was under water. Kind of fun. A whale skeleton was even unearthed not far away some years ago.

    And that reminds me to call the guy at the natural history museum where they’re still studying the whale fossil collected in our area maybe 1-2 years ago. I called him in the summer to do a story but he was still working on it (and would be for some time, they’re thinking it might be a rare species of whale) — but he did tell me to call again near the end of the year and maybe we could do a story then if they were far enough along.

    Happy homecoming to puppy Lulah. Cute name. And for practical purposes, one or two syllables are easier than 3 when it comes to calling dogs in the long run.

    The Starbucks thing is so strange. I personally like the red and green cups, I think they’re very festive.

    But it’s proved to be another opportunity to ridicule the church, so it’s taken off on social media (but I have yet to see anyone defend the premise that the new cups are somehow “anti-christmas;” I’m guessing that view is quite rare and fringe, but it doesn’t matter, we’re all crazies you know 🙂 )

    That said, no thanks to those random types (who are these people?) who post video rants on YouTube and thereby feed the stereotype. 😦

    What’s the verse about making sure our behavior is wise among the unbelievers?

    1 Peter 2:12: Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

    They need to reason to speak against us — let’s make sure we don’t hand them any on a silver platter. Then we get the ridicule we deserve.

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  13. Lula is a lovely name. As I mentioned previously, my grandmother’s name on my mother’s side was Lula. My mother’s first name was Annie. My mother once told me they almost named me Luanne, a cross of the two names. Luannie would be cute, too

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  14. They need “no” reason to speak against us …

    So we had a smattering of rain last night but it lasted less than a minute. 😦 Oh well.

    They keep saying our big rains are coming …

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  15. I loved doing the leaves in the wax paper. Also, for the preschool class, it was fun to collect the brown dried out leaves and paint them with glitter. I had a large bare tree trunk and branches on the door to the classroom and we would make seasonal leaves to put on the “tree.” That was a nice way to teach about changing seasons to little ones.

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  16. Oldest great granddaughter’s name is Addison Elizabeth.
    She often gets “Adiliz”. Youngest GD is named Jennifer Katherine. She often gets “JenyK’
    It’s reasonable. My name is “Charles” but “Charlie” is easier to say.

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  18. My dear brother in law’s name was Charles….I always called him Chas….he liked that….most everyone called him Charlie. Tragically we lost him 4 years ago due to a fall from a ladder….he was 61…we miss him so much.

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  20. QOD– what’s a good housewarming gift for first time condo owners?

    They’re very excited and we get to see the place tonight!

    (Last night was just their little family with a picnic dinner on the floor and the adorable granddaughters running about the empty house. Very cute.)

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  21. Nancyjill, don’t know, but that’s definitely what I worried about — or meningitis? Seems like it could be a lot of things, from very serious to not so much (according to a web search I did, which makes me almost an MD).

    Also could be a reaction to medications, but she hasn’t mentioned any med changes to me. Hope to find out more from her today. I’m kind of surprised they didn’t keep her. I texted her but no response yet, though she may be sleeping.

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  22. Did you know you can buy tuition insurance?

    In other news, a frien owns three VW diesels: 2013, 2014, 2015.

    The two later cars are subject to whatever VW is doing, but not the 2013.

    Teenager got into an accident in the 2013 the other day–car was t-boned, kid got a concussion but is okay.

    The bright lining for my friend?

    “They may total the car!”

    Which is the only way he figures he can get the value out of it.

    What a strange world we live in. But when logic and common sense go out the window . . . I guess we need to be as innocent as doves and as clever as a snake. 😦

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  25. I will bet I posted too late last night so, again,
    my wife got this email yesterday.

    Dog

    She lives next door to a mosque.
    She bought a husky.
    He is very nice and does not bite.
    She is now getting complaints from the Imam next door.
    She doesn’t know why.

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  26. Some condos will not let you use a grill. Depending on how much you love the new owners a few months of association fees would be nice.
    You can’t go wrong with a gift certificate to a home improvement store as a house warming present.
    They have been married a few years a gift card to a department store for new, pretty towels for the bath or kitchen towels that match the kitchen.
    Outdoor furniture for the balcony
    New bedding for the master

    I still go back to the home improvement store. They may need blinds for the windows or any thing else that new home owners need.

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  27. I out manipulated BG this morning. She was sick, gagging and spitting up in the sink. I called the school. Told the guidance counselor that unless the school nurse witnessed her throwing up she was not to leave school.
    I went into a continuing ed class at 9 am. I missed two calls from the school. She had spent a little time with the school nurse.

    You can’t out bamboozle a bamboozler. I told Mr. P my mother had 35 years of experience before I ever showed up so by the time I was old enough to really learn she was a master. I had it pointed out to me when I was 17 by and alcohol councelor that I was quite manipulative so I have worked against being that way for years because as you know I live my life by What Would My Mother Do? and do the opposite. Now I think about What Would My Mother Do? Hmmmm. I bet BG will think of that sooner or later. That and I have secret knowledge.
    The thing is I can’t get too comfortable and smug or she will get out ahead of me and I will be playing catch up.

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  28. Lovely header photo. And it’s been fun to see these nice fall pictures at the top of the December 20 page when I click over to the secret room. 😉

    Chas, I sometimes delete the whole thing, or a good chunk, of things I’ve written before I ever post them. Unfortunately, there are also times I’ve written and posted things and later, with no way to take them down myself, I’ve come to second-guess and/or regret what I said. Sigh.

    QoD — not necessarily an answer, but a nice housewarming gift a friend of mine gave us was a framed picture of a grand piano with a basket of flowers on the closed lid, near the right-hand corner close to the keys, with a single flower lying on its side at the very corner of the lid. The picture is gold-toned, and looks different viewed from various angles, depending on how the light in the room naturally falls on it.

    It’s a neat picture that doesn’t look too feminine and flowery for my husband’s tastes, and quite enjoyable for me, the pianist in the house. (Well, the only pianist at that time, as we didn’t have children yet — there are more pianists who live here now.) 😉

    So maybe a housewarming gift that reflects an interest that, if not both members of the couple have, one would really enjoy, and the other would feel comfortable with, too? (Nothing too outside of the tastes of the more conservative one?)

    My two cents.

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  29. My duet partner and I met this morning to practice for our performance on Saturday night. It was the first time I was reading music placed on a grand piano while wearing my new progressive lenses. From what I’ve read online, a lot of people were talking about how wearing bifocals, trifocals, etc. was different for reading music, depending on whether you were seated at a grand piano or an upright.

    I have an upright at home, and the distance I sit from the piano works out well with the progressive lenses.

    The distance that my partner and I sat away from the grand piano when we practiced also worked out well with my progressives.

    So I am very pleased that I can easily switch between the two pianos with those glasses.

    They also are great for reading up close. Still not very good for distance or peripheral, though, so I will probably try to get single vision lenses for the distance part. (I’m still using my old glasses for distance; they’re pretty good — my left eye has gotten a little worse, so the old glasses aren’t perfect, but they’re passable, and better than having to hold my head way down to look through the tops of my progressives, or to slide the new glasses way down my nose to see out of the top (for distance objects).

    20/20 vision would sure be such a blessing! However, I am glad I can mostly see quite well with the corrections I’ve got. I can be thankful for that.

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  30. Good work, Kim! Depending on how much she was into the stuff, she may have real withdrawal symptoms. The meds for anxiety may be affecting her. But she is eighteen and needs to man up, as they say. Stay strong.

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  31. Nah, I gave her the thyroid pill and the Lexapro this morning. My only worry was that she might throw them up. 😉 I have mentioned several times that I think she is experiencing withdrawal. I get yelled at that marijuana isn’t addictive to which I reply coffee is addictive, chocolate, sugar, carbs, whatever you put into your body when you take it away –you experience something. I drink too much coffee. Don’t you think I would have a massive headache if I wasn’t able to drink any tomorrow????
    I don’t think she was into anything else but she was smoking marijuana and cigarettes every day for we don’t know how long.
    I am going to go in for my 100,000 mile tune up sometime soon–This means I am going to make an appointment with a therapist to make sure I keep this backbone that has been in hiding

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  32. I was just talking with grown daughter yesterday, about seventeen year old. Seventeen has been exhibiting a lot of anger lately, a common sign of addiction. Grown daughter had removed her internet access for a while. Smells like addiction to me.

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  38. The funeral of Robert E. Lee was a formal Episcopal service. However, at the end one of Lee’s former soldiers began to sing How Firm a Foundation, which was Lee’s favorite hymn. Gradually, the veterans of The Army of Northern Virginia joined in until all were singing the last verse. Bobby Horton does a fine job of recreating that moment here:

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  42. We have How Firm a Foundation in our hymnbook, but it has a different tune. I looked for a version of that hymn at YouTube, with the melody I’m familiar with, but couldn’t find one (on the first page, anyway). Very nice tune in the version you posted, though, Ricky.

    With that same tune, here’s a rendition of the hymn I also liked.

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  43. And also while I was at YouTube just now, I found this lovely instrumental medley of How Firm a Foundation along with Rock of Ages. Neat segue from the first to the second, and before it returns to the first, both melodies are heard simultaneously.

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  44. Just walked the new condo while my husband gave homeowner advice and turned on the new wall heater. All I could think of was, “I’d add storage here, and here, and here, and here.”

    And then: all the doors and frames need to be painted.

    Still, it has many nice features and they’ll make it their home.

    Mom needs to keep her mouth shut so they can figure things out for themselves . . .

    I did remind my son I’ve moved 14 times and have some ideas about . . . . you know.

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  45. My wife and I love the old hymns. Almost 20 years ago, we stumbled across the Confederate Memorial Day service in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In the old City Cemetary were 500 Confederate graves, each adorned with the Battleflag of The Army of Northern Virginia. (The 35 Texas Confederate graves each had our Lone Star flag). We stood in a light rain singing Faith of our Fathers. It was a very memorable experience.

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  46. Went to the dentist today. I thought I needed a root canal, but he said I had a choice of that or pulling the tooth. There was some infection in the gums is why he said that. I opted for pulling since it was cheaper (by about $1500). It turns out the root canal would have been useless anyway since the tooth was fractured. Saved a lot of time and money, especially since insurance covered everything today. Now to deal with a big gap in my mouth. It was a back molar.

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