67 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-14-15”

  2. Little Beggars. I have food out but no little beggars. I hear them in the trees behind our house but they won’t come eat. Perhaps it is two dogs and an old cat who is declawed keeping them away. Moe can finally spend time outside rather than staring at it through the window because our wooden fence is so high. She loves to lie in the sun.

    Nana took BG out to eat last night –chicken and dumplings at Cracker Barrel–and shopping. Tonight BG will spend with her Daddy and her Nana as Mr. P and I have plans. G is coming to get Amos in a little while and he will come back later to let Lulabelle out and feed her.

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  3. I’m up early (went to bed extra early), I wanted to be ready for the tree crew and while they never said what time they’d arrive, in the past it was fairly early, of course. So wanted to let all the animals out for a while first, they’ll be locked in with me for the day but I’ll get them out for walks, maybe a quick spin or 2 to the dog park. I’m afraid this will be just 1 of a few days of work, it’s a big project. 😦 Hoping I can slip away for church in the morning though.

    I have on my sweatshirt (hood up) and a faux sheepskin / plaid Woolwich blanket wrapped around me over that. 55 degrees in the house this morning (the sun is just coming up outside), but we ‘re warming up to the 70s today.

    I’m catching up on the Paris story — mostly watching CNN as their operation has reporters, producers already based in Paris and other areas (unlike Fox). So CNN still is most thorough and the best in terms of first-had reports from the scene, wherever it may be in the world, for big breaking news stories.

    Very sad. And aggravating of course. Can’t these people be stopped?

    Maybe not, is my thought, at least not without yet another similar group rising up in its stead again. Hard to say if this will be a season in history that will flame out in say another decade or so — or if it will las for many years go come.

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  4. Kim, have you tried moving the bird feeder(s) to a different branch? I’ve heard that it can take a few weeks for them to come, so you might just need to be patient. But you can also double-check that it’s at the right height in the tree for the birds you want, and far enough from shrubbery that they don’t feel threatened (it can’t be in reach of a leaping cat) but close enough to another tree or shrubbery that they can fly for cover quickly if they need to. Misten usually just ignores the birds, and they her, but I can imagine that the presence of a cat might be a bigger cause for concern. (Once in a while Misten will make a quick feint at birds for the fun of seeing them fly off, but it isn’t a weekly or even monthly occurrence.)

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  5. I only put out the bird feed when there is snow on the ground. I figure if there is grass showing the birds have food. And usually we get birds within an hour of putting out the food.

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  7. Peanuts got good reviews, co-worker saw it last weekend, said the theater was filled with screaming children but that the film hit all the “Peanuts” hallmark themes and was very good.

    Got the Jeep out of the driveway & the yard picked up of any random dog poop still out there. Wish I could have a bird feeder again, but not with this cat who’s such a capable huntress. When I had one before (pre-Annie), though, there were still problems because the feeder attracted the squirrels and the squirrels made the dogs crazy.

    Kim, glad Moe can lounge outdoors now, it really is more natural for cats I think. My neighbor said she’s spotted Annie napping in the sun on my garage roof a lot lately. 🙂

    Frivolous note of the day: I like Christiane Amanpour’s latest haircut. Maybe cause it’s somewhat similar to mine now 🙂

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  8. Peter, we feed them year round, though sometimes they go weeks in the summer without us putting it out. A different variety of birds is present during the summer than during the winter. (Though so far we haven’t managed to attract the indigo bunting, we have seen it a couple houses down, and it’s only around in summer. The goldfinch is around year-round, but it’s gorgeous only in the warm months.) But we only feed suet in the winter, not the summer. In the summer they don’t eat as much, since they have better options. The cardinal won’t eat here at all until he gets really hungry, though he hangs around. But he doesn’t like our feeders, and will only consent to use them when he can’t find a better option. Blue jays also generally only come to the feeder in the winter. The downy woodpecker will come for seeds (and so will the red-bellied), but the flicker and the hairy will come for suet, but not for seeds. Interestlingly, we had a red-headed woodpecker family come just one day, when we didn’t have suet out. We had mother and father and at least one young bird (it stayed in the cottonwood tree and its parents took food to it), and they came to the sunflower seed feeders several times over the course of that one day, but that was last summer and none of them has come at all since as far as we know. I kind of thought they might come back once the suet feeders were up last year, but they never did. We really aren’t close to any sorts of trees they prefer, so they may have found us accidentally.

    We haven’t fed them very consistently the last two or three months. First the feeders were down for six or eight weeks because we had sick birds, and then we put them back up but we didn’t have much bird seed and we ran out before we went away for a week, so they only had food for two or three days, and recently we just didn’t refill the feeders for a few days. They come more faithfully when we keep them filled regularly, but some find us within a day when it has been a few days or weeks, and usually within a couple of weeks we’re back to normal operation.

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  9. An acquaintance’s partner has spent the last 3 years working on the peanuts film, btw, so I’d been hearing about it all along via their social media posts, etc.

    They’re thrilled with the good reviews, of course. That must be very stressful to work on a huge project like that for so long and then hold your breath that everyone likes it. 😉

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  10. We don’t feed them at all. Not after we opened the ceiling in the room we were tearing down and two hundred pounds of bird seed and mouse droppings fell to the ground. We do have plenty of birds for the cat to eat though. They eat the chicken and turkey and guinea and pig food.

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  11. Oh rats, mumsee. That sounds hideous.

    Actually, rats were part of the reason I gave up the bird feeder, too — we already have them in our neighborhood with all the trees and the canyon. No need to draw them any closer in to my house than they already are. 😮

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  13. I’ve never heard of rats in bird feeders before. Oh, the things I learn about on this blog!

    We are at the office today. I did not have my morning coffee so I am really dragging.We had to go out to Sam’s Club quite early. Since I have a business card pass I can get in at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday. Usually no one is there, maybe six cars in the parking lot, at that early hour. But this morning the lot was full at just after seven. They were having a special sale with early opening. A lot of people were buying giant screen television sets. My husband hardly ever goes there with me, and I said it would be a good place for him to get in a little walking. I bragged on how few people would be there. Surprise! I really thought my watch had the wrong time until I found out what was happening. We make our plans, and God laughs.

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  14. Ours were definitely mice. I feed a lot of mice, but I also feed pheasants and quail and doves and partridges and chukars and a host of other birds. That works for me.

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  15. So, do other people see the same thing I see in the photo above? The downy woodpecker at right is thinking, “Dude, what happened to your tail?” and the house sparrow is thinking, “What are you looking at? Mind your own business. Besides, it’s fashionable now!” (The sparrow is regrowing tail feathers during molting.)

    To me, the photo is hilarious, and I may try to publish it as a humor shot . . . but I want to make sure that other people look at it and immediately find it funny too. Do you notice the funny tail and the birds’ glances and expressions the way I do?

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  16. I’m very squeamish about rats to this day. Although there was one in the Bond movie that was kind of cute and I was glad James decided not to shoot him — instead he followed the rat’s trail back down into a secret, hidden spy room, and then …

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  17. In one of the apartments Emily shared with R, they had a rat, or maybe more. Some pairs of Emily’s undies had disappeared from the laundry basket, & they later found them being used as some kind of a nest.

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  19. The thing about rats is they’re smart — and sneaky. They know (unlike mice) how to stay out of view and hide from people. So it can take a while to detect one is in the house, which is so creepy.

    When I first moved into this house & found out the heater was kaput, I had central air put in, which required workmen to put a lot of holes in my floor of course. Well, a couple weeks later I came home from lunch (I worked at another newspaper that was close to home at the time) and decided, rather randomly, to reorganize the dish towels in one of the draws in a free-standing, yellow secretary’s hutch desk (it used to be my college study desk, bought in Mexico & then repurposed for kitchen use in later years).

    Anyway, as I peeled away at the towels and got deeper into the drawer, I notice what turned out to be rat droppings (but I wasn’t sure what it was, just knew this wasn’t supposed to be there …). Then I found little piles of dry (stolen) dog kibble that had been stored up. This was weird … Then the shredded towels …

    I started taking more stuff out of the drawer when, out of the corner of my eye, something dropped down from behind the desk and shot across the floor to the washer/dryer laundry area, my terrier dog at the time in chase.

    sheesh. Rude awakening for the new homeowner who had never had to deal with this in second-story apartments. Called an exterminator & he looked at the droppings and said not a mouse, a rat. Ugh. Rat was caught and killed, but heaven knows how long he’d been all snuggled up in that little home he’d made for himself in the drawer, with full access to dog food & water all night long and comfy towels to sleep on.

    Have I said lately how much I love having Annie the cat around?

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  23. Cheryl, I did not notice the birds’ expressions until you mentioned that. I just thought it was a really good shot. I think if you put speech bubbles onto the picture it would work well as a humor shot. They do seem to be looking at each other like you expressed.

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  25. God love my dear sweet husband. First he bought tickets to Elton John in March. I told him that could be my birthday present. Then he decided that our costumes for tonight stunk; so he WASHED them!!!!! This fabric is black with pink, green, and white polka dots on it. The fabric was of the type more suited to curtains or pillows, not clothing. For those of you who understand, he washed the sizing out of the fabric. He asked me why the black was so faded and worn looking—because you washed the sizing out. I just finished starching and ironing them. The lights tonight will be dim and I will be the only one who knows or cares.—He meant well.

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  26. Yes, cute bird faces on 2nd look — caption would definitely get the theme across 🙂

    Glad you’re feeling better after being sick, Jo — what’s the big affair tonight, Kim? I totally can’t keep up with your social calendar anymore.

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  28. I was almost touched by the little piles of kibble he was saving up in the drawers. That was back when I had other dogs and just free-fed them, so I guess at night or when no one was around the rat would sneak out and gather up a few pieces, then take them back for safe keeping and hiding.

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  29. Mr P and I joined a couples Mardi Gras society. They have the first ball of the season. The next ball will be Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. Everyone has a clown costume but only the King and Queen can wear black and white. I went over this morning to help decorate. I think it is going to look great when the lights are dim. We had Dew Drop Inn hot dogs for lunch. They are made with the nasty red dye hot dogs that are going to kill everyone. They are SSSSOOOOOO Good!.
    This is the venue

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_Downtown

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  31. Kim @ 4:42
    Did I once tell you that Elvera forgives but doesn’t forget?
    When Chuck was a tiny baby, I did the laundry for her once. I washed a bunch of his diapers with something that faded. He had pink diapers until he brew out of them.
    She has never mentioned it again, but to this day, she doesn’t allow me around the laundry.

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  32. I think I did tell you about the time I bought her a sheer negligee when Chuck was old enough to notice. I did get fussed at because of that.
    I should have known better. I wasn’t thinking.

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  34. I made seven posts on the 12-20-14 page and we are still not back on the top posts list. Unfair!

    Okay, Janice, I will try reading your blog if the link works.
    oh, that doesn’t sound good, I mean I would love to read your blog, if the link works! 🙂

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  36. Chas, my father-in-law used to take my husband with him when he got underwear for Mom. I have no idea how “revealing” any of it was, but he thought it good training for marriage. Yeah, a mom needs to wear a robe around her young son, but there’s no reason she can’t have something nice that just her husband sees.

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  37. chas made me blush (on behalf of him & Elvera) for the first time. 🙂 Sweet.

    Tree guys gone, coming back tomorrow … The glitch was that Oscar (gardener’s son who I know well) said “cash” would be nice when they were wrapping up. Aak. this was nearly a $2,000 job, I always pay by check for the regular gardening, and banks were closed.

    Have to figure that out tomorrow, but if he can wait until Monday (I’m off) I’ll just get the cash from the bank for them.

    I’m also considering giving the crew members (4) a tip, this was really an awful job an they worked their tails off today.

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  41. 🙂 🙂 SUPER FUN musical extravaganza last night! Seven acts — my duet partner and I going first — and we all, performers and audience alike, had a ball!

    Before the show began, the emcee introduced our duet (Songs of the Armed Forces) by acknowledging those who have served our country. And I was so touched when, just before we went on, he offered up a prayer for the men and women who serve in our military.

    The tiny little bit of pre-performance jitters I had melted away during that prayer.

    Then M & I went onstage, and we had our best playing all week right there in front of the audience!

    The audience went wild — there were some hoots and hollers when we finished. 🙂

    Wonderful variety in the acts last night. After us came a husband/wife duo, playing guitars, harmonica, and singing folk tunes. Then a solo pianist who improvised a medley of hymns, including Blessed Assurance, The Old Rugged Cross, My Faith Looks Up To Thee, and a few others. The last act before the intermission was a father/son banjo- & guitar-playing duo. Son, a recent high school graduate, sang lead vocals, and composed one of the songs they performed.

    After the intermission, a group of ladies on piano, guitar and banjo played a couple waltzes, both lovely and peaceful, including Ashoken Farewell. Love that piece.

    Another solo pianist, a man I didn’t know, but whom my duet partner had heard of, played some ragtime. Exciting stuff, and the audience really loved how he got into his music.

    The last act was a group of mostly young people, and the dad of several of them, along with the young crowd’s friends, playing a wide variety of instruments, including a custom-made bass banjo, a mandolin, percussion instruments, and several vocalists. A lot of improvisation: one of the members of the group, before starting a new song, called out to his fellow musicians on stage, “A minor, G, A minor, G, F, I don’t remember what else…” 🙂

    Concert started at 7:30, and including the intermission, wasn’t over until almost 10:00, but, boy, did the time ever go fast!

    Small venue in a very small town, but we know how to have some good, clean fun. 🙂 The auditorium seats about 100, and it was filled to capacity, with a few people standing, and some of the musicians seated in waiting areas back stage because there wasn’t enough room in the hall for everyone to sit and watch from there.

    Third Arrow was superb in her page-turning (so important to have a capable page-turner in a complex piece), and she loved the whole program, as well.

    Such a great time. (And my sweet friend who usually serves refreshments during the intermission was not able to be there last night, but knew I would be, so she made a bunch of gluten-free peanut butter cookies for me, and made sure that the ladies who were serving last night would alert me to those treats, and told them to send any remaining cookies home with me when the night was over.)

    So now I’ve got a generous plateful of GF cookies to share with my celiac sister-in-law when we go to celebrate Thanksgiving today at my mother-in-law’s.

    So many blessings, I just can’t count them all!

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  43. Someone died last night. I don’t know who it was. Mr P and I spent the night in Mobile last night and as we were waiting for the XTerra to be brought around I struck up a conversation with an older man at the valet station. One of the other hotel workers told him there was a dead body over on the other street.. The man asked if it was a certain homeless woman that hung around. He had bought her coffee and food before.. We talked about him speaking at the Waterfront Rescue Mission and about him going around there on his lunch hour to speak and say the blessing over the food. He said now that he knows some of them he buys them something to eat every now and then.
    As we left the hotel we turned right then were stopped at a light to turn right again. Across the street were the police and yes there was a body on the sidewalk covered up. I don’t know who it was that died last night or how it happened, but there ought to be a better way than lying on a sidewalk covered up while police mill about.

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  45. Yes, but one wants folks to die gently in their own beds, with family and friends around. Not harshly and alone on the streets. People should come in knowing they are loved and go out knowing they are loved.

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  46. A liberal friend on Facebook shared this. Makes me sad.:

    “Nothing showcases the utter chaos and depravity of the American right wing better than their response to the tragedy in France.

    Half of them are pretending they actually care about people dying in another country so they can call for MOAR WARZ.

    The other half are smugly blaming the French for banning guns so they can justify their call for MOAR GUNZ in the United States.

    On the other hand, the American left and most of the world are united in their revulsion at how the above two groups have been behaving. The only upside here is that the rest of world has started to draw a distinction between normal, civilized “Americans” and “Conservative Americans,” our knuckle-dragging siblings that ate a little too much lead paint as a baby.”

    Tolerance & acceptance of diversity, anyone?

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  49. Our knuckles are taking a beating, I guess. 😉

    Well, hey, at least we can spell.

    Moar warz? How hipper-than-thou.

    I wonder if a 9/11 occurred in the U.S. again whether we’d even be able to rally with any kind of unity in the aftermath.

    I doubt it sometimes.

    Everything here just seems broken. 😦

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  50. 6Arrows @ 9:36
    Our church has an orchestra. On one of the national holidays, it wasn’t Veterans Day, maybe Memorial Day, they honored the veterans. The orchestra played the songs of the respective units, including Coast Guard, and when your tune was played you stood. Remain standing.
    In the early service, most of the men stood at some time.
    In the next two, I suspect few stood.

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  51. Newt Gingrich is taking a beating for saying that several people concealed-carrying in the theater could have stopped the carnage. My liberal friends are so against guns that even this somewhat-reasonable suggestion sounds horrible to them.

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  52. Kim, I am at the office this afternoon so the recipe is not handy. If I forget to post it later, please remind me. I have too much on my mind with Art’s surgery (biopsy and prostrate reduction) this week. I think I know right where the recipe is, so that is good. I will miss making it this Thanksgiving. I hope I can make it for Christmas. I invested in the new food processor so I can make that and my favorite veggie slaw.

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  53. Jo, thank you for taking a look at my blog posts and your kind thoughts expressed. I thought I would have a harder time thinking up things to write about, but God is good to give. My problem is finding access to a computer to write on. I am still thinking of getting a new service in home but the two we had before did not work well for us. We must have interference. We originally had AOL dial-up and then had CLEAR. I just got something in the mail from Xfinity and Uverse is always sending out offers. I don’t want cable with all those channels.

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  54. If you just get Uverse for internet service it isn’t bad. We had it at the other house. It isn’t available here so we are back to DSL.
    I had set up my office last week in the laundry room. There is a built in desk type area with 3 drawers on the left side and a large center drawer. That didn’t suite Mr. P and Moe. He had the litter box under the desk and inside another box. If I moved it then it was awkward to get the clothes out of the dryer. This afternoon I cleaned out the guest room closet (it opens with double doors, moved the library table and set my office up in the closet. I put a painting of a magnolia behind the computer. I dragged in my dad’s old oak swivel chair with the red leather seat.
    I pulled out all of the Madame Alexander dolls, gave the ones Papa bought for her to put in her closet, saved a few that are special to me. Mostly because he bought them for me when I was in my 20’s. I called my niece because she was the only child to ever play with them. I wasn’t allowed and BG had no interest. I told her to come pick out the ones she wants and the rest are going somewhere. I have hauled them around for 20+ years and there is no joy in them. They were mostly bought because my mother was in competition with a friend’s mother. There was a woman who controlled the toy department. Her name was Miss Peezo (sp?). She didn’t like mother so mother had to connive to even buy them.

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  55. UVerse is OK (they were good during the first 2 years I had them ’cause of that “new customer” low price; now they’re OK 🙂 )

    Eventually, I think the service will go more toward customers being able to pick their own channel packages — right now you get the ones you like but also a ton of channels (that you also pay for) that you never watch.

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  56. …and my heart sings with joy because inside a 24 year old young woman is a little girl who loves “Dee’s dolls”. I just received a text from her. “I am on my way. Don’t throw anything away. I will take them all.” You should have seen her face the day she came over as I was moving into this house. She saw the blue boxes, almost got weak kneed and sighed–“It’s the dolls Dee”.

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  57. The sounds of a chainsaw …

    I have a feeling they’ll have to come back again tomorrow. Like I said, this was a monster job.

    And it’s supposed to rain a bit this afternoon, so if that starts it’ll cut their work short today (it’s going on 2 p.m. out here, and I know they’ve gotta be getting tired).

    Good thing I took Monday and Tuesday off, just in case. Carol wants me to take her to Venice to look a backpack I promised to buy her for Christmas, but I’m going to put that one off.

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  58. ah, looks like they’ve got the truck packed with limbs.

    The cat hasn’t been seen since this morning, I guess she must have gotten stuck outside when I blocked up the doggie door after the guys arrived.

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  59. I’ve heard chainsaws buzzing near the office. It’s the chainsaw heard round the world, from CA to Atlanta, 🙂

    Kim, making space in the closets sounds like the War Room prayer closet spaces. Be sure to put up a bulletin board to post prayer requests!

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  60. Well, they’re still buzzing & loading up. Lots and lots of tree limbs, as deep as snow drifts in the back yard. Or they were — they’re making progress in carting them out to the truck in the driveway.

    This was a very long day for them. They still may have to come back tomorrow for some final cleanup, not sure, can’t tell (and I think there actually may be one more tree to hit?). Oy. But it’ll start getting dark in about an hour.

    I loved all the “mature vegetation” on this property when I moved in, but there are drawbacks.

    Tess is exhibiting all the typical doggie stress signs, poor girl – panting, yawning, she’s also very slow moving, slinking around (although right now she’s next to me on the sofa, panting).

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  61. I have some corkboard tiles that BG had. I will definitely do that.
    I talked to ex husband tonight. I almost let it slip today to BG that he and girlfriend had set the date. He called me back to tell me that everything was snowballing so they have decided to go to the Virgin Islands and get married. I once again told him as long as K was good to him and to my child they had my blessing.

    On the one had I am very happy for him. All I ever wanted was for all of us to be happy but on the other hand it makes me sad that my own remarriage wasn’t in jeopardy of snowballing. My parents are both dead and so are Mr. P’s. I don’t have any siblings and Mr. P isn’t close to his as they are both half siblings and much older than he is. It really isn’t that I am jealous. I had the wedding I wanted but ….I don’t know what the but is. I guess I wanted my Daddy. I guess I wanted Mr. P to have his mother. Yes. I must admit that in a back corner of my mind I am jealous because we got married on a Sunday. Went to lunch, came home, went to bed, and went to work the next day. We never have had a honeymoon. We have traveled but it involves grandchildren.
    When I was married to G he never wanted to go anywhere. Everywhere I went was without him. We couldn’t afford it. For our 10th anniversary he promised me a trip to Mexico. He then put out the carrot that I could have lasik surgery on my eyes. Later he found some medical evidence that it wasn’t a good idea. I settled for a pair of gold huggie earrings with a single diamond that I bought and sent the bill to his office. They were a quarter of the cost of Mexico or Lasik.
    As I told G today. I just want both of us to be happy and I want our daughter to be okay.

    Perhaps the reason I feel this way is because of what the last 2 weeks have been like.

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  62. Here’s Kim ‘ s wonderful Cranberry Stuff recipe:

    1 pkg (small) cherry jello
    1 envelope Knox gelatin
    1 cup hot water
    1 cup sugar
    1 Tbsp lemon juice
    1 can crushed pineapple, drained
    1 cup pineapple juice
    1 cup raw cranberries (in food processor)
    1 orange, ground (rind and pulp in processor)
    1 cup chopped celery
    1/2 cup chopped pecans (or walnuts)

    Dissolve the Knox gelatin in a little warm water. Then dissolve the cherry jello in the cup of hot water. Add the dissolved Knox gelatin to this and stir. Add sugar, lemon juice and pineapple juice and stir until sugar dissolves. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix everything together well. Chill in a shallow pan you have oiled with mayonais
    e. Chill until set.

    I hope I got that typed in correctly on this Smartphone. Please let me know if it seems right, Kim.
    it’s really great stuff!
    🙂 Everyone needs this on your Thanksgiving and Christmas menus.

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  64. Ha.

    There you go Kim.

    Make a big bowl and eat it. It’ll make you feel better. 🙂

    The comfort food cure to the blues and “what ifs”!

    The gardeners finally left, just before it was about to turn dark. What a job.

    As I took the dogs for a tour of the *new* denuded backyard (though there’s still a lot of tree cover), I heard in the distance: “meow. meow. meow. meow.”

    “Annie?”

    Out from the bushes she ran, very anxious to get inside her house now that all the commotion seemed to have stopped.

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  65. Chas (12:48 pm), that sounds neat, and moving to watch/hear. How many members does your church have, and how big is the orchestra?

    Today was the contemporary service at church. We have those one Sunday a month. The organ isn’t used, but the piano and drums are, and other acoustic instruments are on occasion. There is also a small group of singers that assists the congregation, especially on the less-familiar songs.

    I like that the contemporary service is not too loud. Nothing is overdone. I come away from it feeling peaceful, rather than like my nerves have been jarred.

    Donna, I hope your pets are feeling more calm and soothed tonight so you can all get some rest. 🙂

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  66. Hello to Jo!
    Up for my usual routine so I thought I would drop by your part of the world. My phone is having to charge and Miss Bosley is nearby so I am having to guard the phone charging cord.

    Do you or any of your friends there have hobbies such as quilting or knitting or crochet? Several of my friends enjoy quilting, but I am enjoying small projects using yarn. Next I have in mind to make one of those long like plastic bag holders. I use the bags when I take care of the litter box so it would be nice to store the bags in something nice. Also, it’s something I could give as gifts. I do enjoy making a variety of dishcloths, too. Sometime I may try crocheting curtains.

    Well, it’s back to bed time for me. I hope you will have a peaceful evening.

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