39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-24-15”

  2. Every time Elvera sees a field like that, she says “I’m glad I don’t have to pick that cotton.”.
    Her father used to grow cotton.
    Well, the children did. He worked on the P&N Railroad. The children did most of the cotton field work. But he was the farmer.

    Elvera says, “There’s no comfortable way to pick cotton.” It’s too low for you to pick it standing up. It’s too high for you to get on your knees. You have to bend over for hours. And it makes your fingers bleed. And it’s either hot or cold out there.

    She would not think that is a pretty picture.
    I’ll have to show it to her later.

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  4. 😦
    I got a letter from the IRS yesterday. It said::
    “You didn’t file a Form 1940 tax return”
    I just knew that they were wrong. I was sure that I did.
    I filed in on “e-file” by Turbo Tax.
    So. I looked through my records. I noticed that they owed me a $905.00 tax refund.
    Only I never got the refund. Why didn’t I notice that?
    I checked my TurboTax 2014 tax. I never sent it. I thought I did, but didn’t.
    So? I worked for about two hours yesterday gathering the forms and 1099’s to put together a tax return. I will post it today.
    I’m not worried. They owe me money.

    How did I forget to punch “Send” on TurboTax.?
    I can’t do it now. It’s a paper return.

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  5. That is a cotton field I pass on my way to work–when I went into the office. Most of the other fields had been harvested and it had rained the night before I took that photo. The fog had just lifted but you can see it in the sky.

    It is interesting you say you got a letter from the IRS Chas. Yesterday when I was at the nursing home R and I had walked down to the business office. She got a call from her 23 year old daughter that the IRS had called her and told her that there was a warrant for her arrest that she owed money. Of course that scam has been in the news but it needs to be repeated. The IRS doesn’t call you they send a letter or even certified mail, but they do not call you.

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  7. Mama Ruth woke up last night and talked to her niece. She is planning to cook gumbo for Thanksgiving at have it at her sister in law’s house. The sister in law died at least 10 year ago and the house was sold. Mama Ruth is bedridden but she has plans. R was on her way to check on her this morning when she called to tell me the latest.
    Yesterday Mama Ruth’s grandson came to the nursing home. He and his wife are expecting their first child in May so we were talking about baby names. He said he liked the name Caroline. I told him he should name a little girl Emma Caroline as that is his grandmother’s first name Emma Ruth. He didn’t know that but said his wife wanted to name a little girl Emma Claire. I don’t know what he thinks he is going to name a baby but I think if we have a little girl her name with be Emma Claire and she will be named after her great grandmother.

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  10. Chas, that’s a very nice tax return. 🙂 I’m guessing not many of us here would have forgotten about that. 😉 But glad you’ll finally collect. It’s a nice, unexpected Christmas present from Uncle Sam. (I know, it’s ‘your’ money in reality, but it still feels like a little windfall when you get a tax return.)

    I must have read enough about picking cotton that seeing that field made me “feel’ for anyone having to do that kind of work. Is it done by machine now? I remember reading about how it chewed up the workers’ hands. And now that I’m older, I’m sensitive to having to bend over for any long length of time doing yard or other work.

    Out here we have the migrants who go from field to field to pick fruit, also tough work.

    And I remember as a kid seeing all the non-stop fields of corn all across Iowa, never ending. My uncle was a farmer, though, and that was really hard work. He died young. 😦

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  12. Kroger has cotton balls on sale at ten bags for ten dollars. Thankful I did not need to pick ten bags full! Sorry for those who had that as part of their lives.

    Art is some better. I hope each day we are creeping up on being much better♡ Again, thanking all for prayer coverage.

    The other evening Miss Bosley was sleeping on the bed on top of a nice quilt, and she got the heaves. Before she threw up, she jumped off the bed to throw up on the floor. She does have a sense of pride to do that. It surprised me, but she loves the quilt and did not want to mess up her sleeping spot.

    She does throw up her dry food sometimes so it is not a sick vomit and it is easy to clean up. She seems healthy and I guess it keeps her from getting fat to have such a purge occasionally.

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  13. Annie is rarely sick but the other night she did the same thing. Half asleep, I sat up, grabbed her and dropped her like a stone on the floor — which seemed to scare the sickness away. 🙂

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  15. Mumsee, how thoughtful that your cats and dogs throw up outside! Misten usually does too, but sometimes we or she just can’t get to the door in time. But hey, if your pets always make it outside in time, that’s great.

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  20. Today is perfect for mowing and raking and cutting down things that have gone to seed. I am loving being outside working in the yard. Art is able to do more for himself now so I don’t have to stick so close now. And he has Miss Bosley for company. 🙂

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  21. Kim, when it is the food causing the problem, the Vaseline will probably not help. I think that works for hair balls, but it is always just a string of her dry pellet food. I think maybe she eats too fast, and the food gets stuck going down and then she throws up. Maybe Donna can advise on this since she has covered many pet topics?

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  22. I am on my break from mowing. I am thrilled that I will have the front yard looking better for Thanksgiving. I always aim for getting the leaves off the yard by then but had my doubts that it would happen this year.

    The mower did not want to crank. I put oil in it and filled up the gas tank and kept pulling on that string thing until I felt my shoulder might give out. It did not crank so I cut down some things while the mower rested. Next time I tried, it cranked right up. God is good!

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  23. Ah, cotton. I remember not only the cotton fields in Arizona, but the trucks that hauled it from the field. From behind they were this huge whit square vehicle. Then in the 70s, several of the fields along I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix were left unplanted. The rumor was that the Mafia bought those fields and were waiting for / hoping that marijuana would be legalized and they would make those fields earn them a lot of money. The mafia was big in Tucson in those days. The Bonano family had control.

    I also remember all the pecan fields nearer to Tucson. When the trees were young the farmers put in fluorescent black lights so the trees would get the UV rays at night as well. It was eerie driving past the fields at night with the purple glow all over.

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  25. This was the music in my head, driving home from practice with my duet partner this afternoon, with whom I’m playing The Nutcracker Suite Miniature Overture, and turning pages for another duet, the catchy Trepak from the same ballet:

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  27. My daughter just sent me a photo from her phone of my granddaughter practicing the piano. For her birthday and her parents birthdays in October I sent them a joint gift of a pianist’s hymnal. She is learning all the Christmas hymns now. Such a joy to see a gift being used and enjoyed.

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  28. Well that is certainly a version of cotton eyed Joe that was new to me!! That song is a staple at the local dances. It is fun to see the young and old all doing the same steps.

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  30. My animals mostly get sick outside, too, I guess, as it’s rare it happens in the house (but if it does, it’s overnight when they’re locked in).

    Hung out at at the local food bank today, where turkey and other dinner donations were being handed out to the needy. Busy place, but they did exceptionally well on donations this year.

    One of the Lions Clubs provided 215 turkeys from Costco (added to the 200 the food bank already had); which means now they have a head start on Christmas.

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