44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-23-16”

  3. She is such a sweetie when she naps.
    The weather has been so rainy, so she has been having more naps than ususal. The birds are not keeping her alert at the windows with all the rain. Where DO the birds go when it rains? It’s almost like they go underground.

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  9. Good Morning Everyone. I got the BEST sleep I have had in a while. I don’t know if it was the valium or the mouth guard. It took a bit to get comfortable with the mouth guard last night. I know the valium made me drowsy. Paul said I was asleep a little after 9. I awoke at 4:30 and thought well this must be it. I’ll read. I read a few pages and went back to sleep until the alarm sounded. I feel like I could conquer the world today. I know that we all know what sleep deprivation can do to you, but it sneaks up on us and we don’t realize just how tired and lousy we feel until we feel better. My teeth are still somewhat in the wrong places today, but it is so much better than it was!!!!
    I got an intriguing e-mail from a friend yesterday. I can’t wait to find out what that’s all about.
    Did I tell all of you that Mr. P’s sister will be visiting us in March. She is coming for the Art & Crafts and Outdoor Art Show that we have every March. It usually brings over 250,000 people to our town of of 15,326 (2010 US Census numbers) This is the 64th year for Arts & Crafts and the Eastern Shore Art Center Outdoor Art Show is only a few years younger. That is my big volunteer weekend. I always help with the artists dinner on Friday night.

    http://www.esartcenter.com/opportunity-festivals.php

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  10. I’m tired. Last night Mrs. L and I drove 100 miles to watch the girls’ basketball team from my high school play in an Elite 8 game. They won, so for the first time in school history they play for the State Championship on Friday and Saturday. Needless to say, there are a lot of excited and tired people at the school today.

    And the boys’ team won the regional game last night, even though they were underdogs. They have only won 4 or 5 games all year. Interestingly several of the boys were not too excited about winning, since they wanted to go watch the girls play. And if the boys win tonight, both teams play Friday night. Oh the woes of high school sports.

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  12. I’very always thought Miss Bosley is part dog. The way she has trained me to get her to stop scratching at the computer and TV screen is to do a shrill whistle. She stops and walks away. I think Art is amazed and delighted. She is a black and white border cat.

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  14. You can go in and remove that word from your “library”. Mine always types yiu for you.
    The only person it really bothers is my ex husband. He sends back a snarky text “YOU are too smart to make such a stupid mistake. PROOF your texts”

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  16. We went out to sushi and then to the symphony last night and felt totally la-di-da.

    Until the poor guys–my husband and Stargazer–realized I’d booked tickets sitting behind the orchestra and brought my binoculars. The very French conductor seemed to frown at me several times–but that my have been his mannerisms based on researched conducted through my binoculars. 🙂

    Read the clarinet score over the clarinetists’ shoulders. I easily could have played the Beethoven part but the Bruckner unfinished 9th? Impossible.

    We went with my in-laws and the four of them had “the best sushi we’ve ever tasted,” while I had Sukiyai. It was a little flame in a brown box with a massive iron pan swimming in beef, onions, rice noodles and gravy with a flower carrot on top. I also got a bowl of white rice. Somehow I managed to eat the delicious food–tasted better with the spices they provided–but the contraction took up so much room, Stargazer moved to the other end of the table.

    A fun, fun night all around. Stargazer and his uncle leave next week for a road trip to various ski slopes, my sister-in-law heads to France for a month and my husband and I? Back to work for him and I’ll be in 1916-1919 Egypt. A great life.

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  17. Look at those cute, pink toe pads! 🙂 Annie’s are black. But she’s also very dog-like, though she’s never been fully accepted as part of the dog pack here. But she’s very self-confident and resilient, her feelings never seem to get hurt.

    I’m having a hard time waking up, I fell into the deepest, dream-filled sleep the last hour or two before getting up (I lived in a different house and had a different car and everyone from my past church along with my best friend and a few work acquaintances were there; it was Christmas time so there were decorations. I dragged myself to the shower and am determined to drink 2 cups of coffee. It feels like it will take at least that to get me going today.

    Probably didn’t help that a story I’d written yesterday drew numerous text messages from the source who wanted this or that changed or added. Oy. Talk about controlling.

    Anyway, I feel like a complete space cadet today. Hope it gets better. …

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  20. A man and a woman can work very well in a kitchen. As long as the woman gives up all territorialism. She cannot get upset when he picks up the chicken from the floor and puts it back on the plate. She cannot get upset when he puts the spatula with the knives. She cannot get upset when the dishes he washed need to be rewashed. She cannot get upset if he uses the wooden handled plastic spoon to stir rather than the metal handled spoon. She has to be willing to allow him to do it his way and realize that hers is not the only way. And he just has to plow through, tossing spaghetti sauce on the walls, splashing egg on the appliances, dripping pancake batter on the cupboard doors. Nothing to it, really.

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  22. We went to see “Risen” this weekend. We are somewhat bad people to go to movies based on the bible. They irritate us when they stray from the biblical facts. It is difficult to show spiritual realities and tell many things in a less than two hour movie. Other than that, it was ok.

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  23. Flylady used to say that housework done improperly still blesses your family. Even if it isn’t cooked to your specifications and the way you could have done it…food is cooked with love and therefore blesses your family.
    My ex mother in law used to say she would eat a big ol’ pile of poop if someone else cooked it. I used to be grossed out at that comment but the older I get the better I understand it. 🙂

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  25. I had a strange dream the night before last. It involved winning a meal at an unusual restaurant from a blog group not unlike this one, but it did not have any of you in the dream. I had to meet up with a mom who drove us to their family restaurant. It was up in some mountains and to get to it required that the car drive straight up some rocky ledges each with a plateau to give the car a break from all that work. The driver said a lot of people did not like that part of the drive but she was use to it. We also, saw some cars headed back down and that did not look fun, although there seemed to be no crashes. We finally got to the restaurant which was attached to their home. It was a pale color of wood throughout and on the outside of the restaurant with lots of windows and a great view. I remember picking out some dessert type foods to enjoy as I talked with the one who brought me. I was wishing that Art and Wesley could see the restaurant because I knew they would like it, too. I think that was about all there was to the strange dream. It was quite entertaining and the scenery was superb♡

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  26. Chas 🙂 My father doesn’t really cook, but he helps in the kitchen a lot by doing things like peeling potatoes, washing dishes, etc. He and my mother get along fine, as long as my father sticks to his task and doesn’t try anything out of the ordinary (like throw out my mother’s favorite potato masher because it was broken).

    K, when it comes to films based on historical events, I find it helpful to compare them to a painting. When one looks at a painting depicting a historical even such as ‘Washington crossing the Delaware’, everyone knows perfectly well that Washington wasn’t standing up in the boat with a standard fluttering behind him. We understand that the painting is a symbol of the event, as interpreted by the artist (and/or his sponsors), not a photographic record. Films are very much like paintings, a series of paintings, set to a play and music; and when they depict historical events, they can only depict an idea of the event, since, as we all know by watching world events around us, historical events are made up of too many threads to be re-enacted in their entirety.

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  28. We are supposed to get some severe weather here later today. They dismissed the schools at 1 pm. I don’t know what exact scale they are using but they are calling it a 4/5

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  33. Michelle, the reviews I’ve read are lukewarm. They seem to like the idea but not too sure about the realization. I’ve an idea it will probably be as good as Luther, which wasn’t very accurate historically, but got the idea – the comparison comes to mind because Joseph Fiennes (the younger brother of the more famous Ralph, who incidentally, was in Hail Caesar) stars in both. I’ll probably not go to see it, and might only watch it if a copy ever crosses my path. I’ve only ever seen five films in cinema. Two I went to see because friends were going, one of which was a flop (Where the Wild Things Are) and the other which was a hit (Wall-E); two I went to see because when I lived by myself, I would have a small treat each month and seeing a movie in 3D was very cheap at the nearest theatre – I enjoyed both Tangled and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; the last I went to see by myself last year, Cinderella, and loved it. A film would have to not only have intriguing subject material but also receive rave reviews, including lack of objectionable elements, from several trusted sources before I would bestir myself to drive an hour to the nearest decent cinema and pay for a ticket.

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  34. 😦 Janice doesn’t dream about me. Nor none of you either. 🙂
    🙂 I finished my income tax. I will wait a couple of weeks before filing. I own them over $600.00
    😥 I have felt rotten all day. Maybe catching something from some of you.

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  35. Kim- I remember visiting Universal Studios in LA back in the 70s. They said they used a neighborhood they built on the lot for several different shows, but film all the indoor scenes in the studio. The same street had houses from two or three familiar shows (I think Leave it to Beaver was one of them).

    And the ice cream in the ice cream parlor on Happy Days was mashed potatoes, which is why you hardly ever saw the actors eating the ice cream.

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  36. If you enjoy going to movies in the theater and want to support a decent one, it is worth going to see. Not much of a recommendation, but all I have.

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  37. Are any of you familiar with the term “slut-shaming”? From what I can tell, expressing any sort of standards for sexual conduct could be considered “slut-shaming”, because women who have not kept to a certain standard would be feel “shamed” by somebody espousing that standard.

    Supposedly, the term itself is somewhat tongue-in-cheek (although I don’t think that’s exactly the term I mean), not meaning to say that these women are sluts, but that that is how society sees them.

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  38. Karen there are multiple types of “shaming ” People are looking for reasons to be offended and when they can’t find one they make one up. Biggest example is women breastfeeding in public. No one cares

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  39. Oh, I agree, Anonymous. People who warn against “slut-shaming” seem to be against mentioning any kind of standard in order to avoid “shaming” a woman.

    A recent article shared by one of my very PC young friends was about how parents are slut-shaming their kids – by putting too much of an emphasis on virginity, “policing” what they wear, asking too many questions about their dating lives, & invading their privacy by looking through text messages or tracking their browsing history.

    In other words, parents are slut-shaming their kids by being good, involved parents. 😦

    Oh, when is the insanity going to end?! (I know – not until Jesus comes back.)

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  41. In the last 32 hours, every member of my family has cooked or offered to cook. I had planned to cook dinner last night, but older daughter offered and I let her. I had a roast thawing in the fridge for today when my husband pulled out a package of noodles to make his chicken noodle soup–but he happily let me make the roast instead. And tonight younger daughter had to work, but when she got home she cooked some pasta, since she has a busy week and tonight was her best chance to cook. (She likes to cook, but because she works odd hours, she often cooks at odd hours, and then we eat it as “leftovers.”)

    Misten, however, simply sponged off the rest of us and watched hopefully anytime anyone had a meal or a snack.

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