30 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-21-16”

  1. Good morning. Evening, Jo.
    I just posted on the prayer thread…
    My allergies are awful; oak is extremely high–everything is covered in yellow pollen…I’m popping Actifed like candy and am still sneezing every few minutes… But, my sinus infection is much better.

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  2. Morning Ann. Zicam helps and there is always turmeric for allergies.
    It is so green here that my allergies are year round. But it is beautiful.
    Must be because Chas declared it is Spring yesterday.

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  4. My nose gets a little runny and then I use a little of the Lily of the Desert Aloe Juice (made in TX) and the drip and stuffiness is gone. 🙂 Also makes any sore throat go away.

    Yesterday our new pillow sham that does not yet have a pillow in it was filled up…with Mis Bosley. She keeps me amused.

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  8. Good Morning Everyone. We are getting chilly weather now. I thought we would because Easter is so early this year. It has sneaked up on me and I am not prepared.
    We lose our house guest this afternoon. 😦 We certainly have enjoyed having her. Mr. P and his sister have had such a good time together and I have had someone to walk with in the morning. It amuses me to see her hug and kiss him good night and call him “Little Brother”. She says that she has had such a good time that she is planning her vacation for next March to come see us again and go to the Art Festival.
    I have another amusing tidbit to share with you from the book Wicked Mobile.

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  10. Spring break here. With my daughter-in-law confined (as much as possible) to the couch for her post-surgical healing, my son asked me if possible to take the kids a couple days for an activity.

    Underscore activity.

    Thinking. I may have inveigled the newly-returned Stargazer to take a shift.

    Hoping, praying, working towards FINALLY escaping 1916 Egypt today or tomorrow.

    If I don’t have to go play, of course.

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  11. Rather than explain all the history around this I will share the link and let you read for yourselves. I am not a descendant of William Weatherford although a good friend of mine is. The celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Massacre at Fort Mims in 2013 and she was invited as a special guest. This massacre is part of what eventually led to The Trail of Tears.
    For the most part the fort was woefully lackidaisical and as a result many people lost their lives.

    General Claiborne had inspected the fort on August 7, and found its readiness wanting. He ordered the fort fortified but Beasley (the man in charge of the fort) ignored the order. Several slave boys reported seeing Indian scouts but Beasley ordered them whipped. Another boy didn’t report what he saw rather than take a beating. A government scout road to the fort that morning to report that he saw about 13 Indians in the area. Beasley said he must have seen cattle and ordered the man arrested. Inside the fort men sat in two circles discussing what they would do if Indians did attack. At 10 o’clock the morning of the attack Beasley sent in his report stating that the fort was secure and his men were fit for duty. The massacre started 2 hours later. It seemed the militia were sitting around playing cards, someone was playing a fiddle and the commander of the fort appeared drunk.

    While the massacre isn’t amusing in any way–almost everyone was killed— it is another of those stories about how no one but the outlaws, loafers, and drunks wanted to endure the heat and mosquitoes and horrid conditions it took to settle this southern soil.

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

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  12. Michelle, I was out by Warehouse 1, there’s a short dock you can walk out on that gives you a great view of the port ‘traffic’ coming and going.

    This is one of our 2 tall ships (official LA welcome vessels and built on our waterfront maybe 10 years ago) — they’re used for sail training trips for at-risk youths).

    There also were sea lions on the red buoy but my camera zoom isn’t quite that good 🙂

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  13. Dozens of these historic-style wooden, tall-masted ships sail in for outr tall ships festivals — a really fun sight, many of the visiting crews perch aloft along the cross pieces of the masts as well as manning the crow’s nests

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  17. Good Morning….it’s going to be a nice one out there today….if the clouds ever get outta here!! At least it’s warming up for a couple days and the last snow is melting in time for the new snow to replace it on Wednesday…..
    No seed planting around here for another couple of months 🙂

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  19. Lovely photo! I’d like to think I would enjoy climbing the rigging of a tall ship, but the reality is I would probably freeze halfway up and have to be rescued. I was born with an instinctive fear of heights(my family says that as a baby I was scared if my father lifted me over his head); and when it starts, I become unable to function. I can temporarily hold it off by techniques like not looking straight down, etc.; but that will only last so long before I have to get down or freeze. Add to that my nearly equal visceral fear of deep water, and the fact that I’m prone to vertigo when traveling over water or in the air; and I would not make a good tall ship sailor. It is a pity, because I love to explore and see things from new angles.

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  21. I’m prone to sea sickness so no crows nest for me! Fun to watch those that dare, though

    Home sick with this cold today, but I’ll go back in tomorrow — sleeping a lot and just heated up some of that homemade chicken vegetable soup I made a big pot of yesterday — that’ll last a while.

    Peaceful at home except for the garage band practicing somewhere in the neighborhood

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  23. Not just about this, but there has been going on a long time, and I hate it.
    The system of flashing, less than a second. Nay! just a small fraction of a second, a picture of something. Then, it’s gone.
    Life is fleeting.
    What was that I saw?

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  24. Ann, Flonase is on my list to buy more of when I am home. It certainly helps when one wants to sleep. Janice, where do you get the aloe juice?
    Always looking for help with allergies. I scoured New Zealand for turmeric. At home I had some turmeric that was wonderful, then I found it cheaper on Amazon so bought my supply to bring here on amazon. It was entirely different, a different capsule, the only thing the same was the label and it didn’t work at all. Sometimes cheaper isn’t always better.

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  25. Sorry to hear that, Jo. We continue to buy from Amazon and the turmeric is working wonderfully. So nice for husband and daughter to not be sneezing all of the time!

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  26. I appreciate your patience with me as I give you yet another weather report from California (Hail just now!), but I’m so thankful to report our largest lake/reservoir, Lake Shasta north of Redding, is reportedly 86% full. That’s joyous news and means Kim doesn’t have to bring her own water when she visits in June!

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  27. Has it really been almost six hours since anyone has posted on here? (Of course, I’m not one to talk, since I don’t think I’ve posted on here at all today, though I’ve been by a couple of times to read other people’s posts!)

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  28. My cold seems to be leaving as fast as it came … took the dogs out to the dog park late today, will plan to return to work tomorrow.

    Looks like our name will change with our new acquisition — from Los Angeles News Group to Southern California News Group

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