45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-23-16”

  1. Morning all. I just or my bank just got my pension payment. So I just went online to pay my mortgage payment. I am using my pension to pay extra. It is very exciting to me to be close to being out of debt.

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  2. Well, I’ve been up clearing email for about an hour. See prayer request.

    Meanwhile, in the humor department, my LA EMT daughter posted this:

    Occasionally my job entails picking up from the residences of the rich and famous, today is no exception.

    One of the tour buses that takes tourists to the ‘Homes of the Stars’ happened to be passing by and I heard the guide say: “Now this ambulance may be responding to an emergency, but we also could be driving through a movie set!”

    Somewhere out there is an excited tourist who has a photo of me gawking at the camera and holding a backboard.

    And my movie will be coming to a theater near you in Summer 2017.

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  4. Excitement around here. Our French drains are being installed today. Yippee! I could so think of so many other ways to spend this money! Oh the joys of home ownership. Where is Linda to tell me why it was a good idea for me to rent all those years?
    Of course once this is done we will have a nice level back yard and more usable space. It will be nice and I am thankful we had the money in savings to do it.

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  5. Two of my good friends are arguing it out on FB over Obama’s visit to Cuba and saying that we can learn something from them.
    One is a retired Navy Captain who picked someone up off the coast of Cuba and the other is a level headed Democrat, although he is gay and supports Obama because of his leanings on the gay community. So far they are being very civil. Me? Oh I ain’t going near that!

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  9. Chas,

    You dig a hole, usually ovalish in shape a few feet deep. You fill it with various size stones and put dirt on top. When water flows onto/into it, it drains down thru instead of puddling.

    Voila’, French Drain.

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  11. Pretty much they will deepen the trench that is already in our back yard, lay some gravel, over that they will install a perforated pipe…very much like field lines for a septic system. When it is finished instead of having a sloping back yard I will have a level back yard.

    In good ol’ boy engineering when this part of the subdivision was developed the engineers were going to require that the developer install a well in the retention pond that was necessary for runoff water. THAT followed the natural slope of the land. In order to save money the developer dug out the land and channeled the water in a different direction. Now ALL off the runoff water flows through MY backyard on its way to the retention pond. To compound that when the surveyor/engineer set the elevation pins for the development he set them wrong.

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  13. Good Morning and thanks so much for sharing the Spring photos…at least I know it is Spring somewhere in this great big beautiful world….I woke up in a snowglobe!!!! Wet heavy Spring snow all about me…so far 6 inches of the stuff, winds blowing, thick dense frozen fog….a good stay at home kind of Colorado day!! Had to cancel having my friend coming over for breakfast…we are both rather disappointed about that…..

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  14. Kim we had the same issue at our house in town….seems all the water from the properties at the top of the hill was channeled to the yards of those of us at the bottom…and our basements became the retention ponds! We had to put in french drains all around….but the work great!

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  16. Good morning.
    Today is picture day at Becca’s school. She looked especially darling this morning and agreed to let me take her photo before school.
    Scott’s sister and my two nephews are in town from Chicago. So, MIL and SIL and nephews are coming over this afternoon at 4:00. I’ll be busy tidying up the house today.

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  17. We don’t need French drains in this part of NC. But some people have problems when the river rises. The only puddles I have are in a small section of my driveway.
    We didn’t have piddling in Annandale, Va. either.

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  18. In reading the post, I didn’t get the part where it was Obama who said we could learn something from Cuba. It wouldn’t have mattered. I disbelieve everything Obama says.
    Everything.

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  19. French drains here. It catches the run off from the roofs and takes it away from the foundation, running it on down the hill. Otherwise, it pours straight under the house and rots the joists.

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  21. And we have to periodically clean out the gutters and down spouts. We had to disconnect one downspout as it was freezing before the water could get out, creating a dam and serious backup of water melting off the roof. Nobody has had to clean the drains in ten plus years.

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  22. What’s a puddle? What’s there to ‘drain’? Says the resident of drought-stricken Southern California.

    Ah, lovely spring flowers … We had a lot of wind last night, typical March with temps in the low 70s all week.

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  24. We had to go to the cardio doc this morning. Ablation is scheduled for April 9th.

    The classic Christian book, In His Steps, is free for Kindle at Amazon.

    I just caught this phone changing the word scheduled above to seduced. Bad, bad phone!!!

    Our flowers are almost gone now from the Birthday Tree. The top flower is a closeup of periwinkle or vinca vine flower. I just decided I would try something different for my clematis vines. I opened up a wooden drying rack and turned it on its side to train the vines to grow all over it. We will see if it works out. I had been trying to think of something to use and I think it is about the right height. Tiger lilies are growing in the midst and shot up so fast last year that the flower vines did not have a chance to do much. This year I want to pamper the clematis vines.

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  27. My laptop is fixed, yay. It had 13 pieces of malware on it. Booo. “It happens” I was told. Used to be PCs only but the bad people have expanded to get into Macs now, too, apparently.

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  30. The snowglobe is being shaken something awful!! They have now closed the interstate from the Springs to Castle Rock, and the old hwy 83 from the Springs to Paker….theses are the two routes to take home….looks like my dear husband will not be making it home for a while….and we will stay hunkered down….they are predicting 18 inches for us now….

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  32. Sorry, Nancyjill. No fun for you or your husband. 😦 Sounds like we should miss the brunt of that system. 🙂

    We left spring in TN for home on Monday morning. I have some kind of bug and the weather window was perfect for coming home. I think Edith Schaeffer was right that our wanting to be everywhere and do everything is a remnant of the eternal nature we were meant to have. (I think she wrote something like that!) I long to be home and yet with the grands at the same time! I needed to be back for routine doctor visits next week. I am hoping to ride this bug out until then, but am beginning to wonder.

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  33. Haha, a giant kid somewhere in a parallel universe is shaking her Colorado snow globe, giggling at all the poor little people stranded in their cars and houses.

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  37. Donna- This election cycle seems to be a Twilight Zone episode. Who’d have thought that the possible nominees would be a buffoon reality show host and a former Sec. of State under investigation by the FBI?

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  39. Thanks for all the likes on my first post. This loan is a continuation, in my mind, of one beginning in 1974. I am so thrilled to see it now just a smidgen below 8 thousand. Thinking of other discussions on here, I will add that I am also putting money in savings knowing that I have to have that cushion too.

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  41. I usually plant vincas in my pots. I had them several years before I realized they HAD pretty flowers. Have I mentioned we have a short growing season? 😉 They are very hardy vines.

    So wise to get rid of that debt. It is such a great feeling.

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  42. We just had our laptop gone through. It was overheating and shutting down. We were warned about how ‘old’ it is. I understand that with software, but this computer is not three years old. At any rate, after cleaning it up etc. it is now working good again.

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  43. Well, my laptop is going in to the computer fix-it guy tomorrow. I tried that “hard reboot,” & it killed it. 😦 I’m using Emily’s laptop in the meantime, as she can access stuff from her phone.

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  44. I’m back on my laptop tonight — it’s 7 years old but my photo editor tells me I can replace the hard drive (or he and his kid can) with a newer solid state model and then I’d essentially have a brand new mac (on the inside anyway) — faster, etc. So I’ll do that I think, instead of replacing this one right now. For now it’s just good to have all that malware off of it although it’s still a little hinky and slow.

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  45. I25 is still closed from the Springs….and so is 83…my dear husband won’t be getting home tonight….he said he will try to catch a nap at the office and check the roads around midnight….they just opened one lane southbound from Monument to the Springs, and they are sending out Humvees and troopers to assist stranded motorists (they have been sitting for 7 hours!) What a day!

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