57 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-31-16”

  2. Good morning all. Good evening Jo.

    Nice turkey picture. We have Rio Grande’s here.

    Had a little time to catch up on the blog last night. I am wondering about the applesauce salad that Cheryl mentioned. Do you have a recipe?

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  6. From The Washington Post via Drudge:
    “Metro’s top officials warned Wednesday that the transit system is in such need of repair that they might shut down entire rail lines for as long as six months for maintenance, potentially snarling thousands of daily commutes and worsening congestion in the already traffic-clogged region.”

    You can’t imagine the mess that will cause unless you’ve been there.

    One thing that could help traffic, and help the country, would be to shut down EPA, Dept of Education, Supreme Court, Congress and all other non-essential government operations.

    Both CIA and Pentagon are outside the District.

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  9. A friend posted the video of this song on FB last night. I am not posting it because sometimes Vevo won’t let others open it. This is off of a new album and I kind of like when old musicians get together and you can hear the age in their voices.

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  10. Good Morning…a couple more inches of snow overnight….a couple more on the way today….I need to escape to the south….. We have a rafter of turkeys along our road….they especially like to gather along the curve of the road…and stare you down, just daring you to get close…it is a beautiful sight when the tom turkey displays his feathers and struts his stuff! 🙂

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  13. I need to make my to do list. I have much to do, but I might not remember to put something on the list. How do others manage that? I may need to change my method.

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  15. My mother tried not to be wasteful, so when we got near the end of a bar of soap she would put it in a container of other fragments which she later melted and turned into another hodge podge of a bar. I found some I collected some time back. Does anyone still do that? How I deal with it now is to stick the fragment on the new bar and they merge together. Of course with all the liquid soaps, we don’t have as many fragments to deal with these days.

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  16. My Grandmother saved slivers of soap and put them in a strainer type contraption…she kept it hanging next to the tub…somehow it would form into a bar of soap. I’ve seen the soap holder contraptions in antique shoppes….

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  18. To Do List:
    ….forget to do something that should have been on the to do list.
    1. Determine to use a to do list.
    2. Clean out clean small notebook and nicely sharpened pencil.
    3. Neatly write five things on to do list.
    4. Smile in a satisfied way.
    5. Begin doing.
    6. Think of something to add to the to do list.
    7. Stop what you are doing to add it to list.
    8. Smile happily.
    9. Go back to working through to do list.
    10. Think of something to add to to do list.
    11. Finish the task at hand.
    12. Begin next task on to do list.
    13. Think of three other things to put on to do list.
    14. Look for to do list.
    15. Give up, determining to write it down later.
    16. Wash some dishes.
    17. Think of five more things for to do list.
    18. Continue sweeping floor.
    19. Weed garden.
    20. Go about daily business.
    21. Find old notebook stuffed in chair and sit down to read it.
    22. Oh, yes, the to do list, that was a good idea!
    23. Repeat from number 2.

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  20. Chas has it right….I make to do lists and then I cannot find my to do list….then I try to remember what was on the lost to do list….never ending cycle….and I make shopping lists….then I leave the shopping list in the kitchen…while at the grocery I try to recall what was on the shopping list….I need to quit making lists…..
    It is snowing…it is a blizzard actually…it is very pretty with big ol’ fluffy flakes…daughter needs to leave in a bit to drive in to town to attend her classes….then she leaves straight from there to go to work until 11:00 tonight……in the blizzard…Mom’s worry sometimes….

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  22. Thanksgiving and CHRISTMAS are coming …

    Another long day for me yesterday but productive. Today I have to finish up two more stories but most of the reporting for them is done, thankfully. Now it’s just a matter of gathering & deciphering all my notes!

    We had a baby whale frolicking just off the coastline in the surf at one of our local beaches yesterday, delighting crowds of onlookers who gathered to watch. “Mom” was hovering further out, waiting for baby to be done playing. 🙂 We got some excellent video and photos from one of our most talented nature photographers on staff. Good show.

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  23. farther

    Looks like we’re hiring a couple folks to fill open editorial positions, which is good. Now that our acquisition is settled (they signed off on the last of it yesterday) maybe we’ll enjoy a more hopeful period for a while.

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  24. Loved the video, but I notice no one went in the water to play, too! 🙂

    I love lists so much that, like other overachievers, I add things I’ve done in addition to the listed items so I can cross them off. 🙂

    But, alas, I often leave the grocery list at home as well and frantically try to remember everything while cruising the aisles. I guess we’d be more successful if we did it on our phones, right, NancyJill? LOL

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  26. I keep my phone in my pocket sometimes. Sometimes I even remember to turn it on. But I never use it for anything but phone calls. Sometimes people leave me voice mails but I don’t read them because I have never taken the time to learn how. The people who are authorized to use this phone number know better than to leave me a voice mail.

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  28. I was going out to get the mail, and stopped to pull weeds off the mutilated bank from neighbors plumbing problem last year. I have good weeds and bad weeds. I want to leave room for my ajuga to spread. As I pulled the bad and left violets and clover, it occurred to me that I had not recently found a four leaf clover. A few moments later, I found one! The luck of the green thumb that is kind to clover!

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  29. An early rant from me today: My insurance is changing due to a labor dispute. The date to change is April 1. Today was the first day I could get into the doctor to get my meds refilled. There are two, which will run out before I can get them from the mail order pharmacy. Also, I need an anti-biotic for a sinus infection right away. I stopped at our usual local pharmacy and they are told my insurance is discontinued. We will have to start using a different local pharmacy tomorrow. I have no new card, although I was supposed to get one at the end of March. I am not a happy camper. Left the prescription at the pharmacy for the moment. Not sure what I will need to do yet.

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  30. I have tried using memo on my phone for to do lists. Does not work for me. I need a hard copy. I do usually have success with grocery lists made on slips of paper that I tuck in my slacks pocket. I’very got that down pat. Now I am trying to make a to do list in the notebook calendar that my friend, Karen, gave me. Only it has not set up as a habit yet so I tend to make a list about once a week. Today I found I got one thing on the list finished. Yesterday I finished the pages, 31, that I was working on. Now I need to do a second self edit and work on a proposal.

    My friend asked me this week if I would consider coming over to her home for an hour dailyrics to get her cats accustomed to me for when she has surgery. She will need me to care for them. They are skittish with strangers.

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  33. I have been asked to do an online blog post for Southern Writer’s magazine. I am not familiar with them. Is anyone hear familiar with them? That was put on my to do list so hopefully I will not forget it.

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  35. How nice, Janice, about them asking you, that is.

    I think I have resolved the difficulties with insurance. I am grateful to be able to get the drugs I do need. Everyone was very nice. I haven’t talked to that many people on the phone in one day for quite awhile. Probably since my children are no longer under our insurance. 🙂

    I felt better when the woman, who handles the insurance, was confused, too, at first. 😮

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  36. Donna (or Cheryl or Michelle or Janice or…), what’s the difference between farther and further? I wouldn’t have noticed anything wrong with your whale post if you hadn’t corrected yourself.

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  39. So, my sister in law asked for directions of how I cooked two meals while she was here.
    Chicken and Dumplings and
    Corned Beef and Cabbage with Potatoes.
    I thought I would share one of the recipes with you since she took it back to PA
    Cut up cabbage
    Cut up onion
    Throw in some small potatoes
    add water, bring to a boil
    Here is the really complicated part that I always have to have someone help me with…OPEN a can of nasty corned beef and dump it in. The key always confuses me and I don’t know which way to turn it. Mr. P had to do that for me.
    Also buying canned corned beef is confusing now because there have added jalapenos and other things to it and you just want the plain kind.

    This was a last minute meal that I threw together on St. Patrick’s Day. I even cheated and made Jiffy corn bread, but shhhh…don’t tell anyone about that.

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  43. I am making a list, a shopping list of everything I would like to purchase when I am home in June/July. Things for me and for my class.
    Trying to figure out how to get Australian Vita Weat crackers, which I eat everyday. There used to be an aussie catalog site in the US.

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  48. After an eternity (or so it felt) of trying to get into the insurance, I was told that someone else had to work on the prescriptions. Then I was told the insurance did not want to pay, since some were already paid for today for 90 day prescriptions. That does me no good, if they cannot get them here for a couple of weeks! One I needed ASAP. It didn’t take them long to get an over ride, but what a pain.

    Tax meeting for over an hour and he didn’t know what to do about our question either. I already went round and round with a financial expert on this one and she was puzzled too. Things are way, way too complicated when those who work with this stuff all the time don’t understand it. I do not believe it will make a lick of difference as to what we pay to Uncle Sam, but I don’t want a problem because of some stupid form. 😦 Back to the phone, I suppose.

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  50. We have an Out of Milk account (outofmilk.com). We have separate lists for different stores (Costco, Aldi, Target). I can add to the lists here at home, & Lee can access the list when he is out. Pretty neat & convenient.

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  51. Piper on using technology for Christian growth:

    http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-do-you-use-your-iphone-and-ipad-in-christian-growth

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    … Maybe in closing I should say I regard my computer that sits here in front of me on my desk and my iPad and my iPhone as an incredible gift from God. I mean I could almost come to tears over how precious they are to me. All these pagans are behind it. I know that. And they believe stuff I don’t believe. But for all the misuses that can be made of it, for me it is a treasure chest of the glories of God. I see God and I learn of him everywhere I go on these devices. The temptations to go in destructive directions are a kind of test that, if I weren’t seeing them or being tempted to see them on the phone, there would be another way I would be tempted. And so I regard those kind of tests as a proving ground for my faith and my holiness and God has been very, very good to me and to us in these days to give us these resources, I think.
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  52. Wow. LA prices with the Rams’ move.

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Season tickets for Rams games played this fall at
    Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will range in price from $360 to $2,025, the team
    announced today.

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  53. I make to-do lists sometimes, when I have several things to do and am afraid I’ll forget something. I just leave them on my desk at my computer. Sometimes it takes me two days to do what was on the list for one, and sometimes I still have a couple things on it after several days. Other times, I whiz through the list and start adding more things so I can cross them out. But most of the time I don’t keep one.

    I rarely kept a shopping list when I was single, just a mental list of things I was nearly out of or meals I wanted to make. Then I’d look through the store ads, choose which store had the best deals or the most items I needed/wanted that week, and on the top of that ad I’d write two or three items I needed that weren’t on sale, and I’d go through the ad and circle the things I wanted to get that were on sale. In the store, I would then walk down every aisle, claiming items that were on sale, items I needed that weren’t on sale but were a good enough price to buy them (or necessary enough to buy them anyway). But I’d also see items that I knew I was low on and they had a “buy one, get one” in-store promotion, or whatever. I stayed stocked up on items I used a lot (such as tuna), buying multiples if they were on sale.

    Now, with four people in the house, we simply must have a shopping list. Problem is, the daughter who eats most of the bread almost never writes anything on the list, so before we go shopping I have to try to remember to check bread, meat, cheese, carrots, all the things she tends to eat. (I’d be inclined to just let her run out, except I came in as stepmother and “spoiled her” by just checking everything myself rather than insisting she write things on the list, and now she’s about to get married and she’ll either learn to make a list or learn to shop without one.) And the other daughter will put things on the list that are (in my mind) items that you buy seasonably if they are a good price, not things you keep on hand (e.g., avocado). So the lists are a mixed blessing, but largely helpful. (And that daughter has two jobs and is earning plenty, so if we didn’t buy OJ since it isn’t worth $4 a half gallon, she can buy it herself if she wants it that much!)

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  55. Cool 🙂

    Of course, some of the whale advocates were complaining today that the whale was really in distress and how dare we suggest this was a fun thing. 🙄

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  56. This is April Fools day. So me careful
    We are on our way to Surfside Beach (Myrtle Beach, Grand Strand to most people)
    And that’s no April Fool joke.
    CULOM

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