65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-7-16”

  7. Good Morning Everyone. Mr. P has an appointment with the pain management specialist today at 1 pm. Hopefully things will start moving in the right direction. I sent my resume to another company this week and have an interview tomorrow. I talked to the travel agent yesterday about the best way to get to and from California in June. It is all coming together.

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  10. Chas, it is surprising what ants will eat. A friend of mine had ants in her apartment and the ants ate the foam pads on her electric piano. Also, just having insects inside an electronic device can mess it up. I got bugs in my computer a couple of times when I was in West Africa, and it would do strange things until the bug crawled out of it again. I’ve never been so thankful for frost and cold weather to kill off insects until I saw how many bugs live in warm climates.

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  11. Good morning! I hear lawnmowers too early this morning. My weeds have grown too high, yet I like to keep them for their blooms so I can take pictures of what those who keep up their lawns better never get to see. It is a trade-off with eclectic beauty and laziness winning over the perfectly manicured and boring lawn.

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  14. I had no idea that ants would do that.
    I would run down to the Verizon store and buy an ant proof case.

    🙂

    A weird thing has happened, not serious, nor especially bad, just strange.
    When I put in my GPS (TomTom) I unhooked the phone charger wire and threw it into the back seat. When I got home, I disconnected GPS and forgot about it. Since Elvera has the home charger, I went out to the car to charge my phone. My charge wire wasn’t there!
    In the back seat, was a different, less expensive charger. It was still wrapped in it’s “sold” wrapping. Never been used.
    It doesn’t matter. It works in the car. The other would charge from home, car or computer; but that’s not a feature I care about.
    What puzzles me is how somebody got into my car and swapped chargers. I always lock the car when I leave it.
    Why would someone break into a car and steal something that only cost about $30.?
    How did they get into the car without breaking something? Could I have left the car unlocked at a rest aare4a? I doubt it.
    Strange

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  15. I still remember the cockroach living in the speedometer in the car in Okinawa. Ugh.

    Around here there have been infestations of ants in power boxes and phone boxes. They build their homes in their and that disrupts the workings.

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  16. Lawns are overrated.

    We’re all chucking ours, either by laziness or by paying people to plant “drought-reisistent” stuff in decomposed granite and wood chips, which can be pretty or super-super ugly. Mostly ugly. Which is why, for now, I’m opting for the natural, let-it-go dandelion look that my gardener keeps mowed anyway. 🙂 I say embrace your dandelions.

    I’m dropping the dogs off at the groomer on the way in to work today. Probably lousy timing since we’re expecting rain off and on over the next several days, but oh well.

    Chas, that’s all very, very strange. Do you sleep walk? 😉

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  19. Dandelions are a good salad ingredient. Or mixed with the noon veggies. And it is nearly time for dandelion fritters!

    A couple of years ago, I let the chicory go and we were surrounded with a sea of blue flowers and lots of honeybees. But I mowed them last year. Easier to see the snakes, but it was beautiful. Good thing I don’t have the peer pressure of neighbors. Or the help of a community householders law enforcement nose in your business league or whatever it is called.

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  20. That startling starling! Must have been hanging out too much with the birds on the bad side of the tree.

    Saved by the storm last night! I forgot we had a big downpour in the evening which to my delight makes it too wet out for the punies. My lawnmower is puny, and so am I. The mower out earlier was from a lawn care service so I guess wet grass does not phase the macho men and mowers in that group. As for me and my mower, we will wait on the Lord to provide dry grass to mow♡

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  21. Chas, things like that happen to me at times. I have to give it up to the Lord. I know He knows all about it and it is in His big hands so He can either be having divine laughter or He can be waiting for a divine squash session. He really does have the whole world in His hands.

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  23. I went out to start the riding lawn mower yesterday, but the battery was dead. Seems nine year old broke the rules and decided to play on it. He apparently turned the lights on and left them. Seventeen year old has it charging. Meanwhile, I have my walk behind mower to walk behind and a couple of reel mowers if needed.

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  24. Yesterday I was chatting with our photographer after we’d finished an interview. At some point I took my keys out of my canvas work bag, but then I did something else with my hands and my keys somehow vanished.

    Or so I thought.

    I found them at last — dangling from one of my fingers that I’d looped through the key ring.

    Sheesh. And oy vey.

    I wonder about myself sometimes. 🙄

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  25. The insensitivity of some people knows no bounds. I am going to the doctor with my husband to discuss what the future holds for him and his back. Guy wants me to take my computer with me in case HE needs a file while I am there!!!!!!!!

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  26. We always say our neighbours have to mow their lawn three times before we mow ours. Most of the lawn isn’t grass anyway. On one sunny slope, we have wild oregano, with is a nice smelling surface to walk or sit or even lie on. Plantain (useful for bee stings), chicory (useful for the bees), dandelions (good in salads), and all manner of wild flowers grow among the scattered blades of grass. In the areas that get more moisture or is shaded by trees, the moss makes a prettier green than the grass. Unfortunately, down the back, stinging nettle (it has herbal uses, but it sure hurts to touch) is threatening to take over and needs to be mowed continuously to keep it from smothering the jewelweed (which is the antidote to poison ivy).

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  27. I’m seeing the first of the fox tails around town, but I’ve been able mostly to eradicate them from the backyard in the past few years.

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  28. Not too much green stuff around these parts, but I did place a potted tulip on the deck yesterday. In the afternoon when I looked out the door, there were about 20 bees on that plant…the petals are now falling off of the tulip…the bees think that it is spring around here or something…..it did make me smile to see them 🙂
    Kim I would conveniently forget my laptop….”oops, I had more important things on my mind at the moment!”

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  29. Kim, maybe suggest he could attend the doctor’s appointment with y’all in case he needs something from you. Sometimes you have to exaggerate for fools to see the absurdity of their request and back off.

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  31. Roscuro, I haven’t used it. A year or so ago I researched it, and balked at their contract. Basically, they claim the right (irrevocably) to use your book in any way they see fit, worldwide, within the limits of copyright or some such thing. (Which would mean, I suppose, that they couldn’t sell your book in China without your name on it, but that’s about it.) Between how little money you get anyway and that contract, I said no way.

    I also see “adult coloring books” online, some of them from Create Space, and those from them are always labeled that it’s bad paper for coloring. That makes sense, actually, if they use the same paper for coloring books as for any other books. Those just happen to be the only reviews of C.S. books I’ve read.

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  33. Well, I’ve heard from two of the three I asked for references. My boss at my old job is always more than eager to say yes. She wished the community college had the money to keep me there, but it didn’t, so I took this high school job. The Superintendent here understands my wanting to move to a better position, even though it would mean they have to look for another Spanish teacher with a Master’s in Spanish. We offer dual credit with another community college, and one has to have a Master’s in the field. I qualify, but most foreign language teachers in rural areas don’t.

    The job is as an international student coordinator at a small religious college near my home. It may mean a cut in pay, but it’s only a 10 minute drive instead of the 50 minute drive I have now.

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  36. We saw the PA and then the doctor. We are moving forward finally!!!!! We go back on the 19th for 3 tests and from there will determine when the stimulator can be inserted. The doctor will have to write a letter to the insurance company explaining the need for it.
    Deep sigh of relief.

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  37. Got the shade garden planted. Now I need to find the electric wire to finish tying the mesh shut so the cat won’t get in and do what cat’s do best. If only I could connect the wire to the electricity…..nah…..probably not a good idea….

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  40. Mumsee, to keep the cat out of the garden, you need to have several strategically located litter boxes around the perimeter for cat’s ease and convenience. Then you won’t have to bother with all that other stuff.

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  42. Cheryl, yesterday David Sibley discussed his latest guides to birds in North America, Sibley Birds East and Sibley’s Birds West, a few miles from me at our county main library. I did not attend but wish you and your husband could have been there. Maybe he is doing a book tour and y’all can catch him near your home.

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  43. I remember those phones that hung on a wall.
    it made a ringing sound when someone called, no music of strange tones.
    But they last forever. I don’t see how an ant, nor it’s cousins could hurt one.

    Did I tell you about the event when Elvera was working? She was in the main office at school.
    High school that is. A kid came in and wanted to use the phone. She said OK.
    It was a rotary dial and the kid didn’t know how to use it.
    She showed him. Part of his education, you know.

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  44. I remember when I needed to use a phone and someone held out their cellphone expecting me to know how to use it. It was humbling ta ask them to dial for me because I did not have a clue as to how to use one. Those were blissful days.

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  45. Janice. Elvera did that in a shopping mall in Columbia. She tried to reach me but got confused. So, she stepped into the Verizon store. They reached me and I came to get her.
    The guys in the store enjoyed the experience.

    🙂 This should probably be on the praise thread, but Linda (Chuck’s wife) e-mailed me that she has finished her daily radiation for breast cancer and only has to go every couple of months for check up.

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  46. Re: The girl who was murdered on the Texas campus.
    Everyone has it now, especially the youth. When a woman leaves a place at night unescorted, she should notify someone and they can follow on “find friends”. I follow Elvera every time she leaves to go somewhere now. That because she has gone somewhere else before.
    In this case, a woman was traveling about 100 yards from a building to her dorm. Her roommate knew she was coming. She didn’t alert authorities until the next day.

    ??????????????

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  49. Peter, I took a cut in pay to work at camp but the commute is 40 minutes shorter and so worth it! Not to mention the people I get to work with 🙂

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  51. Having said that, She can’t be reached by phone. I tried twice tonight. She can call me but I can’t call her.
    The problem? She keeps her phone secure in a sound proof compartment in her purse.
    I’ve told her a dozen times, but for her it’s the place for the phone.

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  53. Yes, Chas, the year you were married is also the year that Peter and Mumsee and I were born. This is why I am their little brother. And grown though we be, we still have a sibling rivalry over that number. I imagine they’re both lurking her right now just waiting to pounce.

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  61. I took a cut in pay without even changing jobs. 🙄

    So the dogs are clean, but I was very, very late picking them up, one of those days …

    I declined including the blueberry facial and nail polish (seriously) for their “spa” day.

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  62. Wrote 4 stories today (well, 3.5, one of them was half-way written yesterday).

    One of them was on the lawsuit against the county’s cross on its official seal … very long story that’s been debated and litigated for a decade now (bottom line today from a federal judge, it’s unconstitutional).

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