37 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-8-16”

  2. Went to the Everything Sale this evening to benefit the Teen Centre, held in the teen centre. Crowded, but not too bad. Tomorrow will be worse. Tonight was just members and employees. Got a box of craft things that I will just put in my Art centre at school and let the kids enjoy. Of course I got some books, one must always have books.

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  3. Jo, you make me smile. You are so enjoyable to hear from everyday.

    I have been singing scriptures this morning. I use to do that more. It’s a good way to start the day.

    As I was putting together Art’s lunch, he said I didn’t need to do that because he still had the one I sent yesterday. These are the too busy to have a meal days. 😦

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  4. Look at all those beautiful azaleas!!!♡
    Are they in your yard, AJ? Our yard has many in bloom right now. I just remembered I need some pictures of the Fashion azaleas that show on the neighbor’s side. A maple planted by a former neighbor shaded and killed most of those. That was the major portion we use to have. Now the larger size azaleas have grown pretty massive. Fashion is a smaller variety. I don’t know the names of the others since I got them after the main planting season while on clearance and unmarked.

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  5. It’s FRIDAY!
    You know w3hat means?
    It means my woman is coming home to me, for one thing.
    Otherwise, soma ol’
    Lions today.
    😦 I need to buy a new weed trimmer. About $200. And I need it now.

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  6. Good Morning Everyone. I got up early and tried to have quiet time to meditate, journal, and try to get my day started a little differently.
    1. The coffee maker is really loud
    2. BG was blowing her nose constantly (should I run to the store and get some sinus meds?)
    3. Lulabelle sighing
    4. Amos rattling his tags on his collar
    5. BG blowing her nose again
    6. Facebook message coming from B in Pittsburgh and R in Richmond

    Tomorrow I can try again….

    I have another job interview at 1 today.

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  7. Ah, lovely tulip tree! I was hoping to get some good ones this year of the tree next door to church, but we had a hard freeze between the bud and the blossom and most of the blooms had brown-tinged edges.

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  11. They have checked out and are having breakfast at Denny’s before getting on the road.
    I tell you that to say this.

    Last Saturday a couple went with a group into the mountains hiking. They were separated from the group and rescue squads from all of Western NC went searching for them. Thousands spent looking for this guy age 25 and girl, 20.
    Tuesday, they were found in downtown Asheville. They didn’t know anyone was looking for them.

    I tell you that, to say this:
    At they Y this morning a woman, (A “Y friend, I only know her from that situation and that she is a fellow Gamecock) said she wouldn’t be in next week. She and her husband are going on a hiking trip with a group. I mentioned to her that she should carry her smartphone so that people will know where she is. After some discussion, she showed me her phone. She has “Find Friends” app on her phone, but not activated. I told her that she should friend with someone who isn’t going. “Stop by the Verizon store. They will show you how.”
    There sar so many things available today. No one should ever get lost.
    Your phone also has a map.

    It is possible to get out of range of the phone in some areas. But not likely in NC.
    Everyone who has a smartphone should activate “find friends” and have someone who isn’t always with you as a “friend”.

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  12. Janice, I thought the photo was from you and was surprised when you said azaleas but didn’t correct you…of to other things at the time.
    April is shaping up to be busy at H-House
    19th Mr. P will have a procedure done
    20th BG has court
    22nd I am having a wedding shower for a coworker
    23rd Baby shower to attend
    25th Out of town company

    and Middle Son cannot nail down the dates but he will be here some time this month driving from North Carolina to California.

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  13. It is a good thing we have not gotten to memorizing capitals yet. That California capital sounds like somebody is trying to force their religion on me. As well as the names of other towns: Los Angeles, San Fransisco, San Diego, Sand Benito, San Gabriel. The list can go on. Too bad they will have to change all those names so people don’t get the wrong idea, but at least, son and daughter have not started on those so they won’t have to erase them in their minds and start again.

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  14. Yesterday was my Friday since I have today and Monday off. I was topping off on my allowable vacation time I can “carry” unused so had to take some. I have to get Annie to the vet this afternoon for a distemper booster shot. She won’t be happy. I just have to make sure to keep her indoors so I’m not trying to hunt her down outside when it’s time to go.

    Nothing says spring like pink flowers! I also pegged that one as a Janice contribution. 🙂

    It’s overcast and rainy here, this may be our final rain, such as it is.

    We like to keep things cleansed out here in California, including our history. Always cleaning up after those religious types who rudely left their names on everything …

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  15. Facebook evolving, less personal sharing as friends’ lists grow:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/facebook-said-to-face-decline-in-people-posting-personal-content

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    Overall sharing has remained “strong,” according to Facebook. However, people have been less willing to post updates about their lives as their lists of friends grow, the people said.

    Instead, Facebook’s 1.6 billion users are posting more news and information from other websites.

    As Facebook ages, users may have more than a decade’s worth of acquaintances added as friends. People may not always feel comfortable checking into a local bar or sharing an anecdote from their lives, knowing these updates may not be relevant to all their connections.

    According to one of the people familiar with the situation, Facebook employees working on the problem have a term for this decline in intimacy: “context collapse.” Personal sharing has shifted to smaller audiences on Snapchat, Facebook’s Instagram and other messaging services.
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  18. I stopped sharing a lot of personal information on FB when it became “business” related. I was told back in 09 or 10 that it was a great way to market your real estate business. Don’t post anything you could be sued over or would harm your business.
    It was great in the beginning when you could connect with old friends and “chat” like you were together again. Once employers and anyone else could check out your FB page who wanted to expose themselves like that?

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  19. I use it primarily for posting work-related links as so many of my ‘friends’ now are primarily community contacts I know (or who know me) via the newspaper. I do have a smaller sub-set of friends I share Christian links with, though; the friends’ ‘groups’ you can set up are handy if you do want to share more personal things but not with a wide audience.

    Snapchat is the latest rage. Instagram was the “it” place to go for a while (I think basically young people keep fleeing to new platforms as their parents and the older generations “discover” a particular social media outlet; of course, the older folk then follow them to the new space which means they have to go somewhere else again to lose them 🙂 )

    But I really don’t have time to do all of it, so I concentrate on FB and Twitter which are most useful for my purposes.

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  21. Question: I had half a carton of eggs in the refrigerator that had a “purchase by” date of April 1.

    I decided to hard boil them all this morning — they should still be good, right? Hated tossing them so this way I figure they’re cooked and will be handy for me & dogs’ dinners as an extra treat in the next week or two?

    Expiration dates are a big problem for singles as we just can’t go through these things that fast.

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  23. I get my eggs still warm. Store eggs are often stored for quite a while before you get them. If you are concerned, put them in a bowl of water. If they float they are history. if they bobble on the bottom, they are old but not rotten. If they just sit there, they are fine. Probably. Unless somebody blew them and refilled them with sand or something.

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  24. I don’t think we use much of our stuff before the end date. I think it is made up for the worst case scenario to protect the producer.

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  25. Oh yeah, I remember that trick now with the water — when I put them in the big pot to boil, they sank, so I guess we’re good. I’d heard somewhere that eggs are fine for a considerable time after the “expiration” date.

    Just talked to Carol — she spent too much on junk food at the Dollar Tree last week and couldn’t pay her phone bill so she’s without a cell phone for a while — “a couple months” I guess as she will have to make the back payment. It took a lot of restraint, but this time I didn’t offer to pay it for her as she never pays me back. I asked how much money she had left and she said “nothing.” I thought if she was short on the phone bill and still had the bulk of the money I might relent and make up the difference, but sounds like she just blew through everything, so that’s that.

    I can still reach her (and she can reach me) by using the facility’s main phone. There are downsides to that — like the resident who kept singing loudly while we tried to talk. Oh well.

    I told her at least she has lots of snacks. She sounded depressed, but that might be good — she’s done this over and over again and maybe this will drive home the lesson. She is tethered to that phone and I’m sure misses it.

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  28. I just looked up the author page of a writer who I use to babysit for with his and his first wife’s daughter. They got divorced during the time I was a sitter. I always loved being at their home which was filled with books. Donna will be especially interested in this bio. I had no idea he did all this, but his wife back then was the sister of one who was married to a men arrested for Watergate, tried and convicted.
    http://robertcoram.com/about/

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  30. Ugh. Back from the job interview. It is tailor made for me. I can’t take it and came away feeling even worse. It is 30 hours a week at $10 an hour. No wonder they can’t find anyone for the position.
    Back to dealing with Himself.

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  31. Mumsee’s 11:49 made me wonder. There was a single egg left in the refrigerator when we left last Friday. It was still there. So?
    I went in and put it into some water. It didn’t float, but it always oriented itself on the bottom so that the big side was always up. i.e. It didn’t lay on it’s side.
    I disposed of it.
    Did I do good?

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  32. It was old. Might have broken into a bowl safely. But you will find that a lot of eggs from the store bobble. Just means they have dried out a bit and have more air to float them. But if they are actually off the bottom, I would throw them out.

    Eggs are an amazing testimony to the creativity of God. The little bubble of air in there is just enough to keep the baby chick alive until it breaks the shell. The egg has something like 16,000 pores in it that keep the chick healthy as it grows. Letting in the right stuff and keeping out the wrong stuff. It has a coating that needs to stay on, so you can’t wash them when you want to incubate them, just brush them clean so the pores are not blocked. Two membranes inside. Amazing thing, the chicken egg…and amazing, the Creator of the chicken egg.

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  37. Back from the vet’s where annie oakley got her annual checkup. She hid under her pink blanket most of the time.

    She needs to lose weight so she won’t like the food restriction. She went from 9 to 11 pounds in the past year.

    The vet who saw her always likes to tell me the story of how she only was interested in reading books about animals when she was growing up. She said a children’s biography of Annie Oakley was the only book about a person her parents finally could convince her to read — she said it was acceptable to her because there was a horse in the story. 🙂

    So she always gets a kick out of seeing Annie Oakley the cat.

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