The weather forecasters had all the apple farmers worried about a hard freeze last night. Down into the twenties, they said.
🙂 It’s 43 on my deck. The phone says it’s sunny and 37 in Hendersonville. Looks like they missed it.
🙂 Mary texted last night. “Hopefully baby Charlie will be better behaved than his namesake”.
What happened is: We knew Mary was pregnant. Expecting in August. They learned yesterday that it’s a boy. They are naming him Charles. Presumably after his grandfather.
They aren’t much for tradition like folks in the old days, but I told Mary that that will make the fifth (5) Charles in a row in this family. Only Chuck obviously isn’t “Charlie”.
Mary hopes he will have a disposition like her husband, Tom. She says, “I don’t know that I can take two “Marys” in a row.” I told you before that Mary was the “Wild Child”. Chuck once said, “Mary, I hoe you grow up and have one just like you”. She did in Graham.
Everyone is happy for her.
😥 We are sad for Michelle. She had the opposite experience.
Thank you, Chas. God’s plans are perfect, even when we don’t understand.
Last night I read The Pug List, a story a family whose home was burned to the ground by an arsonist in the middle of the night. They escaped with a minimum amount of clothing and the laptop. It was a book about dealing with loss, grief, PTSD and how God could use a silly pug dog to help heal them.
It was a good way to spend a sad evening for me.
🙂 Just enough rain to water the vegetables I planted too early on Thursday.
🙂 I covered the pepper plant with a milk jug to protect it and bubble wrapped the tomato cages to insulate the tomato seedlings already buried up to their necks!
🙂 😦 I had hoped to FINALLY write my way out of WWI Egypt today, but that’s looking doubtful at the moment.
🙂 Started a new Bible study on the character of the Apostle Paul this week. I like it and it has given me some excellent insight for blog posts.
🙂 I appreciate being able to share prayer requests with people who will pray but who don’t know my family; curious though that may sound.
Chas – When Emily was a teenager, she once said that she didn’t want to have children because she wouldn’t want to get one like herself. She knew how stubborn & obstinate she could be!
Well, now she has Forrest, whose father also had a reputation for being a stubborn kid. And yes, he can be pretty stubborn at times, but Emily knows how to handle him.
🙂 Much needed long weekend to use up some excess vacation time (a nice “problem” to have)
🙂 Hopeful that the acquisition of new papers will help our company hang in there a while longer with a much broader regional and national advertising reach. Especially hopeful that the powers-that-be use any new revenue to, at least partly, replenish our sagging, understaffed newsrooms
😦 Carol’s cell got cut off when she spent too much money last week and couldn’t pay her phone bill. Now somehow she has zero money left. I called her through the main desk at her residence yesterday, she sounds depressed, the phone is a lifeline for her. I passed on that main number to her boyfriend so hopefully he can reach her today, he didn’t know what had happened to her (I left him a voicemail but he can’t work the cell very well so never got it; I called again this morning and he answered — he couldn’t find a pen but seemed to be able to memorize the number OK as I read it off to him a couple times).
😦 🙂 Hard for me not to just pay the dang bill for her as I have on several occasions in the past (mostly when she landed in the hospital and couldn’t physically pay it). But she never pays me back, even though she promises to do so, and I suspect she probably just needs to learn the lesson by going without it for a while. She didn’t ask me to pay it and I didn’t offer this time around. Not sure how she’ll afford to get it turned back on again, though, as she’ll owe two months’ of charges by 5/1 … But that’s a (her) problem for another day. Maybe the boyfriend will come to the rescue, they talk several times a day by phone so it’s affecting him, too.
🙂 Feeling less despair about this election. Well, a little less despair. It appears that the prospect of Trump getting a first-ballot nomination is slipping. Clinton, meanwhile, true to form, is shaping up to be a horrible general election candidate. There may be hope …
Our house is not clean for drop ins, but the youngest two did Saturday morning cleanup so it is not at its worst. But the tomatoes are watered, I carried buckets to them and to the new spruce trees we planted. and the hostas. and the shade garden. and made brownies. and am making cornbread to go with the venison/pork sausage chili. We had some yesterday and it was delicious, it ought to be better today.
Judging by how often it sounds like the boyfriend already is calling her through the (exasperated) front desk main line, the staff where she lives may go ahead and just pay her bill so they won’t have to be fielding all her calls. 🙂
🙂 Sunshine.
Got my sheets washed and on the line.
I even took my pillow and comforter and put them in a black plastic trash bag and put it in the sun to kill any bugs. It is supposed to get very hot in there.
Now the rain. Anytime we get full sun for a while the heat produces the clouds and you soon have rain. Don’t like the temperature?? Wait an hour.
I think my laundry is dry.
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The weather forecasters had all the apple farmers worried about a hard freeze last night. Down into the twenties, they said.
🙂 It’s 43 on my deck. The phone says it’s sunny and 37 in Hendersonville. Looks like they missed it.
🙂 Mary texted last night. “Hopefully baby Charlie will be better behaved than his namesake”.
What happened is: We knew Mary was pregnant. Expecting in August. They learned yesterday that it’s a boy. They are naming him Charles. Presumably after his grandfather.
They aren’t much for tradition like folks in the old days, but I told Mary that that will make the fifth (5) Charles in a row in this family. Only Chuck obviously isn’t “Charlie”.
Mary hopes he will have a disposition like her husband, Tom. She says, “I don’t know that I can take two “Marys” in a row.” I told you before that Mary was the “Wild Child”. Chuck once said, “Mary, I hoe you grow up and have one just like you”. She did in Graham.
Everyone is happy for her.
😥 We are sad for Michelle. She had the opposite experience.
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Thank you, Chas. God’s plans are perfect, even when we don’t understand.
Last night I read The Pug List, a story a family whose home was burned to the ground by an arsonist in the middle of the night. They escaped with a minimum amount of clothing and the laptop. It was a book about dealing with loss, grief, PTSD and how God could use a silly pug dog to help heal them.
It was a good way to spend a sad evening for me.
🙂 Just enough rain to water the vegetables I planted too early on Thursday.
🙂 I covered the pepper plant with a milk jug to protect it and bubble wrapped the tomato cages to insulate the tomato seedlings already buried up to their necks!
🙂 😦 I had hoped to FINALLY write my way out of WWI Egypt today, but that’s looking doubtful at the moment.
🙂 Started a new Bible study on the character of the Apostle Paul this week. I like it and it has given me some excellent insight for blog posts.
🙂 I appreciate being able to share prayer requests with people who will pray but who don’t know my family; curious though that may sound.
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🙂 It’s Saturday. Oh the possibilities…..
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Chas – When Emily was a teenager, she once said that she didn’t want to have children because she wouldn’t want to get one like herself. She knew how stubborn & obstinate she could be!
Well, now she has Forrest, whose father also had a reputation for being a stubborn kid. And yes, he can be pretty stubborn at times, but Emily knows how to handle him.
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The house is clean for drop ins
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Should I bring my white gloves? 🙂
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Michelle, I doubt they know what a “white glove inspection” is.
Elvera used to be that way when we had the family in for Christmas dinner every year.
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🙂 Much needed long weekend to use up some excess vacation time (a nice “problem” to have)
🙂 Hopeful that the acquisition of new papers will help our company hang in there a while longer with a much broader regional and national advertising reach. Especially hopeful that the powers-that-be use any new revenue to, at least partly, replenish our sagging, understaffed newsrooms
😦 Carol’s cell got cut off when she spent too much money last week and couldn’t pay her phone bill. Now somehow she has zero money left. I called her through the main desk at her residence yesterday, she sounds depressed, the phone is a lifeline for her. I passed on that main number to her boyfriend so hopefully he can reach her today, he didn’t know what had happened to her (I left him a voicemail but he can’t work the cell very well so never got it; I called again this morning and he answered — he couldn’t find a pen but seemed to be able to memorize the number OK as I read it off to him a couple times).
😦 🙂 Hard for me not to just pay the dang bill for her as I have on several occasions in the past (mostly when she landed in the hospital and couldn’t physically pay it). But she never pays me back, even though she promises to do so, and I suspect she probably just needs to learn the lesson by going without it for a while. She didn’t ask me to pay it and I didn’t offer this time around. Not sure how she’ll afford to get it turned back on again, though, as she’ll owe two months’ of charges by 5/1 … But that’s a (her) problem for another day. Maybe the boyfriend will come to the rescue, they talk several times a day by phone so it’s affecting him, too.
🙂 Feeling less despair about this election. Well, a little less despair. It appears that the prospect of Trump getting a first-ballot nomination is slipping. Clinton, meanwhile, true to form, is shaping up to be a horrible general election candidate. There may be hope …
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Our house is not clean for drop ins, but the youngest two did Saturday morning cleanup so it is not at its worst. But the tomatoes are watered, I carried buckets to them and to the new spruce trees we planted. and the hostas. and the shade garden. and made brownies. and am making cornbread to go with the venison/pork sausage chili. We had some yesterday and it was delicious, it ought to be better today.
Cousin is coming by today!
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Pretend she’s a teenager, Donna. Stay strong.
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Judging by how often it sounds like the boyfriend already is calling her through the (exasperated) front desk main line, the staff where she lives may go ahead and just pay her bill so they won’t have to be fielding all her calls. 🙂
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🙂 Sunshine.
Got my sheets washed and on the line.
I even took my pillow and comforter and put them in a black plastic trash bag and put it in the sun to kill any bugs. It is supposed to get very hot in there.
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Carol is very much ‘my’ teenager 🙂
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Now the rain. Anytime we get full sun for a while the heat produces the clouds and you soon have rain. Don’t like the temperature?? Wait an hour.
I think my laundry is dry.
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It’s a circle … Late-night Cali time eventually meets Jo’s day-time …
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Early evening here. Off to a favorite hymn sing in the Meeting House. I love to sing hymns. 🙂
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😦 OK, I’m back to despairing over the election again
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