39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-13-16”

  2. Nice little tweetie sweeties, RKessler!

    Glad you have an extra special Friday, Peter!

    I found a Christian editor for flash fiction!

    Kathaleena has a new grandchild!

    This is like raves Friday…could not wait for Saturday. 🙂

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  3. No Y today for me.
    No Lions today for me.
    Rose is coming by to take pictures. I need to make the house look like on one lives here.
    Kim knows what I mean.
    But I need to read the funnies first. I hope some are funny. I need a laugh.

    🙂

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  4. It took me a while to notice Trump’s hair in the shape of an elephant.
    You always discover new things.
    I knew she was thrifty, but in 59 years, I hadn’t realized she was a packrat.
    She had, in a cabinet downstairs, what must be every plastic container she ever got.
    They filled an entire recycle bag.
    And she had, must be a hundred Gather CD’s I’m giving them to the church library.
    I don’t know how that many CD’s got into the house without my knowing about it.
    I always get and sort the mail.

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  6. I am sure everything looks nice Chas, with Elvera’s sister, Chuck, and Linda there to help. It is best she take the photos before you move out. An empty house is hard for most people to imagine and even if your furniture isn’t to their taste they like to see where things go. It is also good that you have cleaned out so much.

    You have an iTunes account don’t you? You know you could save all of those Gaither CD’s to your account so they wouldn’t be lost if Elvera likes to listen to them?

    Life is an adventure.

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  10. What darling chicks! Thanks for sharing those pics with us, RKessler. I know a little girl here who is going to go “Awww!” when I show them to her. 🙂

    Wishing all of you reading this a wonderful today! 🙂

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  12. Why not? Tennessee IS beautiful! 🙂

    My grandfather ran a chicken ranch for 20 years. My mother, who grew up there, detested chickens– even if their eggs did put her through college.

    He used used to get the day old chicks by train from Petaluma, which is just down the road from where we now love. My mom said picking them up at the train station was the best part of raising chickens!

    But they’re awfully cute, for sure!

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  13. Michelle, you might want to re-phrase chicken ranch.
    My grandfather had chickens when I was young even though he lived within the city limits. The chicks are adorable, but chickens can be downright MEAN

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  14. Cute fuzzy chicks 🙂

    My neighbors kept chickens in their backyard for a while

    It’s Friday and I need a story. I was supposed to go on a tour yesterday with one of the council aides that would have given me a couple decent ideas, I’m sure, but then she had to cancel it.

    I’ll have a good story for next weekend, though — an effort to save a 1911, 2-story home overlooking the beach that had fallen into serious disrepair. It now sits on the (ocean) end of a row of by ugly stucco boxes and was destined to be torn down for another one when a pair from Venice *discovered* it and decided to buy, refurbish and sell it. In the meantime, they’ve connected with the family who lived there through the years and have some great old photos of it back in the day.

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  15. We got 20 turkeys in the mail yesterday. We also have 4 bottle calves, 3 of which, I have trained to the cow. They should be lots of fun for the grandchildren this summer.

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  17. Cheryl – (continuing our hair discussion) I’ve always brushed my hair more than once or twice a day, & every time, there would be some tangles that needed brushing out. I guess one benefit of thinning hair is that I have fewer tangles, but I do miss my nice thick hair.

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    My hair used to be a very dark brown, so dark that many thought it was black. I loved the richness of the color. Since beginning to dye my hair in my earlier 40s, I opted for auburn for a while, then back to brown, but not as dark as my natural hair had been. (I’d heard that older women shouldn’t dye their hair dark, but should go lighter as the years go on.)

    As my hair has thinned (which I so hate), I decided to go lighter so that any scalp that may eventually show through wouldn’t be as obvious. But then I looked at a photo of Emily & me next to each other, noticed her hair was darker than mine (used to be the opposite), & I looked at that lighter brown on me & thought, “That’s just not me.”

    That, along with the thought that maybe it is the chemicals in dying my hair that is causing it to thin, has led me to decide to just let it go grey. I think there is more white in my hair now, so it won’t be in that “blah” grey stage anymore.

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  18. Chas – The other day you mentioned that your family has offered to help, but said they all have their own families. That may be true, but you & Elvera are their family, too.

    Please don’t hesitate to call upon them when needed. Stepping out of our normal family lives to help our aging parents may not be easy or comfortable at times, but I think it is good for us, as well as being the right thing to do. If I had not helped my mom & mother-in-law as I did, as hard as it was, I would have regrets now that I don’t have.

    And seeing their parents helping take care of you would be a great lesson for your great-grandchildren to witness.

    God bless you & Elvera, & the rest of your family, as you move into this next phase of life.

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  19. Hi, all.

    Becca has a friend over from school, with one more coming about three (she had to go to the dentist first). Becca’s had Stanford testing all week, so this is a nice way to let off some steam. They plan to go swimming once the other girl arrives. It’s 88 today and the pool temp has come up a lot, so it’s no longer uncomfortably cold.

    Regarding hair: I’ve been highlighting mine for years. It’s a two hour process and not cheap, but I really do look better with lighter hair. And, now I’ve got lots of grey in it, which I don’t like. My hair was pretty straight until my last pregnancy. Now it has a stubborn wave–like I’ve had it in a ponytail–and frizzes if I don’t blow it dry with a giant round brush.

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  22. Ah, chicks. We used to play with the chicks we got every year, until they got scrawny and their adult feathers came in, at which point we lost interest.

    I see you have been having some hair-raising discussion. I detested my curls when I was small. My sisters all had straight hair that my mother would put in two braids. Me, I was the odd one out. In my teens, I grew my hair long enough to put it into braids, but when people saw how the ends of my braids curled in perfect ringlets they would demand why on earth I braided it. So I cut it again – it is too hot and heavy to keep long. I seldom let it grow below the shoulders, as it is gets heavy and hot in the summer. I use a long-toothed comb, with heavy teeth. I used a brush as a child, but I finally figured out that was just making my hair frizzy. I comb it before I wash it, and it dries in perfect, Shirley-Temple ringlets. It can’t be washed every day though, as curly hair is easily damaged by too much washing or brushing.

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  23. My 8 year old granddaughter has beautiful, curly hair. I was brushing it before school the other day and mentioned how pretty the highlights in her hair were. She sort of sighed and said resignedly, “I know when I get older I will be very attractive. “

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  24. We used to get our chicks from McMurrays. They would come in the mail. Now we just hatch them out. This month we are hatching out turkeys. They are cute and they are fun. One of the turkeys from several years ago is still out there producing. We recognize her among all of the other bourbon reds because she lays down when somebody comes close. She also likes to eat off of your plate so you have to watch her.

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  25. Karen, I’m sure I brushed my hair more than once a day as a child, too, but the point is that the bristles just wouldn’t go through my hair if it was snarled. My hair tangles easily, always has, so I work daily to keep it tangle free. Finger combing is the best, and then a pick, and a brush or a cheap comb don’t work at all.

    I remember in college a couple of my friends thought that when I said my hair is hard to work with, it was because I’m not very good at that, but then they played with my hair and agreed it’s hard to work with. My sister, meanwhile, has very curly hair, thicker than mine when we were children but mine is probably thicker than hers now (or she says it is), and when we were children and teens she’d pull it up with a pony tail holder and come to supper and we’d tell her, “That style is so cute on you!” and she’d say she just pulled it up to get it out of the way. But no matter what she did with it, it always looked good. But it’s funny, she tells me now that it was only a few years ago that she realized that when people told her she had beautiful hair, they weren’t just being polite, that she does indeed have nice hair.

    I’m one of those rare people who is mostly happy with my hair. I’d be happy with it having just a bit more wave, and I’d like it if it was more style-able, but I think it has pretty colors, and now that I have some styles that work, I’m happy enough with it. For sure I’ve never said “Oh, it’s curly and I wish it were straight.” I’ve just wanted it slightly curlier, but at least it has some curl.

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  26. I love playing with words. 🙂 This noon we had guests for lunch, and toward the end of the meal the wife teased her husband about something, and then she said she was sorry. (None of it was serious.) He said, “I’ll forgive you” and I interjected “When?” They didn’t get it, so I restated that he said, “I’ll forgive you” as though implying he would do so at some future time, and they both thought that quite funny. He said he’ll forgive her in fifty years.

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  30. Because I have a cowlick, like Dagwood Bumstead, I comb my hair from left to right instead of the way most men comb their hair.
    Only one person in all the world, and all m y life, has commented on that..

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  31. Back to hair. My mother did try to help me with my hair. She ironed it for me, which is basically like using a one-sided flat iron, similar to a curling rod. She also would do the store bought straighteners for me which worked until it rained. I learned to do perms for her. So when she said I tried to make my hair look bad, it was memorable because she typically did not say anything like that. I learned on my own that I could put a ponytail on top of my head with an elasticized headband used as a rubberband and then turn that into a bun which acted as a large roller. I taught my cousin how to do that for her hard to manage hair. Later in college I would wash my long hair and wrap it around my head and secure it with clips and sit under a buffont type dryer for about four hours doing school work while it dryed. My head was the roller. I knew no one else who did that, but it worked for the look I wanted back then when straight hair was stylish. I always used brushes for my hair. Combs were rough on my tangles, but I could gently work tangles out with brushing if I took my time.

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  32. I always thought braids were neat, but my mother did not braid my hair. I eventually learned to do a tiny side braid for my long hair when I was in my twenties and that was in style.

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  33. My hair is getting more brown, less red. 😦 But it still looks red in the sun. Just not indoors.

    But on the plus side, I have minimal gray hairs for some reason. Not complaining at all about that!

    A co-worker years ago — when I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood, I was in my mid 20s and had very long hair — did my hair in a French braid one day on a lunch break in the office. Loved it. I could braid my own hair but not in an intricate French braid.

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  34. I actually took a class at the local JC to learn how to French braid my hair. It took about 20 minutes–the police were outside waiting to take the instructor to jail to pick up a son . . . .

    $20 and I used the skill for years–but am now “way too short,” in my husband’s opinion.

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  37. I bought a cheap gizmo once at the drug store that was supposed to help you self-French braid your own hair, but it was too complicated for me 🙂

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  38. And I remember doing one of those small side braids once, tied off with a turquoise suede cord and silver concha for a rock concert once — so ’70s

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