53 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-27-16”

  1. Good morning. Becca’s last day was Wednesday…Lindsey still has a week left. Scott turned fifty Wednesday….we met when he was 27 and I was a silly 22 year old still stuck in college sorority girl mode. He seemed so mature to me–a real man. A lot has changed over the years, but by God’s grace, my love for him has grown by leaps and bounds. I’m so grateful to have been blessed with an honorable husband (I kissed a lot of frogs before meeting my spouse).
    Hope everyone has a good day!!!

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  2. Good early morning from Atlanta where the heat we are known for has arrived at full strength. The adjustment from cool to hot has about wilted me. Almost time to crank up our AC and hope it works unlike the one at the office that must be replaced.

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  3. Good morning, Annms. Your love story is inspiring! It’s good to hear that your love blossomed. I just heard yesterday of a couple who are divorcing, no children involved, thankfully. So it was especially nice to hear about your love growing today after getting that bad news yesterday.

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  4. Morning all. Cool as usual here in Ukarumpa. If it gets too hot it only lasts for an hour or two. Our evenings are always cool. Sure is getting dark early around here though.
    And yes, a few seniors did arrive by helicopter.
    The most creative was a backhoe with a couch suspended from forklifts carrying four seniors.

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  11. Good Morning! It is 38 degrees here and still raining…thankful the precipitation is in liquid form and not frozen (although my friend who lives in the eastern part of our forest awakened to a smattering of snow upon her property!) What a beautiful photo…and I did go back to spy upon Waldo sunning on his log!
    Thanks for sharing your story Ann….lots of frogs out there…so blessed you found your prince the Lord most graciously sent …. He is good and so worthy to be praised…amen ❤

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  12. What a lovely photo. Too bad I always worry about the snakes. My great grandmother had a catfish pond on her property. She lived over in Mississippi about an hour away. On his off days, sometimes my father and I would go out there to fish. I have been terrified of snakes my entire life. I can actually feel my heart not beating when I see one. Of course I stomped and talked;worried about snakes around the pond. Finally my dad told me to stand still and not move AT ALL. Surely I had scared all the snakes away –along with the fish of course! We stood there for a while, him watching what must of been a red and white bobber because that is what just flashed in my mind at the memory. When I finally got the nerve to speak again I said, “Daddy, the ants are biting my belly button now”.
    (Did I mention that we have fire ants down here? They came in on the banana boats from South America through the Port of Mobile. They have spread everywhere now and when they bite you it pops up a nice little itchy, pus filled dot.)

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  13. There’s a red wing blackbird nest in the bush on the right that I’m watching too. No babies yet, but judging from mom and dad’s reaction when I get withing 10 ft. of it, I’m guessing there’s some eggs. 🙂

    And I discovered a chipmunk colony this morning that had at least 5 new babes out and about. 🙂

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  15. It was 78° downstairs at 9:00. It’s good I don’t have the upstairs temperature. At least we have some shade trees. The heavy duty fan is in action upstairs to move the mug around. 38°sounds almost heavenly right now.

    I’ve had those fire ant bites before, Kim. Don’t wear sandals near them!

    Son is suppose to be home for a quick trip to attend a wedding. We will not see much of him. Most of his college friends from Covenant are soon to be all married. I am glad he made such good friends there.

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  16. I was looking for alligators first thing in the header, too. Waldo is cute. I enjoy watching turtles at ponds. In particular, I remember when my friend in CA visited, and we went to Calloway gardens and stood for quite a long while observing some. They were good at snapping.

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  17. Kim, I once visited a farm area in Georgia with my brother who was friends with the daughter of the owners. We went out to their lake, and we saw a snake. The young lady got a gun and shot it. It was impressive.

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  19. Found him! I was looking for alligators, too.

    We had an alligator in our local LA park lake a few years ago, a released “pet” who got too big. It was quite the show, all summer long the city hired gator wranglers with funny southern accents as people brought lawn chairs to watch the action.

    The gator was finally caught and is now in the LA Zoo. 🙂

    (He escaped briefly after he arrived at the zoo, though — somehow made his way out of his enclosure and through the parking lot before they caught him again.)

    Ann, great love story. 🙂 And now you have a fun summer ahead with school out for everyone. I remember those days of summer vacation, what a treat growing up. I never quite got over it when I realized it dawned on me, my first year working full time out of college, that I’d never get another one.

    But there are still perks — I’m looking forward to a 3-day weekend, although I have a lot to do today with at least 2 stories to write. But then it’s a little bit of freedom.

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  20. I am having brain drain in this heat. Also, since yesterday I have had an upset tummy so I had no coffee this a.m. My friend, Karen, is not in the hospital yet. She has another doctor appointment today, and I would not be surprised if she is not put in.

    I did get my new phone but have not opened the package yet. It came latte yesterday.

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  22. If anyone is up for the challenge, Splickety Magazine has their weekly Bolt writing prompt, and my story is one of three to vote for as best for the last challenge. I think you have to write one for this week in order to vote on last week’s.

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  25. Janice, should you get bit again by the fire ants. Crush up a plain old fashioned aspirin, make a paste with a little water and put it on the bite. It stops the itch and the pus bump. BG is allergic.

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  26. As you may have noticed my avatar is not next to my name. That is because I ran CCleaner on my computer and I cannot remember my WordPress Password for this site. Somehow I am also locked out the Yahoo account that is connected to this blog so I can’t recover my password. Last Friday I tried reset my Yahoo password and time after time was unsuccessful. Now I can’t remember the old one or the one I chose for a new one.
    Someone’s email was hacked at work so we were all advised to change out passwords. I have my work email and Guy’s work email attached on my computer and on my phone so I just spent the last hour changing those and getting them set back up.
    They recommend you know use your dogs name and that you have a capital letter, a symbol, a number and the alphabet in your password. Now they are changing the length from 8 characters to 10. They also recommend that you not use the same password for different accounts. CALGON TAKE ME AWAY…. I am fast running out of passwords I can remember and have them written down somewhere which defeats the purpose of having something password protected.

    Anyone else having these problems and how do you choose a password?????

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  28. I choose lots of passwords, write them down, lose them, forget where I went where I needed a password…..so, I don’t go many places on here.

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  29. Boy, I really missed some things during my hiatus. How long have Misten and Cowboy been going together? I see from last night that the romance might be in danger.

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  30. Kim, I keep a spreadsheet with all my user names and passwords in it. The spreadsheet is password-protected so nobody else can get into it. That’s the one password I have to remember.

    There are also apps with names like “password vaults” that you can put on your smart phone to do the same kind of thing I do with the spreadsheet. I’ve never used one though.

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  31. As far as choosing passwords, I’ll typically take the first letter of each word of a phrase I can remember. But then I have to capitalize one of the letters and throw in some numbers and a punctuation characters somewhere. I just try to place the numbers and punctuation according to a consistent pattern that I’ll remember. For example, I might use fGsltw3.16 (based on John 3:16, “For God so loved the world…”.

    It is definitely a messy world. Some genius will make a lot of money when s/he comes up with a workable and secure way to streamline all of this.

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  32. When husband was very ill last year, eldest son came to help us put affairs in order. He got all of husband’s passwords together for me and put them in one of those vaults. He already has remote access to my computer. So when a question came up later, he accessed my computer to get the info for me but I had managed to erase the vault. He had to remake the whole thing. I asked them to just write it out on paper for me and I would put it in a secure spot, figuring if we ever really needed it, we would find it eventually.

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  33. Work passwords change every 6 to 8 weeks. You have to have numbers, letters, capital and lower case, and special characters. Have made my way through the children and their birth years. Will start on the grands next. I cannot remember a password not related to something real.

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  34. Misten and Cowboy — it’s been a long distance kind of thing.

    Meanwhile, I’m unnerved because my neighbor snapped several photos of a coyote right across the street this morning as they were packing up their van to head out for a week — I know coyotes stay in the canyon right there as I’ve heard them yipping, but my neighbor said this one was going up and down driveways, going to side and back gates, clearly looking for food, before slipping back into the canyon. All at around 7 a.m. when it was daylight.

    It explains why Annie was acting so spooked just a couple hours earlier; the bedroom window was open and she suddenly acted like she’d seen/smelled/heard a ghost, her head began to swivel … She vanished when it was time for me to leave for work, though, so I’m really nervous as I wasn’t able to lock her in. My real worry is they’ll get into the backyard … a guy I’ve been interviewing in another part of LA had his 2 border collies killed by coyotes that got into his enclosed yard. My fence is 6 feet tall but it’s a good sized perimeter, plenty of room to find a foothold somewhere to go either over or under. And my side gate I think is under 6 feet … Ugh. Maybe I should keep a raw chuck roast handy to divert and toss out to them. Wait, that’s a really bad idea.

    I might as well be living in Idaho.

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  36. I was watching a coyote this morning. It was not looking for pets to eat. It was catching mice. But, should it ever choose, our driveway is unfenced so they could walk right in at any time. A wide range of meals: sheep, goat, chicken, turkey, pig, guinea fowl, rabbits, dogs….

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  37. It did have a California coat on, of course. I think I could just barely see the little tag with the letters:this fur causes cancer in California. Like our hoses and sprayers all say.

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  38. Donna – Last night you said that Cowboy’s roast-devouring behavior may spell the end of his relationship with Misten, as she is so refined.

    Well, Heidi lacks any refinement, that I can see, so maybe she & Cowboy would make a good couple.

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  39. What do you think of this? A post from Facebook starts off by my friend writing, “You can be a cultural conservative (G.K. Chesterton was a conservative Catholic writer) and still be a libertarian.” And then there is this quote from Chesterton:

    “The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damned fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”

    Of course, we could quibble & say that a Christian does not own himself, Jesus does. But other than that, do you agree or disagree with this? What if he had added taking drugs into it? How free do we want to be?

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  40. I’ve had the same password at the school for 13 years, and it is all lower case letters. In fact, it’s the same password the previous Spanish teacher used.

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  43. My name’s not Chuck, but I feel like a roast today in this heat. I just closed the windows in hopes it will stay cooler inside than out.

    Wondering if there is a coyote plague based on political choices our nation continues to make? Have we gone the way of bad dogs?

    It’s been tough not having anything sweet and cold to drink while my tummy has not been good in this hot weather. Cold ginger ale, sprite, or cola would be delightful. But I dare not. Plain water has to be my drink.

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  46. Sweet post, Ann. 🙂

    Hello, everybody. I’ve been reading on here, just not posting much lately. Lots going on at home. Praying along with the requests here, though…

    Spring piano performance is done, and it sounds like there won’t be another one until fall, but things haven’t slowed down as much as I thought they would have.

    This week I began preparing (or mostly revisiting, rather) eight pieces I’m going to offer my high school piano student as choices for her Class A piano solo for next school year. I’ve already played seven of the eight at some time or another in the past, and the one I haven’t (a Brahms Ballade) I absolutely love and play it a lot now for the sheer joy of it. So I’m not starting from scratch with a bunch of unfamiliar music, which will simplify things a lot.

    I’m going to “perform” the pieces for my student at her last lesson in June. She was pretty happy to hear yesterday that, in that June lesson, which is the first one after she returns from a week and a half in Europe in mid to late June, *she* won’t have to play for *me*, but *I* will play for *her* the whole time! 🙂

    For any former or current piano players, or those who enjoy classical music, here is that Liszt of what I am working on. 😉

    J. S. Bach: French Suite No. 2 in C Minor (three movements: Sarabande; Air; Gigue)
    Haydn Sonata 37 (1st movement)
    Beethoven Bagatelle Op. 33, No. 1
    Chopin Nocturne Op. 37, No. 1
    Chopin Waltz Op. 69, No. 1
    Liszt Consolation S. 172:2
    Brahms Ballade (“Edward”) Op. 10, No. 1
    Bartok Rumanian Folk Dances (I’m going to play movements 1, 3, 5 and 6 for her, and if she picks this piece as a possibility for contest, she’ll choose two selections: either #1 Joc cu bata [Dance with Sticks] or #3 Pe loc [Stamping Dance] for the first selection; and either #5 Poarca Romaneasca [Rumanian Polka] or #6 Maruntel [Quick Dance] for the second selection.)

    I’m really enjoying playing through this music every day. Two hours go by very quickly (not hard to do — eight pieces (including multiple movements in the case of the Bach and the Bartok) times, say, 15 minutes each, and there are 2 hours right there!)

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  48. Since I was awake, God began giving me lots of good ideas.
    With only ten days of school left, I am going to move around where the kids are sitting and who they are next to. A couple are really struggling where they are and this will keep it interesting. Of course I have the wisdom to ask my aides opinion before I move anyone.

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  50. fifty seven.

    Upset tummy? I go out and pick some spearmint and make a cup of tea. Fixes the problem, generally, in minutes.

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  51. Warning about those passwords and other assorted issues. A local church’s server was hacked and encrypted, then the hackers made a ransom demand.

    Quite a nightmare. Church end up paying thousands of dollars to get their data back through a legitimate business since they refused to pay ransom.

    Why not use our names followed by the year you started here: AlanJacson2004, say?

    Spelling it wrong will confuse.

    I have been thinking of that vault system but the password protected Excel sounds good, too. Thanks.

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  52. Okay, MichelYoull2003 (or whenever). Why not? We could also substitute letters for number and visa-versa. Mine would be P3terEl2ooE.

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  53. Long, long day, I didn’t get out of the newsroom until well after 8 p.m., after I filed a very long and involved coyote story and then a shorter waterfront project story. I think my mind isn’t working anymore.

    But Annie was inside and alive, as were the dogs, when I got home, so very grateful!

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