45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-3-16”

  4. Good morning everyone. Today is the day!
    We had a great day yesterday around San Francisco. BG got to put her toes in the cold Pacific. The beach sand is so different from home. It feels powdery on your feet. What we have at home feels more like rubbing sugar on your skin.
    I have now have had an In-N-Out Burger. It was good! I really enjoyed the beet salad and crab cakes I had for dinner. Cold water seafood has a different taste. Shhh don’t tell anyone back home but it is almost “crisper”.

    I don’t know where Donna found the video but thank you for posting.

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  7. I’m up early, we had a doggie bathroom accident that I was too late to prevent (Tess tried getting me up before 5, by the time I got up at 5:20 it was a tad too late). So I’ve been cleaning a floor & have a throw rug that was hit as well (one of my favorites) in the washing machine w/extra hot water.

    Good morning, ugh.

    It hardly ever happens, I try to let the dogs out late before I go to bed and 95% of the time, no problem all night long.

    Ooh, the washer just made a sudden ka-THUMP, clunky noise. I really do have to replace those machines, but other stuff needs to get done first. I made calls yesterday to a couple contractors to get estimates on the outdoor work I need done on the house, no call backs yet but I called late in the day. The sooner I get this done the better. I was looking at my journal and saw the same list of “things to do” for the house that I made a YEAR ago. Sheesh.

    The harbor fog horns are moaning this morning and it’s still dark out. It’s trash morning also, so my day is starting early and unpleasantly.

    Kim, have a great time at the ranch, I suspect you’ll sleep well there & will come home with a few sore muscles! 🙂 Looks like it’ll be a blast — and a very special time with BG. Prayers for you both. Ride a horse for me.

    SF is a beautiful city, no?

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  8. Adorable chipmunk 🙂

    Someone also posted a video of some local coyote puppies playing together in a park in a neighboring city. I almost took back all the nasty things I’ve said about coyotes while I was watching that. 🙂 Of course, one of them had a big dead bird in its mouth, so the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree … On to cats next.

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  9. Some of those cartoons were pretty good.
    Chas had something else on his mind this morning. I went up to renew my driver’s license. I failed the eye exam. They gave me a form which I took to the ophthalmologist. She will complete it and I till try again.

    😦

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  10. Oh no, Chas. 😦 What does that mean (nighttime driving only would be out — or all driving)? Is there something the ophthalmologist can do to improve your chances on a 2nd try?

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  12. I have a prescription which she says may help some.
    But the DMV gave ,’me a form which the ophthalmologist will fill out when she comes in Monday. I will take it to DMV and they (hopefully) will give me a license.

    It’s real messy.

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  13. Sorry, Chas. 😦 Even though you were expecting it, it can’t be fun.

    Donna, the dogs make it through the night 95% of the time? So one or both have an accident about every 20 days? Or, if each makes it 95% of the time, on average every 10 days? Not fun at all! :-O

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  15. We heard the police caught the person they were chasing last night.

    Our lane is a dead-end, there’s no way to go to escape the police, except into the woods. But they found him in someone’s yard.

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  16. Cheryl, happens every 3? (Probably less) months only, if that. I don’t do math. Dogs are usually very reliable and (as she tried to do this morning) Tess will wake me up

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  17. California adventures in driving. 😉

    We are having lunch now and will continue on. I have to say this area is as beautiful as you heard it was. It’s not the green grass of hone but it is beautiful

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  20. Has anyone heard of having professional pregnancy portraits done? A friend’s daughter, who is pregnant with twins, had them done, along with photos of her parents. (Sadly, the father is not going to be in the picture – pun not intended.)

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  22. I’ve never heard of professional pregnancy portraits.

    Regarding that person on the loose in your neighborhood, Karen — scary. Glad the person was caught.

    We’re on a dead-end road in a very wooded area. There were some riff-raff around here a few years ago, trespassing on people’s property, looking for wild ginseng. There’s apparently some connection with meth operations. They did get caught on a neighbor’s land a couple weeks later.

    In other news, hubby was talking to another neighbor today, and she said her husband suspects there’s a bear around here. Not sure what he’s observed in the way of clues, but black bear sightings in our region were up quite a bit about a year ago, compared to previous years around the same time. Their population may be growing in this area.

    Two or three weeks ago, our bird feeder tray, which my husband had built several years ago and secured to PVC pipe in our backyard, hung nearly upside down. We sometimes get raccoons up in there in the evening, cleaning out whatever birdseed wasn’t eaten earlier in the day, but it was surprising to see the birdfeeder looking as it did one morning when I looked out the kitchen window. I wondered whether a raccoon could knock it so askew.

    Hubby righted the tray and fastened it back in place as tightly as he could, but the next morning it was flipped again. We’ve just left it like that now and have stopped putting out seed.

    I wonder now if it was a bear out there, and not simply a raccoon? The wood tray has gotten somewhat warped and weakened over time, though, so maybe it’s no longer sturdy enough to support a raccoon’s weight, but it sure looks a lot more dinged up lately than it did even a few months ago (before the bears wake up), so I have to wonder… (Raccoons never beat it up that badly before.)

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  28. Yes I have heard of the pregnancy photos. Ugh. I would rater have professional photos of the baby.

    We are almost there. Stopped to buy a few things. What did we do before cell phones with GPS?

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  29. Fourth Arrow reported at supper tonight that after she’d gone to bed last night she’d heard through her open bedroom window some activity in the woods behind our outdoor wood boiler. At first she thought it was probably a deer, but then she heard a growl and the sound of running — heavier sounding than would be expected — followed by a high-pitched warning sound from another animal, a deer, she’s thinking.

    Yikes. I like living in the country, but a bear at the edge of our woods, maybe on our lawn — well, that I could do without.

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  30. There have been a few bear sightings in town this spring. We don’t keep anything out that would attract them.

    Last night I woke up around 2:00, after Lee had already gone to work, & thought about the young man the police were looking for, not knowing yet that he’d been found. I remembered that Emily had done some yard work yesterday, & wondered if she’d needed to be in the basement, & if so, did she lock the door, which she often forgets to do. I thought about how someone on the run could have tried to hide in our basement. (I read years ago that burglars often try basement doors because they’re usually out of view of neighbors, like ours.)

    Then I thought, well, at least the upstairs door from the basement is locked. I went back to sleep peacefully.

    Today I saw that that upstairs door was not locked after all. Good thing I didn’t realize that last night! (BTW, the basement door was locked.)

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  31. 6 Arrows, if she heard a heavy sound of running, I don’t think she heard a bear. They’re known to be amazingly quiet, not loud–at least when they walk, but I think also when they run. It could possible have been something running away from a bear, with the bear, of course, being the one growling. Or a wolf?

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  32. Thanks for the information, Cheryl. It’s possible it could have been a wolf, although I don’t know if one’s ever been spotted around here.

    Do coyotes growl? We get those around here from time to time.

    A cougar was rumored to have been in the vicinity many years ago. A former neighbor who lived just across the county highway from our road thought he saw one one time.

    All sorts of wildlife around here!

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  33. I guess the neighbor I mentioned above saw bear excrement by his bird feeder, my husband reported tonight.

    We are where the wild things are. 🙂

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  35. Husband (park warden) says that bears can choose to run heavily and make noise or not depending on the reason they’re running. Wolves and cougars tend to ghost through the woods. Moose run heavily through the woods as well.

    I would leave the bird feeder empty for now and double check that there is no garbage or other attractants such as compost or other food source around.

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  36. Long day at work…my feet hurt!
    Chas, when I didn’t pass my vision test for my license, I was given a form to take to my eye doctor….she filled it out and I took it back to the DMV….I didn’t have to take another eye test at the DMV because my doc “certified” me….it was on her license as a doctor that I am permitted to drive during the day….I am in hopes that this will be the same for you…..

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  37. I had a lovely day with Kim and BG yesterday–though the traffic was beyond unbelievable and I demonstrated, quite effectively, to BG what a “California driver” is.

    Yikes! We’re lucky to be alive.

    And I am still tired from the driving! LOL

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  40. Is this where I’m supposed to post the warning “don’t drive with Donna, because she gets lost”?

    Or runs over people trying to get the 100th post? I still shiver when I see a Jeep.

    And speaking of bears, we sometimes have one at our house in the morning, but I have a cup of coffee and he goes away.

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  41. And road rage- Did anyone else see the video of the guy in a pickup in Oklahoma running someone off the road because the other driver was going too slow? Scary.

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  44. I agree. I usually know where I’m going and am going in the general direction. It was kind of fun in New Zealand to say, I think this road will take us there and quickly turn. I do have a very good sense of direction and love to navigate. However, I am not a city driver.

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  45. Lost: As in a comment last night:

    You know where you are, and you know where you’re going, but you don’t know how to get there.
    You know where you are, but you don’t know where you’re going. You know it isn’t here.
    You know where you’re going, but the place you are in isn’t the place you’re supposed to be. And you don’t know what that is.
    You don’t know where you are. You don’t know how you got here. And you don’t know where you want to be. You know it isn’t here.

    That’s the state of our nation right now. We need a leader who knows what the destination is and is good at celestial navigation.

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