69 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-16-17”

  3. Good morning. Miguel is in surgery. I expect it will take at least 3 or 4 hrs. His color is much better today, and he had an appetite last night. His daughter and I are going to get breakfast. I hope everyone has a great day.

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  4. KBells husband posted a photo of the two of them. I had forgotten that they were what we in Alabama call a “mixed marriage”. He is dressed head to toe in Auburn gear, holding a tiger and she is dressed in full Crimson Tide gear holding an elephant. A friend is teasing him that with her in heaven now, Auburn can’t win.

    I will be taking my Florida exam this afternoon at 4. Please, if you remember, pray that I pass it this time.

    RKessler, I am praying for you and your husband. I trust he is in good hands.

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  7. Good morning.

    When I went to Bible study last night, I found out that our church vote for merger has been delayed until Sept. 10th. It had been set for the end of August. I look forward to getting that done so we can get along one way or another.

    I am really enjoying the ladies in my Bible study group. These are mostly women a little younger than I am. Most of my other friends have been in the older seniors group at church. It seems my destiny to always be the oldest or the youngest in groups whether in grammar/high school, as a preschool teacher, as a Sunday School teacher, as a WMU member, and now as a Bible study group member. I suppose it is an advantage to be the one who can fit into two different age groups.

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  11. Janice, I have had that oldest/youngest syndrome also. When my girls were growing up, I was the youngest parent. Now, with my son, I am the oldest by far. Maybe on this end of it, I have gained a little wisdom.

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  12. Perhaps I should start this post out with an oink, oink. I am abut to become a blog hog.

    My youngest daughter lives about 1.45 hrs from Odessa. She and her family have come over twice. She and her husband have been married for 6 years, and no babies. This spring, they took classes and signed up for the foster to adopt program. Her husband was hoping for some older children. 2 weeks ago, they got a call for 2 boys, brothers, age 12 and 13. What a pleasure to get to meet them! Amy knows she has challenges ahead, as it has been the women in their life that have let them down. If they ever come to mind, please pray for them.

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  13. This morning I made scrambled eggs with some salmon added. I have been making one fried egg each morning for Art and me. When I was young I insisted my mother break the egg yolk and fry my eggs completely done. Art taught me to appreciate the fried eggs slightly runny to better mix the egg whit and yolk. How do you like you eggs prepared?

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  14. As yall know, our oldest granddaughter was adopted by a wonderful family. We are a big part of each other’s lives. They have adoped 4 children all together. 4 days ago, the got 2 little boys through the foster care program. The elder is 1 year old and the baby they brought home from the NICU. What a blessing! We pray that they will be able to keep them.

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  16. RKessler, my mom used to get offended at the assumption she was our grandmother. But she had the youngest three of us when she was 42-45 (and Dad 8 years older), and the last of my older brothers was out of the house by the time I was 10. So yeah, a 55-year-old woman (possibly with a 63-year-old man present, as in church for example) with a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old, and a 13-year-old, is likely to be assumed to be the grandmother, and it isn’t rudeness. Especially when we were growing up, the baby boom was over, and women simply were not having children in their forties (as women often do attempt today).

    Fast forward thirty years, and my sister assumed she would have the same fertility as our mother. But she was unable to maintain any pregnancies in her forties. She was once in a group of women and they asked for the oldest mother. She didn’t think it would be her, but she said “thirty-nine” and then, thinking there would be others who gave birth at 39 or older, added “and a half.” To her surprise, she was the oldest. But I’m friends with a woman who gave birth to her one and only child a few days after her 44th birthday. (She was hoping he’d be born on her birthday, 10/10/10, but he held out a couple extra days.)

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  19. I don’t like eggs very many ways. Boiled or poached are fine. I eat fried eggs only with hash, and then the yolk had better be well cooked. I haven’t eaten scrambled eggs (except as part of fried rice) since I was 20 and moved out of my mother’s house and was no longer required to eat eggs. If I’m going to eat scrambled eggs, they won’t be moist. But any time I am a houseguest overnight, I tell my hostess in the evening that I don’t eat eggs, to make sure she doesn’t get blind-sided and offended in the morning by making something I won’t eat. I have some foods I can choke down to be polite; eggs and onions aren’t among them.

    I was twice at a $25/plate breakfast (I didn’t pay myself), with wet scrambled eggs the main course, and I didn’t touch them.

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  20. Mumsee, I have a relative who is older than his father-in-law. He was once showing childhood photos to his in-laws, and a photo of himself at about eight wearing a suit and tie was one of the photos, and his father-in-law started laughing at the oddness that he himself was not yet born when that photo was taken.

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  24. We have eggs a lot and everybody likes them. Children make eggs for breakfast, usually fried or scrambled. We make eggs for dinner, sometimes fried or scrambled, often in omelette or souffle form. Sometimes in fried rice. Sometimes in chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes hard boiled, sometimes soft boiled, sometimes poached.

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  27. I used to like runny-yoke ‘fried’ eggs but that was a long time ago, now I eat eggs hard-scrambled or hard-boiled only (or in an omelet, love omelets). Hard-boiled are good for the dogs as well although I’ve given them scrambled before and they like that, too; dogs, of course, will eat just about anything anyway. Sometimes I’ll hard boil several eggs at a time and keep them refrigerated, giving the dogs an extra treat in their bowls from time to time. Now, since Tess needs to gain a few pounds, maybe I’ll do that more often.

    French toast sounds good, it’s just nothing I make for myself.

    I remember being assigned to do a story on “older” moms — this was in the early 1980s and 35 was considered the “old” marker for pregnancies (due to the increase in risk factors at that point) by the doctors and midwives I interviewed. I remember being excited when I found and interviewed a pregnant woman who actually had some gray in her hair (premature gray, of course, but she was maybe 37 or 38, if I recall). Perfect for our photos! I thought.

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  28. Cheryl- nice picture of the prickly pear flower. We took lots of photos of desert flowers, some of which I’ll be sending to AJ. I already sent some barrel cactus pictures Mrs. L took at Kartchner Caverns.

    Also, my brother’s 2nd wife is some 20 years his junior. She is just 4 years older than his daughter, and her mother is the same age as he.

    Now the old song “I’m My Own Grandpa” is laying in my head!

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  30. Miguel just got out of surgery and into recovery. Surgery went well. Knee joint came together well. He still has some ‘communated'(sp) pieces along the shafts of the femur that he said should heal in time, as he has strong bones.

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  31. Glad to hear that, RKessler.

    Would you mind sharing your first name with us? Or a nickname you would like to go by? (I realize you may not want to, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask. 🙂 )

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  32. “rk,” good news. Now to rest and heal, hopefully no more surgeries (or no more at least for some time).

    I’m cleaning out the food cabinets & pantry this morning, everything’s everywhere, but found quite a few items past their expiration dates so those are now in the trash outside for the coyotes to find. Now to wipe down all the shelves & reorganize.

    I had half a balogne sandwich w/mustard for breakfast, the perks of living alone and being off work for a week 🙂

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  33. French toast is actually quite easy to make; the trick is just leaving it in the pan long enough to get it done. I don’t think about making it and my husband is rarely interested in eating it, but it’s good and it’s easy and it’s about my only excuse to put jam on anything. (I love raspberry preserves, orange marmalade, and several other kinds, but since I don’t eat pancakes and rarely eat toast, I rarely eat it.)

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  34. Donna, you know from past posts that Elvera doesn’t waste anything.
    She throws unwanted foods out “for the critters”.
    I tell her to never throw any meat out. We don’t want to attract any meat eating critters.

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  40. My husband loves breakfast and would eat it morning, noon and night. He is our breakfast maker since he retired, because he is the one who likes a bigger breakfast. Some days it is just oatmeal or an egg sandwich for him. Other days he will make us bacon or sausage and eggs. We like them over medium. White firm, but the yolk soft. This morning he made us his sourdough pancakes with eggs and bacon. He makes a whole batch and then freezes them between wax paper for future breakfasts. Today we had them with a berry mix, homemade chokecherry syrup and whip cream. I am quite spoiled for breakfast. Toast and fruit is my usual when he is not cooking.

    We always buy quite a few ripe, delicious peaches this time of year for a fund raiser. Last year I made peach sorbet with a simple syrup base using an ice cream machine. This year I tried a recipe that uses peeled peaches, frozen and then blended with a can of sweetened condensed milk. No ice cream maker needed. It is very good and an easy way to extend the life of those peaches.

    Another favorite, which we seldom make now, but used to do for supper or brunch is a large Dutch oven pancake with an apple filling. It is really more like dessert than breakfast. I think that is true of many of the breakfasts I see advertised. Moderation is key, I think.

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  42. Phos, If I came on a bit hard on the news post, I’m sorry.
    But the idols Moses was concerned about were evil when they were created and were meant to be worshipped.
    That is not true of the statues.
    That’s all I meant to say. .

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  43. Chas, a slight correction, the verse I quote was Hezekiah destroying the bronze serpent that Moses created, the one that people had to look to in order to be cured of the snake bites, which Hezekiah destroyed because people had started worshipping it. You didn’t offend me personally, but I realized reading your words and the comments that followed that you are danger of being blindsided. My last comment on the News Thread asks the question that has been going through my mind since yesterday.

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  44. Rk….it is so good to hear that Miguel is on the road to recovery…we continue to hold you in prayer!
    I do like eggs…..but I cannot eat them anywhere but home. When I have eaten them at a restaurant I get so ill. I prepare them at home and I am fine. I get fresh eggs from a friend and they are absolutely the best. My favorite way is scrambled….nice and dry with just a bit of toasty crispness on the edges….I love having breakfast for dinner…especially when it is cold outside…I know…I am weird….

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  46. I think that my last comment there will the last for a bit on that thread. It is getting too personal for me. In my teen years, my youngest sibling and I were very interested in the history surrounding WWII. She read even more books than I on the subject, and we had long discussions about what we read. The Holocaust especially interested us, as we had two relatives who were Jewish Holocaust survivors who later became Christians, one a pastor, the other an evangelist. One of those relatives wrote a small booklet about how he came to Christ while being tortured, after being arrested the day after Kristalnacht and imprisoned in Buchenwald. Youngest sibling and I discussed all aspects surrounding the Nazis evil. How it started out small, using propaganda to train people to regard the Jews as subhuman, and slowly grew to the Final Solution.
    There is a sad sequel to that reminiscence. I can no longer discuss that subject with Youngest Sibling. The young man I have mentioned who indulges in conspiracy theories, including the Holocaust is married to her. It is something that has arisen since they were married. Now you know why it is too personal for me.

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  47. Interesting survey:

    Most Americans Admit They Are Sinners
    AUGUST 16, 2017 BY GENE VEITH

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2017/08/most-americans-admit-they-are-sinners/

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    … I wonder how much of this belief in one’s own personal sin is really just a version of the humility signalling excuse that “nobody is perfect.” Is this true conviction of sin, as in the devastating complacency-destroying hammer of the Law? Are people living in guilt, shame, and fear of God’s eternal judgment? I somehow don’t think so.

    But the study is evidence that the moral nerves are still firing at some level. And that not only moral categories are still alive, but so is the religiously-tinged notion of “sin.”
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  48. The insult of being a “Nazi” has been hurled — misused and overused — often against political opponents in the past few decades, probably since the 1970s, which I think is part of the problem. When conservatives are not infrequently labeled that by some on the left, it starts to lose its meaning and (historical) horror, perhaps.

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  49. Back to the cupboards. … Picked up a couple organization bins to use which is helping as I’m putting things back.

    And another couple of big pots and pans (duplicates) from the top shelf will go off to the Salvation Army pile.

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  55. I am a licensed Florida Broker.
    This is an expansion team with Keller Williams. The main office is in Charlotte, but they have locations in Bellevue, WA, CA, Dallas, Upstate NY and now Florida and the Alabama Gulf Coast. I will be managing the team on the Gulf Coast.
    We finally came to agreement on Salary at the Market Center this afternoon.
    I have an idea for you on an article for your local real estate. I began teaching a class today on Shift and the market shift. I would need to find you are local KW agent (don’t you have a friend) to talk to you about it.

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  56. Woohoo! Yay.

    They’re actually talking about scrambling up and re-doing the reporter “beats” and one could be real estate … Not sure I’m the one for it, though. 🙂

    Housing prices are booming out here but nothing lasts forever. My friend, Real Estate Guy, has been doing open houses on $1+ million houses lately, but no buyers yet …

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  57. He was formerly KW but yes, I do still have a friend / acquaintance with them.

    Real Estate Guy is now staff “consultant” with Engel & Völkers South Bay

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  60. I posted something on the News Thread about California. I was surprised. California has more hate groups than any other state according to the NBC Nightly News/

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  62. Kim, yes, I saw that we were doing a story on that today — thinking largely in the inland areas, where some of our sister papers are. It hadn’t posted yet, last I looked.

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  63. The ‘TA-MA-LE’ guy just walked by pushing his cart, there’s another story I really need to do. There apparently are now 2 Tamale Guys in competition with each other.

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  65. Ah, there is my entry for getting the Indiana state bird switched from the cardinal to the great blue heron. I was heading out for a walk one afternoon and this big fellow circled overhead multiple times, allowing me to get quite a few shots. I couldn’t hear its vocalization, but clearly it is calling. It wasn’t, of course, as close as it looks here, but it was fairly low and in a circle not all that far away from me. (I’d have been able to get photos even with a camera without a zoom lens, in other words, though the zoom allows more detail.) The lighting wasn’t right to get every-feather detail, but how often do you see a bird’s tongue?

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  68. Well Miss Kim I will say I teared up reading your post….I am so incredibly thankful for the answered prayers concerning your job! Continued prayers for you as you forge ahead…
    And thanks for the link to Kathy’s obituary…..she will be missed by so many….❤️

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