51 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-21-17”

  4. Good morning Ann and Aj.
    Some of you were having a serious discussion yesterday and I didn’t want to interrupt with trivia. Relative trivia. But I have a question.

    We did something for the first time yesterday.
    I took Elvera to have her nails clipped. Fingers and toes.
    It’s getting so that I can’t see well enough to do a good job. Not good for close work.
    Anyhow.
    We went into “Super Nails”. I told the lady what I wanted. She said OK.
    While waiting, I noticed that all of her customers were female. And some were there a long time. Some were still there when we left.

    Question? What were they doing?
    Could I get them to do my toenails? I’m certain that they would. Just curious.
    They charged $18 for fingers and toes. About what I pay for a haircut.

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  5. Ann, at least the first two letters in Anon are the same as the first two in your name. Good clue!

    Good morning to Chas, Ann, and others.

    The diagnosis on Art’s back is stenosis. He has to have an MRI to determine treatment or need for surgery. I hope the knee MRI and back MRI can happen together, but probably will require two different times. The knee takes about twenty minutes and is not full body. The back is full body and takes about forty minutes.

    On the way home from the back appointment, Art’s lens popped out of his recently purchased glasses. So I get to take care of that today. Always something on top of something.

    My brother passed his midterm on the tax preparer’s test through the local franchise office where he is doing his classes. Really thankful for that. He is pretty slow since he has never worked in this line before being sixty years old. He will get faster with practice. I know he really likes the challenge of sales. Pure tax work is so seasonal that he can do both if he desires.

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  7. Janice: sorry about Art’s medical issues. My mom (80) had to have spinal surgery due to stenosis a couple of years ago. 6 months after that, she fell and broke her hip–so had to have a hip replacement done. She’s still on a walker….

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  9. Good Morning! Snow is lightly falling and should be just a dusting. Sis in law and her husband arrived yesterday, they will be here for a week….it beingThanksgiving time and all. They are from Florida….snow was not on their agenda, however they are in Colorado and that’s just what you get sometimes…in November 😃 We have the heat turned up for their comfort…..

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  12. Janice, sorry to hear about the medical things ahead — I’ve only had one MRI and discovered I actually do have some sort of claustrophobia.

    Chas, I don’t see why you couldn’t get your nails clipped there. I have never personally used one of those places, I’m not the manicure/pedicure type, so I don’t know why people would be there for long periods of time.

    We’re thinking it won’t be snowing here for Thanksgiving. No sweaters, sledding or boots. Only sandals and tank tops and A/C turned up in the cars. We’re supposed to get record-breaking heat for that day.

    My dental cleaning is at 4 today but I am going to have to call and postpone it, too much to do at work on what is a short holiday week. We all need to find and do extra stories. I’m doing a story today on Lime Bikes. Does anyone have them in their area? It’s a new bike sharing company that dumps hundreds of green bicycles in cities for people to use (at $1 per half hour, it operates and unlocks via a phone app). They arrived in our community on Nov. 7 and are everywhere, lined up on street corners. They’re trying to get people out of their cars. I like the bike sharing idea, but it’s not overly practical in LA other than for short hops around town.

    My story yesterday was about a local who has been charged with leaving a phone death threat for Maxine Waters. People.

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  13. Chas, they will gladly do your nails as well. Those women were getting pedicures (about 45 minutes) and manicures (depending on the type of nail they have applied could take up to an hour). I love a pedicure. If they would let me sit there half a day with warm water swirling around my feet I could read a book and be happy. I get a plain pedicure and manicure. It costs about $35. I really like the full spa treatment pedicure where they scrub, massage my legs and everything but I can’t let them do it. My legs itch for days afterward.

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  14. Interesting discussion yesterday. I haven’t read all the comments (some I’ve scanned only), but they seem to highlight how difficult it is for us sometimes — legalism vs. antinomianism, while the truth, of course, is not in either of those. Still, as human beings we can have that tendency to flee to one or other other at times or on particular issues.

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  15. I wonder why your legs itch after that, Kim? Dryness or some product they use?

    I have never gotten a manicure or pedicure. That wasn’t common years ago. My mom is taken to one of those to now to get nails cut. She never went until the last year or so.

    My BIL goes to a podiatrist to cut his. He has his paid for by the taxpayer, however. I am not sure what the charge is for it.

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  16. Re my comment @10:38 — not that anyone was doing that … It’s not my intent to re-start all of it here. I did smile, however, at the mental picture of Cheryl chasing a man through a parking lot. (Just kidding … )

    Kathaleena, I’m guessing a podiatrist would charge more — and I know diabetics need to be watchful.

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  17. According to the dermatologist I have “inflammation of the hair follicle”. My legs itch most of the time. They get dry and itch. I put non scented lotion on them and they get too moist and they itch. I have lived with it since 1989. I have scars from scratching until they bleed and I have pigmentation from the steroid cream the doctor prescribed for years. Most of the time I can ignore it. I can’t use body scrubs or loofahs. Nothing scented. I have found that goat’s milk soap works best for me.

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  18. Sounds uncomfortable, Kim. I’ve had itchy legs on rare occasions and it can just drive you crazy.

    Lately I’m using Cetaphil & Eucerin (skin calming) body wash only now in the shower.

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  19. I’m now on ‘standby’ with the dentist (their only actual openings aren’t until April). And still on ‘standby’ with the window people. I really hope those windows can be finished before Christmas, I feel like I can’t start moving things back into place until that’s completely done.

    Meanwhile, I still have to get the leak under the kitchen sink fixed and the lower side of the house on the north side re-stuccoed post-foundation work. And figure out paint colors though painting may not happen for a while now. I guess that’s enough to keep me busy.

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  20. Mumsee, I answered your caution (at length) on yesterday’s thread, about the danger of swinging the other way from legalism. I respect the caution and your respect in delivering it, but with people in my life from all different levels of legalism, I have much experience in explaining their perspectives to one another in a respectful way even when I don’t actually agree with the position I’m explaining. Anyway, not to clog up today’s thread (as Donna already did 🙂 ), I wrote my answer there.

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  24. Go ahead, blame the media Cheryl. 🙂

    You can almost ‘smell’ the smoke in those photos. What an ordeal for so many. Did the missing couple from your church ever turn up, Michelle? I can’t remember if there was a resolution to that or not.

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  25. Thanx for the explanation Kim. I have heard of pedicure, but the “cure” part made me think something was wrong. Men don’t do that, I presume.

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  27. From Veith:

    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2017/11/the-church-in-the-wilderness/#gGUtT5M2FwSogvJs.99

    the church in the wilderness

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    … I shouldn’t be surprised or disillusioned about the history and present reality of the Church. Of course there is going to be unfaithfulness, immorality, idolatry, and the rest of it. As the Book of Hebrews makes clear, what happened to the followers of Moses can happen to us. We too are wandering in a wilderness. We too will be tempted to complain, go back, conform, or switch to gods of our own devising. The history of the Church shows God’s people often falling into apostasy and unfaithfulness of one kind or another. The present reality of the Church can also be frustrating for someone looking for perfection or expecting the fulfillment of their ideals.

    Even as we complain about the Church, we often overlook our own personal unfaithfulness, immorality, idolatry. (In Bible reading, instead of identifying with the “good guys”–when there are any–try identifying with the “bad guys,” thus letting the Law expose your sin.) …

    … God remains faithful to the wanderers–giving them the daily bread of manna apart from their own work, refreshing them with water from the rock, providing them the sacrifice of the lamb for their transgressions–and though he judges their transgressions and cuts off those without faith, He creates a mighty miraculous work with His people. Their very weakness magnifies His work. Just as the Church’s weaknesses magnify what God does in and through the Church.
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  30. I’ve not heard of Lime Bikes, but there is a similar system set up recently in Detroit. They’ve explained that not only can people use the bikes to go short distances, but they can use them to get between where they are and other public transportation that might not be in walking distance. It could be helpful for people who don’t have a car or who don’t want the hassle of finding a parking space.

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  32. I think Chicago has the bikes now, too, and I’m pretty sure it was Chattanooga where we saw them. Not that same company, though. It seems like a good idea. Me, I haven’t been on a bike in half my life, but given a city it felt safe to bike in, I think I would. (Lots of people bike along our road, often in groups of 10 or 12, but it wouldn’t feel safe to me. We have hills, which affect how well cars can see bikers, and cars travel at up to 50 mph or so, and of course there is no bike lane, but just a country road that in many spots doesn’t even have lines down the middle.)

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  33. It looks like our new town doesn’t have those bike rentals, either, though I can rent a bike from a shop for $25/day (which I’m highly unlikely to do).

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  34. The missing elderly couple from our church were found. No cell phone and off they went to stay with a friend in San Francisco, not taking any information like phone numbers. After four or five days (and making the national news), she called a friend in Willits who blew up.

    “Where have you been? The world is looking for you!”

    They missed all the excitement, but are now home safe.

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  36. Michelle, that still happens at times.
    It wouldn’t happen to this elderly couple because we have “find friends” on our cell phones.
    But it could have happened to Elvera’s parents. None of this new stuff affected them.
    “What is all the fuss about”.
    But I think I told you about the young couple in Hendersonville. They went hiking and were missing three days. Everyone was looking for them.
    They were found living it up in Asheville.
    Have you seen intense worry turn to intense anger in an instant?
    A policy in our house was “Somebody knows where you are all the time.” If Chuck changed destinations when out, he called to tell (not ask, as he matured) us.

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  37. We are having a tough time getting that through to nineteen year old. Eighteen has it. Twenty has it. Nineteen is stuck. But she is starting to try with a lot of pressure from little brother.

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  39. Janice,

    I checked out OK at the doc. The blood tests showed no colon cancer or prostate issues. Bad cholesterol was good, the good cholesterol was a little low. Sugar was fine. Blood pressure was nice and low. The only issue was what feels like a small cyst on my Thyroid the doc noticed. So they’re gonna do a test to look at it, but the doc says it’s usually not a big deal and fairly common. So I’ll get it checked.

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  40. Charlotte & South Bend are among the cities the lime bikes now are in — company started less than a year ago and has pretty much taken off.

    These are “smart bikes,” they operate by cell phone app & cost $1 per 30 minutes to ride (no limit that I’m aware of). Very popular in college towns and on campuses, of course.

    GPS connected so at any given time you can see “where” they all are via the app that you download.

    But yes, they are just one of many upstart companies hopping onto the bike-share craze

    https://thenewtropic.com/limebike-key-biscayne/

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  41. That sounds like a really good checkup overall, AJ! Thankful.

    Cheryl, I love to snack on walnuts and a little dark chocolate each day. Those are good fats. I am fixing a snack bag each day with those along with cheerios for Art as part of his diet. I think I do not do as well as some folks do with butter fat. I stick mostly with light olive oil even though I love butter on a few things.

    Going to get Art’s eyeglasses repaired turned into a blessing. I went a little extra distance to where he got the glasses. There I found a lot of beautiful camellias and other plants to photograph. I realized they must have all the lovely plants to remind people of what they would miss without their vision.

    I was able to get a free eyeglass holder which looks like leather with the Fossil brand name. Then two ladies, in passing, mentioned Sprouts so I found out it was only a few blocks away (about two miles from our home). I then made my first trip to Sprouts. It is a great place for my needs.

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  43. We have such a small family group to get together for Thanksgiving that we don’t get to experience the drama of larger families. I am getting to experience stress and drama vicariously through Karen as her whole family tries to get together. I am thankful that I can help bring her peace.

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  44. I’ve never experienced drama at any family meals. What a blessing. My immediate family is small but we always went to large extended family gatherings – no problems, just good fun and food.

    My sister has Christmas with over 70 people – no problems. What makes the difference?

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  47. Good reports today —

    1. Fourth Arrow has improved with the albuterol, and does not need (in the opinion of the PA whom she saw today) the very expensive steroidal treatment. She also experiences no wheezing or coughing with her asthma, for which we are grateful.

    2. Fifth and Sixth Arrows’ dentist appointments: no cavities!

    3. You remember the family with the seven-year-old son who will be coming for the meet-and-greet and free mini-lesson on Monday? The boy’s five-year-old brother is now also a prospective student to start in January. 🙂 Oh, fun times!

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  48. Chas asks, “Have you seen intense worry turn to intense anger in an instant?”

    My cousin’s son sure did. They live in Napa, California, & on the day after the fires had broken out, he could not be found. Hours later, he pulled into the driveway, being met by his mom as he did. He explained that he was at a friend’s house (& I think he didn’t have his phone with him). His mom let him have it. She said he has never seen her so angry. I can only imagine.

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  49. I haven’t read this yet, but came across it a little while ago. . .

    “The Dead White Man Who Could Fix Our Race Problem: Oswald Chambers
    As a black woman wrestling with racism in America, I lean on a Scottish theologian’s four key insights.”

    http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2017/november/dead-white-man-fix-our-race-problem-oswald-chambers.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=9474712&utm_content=549576739&utm_campaign=email

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  50. This is Patricia Raybon’s talk at the event I attended at Wheaton. It was really interesting and was my favorite talk.

    My husband and I ate lunch with Pat and her husband, enjoying them a great deal. We’ve since exchanged books and I bought a few more.

    Well worth hearing.

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  51. A two year old boy named AJ who was born without kidneys will have an operation today, Wed. a.m., to receive a kidney. Prayers, please, if anyone sees this. He is at Egleston Children’s Hospital on the Emory campus.

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