43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-30-17”

  1. Chas, I was looking for a song by Kathryn Grayson for you and I found this clip. It is from an old movie called The Vanishing Virginian. The song is just in the last couple of minutes, but the rest of the clip reminds me of better days.

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  2. HAPPY BIRTHDYA CHERYL
    Aj’s Cheryl, that is.

    if there’s something you need to do in November, you need to get to it.

    Those “Always” undies and “Assurance” pads save lots of trouble.

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  4. Thanks Ricky.
    That is a nice clip if others of you are interested.
    The message is good it shows Katherine, not in a glamour situation, just a pretty girl.
    As I said, next to Anita Carter, I liked her.

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  5. Cute munchkin in that photo

    Happy Birthday to (AJ’s) Cheryl!

    I have a lot to do today after dropping the Jeep off for service. I’m off tomorrow so I need to find and write 2 stories. I have found one and have been working on another all week, but it’s not going to be ready. So I have to find another 2nd story.

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  9. Still working on getting Art’s refills since both prescriptions expired. My trip to Kroger was not in vain though. I always find something to bring home from a grocery store.

    I made spaghetti last night and used the Dreamfields angel hair pasta suggested by Michelle. It is good pasta. The angel hair is a tad bit thicker than the other I have used. Either works fine for texture.

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  11. I have to get things together for the WMU group to pack bags or boxes for the VA nursing home residents. There are almost sixty living there. I have had so many other things happening that I have not even begun on that big project. Most are men and a few are ladies.

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  13. Two days ago it was going to be above 60 and dry, with the rest of the week rainy. So even though there isn’t much color left outside, I decided to go get some exercise, and see what creatures I could find, by going to our state park. It’s maybe a 40-minute drive from me.

    I got there and it was closed to allow hunters to cull the deer.

    The forecast had changed a bit, though, and they were no longer predicting rain for yesterday and it ended up getting up to about 50. I still wanted fresh air and exercise, and it had been more than three months since I had been to the state park, so I elected to go back.

    I took the walk that goes by the nest tree of the pileated woodpeckers, and I saw them flying about. I for sure saw a mated pair, but I also saw at least one and maybe two additional birds. (When you see them several different times it’s hard to know how many you are seeing.) It is quite likely I saw the nestlings all grown up. At the pond, I didn’t see the muskrats or ducks I hoped to see, just one tiny little turtle.

    However, on first entering the trail, I saw a red squirrel (the species pictured in the header), and later I saw fox squirrels and chipmunks. I even saw a tiny fleeing snake.

    I wasn’t able to get a photo of the red squirrel as I was entering the trail. But on my return, it or another was in just about the same spot, eating. There were plenty of twigs between me and the critter, but I kept taking a photo or two and then moving a little farther up the trail (where there was less in the way) and taking another one or two. Normally this is a shy species, but maybe it was just too hungry and sleepy to run off. When the trail ended, I stepped off on a patch of grass in front of the little one, and still it didn’t move, and I got this shot and a couple more and then left to let it eat in peace.

    Notice the purple berries all around. I have no idea if they are edible, but berries of all colors are about the only color this time of year, that and moss and lichen.

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  14. Morning! It is a coffee meet up morning for me and I have already downed two cups here at home…I’m gonna be jazzed today!! Yesterday was my second Zumba class….the realization that I am old has set in…but we had the real instructor yesterday who did a warm up before class and I am not sore today! I shall press forward and do this!
    Today is the 100th anniversary of my dear Father in law’s birth…how blessed am I that the Lord saw fit to bring his influence into my life. He prayed for me and encouraged me in the Lord….how I loved the man who walked faithfully in the ways of our God….and who was the Father of my husband….
    Happy Birthday dear Cheryl….as you now know you share the day with a very special person in my life….it is good indeed! ♥️

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  17. Oh, a completely irrelevant comment to anything said so far: Last week we watched a rerun of the dog show (which I personally found more bother than it was worth, they moved through everything so fast they didn’t even show most of the breeds except in the line-up–rough collie being one they didn’t show). During it, they kept saying this dog was a two-year-old male, that one a four-year-old female.

    It occurred to me that the current silliness of people speaking of having a specific “gender assigned at birth,” which may or may not be their self-chosen one later, is weird and unique. If you are going to breed dogs or any other animal, you need to be able to tell the sexes apart. With most mammals it isn’t difficult. But you can’t do such nonsense as “That looks like a male lion, but is it really?” when you need a mate for your female. Now, the male might not be fertile or the female might rebuff him. But it’s a basic, common-sense reality, this one is male and this female (and to have a pair, you need one of each). Any zoo keeper or dog breeder has this basic reality down.

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  20. The Boy has a cell phone for communication with his dad. (But hates to talk to his dad on the phone anyway, so it doesn’t get much use.)

    Last night before bed, he texted to Hubby’s old number, “I love you Papa.” Nightingale gently explained to him that someone else may have that number now, so he shouldn’t do that. That made him sad. The two of them snuggled as he went to bed, both of them crying, missing Hubby.

    That morning, The Boy had been making scrambled eggs for himself & for me, & was talking to Nightingale about how she taught him to do that, then added that Papa taught him, too. Then he said he remembered coming down on Sunday mornings & sitting next to Papa. I overheard this conversation from the living room, & cried.

    As I’ve said previously, I grieve The Boy losing his Papa almost more than (or maybe even more than) my losing my Hubby. One of our most fervent prayers was that Hubby would live long enough to see The Boy grow up, to teach him & model to him the things he wanted him to know, to be the godly grandfather (& father figure) that The Boy needs. It is the answer of “No” to that prayer that I find most perplexing.

    And yet, at those times of wondering why God let this happen, why God let The Boy lose his only godly male influence, that I choose to trust that God knows what He is doing, that He loves The Boy even more than we do, & has a plan in all of this. And I pray that He would bring us “a Boaz”, a godly Christian man as a husband for my daughter, & a step-father for “my boy”. (Hubby & I privately referred to him as “our boy”. 🙂 )

    Of course, I realize that the story may get an update, with the Boaz being for me. 😀 (That’s me laughing.)

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  21. Nightingale has today off, & is spending the day in the kitchen, baking lots of goodies for the school Christmas-themed bake sale, with some to be left over for us, too. She loves to bake, & is quite talented at it, & at decorating her baked goods. Baking & cooking are “therapy” to her, not a chore. (Cleaning up on the other hand. . . Which is why I do a lot of that after she starts it.)

    For one decoration for some cupcakes she’s making, she melted white chocolate, put it in a baggie with a decorating tip, & made snowflakes on parchment paper. So pretty!

    The Christmas tree is up, the lights are on, & I have Christmas CDs playing (Perry Como right now) while she bakes. It is a pleasant day.

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  26. I should be trying to finish an assignment for Monday, but I’m bone tired. It will do no good to make myself ill before my last clinical day and I’ve still got time. After all the delay in the strike, it feels as if the semester is suddenly slamming closed. Last classes tomorrow for two courses. Everything will be over (always excepting the six lost clinical days) by next week, with only exams to write before Christmas.

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  29. Michelle, that is all there is, and one of those six days was actually supposed to be completed in the training labs. They must be completed, however, under the direct supervision of an instructor – the reasons have to do with insurance, etc. Even though I am a licensed nurse, for the purposes of my schooling, I must operate under the limitations of a nursing student.

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  30. Argh. Ongoing problems fixing that sink, apparently, and my Jeep needs a new radiator. Booo

    It won’t be ready until Friday night, so having to get a lift home from a co-worker (to get home to a still-busted kitchen sink?)

    I think in this case it would have been better to go with a regular plumber

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  32. There seems to be white dust floating through my vision. Oh, it’s just the annulat reminder that it’s December. I think AJ is getting ahead of himself, though, since it is still November for a few hours. And as Michelle noted, it’s Thursday.

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  35. Yesterday morning I saw a bull moose on the road on my way to work and today I saw a bull elk! The park did some prescribed burning last spring in the area and the larger ungulates have moved right back in! Exciting to see, but need to be very aware and watchful when driving. Oh, and there were lynx tracks on the road just north of our house – they make such unique tracks in the snow.

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  36. Rumor has it that husband hit a buck with his truck but I have not heard from him so don’t know. One of the children said she had pictures of the truck after the event.

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  37. Does anyone have the address for the medical mission that uses empty prescription bottles? I had the website saved on my old computer that crashed. I think someone mentioned that Ajisuun does this also. Please send the link to me at rkessler65@gmail.com.

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  39. Yep, he called. He made it to Minnesota but hit the deer in South Dakota. There is a grill guard and the company told him to just bring the truck back (after he picks up the next load) and they will fix it in their shop.

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  42. Good news, the kitchen leak is fixed.

    The Jeep is still broken. And I am feeling tired and broke.

    But I haven’t hit a deer and I have tomorrow off, busy though it will be.

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