😦 Ihad a leak in the water line from the meter to my house.
It was running up my water bill.
It will take five years to recover the cost of repair. But it had to be done.
KIm, in answer to Mr. P on the prayer thread, I’m putting it here because my response doesn’t rightly belong on a prayer thread.
I can understand getting upset watching CNN. You can get the other side by watching FoxNews. They claim to be “fair and balanced”, but are more conservative.
And their women are really something.
🙂 Mrs. B’s flights the other day went smoothly
😦 Mrs B isn’t here
🙂 Mrs B will be back
This trip is for the memorial service next week for Mrs B’s “second mom” Jan. I think I mentioned it when Jan died on Christmas Day. She and her husband had adopted Mrs B when she moved to the Boston area in the 70’s, and Mrs B became a big sister to their four teenage & college age children and has remained lifelong friends with them. Beside the memorial service she’ll visit other friends and the church and seminary she attended there.
The monster Nor’easter Wednesday and Thursday fizzled out by the time it hit Boston, so there was no delay of her flight and there was little or no new snow left on the ground by the time she got there Thursday noon.
🙂 A relatively good report on my granddaughter who has DS.
🙂 Fun visits with grandchildren recently. So fun to watch our grandson in “Oliver.” I did have to laugh when one of the younger cousins complained that there was mainly just songs in the musical. Nevertheless, all four younger cousins watched intently.
🙂 I am grateful for those who work with these students. We went to the musical “The Little Mermaid” at a local high school yesterday. It was a lot of fun. These things are so confidence building for so many young people and helps to mix up their social lives a bit. Both of these musicals were well done.
Maybe Fox would make him angrier? 🙂 Personally, I’ve given them all up for the time being. We need a good, serious neutral national news source to the extent such a thing is possible. CNN did a decent job for many years, but apparently now is leaning more leftward with more commentary, which I’m sorry to hear.
🙂 More progress on putting this house back together again after nearly 2 years of mayhem and living upside down in a scary, sometimes surreal wonderland. Chas, I feel your pain. Sounds like my clay sewer pipe that was broken in several places along the 180-foot-long driveway on a hill. Tears shed over that one which took many weeks and $$$ to fix.
😦 Work continues to be a challenge with so few people left.
🙂 The hedge fund that owns and is strip-mining our papers coast-to-coast for profit is getting a bit of public pushback at long last. The Denver Post is actively soliciting a new owner and the rest of us should be doing the same. This is NOT about the, quote, “liberal media” getting its comeuppance (please). It’s about hundreds of communities losing their local news source, the folks who cover their city councils and their school boards, and countless other issues that affect people where they live. We are the 2nd largest chain of newspapers in the country and our newsrooms are being gutted.
🙂 Rain! At last. It’ll be the last of it for a long stretch now for us, but at least we had a little burst of it at the tail end of winter, beginning of spring after a long, dry stretch (yet again).
🙂 I think my wildflowers are sprouting. But some weeds, too. If the weeds have colorful blooms on them, I’m fine with them, too, though.
Donna, I thought about you WRT that project.
The major increased cost was that specifications had changed and the old system couldn’t be repaired, it had to be replaced. Everything was OK with the old system, but once you disturb it, it has to be brought up to specifications.
My sewer line was all replaced, by necessity really. The only section not replaced — because a plumber was able to rotor through OK — was the section that went from under the sidewalk out into the street halfway to hook up to the city’s main line (that is my financial responsibility also). Since it seemed to go through, we called it quits at the sidewalk and I’m just hoping all is well until after I leave here someday!
A lot of wildflowers are considered to be weeds. They come from the natural plantings, which are weeds in many eyes. But I like them. My neighbors, the farmers, maybe not so much so I try to be careful with them but they do bring in a lot of interesting birds.
I like them, too, mumsee. My neighbors are more of the “cultivated” very-neat bordered garden types where no weed dares to tread, so I can’t get too carried away in the front.
But the back is all mine and the dogs’. Since my backyard is down to mostly dirt only now after all the ruckus with the new fence, I have pretty much a blank slate but am not motivated currently to plan an actual landscape. So I thought I’d start with wildflowers just to break up the “all dirt” look, see what comes up, what it looks like, then work from there to do things more in sections, leave some, take away others, fill in here or there, and create pathways, etc. (although the animals will do that on their own for me).
I do find wildflowers appealing by their very “easy” nature — they’re native to the area and don’t require a lot of coddling.
Chas, did you call the water company and tell them you had a leak? At least in Nashville, they wouldn’t charge you the high bill if the cause was a leak. (Which is a good thing, since I had two bills for several hundred dollars each–it had been fixed long before I received the second bill, but the cost per day before it was fixed was much higher on that second bill than the first, so clearly the problem was getting worse.)
Cheryl, they called. My bill to Greensboro was a little over $100 They noticed before I did.
I figured it was normal because other things, trash pickup, sewage are included. in the bill and I didn’t look closely.
They send a bill. I send a check.
😦 It’s 10:41 in Greensboro and I’m still up (or up again). Bob called about eight and his wife is sick. He wants me to teach again tomorrow.
Of course, I said OK. That gave me about an hour to work on a lesson before bedtime.
But. I’m all worked up and can’t sleep.
But it is giving me some more time to think about the lesson.
I just took a Melatonin and am sitting here waiting for it to take effect.
It is snowing outside. We may not even have SS tomorrow. I certainly won’t go to early service in these conditions. But if they have SS, I will be there if passable/
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😊 the bluebirds have returned to the forest…and they bring an ooh and an ahh every time I see them…they truly are a beauty of His Hand
😊 I love wild flowers and they are plentiful on this forest floor…some the deer like to eat…some survive…
Robins do not all migrate, so it is possible to see them in snow (particularly in trees with berries on them). And in Phoenix we saw robins in fall, not spring. So on both counts, I only sort of associate robins with spring, since I have seen them in all seasons in the midwest and have seen them only in fall and winter in the southwest.
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😦 Ihad a leak in the water line from the meter to my house.
It was running up my water bill.
It will take five years to recover the cost of repair. But it had to be done.
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KIm, in answer to Mr. P on the prayer thread, I’m putting it here because my response doesn’t rightly belong on a prayer thread.
I can understand getting upset watching CNN. You can get the other side by watching FoxNews. They claim to be “fair and balanced”, but are more conservative.
And their women are really something.
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🙂 Mrs. B’s flights the other day went smoothly
😦 Mrs B isn’t here
🙂 Mrs B will be back
This trip is for the memorial service next week for Mrs B’s “second mom” Jan. I think I mentioned it when Jan died on Christmas Day. She and her husband had adopted Mrs B when she moved to the Boston area in the 70’s, and Mrs B became a big sister to their four teenage & college age children and has remained lifelong friends with them. Beside the memorial service she’ll visit other friends and the church and seminary she attended there.
The monster Nor’easter Wednesday and Thursday fizzled out by the time it hit Boston, so there was no delay of her flight and there was little or no new snow left on the ground by the time she got there Thursday noon.
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🙂 A relatively good report on my granddaughter who has DS.
🙂 Fun visits with grandchildren recently. So fun to watch our grandson in “Oliver.” I did have to laugh when one of the younger cousins complained that there was mainly just songs in the musical. Nevertheless, all four younger cousins watched intently.
🙂 I am grateful for those who work with these students. We went to the musical “The Little Mermaid” at a local high school yesterday. It was a lot of fun. These things are so confidence building for so many young people and helps to mix up their social lives a bit. Both of these musicals were well done.
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🙂 Sunshine and WARMTH
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Maybe Fox would make him angrier? 🙂 Personally, I’ve given them all up for the time being. We need a good, serious neutral national news source to the extent such a thing is possible. CNN did a decent job for many years, but apparently now is leaning more leftward with more commentary, which I’m sorry to hear.
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🙂 More progress on putting this house back together again after nearly 2 years of mayhem and living upside down in a scary, sometimes surreal wonderland. Chas, I feel your pain. Sounds like my clay sewer pipe that was broken in several places along the 180-foot-long driveway on a hill. Tears shed over that one which took many weeks and $$$ to fix.
😦 Work continues to be a challenge with so few people left.
🙂 The hedge fund that owns and is strip-mining our papers coast-to-coast for profit is getting a bit of public pushback at long last. The Denver Post is actively soliciting a new owner and the rest of us should be doing the same. This is NOT about the, quote, “liberal media” getting its comeuppance (please). It’s about hundreds of communities losing their local news source, the folks who cover their city councils and their school boards, and countless other issues that affect people where they live. We are the 2nd largest chain of newspapers in the country and our newsrooms are being gutted.
🙂 Rain! At last. It’ll be the last of it for a long stretch now for us, but at least we had a little burst of it at the tail end of winter, beginning of spring after a long, dry stretch (yet again).
🙂 I think my wildflowers are sprouting. But some weeds, too. If the weeds have colorful blooms on them, I’m fine with them, too, though.
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😦 The sun is being fickle.
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Donna, I thought about you WRT that project.
The major increased cost was that specifications had changed and the old system couldn’t be repaired, it had to be replaced. Everything was OK with the old system, but once you disturb it, it has to be brought up to specifications.
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My sewer line was all replaced, by necessity really. The only section not replaced — because a plumber was able to rotor through OK — was the section that went from under the sidewalk out into the street halfway to hook up to the city’s main line (that is my financial responsibility also). Since it seemed to go through, we called it quits at the sidewalk and I’m just hoping all is well until after I leave here someday!
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A lot of wildflowers are considered to be weeds. They come from the natural plantings, which are weeds in many eyes. But I like them. My neighbors, the farmers, maybe not so much so I try to be careful with them but they do bring in a lot of interesting birds.
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I like them, too, mumsee. My neighbors are more of the “cultivated” very-neat bordered garden types where no weed dares to tread, so I can’t get too carried away in the front.
But the back is all mine and the dogs’. Since my backyard is down to mostly dirt only now after all the ruckus with the new fence, I have pretty much a blank slate but am not motivated currently to plan an actual landscape. So I thought I’d start with wildflowers just to break up the “all dirt” look, see what comes up, what it looks like, then work from there to do things more in sections, leave some, take away others, fill in here or there, and create pathways, etc. (although the animals will do that on their own for me).
I do find wildflowers appealing by their very “easy” nature — they’re native to the area and don’t require a lot of coddling.
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And they are good for the local bees.
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Some of the packets said good for butterflies, I’m sure for bees, too.
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And for you as wild fires tend to be happy.
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Chas, did you call the water company and tell them you had a leak? At least in Nashville, they wouldn’t charge you the high bill if the cause was a leak. (Which is a good thing, since I had two bills for several hundred dollars each–it had been fixed long before I received the second bill, but the cost per day before it was fixed was much higher on that second bill than the first, so clearly the problem was getting worse.)
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Cheryl, they called. My bill to Greensboro was a little over $100 They noticed before I did.
I figured it was normal because other things, trash pickup, sewage are included. in the bill and I didn’t look closely.
They send a bill. I send a check.
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😦 It’s 10:41 in Greensboro and I’m still up (or up again). Bob called about eight and his wife is sick. He wants me to teach again tomorrow.
Of course, I said OK. That gave me about an hour to work on a lesson before bedtime.
But. I’m all worked up and can’t sleep.
But it is giving me some more time to think about the lesson.
I just took a Melatonin and am sitting here waiting for it to take effect.
It is snowing outside. We may not even have SS tomorrow. I certainly won’t go to early service in these conditions. But if they have SS, I will be there if passable/
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Sing hymns in your head
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😊 the bluebirds have returned to the forest…and they bring an ooh and an ahh every time I see them…they truly are a beauty of His Hand
😊 I love wild flowers and they are plentiful on this forest floor…some the deer like to eat…some survive…
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I still remember the thrill of the adults when the first robins of the season were spotted in Iowa 🙂
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We get that same thrill here, too.
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Robins do not all migrate, so it is possible to see them in snow (particularly in trees with berries on them). And in Phoenix we saw robins in fall, not spring. So on both counts, I only sort of associate robins with spring, since I have seen them in all seasons in the midwest and have seen them only in fall and winter in the southwest.
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