31 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-28-18”

  1. It’s 10 pm yesterday here. I’m going to bed and praying. Hopefully I will have no news in the morning. Just thankful now.

    And yes, this is my webmistress daughter-in-law whom many of you met on the launch tea,.

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  2. The mourning dove is looking around to make sure all those cats from other headers are long gone. (Actually it was sitting on the deck right outside my window here, fluffed up for grooming.)

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  3. Good early morning from Atlanta. Just checking in on my blog family. I thought I might make a mad dash for First, but alas I was too late or was I just foiled by the time zones?

    Miss Bosley is my purring neck scarf right now. She is making the most of her limited time with me. Soon it will be time to head back to the office. 2nd Good night.

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  8. Good Ha Ha, Jo!
    My purring neck scarf is back. Art left a bit ago. I have a few more minutes at home. The first client is scheduled at ten. Most of the folders I get at this point are the fat and thick ones with a lot of papers to put through the scanner. I have to repair and doctor papers so they will not jam up the scanner. All staples must be removed and folded papers are a no-no. Thin and small papers and register receipts must be taped onto larger pieces of paper. The tape dispenser is my best friend. I take pride in being the best non-jam-up scan feeder in the office.

    On Friday evening the power went out and the road was blocked by many police cars and emergency vehicles about five blocks from the office. We had to reroute our drive home. There had been a shooting with a fatality. A relative of the victim trying to get to the scene hit a pole that took the power down.

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  9. It has been cold here lately, but is warming back up to the seventies today. I feel like I have been cheating with my Instagram photos for my haiku since I have been taking photos of flowers at a plant nursery near the office. That takes much less time to get good photos. I miss having more time to be out and about hunting good subjects.

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  12. Just in from outside, ready for the children to start their up and at ’ems. A beautiful day, overcast, must be around 32 with a sheen of ice on everything. Makes for a slippery chore time but very pleasant. A pheasant greeted me by the sheep and another back by the baby chicks.

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  13. I’ve been out to inspect the color swatches on my garage, applied yesterday with sample paints.

    I love the SW (Sherwin Williams) Brandywine, the main exterior color, it’s the perfect shade for my Spanish/mission/southwest house. It’s really warm and pretty — and very southwest looking. The “interactive cream” trim seems a little dark to me so I’ve sent an email to the historic house blog guy (who originally recommended the color scheme) to ask what the original (lighter off-white) trim color he’d given me was called. He’d originally given me the lighter color but changed it to the cream when i requested we soften/tone down the trim color a bit. Now I’m not so sure and would like to at least compare the lighter/a bit brighter (but not stark white) trim he originally recommended.

    I’m interviewing the developer for the ‘new’ waterfront project today at 11 by phone, I already have a long page of questions scribbled out to ask him. Hope he’s got some time to spend.

    Carol was transferred to a rehab nursing home Monday night for what will be 10 more days of IVs but patients have no phones in their rooms (and no calling out privileges) so there’s no longer an easy way to contact her. I can call the nurse’s station in the daytime and they’ll see if they can bring her out to talk which I’ll try to do sometime today.

    This should motivate her to get her phone back in service, if nothing else, right? It was a bad month to decide to skip paying the phone bill, apparently. But if she can figure out a way to get the money to me up front, I’ll try to help with the logistics of getting it back up for her. We’ll see if she brings it up when we talk and if there’s a way to do that. Otherwise, I’ll let it go.

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  14. Annie Oakley is parked on top of one of the floor heating vents, her usual morning spot. She loves feeling the warm air blowing up on her tummy. Life is hard in LA.

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  16. We could start a discussion about how Christians should respond to criminal activity but last time we did that, the men stayed back out of the way.

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  17. I walked out to the driveway this morning to find a flat tire. I used one of those hand-held air guns I had to fill it up, took forever, but it was enough to get me to work in time for my interview. Now I need to take it somewhere to check on what is probably a slow leak (it’s been looking low in recent days but this morning it had flattened out, yikes).

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  19. DJ – I hate hearing about dogs being stolen, especially if they are pit bulls or pit bull types. (There are a lot of dogs, such as the American Bulldog, that look like pit bulls, but aren’t.) I’m always afraid the pitties are being stolen by people who put on dog fights. Some of the dogs are used simply as “bait” to train the fighting dogs. So sad.

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  20. My Facebook friends can see me tagged in Nightingale’s photos of Janie standing in our bay window (in the dining room downstairs). She loves to be up there in the sunshine.

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  21. We have a raccoon 25 or 30 feet up in one of our cottonwoods, and it has been there for several hours, sleeping. Occasionally it changes position a bit, and I just saw its face for the first time, but it really is just nestled into a crotch of the tree.

    How does one sleep comfortably in the crotch of a tree? And how do you make sure you won’t fall out?

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  22. Coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake after a heavy lunch of mac & cheese, green beans, Cole slaw, and carrot/raisin salad with a corn muffin. Our phone rings like an alarm clock without a snooze button to keep me half startled from a pretend nap. Perfume is wafting through the offices from someone who loves to share. The hum of voices discussing tax documentation papers also floats on the air. At times the sound of laughter can be heard. Already it is getting to be the beginning of the filing of extensions. That feels like the first leaves dropping in the fall. Not too long from now it will be like the silence of fresh snow on a winter’s night as the phone stops ringing and the door stops opening and shutting. It’s such a short, compressed, and frenzied season as it has been for years. But next year, with the change in laws, it will mean fewer people will need this service. It will be interesting to see what happens.

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  24. Raccoon must be very tired. Busy night.

    Carol’s requested a move to a facility closer to me and the social worker is working on it. More boundaries to figure out for me if that happens. But she’d also be closer to the Lutheran church where her membership is so perhaps I can connect with some of them to help provide fellowship and visits for her.

    Good news is her phone should go back on when she gets her next direct deposit check at the end of this week, I didn’t know she’d set it up to do that.

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  25. New tires for me today, mine were 5 years old and tread was worn so figured I’d just bite the bullet. Lion Sport brand, low price, very good reviews (although they’re made in china — can you put tires made in china on an all-american Jeep?)

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  26. lots of texts and pictures going back and forth with my family. I have never had this kind of contact before and am so very grateful. Several of the grands keep sending messages, especially one extrovert. Of course there are very sweet pictures of a little boy with his sister. Shhh, don’t tell, it is not public yet. and still not name.

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  28. Yesterday we had our first dinner with Chickadee since she quit childsitting with me. It had been over a week, maybe even close to two weeks, since she’d been here, and The Boy was over the moon happy to have his Auntie here. She was a good sport, playing catch with him in the yard and playing Memory on the living room floor.

    Nightingale decided this was as good a time as any to have the Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner (along with potatoes and carrots) that we usually have sometime around St. Patrick’s Day, but hadn’t had yet. We all enjoyed it very much. (She’s going to make a soup from the leftovers.)

    This morning, Nightingale and I were doing some clean up, and rearranging of decorations, in my dining room, in anticipation of next (not this) Saturday’s “Easter Brunch” with those two families I mentioned the other day.

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  29. Strike is scheduled for Monday if they don’t come to an agreement in tomorrow’s negotiations session. Union leaders say they’re hoping we can avert a strike, but it’s up to the administration, and in the meantime they’ve been asking for people to be strike captains and on strike committee. Though today I overheard a faculty member assuring a staff member that it wouldn’t happen and she was fully expecting to be at work Monday. I don’t feel so confident they’ll work things out tomorrow.

    I started looking at job openings at other colleges in the area, or any other IT jobs I’d be qualified for. I did find one opening at another college that sounded close enough to what I do that I’d have a chance at it. But no closer to where I live than where I am now. (Actually, maybe a few miles closer, but no shorter a commute because there’d be more in-city driving to get to the campus.) I found that when I thought about whether I really wanted to apply, I didn’t really. I don’t like the fact that where I am there is such conflict between faculty and administration (I’m not faculty but “professional/technical” staff are in the same union with the faculty).

    But I like the people I work with on a daily basis, and I’m good at what I do. Today I was able to provide info on three different requests where people didn’t know what information it was possible to get out in a report or data extract, as well as working on two other projects where I’m the only one who really understands the system well. (The woman who works for me is learning it but she prefers to leave the more challenging projects to me, which I don’t mind because I don’t like the more tedious projects like developing a comprehensive test plan with detailed testing instructions for every aspect of the system, and she has a background in that kind of thing. And while I had initially hoped she might be interested in my job if I leave the college, she decided to work only part-time and is considering how soon to retire after her husband does this year.)

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  31. We have been cleaning up after the winds and weather of winter, getting the garden beds ready for the planting. We have not been able to do much in that line the past couple of years, it is nice to get back to it.

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