50 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-29-19”

  2. I knew that those were Nancy Jills woods. Such a beautiful area.
    It is pouring rain here. It is going to be a very interesting Sports Day tomorrow. Maybe a mud Olympics???

    Morning Chas.

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  3. Good morning! We had a big storm night before last. I had 2.25 inches in the rainguage. That is more than we got all together through out the summer.

    Happy anniversary, Nancy Jill.

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  4. AJ, what are the statistics, if you have them handy?
    How long? (i.e. when did we start? We are a spin-off from World Blog.)
    I still miss some who didn’t come over. Sawgunner and Make it Man immediately come to mind. But there are others.

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  7. Morning! Paul brought flowers to me yesterday when he came home from teaching. He has come along way in 44 years…yes..he forgot our first anniversary!! 😂
    Today we will attend the funeral of a friend…she was but 60 years old and she finished the race well. She comforted her family in her last days and we know full well she is resting in the care of our Lord.
    Rk we are needing some of that rain! It is getting a little crunchy around here!
    I miss the old friends around here too…does anyone keep up with NJlawyer? She was such a delight….

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  10. Happy Anniversary Nancyjill & Paul.

    I’m sorry for the loss of your friend.

    No rain, but that’s how summer is here. I heard the grandkids getting dropped off next door early this morning. My neighbor was telling me the kids are all now between 10 and 13 (2 families) and are getting into the ‘mouthy’ stage, which grandma doesn’t put up with.

    I have to go into the office today but later since I’m covering an early evening assignment (deadline for the story is 8 p.m.). I have to work on turning in my expenses for the past 2 months (mileage, parking, etc.) and then I have a 30-minute “catch up” meeting with the editor at 1 or 1:30 p.m. (it keeps getting changed, I’ll have to check the latest time). A couple of the other reporters will be there for those meetings, too, and I’m looking forward to seeing them, it’s been probably 6 months now that we’ve all been scattered and working from our own little “beat” corners of the world.

    Tess managed to nab a bit of the cat’s food again this morning. I put it up high, on the butcher block table in the mornings, so the cat can graze a few times before I bag and seal it and put it back into the refrigerator.

    Tess will leave it be until … she knows I’m preoccupied (taking a shower, out checking on the plants) and can go in for the attack. Border collies are so smart. If I’m in and about the house, going from room to room, or on the computer near the kitchen, she knows she’ll get busted. But as soon as the shower is on or I go out onto the front porch, she’s in for the raid. She can reach the food by standing on her hind legs. If I totally forget and leave it out when I leave in the car for someplace (and am “really” gone), she’ll haul the dishes down onto the floor and often out into the backyard.

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  12. Drill was fantastic. I may have spooked NJL away because I hunted her down once when we were all worried about her.
    I am working from home again today. I just don’t have it in me to go into the office. I have to be there tomorrow and starting next week I will have to be there at least 4 days a week. Who wants to work where ….I don’t know.

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  13. It was many years ago now. We were still living in the house trailer. A friend, Mel I think it was, came over to visit. It was on October and lots of people in my family have birthdays, including Mel, who wasn’t kin yet.
    Anyhow, conversation over, Mel gone and we two alone sitting on the couch.
    Elvera says<
    "Charlie, I'm not mad or anything, but today was my birthday."
    Can you believe I have never again forgotten her birthday?

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  14. I am happy to report that this was the first time since she got sick awhile back that Miss Bosley played with a toy. I had bought her a little felt fish, lime green and turquoise with a silver tail, that has a tiny pocket in which to put catnip (Cosmic Catnip). I bought it when I picked her up after boarding at the vet’s office (guilt trip purchase!!). She had never played with it. Finally this morning she was giving it a good workout on the kitchen floor where I could slide it and she could chase and slide and grab, roll into a ball and kick like cats enjoy doing when they are thrilling in play. This is so encouraging to me. My friend, Karen, said maybe Miss Bosely had Flea Fever. She said she use to hear about it a long time ago. Do you know anything about that illness, Donna?

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  15. No, I’ve never heard of flea fever — I guess it’s something that comes from being bitten too much, something getting into their bloodstream?

    Annie’s on security duty these days. The brazen, interloper neighbor cat came over the back fence again yesterday and she had to chase him out. He flies back over the (6 ft tall) fence pretty fast when she starts coming for him with all her yowling fighting noises.

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  16. Chas,

    Here’s the stats.

    Today is our 7th anniversary.

    We’ve had 7,001 posts

    We’ve made 210,205 comments

    We’ve had 2,107,288 page views

    We’ve had visitors from 116 countries.

    And 47,7742 spam comments which I deleted.

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  17. I knew it was either six or seven years, because we were married but hadn’t been married long. It really doesn’t seem like we had been married less than a year, but I was thinking that might have been the case.

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  18. Glad Miss Bosley and Chas are both on the mend. Now for mumsee …

    We had a lot of fireworks last night, there was a VIP reception onboard the Iowa for all the Fleet Week sponsors and other mucky mucks with money. It must have been quite the fireworks show on the harbor from the sounds of it, went on for a good 15 minutes at least.

    Tomorrow is the first official day, when the media & the other peasants will get to attend. 🙂

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  19. Happy anniversary Fellow Wanderers!

    Happy Anniversary Nancy and Paul.

    Ah, the fresh, clear air of the Western mountains. I miss it.

    Others who either haven’t been around a while or never came over: Anlir, Coyote Blue, Random Name.

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  20. Happy anniversary Nancy!

    Yes, I think of those former commenters.

    Thank you, AJ for maintaining the site. I am surprised at visits from so many different countries. What an amazing thing the computer and internet is! Imagine what else we will marvel at and that is nothing compared to heaven.

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  21. Along with Fleet Week + 1,000 sailors in town, Seal Team is filming here today:

    EXTERIOR SINGLE SHOT 1/4 LOAD GUNFIRE
    AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY WITH REMOTE CONTROL AIRCRAFT
    UAS
    (Gunfire activity 8/29- 8/30 7am – 2am)
    Sparks. Exterior Dialogue. Bravo Team arrives to Trawler by a Rhib Boat, climbs up ladder, and simulate cutting a hole into Trawler to gain entry. Sparklers to for fake welding. Atmosphere smoke. Condors for lighting will be placed at neighboring sites; one condor at US Water Taxi, another placed at B46. Condors,cranes, generator, picture vehicles and scissor lifts.

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  22. Even the port put out an advisory. So much going on.

    Port of Los Angeles PUBLIC NOTICE: The Outer Harbor area at the Port of Los Angeles has been approved as a filming location for a television production throughout the day and overnight, from Thursday, Aug. 29 to Friday, Aug. 30. During this film shoot on Port property, you may hear simulated gun shots, see drones, smell atmospheric smoke, and/or witness what appears to be law enforcement activity. While these planned activities may appear realistic, there is no cause for alarm—rest assured, it is all fictional. Los Angeles Port Police will be on site to monitor the production, which although on Port property, is completely unrelated to Los Angeles Fleet Week. The S.S. Lane Victory Merchant Marine Museum and Memorial will remain closed during filming and is scheduled to reopen on Saturday, Aug. 31 at 10 a.m.

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  23. Thanks AJ. That is impressive for such a small group. Especially visits from 116 countries.
    We have averaged almost exactly 100 posts a year.
    Thanks again AJ.
    I will use this opportunity to say that this blog and the people are important to me. More so than when we started. I was very active with church/ SS and Lions before we moved from H’ville. But I have been very constrained for the last couple of years.
    I’m sure AJ knows about the visits on which I don’t comment.
    You are important to me.

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  25. It is always wonderful to live here but right now is an especially good time. To see all those combines and grain trucks moving grain around the world. The first day husband drove, just the one farmer and crew moved about seven hundred thousand pounds of grain and nine hundred thousand the next. Rained out today. That is wheat. The same farmer also harvests peas and lentils and garbonzo beans and canola. That is a lot of food.

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  27. It is a nice little community we have here. You have been with me through some of my most difficult periods of life. There are times I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have you. I know the prayers get me through.
    I am lucky in that I have met quite a few of you in “real” life.

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  29. From part of an e-mail someone sent me. I know about this but had completely forgotten. It is something we should remember

    The “George Washington” Monument

    LAUS DEO

    One detail that is seldom mentioned is that in Washington, D.C. there can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument.

    With all the uproar about removing the Ten Commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time.
    On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., are displayed two words: Laus Deo.
    No one can see these words.

    In fact, most visitors to the monument are totally unaware they are even there and for that matter, probably couldn’t care less.
    These words have been there for many years; they are 555 feet, 5.125 inches high, perched atop the monument, facing skyward to the Father of our nation, overlooking the 69 square miles which comprise the District of Columbia, capital of the United States of America.

    Laus Deo! Two seemingly insignificant, unnoticed words.

    Out of sight and, one might think, out of mind, but very meaningfully placed at the highest point over what is the most powerful city in the most successful nation in the world.

    So, what do those two words, in Latin, composed of just four syllables and only seven letters, possibly mean?

    Very simply, they say ‘Praise be to God!’

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  31. Happy anniversary, Nancy Jill and Paul!

    Happy anniversary, all of you. I enjoy the journey with you.

    AJ, you wrote that you’ve deleted “47,7742 spam comments”. Is there an extra digit there? And is that included in the 210,000 comments we’ve made, or in addition?

    I think I’ve mentioned before that Drill is off world, so we might not see him for awhile. There was a headline several years ago, “NASA Sending Drill to Mars”.

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  33. 3 posts a day, 6 days a week, plus Rants & Raves on Saturday, give us 19 posts a week.

    19 posts a week, 52 weeks in a year, total 988 posts. Add about a dozen Pigskin Picks posts and you have 1000 posts per year.

    So 7000 posts these 7 years. Thank you, AJ, for keeping it going!

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  35. Happy Anniversary, NancyJill and your Mr. 🙂

    And Happy Anniversary to my fellow wandering viewers. Seven years! And the secret thread has been going more than half of that time. 6,927 of the posts are over there.

    Many thanks, AJ, for all your work in maintaining our community hangout. Here’s to seven more! Or seven times seven more. Yeah, let’s go for that! 🙂

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  36. A new Space Agency has been established.
    I am in favor of this. We, without proper security are very vulnerable in space.
    Think about it: You can’t even bu a good map anymore. GPS has ruined the industry.
    And airplanes don’t use navigators now. We have satellites to tell us where we are.
    That is only part of the vulnerability from space.
    This is important to our survival as a nation.

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  37. Thanks again for the comments about attending a wedding solo, and answering my other questions about that. (And I see new comments came in after I’d gone to bed last night, too.)

    I’ve decided that whatever hubby decides to do, I’ll go to the wedding regardless. It was good to know others have done that.

    It’s still two days until the wedding, and it’s possible hubby’s views on attending might change. He vacillates between different choices sometimes. I’ll just see what he feels like doing when the day rolls around.

    Interesting that the wedding will be held at the same place where 4th Arrow just got her senior pictures taken. A nice place for both indoor and outdoor events.

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  38. And I’ll stay for the dinner, too, if I go separately. Hubby doesn’t eat a big quantity of food, anyway, and it wouldn’t be hard for me to eat both his portion and mine. 😉

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  39. Congratulations to NancyJill & husband.

    I have a car! It is by no means new, but it is in good condition for its age. Now my parents can have their car back. I have a run of 12 hour days coming up, so getting the car now was the right time.

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  43. Oh Phos it does seem that life is taking off for you…growing and stretching in amazing ways with the Lord leading you along…good to hear about your new to you wheels!
    We attended the funeral of our friend and it was so very sweet. John Eldredge spoke and led the service as he is close friends with our friends. The words spoken all pointed to Christ and our relationship with Him….and that God is good. A memorable service it was.
    We then went out to dinner to observe 44 years together…now Paul is taking a nap 😊 thank you for the well wishes for us…it has been an adventure and the older we get the sweeter it is!

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  44. Happy anniversary, NancyJill and Mr.

    Happy anniversary to all of you here on the blog! I am so thankful for all of you.

    Congratulations on the new car, Roscuro! I’m glad you have reliable transportation.

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  45. AJ, I would never have guessed there was so much spam! That works out to about 18.5% of all comments. Thank you for all the housekeeping you do around here.

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  46. Congratulations with the car, Roscuro. May it serve you well.

    NancyJill, sounds like the two of you had a nice anniversary dinner!

    And you have my condolences on the loss of your friend.

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