I’ve taken my shower and a’m making some coffee to try to wake up. It’s still dark outside. But I have to hit the road in about an hour or so to meet up with someone at one of the homeless encampments.
Funny how 8 a.m. seems to be a “normal” time for most folks to be up, out and working. Just not for me these days. Working, yes, but not the “up and the out” part so much. That requires presentable clothing and even makeup and actually driving somewhere. I much prefer late morning and afternoon assignments.
Good morning! I see the really early bird on the header. Beautiful!
This morning I have been busy trying to get my list together for next week’s fundraiser dinner. These things should not be so complicated but they quickly become so. I called one person I had not heard from expecting a decline from her and her husband only to find out that she wondered if her sister and sister’s husband could attend, too.
I’ve been asked to lead our little critique group Saturday in the absence of the president, and I have also been asked to lead our ladies’ Bible study next week. I have to get busy planning those new to me (from the leader’s seat) programs.
Cold fog here this morning as well. But no snow on the ground.
Husband is trying to figure out who is supposed to pay for the repairs on his truck. Our insurance or the cow owner. That part of Idaho is not open range. But not all farmers are loaded with money and may not even have insurance. We do not want to do someone in just because his cow got out.
It is twenty seven here, but supposed to get up into the fifties tomorrow and little below freezing for the coming weeks. Perhaps just a cool fall? Winter will be along though and that is a good thing because it is followed by spring and summer and fall again. Nice to be able to count on it because God said it would be.
Turkey was responsible 100 years ago, during the First World War, for the brutal Armenian genocide, which saw millions of Armenian and Assyrians killed. The Kurds were, at the end of that Great War, promised in the closing treaties by the Allies, their own homeland. That promise came to nothing, as did so many promises by the European and North American Allies to those of the Middle East, but the Kurds have never forgotten the promise, and have only hardened in determination since they experienced genocidal violence from both the Turkish and the Iraqi regimes. The Kurds formed the thin wall of defense that stopped the advance of ISIS in northern Iraq, and provided shelter to the Assyrian Christians and Yazidis who fled behind their lines. And now they are all left like sheep to the slaughter.
Good Afternoon Everyone. It’s been busy, but I haven’t accomplished much. I thought I was writing an offer on one of my listings but the bank says no. They will have to buy something else. I am learning a lot about mobile homes.
DJ, it seems you asked me the other day about staining the fence. If you haven’t already decided make it blend with the house. I think you will like it better in the long run.
I am in a desperate search for someone to fix my front doors and paint them. There are too many panes of glass for me to do it. If it were solid I could do it…or at least a could, as in past tense. I haven’t done anything like that in about 15 or so years.
Thanks, Kim. I also noticed that the painters left some brandywine paint strokes here and there on the gate so I’m not even sure I could use a contrasting stain color. Cedar or redwood is safe.
I am still pondering a blue front door, however.
What color are you thinking your front door should be?
Long interviews at the homeless encampment this morning, both with some of the residents and with the workers trying to find them housing and other assistance. One of the outreach workers, a young law school graduate, was telling me about the program that inspired him to get involved some years ago — a group in which the volunteers would cook up vegan burritos to hand out to the homeless. That’s really so LA. 🙂
But they are all smart and sweet people who really have a heart to help the best they know how at the micro, ground zero level while all the politicians try to figure it out on the macro scale.
Michelle (10:31); yes, they will take that bad tooth out but it all requires sedation so they will check the rest of them and (I suppose) clean them as well. I just hope they don’t find anymore badness in there. Cha-Ching cha-ching cha-ching
I suppose I could tie a string around it, connect it to a door knob, and slam the door. But I doubt she’d stand for that — and since so many of my vintage knobs are loose and even off when jolted too hard, the knob would lose that battle and she’d be running around dragging a heavy brass/glass doorknob for some time.
Not sure what to do. I am grieving a new policy that none of us knew about that takes a month off of my furlough. Or… I can always stay here all alone for Christmas when everything is closed for two weeks, including the store. Sounds like fun??
People do not know how to drive in the snow and ice around here! We are in for a very long winter I think!
Dj it was about 4 and a half years ago that Babe had to have a rotted tooth removed. Our vet sedated her, put in an IV to hydrate her (since she was 12) and he then pulled the tooth and cleaned the rest. While in there he noticed a loose tooth so he flicked it out and cleaned up the hole left behind (for free!) the total bill was 200 dollars….you should drive to CO and see my vet…you would save money I think!
NancyJill, I may just take you up on that. Amazing.
Kim, meanwhile can come west, sell one of these babies and never have to work again (Rancho Palos Verdes was an area we drove through, Kim; it’s the cheap ZIP in this lineup, I believe):
My husband and I got a mini-vacation (gone from home about 30 hours) that was a good one. For several months I have been wanting to visit Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge. We intended to do so last week but I had a mild touch of the flu, and then this past weekend I had vertigo and I was afraid that might delay it again, but we just put it off for a day to make sure I’d be OK, and we got to go yesterday.
All summer I’ve been seeing photos from there of birds or multiple species, river otters, etc. We are way low on rainfall–the trees are beginning to look like they will just let their leaves dry and fall off, and indeed many have already done so–and so it probably wasn’t the best time for a visit. But by staying overnight in a local hotel, we were able to be there at sunrise this morning. I had two species I wanted to see, wood ducks and river otters, with sundry warblers thrown in as a freebie if I could get them. We didn’t see any otters–with the low water levels, no one has been seeing them–but saw a decent number of wood ducks, six of the seven Indiana woodpeckers (all but the hairy), several great blue herons and some too-distant-for-photos great egrets. Several young deer, as well. We also saw cormorants, Canada geese, some turtles, some butterflies and a few dragonflies. We saw a large flock of female red-winged blackbirds yesterday and a smaller flock of males today.
The best viewing period was a half an hour or so this morning. We were driving slowly, looking for birds (it’s a great spot to watch from the car, and a car is actually a good photo blind), and I saw a pair of pileated woodpeckers. We pulled up a little farther, and six wood ducks were in the water (three males and three females); eventually three or four others flew in to join them. In the trees behind the wood ducks (in other words, a fair distance from our car) birds kept flying around: the pair of pileated woodpeckers and/or some of their young, a flicker, a juvenile red-headed woodpecker, and more. And in the commotion was a Cooper’s hawk being pestered by four or five blue jays. For one small spot of trees and a pond, it was a decent amount of interesting activity. And though my photos of the blue jays and hawk are nothing close to close-ups, I think I got some good ones. I would have liked to have been able to double my zoom capacity and get that much closer to the wood ducks and all of those other birds, but it would be quite petty to complain, because it was an amazing few minutes. Then we drove to other spots and saw a monarch butterfly on purple asters, a pretty green dragonfly, great blue herons, a few more wood ducks, and another deer.
We hear that sandhill cranes gather in the thousands there over winter, so we’re talking about going back while they are there. Maybe we’ll see our otters at the same time. We’re supposed to get rain tonight, and need it desperately–rain now and again in a few days would be a very good thing for our chances at such future sightings, I would imagine. Water birds may simply keep flying if the wet areas stay as dry as they are this week.
Last October I spent 700 to have 4 or 5 of Amos’ teeth removed and the rest cleaned. He had the Shi Tzu underbite so when they pulled the 4 bottom teeth it changed how he looks. He is still The Most Handsome Boy Dog in the World
Either going back with black or a really dark green. I have reddish brick
On a 20-minute afternoon break I put a second and final coat of sealer on the top of the patio table. I do believe the whole set is now done. When it dries, I can put on the seat cushions and figure out a centerpiece for the table. I can’t believe how nice it looks now, what a difference.
Our photographer nearly got beaned by the grand slam shot into center field at last night’s game.
His (redacted) comment; When Howie Kendrick hit the grand slam, I knew it hit close to me because the center fielder was looking at me when I looked away from the camera. I thought Oh —–, it’s gonna hit me. I did a little bit of a duck, then I heard it slam very near to me. Had no idea it was this close to bonking me on the head.
Mumsee, the Dodgers is a baseball team in Brooklyn, NY. Locals call them “Them Bums”. but you had better not say that in hearing distance.
They play a NY team called The Giants in their league and another team called The Yankees, in another.
Lestwise, that is the way I learned it..
Now, you know as much about it as I do.
Chas, the Dodgers have been in LA since before I was born, though they did start out in Brooklyn. That’s why DJ roots for them (and my husband was, too . . . and rooting against the Cardinals, who did win).
DJ, can you authorize only up to a certain cost? I never had any high vet bills with Misten, but kept in my mind the possibility that something would come up that was more than I could afford / justify spending. (I was never able to come up with an actual dollar amount, but knew I couldn’t, say, spend $6,000 for surgery, and hoped I’d never be faced with that.)
Well, they’ve given me the range so That would be the cap, if something really unexpected is found, guess we’ll deal with it then. I’m hoping this is closer to the bottom end of the range.
Lots of folks around here are excited about the Cardinals. I guess that means they won yesterday. I heard it was 12-0 in the 4th inning, so they must have won, unless the Braves made a big comeback.
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Morning….freezing fog here this morning.
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Good morning NoncyJ.
Is it lonesome in here? I was here before, but went to the “Politics” thread.
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Good morning! We are to get the cold tomorrow. 😦
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Where is Jo? Did she start the new term and become exhausted?
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RK. Jo is likely in the sack now. She posted on yesterday’s thread at 6:46 this morning.
Chas
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I’ve taken my shower and a’m making some coffee to try to wake up. It’s still dark outside. But I have to hit the road in about an hour or so to meet up with someone at one of the homeless encampments.
Funny how 8 a.m. seems to be a “normal” time for most folks to be up, out and working. Just not for me these days. Working, yes, but not the “up and the out” part so much. That requires presentable clothing and even makeup and actually driving somewhere. I much prefer late morning and afternoon assignments.
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I wonder what I thought a’m was a contraction for up there.
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Beautiful photo! I love black and white creatures. But you all knew that.
He can fly into my bathroom, as long as he flies back out.
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Good morning! I see the really early bird on the header. Beautiful!
This morning I have been busy trying to get my list together for next week’s fundraiser dinner. These things should not be so complicated but they quickly become so. I called one person I had not heard from expecting a decline from her and her husband only to find out that she wondered if her sister and sister’s husband could attend, too.
I’ve been asked to lead our little critique group Saturday in the absence of the president, and I have also been asked to lead our ladies’ Bible study next week. I have to get busy planning those new to me (from the leader’s seat) programs.
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Are the glasses coming soon, Janice?
I will probably call today to make the dental appt for Annie Oakley. Sigh. And Ouch.
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Can’t they just pull the tooth?
Or maybe that’s the plan. I’m missing a lot out here in the 18th century except with cars.
Very windy last night, some wind this morning and anticipated through the day— is what I heard several days ago. I’m out of the loop everywhere else.
Though, I do have the paper. Maybe it will tell me?
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Cold fog here this morning as well. But no snow on the ground.
Husband is trying to figure out who is supposed to pay for the repairs on his truck. Our insurance or the cow owner. That part of Idaho is not open range. But not all farmers are loaded with money and may not even have insurance. We do not want to do someone in just because his cow got out.
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I see PGand E is having challenges with its bankruptcy stuff.
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It is snowing and the pines are flocked in white frost…how did winter get here so fast?!
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It is twenty seven here, but supposed to get up into the fifties tomorrow and little below freezing for the coming weeks. Perhaps just a cool fall? Winter will be along though and that is a good thing because it is followed by spring and summer and fall again. Nice to be able to count on it because God said it would be.
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So tragic to read that the areas we rejoiced as being liberated from the shadow of ISIS are now in grave danger again: https://world.wng.org/2019/10/turkey_s_deadly_safe_zone
Turkey was responsible 100 years ago, during the First World War, for the brutal Armenian genocide, which saw millions of Armenian and Assyrians killed. The Kurds were, at the end of that Great War, promised in the closing treaties by the Allies, their own homeland. That promise came to nothing, as did so many promises by the European and North American Allies to those of the Middle East, but the Kurds have never forgotten the promise, and have only hardened in determination since they experienced genocidal violence from both the Turkish and the Iraqi regimes. The Kurds formed the thin wall of defense that stopped the advance of ISIS in northern Iraq, and provided shelter to the Assyrian Christians and Yazidis who fled behind their lines. And now they are all left like sheep to the slaughter.
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Good Afternoon Everyone. It’s been busy, but I haven’t accomplished much. I thought I was writing an offer on one of my listings but the bank says no. They will have to buy something else. I am learning a lot about mobile homes.
DJ, it seems you asked me the other day about staining the fence. If you haven’t already decided make it blend with the house. I think you will like it better in the long run.
I am in a desperate search for someone to fix my front doors and paint them. There are too many panes of glass for me to do it. If it were solid I could do it…or at least a could, as in past tense. I haven’t done anything like that in about 15 or so years.
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War and domination is always sad. I guess it is China’s turn to step up.
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Thanks, Kim. I also noticed that the painters left some brandywine paint strokes here and there on the gate so I’m not even sure I could use a contrasting stain color. Cedar or redwood is safe.
I am still pondering a blue front door, however.
What color are you thinking your front door should be?
Long interviews at the homeless encampment this morning, both with some of the residents and with the workers trying to find them housing and other assistance. One of the outreach workers, a young law school graduate, was telling me about the program that inspired him to get involved some years ago — a group in which the volunteers would cook up vegan burritos to hand out to the homeless. That’s really so LA. 🙂
But they are all smart and sweet people who really have a heart to help the best they know how at the micro, ground zero level while all the politicians try to figure it out on the macro scale.
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Michelle (10:31); yes, they will take that bad tooth out but it all requires sedation so they will check the rest of them and (I suppose) clean them as well. I just hope they don’t find anymore badness in there. Cha-Ching cha-ching cha-ching
I suppose I could tie a string around it, connect it to a door knob, and slam the door. But I doubt she’d stand for that — and since so many of my vintage knobs are loose and even off when jolted too hard, the knob would lose that battle and she’d be running around dragging a heavy brass/glass doorknob for some time.
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The bulk of the expense is for the main event itself, the sedation & extraction.
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Not sure what to do. I am grieving a new policy that none of us knew about that takes a month off of my furlough. Or… I can always stay here all alone for Christmas when everything is closed for two weeks, including the store. Sounds like fun??
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People do not know how to drive in the snow and ice around here! We are in for a very long winter I think!
Dj it was about 4 and a half years ago that Babe had to have a rotted tooth removed. Our vet sedated her, put in an IV to hydrate her (since she was 12) and he then pulled the tooth and cleaned the rest. While in there he noticed a loose tooth so he flicked it out and cleaned up the hole left behind (for free!) the total bill was 200 dollars….you should drive to CO and see my vet…you would save money I think!
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Or Idaho. Though I have never had a dog’s tooth removed so no idea what that costs.
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NancyJill, I may just take you up on that. Amazing.
Kim, meanwhile can come west, sell one of these babies and never have to work again (Rancho Palos Verdes was an area we drove through, Kim; it’s the cheap ZIP in this lineup, I believe):
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Oh, weird, the link vanished
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My husband and I got a mini-vacation (gone from home about 30 hours) that was a good one. For several months I have been wanting to visit Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge. We intended to do so last week but I had a mild touch of the flu, and then this past weekend I had vertigo and I was afraid that might delay it again, but we just put it off for a day to make sure I’d be OK, and we got to go yesterday.
All summer I’ve been seeing photos from there of birds or multiple species, river otters, etc. We are way low on rainfall–the trees are beginning to look like they will just let their leaves dry and fall off, and indeed many have already done so–and so it probably wasn’t the best time for a visit. But by staying overnight in a local hotel, we were able to be there at sunrise this morning. I had two species I wanted to see, wood ducks and river otters, with sundry warblers thrown in as a freebie if I could get them. We didn’t see any otters–with the low water levels, no one has been seeing them–but saw a decent number of wood ducks, six of the seven Indiana woodpeckers (all but the hairy), several great blue herons and some too-distant-for-photos great egrets. Several young deer, as well. We also saw cormorants, Canada geese, some turtles, some butterflies and a few dragonflies. We saw a large flock of female red-winged blackbirds yesterday and a smaller flock of males today.
The best viewing period was a half an hour or so this morning. We were driving slowly, looking for birds (it’s a great spot to watch from the car, and a car is actually a good photo blind), and I saw a pair of pileated woodpeckers. We pulled up a little farther, and six wood ducks were in the water (three males and three females); eventually three or four others flew in to join them. In the trees behind the wood ducks (in other words, a fair distance from our car) birds kept flying around: the pair of pileated woodpeckers and/or some of their young, a flicker, a juvenile red-headed woodpecker, and more. And in the commotion was a Cooper’s hawk being pestered by four or five blue jays. For one small spot of trees and a pond, it was a decent amount of interesting activity. And though my photos of the blue jays and hawk are nothing close to close-ups, I think I got some good ones. I would have liked to have been able to double my zoom capacity and get that much closer to the wood ducks and all of those other birds, but it would be quite petty to complain, because it was an amazing few minutes. Then we drove to other spots and saw a monarch butterfly on purple asters, a pretty green dragonfly, great blue herons, a few more wood ducks, and another deer.
We hear that sandhill cranes gather in the thousands there over winter, so we’re talking about going back while they are there. Maybe we’ll see our otters at the same time. We’re supposed to get rain tonight, and need it desperately–rain now and again in a few days would be a very good thing for our chances at such future sightings, I would imagine. Water birds may simply keep flying if the wet areas stay as dry as they are this week.
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Last October I spent 700 to have 4 or 5 of Amos’ teeth removed and the rest cleaned. He had the Shi Tzu underbite so when they pulled the 4 bottom teeth it changed how he looks. He is still The Most Handsome Boy Dog in the World
Either going back with black or a really dark green. I have reddish brick
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Both door colors sound nice.
Well, everyone has cheaper vet prices than I do. 😦 grumble grumble.
I could “shop around” but I’d probably not save much and then there’s the thing of going to a vet you really don’t know.
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I seem to live in a city of rich people out here all of a sudden and am quite out of place. Really, it didn’t used to be this way.
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Who are the Dodgers?
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Next year! (goes our now annual shout)
On a 20-minute afternoon break I put a second and final coat of sealer on the top of the patio table. I do believe the whole set is now done. When it dries, I can put on the seat cushions and figure out a centerpiece for the table. I can’t believe how nice it looks now, what a difference.
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Our photographer nearly got beaned by the grand slam shot into center field at last night’s game.
His (redacted) comment; When Howie Kendrick hit the grand slam, I knew it hit close to me because the center fielder was looking at me when I looked away from the camera. I thought Oh —–, it’s gonna hit me. I did a little bit of a duck, then I heard it slam very near to me. Had no idea it was this close to bonking me on the head.
You can see the near miss at about the 2:20 mark
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Mumsee, the Dodgers is a baseball team in Brooklyn, NY. Locals call them “Them Bums”. but you had better not say that in hearing distance.
They play a NY team called The Giants in their league and another team called The Yankees, in another.
Lestwise, that is the way I learned it..
Now, you know as much about it as I do.
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Chas, the Dodgers have been in LA since before I was born, though they did start out in Brooklyn. That’s why DJ roots for them (and my husband was, too . . . and rooting against the Cardinals, who did win).
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How ’bout them Mariners?
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DJ, can you authorize only up to a certain cost? I never had any high vet bills with Misten, but kept in my mind the possibility that something would come up that was more than I could afford / justify spending. (I was never able to come up with an actual dollar amount, but knew I couldn’t, say, spend $6,000 for surgery, and hoped I’d never be faced with that.)
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Well, they’ve given me the range so That would be the cap, if something really unexpected is found, guess we’ll deal with it then. I’m hoping this is closer to the bottom end of the range.
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Lots of folks around here are excited about the Cardinals. I guess that means they won yesterday. I heard it was 12-0 in the 4th inning, so they must have won, unless the Braves made a big comeback.
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