Morning all. It’s Friday!!
Okay, Chas maybe it is just another day for you and Elvera, but I got through another week of Kinder. We did so many things today, it was amazing. I taught them how to use and eye dropper and how to let just one drop out. And then we talked about roots and no, they did not eat roots. Then I had them reach into my bag and they each got a small carrot. Could hardly believe that it was a root.
Jo. It’s good if you can look back on a week of accomplishment.
I look back on a week of survival. I hope your next is as fruitful
Good morning everyone else.
Off to the routine.
Good morning! 21 degrees here. I heard it snowed at home, but not sure if it stuck. Tried to study during down time last night, but not sure if it stuck.
Yes, that is a beautiful fall header. It’s so hard to believe that October is nearly gone. Fastest year yet even with me being stuck at home for most of it.
We are suppose to have a good bit of cloud cover and scattered rain this weekend. A cold front will come through on Sunday and bring thunderstorms but afterwards skies will clear. It sounds like Halloween will be sunny which will be good for the Fall Festival.
Chas, you accomplish much each day by being here and showing us how to gracefully enter our later years taking care of family members who are ailing. You bring hope and encouragement to us and others in your community. And you have shared your career work with the world so people appreciate that daily even though you don’t see them. And caring for Elvera in a loving manner is a priceless accomplishment♡ You son and other family are extremely blessed by what you do each day.
Chas, you also get to experience much of the same experience as a young mother does. On some days she “accomplishes” nothing but to care for the baby, a baby who doesn’t yet “do” anything either. But in God’s wisdom, if that is the task given to someone to do, and he or she does it, it is enough.
BTW, the issue with my sister took a bit of a different twist after I posted on here–so thank you to those who prayed. She ended up posting about a couple of topics, and on one she actually admitted she had been wrong–first time, and that’s enough that I am willing to give her another chance. She also brought up an issue that explained why she never trusted my relationship with one of her children. I had actually answered it already, but she hadn’t “heard” me, so I can answer it again now, and hopefully this time she will understand, and it will begin to bring healing to her heart.
When I would go to visit her, it would have cost a lot of money to put Misten in a kennel, and collies don’t do well in kennels; they are people dogs that would rather be with their masters. So we agreed between us that when I traveled to her house, I would take Misten with me, but leave her in their backyard (whereas at home she was in and out of the house and slept inside). The children grew to really love Misten, but my sister doesn’t like dogs, and she would admire her beauty from a distance but wouldn’t touch her. Well, Misten wasn’t used to interacting with that many children at a time in the confines of a backyard, so when they were outside with her, I would either confine her to a separate run or I would be out there making sure she didn’t jump up on anyone, making sure I was there to pick up any piles she left, etc.
One day when I was out there, one of her children fed Misten grass. That was actually something that children did often, and as generally happened, I wouldn’t see that he was pulling grass to feed to Misten until he was actually offering a handful to my dog, and at that time I had to act quickly and tell him with some urgency no, don’t feed her grass. And as always happens, he would look at me funny and tell me she was already eating grass. What children could never quite understand was that dogs (or at least Misten) aren’t efficient grazers, and their teeth just aren’t made for eating grass. So when she “ate” grass, she didn’t actually get very much, a blade or two. However, when she ate a whole handful of grass a child had “helpfully” pulled, she would then vomit a couple hours later and give my carpet a very nice grass stain. It happened at least twice, maybe more, Misten throwing up grass on my carpet because a child had fed her grass. (She may have thrown up outside other times I didn’t know about.) My foster kids had a hard time understanding that one, too, and so did church kids. Well, in this case apparently I hurt my nephew’s feelings, and he went in and told his mother I had yelled at him, and that Misten was in fact already eating grass, and it wasn’t till years later that she mentioned the incident to me. Had she mentioned it to me that day, I could have explained and could have soothed any hurt feelings. Instead she just decided I didn’t like that child (and I think he’s her favorite or at least the one with whom she most identifies). But she thought it was proof I value Misten more than people, which was never anything close to the issue, nor was I ever mad at her child. I understood his impulse to feed her–he just was feeding her something that wasn’t good for her, and wouldn’t have been good for my car on the way home later or my carpet at home.
Anyway, we have something to work with now, I think, and so the letter I’m finishing up won’t tell her goodbye but will tell her that I already said we have to have actual communication or I won’t continue this discussion, and I’m repeating that now, and I won’t continue this discussion otherwise.
Thanx Janice, et. al.
It’s like that Cheryl. Only:
When you put a child to bed, it stays there.
You usually don’t have a problem getting a child to eat.
etc.
Cheryl, glad your sister and you may be finding some little bit of common ground.
I have a strange semi-issue, a man from my former church has suddenly begun commenting on many of the news stories I post with sometimes snarky, ultra-conservating cracks. This brings everyone out of the woodwork and a couple threads have prompted some back-and-forths.
He and his wife, a biracial couple, are probably in their 40s or 50ish now, their kids must mostly be grown. I love her, but him I never knew well and he was part of the last elder board that became overly rigid, in my view (and in others’ view as well). Anyway, I suppose we’ve technically been FB “friends” for all these years but only she would appear from time to time. Suddenly, about a month ago, he’s popped up and is commenting a lot on stories I post (I cll share news stories from our papers, primarily, without comment — they’re not overtly political, usually, but some have to do with things going on in California, etc.; I welcome the comments and dialogue, but prefer people keep it civil and I expect that my Christian friends especially will be well behaved 🙂 — his comments often have a sharp, snarky edge to them).
Well, I guess there’s not much I can do about it, I wonder if he’s not working as much? He seems to suddenly have a whole lot of time for FB commenting. I’m not sure if they still are in the area and at the same church (which is struggling, I hear). Odd because he was always kind of quiet but then became so intense and hard-line when our little Presby church’s longtime pastor retired and things became unduly influenced by a small elder board that seemed too strict in many of its views. He was very much in the middle of that, as I recall, and uttered one of the more offensive statements during a special congregational meeting we had about it all one night (I believe referring to us as “lost sheep” needing their firm hand). My mild-mannered friend Norma really didn’t take very kindly to that remark. He was later advised to apologize to the church, which he did and that was appreciated. But the remark was rather telling in terms of how the rest of us “commoners” were being viewed during that period.
But I digress — and I’ve tried not to think much about all of that in a long time.
I’ll have to look at his FB page, but I kind of thought they’d moved out of the state at some point.
Well, time to try to find a story. A mountain lion would help, but that story is shot. A story about a domestic cat on a roof doesn’t quite rise to the occasion.
Nice photo above, especially since there are no raging flames and black smoke to be seen.
And, yes, what in the world has happened to October? This time of year always speeds by much too fast.
Ah, his FB page says he’s “single” so he and his wife must of split. 😦 Ugh. Hate seeing that. I think his awesome wife must have been a moderating influence on him. I always liked her so much.
I believe they moved to Denver a while back, not sure if he or any of the rest of the family is back in California or not (he grew up here, maybe he’s returned).
Beautiful day here. Husband is off to Boise for a visit. His brother got in yesterday from driving cross country from Florida. Sadly, he and his wife of about thirty years are divorcing. He is retired colonel from the Army, they just finished fixing up their Florida house, built a boat dock for their boat, etc. Seems money and stuff don’t buy happiness. May the eyes of their hearts be opened to the love available.
Uh, yeah, Chas, it’s not every child who goes to bed and stays put, much less eats!
With mine, they had to go to bed but they did NOT have to go to sleep. They could read, play with their cars, I didn’t care. THEY JUST HAD TO STAY IN BED!
LOL
Glad you have an opportunity still with your sister, Cheryl.
And children often don’t want to eat what is put before them.
As a child, Nightingale was awful about staying in bed. It took her a long time to get to sleep, so she figured she’d come out and be with Mommy. (Hubby would be in bed and asleep by that time, since even then he had to get up in the middle of the night for work.)
It is carnival day here. A fun fund raising day put on by our high school students. I will go down later and see my students having fun. Always some cute pictures of them with their faces painted. and, of course, there is always lots of good food for sale.
Our heat is supposed to break a little by tomorrow and more by Sunday. After about a week, it starts to wear you down. It’s 80 in my house at almost 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, Carol’s experiencing more pain but the place where she’s staying also is having quite a problem with roaches. It’s not clear that they’re using any kind of professional service to address the issue, which concerns me. I understand those things happen in these big complexes where people share walls. But staffers keeping cans of Raid handy isn’t going to cut it.They probably need to sign up for regular treatments by a professional exterminator.
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Morning all. It’s Friday!!
Okay, Chas maybe it is just another day for you and Elvera, but I got through another week of Kinder. We did so many things today, it was amazing. I taught them how to use and eye dropper and how to let just one drop out. And then we talked about roots and no, they did not eat roots. Then I had them reach into my bag and they each got a small carrot. Could hardly believe that it was a root.
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Jo. It’s good if you can look back on a week of accomplishment.
I look back on a week of survival. I hope your next is as fruitful
Good morning everyone else.
Off to the routine.
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Chas- When you need a break from the routine, you can read the Friday not-so-funnies.
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Thanx Peter. The only really funny one was Mitt Romney running again.
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Morning! That is a beautiful photo capturing Autumn!!
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Good morning! 21 degrees here. I heard it snowed at home, but not sure if it stuck. Tried to study during down time last night, but not sure if it stuck.
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Yes, that is a beautiful fall header. It’s so hard to believe that October is nearly gone. Fastest year yet even with me being stuck at home for most of it.
We are suppose to have a good bit of cloud cover and scattered rain this weekend. A cold front will come through on Sunday and bring thunderstorms but afterwards skies will clear. It sounds like Halloween will be sunny which will be good for the Fall Festival.
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Chas, you accomplish much each day by being here and showing us how to gracefully enter our later years taking care of family members who are ailing. You bring hope and encouragement to us and others in your community. And you have shared your career work with the world so people appreciate that daily even though you don’t see them. And caring for Elvera in a loving manner is a priceless accomplishment♡ You son and other family are extremely blessed by what you do each day.
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Chas, you also get to experience much of the same experience as a young mother does. On some days she “accomplishes” nothing but to care for the baby, a baby who doesn’t yet “do” anything either. But in God’s wisdom, if that is the task given to someone to do, and he or she does it, it is enough.
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BTW, the issue with my sister took a bit of a different twist after I posted on here–so thank you to those who prayed. She ended up posting about a couple of topics, and on one she actually admitted she had been wrong–first time, and that’s enough that I am willing to give her another chance. She also brought up an issue that explained why she never trusted my relationship with one of her children. I had actually answered it already, but she hadn’t “heard” me, so I can answer it again now, and hopefully this time she will understand, and it will begin to bring healing to her heart.
When I would go to visit her, it would have cost a lot of money to put Misten in a kennel, and collies don’t do well in kennels; they are people dogs that would rather be with their masters. So we agreed between us that when I traveled to her house, I would take Misten with me, but leave her in their backyard (whereas at home she was in and out of the house and slept inside). The children grew to really love Misten, but my sister doesn’t like dogs, and she would admire her beauty from a distance but wouldn’t touch her. Well, Misten wasn’t used to interacting with that many children at a time in the confines of a backyard, so when they were outside with her, I would either confine her to a separate run or I would be out there making sure she didn’t jump up on anyone, making sure I was there to pick up any piles she left, etc.
One day when I was out there, one of her children fed Misten grass. That was actually something that children did often, and as generally happened, I wouldn’t see that he was pulling grass to feed to Misten until he was actually offering a handful to my dog, and at that time I had to act quickly and tell him with some urgency no, don’t feed her grass. And as always happens, he would look at me funny and tell me she was already eating grass. What children could never quite understand was that dogs (or at least Misten) aren’t efficient grazers, and their teeth just aren’t made for eating grass. So when she “ate” grass, she didn’t actually get very much, a blade or two. However, when she ate a whole handful of grass a child had “helpfully” pulled, she would then vomit a couple hours later and give my carpet a very nice grass stain. It happened at least twice, maybe more, Misten throwing up grass on my carpet because a child had fed her grass. (She may have thrown up outside other times I didn’t know about.) My foster kids had a hard time understanding that one, too, and so did church kids. Well, in this case apparently I hurt my nephew’s feelings, and he went in and told his mother I had yelled at him, and that Misten was in fact already eating grass, and it wasn’t till years later that she mentioned the incident to me. Had she mentioned it to me that day, I could have explained and could have soothed any hurt feelings. Instead she just decided I didn’t like that child (and I think he’s her favorite or at least the one with whom she most identifies). But she thought it was proof I value Misten more than people, which was never anything close to the issue, nor was I ever mad at her child. I understood his impulse to feed her–he just was feeding her something that wasn’t good for her, and wouldn’t have been good for my car on the way home later or my carpet at home.
Anyway, we have something to work with now, I think, and so the letter I’m finishing up won’t tell her goodbye but will tell her that I already said we have to have actual communication or I won’t continue this discussion, and I’m repeating that now, and I won’t continue this discussion otherwise.
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Something for bird lovers:
https://get-flix.net/movie/634541/Dancing-with-the-Birds.html
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Thanx Janice, et. al.
It’s like that Cheryl. Only:
When you put a child to bed, it stays there.
You usually don’t have a problem getting a child to eat.
etc.
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Listen would have preferred a Snickers bar.
Cheryl, glad your sister and you may be finding some little bit of common ground.
I have a strange semi-issue, a man from my former church has suddenly begun commenting on many of the news stories I post with sometimes snarky, ultra-conservating cracks. This brings everyone out of the woodwork and a couple threads have prompted some back-and-forths.
He and his wife, a biracial couple, are probably in their 40s or 50ish now, their kids must mostly be grown. I love her, but him I never knew well and he was part of the last elder board that became overly rigid, in my view (and in others’ view as well). Anyway, I suppose we’ve technically been FB “friends” for all these years but only she would appear from time to time. Suddenly, about a month ago, he’s popped up and is commenting a lot on stories I post (I cll share news stories from our papers, primarily, without comment — they’re not overtly political, usually, but some have to do with things going on in California, etc.; I welcome the comments and dialogue, but prefer people keep it civil and I expect that my Christian friends especially will be well behaved 🙂 — his comments often have a sharp, snarky edge to them).
Well, I guess there’s not much I can do about it, I wonder if he’s not working as much? He seems to suddenly have a whole lot of time for FB commenting. I’m not sure if they still are in the area and at the same church (which is struggling, I hear). Odd because he was always kind of quiet but then became so intense and hard-line when our little Presby church’s longtime pastor retired and things became unduly influenced by a small elder board that seemed too strict in many of its views. He was very much in the middle of that, as I recall, and uttered one of the more offensive statements during a special congregational meeting we had about it all one night (I believe referring to us as “lost sheep” needing their firm hand). My mild-mannered friend Norma really didn’t take very kindly to that remark. He was later advised to apologize to the church, which he did and that was appreciated. But the remark was rather telling in terms of how the rest of us “commoners” were being viewed during that period.
But I digress — and I’ve tried not to think much about all of that in a long time.
I’ll have to look at his FB page, but I kind of thought they’d moved out of the state at some point.
Well, time to try to find a story. A mountain lion would help, but that story is shot. A story about a domestic cat on a roof doesn’t quite rise to the occasion.
Nice photo above, especially since there are no raging flames and black smoke to be seen.
And, yes, what in the world has happened to October? This time of year always speeds by much too fast.
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*Misten
spellcheck doesn’t like that name. It doesn’t like Kizzie (“Lizzie”) either.
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I had second thoughts just as I hit “send”
I remember Chuck would come trotting in after we thought we had him snuggled up.
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Ah, his FB page says he’s “single” so he and his wife must of split. 😦 Ugh. Hate seeing that. I think his awesome wife must have been a moderating influence on him. I always liked her so much.
I believe they moved to Denver a while back, not sure if he or any of the rest of the family is back in California or not (he grew up here, maybe he’s returned).
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Beautiful day here. Husband is off to Boise for a visit. His brother got in yesterday from driving cross country from Florida. Sadly, he and his wife of about thirty years are divorcing. He is retired colonel from the Army, they just finished fixing up their Florida house, built a boat dock for their boat, etc. Seems money and stuff don’t buy happiness. May the eyes of their hearts be opened to the love available.
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Uh, yeah, Chas, it’s not every child who goes to bed and stays put, much less eats!
With mine, they had to go to bed but they did NOT have to go to sleep. They could read, play with their cars, I didn’t care. THEY JUST HAD TO STAY IN BED!
LOL
Glad you have an opportunity still with your sister, Cheryl.
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And children often don’t want to eat what is put before them.
As a child, Nightingale was awful about staying in bed. It took her a long time to get to sleep, so she figured she’d come out and be with Mommy. (Hubby would be in bed and asleep by that time, since even then he had to get up in the middle of the night for work.)
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When she was a toddler, she would often awaken somewhere between 2 and 4am, and want to come into our bed – to play, not sleep.
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No. Just no.
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Oh they are so bouncy and cute!!! ♥️ 🐐
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It is carnival day here. A fun fund raising day put on by our high school students. I will go down later and see my students having fun. Always some cute pictures of them with their faces painted. and, of course, there is always lots of good food for sale.
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Goat kids are bouncy and cute. Do they need pj’s to make them cute? No.
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But the pj’s just make it a tad bit more fun to watch them be bouncy and cute…and I betcha they keep them warm too!! No kidding!! 😜
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It gets my goat when people dress up their kids.
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Our heat is supposed to break a little by tomorrow and more by Sunday. After about a week, it starts to wear you down. It’s 80 in my house at almost 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, Carol’s experiencing more pain but the place where she’s staying also is having quite a problem with roaches. It’s not clear that they’re using any kind of professional service to address the issue, which concerns me. I understand those things happen in these big complexes where people share walls. But staffers keeping cans of Raid handy isn’t going to cut it.They probably need to sign up for regular treatments by a professional exterminator.
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