49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-26-19”

  4. Morning! It is going to be a beautiful day and the snow is melting. Tonight begins a five day run of snow snow snow. They now are predicting eight to twelve inches of new snow by Wednesday 😊

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  5. Good morning, all. We are supposed to begin a week of sunshine. Daughter refused to bring her clothes in off the deck yesterday, sure sounded like a lot of rain came down. They ought to be quite wet this morning, if not frozen. Ah well, her problem.

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  6. A cold morning hear, but perhaps not LA dog park cold. And definitely not Canadian tundra cold. I think our winter is supposed to start Monday night with wet snow. I like Fall, but not when we get early winter.

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  7. We are getting lots and lots of rain, maybe two inches. We’re pretty close to “peak” for fall color. (A good number of trees, the leaves simply dried up and fell off, because we went such an extended period without rain. Then we had some rain and the last week or so has been pretty.) I really hope the rest of the leaves don’t get knocked off before we get a chance to enjoy them–but some haven’t yet turned, so we’ll at least still have some more color.

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  9. I was just thinking again this morning, how God has blessed me with such an easy life. It has been wonderful and I hope it continues as such. When I hear others talk of the many things they need to do, it reminds me of His blessing. God knows where He wants each of His people, I am grateful He put me here.

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  11. Michelle, some trees are still green, and right now we have whole trees in glorious color. And it isn’t windy today, just a steady rain, though the two inches predicted is a lot and inevitably it will bring down some leaves and leave them soggy and slippery. I wanted to get out yesterday and get some photos of some lovely trees in my neighborhood before the rain today, but yesterday was overcast and you don’t get good fall foliage photos on overcast days, so I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens after the rain. But really, you’re coming just about peak, and I suspect you will find central/southern Indiana quite lovely.

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  12. We got a letter from son at the youth challenge. He says he plans to spend an hour with us on his four day release for Thanksgiving. I am writing him a letter letting him know that won’t be necessary. His stuff will all be in the storage shed we rented in town for eighteen’s stuff so she would stop trying to get into it and take sharp things. He can pick up his stuff, distribute it wherever and enjoy his four days and we can go about our business. Win win.

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  13. We’re beginning to cool off with our onshore breeze returning today. It’ll be 78 which seems downright cool and fall-like compared to the mid-90 temperatures we’ve had all week.

    Riffing off Peter’s post, I like (love) fall, except when summer lingers.

    I’m off to meet a friend for breakfast this morning at a nearby restaurant but we’re not meeting until 11 a.m. This particular restaurant is crowded on Saturday mornings but the crowds should be thinning out by then.

    Every morning I see this scroll of political updates and headlnes that appear on my phone as I pick it up off the nightstand charger. It’s always quite harrowing.

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  14. I ignore them, particularly on Twitter.

    I’m packed and pretty much ready to go; my brain flitting hither and yon as I try to anticipate what I need to do before leaving the area.

    Laundry, when Mr. Fit returns from his foolish run in the smoky air.

    We don’t fly until early tomorrow morning but with the power outage now moved up to 5 pm, we hope to be on the road by 4:10, which will get us more than halfway to the Big City before the lights go out.

    I’ve rented a hotel room at the airport. My husband will drive us down, take us out to dinner and then either return to chaos or spend the night with us in the hotel room. (A bit awkward, but doable with two queen-sized beds).

    P,G, &E has decided NOT to drop the entire city–which horrified my husband because it meant shutting down his plant–but will leave up the city center–which is the county seat, hospital, and the evacuation/staging fairgrounds.

    The rest will go dark.

    Sobering.

    I’m two parts relieved I’m fleeing and guilty I’m not staying. The former reporter in me is chagrinned, but I think my husband is relieved he won’t have to deal with that unruly urge in his wife to follow the story.

    DJ would understand it even more than I can explain!

    Churches have released prayers and reminders we can worship without power.

    Interesting times for sure and I’m torn.

    We’re not worried about our house. It’s almost surreal to be living 25 miles southeast of where a major fire/battle is being waged and the only sign is smoke in the air.

    The night should be terrifying for many, particularly my daughter-in-law. Winds are expected to clock in at 80mph–just a little short of hurricane force–on the mountain tops where the flames are currently not under control. Down here in the valley, they’ll still roar, but shouldn’t be anywhere near as bad.

    These are the same conditions we had two years ago–except that night we didn’t have a fire already burning out of containment.

    So, I guess I should be asking you to pray for God’s mercy on California. Rain, maybe? Grace?

    If Geysers goes in the fire (highly unlikely), Bob Buckles won’t have power. The transmission lines from my house to his–some 300 miles–are right here in Sonoma County.

    Or, almost all of northern California.

    Tension, so many different types, is high.

    But! Already mercy. High today is in the lower 80s. That is grace.

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  15. We had high winds last night. No fire risk, thankfully, but with wet snowfall. I filled our bathtub with water just in case the power did go out. (no water from the well with no power). All is well this morning with just a thin layer of snow, but it is pretty.

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  16. Very tired after three 12 hour shifts in a row. I see between 20 to 30 patients in a day. Then there is the paperwork, which principally consists in having to justify to the funder why we are keeping this or that patient on for these number of days. If they aren’t satisfied, we have to write up the report all over again…

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  18. My part of California is also having a power outage. They decided to still have church. Oh, look at all of the fun that I am missing.

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  19. Happy travels, Michelle. Distressful times in our state and in the nation, to be sure.

    My friend and I had a 2-hour breakfast, most of it spent talking after the food was long gone. Good to catch up. After we parted ways, I went to the nursery, which is just a block away from the restaurant, and picked up some stuff that should break up my hard, sandy/rocky soil in the backyard.

    The heat has lasted long enough that it’s easy now to forget all about fall. The pumpkin patches I passed by were baking in the sun, shoppers dressed in shorts and tank tops and sandals. They will be be fields pumpkin pie mush before long. Maybe Michelle can bring back some of that cool, wet Midwest weather. It sure would be welcome.

    Meanwhile, our “Tick Fire” north of LA is 25% contained and the evacuations have been lifted.

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  20. DJ, we’re not “cool” here yet. We’ve had a few nights down into the forties and one in the thirties, but we aren’t to jacket weather yet.

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  24. Person who posted this (surveillance video from Oct. 25) says cities and wildlife officials have verified this would be a juvenile mountain lion and they will be relocating it.

    Someone else posted “why can’t they just let him be?”

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  26. I’ve emailed fish and wildlife media to see if I can confirm before I wind up looking stupid by alerting the weekend staff about a domestic kitty. 🙂

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  27. Haha, they told me we were overreacting, that mountain lions are found throughout the state and they merely pass through neighborhoods at night.

    I tried to explain to her that this is nowhere near what is considered normal mountain lion habitat (she’s in Sacramento), that this would be a real anomaly if confirmed, but all I got from them in the end was a link to “Living with Wildlife.”

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  28. The peninsula is basically an isolated “rural” patch surrounded by freeways, beaches and a busy harbor. It’s nowhere near the Santa Monica Mountains or OC mountain ranges where mountain lions do exist.

    This is an area populated by rich people, fancy houses and some horses.

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  33. Heard back from the Fish and Wildlife public info officer so I was able to explain a little bit more to her about how this particular sighting is so odd, given the isolated area surrounded by development.

    Well, maybe I’ll have a Monday story waiting for me.

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  35. I was going to walk to school and then to the weight room. When I got out front I changed my mind. Those clouds were black and I could see the rain approaching. I barely made it into the weight room before the clouds let loose. Nothing like being dry while you listen to the rain pound on the tin roof.

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  36. Almost 9pm here on Sunday evening. I was looking for something this evening and did not know where I had put it almost a year ago. I finally realized that I have always bemoaned the fact that I only have 2 drawers in my kitchen, which makes those drawers quite crowded. After all my hunting this weekend, yes, i finally found what I was looking for, I realized that I have 18 drawers in my bedroom along with six cupboards and a closet. I found lots of things that I didn’t even know that I had. I am packing a trunk to take home. Getting ready for when I go finish. You can only take so much luggage each time.

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  37. That is a lot of drawers to go through! The advantage of small homes is less space to lose things. There’s a silver lining for you.

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  38. Beautiful sunrise breaking in this morning, just starting to color the sky. Husband should be headed home. He planned to be here in time for church so should have left already. Eighteen plans to start attending Sunday School in one church and Catholic classes in another. But since she did not wear her helmet the other day, and her bike has a flat tire from last time, she will need to walk if she is going to be there on time this morning. I doubt she will, but she may. One never knows with her.

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  40. She didn’t. In part because, though I told her a number of times two days ago, to bring her dry clothes in, she left them out and they got rained on, lying on the deck. So this morning she was trying to put on a frozen bra. And so it went.

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  43. Morning! It is 19 degrees and the pines are a frosty white. The roads are covered with a thin layer of ice. Husband is delayed in traveling back home from Utah so it is a day of me and the dog staying snug inside. This afternoon our snow is predicted to fall at a fast pace adding a half foot of snow by tonight. But yesterday it was in the 70’s!! 😊

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  44. Greetings from #SomewhereoverIowa

    Logged on to try to figure out what’s happening at home. Sounds like a very bad night. One photo was of a line of fire personnel lining 101– praying they keep the fire from jumping.

    Horrifying to see a stupid fire in Vallejo has jumped the Carquinez narrows and is now in SF East Bay.

    California Merchant Marine Academy is right there and is battling the fire. Unimaginable horror.

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  46. https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Vallejo-Fire-Interstate-80-Carquinez-Bridge-14566204.php

    CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
    Vallejo fire erupts, jumps into Contra Costa County, evacuations lifted

    Chris Preovolos , Matthias Gafni , Michael Lerseth and Steve Rubenstein Oct. 27, 2019 Updated: Oct. 27, 2019 2:38 p.m.
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    A fast-moving fire near the Carquinez Bridge was burning in both Solano and Contra Costa counties on Sunday, shutting down Interstate 80 and threatening a college campus and area homes.

    Residents of Vallejo and Crockett, on both sides of the Carquinez Strait packed up and fled after the flames seemed to spread at will, burning cars, causing explosions and filling the sky with the same brown smoke that was choking Sonoma County to the north.

    “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Ernie Roberto, whose house on Suncliff Place was just uphill from the toll plaza. “I am packed and loaded. I’m ready to go.” …
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  47. Praying for God’s help for California.

    *******
    Meanwhile, here in Connecticut, we are having a cold and rainy day. I wish I could send the rain to California.

    A little while ago, Nightingale was working on her latest idea for Christmas by searching and comparing on Amazon. She is buying us all semi-matching Christmas pajamas for us to wear Christmas Eve and Christmas morning (while opening presents). (We don’t yet know if she will have the day off or not, so we may have our celebration on Christmas Eve Day instead.) She and her sister will have the same style of pajamas, but in different colors. I will have a nightgown in red and black plaid (under which I will wear black leggings for warmth while not in bed), and Boy’s pajamas have a similar plaid to my nightgown, I think.

    She also bought Christmas bandannas for the dogs. 🙂

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