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Our Daily Thread 11-7-20

Good Morning!

Today is DJ’s birthday!

🎂🎁🎈🎈🎁🎂

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The header is from Kizzie.

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Anyone have a QoD?

123 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-7-20”

  5. Good morning and a (correct) Bonne Anniversaire to DJ.

    It is another sunny and warmish day here. Normally, November is generally considered a gloomy month, but it has been far from gloomy these past few days. I went for a walk along our road yesterday evening, and saw a flick of turkeys grazing in a nearby hay field; no wonder we have heard the coywolves in full cry along the hunting trail the past couple of nights. A little further along, the sun was casting the last of its golden rays across a green rolling field of winter wheat. Winter wheat is planted in the fall and it sprouts and puts up green shoots before the snow comes, so it is almost the only green growing thing at this time of year when all the plant top have died off and the trees have cast their leaves. The sprouted wheat is buried by the winter snow, and then in the spring, it sprouts again, growing rapidly and ripening by July, which allows a timely harvest before the wheat can be threatened by frost. I always think of winter wheat when I read Jesus’s parable: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit.”

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  9. Happy Birthday DJ!

    While I find the photo pretty, IT’S TOO EARLY FOR SNOW! We’re having a warm fall, though. &0s today and for the next few days. We’ll take advantage of it and get out in the sun for some Vitamin D.

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  10. That should say 70s for today. Don’t know why I pressed the Shift key. I suppose because it’s the beginning of the sentence. So from here on out, I declare that & is an upper case 7.

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  11. Happy birthday, DJ! I hope it’s a nice one (and a day off).

    I agree that the photo is lovely . . . somewhere else. I did warn my husband that in looking through old photos, I found shots from the last two years, November 10 one year and November 11 the other, with a couple of inches of snow. Last year it was actually our biggest snowfall of the season. As for now, we’re expected to be into the 70s today (we have gotten there or close the last three days, also), and I think the next few days are also supposed to be warm. I’ll take it.

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  13. Thank you, 6 Arrows, for your answer last night. Some good options. I had googled it, but thought I might get some better answers from a real person. 🙂 I don’t know how careful they are about gluten-free facilities, but I didn’t really know where to begin to look.

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  14. thanks for the birthday wishes.

    We had about a 30-minute downpour earlier this morning but I slept through it — I’d been up at 5:30 to feed the cat and fell back into a deep sleep after that, the rain apparently came from 7-7:30 and I wasn’t awake until 8.

    Now it’s sunny and windy outside, but everything is nicely watered. it’s supposed to rain some more throughout the morning, according to the hourly forecast.

    I gave in and watched a Hallmark Christmas movie last night, it was a nice escape. Talked to a couple friends on the phone, texted with my friend in the Valley — she’d just gotten her hair colored and cut so she was sending me photos. I sent her a photo of my long hair now, but also of my Pandemic Top Knot where that long hair stays twisted in an elastic band for most of the time, just to keep it out of my way. 🙂

    I see Biden has made it over the top, officially. Seemed like he had enough of a margin that recounts here or there would not have changed that outcome. What a week, indeed.

    I was reading a column by Russell Moore last night who suggested the divided state of our nation isn’t changing anytime soon, although we always hope with a “next election” it might. It’s a situation we will all have to live with and through for the time being, but never forgetting to keep our eyes on the more important truth of Christ.

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  15. Happy birthday, whenever it actually was, to you, Roscuro

    Coywolf howls would be an ominous soundtrack to a nighttime walk. I walked the dogs rather late last night, around 9 p.m., and it was very windy and quite isolated out in the neighborhood. But we saw no coyotes. I kept it short anyway. It had kind of an eerie feeling with the strong winds, the new chill in the air and rain on the way.

    But I do love the rain.

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  16. Good morning.

    Happy birthday, DJ, and a belated happy birthday to fill-in-the-blank. 😉

    Cheryl, check yesterday’s daily thread for my reply to your post about gluten-free products.

    It’s been sunny and pleasant this week, with temperatures in the 60s and now predicted to reach the low 70s today, tomorrow, and Monday. Then it will be back down to the 40s for the next week, which is pretty typical for this time of year. I am enjoying the atypical warmer weather right now, though!

    Piano lessons are coming along well. Student #23 started two days ago, and, for the first time in a few months, I don’t have any new ones “in the works.” That’s OK. Now I can get settled in with the new bunch — can’t believe I’ve gotten 13 new students since June! — and continue enjoying the “old bunch,” lol, along with them. 🙂

    Homeschooling: I have different ideas in the works for adaptations to our homeschooling format. We’re in our second year of a change in curriculum / methodology, so I think it’s far enough into something “new” to have gained some perspective on whether things are working or not. What I see is that some things ARE working and some are not.

    Not an earth-shattering revelation by any means, but what isn’t working is important enough to warrant another change in approach with that particular aspect of our overall format. Not a complete overhaul again, but a targeted change to part of it.

    I’m using a lot of words here without telling you anything. 🙂

    Enjoy your day, all, and be blessed.

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  18. Oh, we cross-posted, Cheryl. I’m glad you saw the comment! I’ve been gluten-free for 11 years now, I think, and even in that time, they’ve come out with a lot of new GF products and brands that I’ve found quite tasty.

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  20. That was a lot of info you gave Cheryl, 6 Arrows. I’m glad you have personal info to share. I am not GF but a lot of the foods I buy have GF on them. I love Larabars, and the lemon is my favorite. Sometimes at Kroger when they near the expiration date they mark them to a better price and I will buy a box of them.

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  22. Good morning (afternoon) everybody! Happy birthday, DJ and belated happy birthday to the unnamed one.

    Our blizzard has been downgraded to just a snowfall warning – it’s so pretty outside, but Kizzie still has more snow than I do.

    Gluten-free has come a long way. There’s a whole aisle in one of our grocery stores with tons of stuff, but I didn’t offer as I don’t know if you’d have the same brand names in the States. I do have access to some amazing GF recipes because our camp chef tries to accommodate all special diets so that all the campers have a good time.

    Wow, 6, 23 students! That’s amazing. I’m so happy for you.

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  23. Youngest dropped by today for a surprise visit. She just had her littlest one with her, who is adorable. It was nice to visit, and she didn’t really want to leave, but had errands to run.

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  25. I was surprised to see an advertisement for Hallmark Channel Wine.

    I raked up a lot of leaves to add to the blanket around the root system of the Birthday tree.

    I also spent about an hour on the phone with someone whose position I will fill for a local writer’s group. It will be a chance to help out with their communications and social media.

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  26. How sweet to hear the mail truck in the middle of the day ♡ How will we survive two more Senate races which have the national spotlight and advertising dollars flowing in from really high rollers everywhere? Aren’t y’all envious? I suppose it will boost our economy in this state.

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  27. Janice, I love lemon Larabars — and alliteration apparently. 😉 (Ha, did it twice in one sentence without trying!) 😛 Either the lemon or the cashew Larabar is my favorite. I’ll sometimes buy a box of each and stash one box in my Monday teaching room and one in my Thursday room at the studio to snack on between lessons. Usually I’ll take 2 or 3 out of one box and exchange them with the same number from the other box so I’ve got both flavors in whichever room I’m teaching in for the day.

    Kare, 12:33, thanks, I’m surprised and happy about it too! Up until this year, I didn’t feel like I was gaining much ground in improving as a teacher. I had amassed such a small pool of students since returning to teaching in 2014 after an 11-year hiatus (except for teaching piano to my own kids from 2003-2014). Students are so diverse, and when you only have one or two in addition to your own child(ren) — and 6th Arrow has been my only child studying piano with me since 2014 — there isn’t as much variety or teaching time involved that can diversify and strengthen your skills.

    As difficult as 2020 has been for a number of reasons for many people, what with covid and lockdowns and such, I think the timing of being asked last December whether I’d like to teach as an independent contractor at my colleague’s studio turned out incredibly well. I got my first four students there in February, then covid and the state lockdown roared onto the scene the next month, drying up music lesson inquiries for everyone I know, including myself.

    But by May, when the lockdown was lifted and so many people were tired of all the restrictions that had been in place, music and lessons — especially in-person lessons, which I was offering (some teachers wanted to continue doing virtual lessons only) — started to be viewed as a respite from all the stress of the previous months. The phone started ringing again, especially at that studio, which has been well-known in our area for over 30 years. God had opened a door for me 6 months before that, and little did I know how it would impact my life in such an otherwise tumultuous year that included the deaths of three significant-to-me people.

    For the first time in perhaps decades, I don’t have seasonal affective disorder. (That usually starts late September / early October, intensifies in November, and continues until around early May when warm weather returns and things begin to green up again.) I’m finding joy and peace — “I’m finding,” as opposed to “I have found,” meaning it’s still a work in progress — in what the Lord has placed in front of me, even while challenges are present in them.

    God be praised for all He does as He walks us through the seasons of our lives.

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  29. Janice, I watched a 2020 one about a music store owner (and musician) in a “Christmas Lane” stretch of a quaint downtown; she falls in love with a guy who turns out (of course, staying true to their formula) to work for his father’s real estate company planning to level the street …

    They save Christmas Lane and live happily ever after. 🙂

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  31. Janice, Hamilton is nearish, one has to go through Toronto to get there, but yes, I know of not just one, but two Christian post secondary institutions near there, one a college and one a university. The college is Baptist affiliated, Heritage Bible College and Seminary. The university is Christian Reformed affiliated, Redeemer University. Several of my cousins went to both and a spouse of one of my cousins works at Redeemer. There is also a seminary in the campus of, but independent from the public university in Hamilton, McMaster Divinity College, with Baptist roots, though more nondenominational now.

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  32. The funeral was well attended, though it was pouring rain and snow and windy. The parents rolled a stroller up to the gravesite, with teddy bears and pictures. His body is buried next to the grandma who died in the car accident many years ago. I imagine he and she were dancing with the Lord while we were there. Her husband, the widowed grandfather, did the service. May God be glorified. The parents are okay. The two older brothers were there. Lots of friends and family.

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  36. Mumsee, who is the three-year-old whose funeral it was? I may have missed previous information about him…

    The header picture has about as much snow as we got a couple of weeks ago, our second snowfall of the season and the only one of them in which the snow stuck around for a few days afterward. Of course the warm weather we had this week melted all that.

    I’m sure there will be more to come…

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  39. Sorry

    I have been hibernating. I just didn’t have what it takes today.
    Happy birthday DJ and Roscuro. It is also Sawgunner’s birthday if you remember him.

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  41. Six, one of a set of twins in our church. He and his brother had a genetic challenge and have both exceeded the life expectancy. He leaves behind, with his parents, his twin brother, two older brothers, and two younger twins (a boy and a girl). He was well loved.

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  44. How sad, Mumsee, but a blessing that he outlived his life expectancy. I assume by your first sentence that it’s his twin with the same genetic challenge? Or did I misunderstand and it’s one of his other brothers?

    I know a couple families with two sets of twins. One from way back — the sister-in-law of a friend from my home church when I was growing up — and a piano student from a few years ago who has a younger twin sister and two older siblings who are themselves twins.

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  49. Years ago, Chickadee had a teacher who had two sets of twins.

    A local friend has twin boys who graduated from high school this year. She had to laugh when they would be arguing and one would call the other ugly. They’re identical twins. 😀

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  52. There have not been a set of twins born into my family since my great grandmother gave birth to twins boys, when her daughter, my maternal grandmother, was in her early teens. They did not survive. It is often said that infant mortality was historically so high that people became accustomed to losing children. That was not the case – the deaths of her young twin brothers haunted my grandmother to the end of her life, and from what her mother wrote of her life, she too remained permanently affected by it.

    We knew two different homeschooling families with identical twins. In one set, one of the twins had cerebral palsy, but was still able to walk and talk, and so it was easy to tell them apart despite the similar appearance. The other set I was not around enough to learn to tell apart, although they both have taken different career paths. We also knew grown up identical twin brothers, both farmers with families. They looked and sounded alike – with the exception that one was missing a limb due to an accident – but had completely different manners and personality. One was quiet and spoke slowly with a slight stammer. The other was assertive and spoke in clipped, confident tones. Even without the missing limb, it was impossible to mix them up.

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  53. Actually, on reflection, the assertive twin also had a slight stammer, but always spoke through it with such confidence that it never really occured to the listener that he was stammering.

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  54. My grandpa was an identical twin and they apparently played jokes on people, but not twin jokes. They did stuff like putting a chicken down the outhouse!

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  57. I have identical twin first cousins once removed. They were born when I was 12 or 13 and I saw them at least twice when they were babies (once at their home in Texas, and at least once at ours); their father, my mom’s nephew, did a good job of keeping in touch with her. They were mirror twins, so one was left-handed and their hair parted differently, but I think they were otherwise quite similar.

    I once had a pair of identical twins in my cabin when I was a camp counselor. Someone who knew them explained that the way to tell them apart was that one of them had a chicken pox scar on her forehead. Since that scar could only be seen in particular lighting (more likely outdoors), not seeing that scar didn’t confirm it was the other twin. We happened to have another pair of identical twins at camp that same week.

    Most of the identical twins I’ve known, I’ve known in adulthood and have known only one. I had a housemate in Nashville who was, a church member in my Chicago church and one in my local church, and a co-worker in Chicago. The fellow Chicago church member, her sister lived locally, and I was regularly hearing stories from someone at church coming up to her and saying, “A few days ago I was walking downtown and I saw you and started talking to you, and you looked at me like you didn’t know me, and then I realized it was your sister.” (Hey, those of us who aren’t good at remembering faces . . . perfect alibi!)

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  58. One of my professors told a story about identical twins who were both in the nursing program some years ago. One was a good student and one was not. The one who was a good student would take her twin’s ID and write her exams. Of course, when the school finally figured out what was going on, there was serious repercussions, as cheating will get you turfed out of the program. What a waste of effort for the twin who was a good student.

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  59. Roscuro, one wonders if the “bad student” could have been a good student if they hadn’t been relying on that system throughout school and she never learned to study.

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  60. The Hallmark Christmas movie last night was about twin ladies, one a divorced suburban (Littleton) stay at home mom of two, and the other a single career lady living in downtown Denver. They had grown apart but each thought the other had it better. They exchanged roles for the Christmas season. It was quite an enjoyable and well done movie. And then to see all the posts on twins here was amazing after watching that.

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  61. In 1954 my grandmother gave birth to the “heaviest “ set of twins in the State of Alabama. It was her 10th pregnancy. Cheryl Ann and Daryl Andrew. Her tubes were tied after that but a year or so later she gave birth to Joy Marie. My Aunt Joy has early onset dementia.

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  62. I saw that one, Janice.

    Hallmark movies aren’t deep, they’re like popcorn (instead of a meal) but they seem to hit the spot in certain times of life and heading into Christmas 2020, following a horrendous political season that seemed to never end, is probably one of them.

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  63. I volunteered at the Art Center for First Friday this week. I washed my hands with Meyer Acorn Spice soap. It smelled so good I just ordered some from Amazon. I had forgotten that you can go to smie.amazon.com and choose a charity to have them give a portion of your order. Of course, I have chosen KW Cares. Why not?

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  64. The pastor mentioned Hallmark Christmas movies in his sermon today. He was contrasting the certainty of how they ended with the abrupt ending if the book of Acts.

    Cheryl, one also wonders if the “bad student” was just maybe in the wrong field, and maybe had only gone into nursing because her twin had, not from any desire on her own part.

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  65. Kare, how exciting: Christmas twins! (Or before.) Have you said whether they’re fraternal or identical? I can’t recall.

    I had identical twin boys as piano students years ago, but they didn’t both start at the same time (one of the twins started at the same time his older, non-twin brother did, so when the other twin started, I could “tell the twins apart” by their level of advancement).

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  66. No going to church this morning with five to six inches of fresh snow and unplowed roads most of the five miles and drifts which tend to build a couple of feet on the roads. But a good time of learning with son’s church in Virginia.

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  69. The twins are DD, which is the safest type – separate sacs and all. So most likely fraternal boys!

    We’re hoping and praying that they will be born healthy and strong. Christmas is very much up in the air this year as we will want to go visit once they are born and settled, but not knowing when that will happen is something I struggle with. 🙂

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  74. Kare, I was going to ask what DD twins are, but then saw your next post identifying them as DIDI twins.

    So now I’ll ask what are DIDI twins?

    Sorry, but I am clueless about this. 🙂

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  75. DIDI stands for dichorionic diamniotic. The chorionic membrane is outermost membrane of the placenta, so diochorioinc mean each twin has their own placenta. The amniotic fluid surrounds the developing baby – the ‘water’ that breaks in labour – and diamniotic means that the twins have separate amniotic sacs. But, as Kare mentions, having di/di twins only indicates that the twins are likely to be fraternal or dizygotic- meaning the twins are from two seperate zygotes (fertilized ova) – and less likely to be monozygotic, identical, meaning from the same fertilized ova. It is possible that the fertilized ova in a monozygotic set of twins could divide so completely so that each twin would have their own placenta and amniotic sac , but identical twins are more likely to share a placenta and/or amniotic sac because they are from the same zygote. Fraternal twins are from different zygotes and thus will always have separate placentas and amniotic sacs.

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  76. Ultrasounds can tell the number of placentas and amniotic sacs in a pregnancy, but they cannot give genetic results to see if the twins have the same chromosomal makeup. So, it is only possible to tell by ultrasound whether one is having di/di, mo/di, or mo/mo twins. The last two combinations are only found with identical twins and are quite high risk combinations, since one twin is usually deprived of placental nutrients by the other in a mo/di combination and in mo/mo the twins are at high risk of being tangled in each other’s umbilical cords. But since di/di could be either fraternal or identical and is also the most common combination found with twin ultrasounds, it is a matter of wait and see at birth to see for certain if they are identical or fraternal. Now, if the twins are different sexes on ultrasound, that is an obvious fraternal set, because identical twins have the same chromosomes and thus cannot be different sexes.

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  78. We had 10 inches of snow yesterday and a lot more is expected today with lots of wind. It’s lovely outside (as long as you don’t have to drive anywhere).

    If we’d had any butter in the house, there would be so much baking in the freezer!

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  82. Thank you, Roscuro, I hadn’t heard all that about twins before.

    Internet keeps going out here today. I don’t think I will be in the running of a race to 100.

    Waiting for the green light to come back on so I can hit Post Comment and have it actually post my comment…

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  83. I’m still trying to figure out how the harmonica played managed to play his harmonica with a mask on. I had to watch on my phone today and he had on a bandana like mask, but I never saw how he managed.

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  84. We had a cold, blustery outdoor service today, song sheets took occasionally to the wind, flipping pages to follow along with Bible passages was quite impossible. Our plastic communion cups kept shooting off chairs or out from behind chair legs, skittering across the concrete patio.

    It’s a beautiful day out, but quite chilly, we were all bundled up, California style. I threw caution to the wind and flipped on the house heater when I got home — probably the first time it’s been on since March probably — I’ll replace the filter and clean out the grate later this week. Always relieved each year when I know the heater still works.

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  86. Socks AND shearling boots. And a long scarf. And a shearling-lined jean jacket over a turtleneck over a T-shirt.

    But also sunglasses. It is California.

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  88. It is a cold and blustery day here in the forest…the winds are a howling! I got a new keyboard and it is taking some getting used to but I’ll master it eventually. I am trying to learn how to jump over to MeWe and Paler and it is not easy. Everyone I know is talking about abandoning FB so this old dog needs to learn a new trick! 😂

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  90. People in Idaho wear sunglasses. It makes them very cool. I don’t. I used to have my glasses change but I don’t think these do. You sound like you would be dressed just right. But most of that has to go on as you are climbing out of the Cherokee or you would be overcooked and frozen.

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  91. Facebook…so many, including me, are tired of the interventions posed by the facebook admins. I just wanted a place where I could converse with friends and see photos of loved ones… 😊

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  93. Cheryl, I was in Indiana about 20 years ago in July. It was 100F and the humidity was 99%. I could NOT get cool. I much prefer a desert heat 🙂 And most of our activities were outside (it was an international game warden conference).

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  94. Midwest humidity is brutal.

    I’ve avoided FB mostly, or as much as I can; I guess one of our former colleagues posted that she can now finally “sleep” at night since the election. The gloating is never appealing, whatever side it is, but it’s especially annoying if it’s the “other” side. And this phase will go on a while due to the Trump hatred, I’m afraid.

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  95. Nearing 100!
    While I watched and listened to the church service, my neighbor had the leaf blower going for a bit outside my window. I was surprised. We do not own a leaf blower so I can’t reciprocate. People just don’t show reverence for Sunday morning anymore.

    I have a pot of spinach cooking and will make soup after that is finished. I’m catching up on laundry and have a prayer call in a little while for an hour. I hemmed up some jeans earlier and still need to take them up in the waist. Losing weight is a good thing except for all the alterations or having to buy new clothes.I know it sounds like I am working on Sunday, but these are all relaxing little chores.

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  96. Yes, DJ, it will continue on, especially here for the nasty Senate races.

    I saw there is a date when a lot of people plan to leave Facebook en masse. Not sure what I want to do. I think I need to stay on Facebook for my outreach with my daily haiku and inspirational/gratitude to God posts.

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  105. I take a little nap, I come here and see my internet is back in, there are 101 comments, a bunch of question marks and exclamations and now stars, there’s an Anonymous saying “100 or something?” at 99, and…

    did I miss something? 😉

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  106. We had a brief squall here with snow and hail. That was so funny. It was like the weather wanted to make up for making us wait so long for even a drop of rain or to see a cloud.

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  108. I see Alex Trebek has died. Although I haven’t watched Jeopardy a whole lot, my parents like the show, so I see it occasionally when I’m visiting their house when it’s on. Trebek seems like he was a personable guy, easy to get along with, I would think.

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  111. Just got an invite to a virtual Thanksgiving feast!

    Only calories are what you have at home, but full of good cheer!

    Last night’s Murder Mystery Birthday Dinner was so much fun!

    Stargazer did it!

    Somehow . . . He joined us via Zoom from Seattle!

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  112. That’s awesome, Michelle!

    My prayer call went longer than an hour. This time there were only two of us. The Sunday call is devoted to praying only for the church, our own and all churches, without praying about anything related to politics. The two of us were able to do that, but had others been with us I think there would have been difficulty in sticking with the framework. I have an idea that the others at this particular time would not have been able to keep politics from creeping in. Our other prayer calls cover everything.

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  115. My MIL was a twin. Her twin sister’s daughter had a set of twins, but one died. No one else in the family has had twins to my knowledge.

    The swimming coach at the school my girls graduated from had two sets of twins and a set of quads. They were all girls so on the same team. The paper did a story with picture of the team. There have been quite a few stories about the quads.

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  116. I see Alex Trebek’s family has not planned a service, but gifts in his name are going to World Vision. Interesting, since I never thought of him as a religious person.

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  117. Janice, does your neighbor know you watch church via livestream? My hunch is it wouldn’t occur to her she might be disturbing anyone, as long as it was late enough for people to not still be sleeping, and she just wanted to get it done. Especially if she has a job and can’t do it during the week (daylight ends so quickly these days).

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  118. I guess this is going to be a multiple post.

    1- Twins. A former pastor said when his mother was 12 or 13, his grandmother gave birth to twins, then told the doctor there was another one in there. The doctor didn’t believe her (this was the 1920s in rural Missouri). He said he would not charge her for the delivery if there was another in there. The triplets lived into their 80s.

    2- Twins again: Many years ago, I heard of a woman in California who had twins, but from 2 different fathers. Yea, odd.

    3- We had an outdoor service today, in the yard of the pastor;s farm house. Upper 60s with a breeze. But the sun was warm. If I hadn’t had on a light jacket I might have gotten a November sunburn.

    4- NCIS LA is back on the air..

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  119. There have been twins of biracial couples, with one looking black and the other looking white. That would be pretty cool! 🙂

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  120. A friend on Facebook shared a video from a minister who was full-on pro-Trump, and was very worked up about the election. He went so far as to strongly insinuate that if you didn’t vote for Trump, then you are against God. 😦

    As for Facebook censoring conservatives, I am still seeing a lot of far-right stuff that a few of my friends post. My concern would be that we could end up with conservatives on one kind of social media platform and liberals on another, and become even more divided.

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  122. We just returned home from church and our study was Psalm 2…very good Word!

    Kizzie I don’t see too many bombastic posts from Trump supporters but more informative ones such as from Ben Shapiro/Matt Walsh/David L Harris. After each one of their posts, facebook places a sort of “factcheck qualifier” post of their own leading the viewer to “their news”. What is interesting to me, when I see a post supporting Biden I see no such “qualifier” from facebook.

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