Jo, glad the conditioner seems to be working. I would suffer in that heat, for sure! Also, glad the air fryer worked well. I was gifted with the Cuisinart one that is like a small oven. I was sure I would not have room for one, but my daughter found a way. Am I glad she did. It is wonderful for air frying and reheating pizza or any number of things. It saves on electricity and doesn’t nearly heat up the kitchen like the big oven.
We are blessed to have our daughter from TN and her husband fly in today for a few short days. We will all head to WI to visit and attend our oldest granddaughter’s grad party. These are the fun celebrations of life. I have learned how precious those are!
Weather sounds perfect, btw. Seventy-two degrees and sunny.
The photo wasn’t up when I first posted. It is a hummingbird nest with eggs. The eggs have now hatched. We took a quick peak last evening. It was cold and those birds must have been cold when the parent flew off to a nearby pine. The parent was chirping mad at us, and I can understand that. I discovered the nest when the bird flew out suddenly when I passed it. It is right next to the house and by the sidewalk.
Hummingbirds chirp? I learn something every day! We had some baby robins in a transom window outside our bedroom. there are 4 such nests around our house.
Those are Waldo eggs for me! Find Waldo in the green forest😅 Such a beautiful photo with the added interest of hummingbird eggs.♡
I will have a sweet outing in a bit with two friends. We will be celebrating the one turning 94 this month. She is amazing.
I cut about six inches off my hair yesterday. I have been doing this for years so could even do it blind😅 Well, maybe my friends will tell me if I need to go to the repair shop. Art did not even mention the cut so maybe he needs to get his eyes checked, or maybe his heart.
Peter, I mentioned yesterday about telling Son about the cave you are working at. He looked it up and saw a story about a doctor who had utilized the cave in the past. Could you tell us the story, please?
Good morning, all. A beautiful sunshine day here. I took my Bible and tea outside this morning as my brother is here to tend my dad. Gorgeous day.
Brother heads back to Boise today but he and his wife head back up next week for a few days camping in a nearby national park. We will probably drive over to visit a time or two. Or they will come by here if dad is not up for the drive.
Other brother plans to come by today. The place is hopping.
Kathaleena, are you sure that’s a hummingbird nest? The nest itself doesn’t look like any photo I’ve ever seen (or any real nest) of hummingbird nests, and it looks like it has three eggs and hummingbirds have two.
I just posted this on FB, but I think some of you may find it interesting, too.
Crazy busy day. How does this happen to me?
For the second year in a row, I’m reading the Bible in a year. This year, I’m reading a chronological Bible and, oh, my, what a difference it makes!
Yesterday’s reading was about all the wealth Solomon built up–so many horses (and of course I know God specifically told Israel not to trust in chariots or horses, and particularly NOT to buy horses from Egypt).
All his riches–which I know were managed and built on the backs of slaves–just felt like such an overwhelming and pointless excess.
Even if he was the king.
Today’s reading starts with God’s displeasure over Solomon’s excessive wives and comcubines. Just ridiculous and it reminds of our media potentates today.
Which then led to Solomon pleasing all these women by building shrines and temples to THEIR Gods, rather than staying devoted to his own. My own.
And it ended, because this is chronological, with the passages out of Ecclesiastes about the meaningfulness of life.
Given how Solomon, despite all God’s wisdom willing to be poured onto and through him, squandered everything on personal what?, you can understand how life felt pointless.
Because rather than worshipping the one true God, he chose to please the people/women around him with excess.
So, God gave the Kingdom away to yet another man who spent time in Egypt, Jeroboam, who also squandered what God gave him on power, might, corruption, and other gods.
What’s the take-away?
For me, today, gratitude I don’t have thousands of husbands, excessive wealth, nor a desire for power over others.
I’m just thankful for Jesus–who forgives me, talks to me, directs me, and reminds me that He has shown me what is good and what the Lord requires of ME.
To do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.
“To do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.”
Such a good verse to cling to always (and especially in this year that we’re going through with elections and what seems like worldwide upheaval).
I had a humming bird’s nest outside my kitchen window some years back, it was very small and tightly woven with small pieces, so it did look quite different from the one in the photo. Hmm.
Such a busy week — well, busy months, plural, really — for us. It feels busier probably because we’re short-handed.
Janice, thank you for sharing the link yesterday to the text of Reagan’s speech on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. It feels strange to realize that today we are exactly as many years past that speech, which feels like not long ago, as the speech was past D-Day itself, which feels like ancient history. And to think how much has changed since his reflections on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
I am in awe of and grateful for what the Allied Forces undertook and accomplished.
Agreed, Kevin. I got tears thinking about it all and how the younger generations take so much for granted and don’t realize what they are losing because many have been spoiled with excess, over- indulgence, and ignorance of self-sacrifice for the greater good. I guess so things can’t be taught and stick secondhand but people have to lose it all for them to understand how much they lost and what it will take to get it back.
We had the birthday celebration at the Swan Coach House. It was my first visit there. For our friend’s complimentary dessert they brought out the cutest delicate swan made of a thick light creamy frosting with chocolate inside and chocoate dribbled across the plate to resemble water the swan floated upon. A lit candle was in the middle that she had
I need a nap after the heavier thanusual lunch. We strolled around the art gallery and gift shop.
Janice @4:02, and I sometimes wonder if we aren’t right on the precipice of losing it. 😦
We’ll wonder how it all happened, how we ever got so close to the edge in the first place — step by step, year by year, until the disunity and bad ideas overwhelmed it all …
Maybe it’s time for the nation to get sober, recognize (and learn from again) the lessons of history and embrace wisdom, letting go of the strange binge we’ve been on for too long now.
Daily I have adventures in the Visually Impaired World. Today our friend who drove got the car from valet parking and said she’d meet us by the front door. I had our 94 y/o friend to escort down three steps to get there. She followed me as if I knew what I was doing. I saw the white SUV with tinted windows waiting. I got real close to make sure it was friend as I could not see through the windows. I was about to open the door when we saw our driver friend pull behind that vehicle. The one we almost got into pulled away. I think two old ladies about to get in their vehicle scared them away!
Back from a rather brief check-in with the GP. I preferred the last doctor I had — this one seems very efficient and knowledgable but she mutters findings mostly to herself or to her assistant to write down as opposed to talking more directly to me. 🙂
The medical practice (only about 4 blocks away from my house) has a lot of doctor turnover, I think because they take in young doctors who within a year or two move on. This one is older, had her own practice elsewhere but I guess decided to transition to a group practice.
Medical care had indeed changed over the years Jo. Hoping you get settled with a great doctor .
Kathaleena that is a sweet nest We have had so many different birds around here it’s hard to identify them. Husband found a photo of a mystery bird nested in one of our bird boxes. A Starling! We had not seen them here before. He’s catching lots of moths!
Janice asked for the story of a doctor using the cave. His name was Joseph Nash McDowell, who owned the cave when Mark Twain was a boy. So in The Aventures of Tom Sawyer the cave is McDougal’s cave.
He had some eccentric ideas. He wanted to petrify a dead body. Medical experiments on cadavers were illegal in those days so he bought the cave in 1847 and used his 14 year old daughter who had died of pneumonia. He put her in a copper cylinder with a glass lining and a solution of alcohol. It had a window on it. He suspended it in the cave from an iron rail for 2 or more years.
People found it and many went to see it, including children who used it as a prop for ghost stories. Some ran in fear and lost their candles when they tripped, so they had to find their way out in the dark.
Wandering Views 
Jo, glad the conditioner seems to be working. I would suffer in that heat, for sure! Also, glad the air fryer worked well. I was gifted with the Cuisinart one that is like a small oven. I was sure I would not have room for one, but my daughter found a way. Am I glad she did. It is wonderful for air frying and reheating pizza or any number of things. It saves on electricity and doesn’t nearly heat up the kitchen like the big oven.
We are blessed to have our daughter from TN and her husband fly in today for a few short days. We will all head to WI to visit and attend our oldest granddaughter’s grad party. These are the fun celebrations of life. I have learned how precious those are!
Weather sounds perfect, btw. Seventy-two degrees and sunny.
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The photo wasn’t up when I first posted. It is a hummingbird nest with eggs. The eggs have now hatched. We took a quick peak last evening. It was cold and those birds must have been cold when the parent flew off to a nearby pine. The parent was chirping mad at us, and I can understand that. I discovered the nest when the bird flew out suddenly when I passed it. It is right next to the house and by the sidewalk.
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Hummingbirds chirp? I learn something every day! We had some baby robins in a transom window outside our bedroom. there are 4 such nests around our house.
Oh, and it’s Friday again.
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Those are Waldo eggs for me! Find Waldo in the green forest😅 Such a beautiful photo with the added interest of hummingbird eggs.♡
I will have a sweet outing in a bit with two friends. We will be celebrating the one turning 94 this month. She is amazing.
I cut about six inches off my hair yesterday. I have been doing this for years so could even do it blind😅 Well, maybe my friends will tell me if I need to go to the repair shop. Art did not even mention the cut so maybe he needs to get his eyes checked, or maybe his heart.
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Peter, I mentioned yesterday about telling Son about the cave you are working at. He looked it up and saw a story about a doctor who had utilized the cave in the past. Could you tell us the story, please?
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Good morning, all. A beautiful sunshine day here. I took my Bible and tea outside this morning as my brother is here to tend my dad. Gorgeous day.
Brother heads back to Boise today but he and his wife head back up next week for a few days camping in a nearby national park. We will probably drive over to visit a time or two. Or they will come by here if dad is not up for the drive.
Other brother plans to come by today. The place is hopping.
mumsee
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That sounds lovely, Mumsee!
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Kathaleena, are you sure that’s a hummingbird nest? The nest itself doesn’t look like any photo I’ve ever seen (or any real nest) of hummingbird nests, and it looks like it has three eggs and hummingbirds have two.
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I just posted this on FB, but I think some of you may find it interesting, too.
Crazy busy day. How does this happen to me?
For the second year in a row, I’m reading the Bible in a year.
This year, I’m reading a chronological Bible and, oh, my, what a difference it makes!
Yesterday’s reading was about all the wealth Solomon built up–so many horses (and of course I know God specifically told Israel not to trust in chariots or horses, and particularly NOT to buy horses from Egypt).
All his riches–which I know were managed and built on the backs of slaves–just felt like such an overwhelming and pointless excess.
Even if he was the king.
Today’s reading starts with God’s displeasure over Solomon’s excessive wives and comcubines. Just ridiculous and it reminds of our media potentates today.
Which then led to Solomon pleasing all these women by building shrines and temples to THEIR Gods, rather than staying devoted to his own. My own.
And it ended, because this is chronological, with the passages out of Ecclesiastes about the meaningfulness of life.
Given how Solomon, despite all God’s wisdom willing to be poured onto and through him, squandered everything on personal what?, you can understand how life felt pointless.
Because rather than worshipping the one true God, he chose to please the people/women around him with excess.
So, God gave the Kingdom away to yet another man who spent time in Egypt, Jeroboam, who also squandered what God gave him on power, might, corruption, and other gods.
What’s the take-away?
For me, today, gratitude I don’t have thousands of husbands, excessive wealth, nor a desire for power over others.
I’m just thankful for Jesus–who forgives me, talks to me, directs me, and reminds me that He has shown me what is good and what the Lord requires of ME.
To do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.
Thanks be to that same God.
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“To do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.”
Such a good verse to cling to always (and especially in this year that we’re going through with elections and what seems like worldwide upheaval).
I had a humming bird’s nest outside my kitchen window some years back, it was very small and tightly woven with small pieces, so it did look quite different from the one in the photo. Hmm.
Such a busy week — well, busy months, plural, really — for us. It feels busier probably because we’re short-handed.
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Janice, thank you for sharing the link yesterday to the text of Reagan’s speech on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. It feels strange to realize that today we are exactly as many years past that speech, which feels like not long ago, as the speech was past D-Day itself, which feels like ancient history. And to think how much has changed since his reflections on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
I am in awe of and grateful for what the Allied Forces undertook and accomplished.
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Agreed, Kevin. I got tears thinking about it all and how the younger generations take so much for granted and don’t realize what they are losing because many have been spoiled with excess, over- indulgence, and ignorance of self-sacrifice for the greater good. I guess so things can’t be taught and stick secondhand but people have to lose it all for them to understand how much they lost and what it will take to get it back.
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We had the birthday celebration at the Swan Coach House. It was my first visit there. For our friend’s complimentary dessert they brought out the cutest delicate swan made of a thick light creamy frosting with chocolate inside and chocoate dribbled across the plate to resemble water the swan floated upon. A lit candle was in the middle that she had
I need a nap after the heavier thanusual lunch. We strolled around the art gallery and gift shop.
https://www.swancoachhouse.com/
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Janice @4:02, and I sometimes wonder if we aren’t right on the precipice of losing it. 😦
We’ll wonder how it all happened, how we ever got so close to the edge in the first place — step by step, year by year, until the disunity and bad ideas overwhelmed it all …
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Maybe it’s time for the nation to get sober, recognize (and learn from again) the lessons of history and embrace wisdom, letting go of the strange binge we’ve been on for too long now.
But God … (and Only God) knows.
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And, I’ll add, may Americans again be able to cast their vote for “a good man”
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Daily I have adventures in the Visually Impaired World. Today our friend who drove got the car from valet parking and said she’d meet us by the front door. I had our 94 y/o friend to escort down three steps to get there. She followed me as if I knew what I was doing. I saw the white SUV with tinted windows waiting. I got real close to make sure it was friend as I could not see through the windows. I was about to open the door when we saw our driver friend pull behind that vehicle. The one we almost got into pulled away. I think two old ladies about to get in their vehicle scared them away!
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So sorry some of my posts today seem scrambled. Not sure if it is me or my phone scrambling them.
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🙂 @6:32
Back from a rather brief check-in with the GP. I preferred the last doctor I had — this one seems very efficient and knowledgable but she mutters findings mostly to herself or to her assistant to write down as opposed to talking more directly to me. 🙂
The medical practice (only about 4 blocks away from my house) has a lot of doctor turnover, I think because they take in young doctors who within a year or two move on. This one is older, had her own practice elsewhere but I guess decided to transition to a group practice.
Fun with doctors.
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Thanks, Cheryl, for the heads up. It is indeed a different, tiny bird on that nest. I am not sure what kind it is yet.
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I think it is a chipping sparrow. Don’t believe everything you see online. 😉 I do have a picture of the bird, but it is not real clear.
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Medical care had indeed changed over the years Jo. Hoping you get settled with a great doctor .
Kathaleena that is a sweet nest We have had so many different birds around here it’s hard to identify them. Husband found a photo of a mystery bird nested in one of our bird boxes. A Starling! We had not seen them here before. He’s catching lots of moths!
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Janice asked for the story of a doctor using the cave. His name was Joseph Nash McDowell, who owned the cave when Mark Twain was a boy. So in The Aventures of Tom Sawyer the cave is McDougal’s cave.
He had some eccentric ideas. He wanted to petrify a dead body. Medical experiments on cadavers were illegal in those days so he bought the cave in 1847 and used his 14 year old daughter who had died of pneumonia. He put her in a copper cylinder with a glass lining and a solution of alcohol. It had a window on it. He suspended it in the cave from an iron rail for 2 or more years.
People found it and many went to see it, including children who used it as a prop for ghost stories. Some ran in fear and lost their candles when they tripped, so they had to find their way out in the dark.
We tell this on the tours.
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Oh, chipping sparrows are cool little birds!
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