20 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-5-24”

  1. We are off to vote, shortly. Well, we are both short. 😉

    The local fella running for state office (a township supervisor said he had to wait in line. We seldom wait long in a line to vote, but I suspect it will be busy this morning.

    Then we have to bring our truck in for a software update. The more stuff on a vehicle, the more to go wrong. Who would have ever thought we would need software updates? This is the second one and I think we have about 5,000 miles on it.

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  2. Good morning, all. We, too, will be heading in to vote. Well, my dad and I. Husband is taking the two in for GED so he and son will vote when they return. I do not know if dad will vote.

    There is a skiff of snow this morning!

    mumsee

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  3. Nightingale and I will go to vote when she gets home from her class later. Since we are a small town, but also split up between two polling places (depending on address), the lines are usually fairly short and move quickly. Wondering if it will be the same today.

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  4. We voted absentee this year because we weren’t sure how easy it would be for me to get around – or to stand in line for a long time – after foot surgery. Mrs B and KJ took their ballots and mine to the township clerk’s office yesterday.

    As it happens, I have a follow-up appointment with the doctor today, which should be the last. If the x-ray looks good I won’t need this clunky boot any more.

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  5. Here’s hoping, Kevin!

    We voted. There were just over a hundred votes in. It seemed like a normal, busy election year. It was a very short wait. Or seemed so, since we chatted, while in line, with a relative who had just finished voting. If your last initial was M-Z you could have walked right over and voted. Apparently, most of us have a last name starting with A-L.

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  6. Oh, hoping you’ll be boot-free Kevin, that will be such a relief, I’m sure.

    I’ve adapted to (and embraced) voting early – filling out the mailed ballot at home, putting it in the authorized envelope and filling that out, then hand-delivering it to the vote center just for my own peace of mind. We’re so busy on Election Day that it’s hard to get free sometimes to vote, especially if you’re working a day shift; I remember rushing home in the dark ages (and in the dark) trying to beat the closing time at my local polling place.

    We’ve been spoiled and I don’t see us going back to one-day voting. But I’m all in favor of verifying voter information, ID checks, etc., no matter how or when you vote or turn a ballot in.

    Someone sent me a flier this morning about therapy dogs that will be on campus Thursday at one of our community colleges. 🙂

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  7. Heigh ho! Heigh ho! I’m off to lunch with Jo! 🙂

    Not a lot of folks in line at the library, but more than normal.

    I was shocked, they printed the ballot in front of me.

    That’s never happened before. Didn’t look at ID, but did ask my name, address, and birthdate, so that was something.

    The submarine veteran was there manning the polls again this year, and we saluted each other.

    Now I’m visiting Jo and another friend this afternoon, then immersed in a writer’s conference the rest of the week.

    We’ve been warned it’s a politics-free zone. I hope that’s true.

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  8. A lot of voting going on here! Thankful we could vote early using the machine just as we would have today. I found out my friends who always wait until election day voted early as did my brother. People here in Georgia did pay attention to the request for Republicans to break tradition and vote early.

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  10. My one friend who went to vote today said, “You were right.” That is not something you want to hear about voting on election day. She was parking at her polling site and had to leave as police and dogs came in to handle a suspicious situation. Hopefully she can vote later.

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  12. We have voted. There was no line at all! We were back home within 15 minutes of leaving!

    One of the perks of living in a small town. Also because mid-afternoon is probably not a time when they would get many voters anyway. There will probably be more people voting after typical work hours.

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  13. Kizzie, do you ever go out for walks? A small town seems like a nice place to do that.

    I just got back from a walk to the neighborhood elementary school. Many people were out today. I had on sweatpants, a short sleeve t-shirt with a light flannel shirts (red and black plaid). The younger set were more in tank tops and shorts.

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  14. I learned about new word today on the local news. Not sure of the spelling but sounds like de-lu-lu. It means delusional.

    My friend went back and got to vote. I heard there had been Russian bomb threats at several Georgia voting polls. Raffensberger told Russia to not mess with this Georgia.

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  17. Mumsee – I’m guessing you also don’t have cars whizzing by. 🙂

    My little lane is right off the main road through town. Although you would never know it once you drove down the lane, which ends at my neighbor’s property.

    They have a large amount of land, and it has quite a country feel. Until it became too expensive for them to continue, they raised a couple cows at a time for meat, and they had two beautiful horses. One was a beautiful white shire horse.

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  19. nice lunch with Michelle! We talked for close to three hours. So good to catch up. We did mention all of you. I found a new Trader Joe’s. I asked if they were new and they opened on Halloween. It shortened my day and there was no line for gas at Costco

    took the scenic route home enjoying the fall colors and got home just as the sun disappeared over the mountain

    ok, where do I send our obligatory meetup picture?

    jo

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