Good morning to you as well. Beautiful day here, supposed to get up into the nineties. I am sitting by an open window listening to the hummingbirds chatter.
yesterday was a very long day at church as we had another memorial service. A privilege to serve. I was in charge but everyone else was so capable I just kept listening to their ideas and agreeing
truly a God honoring service and the children honoring their father
Morning! Beautiful flowers to begin our week. How I cherish the days of green foliage and pretty flowers in our forest. The fox is taking his nap right out front… it is a foggy start to the day but oh so cozy..
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Good morning! It’s a hot and humid day, 77° now and headed to the upper 80s.
We picked up our car from the paint and body shop. A repair/replacement of the passenger side mirror was needed after it got caught in a tangle with a garbage bin on the street. $1,100 to get it fixed because of the calibration required for the camera that connects to the screen. In former days it would have been an inexpensive repair before things got so complicated.
And here I was disgusted with the few hundred dollars to replace the side mirror after a deer tried to see his image when we were driving 55 mph.
A few years back, someone here said all the servers in restaurants were drug users. There was some push back. I was put in mind of this as I chatted with the current manager of a restaurant we frequent.
This woman graduated at 16 and then had her father sign so she could join the army. She went into emergency medicine there. She retired from the army at 37 and then worked in civilian medicine for a while before getting burned out. She decided civilians were nuts after having so many come in with things like decapitations while driving snow mobiles. I actually had a classmate who died that way after hitting a guy wire on a telephone pole.
She isn’t a server, but she does work in a restaurant. I bet a lot of people would be surprised at her background. I know servers who are college graduates and do choose to serve for various reasons. There are lots of reasons people choose various jobs. I have to say I admire her ambition and courage.
I do not frequent eating establishments though it does appear I may “have to” at the upcoming family reunion. But I do admire people willing to take on that job and treat the customers politely even in the face of some nasty behavior. Even just thoughtless behavior.
We had a guy do that near our town shortly after we moved in. Sad but you gotta wonder. The prairie is full of “functional alcoholics” so you gotta wonder if that played into his snowmobile experience.
Pretty flowers, Peter. I had cone flowers and blanket flowers (galardia), among others in a wildflower seed pack I planted from several years back. Only the blanket flowers seemed to survive, reseeding each year. Did you plant these from seed?
When I planted the wildflower patch, there were many other types of flowers. But over the last couple of years the coneflowers took over. Time to thin out the crop.
I love my coneflowers. Perennials can be a bit of work when you need to divide them. However, they are wonderful to share and/or replant elsewhere. The bees and butterflies sure like the coneflowers.
Wandering Views 
Purple coneflowers and coreopsis?
Good morning. Another beautiful day to spend in the garden.
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Good morning to you as well. Beautiful day here, supposed to get up into the nineties. I am sitting by an open window listening to the hummingbirds chatter.
mumsee
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yesterday was a very long day at church as we had another memorial service. A privilege to serve. I was in charge but everyone else was so capable I just kept listening to their ideas and agreeing
truly a God honoring service and the children honoring their father
I was on my feet for so long they just ached
jo
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Morning! Beautiful flowers to begin our week. How I cherish the days of green foliage and pretty flowers in our forest. The fox is taking his nap right out front… it is a foggy start to the day but oh so cozy..
Word is being annoying however..,won’t let me log in!!
Nj
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Good morning! It’s a hot and humid day, 77° now and headed to the upper 80s.
We picked up our car from the paint and body shop. A repair/replacement of the passenger side mirror was needed after it got caught in a tangle with a garbage bin on the street. $1,100 to get it fixed because of the calibration required for the camera that connects to the screen. In former days it would have been an inexpensive repair before things got so complicated.
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And here I was disgusted with the few hundred dollars to replace the side mirror after a deer tried to see his image when we were driving 55 mph.
A few years back, someone here said all the servers in restaurants were drug users. There was some push back. I was put in mind of this as I chatted with the current manager of a restaurant we frequent.
This woman graduated at 16 and then had her father sign so she could join the army. She went into emergency medicine there. She retired from the army at 37 and then worked in civilian medicine for a while before getting burned out. She decided civilians were nuts after having so many come in with things like decapitations while driving snow mobiles. I actually had a classmate who died that way after hitting a guy wire on a telephone pole.
She isn’t a server, but she does work in a restaurant. I bet a lot of people would be surprised at her background. I know servers who are college graduates and do choose to serve for various reasons. There are lots of reasons people choose various jobs. I have to say I admire her ambition and courage.
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I do not frequent eating establishments though it does appear I may “have to” at the upcoming family reunion. But I do admire people willing to take on that job and treat the customers politely even in the face of some nasty behavior. Even just thoughtless behavior.
mumsee
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We had a guy do that near our town shortly after we moved in. Sad but you gotta wonder. The prairie is full of “functional alcoholics” so you gotta wonder if that played into his snowmobile experience.
mumsee
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Pretty flowers, Peter. I had cone flowers and blanket flowers (galardia), among others in a wildflower seed pack I planted from several years back. Only the blanket flowers seemed to survive, reseeding each year. Did you plant these from seed?
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Yes, sadly, alcohol often plays a part in those accidents.
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When I planted the wildflower patch, there were many other types of flowers. But over the last couple of years the coneflowers took over. Time to thin out the crop.
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I love my coneflowers. Perennials can be a bit of work when you need to divide them. However, they are wonderful to share and/or replant elsewhere. The bees and butterflies sure like the coneflowers.
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