Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Politics didn’t ruin MLB.
The communist owners (china branch) and their fellow travelers did it all on their own.
They claim otherwise, but the anti-American blood runs through their veins. They hate the freedoms that America represents.
The players are being played as stooges to the communists.
The Patriotic American public wants nothing to do with the anti-American MLB.
We made baseball, we can surely un-make it.
There, see how easy that was.
How many in the MLB are Americans or were actually born in this country ?
Every single iconic thing that is American has been slated for destruction for decades.
MLB is not entertainment, while my son was growing up our family spent more time at the recreational facilities watching the Little League games in our neighborhood. If I remember right, the only money spent there was for refreshments 😛
Baseball taught individual skills and achievement within the team spirit.
It developed the much needed hand/eye coordination within speed constraints (aka the double play).
It taught strategy, tactics, rules, statistics and fair play.
Little League is baseball, MLB today, not so much..
Willie Nelson understands songs of love and loss . . . Can you imagine the surprise you’d feel if you went to the park and found Willie sitting on a park bench playing songs? Once I was in a burger place I liked when Willie and another guy walked in to eat lunch. Everybody, of course, recognized him but everybody—and I mean everybody—in the restaurant treated him like a normal customer. Nobody bothered him, everybody just left him and his friend alone to enjoy their lunch. This is what I love about Texas!
That’s such a beautiful story……………………………and beautiful music to accompany it! Thank you, as always, for sharing.
🙂
Willie Nelson is a true national treasure and one of those few artists whose style is so unique that you can recognize his voice and styling within just a few bars. He puts his own wonderful touch to any and every song he sings.
Yep. 🙂
What part of Texas you live in Austin ?
Willy is an embarrassment to this country for his partnership with Beto.
Willy was a great song writer. He did a lot of good thru the farm aid concerts to bring attention to the plight of family farmers and ranchers. He hated authority and Republicans and that led him to the Democrats camp. Not out of conviction but out of hatred of the phony so called right. National treasure?
I’d walk out if Robert Francis (Beto’s) buddy walked in and Willy should have been shown the door by the owner.
Dwight and Willie
Don’t Pay Attention To Stories
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“Neither give heed to fables…” (1 Tim. 1:4)
As the present-day English reader comes upon the word “fables” in the Authorized Version, he is apt to think of Aesop’s Fables, but these were illustrations, while the original word muthois means simply stories, including stories of imagined incidents or events.
There are two types of stories that have exerted an amazing influence upon twentieth century Christendom. One is the novel, the other the promotional story. In considering the above passage, this writer examined the contents of the popular Christian periodicals coming to his desk and was astonished to find how many of them were largely filled with fiction and with stories written to promote projects or viewpoints. The Apostle says about such stories that they raise questions but do not answer them, for stories really prove nothing. This is also true of many Christian films.
Many Christian novels have indeed exerted a savory influence upon their readers — when they have been founded upon Scriptural truths and principles. Obviously, however, an author can make his novel “prove” exactly what he wishes to prove, for the novel involves us in a world of make-believe. Thus a novel can be dangerous to Christian faith and practice.
The promotional story holds, perhaps, an even more prominent place in our popular Christian magazines. No one can object to factual reports of what God has wrought, but too many of these stories are nothing more than promotional efforts. Many of these “success stories” are so successful that thoughtful readers question their validity and are apt to lay them aside without even finishing them. Less discerning readers, however, are often deeply moved by them.
We are well aware that our objections are not popular, but we are not trying to be popular; we are trying to help sincere Christians find their way back, step by step, to renewed spiritual power. This power has been too long frittered away by substituting the will of man for the Word of God.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/dont-pay-attention-to-stories/
1 Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
It’s Cursday, Treepers! I’ve been thinking a bit about how dogs love us so unconditionally. I’m really missing our border collie, Sweetie tonight. She’s been gone several years now and, honestly, I find that I miss her more and more.
Dogs are not like us, they lack the ability to understand the complexity of human emotions. Yet, because of their long associations with human they try—as best they can because, afterall they’re dogs and not humans—to reflect the human emotions they can understand. They can understand unconditional love and loyalty to their human partners and they share it with us as best they can. Sadly, their humans are often not able or willing to share in their depth of emotional exchange. But, when it happens, when we understand how our dogs really do love us, then we know that we have been given a wonderful gift of a very special kind of love.
And always know: All dogs go to heaven!
Thank you.
And if it’s Doggie Heaven…I wanna go there!
Happy Cursday, y’all !
Pimp Pup?
I want one for my son!
It amazes me that this is a style, has been for a long time. I see older women in these things. It’s just like wearing a “I’m stupid” sign.
Still not as bad as the pants that say juicy across the backside.
The inference of holes in the knees is that the holes were formed because the wearer was spending time on their knees performing fellatio.
Such is the mindset of certain fashion moguls that the sheeple pay an inordinate amount of their money just for a certain “label”
I thought it was about identifying with the poor millionaire rock stars and the hip elites. Who knew.
And the price of them!! Clueless!
Kids….a fad…..must be some valley girls where the temperature doesn’t get below 72.
Dolly’s mother would have made her a pair of pants of many colors.
Seems like mindless virtue signaling by vacuous empty vessels who want to “belong”. Shows you are down with the struggle of the downtrodden underclass. At $350.00 a pair!
I always ask them if they need a good seamstress, and the puzzled looks on their faces is priceless. 😉
What an adorably quaint question to ask them
They have absolutely NO idea what a ‘seamstress’ is, I’ll guarantee you
One of my mothers many talents, seamstress extraordinaire!
I remember a time when wearing clothes with holes and patches was kind of embarrassing.
I remember when I came by those holes and patches through honest work and a scant clothing budget.
For work or play clothes I agree. However, I remember my grandmother not allowing us to dress like that, certainly not for church, school, shopping trips to town, etc…
You put on a clean shirt and comb your hair young man.
Of course, as best one can.
Shoot, I remember a time when there was such a thing as being embarrassed!
Well, since it is Cursday, I thought I’d share with you a passage from one of my favorite books. I didn’t know who Joseph Monninger was until I came across his book. Home Waters is a story about a final fishing trip. At the beginning of his story, Monninger tells us about finding a suspicious lump in his beloved golden Lab Nellie. Fearing the worst, he decides to take a final fishing trip with his dog. Spoiler alert. This was not the end of his beloved dog’s life and Nellie lived happily for a number of years after this story was written. I think these two passages are particularly poignant.
I took Nellie on a last walk before we went to bed. We walked down the paved road that fronted the motel, then I let her go to investigate a patch of grass. She was lazy and docile, tired from a day wading in the water. A few snowflakes began to fall. When she came back to me, I put her on the leash again and waited awhile in the darkness. You could see a long way. Snowflakes pulled each other down out the sky like white spiders softly dipping onto grass.
—From Home Waters by Joseph Monninger
I put my fly-rod up and found a comfortable spot to watch the stars come out. Nellie came to sit beside me. I scooted around and put my head on her back, using her for a headrest, but she didn’t seem to mind. Cold air swept above us, yet near the ground it did not feel too bad. We watched the planets appear, then the stars. The sky grew darker until each star stood out, white against black against the gray of the mountaintops. Nellie remained stationary, only her nose sniffing into the wind. She did not budge for an hour, and by that time the stars had eaten into the blackness, shuddering white in a cold sky.
—From Home Waters by Joseph Monninger
thx, Garrison, compelling imagery
A word painter. I like that.
“I do”
“Well, Bless your heart!”
“My mother’s coming to visit.”
“I’m pregnant.”
“I’m a Sooners fan.”
“We have to talk “
Apparently……………the right eyebrow.
…by the way…
“Does this dress make me look fat?”
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… and, the accompanying dynamic
Oh wow! That is so funny.
DD
Yep.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV).
The Great Lenten Prayer of Saint Ephraim of Syria (+ 373)
“O Lord and Master of my life, . . . .”
Story is behind a paywall, but…here is the gist of info you might need:
Oh, yes, apps have been tracking you. You know how you may search for something on one website and then the ad for that product can follow you around the web? Well, instead of using web-browser tracking tools like cookies, iPhone apps tend to use a secret string of numbers on your phone. It’s called the IDFA—Identifier for Advertisers—and is used for tracking and identifying what you do in apps and across apps. (Android has something similar.)
HIS RESURRECTION DESTINY
“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?” Luke xxiv. 26
Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the Risen Lord His very life.
Our Lord’s Resurrection destiny is to bring “many sons unto glory.” The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When Our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body, but we can know now the efficacy of His resurrection and walk in newness of life. “I would know Him IN THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION.”
“As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.” “Holy Spirit” is the experimental name for Eternal Life working in human beings here and now. The Holy Spirit is the Deity in proceeding power Who applies the Atonement to our experience. Thank God it is gloriously and majestically true that the Holy Ghost can work in us the very nature of Jesus if we will obey Him.
Oswald Chambers
April 8th Devotional
20-5-2016 Timelapse A12 70 meter tunnel in one weekend under highway!!
https://youtu.be/btOE0rcKDC0
H/T Rep. Peter Meijer
West Michigander, Iraq Veteran, and subsidiarity proponent representing #MI03 in Congress
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XXX – Jesus Led Out to be Crucified
30:3
The scene had been increasing in its awful interest; but when Jesus yielded beneath the heavy load and the continued scourging, all the spirits moved as if they fain would have relieved him; whereupon a voice uttered from afar, “It is written of him, he treadeth the wine-press alone.” “Even so,” said Justice, “and let the inhabitants of the earth, and the angels of heaven, know that he endureth for sinners. By his stripes they are healed. He entereth the death-gate, that thereby he may rescue those who, by transgression, have fallen.” “Amen,” answered Mercy, who now appeared above the Cross, “amen; he offered himself for sinners. Justice, here is the Offering I bring.” “Thou hast said,” replied Justice, “he suffers, but he suffers in the hands of those whom he seeks to rescue from the consequences of a law they have violated. It is no vindictive wrath inflicted from the Father of life, but the consequences of his mission, and the heart he seeketh to save, made malicious by inversion and evil inspiration. Let not the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or the lost who dwell beneath the earth, declare against the goodness of the Lord Creator; for it is the nature of sin thus to oppose and inflict, and seek to destroy good, or its manifestation, and in this sin is only made to appear in its unrestrained nature. Sin, uncontrolled, would blot out the universal sun, make the heavens a pandemonium of evil and malicious beings, break in pieces the government of the universal Lord Creator, and render void the moral principles and nature of universal heavens of intellectual existences, demolish God’s throne, and blast eternal things. Sin is the opposite of good, knows no sympathy, is a fountain of malicious designs; and thus, when Jesus appears a ransom for the sinner, and by reason of the law of being, enters into sympathy with those who are the subjects of violated law, they, controlled by the principles of evil, seek to torture and destroy him, although he is the messenger of peace and good-will unto them. Before you who are assembled is made to appear – earth being the theatre of action – the nature and procedure of the two principles. Above those excited mortals, as a cloud of smoke and blackness, are gathered together the hosts who are obedient unto the will of the arch-deceiver, even Apollyon, who is the concentrated embodiment of the nature and forces of evil. And demoniacal beings, by reason of affinity, are enabled to inspire deluded and enthusiastic mortals, who, like a tempest, are driven by the interior force. Moreover, these mortals are in a degree seekers and lovers of the ways of evil and are therefore the willing subjects of the wicked device; hence it is, that on one plain of action they meet, and that with them union of envious desire prevails.”
“Jesus of Nazareth – God manifest in flesh, Divine Good, Harmonic Existence, Universal Love, and Paternal Care – is the manifestation of Good. In Him is the fullness of the Godhead; the attributes of Divine Existence, Divine Life, Universal Good. Men who are fallen, yet not immortal demons, are the occupants of the intermediate. Their souls Jesus seeks to save, and demons seek to destroy. Jesus entered their abode as their Redeemer, Apollyon approaches to destroy. With these two principles there can be no union, and therefore Jesus suffers -not by Heaven’s decree, but let it be repeated, by reason of his goodness, and his mission for the sinner, and entrance into the scene of combat with death and hell.”
“And shall he prevail?” inquired an angel who had listened to the address of Justice.
“Yea,” uttered Mercy, “he shall prevail. He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the bright and morning Star. He shall prevail and shall unloose the seals.” “Alleluia! Alleluia! He shall prevail,” arose from the myriads congregated. “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as in heaven.” “Even so, amen!” said Justice, and again silence prevailed.
To be continued…
Even so Lord Jesus, be lifted up in every manner of Holy Honor, Glory and Praise, that in the Brightness of your Majesty and the Radiance of your Glory, every throne will be submitted in defeat before your throne and every tongue will confess in all places, in Heaven, in earth, even to the lowest hell, that you are Lord! King of Kings and Lord of Lords forever and ever! Amen!
I find it therapeutic to step away from the daily tsunami of insane news and set my mind to something challenging that demands my full mental attention and, for a time at least, pushes the other stuff onto the back burner. Since I am two years and four months older than President Trump it’s important to keep the old grey matter active! So my solution is solving cryptic crossword puzzles. These are an English invention and I’m not sure if they ever caught on in America, but I’ve come up with three clues to wrestle with if you want give them a go.
Silk worm is a UK curse in Alaska.
Be joined, they yell at me, but I’m falling apart!
Anne’s policy has brought the House down.
The trick is to spot the words in each clue that, once you rearrange the letters, spell out the names of some well-known people.
I’ll come back later with the answers.
Each of those clues has a useful hint: ‘Alaska’ in the first, ‘falling’ in the second, and a capital ‘H’ for ‘House’ in the third.
Thes is a new type of puzzle for me. I came back to this 4-5 times trying to solve, but I need a primer to help me begin the learning curve.
Waiting with eager patience for the answers, and the reasoning used in solving them.
Thank you for sharing these.
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
I dont know what changes were made in twitter, youtube, or other social medias…right now my safari wont display them when posting. Darn it, now I have to make another adjustment…this learning curve is getting steeper.
If you’re talking about the view from CTH, try setting the browser to desktop mode. I had the same issue since CTH 2.0 with a Brave browser on my Android tablet.
I use a MacPro desktop so I assume that it is set for that?
I use a MacBook Pro Laptop and have few problems seeing the graphical display of twitter and youtube links.
Are you using the latest macOS 11.2.3? Latest version of Safari 14.0.3?
Have you enabled any third party ad blockers?
Javascript enabled?
At the moment I cannot think of any other settings that would affect what you’re, describing.
Good morning all.
Didn’t get back until this morning. I was 1,124 lb over on my drives and had to take, well lets just say, it was a little detour through the scenic hills of eastern Ohio on a road that would be perfect for a motorcycle ride but not so great in a big truck grossing exactly 78,998 lb. That, and construction set me back so I would have gone over 30 minutes over on my 11 hour drive time before I got back.
Since the load did not have to be back until 04:00 this morning I pulled up at the TA truck stop about 25 miles east of Columbus, OH. Since I was going to stop anyway that was the place to do it because there is major construction at the I-70 and I-71 junction in town and traffic during normal hours gets backed up considerably. So I stopped and got me a sit down dinner of country fried steak, mash potatoes and gravy, green beans and carrots and then took my 10 hour break.
As soon as I got my hours back I headed home despite having to squeeze out of my parking spot because some A-hole had illegally parked his big truck in front of me making it so the left side of my trailer got within an inch of the fender mirror of the truck parked beside be as I eased on out.
I had called ahead to let my excellent dispatcher know what was going on and that I was over on my drives. When I made the decision to go instead of fooling with those morons and Pepsi again I did so realizing that the driver that would take it from the terminal would have no weigh stations along his route.
That driver was there waiting for me when I pulled in at the terminalat 03:42 this morning. I dropped the trailer in one of the waiting lanes and he backed right under it while I took the paper work in.
Now the people that work at the counter at dispatch on third shift are the least experienced new hires. Most of the time they’re young women but some are older. It’s the young ones that are funny. What I and other driver were doing confused this new girl and she insisted that I had to take a placard and the other driver would have to bring that placard in to prove he had the right trailer. I just laughed and complied. I met the other driver coming in to get the paper work and went back into the office with him and in front of that silly girl handed him the placard she had just given me. Sometimes one just has to be a smart ass to get across the absurdity.
Having been there so long I have seen literally dozens of them come and go or be moved up to another job away from the counter. There is a pattern to it all over time. The first month they are slow and unsure of themselves. The 2nd month they are catching on. And some of the young ones think that by the third month they know it all and they are the drivers superior. Those are the ones I really screw with when the opportunity arises. And it always does.
I know exactly whatcha talkin bout cause in the trial in Minneapolis there was an offduty firefighter that wanted to give orders and control of anyone that came in contact with her.
Further reading of a shorter version than watching all those videos:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/live-chauvin-trial-day-3-more-cross-examination-of-hostile-firefighter/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/ann_coulter_explains_the_status_of_the_derek_chauvin_trial.html
https://anncoulter.com/2021/04/07/minneapolis-vs-the-evidencex/
OMG. As much as I don’t really like her on-air style all that much, Anne Coulter’s article – about the Chauvin trial antics which she has posted on her website (third link in Dogsmaw’s post above) – is hysterically funny.
She has always written well and bitingly.
very charitable of you to go easy on the new hires with a wink and sly sarcasm, RAH
Verse of the Day for Thursday, April 8, 2021
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“For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.”
Psalms 11:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.
Spring. Antonio Vivaldi
Thought I would write a bit describing my routines in the truck. Starting when I park it to take a 10 hour break. First I put myself on “off duty” on the Samsara tablet, I always do a quick walk around checking tires and lights. The time to deal with those things if there is a problem is usually then, depending on the weather.
In my tool boxes I have spares of every light a driver can change on the truck or a trailer in a plastic tub. I also have a spare air hose and glad hand connection. Two gallons of oil. Two gallons of coolant. One quart of power steering fluid. One quart of hub oil. One spray can of lube for the tandem slide rails. Spare rubber donut rings for the glad hands. A selection of sizes of plastic wire ties. A spool of rebar tie wire. A set of bolt cutters for cutting trailer seals. Replacement fuel filters. Load straps. Various lengths of tarp straps. An extension cord used to plug the truck in when and outlet is available when it get really cold. A spare fire extinguisher (the primary is mounted to the left of the drivers seat where I also keep my gloves and a 3 lb cross peen hammer.) The head to my push broom (the handle is secured with a tarp strap to the inside of the left air deflector ) and of course tools in at tool box including a full 1/2″ drive socket set.
Having satisfied myself all is well with the rig I climb back in, set the alarm on my phone for the time I need to wake up. I hook up my phone headset to charge and then the phone. Then I change into my sleepers. If I am hungry and eating from the larder in my truck I make something then and eat it sitting on my bunk using the pullout desk top as my table. I usually read myself to sleep reading my Kindle.
Rarely these days do I need the alarm to wake me. Usually I’m up an hour or so before the alarm goes off. I climb into the drivers seat and pour myself a cup of coffee and light my first cigarette of the day. I keep two Stanley thermoses, both filled with coffee. We grind beans at home and our coffee is better than any I can get on the road so I leave the house with two full thermoses but when I’m out for more than two days I’ll refill my thermoses at a truck stop.
As I sit there I pick up the phone and check the news. for breakfast on the road I usually just eat one or two Nature Valley peanut butter biscuits or perhaps a non Kelloggs pop tart or perhaps open a can of Dole’s mixed tropical fruit. Above and to the left of me as I sit in the drivers seat there is a netted pocket where I keep various snacks to eat while driving.
When the time comes I pull out my locker bag and get cleaned up and put on the good smellum and get dressed. I pull out my electric razor and sit in the drivers seat shaving. Then I open the window and clean the thing when I am done. I brush my teeth using bottled water as I walk around the truck again checking lights, tires, wheel hubs and wheels, glad hands and air hoses, and making sure no damage or vandalism has happened while I was asleep. At this time if I am where there are trash cans I will take the plastic bag I use for trash that hangs on the passenger seat arm and get rid of it and hang a new trash bag.
I usually have done all that before I log “on duty” but I still have to show about 10 minutes of on duty time before I can start driving. Before I take off I certify the previous days logs on the Samsara tab. Not having certified their logs is one of the most common hours of service violations the DOT is ticketing drivers for.
When I get back to the terminal is when I really give the truck the once over before I park it. That includes purging the air tanks of water, really checking the tires in detail and checking out the hub seals both inside and out for leakage. Lifting the bonnet and checking coolant, oil, power steering fluid levels. Checking all belts and hose connections. Refilling the windshield washing fluid. etc…
After that is all done I pull up to a side door at the garage and go in an get a brush with fifth wheel grease and grease my fifth wheel. The if I have trash I dump it before I park the truck and shut her down.
Thank you for your posts. MY Dad was a long hauler.
I forgot to mention that between the seats I have a multi0pocket caddy where I keep my drinks, a bag of M&Ms, hand cleaner, Kleenex, spare maskes, etc On the passenger seat back another caddy hangs and in it are various forms, notebooks, customer code lists, Truckers road Atlas, stapler, etc.
I also have me carry on bag in reach which has my coffee thermoses, spare clothes, and various other stuff. My carryon is my old “I Love Me” bag, which is an Army aviators helmet bag with my name, my foreign wings, and SF shoulder patch and tab sewn on it.
The top cabinet behind the drivers seat above the pull out desk top has my locker bag containing all my toiletries and hanging clothes. The cabinet below the desk top has food in a plastic tub.
The top cabinet behind the passenger seat has spare trash bags, pee bottles, and bottles of all kinds of cleaners used on the truck. The cabinet below on that side contains more food. Below that is a space where I store a box of full sized trash bags, a 12V vacum sweeper, and my 12V tool box heater for warming cans of food.
The floor in back and between the seats is covered with entry way rugs like one can find and Menards, and I have floor mats up front. behind the drivers seat I keep a little wisk broom with dust pan. Behind the passenger seat on the floor I keep spare bottled drinks and water.
home sweet home
on the ‘range’
Restaurant patrons in British Columbia have a message for the Stasi health inspectors when they come to close the place down. Civil disobedience is a beautiful thing.
This stuff is going to continue to grow there and here in the US. People are fed up with the government overreach and oppression.
Some interesting graphs here from Tony Heller’s site:
Down The Rabbit Hole | Real Climate Science
This is how it’s always been done. Resist!
https://dnyuz.com/2021/04/08/online-scammers-have-a-new-offer-for-you-vaccine-cards/
A couple things I point out. One, why are states so worried about fake vaccine cards? We have literally millions of fake voters, social security cards, drivers licenses, but vax cards go to the top of the list. Heck we have fake hundred dollar bills from China all over. Crickets!
Two, these are considered outlaws who do this but everything about this virus is a hoax, so who are the criminals?
You have a sacred ‘stamp’ so your ‘bonafide’? What a joke.
Full Figured Jim. I’m not fat, I’m big boned.
Took this as literal for a moment. The Bee is almost too good!
Civic Alliance
https://www.civicalliance.com
So /whois CivicAlliance:
We are the Civic Alliance,
a nonpartisan group of businesses
working together to build a future
where everyone participates in
shaping our country.
and they are all listed at website.
THIS WEEK IN AG HISTORY — APRIL 7, 1934
https://news.ag.org/Features/This-Week-in-AG-History-April-7-1934
by RUTHIE EDGERLY OBERG on April 8, 2021
“Marguerite Flint (1892-1963) once stated, ‘there are three reasons why I am a missionary. First, for my sake (because when we fail to hear the cry of the needy, we die); second, for their sakes (because millions of people in India are without Christ); third, for His sake (because Jesus died for India). There is every reason why I should be a missionary; there is no reason why I should not be.’ Flint served Jesus and the people of India, faithfully, for more than 40 years, from 1915 to 1958.
“Born on a farm in Ohio, Flint was raised in a strong Methodist home with a mother who dedicated her to God’s service before birth, asking God for a son that would become a minister. There was a bit of disappointment when the baby was a girl, and Flint was raised with the knowledge that “my life was planned for me, I must either be a deaconess or a Methodist preacher’s wife.” Her mother often whispered to her, ‘Remember always, I have given you to God. You must not be like the other girls, you are HIS.’ ”
Testing the linking of PDFs:
The Pentecostal Evangel, Springfield, Mo, April 7, 1934, No. 1043 (PDF)
https://archives.ifphc.org/pdf/PentecostalEvangel/1930-1939/1934/1934_04_07.pdf
Sam, I need to ask you directly…Were you involved in the ministry/publishing of these articles?
No. They show up on my news feed and I thought this one was interesting. I don’t really discriminate among the differing denominations. Most of them seem to be working toward the right end.
The reason I asked was that I used to read the publication throughout my childhood years 😛
Me too. Although I’ve not attended since I left home, I still follow news about the Pentecostals, among others. It’s amazing to me what a large religious developement came out of that little house on Bonnie Brae Street and the Azusa Street Mission:
William Seymour and the History of the Azusa Street Outpouring
https://www.revival-library.org/revival_heroes/20th_century/seymour_william.shtml
“This marked the beginning of the beginning of the Pentecostal Church. Thousands of pastors and leaders from all over the world visited this place of divine visitation, especially during its vibrant early years between 1906 and 1908, and took away the fire of God to kindle the Pentecostal flames in their nations. It grew very rapidly and has continued to spread like wildfire. There are today over 600 million Pentecostals and Charismatics who trace their spiritual ancestry back to this awesome event. Currently they are growing at an estimated rate of 50,000 new converts a day! Thank God for the continuing aftershock!”
My news feeds are arranged by categories; like History, Science, News, Prepper, Gardening, Firearms, etc. Today I’ve been reading mostly the Religious category.
I’ve been noticing that many of the video clips are not showing up for me sometimes in Sundances posts.
Yesterday (April 7 posts) for example: President Trumps interview on Newmax and Gov Abbotts announcement about investigating the detention facilities…..
It isn’t all of them….for instance the insufferable Nikki Haley clip is accessible to me………
Is it my set up?, or are they being taken down or otherwise impeded? All I get is a big open white space where the clip normally would be.
I try to read CTH everyday, but sometimes I’m not able to do so for a couple of days, and I notice it is usually when a post has been up for a day or two the clips disappear.
Totally conjecture, but I suspect they get taken down as the Stasi are alerted that they’re ‘problematic’ to Stasi interests
Likely takes a matter of minutes, hours, or days, depending
April 8: Rev. Charles Ware Stewart
https://thisday.pcahistory.org/2021/04/april-8-rev-charles-ware-stewart/
8 April, 2021, by archivist
“Biography of Parson Charles W. Stewart
“Parson Charles W. Stewart, pioneer circuit rider of the Choctaw Freedmen came forth from a period of slavery, to the Choctaw Indians in the wilds of Indian Territory that covered the first 42 years of his life. His home was afterwards located near the Kiamichi River, seven miles west of Doaksville. He grew to manhood and always lived in an unimproved, sparsely settled timber country in an obscure and inaccessible corner of the world.”
The articles link to this book at Archive.Org:
Robert Elliot Flickenger, The Choctaw Freedmen (Journal and Times Press, Fonda, Iowa; 1914)
https://archive.org/details/choctawfreed00flick/page/n7/mode/2up
To test Archive.org image links:
https://ia800209.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/32/items/choctawfreed00flick/choctawfreed00flick_jp2.zip&file=choctawfreed00flick_jp2/choctawfreed00flick_0132.jp2&id=choctawfreed00flick&scale=2&rotate=0
Prayers for family and community. Horrible.
Former NFL pro Phillip Adams behind mass shooting in S.C.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/08/five-dead-including-two-kids-in-south-carolina-mass-shooting/
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Can we see CSU’s predictions for 2019 and 2020 and how accurate they turned out to be?
Tonight at 21:00 I depart for an out and back run. Go to TENNECO Ligonier, IN up north and deliver and get reloaded there and then take what the load me with down to TENNECO on Jeffersonville, IN just a little north of Louisville, KY. Then come back to the Anderson terminal.
Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Gabriel
The day following the Annunciation to the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, the Orthodox Church honors the Archangel Gabriel.
The Holy Archangel Gabriel belongs to the foremost and highest order of the heavenly powers, the seraphim. He is one of the seven seraphim closest to God: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selathiel, Jegudiel, and Barachiel. Some would add Jeremiel.
Why did God not send Michael to the Theotokos? For the reason that Michael’s service is the suppression of the enemies of God’s truth, while Gabriel’s is the annunciation of the salvation of the human race.
March 26th Church Calendar / April 8th civil calendar
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Amen
Amen…
Amen.
Amen.