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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It’s a most joyous morning upon reading this! ❤️
Good Morning WP ❤️
Good morning, Cat, from the snowy, windy, icy cold South. Lights on, heat on, both blessings.
Thinking this morning of all the Canadian patriots (young and old) and the truckers leading them, standing up to the ugly face of their hideous government, in conditions much worse than we here in Texas are looking at. Praying endlessly for them all.🙏
Good Morning Betsy, all my Texan friends have been in my thoughts this morning. Hope everyone is warm there (including all the feral critters)
Seems like the world is simmering, almost to the boiling point. Very much on my mind today. Especially mungrel, hoping he’ll be protected as he fights the good fight. God only knows how much we need all these kindred spirits ❤️
I went into the garage…well, I was summoned really… to feed our boarder, and when I stroked him his coat was warmish. So I know he’s all right.
Simmering is right. If it walks like WWIII and talks like WWIII, then my view it is WWIII. War in a guise we’ve never seen. One being prosecuted by people who have never done a lick of work in their miserable lives, except to make others’ lives miserable.
We must remember that God is our General, along with his warrior angels. We are in the best hands.🙏 Blessings to you, Cat💓
Good morning, Betsy. My male cat woke me up at 5:30 this morning. That’s their normal morning time to eat and usually wifey feeds them. However she decided to spend the night at my SIL on account of the icy roads this morning . That particular cat is very insistent and very loud. Otherwise it’s 23 and dropping and a little of the frozen stuff coming down. Stay warm ❤️.
I’m glad your bride is with her sister, just in case. 🙏
5:30, come Daylight savings nor no. The things we do for our furry friends😊. We had what sounded like sleet or ice earlier in the predawn hours, but now it is unremitting snow. We are holding our breath in hopes our power holds, though Frank and Lonestar’s have both had outages…and fortunately both have generators. We do not, but our gas fire will sustain is, as it did last year. You stay warm as well, G💓
I am, got the fireplace going this morning. Trying to decide if I want to play a lumberjack and split some more logs with my ax in the cold or just throw them in the fireplace the way they are. The jury is still out on that one and I am having a talk with myself.
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Talking to yourself huh? That way madness lies😉. Still your conversations should be interesting💓
LOL!After the talk I decided not to chop wood in the ice. 🙂
Hahaha!! Debate concluded…with a smart result😁 .
OH!!! G, go read Texas Scorecard…scroll for all the articles about Abbott and how he has failed to secure energy for us. All in STILL(!!!!!) on wind, wind, wind. Guaranteed in November the “lights would stay on”… took it back on Feb 1. Said power blackouts vs are possible.
That fraud RINO needs to go and go quickly. BNM…but if this continues I could be😉
Amen, sis! The primaries are coming fast. My bride is back home and I even left her a clean sink. No dirty dishes. Had to go out and walk her home on the ice, just in case. Deer fed and fire going, god willing I’m done with chores for the night. Hope your power has stayed on regardless of RINO Abbott.
That is God willing!
👍 😉
Hoping yours does as well, G. Glad you walked your wife in. Ice is deadly, or can be. Broke my arm on Christmas Eve 8 years ago on a slippy patch outside of Krogers. I remember the absolutely helpless feeling as I went down.
What a star you are! No chores to come home to. Wonderful.
Wind whipping up, lights and heat still on…Oh, and lucky those deer. That you feed them is just lovely. BetNM approves!💓
Good morning, Cat! When I got out this morning the cardinals were trying to tell me that they were out of bird seed. Got them taken care of, now expecting at any time the deer to come knocking on the windows. ❤️
Good Morning Grandpa!
The cardinals are so colorful against a winter landscape aren’t they? One of many favorites sights. The deer can knock on windows to get fed? Oh dear, perhaps that’s why I see’em eyeing my patio doors. 🤭
Here’s hoping the missus arrives home safely soon. It’s been my experience that a man left to his own devices will sometimes leave a undesirable present behind (like dirty dishes?) 😀
Stay warm ❤️
Ha, ha, for a second I thought you were talking about barker eggs… 🙂
Just perfect, WP. Who wouldn’t want that?
My God is God.
No moral merit of my own at all.
Bone crushing joy. 🙏✝️
Power is cycling on and off here in East Texas…generators are “at the ready”.
Frank,
Is ERCOT playing games again this year, or is your power loss from icy / downed power lines?
Morning, LS…bore da….
I posted my reply to Frank just as I thought to ask him the same question. He’s a couple of hours east of us. Wow! The snow is really is coming down now!!
GrandpaM!!! Where are you? Hope all is well and you all are warm with your lights on. 🙏💓
Howdy, Lonestar! I can report about my corner of the Hill Country. So far power on, no problems but we’ve had very little of the wet frozen stuff. Yesterday I got an email from CPS San Antonio and they weren’t anticipating any outages.
If I had my drudders instead of blowing trillions on the GND I’d try and bury as much as possible of the power lines in the ground.
Powerlines in the ground is EXACTLY what we’ve been advocating for. And in the UK years ago. So far no one is listening.
So failure again in 903, eh Frank? I am sorry. Times are gone when reliability was, well, reliable. My view is that Abbott is still all in on the things that absolutely will not keep Texas warm and safe. I told him so in a few emails (not even a “thank you for contacting us”) .
So last year’s lesson not learned. So glad you have a generator🙏. Just looked outside and gi-normous flakes descending.
We’ve put out seeds, nuts, and berries for the multitudes, including squirrels. I’m following Jesus’s feeding the 5,000. I will not see God’s creatures go hungry.
Stay warm, dear friend.💓BNM
The climate change activists and one world globalists are using a weird inverse logic. By using “renewables” to limit access to resources they achieve their goal of forcing people to reduce consumption and live more “sustainable” lifestyles. That Texas bought into solar power and windmills when we have 100s of years of natural gas is shameful.
Morning, Garrison💓 Not only shameful but utterly criminal and corrupt. My daughter and her family are in Midland. Her husband is a petroleum engineer. I don’t know how his company is affected by all of this, but his views are trenchant. It’s a cult this “climate change”… and hubris beyond measuring.
Cherche l’argent or something like that in French. Follow the money.
I am cherchez-ing… And I think I’ve spotted all of it going into politician’s pockets.
We the People did not buy into it. Solar and windmills are pure politics.
Don’t forget water, Betsy. When everything freezes over, the birds lack a source of drinkable water.
No, thank you, LS. I have thought of that…in fact all day yesterday I was trying to figure out how I could manage it.The moment I put some in the birdbath, it freezes.
I’m hoping that they’ll partake of the snow. If I were rich and famous, I swear I’d install not a heated swimming pool, but a heated birdbath.
I’m praying that St Francis is watching over his friends🙏
There are birdbath heaters. Easy to find online. I don’t have one because there is a private pond near me that doesn’t freeze. I am west of Ft Worth. Also, money is scarce for me.
Thanks, LS. I went out and poured warm water in the frozen bird baths, There was some room. The birds came and started drinking immediately. Normally, the birds are a part of wife’s chores. I take care of the deer. Speaking of which, feeding time is soon.
Mornin’ Frank. I pray that yours and everyone else’s power stays on.
Cat travels around on the back of a dog. What a life!
I enjoy your animal links. Thanks
My preferred method of transportation 😜
GM Sarah!
Wonder what our friend Mungrel has to say about it? 😁
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Bore da, Sarah…I saw a lovely video of a young man travelling the world, and he found a stray kitten which he adopted (he was travelling on a motorbike). This kitten rode with him everywhere he went. Such a sweet video.
I’ve seen a couple such videos and I also think some guy that had a cat like that wrote a book or two about his travels around Paris, I think it was. The story wasn’t all that interesting and the writing was pretty pathetic, but who can resist the idea of a cat hanging out on the shoulders of a human or in the basket of a bike having a grand adventure with someone?! I think stories of this ilk involve a cat that appears out of nowhere in some remote place while the person is hiking and from there, the bond forms and the rest becomes history!
I can’t remember his itinerary but he filmed himself and his travelling companion, and it was fascinating seeing the kitten change over the course of their months long sojourn. I’m positive somehow he managed to get his little friend back home wherever that was. A real heart lifter.
Sweet dog and beautiful butterflies!
Goose loves his (her?) human.
Did not know that gooses had humans. Learned something new today. Thanks!
No kidding. When I think of geese I think of: noise, poop, and aggression cause they can be pretty nasty if you get too close to them. Who knew they could bond with a human?! Perhaps some of them imprinted when they were very young. Not sure.
If you are a jazz fan and have the patience to stick around until the last set is played, there’s a special time that sometimes occurs at the bar. The staff is stacking the tables, but there are a few regulars who are their finishing their drinks. The anthropologist Victor Turner calls these moments “betwext-and-between“. If it has been a good night, the band will reward the regulars with a couple of additional songs—they’re playing for free of course, but it’s past closing time and, being musicians, they’re still awake.
This can be a special time. Jim Hall wrote a song about this. “All Across The City” perfectly captures those late-night/early morning interludes where time and space pause. Cities tend to be quiet places in the early morning hours. And if you’re part of the dozen or so fans still finishing drinks, you get to hear the band play a couple of songs while you get to decide if you should go home to bed, go for some supper, or go for some breakfast. . . If you work for a living you’ll get by on 4 hours sleep. As I write this I’m thinking about the “Little Jazz Bird Bar” on Westheimer circa 1965 or so . . .
Circa 1988, Rudyard’s on Waugh had open mic jazz night. After working the 4 pm to 12 pm at the Crisis Unit the gathering of musicians approached an all star group that wanted to extend the connection. A fine juncture in time.
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Thanks for the early morning tranquility gift Garrison 💝 ❤️
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I know exactly what you are describing… those last few songs of the night.. the club closing. Tom Scott has a song that also embodies that time. If you listen carefully to it, the band included the sounds of people talking and the tables being cleared for the evening as the band plays their final set for the evening.
Yep. Exactly. -)
not as musician, not as patron – worker bee – been there, done that 🙂
memories are golden
Another chapter? 🤗
Playboy Bunny experiences…
Late nite patrons, music, cleanup
After closing go to ‘breakfast’
sometimes ‘extra’ get-togethers
Camaraderie.
Hard to explain if you haven’t been there
Music tells the story
Camaraderie… a gem without price.
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Thank you, Garrison, made me want to have a nightcap and it’s only noon. 🙂
Happy Cursday, Treepers!!!
Dogs are good for us . . .
That was awesome! Thank you.
I love my dogs more than humans, I so relate.
How did I miss this until now???? Oh, I love this video so much.
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of man, without his Vices.
This Praise, which be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes is but a tribute to the memory of ” Boatswain”, a DOG.
Good Morning Mungrel! ❤️
Good morning, Mungrel. What a poetic epitaph, and one I’m certain I’ve seen before. Perfect for this day. The author of it had a beautiful soul to go with his companion’s. I can feel his grief.
I had it in my notes, unfortunately I didn’t write down the author 😞
I left message for Dk on MP1, thanks for the contact, I have lots to do, so can’t comment much.
One thing I’m working on you will need something to stop your laughter !
Will find out if my plan worked in a day or so!
I will relate more at a later date 😜
Cheers Betsy.
Super!! I look forward to that!!💓👍
Lord Byron is the author, I think. IMO, it’s a sweet story. ❤️
Here’s a link:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/08/18/lord-byron-epitatph-for-a-dog/
try to stay safe mungrel. 😉
Yes, Cat! Thank you! It just makes sense. You are one clever lady.😉
Howdy, son!
Son, you reminded me of a pet cemetery we saw in Ireland. It was on a beautiful property south of Dublin, near the village of Enniskerry (sp?). The original owners had buried their dogs and milk cows there.
Yep, seen a couple like that myself, I have more respect for animals than what I do a lot of humans !
Left a couple of comments on MP 1 you would like.
Cheers.
Will check it out after I feed the crits. cat is on the bed looking at me.
Checked the MP1 son. Most interesting comments on the Nile, Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, and Suma. Read your comment to Dekester, too. Will be waiting for the developments in OZ but as always I’m relying on you for accurate info.
Cheers.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen! Mornin’ Sep.
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 Trisagion Hymn
and the
50th Psalm (Septuagint)
Psalm 51 (Masoretic)
Good Morning Treepers!
Thanks to Garrison’s incentive, I not only finished an incompleted task, I even went into a rarely used room in my house. Yup, THE DREADED KITCHEN!!!!!
Thought I’d practice making a new cookie recipe. You’ll be pleased to know I didn’t burn the house down. (That almost happened when I recently tried to cook a gourmet meal 😂). Anyway, much to my surprise, the cookies were quite delicious 😋
Thought I’d share the recipe here:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/banana-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Had to modify it some, like add some seeds/nuts for crunchy effect, the cranberries were yummy in them too Didn’t have any barker eggs so I had to use chickie eggs. Not the same consistency but not a bad first bunch. Wink
Thinking of you all with ❤️ today!
Taste of Home has some delicious recipes. I have their cookery book (as such tomes are referred to in Blighty). In Britain, every recipe uses the metric system. One weighs the dry ingredients on a scale. Eventually their recipes started to show imperial measurements along side the metric ones, a move I was eternally grateful for.
These cookies sound great. Will try them this week end. Thank you for the recipe.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg Rolls Out Plan To Cover America With ‘Red Light’ Surveillance Cameras Connected To The Metaverse
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https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/secretary-of-transportation-pete-buttigieg-rolls-out-plan-to-cover-america-with-red-light-surveillance-cameras-metaverse/
It will be interesting, Dora, to see how this plays with the 7 or 8 states which have banned these cameras, Texas being one. Clearly someone in the DOT (not the incompetent idiot who announced this ) didn’t have anything to do on the day he came up with this Surveillance State idea.
To my way of thinking, traffic control is not in the purview of the federal government. It is up to each state how it controls its traffic.
It would be fun to start chipping the cameras with remote chips.
Agree! This is insanity, and I expect it to be tested in whatever is left of our constitutional judiciary. I think we here in Big T are going to make ourselves heard.
Something similar happened in ’72 with the Arab oil embargo. Nixon ordered a “temporary” speed limit of 55mph which soon became permanent. But, if you had a CB radio (channel 19) and an Escort radar detector you could drive as fast as you wanted to.
G &G, is that still possible?
(Asking for a friend) 😉
If you find a road with no traffic and a couple of miles visibility you don’t even need any additional technical support.
A quick story. In the fall of 2020 wifey and I took a driving trip to Utah. On the way there while driving through the tribal land we started following a local going 90-100. We soon figured out that it was Sunday and the tribal LE had the day off. The guy we were following turned in some side road and we kept going 95-110 for over an hour. Mind you, there was no traffic. When we got to a more populated area I slowed down but that was so much fun. I had never driven that fast for that long even on the autobahn.
Sure I have maxed out my cars but that is but for a split second.
Morning Ya’ll , 🙂
Jay, 😂 if you keep this up, I’ll be starting on my honey don’t list of undesirable chores. Thanks 😉
Good Morning ❤️
😂 😂
Morning to you, jay!💓
Good morning, Jay!
‘Schülerkreis’ Comes to the Defense of Benedict XVI
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https://www.ncregister.com/blog/schuelerkreis-defends-benedict-xvi
Thanks Dora. I wouldn’t have seen this without you ❤️.
Good Morning and have a blessed day 🙏
Erdogan and Co. visiting Zelensky in Kiev today. Ma Erdogan only one without a Fauci in pic https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/zelensky-and-erdogan-start-meeting-at-mariinsky-palace-69296.html
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.
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BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Verse of the Day for Thursday, February 3, 2022
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“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”
Matthew 10:39 (KJV)
Greetings Treepers !
My verse for the day…not that I need it…wink, 😉
Ephesians 4:29 ESV
Good Morning Frank!
Great verse today Frank. If only the ones who need to hear it would listen. 😉
You know the ones, msm, lefties, politicians and trolls. Especially trolls (thankfully we don’t get many here) 😎
Humility, Courage, and the Greater Good
Jordan Peterson: Journey to God
Acting like you believe in God… “not just stating it.”
I always like what JP says about God and Christ. I hadn’t seen this, thanks for posting.
Jordan Peterson has been to hell and back. As he has described his horrifying experience, it seems he has stood on the precipice of the abyss with one foot over it.
Dr. Peterson is maybe a messiah of sorts. The unlikeliest of men, God will choose. Moses stuttered; Donald Trump uses crusty language; His ways are not our ways.
He chooses His messengers. There is no question. From Saul to Paul is only one example.
How to defeat mask mandates, jab clinics, CRT and take back your local school boards.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/scottsdale-school-board-youve-been-served/
https://bondsforthewin.com/
Please share far and wide.
I’m so glad you posted this, OM. The first speaker used her time wisely to spell out exactly what is going on…and it certainly isn’t school board material. Brava the second speaker who refused to be cowed or bullied or shouted down to do what she came to do.
And it’s all on record. It was disturbing to me to see how many women sit on who sit on that board. Godspeed to those who spoke, guardians of their children’s well being.🙏
Yes! Saw and loved this. Especially when she served the board with papers on camera! Awesome plus!!!!
Gonna have to research this bond issue. Are they personally responsible? Is anyone else in the legal, city officials, etc system required to be bonded? Could this be a way for us to fight? 🤔
These odious libs do it all the time…use the law and regs. It’s high time we apply the same technique.
Exactly!!
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NATIONAL THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED – 3 FEBRUARY
The Day the Music Died Day on February 3rd remembers the unfortunate and untimely death of singers 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens, and 28-year-old J. P. Richardson, aka: “The Big Bopper.” These three artists died in an airplane accident on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa. Their pilot, Roger Peterson, also perished in the crash.
Richardson “The Big Bopper”, had swapped places with Waylon Jennings, taking the latter’s place on the plane and Tommy Allsup had lost his place to Ritchie Valens in a coin toss.
Not long after takeoff, they were no longer able to be reached by radio, and they did not reach their destination. The aircraft was reported missing. The next day, the wreckage was found less than 6 miles northwest of the airport in a cornfield. Poor weather conditions and pilot error were determined, during the investigation, to have been the cause of the pilot losing control of the plane.
Mornin’ infidels!
Bore da! Treepers
Greetings from a Texas Winter Wonderland
The generator worked like a charm last night. Lost power for a couple of hours, but generator kicked in and took over.
Glory to God for all things,
Wonderful news Lonestar!
Bore da ❤️
Phew, LS! We are crossing our fingers for all, and we in this house are hoping for the best, including a quick passage of this weather.
My Welsh snow story…
There is a saying there “N’er cast a clout ’til May is out.” Which meant don’t plant your sensitive flowers until after the end of May.
I’d been there for a few years, and I never saw a May that was anything by springlike, remembering that latitude ally we were on the same line as Nova Scotia. So while it is more than warm here in Texas, there it is marginally cooler.
But it was May 31, warm, and ignoring that saying I planted all our impatiens and other pretty florals. Done.
On June 1, we woke up to the straining noises of a farm vehicle right outside our bedroom window. We looked outside and in the lane which ran along our 6’+ high hedge row was a JCB, back end in the air and front end shovel stuck trying to clear the lane of about 4′ worth of snow. He gave up in the end. On JUNE 1!!
Where it came from so quickly is still a question I ask myself…and all of a sudden and with razor sharp clarity, I remembered that old saying. More fool me for ignoring it as I glanced down on all my hard work
(or what I could barely see of it) to understand why it was so true.
We were down…and I mean way down… a country lane. And as we never guessed that it would snow at all in June, we were out of a few essentials. So we had to put on our wellies (galoshes) and make our way up it to the main road to walk to our village shop. We were struggling with every step in thigh deep snow but eventually we got there and were fortunate enough to secure a pint bottle of milk and some bread.
I guess the moral is that one should never discount the old adages, no matter how silly they sound. Wisdom down the ages is a very valuable commodity.
Oh…and this for insanity!
The Scottish government is going to spend £300,000 to cut off the bottom off every school doors to stop the spread of Covid?!?!???
I’ve got nothing…
Betsy,
We plan, and God laughs. (smile)
I have a pair of wellies!
Thank you for another wonderful Welsh story. Keep’em comin’.
Oh I definitely will. They just come to me all of a sudden. Today’s weather conjured this long forgotten one.
And oh how right you are about how we are often brought down to earth. I figured it was at least something like that…that, or the Welsh who had passed that admonition down through the generations but were long gone, spotted the impudent expat and decided to get her attention.
Interestingly, our house was built in 1869 was called Plas y Glyn…in English “Manor in the Valley”. No house numbers in the little villages and towns, just names. It was for decades the Big House in our small enclave, although we figured out that it was about 1400 sq ft only. Small in Texas terms.
We’d been living on it for a long time before I discovered many, many said it was ” haunted”. We had two incidents happen there that made me think that previous owners were indeed still in residence in some form or another. I’ll save those for another time. I don’t want to overdose everyone on my memories.😊
Yes, I have been in houses that had “presences” present.
We’ve tried to analyze to come up with a reasonable explanation. We are rational and reasonable people. In the end there was none. Presence indeed.
Bet, do my rubber boots qualify as wellies?
Oh boy do they….in Texas👍. Google or DuckDuckGo “Wellington boots” to see the real thing😊
Praise the Lord, LS!
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Keep posting this
my hope is that each of us will ‘say the pledge’
even if its just a real quick momentary memory of our school and other official recitations
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Captain James Cook’s ship HMS Endeavour is FOUND at the bottom of the ocean more than 250 years after it reached Australia – here’s why experts are SURE they’ve solved the enduring mystery
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10470553/Shipwreck-confirmed-Captain-Cooks-Endeavour-22-year-search.html
thank, Clarion
Truckin:
Made it home last night.
I did not have the hours but came home anyway. I tried to do the right thing and park to take my break but all the truck stops and rest areas were full. I rarely take a 10 hour break on a ramp but I knew that the ramp at exit 215 of I-65 has a nice wide shoulder and trucks are often parked there. So I stopped there.
I ate my dinner and was just laying down when I heard a bang on my door. Indiana State trooper telling me to move on. I told him that on a night like this there would be no parking in the truck stops or rest areas and he, having long experience in such things, told me that he “guaranteed” I would find a parking spot in one of them. No use arguing with such a bone head. He has a gun, a badge, and a ticket book.
By then I was so pissed off I wouldn’t have slept any way and I was 128 miles from the terminal. I noticed as I drove south the ramps to every truck stop were full of parked trucks. The rest areas had trucks parked out into the shoulder of the interstate.
Lots of slide offs. Couldn’t help but thinking that troopers time would have been better spent dealing with those than rousting truckers off of ramps.
So, many hours over my 14 legal I pulled into the terminal. And at 02:00 this morning climbed into my own bed. The danger in doing this kind of thing is that if your involved in an accident, ANY accident, no matter if your at fault or not, your liable for criminal and civil charges because the logic is that you would not have even been there if you were not violating the hours of service.
Snow coming down and blowing here. It’s that fine powder that indicates to me that we are above the freeze line now so should see no more freezing rain or wet snow. Just a lot of white stuff.
It was a lot of fatiguing driving on this trip. Going up as I went by Lebanon, IN on I-65 a Hot Shot passed me hell bent for leather. Hot Shots are those guys in pickup trucks pulling trailers hauling freight. This guy was in a 1 ton pickup pulling a goose neck flat bed trailer. As he blew by me I thought, “I bet I will be seeing you later”.
Sure enough north of Lafayette where it started getting bad and one had to guess where the lines were, I saw him again. He was about 50 feet off to the right, jack knifed!
The other fatiguing factor in this kind of driving is that at your pickups everything goes slower. They are usually short handed anyway, and it just takes a lot more time to get unloaded or loaded. At Acme Finishing, Elk Grove Village, IL out by O’Hara it took me nearly 3 1/2 hours to get in and out.
That place is a crap hole anyway, having only two inside docks with stuff piled up out in the yard in the way. But in this kind of weather it was even worse. When I finally got backed in there were three two trucks in the yard waiting their turn and another two parked out on the road waiting to get in.
So another trip done and it’s one I will remember.
I’d say God was with you on this one, rah. As for the idiot state trooper? In the UK, we call people like that “jobs-worths”… mostly civil servants who follow their little totalitarian rule books. It’s more than their ” job’s worth” to do otherwise. And they take perverse pleasure in doubling down with their petty powers. For example…in one village a woman was issued a £40 fine because her garbage bin’s lid wouldn’t close. It had a 3cm gap. And yes, these simpletons do carry a ruler to measure. Britain is full to the brim with little Hitlers like this.
Relieved you’re home safe and sound.
Glad you are home, safe and sound.
Praise the Lord that you are safe at home!
Too bad you couldn’t tell the trooper ‘thanks – you lead the way. I’ll park where you find me a spot’
I know
And you are too nice(?) polite (?) to tell him what you really think
I think most of us have been passed by the Hot Shot – and we were rewarded (as you were) Have fun digging out *badword*
Ticket is $175.00 and counts as a moving violation on your CSA score. And if I got a ticket it would cost me at the company, my first quarter safety bonus amounting to about $800.00 PLUS cost me the extra $300.00 on top of that bonus I would not get paid for going 4 quarters without a violation thus adding up to a loss of $2,175.00 of income for this year.
That to me, is a no brainer, in a situation where no matter what, I can’t win and can’t change a thing. So in that case it’s “Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!”
Exactly how we’ve explained to our two newly minted 16 year old driving lads. The final thing we said to them both as they pulled out of our driveway, was a short but powerful, forceful lesson on what to do if/(please not)when they are stopped by the police. Fortunately they knew already, but it never hurts to repeat.
Josh called. Lear load. Go to Lear in Romulus, MI and bring back a loaded trailer to Lear in Indianapolis and then come back to the yard.
Gave me the option of going today or leaving out tomorrow at 08:00. I took going out tomorrow morning as the option. Perhaps the roads will be clearer and at least it may have stopped snowing. Also today the wind is whipping so hopefully I can avoid that hazard.
Besides that, I need the rest and to get a couple of good meals under my belt. This morning I made a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich on toasted 12 grain bread. Made with four of those little microwaveable sausage patties that take 90 seconds to do. American cheese, and two eggs hard fried. I long ago perfected getting the timing perfect to bring it all together hot.
Looking at the way things are getting I am having doubts that I will even be able to do this Lear run without taking a 10 hour break. Usually I could do this run and have 2 hours of drive time remaining but with what I suspect road conditions will be and the fact that I have to go the long way around to get the Lear facility on the near south side of Indy due to the construction uptown I suspect I won’t be getting home until Saturday morning some time.
You’re right…timing all edibles to be hot at the same time is definitely an art.
BTW, some of you may be wondering why I didn’t pull off and park at a WalMart or Meijers. Those are places in some cases, especially away from the east coast, where they allow truckers to park. But when they have to plow their lots, truckers are an obstacle and not welcome.
Being thoughtful of their needs will make so they don’t have a reason to ban truck parking and thus will be available later. And I do park in those kind of places at times in certain situations. They have bathrooms and food after all and are often conveniently located. BTW I have parked at the truck parking at Casinos also, though I only once had the time or inclination to go in a play a little.
Good morning infidels…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/scottsdale-school-board-youve-been-served/
https://bondsforthewin.com/
Blast from the past
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
“I’m gonna wait until my change come”, 1960
Oh Yeah!!!!
Isn’t the Facebook crash just awesome! Bloomberg saying its the biggest wipe-out in history! They have lost billions. Hooray!
If you want to read “Facebook Parent Meta’s Stock Plunges, Loses More Than $200 Billion in Value” https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-owner-metas-stock-price-plunges-premarket-jolting-tech-investors-11643887542
Too sad, too bad😥
Interesting.
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Mysterious Aircraft Spotted At Area 51 In Unprecedented Satellite
(A delta-shaped tailless fighter-sized aircraft that looks like nothing we’ve seen before calls the secretive base home.)
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44057/mysterious-aircraft-spotted-at-area-51-in-unprecedented-satellite-image?fbclid=IwAR0MWo97Ho3-fRuEyPZJTkw2_OJU1W3HYOHwgLo2CJxqW9rrXaPZg75_ymc
Quip O’Day – Thursday February 3, 2022
Classify under things you probably did not know
Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden”…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Ms Idaho,
Like you said, I didn’t know. And now?🤭😂😂😂😂 never think of word the same! Thanks for the chuckle ❤️
I have a whole list of things like that. Good for a chuckle, No?
One of Wil Paranormal’s best – down nostalgia road, deep…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ORHNEj53nQZ6/
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. And prayers up for Julian Assange; for the victims of January 6 entrapment; for the freedom and safety of Pastor Pawlowski who spoke his truth to tyrants. For all political prisoners everywhere
Amen.
Amen
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.