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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Awww…cutie pies!
Closest I got to seeing them in real life, was their distant relation….a bobcat kitten sitting at my door. This city girl tried to “rescue it”. 😂
A Feral city cat aye, that explains alot of Mungrel likes 😂
Dumster diving I’m real good at standing guard 😜
What are those? They are Boo-ti-ful!!!
Goodaye Leenie, I left a post for you on 11/3 OT thread, hope you read it as I was personally written to you.
All good this end, hope the same yours.
Cheers.
…checking now…
Can’t find it!!!!! Did you get mine from today?
11/3 or 3/11?
3/11…. Australia reverses month and date, as does the rest of the world, I think. I saw his comment, Leenie. It was beautiful💓
Can’t find it!!!
Good morning, Bet NM! It was heartfelt. I feel so blessed with all our mob here. 😍
Well, Good Afternoon to you, G💓 A busy day here on the Open Thread! Ain’t it grand?😁
Edit…You were just under the wire at 11:59. 😉
What’s the latest on the Freedom Convoy? Are the truckers still in the DC area? I haven’t seen much coverage on this event.
I can see or find nothing on it, Joe, and I visit a lot of sites. Interesting, no? Not even on the reliable sites where one would expect to see something. Very curious.
I do as well. Very much so. Very very much so💓
Nope…..nothing…
Just my two cents
Perhaps mungrel meant this one he posted the day before? March 10, 2022 6:50 am
It’s above duchess armor of god post.
Good luck 🍀
Good morning, Cat, I think you are right about the date. ❤️
Good Morning grandpa ❤️
Wish I could send you Texans some of my frozen water. 😉
Good morning, Leenie, Cat gave a good advice on the location of the post.
FOUND IT!!!
Got it!!!!! Thank you!!! 😌
They are Caracal kittens, native to Africa, Middle East, and parts of Asia.
About those ears:
“The Caracal uses 20 muscles – in three distinct groups – to independently control each of those large tufted ears. They act as super sensitive parabolic sound antennas, and the long tufts at the tips are thought to enhance their hearing by funneling sounds into the ears.”
…..wildcatconservation.org
Thank you!!! Well done, And! A source so I can explore!!!!
Boy, those cats are beautiful!!!
https://search.brave.com/images?q=carcal
Now don’t you go getting any ideas, girl😉
Mr.Leenie said, “FORGET ABOUT IT!!!!”
One more . . .
I had the pleasure to know Guy when he lived in Houston. He repaired my cheap guitar and only charged me $5 bucks because he knee I didn’t hve any money. . . One day I stopped by his house and saw the actual painting he included in this song. Precious memories. RIP Guy!
Addendum: If you had the great good fortune to attend a Lyle Lovett concert with hs Large Band you saw some American music at it’s very bast. I had the peasure of seeing several Lyle Lovette concerts with with this organizations of musicians and—gotta’ tell you—we got two solid hours of musical magic. Thank you Lyle Lovette! Long may you wave!!!
If you don’t mind…..
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Agree wholeheartedly! Saw him at the Tarrytown Music Hall a number of times and I had him on repeat for weeks! Love his gentle nature, voice and storytelling ability. He appears to be such a humble man – thanks for reminding me who I need to play today 👍⭐️🥰
Sadly, Sweet Pea Atkinson is no longer with us. Francine Reed wasn’t singing with the Large Band the last time I saw it.
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Hoping for some advice from other homeschooling parents/grandparents here…
My autistic four-year-old is going to be beginning school work this September. I’m going ahead and looking for school books now; I’m going to be using Rod & Staff for most of the curriculum, but there’s a few gaps to fill in. My mother used A Beka Books for me, and I absolutely hated it.
Right now, I’m looking specifically for history books. Does anyone here have a curriculum they use to teach history/social studies?
These are wonderful for establishing a child’s American patriotic foundation.
As one reviewer says get ’em while you still can.
Entertaining and highly recommended 👍
https://cathyduffyreviews.com/homeschool-reviews-core-curricula/history-and-geography/world-history-core-curricula/a-childs-history-of-the-world#
I’m so thankful you’re homeschooling!
Thousand thumbs up 👍
Good morning, TreeClimber💓
While I can’t recommend any materials for your precious child, I just wanted to say when I read your post and the two helpful replies, I couldn’t help but be overcome by the gift to all of us this site is…with generous spirited residents whose wealth of knowledge is freely and helpfully given. What an amazing place. I am so grateful for it.
All blessings to you, a loving and watchful mother of a few (if I remember correctly) and your beautiful family. May He walk side by side with your children, but this child in particular, each and every day as he/she starts the journey through life. No better Protector🙏
Yes excellent choice to homeschool.
This company is keeping old American history books alive for posterity:
knowledgekeepersbookstore.com
They have free study guides.
Blessings.
This may seem strange, but it is how I learned history and geography. Buy an old set of World Book encyclopedias, something before 1970 or so. It does not even have to be a complete set. You can often find them at flea markets, thrift stores or consignment stores. Encourage the child to just sit down and look at the pictures and maps. Explore the books with them. I still have my 1963 edition that I would sit and look at for hours as a child.
Second, get a really good printed dictionary. A huge one. An old one. Yes, it is easy to look up words online. However, if you look them up online you don’t get to explore the entries close to the one you were looking up. When the child says “What does this word mean?” look it up with them. The little pictures in the dictionary will inspire curiosity.
Third, take them to the symphony, opera and ballet. If you can, go to art museums that specialize in the masters. As they get older, go to folk music festivals and other smaller live music venues. Try to find places where you can meet the artists.
Finally, get them outdoors. Hike and explore. Teach them to to fish and hunt or have someone you know to show them. If you live in the city, find places to get out of town. If you go on vacations, avoid the fake stuff like Disney and instead go to national parks or state parks, charter a fishing boat with a crew, go on a photo safari, go rafting or kayaking, take a hot air balloon ride or hire an experienced off-roader for a mud bog or mountain trail run. I once took my son on a chartered open air biplane ride. We paid to go on a real shrimp trawler and the kids got to pull the nets, sort the catch and everyone had fresh shrimp to take home.
Bonus, as this may be hard to find. Find someone to teach them how to make stuff and fix things. Sewing, carpentry, cooking and even welding, auto mechanics or machine shop. Never miss an opportunity to spend some time on a farm or ranch.
That may be more than you wanted.
I may be homeschooling my autistic grandson this next school year. I’m tempted to write a post asking for suggestions from experienced parents who have home schooled autistic children. But in the past people have always hijacked those posts to spout anti vax crap about autism. Given the current mood, it would be a fiasco with little benefit. I’m not going there unless I get desperate.
It’s an utter shame, Menagerie, that in this world you have to make that choice, though I completely understand the dilemma. Could you not put a proviso in to ask that people not post anything related to vaxes’ putative cause for autism?
I know some go straight to comments without reading the thread’s content, but with the sudden proliferation of interest in homeschooling, I’m betting there are so many like TreeClimber with no idea where to start sourcing materials.
It is your decision to make. This is only my two cents worth. I believe God Himself will give you the answer…all Blessings to you and everyone in the top tier of the branches. B
i usually request that people not push politics and argue on the religious posts, it never makes a bit of difference. Sometimes I just turn off comments. And the ones in the trash are way, way worse than the ones that make it through.
Obviously, after a ton of investigation and study, much of it provided in detail by Stella, I am not an anti vaxxer except for the Covid vaccines. But that is beside the point. It would be great if we could draw together some knowledge from people who have gone before us and could help us.
It never fails though, people always think that the rules don’t apply to them, and they go way off topic.
As VibeMan said below, that connection did not enter my mind either, as I was focused of the enormous benefit such a post would deliver. I can also believe that the trash is full to the brim with odious comments. I see them everywhere else and I think “why??”.
“Rules for thee, but not for me.” I completely understand. There are plenty of readily available sources now for the information sought here. Preserve your quietude during this Lenten Season. It was a generous and thoughtful idea on your part.
If it is any consolation, that thought did not enter my mind until you mentioned it. When I hear Autistic, I think, “same job, different difficulties.” I am an old industrial maintenance guy. Sometimes the broken machines were inside and warm and sometimes they were outside in the heat or cold. Sometimes, I had the right tools, sometimes I had to improvise. Sometimes the machine was easy to fix and sometimes not. Same job with different difficulties.
Every child that needs to learn starts the process with different needs and difficulties. Some are certainly more severe than others. All have to be dealt with at the point of action. Arguing the cause of the difficulty does not mitigate the difficulty.
There are some people that do that, but they are not mechanics. They are engineers. They forget that the possible solutions to fix the next generation of machines often can not be applied to the current generation, but that does not stop them from saying so. In my 40+ years of working on machines, I have had more than one engineer tell my that the problem I was fixing was corrected in later designs. I would nod and go on. I was working on this one, not the next one.
That is why you get what you do. I have no experience with your problem. I would suggest you find you a specialist to work on it. There are some things that work in general and that was what I suggested in my post to TreeClimber. Those may certainly need to be modified given the conditions. The specialist will know.
Vibeman, you are outstanding. Appreciate your way of looking at the world, works for me
Don’t feel desperate! I can’t think of a place where kind, good-hearted people are willing to offer suggestions. (Of course I don’t see the Dreck…and Thank you for THAT!)
Don’t forget the “lurkers,” who don’t usually comment until they must. This may be that kind of situation…
Personal good experience working with materials, both free and purchased, from here:
https://diannecraft.org/
Excellent. Highly recommend.
Menagerie, i checked out “The Brainy Bunch” from our local library. It is an encouraging story of a successful homeschooling family, the Hardings (ten children of a relatively low income couple who married right out of high school. The Harding dad was in the Air Force. Mom worked as a CNA and then as an LPN, and had also run a daycare in their home for a while.)
The Hardings counsel other homeschooling parents, and note in their book that children with special needs often do exceptionally well with homeschooling.
They were first inspired to homeschool by a nurse coworker of Monalisa Harding who was successfully homeschooling her son with ADD
Treeclimber, the Steiner schools like to teach history through biographies. I remember working with a fourth grade teacher who was using Frederick Douglass’ autobiography for her class in Baltimore. When I read Douglass’ life story and then went to downtown Baltimore waterfront, my heart and mind was moved in a way that would not have happened if I had not read the life story of Douglass and connected that way.
Biographies link heart and mind in a special way.
Happy Cursday, Treepers. Pet your puppies for me!!!
Genius 😄
Ahem . . . 🙂
The director not the poster 😀
With the arrival of my Granddaughter we now have two pups in our house. Geisha our Cocker and Calley her Beagle. I built a fire in the fireplace yesterday while the girls were out buying $500.00 worth of Groceries. Wanted it to be nice and cozy for them when they got back in.
Geisha the dog and Gabby the cat Love laying down in front of the fire. Calley though, doesn’t quite know what to think of it. She’ll learn I reckon.
I’m feeling the love in your home, rah🤗
One of life’s simple but grand pleasures . . . 🙂
Good morning, Garrison💓 The simplest pleasures really are the best. Thank goodness I learned this decades ago. They are the ones that bring joy, no question. No price can be put on them. The richest man or woman in the world is the one who knows and appreciates each one that passes along and stays a while.
We have been adopted by a new cat. He/she is coming up on our deck and is eating and drinking the stuff we put out. We can not get close just yet. He/She is not real sure that he/she wants to keep us.
Bless you, VM. I’ve found gaining the trust of a feral is a long term project. I’ve seen so many successes though it is so worth it. I won’t see an animal go hungry. I have even made sure that in the winter they have access to shelter from the cold as well as victuals. Do keep us up on your efforts🙏
My former dept. chair has a sure-fire method for taming feral kitties. Food, a safe space, and patience usually works to give them time to unlearn being wary of humans.
the puppy’s name is Cornelius??
😂 😂
How they’re dealing with looters in Ukraine. Shrink wrap them to a streetpost and spank’em?
This was originally posted to uTube last week.
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. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The 50th Psalm (Septuagint)
From Small Compline
“Rejoice, Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls.”
Goodaye Sepp, I don’t much go for scripture, you would understand why if you have read my previous posts here.
I do so want to ask a question.
Whenever I see the post normally below with the infant child picture it brings me to hate and fury then sorrow and sadness.
To explain : four male pups me.
One bitch later aborted my pup without my consent.
I through all know this was a female pup.
I just know !
Is there any scripture that you know of that can relate this ?
Cheers.
I put the whole thing here for context. The first line, for me, tells us all we need to know. Miscarriage is hard and grief-filled, I know. But having someone without your knowledge or consent, destroy a life is literally, unimaginable. I talk to my oldest child, in prayer…never knew if my eldest was a boy or girl.
https://connectusfund.org/jeremiah-1-5-meaning-of-before-i-formed-you-in-the-womb-i-knew-you
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To you both, Leenie and Mungrel…🙏💓
And, Leenie, I know also the terrible terrible pain of miscarriage. To this day I remember.
Probably TMI: First pregnancy…after trying for a long time. Started spotting. Went for a sonogram.. The doc said, “There is evidence that there was a pregnancy.” I said, “That’s not possible! I’ve never been pregnant before this!”
She and my husband exchanged a glance…
“I’m sorry, What am I missing?”
When my brain finally caught up with her words, I excused myself and went into the bathroom.
Don’t think I have ever sobbed like that before. Many days after of more of the same…
30 years and 4 blessed children later, I do so want to meet that dear, and very loved child…Someday.
You, too Mungrel! You, too Betsy! And all of you who understand. 💔! But ❤️!
You will…and I will. And like you, boy or girl I never knew, but that child was very much wanted. 💓
..and that is why abortion, and the legalization of it, is so heinous to me.
Two women…both pregnant…one wants the baby…the other doesn’t.
Yes a thousand times, with particular reference to Jeremiah. “Safe, legal, and rare” the abortion supporters said right after Roe v Wade. It was only the foot in the door, and now we see the door ripped off is hinges.
I suspect for those who choose abortion, some joyously, that in the years to come, these women will be visited by a remorse so terrible. Of course one can’t tell them that because nobody seems to live in anything but the here and now, no thought that the years ahead will find them in an entirely different place. The tragedy will just have to play out.🙏
And I am reminded of this which I read long ago…
A man asked God why He had not sent someone to cure cancer, a terrible scourge to so many. God answered him that He had done so. “But you aborted him.”
I’ve posted that here before, but it seems appropriate to do so again.
There are variations of this one. They’re all good.👍
When I was in my early 20’s, I was the roommate of a girl I knew in college. Prior to moving on with her, She told me she had had an abortion. A year after moving in with her she found out she was pregnant and wanted to get an abortion. She asked me if I would come with her.
What was the “Meatloaf” song, “I would do anything for you, but I won’t do that.”
(Okay I messed up those lyrics, but you get the point.)
I do…you were wise.💓
Leenie… when I was a small child, there was an alcoholic family living on our street. The grandpa and mom and dad all drank themselves until they passed out. They did not have a telephone in their home; all money went to alcohol. The mom asked my mother if she could use the phone at out house to call the doctor once… and exclaimed, after speaking with the doctor’s office, ”dammit, I’m pregnant again”.
Their little children, close in age to me, ran the street naked in November, knocking on the doors of other families and begging for food. Their parents were passed out on the floor, unconscious from alcohol.
Wr lived in a “dry county”. Prohibition laws do not change behaviors. They only enrich mafiosi.
Just saying… it is better for everyone and especially better for children if adults are encouraged to seek out and use contraception when they do not desire to be parents.
But in those days contraception was also outlawed. Go figure
Leenie and Mungrel 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
A thousands amens, G💓
Isaiah 49
14
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”i
15
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.j
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See, upon the palms of my hands I have engraved you;*
your walls are ever before me.
17
Your children hasten—
your levelers, your destroyers
go forth from you;
18
Look about and see,
they are all gathering and coming to you.
As I live—oracle of the LORD—
you shall don them as jewels,
bedeck yourself like a bride.
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Though you were waste and desolate,
a land of ruins,
Now you shall be too narrow for your inhabitants,
while those who swallowed you up will be far away.
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The children of whom you were bereft
shall yet say in your hearing,
“This place is too narrow for me,
make room for me to live in.”
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You shall ask yourself:
“Who has borne me these,
when I was bereft and barren?
Exiled and repudiated,
who has reared them?
I was left all alone;
where then do these come from?”k
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Thus says the Lord GOD:
See, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
and to the peoples raise my signal;
They shall bring your sons in their arms,
your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.l
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Kings shall be your guardians,
their princesses your nursemaids;
Face to the ground, they shall bow down before you
and lick the dust at your feet.
Then you shall know that I am the LORD,
none who hope in me shall be ashamed
No words… I pray this will give him the comfort he is seeking. 🙏
Thanks, more perspective for me .
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King David had a dear newborn son that, within the first week of its life, fell ill and died. During that week David ate nothing, praying for the life of his child. When the child died on the seventh day, the king arose, washed, worshipped the Lord, and ate. His servants, puzzled by this action questioned him.
David’s response:
2 Sam 12:23KJV “But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
Although the precious little soul could not be brought back to earth, King David knew that, through his saving faith in God, he would one day be reunited forever with his little one.
Monday at 04:00 I take off to do that Skokie, IL run again. Nobody likes that run. And I mean NOBODY.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that run includes a stop at ACME metals and that place sucks. Two inside docks and trucks lined up to get into them.
This is the run I was doing the first snow storm I ran through in the Chicago area and got run off the ramp by the bone head state trooper.
Said a prayer for you.
I can imagine you taking a deep breath when you were informed.
That’s what you get for being dependable. 🤟
I’m gonna hit the cold trampoline with my grandson here in a bit.
Oh yea. First Josh called and said I was doing the KC Toyta run. Then called back to tell me they had gotten that run covered and so I was doing Skokie. My day in the barrel I guess.
you can’t get to Skokie from anywhere
They say something like that about San Angelo, Texas.
“Can’t get there unless you’re goin’ there.”
Watch ya back !
…careful, sir!
We don’t “bounce” as well as we used to!
Be careful Rah. Will e coyote might try to hitch a ride at the dock. 😎
If I don’t have any freight for the first stop at Skokie, I don’t have to go there.
My second stop on this run is at a import/export brokerage warehouse near O’Hara Airport. Usually the trailer will have about a dozen palates or more of car part components going to various countries.
The third stop is ACME and it is the real time killer. If I get there and they do not have me in the door by the end of the two hour window, I will probably be allowed to go on to the next stop. This shipper has always been slow and the company I drive for has laid down the law on them because they waste so much of the drivers time they can’t get back within the 14 hour duty window and have to take a break on the road for a run that is supposed to be out and back.
If this happens the shipper pays for the cost of an expeditor to pick up the freight. It sounds brutal but the simple fact is that the driver has freight from other shippers on the trailer that is supposed to go out the next day to the receivers and ACME, with their failure to load in the designated time, is screwing those receivers.
The last of the four stops is another similar facility and they usually put 15 or more palates on me coming from various countries. Getting the stuff they put on the trailer to the receiver on time, and their repeated failure to meet the shipping time window, is why there is now no tolerance for ACME holding up a driver.
I used to work in Skokie from time to time. I can not imagine getting a big truck in and out. I liked the area, but it is odd. There was a great Kosher deli across the street from the hotel in which I stayed that made fresh bagels every morning. I wonder if that is still there. . . .
Snow in Chicago is a nightmare. I had an early flight out of Midway and decided to spend the night near the airport rather than make the trek in the morning. It took over an hour to get the first mile to the road out of Elk Grove Village, but I merged in behind a snow plow that went most of the way to Midway. Was there in 45 minutes.
On this Skokie run two of my stops are in Elk Grove Village and one in Shindler Park. I really like it when I don’t have a delivery for the Skokie facility because then I don’t have to go through downtown. I can take I-294 around to the stops in Elk Grove Village. Won’t know until I get the trip ticket if I have to go to Skokie.
When I was doing hotshots, I told the dispatcher to give me all the crap jobs that nobody else wanted, so she would toss me the really juicy ones when they came up. We had a pretty good arrangement working while it lasted, then the company got absorbed and that was that. My favorite was the Friday night run from Dallas to San Antonio; a 5 lb. package of medical stuff, going to the hospital at the Air Force base in S.A. I would take my personal car and stay overnight in S.A. and have dinner and a ‘Rita on the Riverwalk, and head back the next day. And why not? That little milk run put $400 in my pocket, back in the aughts. Good times.
March 12 Oswald Chambers
Total surrender
Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.” —Mark 10:28
Our Lord replies to this statement of Peter by saying that this surrender is “for My sake and the gospel’s” (Mark 10:29). It was not for the purpose of what the disciples themselves would get out of it. Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result. For example, “I’m going to give myself to God because I want to be delivered from sin, because I want to be made holy.” Being delivered from sin and being made holy are the result of being right with God, but surrender resulting from this kind of thinking is certainly not the true nature of Christianity. Our motive for surrender should not be for any personal gain at all. We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself. It is like saying, “No, Lord, I don’t want you; I want myself. But I do want You to clean me and fill me with Your Holy Spirit. I want to be on display in Your showcase so I can say, ‘This is what God has done for me.’ ” Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender. Genuine total surrender is a personal sovereign preference for Jesus Christ Himself.
Where does Jesus Christ figure in when we have a concern about our natural relationships? Most of us will desert Him with this excuse— “Yes, Lord, I heard you call me, but my family needs me and I have my own interests. I just can’t go any further” (see Luke 9:57-62). “Then,” Jesus says, “you ‘cannot be My disciple’ ” (see Luke 14:26-33).
True surrender will always go beyond natural devotion. If we will only give up, God will surrender Himself to embrace all those around us and will meet their needs, which were created by our surrender. Beware of stopping anywhere short of total surrender to God. Most of us have only a vision of what this really means, but have never truly experienced it.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.… We have to pitch our tents where we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with the world may be.
Good morning, Cat💓 I can’t find the words for this one. It’s wonderful🙏
Good afternoon Betsy!
Hope you’re enjoying your Saturday ❤️
The sun is finally out and with it a tremendous warming, much better than the 25 degrees we awoke to. Hoping that’s it for Old Man Winter. Am seeing some purple popping through, just, from the redbud trees, always a good sign.
Don’t forget to reset your clocks tonight!😉
Oh, Hello! Started out this morning at 54 degrees….been dropping steadily all day. Now at 39. Tomorrow morning: 19 degrees…weather report from central NC!
…and can we PLEASE be done with this time change stuff???
Annoying, isn’t it? Takes me an age to readjust. My oldest when I reminded her said, dammit.
Your oldest was circumspect!!!!!!!!
I forgot the time change night! Oh joy!!!!! I love this time of year!
Flowers popping, weeds growing, mud for mucking in, pollen to be a’sneezing, and critters to be a-chasing, badgers, cats and bears oh my! Bonus: I’ll be able to find mungrel’s barker eggs that are under the snow 🥰
Thanks for the reminder! ❤️ big 🤗!!!!!!!!
It seems a weensy bit early to me. I can’t remember when it was last year. Glad to oblige, Cat. 😊
God Have Mercy!
Grain of salt.
Correct, since many of these “attacks” are staged.
Yep, Aussie main fake talking point “Putin bombed maternity hospital”
Top rating emotional stringtags for the sheeple death run !
Definitely psychological warfare out there.
Who knows who or what to trust?
America’s leadership is probably more evil than Russia and Ukraine combined.
I echo Dora’s prayer.
Hey Frank, consider that I can destroy a majority of posters on this site in regards to the fostered American ignorance inside USA from outside !
I try to keep my “mettle” best I can.
Putting perspectives from the whole brainwashing game given is not particularly easy for me.
Particularly in respect to military history, America has not been the “exceptional” country now or in my adult lifetime.
To be completely honest outside of America you mob are hated for the death and destruction created.
No fool me.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
You and I and some posters here do understand facts, don’t get me wrong.
The main reason I started posting on this site after lurking for years was that I realized the absolute ignorance of the majority there on the outcome of general consciousness that Americans were taught as being both “isolationist” first and “exceptionalist” second.
Not no “headf*ck” here and certainly no disrespect.
The facts remains the same though, that outside of continental USA by lowly considered slaves like myself America is hated.
I hold absolutely no reason to say this other than helping winning our war.
I know who is responsible for all this God forsaken mess and I don’t blame the American people themselves, that’s why mainly I bite my tongue here.
Between you and I Frank I would go full satan sick manic if any of the responsible filth come anywhere near me.
I think you’ll understand.
This was America’s eye-opener way back when.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180100-the-ugly-american
It is true we have been doing all along what we have been blaming on others.
And I suspect given the depth of rot and corruption now visible much far worse than we dare to imagine.
American leadership for the 150 yrs brings truth to this truthful saying the heart is exceedingly evil above all things.
If everyone hates America so much why do so many people want to move here?
Maybe yours have been brainwashed into believing that about America ?
Scapegoating 101.
Robert Burns… “Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.”
I get it, M. If we as a nation had that gift, we would shudder. I’ve personally seen in blazing daylight the reaction of other countries to the United States.
I do not say “America” because that means something else entirely, as I’m certain you’d understand. We are America. The foul regime which rules as it pleases with no regard to law or constitution is the United States.
My country is just as beautiful as yours, unfortunately both are completely corrupted by our government’s.
We look out and say “oh these people are all confused from the propaganda spewed by their government” never even thinking that we are just as blinded.
God knew man would do this, said the very elect would be deceived, and really it is Lucifer and his influence, he is the father of lies.
Read Gods word and stick close by him, is all you got and it must be that way. When man follows that principle all is well, we do not deviate from truth. All the fuzzy noise is just to distract off truth. It’s not for pain that he gave us salvation but for eternity with him not away.
I have yet to hear a politician or president reciting Gods word to our nation, and following it. A nation who put “in God we trust” on their money. It should be the backbone of every decision and policy made for this nation. I doubt very many households even do that anymore, if so debt itself would be nonexistent, as well as welfare. Anyway, I can dream.
God did not say “the very elect would be deceived.”
The Lord Jesus said,
“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24).
The Bible firmly speaks to the fact that the elect are protected by God from deceptions that would result in eternal separation from Christ, deceptions that the rest of the world will fall for.
Paul tells us that God “chose us [the elect] in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him” (Ephesians 1:4); Peter says that the chosen “are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:5); and
Jude says that the elect are “beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:1).
The elect will persevere in God’s strength – God guarantees it! Perseverance and not falling for religious deception sets apart the elect.
For further reading https://www.gotquestions.org/elect-deceived.html
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“consider that I can destroy a majority of posters on this site in regards to the fostered American ignorance inside USA from outside !”
A “Majority” of posters?
You have, many times, been the voice of reason in cautioning those of us who are not of OZ from stating opinions and making assumptions, positing generalizations about OZ.
Your last post did the very same thing you have been cautioning us about.
Perhaps you have more info (I don’t believe that you don’t) from an historical perspective, but There s also an OZ “historical” perspective, and it is just as “colorful” as the U.S.’s!
Am I cut off?
Thank You!
Of course not.
I’m working again today, I will post a more comprehensive viewpoint on OT next , I’m not being a smartarse at all, nor am I taking sides.
Sleep tight!
Yup.
I love our pilgrims, founders, constitution, bill of rights, etc.
Our political class is failing the entire world.
Good morning, Frank💓 I’ve come to believe that no one can outclass our “leaders” for unmitigated evil. What we are learning is horrible enough. What of what we still don’t know? BNM
It’s the over the top hysterical headlines and pictures which increase in intensity and pathos every single day which indicate to me that, though there is terrible suffering, there is something else going on in the manipulation of the public who absolutely have no ability to question or analyze.
For an example of this, M, just take a look at the UK Daily Mail. Yellow journalism at its gold medal best.
One has to wonder…are Obama’s friends in Hollywood “helping out” with any of this? My bet is they absolutely are.
I’ve seen this same picture with all kinds of different commentary just recently who knows what this is really???
We will not be told the truth, I’m beginning to think the msm is incapable of truth.
Looks pretty empty to be an active food storage facility.
Good Morning to my beautiful treeper family! ( lurkers and non-lurkers)!
My Saturday wish for all of you- may your mind be still while everything is spinning around today.
I had the hardest time with keeping a quiet mind until I learned this little ditty. Thought I would share. Hope you don’t mind ❤️
Mungrel will save Feral !
Two back paw twists with opposed top paw connection, double back tail flip with paw sniff without fur ruffle tripple back paw tail swing kill type move slow on Feral lower left whisker big front paw whisk around tail on ground wag with one paw ground scratch and nostril sniff.
See Feral 😃
Mungrel like stream of consciousness long barks 😛
Feral safe now, been saving barkers eggs for Feral 😂
Mungrel doing the hokey pokey and turn yourself around? That’s what it’s all about. 😂
Greetings FC and all other Treepers!
How about a smile?
“My grandfather told me that when my grandma gets mad at him, he tightens the pickle jar lid so well have to talk to him…I want that!” 💓🤗
I’m using this one Betsy! It’s brilliant!!!!
I loved it…but correct to “she’ll” rather than “well”… autocorrect done me wrong!
(We got it!! We do Treehouse-speak!)
The one cloud looks like Pegasus.
Hi Dora,
I’m not much of a Twidder Gidder, but for some reason I opened this one.
I’m convinced the Lord is coming in our generation. I’m also convinced that our maranatha cries do not go left unheard.
The other day GrampaM shared Scripture in Romans chapter one on wrath. I used to think abortion would bring the wrath of God until I understood that passage. Now I understand that abortion is both a fruit of His wrath and yet will bring more wrath.
If not for the grace of God, and left to ourselves, we would all perish.
The finest among us not only have no room for boasting, our righteousness is like filthy rags to The Most High.
I echo your prayer for mercy and I thank you for your post!
🔥✝️ Maranatha ✝️🔥
Good morning Frank!
I must’ve missed this post of grandpa’s. Thanks for this posting 😉
How could you, Cat? 😜😍
Dear Frank, do not let your heart be troubled…
The apostles were all sure the Lord was coming back in their life time.
….and in every age, many people were sure “the END is near”. Some willingly went to their deaths on that premise.
And so it is, We live by the grace of God. And so we must live.
What a moving statement, Leenie.💓 No one knows when the end of the Gift of Grace will be. You are right, Leenie. We must take each day grateful that we are allowed to start again as sinners all, keeping our hearts with Him, our eyes constantly on Him. Imperfect as we are, faith and patience must go before every step we take, allowing that His will is being done in a timing of His choosing.
I believe Jesus was pretty clear on this: (paraphrasing!). You do not know the hour or the day. You will hear of wars and famines, floods, and false profits predicting the end of times. Let not your hearts be troubled, have faith in Me, also have faith in God.
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.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, March 12, 2022
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“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
Mornin’ comrade infidels!
The Econ 101 term that addresses this “Elasticity of Demand.” Fuel is considered inelastic demand as people will still buy it as the price changes. As the supply decreases, even by small mounts, the inelasticity causes a disproportionate price increase in response to the lower supply. Fuel, housing and food are some of the most inelastic commodities.
Oil is a commodity and even the hint of any disruption in even a tiny portion of the supply will cause the price to go up.
Morning!
“The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.”
Proverbs 13:4
How is your soul today?
Morning Ya’ll , 🙂
Russian Orthodox priest celebrates end of Western influence…
First crack in the dam.
Sure took them long enough.
Yep. Happened to me. My ENT agreed that the vaccine was possibly the cause.
My case was somewhat unique. My hearing loss is from an autoimmune condition. After the vaccine, I started to experience a recurrence of the symptoms of autoimmune hearing loss, one of which is tinnitus. I immediately connected the potential autoimmune condition with a change to my immune system. Not everyone would and not every ENT would. My ENT is a specialist that was involved in the Covid vaccination tests at a local research hospital. When I suggested the vaccine, he said immediately that it was a possibility. He also said that if it was the vaccine it should lessen over time, like he knew. If it was the autoimmune returning, it would get progressively worse. It lessened over time just like he said it would but we were both prepared for the autoimmune protocol.
Glad you’re better, and that you have a good doctor.
My surgeon father was in front of the front lines in Korea (as he put it) and therefore was subjected to atrocious shellings and like noises. I don’t know if that contributed to his complete deafness in one ear. But I do know it affected him terribly all the rest of his life. He tried everything up to including surgery to rectify it. All failed.
I have so much sympathy for you with your hearing problems. I’m sorry they apparently have been increased by your vax. How fortunate that you have a ENT doctor who is willing to consider everything. They seem to be a bit thin on the ground over the past two years. Thank God for your doctor.
First crack indeed, WP… more to come. In fact actually incoming as we speak.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Dzien Dobry (good morning)
Dozen dobry ms Idaho
Well, we all got up this morning, thankful we got thru the night.
Ready to attack a beautiful Saturday
doing the best we can with what we’ve got
God Bless Us All
So I said a dozen mornings to you? 😂
Dzien afternoon ms Idaho ❤️
I looked it up – you gave me a dozen good
😂 😂 I give up!
Thanks ms Idaho. Back to school for me. 😂
believe me – today I NEED a dozen good
maybe even more
SWINGIN FROM THE PAST
They were great. Popularized the shuffle beat.
😎 👍 😘
More versions of just a gigolo
Marlene Dietrich & David Bowie “Just A Gigolo” – YouTube
Bing Crosby – Just a Gigolo (1931) – YouTube
And the hyperactive parody version sung in the style of Louis Prima. (Watch at your own risk. If you do, pay attention to all the parodies)
David Lee Roth – Just A Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody (1985) (Music Video – Dave TV Version) – YouTube
Thanks Rebel. Now that I see the Louis Prima version, I know where Roth got his.
And no, I no longer have any clue on how to make these videos appear as videos not just links.
RMB (right mouse button; just in case) on the video that’s playing and select copy URL (only) there’s a second one that allows you to select ‘from where you are in the vid)
Here is a try. Thanks for telling me.
Worked wonderfully.
Thanks again.
How to help the people of Ukraine (updated)
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-to-help-people-of-ukraine-updated.html
Aren’t “we” already helping the people of Ukraine, to the tune of multi-billions of our tax dollars..?
We are helping the military industrial segment send more weapons to kill Russians. That is not exactly the same as “helping the Ukrainian” people but is supposed to be a side benefit.
The military industrial complex has always helped itself…to our tax money and even money produced from thin air.
And just think how warmongering Congress members are making out like the bandits they are as a bonus (lobbyists). Ukrainian citizens are simply bit players in this hideous Washington inspired fiasco. People who don’t matter except as being useful for propaganda purposes. My opinion only.
And then there is this. 450 Islamists from the Middle East arriving in Ukraine to fight the Russians. Oh, and those 16,000 foreign mercenaries I read about and mentioned yesterday? Apparently they are not fighting FOR Russia, but are fighting against the Russians. And what will Zelensky do with them when it’s over? Remember that Osama guy the US made nicey nice with against the Soviets? But then, this is a pro-Hezbollah news network, so I’m not sure exactly how they are grinding the axe on this.
At any rate, nobody learns. What a mess.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/450-arab-and-foreign-extremists-from-idlib-arrive-in-ukraine
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/zelensky:-16000-foreign-mercenaries-are-going-to-fight-for-u
It is hard to turn down desperately needed help, even if you know there will be dire consequences.
On the other hand, such forces are often abused by enemy and friend alike and again by their country when they get home.
Such was the plight of the Lincoln Brigade, part of the International troops fighting for communism in Spain. Though you have to weed through piles of communist propaganda to get to the truth.
Spain is where Orwell learned to be an anti-communist socialist. And so did this guy:
The Man Who Punctured Communism’s Lies about the Spanish Civil War | National Review
The EU apparatchiks just sanctioned Poland and Hungary for not doing as they were told…i.e. opening their borders to mass Muslim migration. Poland is taking in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
I’m betting at some point, these “fighters” will be making their way across the borders of both countries. All engineered by a corrupt and discredited EU. By hook or by crook, with or without the permission of the residents or leaders of either country. I pray not, but I’m looking for exactly that.
I love your post flyover. Good reinforcing reminder of what God expects from me daily. Thanks 😘
ARE YOU AN AMERICAN OR A DEMOCRAT bumper sticker
Well, I’m about 20 pieces into the assembly of a rolling island for the kitchen. That count does not include fasteners of course. I figure I’ll get it done about dinner time if everything goes well. Which of course it probably won’t. But I’ll be happy to get the thing together before the sun sets.
Step 1 had an error in the drawing for the placement of the guides for the drawers. Looking at a further step of assembly though I figured out the correct placement.
My next task is the assembly of the spice rack that goes on one end. This one uses wooden dowels and though they supplied no glue, nor show using any, I will glue them. It just make sense.
I just opened one end of the cardboard box that the thing came in and put it on the floor to protect the finish as I start putting the larger parts together.
My reward, other than not having to listen to the constant stream of desires from my better half about want one, will be Meatloaf, Mashed potatoes and gravy, and some vegie. It will also be a jack and non coke.
Eventually there will be armed conflict in practically every nation including our own as certain factions rise up against totalitarianism right in America.
I assume, like every self respecting man, you disregarded the manual/instructions completely – no sane person can make sense of them anyway – until we’re left with those annoying left over bits that just don’t seem to fit anywhere.
After you discard the extra pieces, or put them in a ‘i’ll find ’em if I need ’em place’, you will find out that it doesn’t work right. Then you have to figure out why it doesn’t work right. Then you have to go find the pieces you ‘saved’, or find some pieces that will work so you can make it work right
Yes, that is the voice of ‘been there – done that’
I did follow the instructions when they made sense. The only spare parts left were fasteners and there were supposed to be extra of some. Three drawers work perfectly. The cabinet doors work perfectly and the gap is exact and even. That is a job I hate but these were so close once I got them on the adjustments were minimal. All in all it looks like somebody that knew what they were doing put it together. And most importantly the boss loves it!
The instructions said assembly was a 1 1/2 hour job. I took almost 5 hours getting it together. But I left nothing to chance. And did some extra things as I went along to make it a bit sturdier.
I now have Jack & non-coke in hand and dinner is ready. So it’s dinner time.
Niiiiiice
If we have a Biden voter anywhere in the area that I live, they sure are keeping a low profile.
ICYMI…
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-most-brutal-punishments-in-hell
😂 number 6 helps interpret the chipmunk 😜
Thanks FDR ❤️
From the Ace of Spades =. I Love it.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Guard%20dog.jpg
😂. Bet some of us has his pups. 😝
A little Dave Brubeck night music
Ukraine invaded and Geoffrey Pyatt exiting neighboring Greece. Does Nuland have a seat waiting for her revolutionary partner from Ukraine? And speaking if media cover, introducing the new ambassador to Greece.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/greek-american-george-j-tsunis-confirmed-as-united-states-ambassador-to-greece/
Remember this?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/11/joe-biden-george-tsunis-greece-ambassador
https://news.yahoo.com/watch-what-happens-when-obama-picks-a-top-donor-as-ambassador-161931672.html
Does anybody really know what time it is (I don’t.) Does anybody really care (care abut time…)