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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A headstone found I know not where, but it really did touch my heart. It had this inscription on it…
DEWEY
1898-1910
“He was only a cat”
But he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain.
Made me shed a tear or many…not just a cat, but a true companion, as all our animals are to us.
Pets are like people, part of our family.
Oh they most definitely are. And in so many ways as human as our families.
Good morning, Betsy, Our pets are a large part of our family. When we were raising German Shorthaire Pointer puppies we had to fight the old belief that you could not make a pet out of them. Old hunters believed that you tied them outside and did NOT bring them in the house or let the kids make them pets!! The old school of thought was that they would not hunt if you made a pet out of them.
Our GSP’s were All house dog and great hunters. We NEVER sold a puppy to anyone that was not going to have it in the house!! When they came to see the puppies they could not believe how friendly they were and how much they loved their family. My grand daughter at 3 yrs old could help with pups being born. She learned that each pup had its own little bubble it was born in. Our pups were all born here in the kitchen.
We don’t breed any more, it got to be too much work for us, but I miss our little babies tremendously.
Good morning, Marti🌷 What a happy home you had with those lovely animals! And such a beautiful breed. There are those who aren’t as responsible as you were, and it breaks my heart. Bless you for making sure those pups went to loving homes. 💖
We loved our little ones and did a lot of work with them in that first 8 weeks. We raised them for 30 years. Several times we bought our puppy back due to the family going thru a divorce. We knew our breeding and had no problem taking back a pup. Many people came back for another pup when the first one they had bought got older and passed away. We never sold a person 2 puppies at a time. Most people can not train two at once and the pups bond to each other and don’t listed to anyone. Sorry for bending your ear a little or your eyes in this case, I really do miss them.
I don’t mind a little ear bending in the least. That’s what makes us the wonderful group that we are.
And I have no doubts you miss them. I can feel it through your words. It wasn’t a job for you, the breeding. It was love of your beautiful animals. A real soul connection is say. How on earth you managed to let them go to other homes without feeling a little pang puppy after puppy…bet in fact it was difficult with each one. Made easier because you had done the homework vetting I’m sure. What a wonderful 30 years you had, Marti enabling other families to be as happy as you were with such gorgeous dogs.🤗🌷
Our puppies were fully vetted and we wormed them three times over the eight weeks. They had a health certificate and if anything was wrong with them, I wanted to know what it was and I would buy back my puppy.
We had friends that would come and hold the puppies, they called it their “puppy fix”. It helped make the pups well socialized before they left.
Perfect puppy practices to prepare prospective owners to be perfect puppy people!
Practical and precious! 🐶
My father, a lifelong outdoorsman and hunter, had a field trial champion bird dog he trained himself. Prince was a loving member of our family—even shared his food and dog house with my 5 year old self!
My dad’s favorite author was Robert Ruark who, for many years, published a monthly column in Field & Stream. These were collected and republished as “The Old Man And The Boy” and are available in paperback. Ruark is a great story-teller. These are truly great reads. I think my dad, along with many hunters, saw himself in these stories.
Good afternoon, Garrison. These hunting dogs like Prince really love their family. Children that grow up with pets (dogs and cats) are so much better adjusted. We had people come with their children that had never been around animals. The children were scared of the dogs, some of them cried and tried to kick at the dogs. We advised the parents to take the children to a dog training club (there were several near us) and get the little ones used to seeing different dogs and be able to pet them in a safe environment.
I see amazon has the book “The Old Man And The Boy”. There is another one ” The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older”. It says they are often sold together. I think I will enjoy them, I know my husband will see himself in them. At 82 he has hunted his whole life. He lives and breathes hunting. He is cutting trees and getting wood in for next winter so he will be ready for hunting season. We live in the woods so he doesn’t have to go far for the wood.
I have “The Old Man And The Boy” sitting beside me now. Reading Ruark’s stories always brings images of sitting around a fire on a clear fall evening, listening to baying hounds chase ‘coons. Staying warm and drinking ‘shine from a Mason jar—talking quietly with good friends and waiting to see if the dogs finally get a Racoon tree’d. . . This was a familiar culture to my dad, it’s how he grew up, and was as familiar to him as breathing. Even when he was no longer living there, my dad revered that rural, legendary Appalachian world his entire life. (Happily, in their later years, he and my mom were able to return to it.) I have a feeling your husband is going to enjoy Rurak’s writing.
Thank you. I know we will both enjoy the books. Your dad was a very special person. I don’t hear coon hounds very often around here but there is a neighbor down the mountain that has fox hounds. We used to hear them a lot. There are fox on our trail cam. Since china virus we haven’t heard any hounds. Miss hearing them.
Sigh . . . I’m envious. We’d thought about moving from time to time but decided to live where we worked. My wife could easily walk to school while I was going out when everyone was coming in so for years my commute just took minutes.
Our little Thor has cancer. I’m grateful for a veterinary service that makes house calls and for medication that is effective in relieving stress and pain. My prayer is that she would live out her life being content in doing cat things with as little suffering as possible, and like the ending of Narnia’s ‘The Last Battle’, she too would one day run joyfully to her Creator.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you! Prayer helps to alleviate the sudden waves of sadness that come from time to time xox
Oh Shelley………. I am so so sorry for him (he’s a beauty who looks exactly like one we had many years ago), and you. In a way only those of us here who have faced this with our loved, so much loved, animal families understand. And yes, I thank God with you that you have a vet who makes those much needed house calls, which I know relieves your stress and his. And that there are meds to make him comfortable.
The hardest thing we have ever done is to decide when enough is enough, a decision we’ve had to make too many times. In the end, for us, we had to divorce our hearts from our heads, knowing the ones who have given us their trust, faithfulness, and company would never be with us long enough.
God bless you, Thor, and your kind hearted vet. I am with you in spirit.🙏🌷
Bless you Betsy. You are so kind and thoughtful. Praying your words help Shelly thru this time of sorrow.
I do as well🙏
I figure the bottom line will be when she can no longer enjoy being a cat because body systems stop working or pain relief requires full time sedation. I’ll be relying on my vet to help me weigh her time left to be happy against an unavoidable increase in suffering.
This I understand perfectly. I wish all vets were as compassionate as yours.
Our vet in Chirk, Wales (a tiny village) was one of those compassionate vets. I’ve told the story before, but he sent a lovely handwritten note the day after we said goodbye to our Penny. When she had surgery about a year before, it had to be done in an equipped hospital. When I went to pick her up, I found her running around at reception. The assistants loved her so much that they made her their “meeter/greeter”, and hated to see her go. There was a palpable kindness with those people, and I’ll always love them for it.
Rainbow Bridge, Shelly. 🙂
Shelly, sorry to hear about Thor. I feel your pain, it is never easy to have to make the decision of when to put a loved fur-baby down. You have a wonderful vet. God bless you and be with you thru it all.
Thor looks a lot like my black kitty who passed away 2 years ago. Bear was the sweetest baby girl with silky, shiny fur. She also had cancer. I held her in my arms when I finally had to have the vet end her pain. She purred until the last conscious moment. We love them so much. They give us so much. You are in my prayers. I am crying right now for both of us and our beloved babies!
That’s what I intend to do as well if she doesn’t slip away on her own first.
Thoughtful words, Betsy. And very true. 🙂
🙏 not easy…..we owe them no less.
I said goodbye to my 18 year old dog on Feb 23rd. Still miss her so! She was my companion through a whole lot of life stuff
Our Jack Russell Penny was the world to us, but of our children it was our son (10 at the time) who felt her departure most deeply. He’s grown now with a family of his own, and he said the other day he still misses her. Whoever said “forever in our hearts” wasn’t lying.💔
I am truly sorry, Tommye. I do know exactly how much you miss her.
My prayers are with you. Can’t think of our long line of pets without the iPad or the iPhone fogging up.
Sorry for your loss, Tommye. They say that in time you will not miss them as much. I have found this not to be true. We miss them very much forever. Garrison reminded me of the poem “Rainbow Bridge”. We will see them again on the other side of the bridge. They are waiting there for us. God bless you.
🙂 As best they can, dogs emulate human emotions. She knew you loved her.
Great message. AFAIK, Pastor Bob Bolender of Austin Bible Church has been faithfully preaching this fact since he was ordained. We Christian Gentiles are not the beneficiaries of the Abrahamic Covenant, nor the Davidic Covenant. Israel is the sole beneficiary of those promises that the Lord will keep. We gentiles AND believing Jews are the beneficiaries of His Son Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for our eternal salvation.
When July 17th actually arrives, you can swap this message with the one intended for June 17, which is today.
Good morning, sweet Garrison. 😇
Good morning Patience!
Hi there, GrandpaM.
Good morning, Garrison💖 I have the very deep feeling there is a reason you posted this, even though I couldn’t understand the words. What a gentle song. May you continue to feel His presence by your side today and every day, my friend.🙏
The hour of departure
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Good morning, Patience. I gleaned from reading the lyrics a few words that indicated to me that was so. Thank you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=desenredo+song+lyrics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
Bless you for putting these in. 🌷
Hiya Garrison ❤️
You’ve been in my thoughts and prayers, always. I just don’t say much of it, lately
I appreciate every one of your postings. 💋
Although I never keep score your kind words are always much appreciated, Cat. Thank you . . . 🙂
Eric Clapton suffered a va$$ination injury in the spring of 2021 that temporarily disabled him with worsening of his painful peripheral neuropathy to the point where he was unable to use his hands for 3 weeks. As a legendary guitarist it was a wake-up call that caused him to speak out about coercion from propaganda ads produced by the NHS. He asked his physician to file a Yellow Card report of the adverse reaction, but was unprepared for the vicious backlash to his public disclosure from the mainstream media.
His courageous response was to record his defiant hero’s anthem, “This Has Gotta Stop,” in August which now has almost 2.5 million video views. The lyrics speak volumes: “Enough is enough I can’t take this BS any longer. It’s gone far enough. If you wanna claim my soul you’ll have to come and break down this door.” His bold stance led to a new friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who has been a leading voice of skeptical protest against the va$$ine ($$ to avoid censors) agenda through Children’s Health Defense.
Heroes of 2021 Speak Out: This Has Gotta Stop!
RFK, Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
All financial roads eventually lead back to the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Their Build Back Better agenda happens to coincide with rising all-cause death rates globally. Pathologist Ryan Cole, MD, has shared disturbing biopsy data demonstrating a surge of cancer which he suspects is related to suppression of killer T-cells by injections made worse with boosters. Similar observations of aggressive cancers or unexpected recurrences right after injections are being reported by other clinicians around the world.
Mortuaries in the UK are filled with non-viral deaths, and ERs in many countries are swamped with seriously ill patients who do not have the virus, but instead have blood clots, heart conditions, and strokes, all serious adverse effects of injections. Va$$inated athletes are collapsing from cardiac events all over Europe. The hospitalization risk for myocarditis after injection in teenage boys is greater than for the virus. Eric Clapton offers this deep concern, “My fear about va$$ination is what will it do to my children?”
https://larryburk.substack.com/p/heroes-of-2021-speak-out-this-has
Unelected FDA changes Hippocratic oath to “Above all, do no harm to big pHARMa’s bottom line and the Davos/WEF depop agenda”:
(LINK)
FDA Advisors Unanimously Endorse Pfizer, Moderna COVID Shots for Infants and Young Kids, Ignore Pleas to ‘First Do No Harm’
“All the risks are to the innocent children and all of the billion-dollar rewards go to the government-protected pharmaceuticals,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), after advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today voted 21-0 to recommend Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for infants and young children.
(LINK)
Children’s Health Defense
And:
https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/why-did-49-governors-pre-order-deadly?s=r
Why Did 49 Governors Pre-Order Deadly Covid Jabs for Kids Under 5?
“While a few are asking why DeSantis won’t get with the program to jab every man, woman, and child in America, the real question is why the 49 other governors have, especially Republicans.
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may be the only sane governor in the country. All of the others, whether Republican or Democrat, pre-ordered Covid jabs for kids under the age of five. Meanwhile, DeSantis is getting attacked by corporate media.”
DeSantis, not Trump, in ’24. The rest are collaborative RINOs – including someone’s braggadocio, “Father of vaxx” self-title.
Good 👍🏼
Perhaps Justin Bieber and his wife will speak out as well. 🙏🏻
The Chers of the world could be next; hopefully.
Anything that wakens the lemmings is good.
Just to clarify:
No I’ll-will intended to the Chers of the world.
-Only that they awaken
and
-speak from their soapboxes
To awaken their followers.
Dang auto…
Ill
For you, Patience…
Doctor: I’m afraid you’re suffering from Autocorrect Syndrome.
Patient: I didn’t even realize I was I’ll.
😁
😆
Right??
🙃😝
👍🌷
Look up British funeral director John O’Looney’s videos, still available.
He has been a witness for Reiner Fuellmich. He outlines his journey from his believing what the UK government was telling him about covid, then the vaxxes, then his slow realization through his own experiences dealing with the bodies he was seeing and the numbers of them that the government was out and out lying, and finally…realizing he was putting his life at terrible risk for speaking out.
He is a forthright, honest, caring man who could stay silent no longer. Riveting.
(LINK) – Update from John O’Looney on Vax Deaths
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/06/no_author/update-from-john-olooney-on-vax-deaths/
Mortician Finds Massive Hand-Sized Clots In Cadavers After Vax Release
https://www.infowars.com/posts/must-see-mortician-finds-massive-hand-sized-clots-in-cadavers-after-vax-release/
Sorry to have missed the edit time window, but the above O’Looney interview is with Attorney Reiner Füllmich, who intends to use his testimony for Nuremberg 2.0: The Vaxocaust Tribunals.
What an absolute treasure you are, Birdbrain. Yes!!! I hope everyone will watch. His passion is evident in everything he says. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have not seen this one, and there are a few others. Sort of a journey from the beginning. Looking forward to watching this.
Betsy, when you listen, you can hear that he’s at the end of his rope, that he cannot contain himself, that he’s lost so much. He’s been called crazy, he and his brother are done with each other. One of my brothers is an emergency/trauma doc and believes the whole vax/virus narrative. To show how effective a psyop this all is, my brother has voted for Ron Paul, feels the lockdowns insane, hated the masks, and even is against FORCED vaxxing. Yet, I cannot convince him to listen to thousands of his professional peers’ objections and contrary testimony. He has (uncharacteristically, for my brother) dismissed the great Jon Rappoport (No More Fake News) with foul language. This lie is deep and wide. It darkens the whole sky, ’til the average person takes the dark as normal.
That was exactly n the thing that struck me as well. The tone of his voice, almost a panic that he couldn’t make everyone understand the depth of evil that all this was. Very emotional for him, and extremely emotional for me to hear him.
My original husband is a retired orthopaedic surgeon jabbed to the eyeballs. Fauci, CDC (aka the Joseph Mengele Institute), NIH…all are infallible truth tellers to him. No evidence presented will dissuade him. Fortunately I was well on top of the true info about these vaxxes, and was able to reach our three grown children before he did. He still tries to convince them they should get them. They will not, nor their children… And I give thanks to ourGreat God🙏
Bless you Bet! And the foul EU is forming an European Health Union to supercede each country’s individual decisions. Got to keep jabbing the sheeple.
Oh geeeeeeeee!!!!! Of course they are. Schwab, Soros, Gates and Big Pharma own them. I was unaware of this appalling development, but I shouldn’t be surprised.
Thank goodness the UK population extricated themselves from that EU horror show. BoJo wouldn’t dare do that to the UK. But then, he’s big buddies with Gates soooo…..
Reiner is awesome!
Godspeed to him and all the other truth tellers that are spreading truth.
And Att’y David Martin, too. So many are fighting. Hundreds of millions must die and be permanently altered before the masses will join the resistance.
The Patent Man…can’t argue with dates of filed patents for sure. He is well worth listening to, again also with Fuellmich.
Yes he is. And remarkably successful in suing the Big Pharma boys. A real David against an all powerful Goliath.
Feisty, the wretched and not fit for purpose NHS is a disgrace, yet it remains the point of worship by people in the UK.
I remember that when I was about 8, my surgeon father had one of the very few rants I ever heard him make. Paraphrasing, he said woe unto us in the US if we ever adopted the medical system of that country. It made a huge impression on me obviously because I do remember it. Today, we’re just about there, with the added bonus of having to pay exorbitantly for it. I think he saw it coming, even then.
Good morning Bet! And the ignorant keep on believing that the government is there to take care of them.
Grand slam for me today!!
Grandpa, Betsy, feisty, patience and every lurker and non lurker not mentioned here, goood Friday morning to all!
May something special happen to each of you today! ❤️
Yep ….!
and thanks❣️
Good morning and
– an entire
special day to you, Cat.
Cat, may your day is filled with God happenings! 😍
Good morning, Grandpa. The government has made so many of them into “lazy free-loaders” that they don’t want to work. Let the government keep them, they get more benefits than we that work. Our vet had to close one of their offices because they could not get people to work. The Emergency Vet office closed two days a week because of the same thing. No qualified people around want to work, they make more staying home.
Marti, and the government keeps erecting more obstacles. In many states, including Texas, you can’t call the people helping the vet vet techs unless they are licensed. The new vernacular is veterinary assistants. Only a matter of time they’ll require a license for that, too.
I know someone here is a registered or licensed vet tech and I mean no disrespect.
I have personally known plenty of excellent vet techs that were trained by their employers veterinarians and served our furry friends well without having to be allowed by the state.
And don’t even get me started on the new “pet parent” speak. The newly minted crop of veterinarians that have bought into it don’t realize that they are opening the door for greedy lawyers to sue the scrubs off their a$$es.
Good morning, G💖 Yes, there are such people who think that, especially in Blighty. The government and particularly the NHS is a cult, an absolute religion for the people there.
Nothing showed that more to me than the absurd Monty Pythonesque Thursday 8pm ritual of everyone standing outside banging pots and pans for the NHS during the covid lockdowns. Even the Royals did it…but they’ve moved on to a new climate religion now. Watching a country I loved fall into satanic hands is extremely saddening for me.
Same old lie from the pit of hell, “give us your hard earned money and we’ll take care of you.”
You said it…CS Lewis said it best…
“Readers are advised to remember: the devil is a liar.”
Simple enough I should have thought.
Great devotional from pastor Chuck today with a quote from CS Lewis at the end.
I think I’ve saved his link. I need to look.
https://www.insight.org/resources/daily-devotional/individual/the-legacy-of-learning-part-two1
I thought that I copied the link but I recon I’m not all here today. 😀
I’d hoped you’d provide the link…bless, G😘
I’m wiped out from the heat today…busy have to be outside doing stuff day. So I get it. If you’ve had little sleep I bet that’s why.
A lovely sermon from Chuck🙏!!
The VA here in the states isn’t much better. We lost a good friend last year due to VA indifference. Last week another old friend (we’re all gettin’ old) experienced the same medical indifference/incompetence when he visited the VA with a sharp back pain.
Our son is a vet subject to that indifference/incompetence, Garrison. The don’t care and don’t want to know. Their abysmal attitude is shaming and cruel. His problem is back pain. He’s had to fight so hard to be referred out per Mr Trump’s EO. None who work there have souls I’ve decided.
I am so dreadfully sorry for the loss of your friend.🙏
A bit late with this, Bet. It was his own damn fault. He waited much too long when he should have gone to the emergency room. He was a good guy, but trusting the VA killed him.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
James 2:17 : talk is cheap.
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 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. (thrice)
The Lord’s Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhNk0j2H-Zs
Afterfeast of Pentecost
Saints Mary and Martha, sisters of Saint Lazarus (+ 1st century)
Saint Petroc of Cornwall, abbot (+ 594)
June 4th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
June 17th – civil or commercial calendar
June 17
Morning
In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests he made known unto God. Phil. 4:6
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. Psa. 116:1, 2
When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matt. 6:7
The Spirit … helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Rom. 8:26
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. I Tim. 2:8
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Eph. 6:18
If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Matt. 18:19
Evening
All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee. Psa. 145:10
Bless the LORD, O my SOUL and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Psa. 103:1, 2
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psa. 34:1
Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Psa. 145:2
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. Psa. 63:3-5
My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Luke 1:46, 47
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Rev. 4:11
J. Bagster
Good Morning poyeema ❤️
Thanks for choosing this post today.
Even in despair, mixed with sorrow, there is a Lord’s message of reminding us (me) of all his blessings he has bestowed on each of us.
Personally, must focus not on my grumblings, turn and stay turned to His Blessings. Must never forget His Blessings. Always be thankful 💕
May your day be filled with all things good, like the good things you spread here ❤️
Recent European Union Grifters Anonymous Club meeting in Kiev.
Apparently the only thing war-torn there is Zelenzkyy’s dirty old t-shirt.
God, lend us strength and the loving light of your power to guide us in these difficult times. Help us make the difficult choices, the righteous choices. Please lift up all those who fight for the good of fellow citizens through their research and advocacy.
God bless all truth seekers who value life and freedom.
Deliver us from those in power who are bowing to Satan, and denying Your truth.
Amen.
Amen
Good Morning Betsy!! ❤️
Good morning, again, Cat🤗 There are never too many good morning greetings!!
Amen !!
Amen
Good morning all.
Been a busy week for me. Come home, get some sleep and go out again was pretty much it.
Monday-Tuesday KC Toyota run and bring dry batteries back. The load of dry car batteries I brought back from Saint Joseph, MO was the heaviest I have pulled for some time at 44,808 lb.
Wednesday I did the Skokie, IL run again. Skokie, Schiller Park, and two stops in Elk Grove Village. Had to wear a mask at the last stop where I picked up. That was the first time I have been required to wear a mask in many months. But they say Cooke county has had a spike in COVID and so, as usual, it is CYA for some people.
Yesterday I ran a load of racks up to a place in Holland, MI and was loaded there with parts bound for the Honda plant in Greenfield, IN though I brought the load back to the terminal in Anderson and another driver took it to the Honda plant.
Lots of road construction up in Holland. It had been over a year since I had been to that facility and it turned out that there was only one way to get in to it and out due to roads being closed But it took some poking around for me to figure that out. I am always amazed how they seem to coordinate their road closures so that when they close a major route like US-31 north they also close the one or two most likely alternate routes to get around the closure. I have noticed this pattern for some time. It can’t be accidental or coincidental. It has to be intentional. And it sucks.
Phew!
I really can’t decide who has the dumbest and least considerate drivers. IL or MI?
I think its a condition across the whole of this country, rah.
It’s not geographical, so much as behavioral. Manners take time, and cars violate the natural flow of time. Compensation must be made.
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane, like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. The inviolate spirit turns their spite against the wrongdoers. The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own and malice finds all her work in vain. It is the whipper who is whipped and the tyrant who is undone.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
Just excellent, Birdbrain! And such imagery. Thank you for posting this beautiful Emerson offering. Truth, truth, truth.
When our grands nearest were about 2, we started teaching them manners, the first building block I civilized behaviour.
“Manners Maketh Man” we would say to them at every opportunity. It was easy for them to parrot, and the alliteration appealed to them. We never let up through the years.
Today, I am very proud to say those lessons took root and grew, so that now the young men that they are, and their slightly younger sister, all are aware ad practice what they were taught.
And what it has given them is the equally valuable sense of others.
God was merciful in placing us here near them so that we could (per other of my posts today) water them with loving lessons and watch them bloom and grow into the fine young adults they have all become. Deo gratias.🙏
Much more common around big cities in my experience. I was just comparing those two states, but having driven a big truck in every one of the lower 48, the city of Los Angles takes the cake in my book. Eight lanes going one direction and people still using the shoulder to cut me off. And out there more often than not, it would be a woman in a big SUV.
I would do my best to hang them out there because as any driver knows, the shoulder is the best place to get a piece of debris in a tire. But the big truck driver that makes tailgating a habit is bound to cause an accident sooner or later.
I really try not to use the rig to intimidate other drivers but there are times one just has to in order to make necessary lane changes or to let others know they shouldn’t be doing what they are doing.
I completely get your position. Safer first. And yes on those big cities. They are horrid for unsafe traffic. Near Big D and driving through, it is particularly awful.
In the UK on their motorways you’d be in worse shape. You can use only 2 of the normal three lanes in your big rig…and you cannot change lanes by the means of what they call “undertaking”. Talk about making it hard.
The tourists driving around Fredericksburg Texas.
We were tourists there once upon a time….but I hasten to add, our driving skills are impeccable!!😁
I am sure of that, Bet. ❤️😂
Ya better believe it, my brother!!!!!!!😘
Hubby, as a man who has driven cars and coaches all over Europe and here for decades, just said most people signal what they’ve just done and not what they’re planning to do.
My gosh that’s exactly right!!!!!!
Rhode Island
Betsy nailed it.
Ha! I was going to say the same thing, RI. Are you here in this DEMONRAT state H&HC? We are here with miserable drivers, though Boston is brutal too.
I was once told by a Michigan native that there are only two seasons in Michigan… Winter and Construction
June 17 Oswald Chambers
Beware of Criticizing Others
Judge not, that you be not judged. —Matthew 7:1
Jesus’ instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, “Don’t.” The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized. The Holy Spirit is the only one in the proper position to criticize, and He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting and wounding. It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others. Jesus says that as His disciple you should cultivate a temperament that is never critical. This will not happen quickly but must be developed over a span of time. You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.
There is no escaping the penetrating search of my life by Jesus. If I see the little speck in your eye, it means that I have a plank of timber in my own (see Matthew 7:3-5). Every wrong thing that I see in you, God finds in me. Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see Romans 2:17-24). Stop having a measuring stick for other people. There is always at least one more fact, which we know nothing about, in every person’s situation. The first thing God does is to give us a thorough spiritual cleaning. After that, there is no possibility of pride remaining in us. I have never met a person I could despair of, or lose all hope for, after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We all have the trick of saying—If only I were not where I am!—If only I had not got the kind of people I have to live with! If our faith or our religion does not help us in the conditions we are in, we have either a further struggle to go through, or we had better abandon that faith and religion.
Good morning FC. After yesterday’s spectaculicious happenings, just imagine what today has to offer. Have a blessed day. Cheers!
Good Morning Levi ❤️
Betcha you really are enjoying being a “good, happy” earworm, aren’t you 😝
Back at you Levi 😘
Hahahahaha. Excellent!
Morning Levi, after a long night I’ll try and take it easy today. Having a sore soft palate doesn’t contribute to a good night’s sleep. 😁
Oh well, someone once said that your brain didn’t need sleep, just your body needs the physical rest. I’ll go along with that.
Blessings and cheers mate!
Good morning Gramps. Sorry about the palate and less that “Serta Perfect” night of sleep. The good news for old folks like us is, it’s never too early or late for a nap. Get while you can should the opportunity present itself.
Meantime, I’ll keep working on trying to rid you of that sore soft palate.
I’m sort of in the same boat. Tested positive this morning even though I have no cold symptoms. Only tired and woozy/light headed.
It’s at times like this that I like to ask my lil lady “do I seem to be acting strange to you?” and she always plays along with the “how would I know?” response.
Live, Love, Laugh
LOL!
“Fall in love with a person who enjoys your madness. Not an idiot who forces you to be normal.”
I love this! It sounds as if yon found just the right woman, Levi.💖
Good one. I like it! What would love be without laughter?
We’d all be Democrats!
😉 🙂 🙂
😁
Whaaaaa?? How have I missed that? Like Levi’s discomfort… I am so sorry, G. Anything oral that isn’t right is a real sleep destroyer. Don’t ask me how I know. Praying that it rights itself in short order.🙏🙏🙏
Just saw my friend, the local doctor. He said that anything that makes you hoarse is 99% viral but indulged me with a z-pack. Unfortunately, I had a reaction that the stuff in my stash are home.
Oh phew….now that I think of it, I’ve had that, mostly during allergy season.
Amongst our smorgasbord of supplements, I’ve added daily chewable ELDERBERRY, which is a powerful anti-viral. It’s available in liquid as well, but I don’t know if there is a difference in efficacy. We have remained so far (crossed fingers) healthy. Don’t know which of our supplements, if not all, are keeping us that way, but I will give huge credit to the elderberry.
Will have to add it to my stash.
Perfect!
Good morning, Cat💖 God does not put us all in a basket and then toss the contents in the air to see where we all land. He places us with purpose wherever we are. Bloom where we are planted indeed.
Hmmm interesting concept Betsy
Although, I feel like I’m more in the rinse cycle of our lord’s beautiful washing machine lately. Getting washed, cleansed for the new duds he has chosen for me to wear next. Watch out, that spin cycle is a doozy 😉
I consider myself forewarned,my friend. I do not doubt you for one single second.😘🙏
That is a good chuckle this morning, Betsy. Sometimes it seems that God does just that. Large basket, then big toss. I have to remember to try to bloom where He put me. Sometimes it is very difficult to do that.
I thank Him daily for CTH to keep me on the right path. So much info, bible lessons and great Christians to help me thru each day. God Bless You All. Praying hands and large hearts.
My feelings exactly, Marti.
My youngest with the triplets plus one knows how to bloom where she is planted, better than anyone I know. She and her petroleum engineer husband have been relocated so many times, the last one to Midland, Texas ( anything but the most desirable place to live for a lot of reasons, especially with a young family). She planted herself right away and started blooming immediately. Now they are moving to the (ugh) Houston area to start again. She and her hubby are devout Christians. This will be their fourth move in 10 years. I almost get the feeling (I just realized) He’s putting them in various places for the furtherance of his glorious message through her beautiful giving spirit.
This is home for me as well. And as I’ve said often, I don’t know the faces of my friends here…but I know their hearts, which is better.🤗
Amen. I was just saying that the other day. He knows exactly what fellowship each and every one of His children is to be part of.
Oh yes. Nothing by happenstance, Psalm 73. And His timing is exquisite.
Who are we to say, “No, Lord…You got it wrong.” Understanding His will in placing each one of us where we are may not be clear to us, but it is to Him. Start blooming!!😊🌷
Good morning Cat! Now I have to go to Galatians 5 and see if criticism is among the fruit of the Spirit.
May your day be happy and blessed! ❤️
CTH–what a great place of loving people; right up there with my dog park pals. It’s rewarding to know you can be old and still find new friends
AmenJoe! I think we have a combination her of a church, dog park, and a cat umm, I don’t know, palace?
Afternoon, Joe💖 Dogs and friends! Nothing better🤗🌷
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
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.
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Verse of the Day for Friday, June 17, 2022
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“Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”
Psalms 103:1 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Good morning everyone. The sun came up this morning. Right where it was supposed to rise. Right when it was supposed to rise. That’s how I know it’s going to be a great day. Because, not only did those two things happen but, also, my eyes were open and I witnessed it.
I was chosen to be here for this day and, as such, I intend to make the most of it. In his name I will make the most of this day. Hope each of you are as eager to find what this day holds for you as I am for me.
God bless each of you and all of yours. Smile til your cheeks ache. Cheers!
😂 🥰 😘
Good morning, Levi💖 So right! This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it.🙏🌷
Good morning Betsy. He made this day and chose us to behold it. How great thou art. I am going to flat out revel in this day. Hope you do the same. Best to you and yours. Cheers!
Bet, I did go to the garden while my bride was watering it and picked a couple of zucchini and tomatoes.
Thank you Levi. Your great, happy spirit makes my day a lot brighter. God had surely blessed you and I appreciate your passing these wonderful blessings onto all here in the treehouse. Love your wonderful spirit. God bless you.
Lovely. Beautiful. Makes my heart sing. God bless you and yours, Marti. Have a super fantastallistic day. Cheers!
Dear Levi, what can I say? Your cheerfulness and positivity are viral (a good virus to catch these days) 🙂
(glowing face emoji).
So wonderful to read this, parachute. Reminds me that I am among the right people. As those who gather here are openly faithful believers. Beautiful souls. Blessings to you and yours. Cheers!
Here comes the Son! 🌞
Believing in Him makes it a great day!
Indeed it does, Lorrie. A lovely play on words there. Have a beautiful day. Cheers!
❤️
Mornin’ comrade infidels.
Say it Loud
Say it PROUD
Morning ms idaho!
back at’cha
hugs
enjoy the day
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Mornin’ Treepers
Glory to God for all things
Have a blessed day
Good morning Lonestar! May we bring Him the glory in everything we do or say today. 🙌
Good morning Lonestar. Blessings to you and yours Cheers!
Admins, I am begging you from the bottom of my heart to please delete any posts I have made with Paramount Pictures products. I will be making a donation today to the ‘house. I will not survive another fall off the wagon. Pray for me.
I am not exactly sure what the para pictures prods means, but you are now in my prayers CR. Believe me when I tell you that…you truly will be starting tonight.
This seems to fit today – from 2003
Computers vs cars
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that get 1,000 miles to the gallon.
In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive – but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation” warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask “Are You Sure?” before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because non of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine OFF!
Please share this with your friends who love – but sometimes hate – their computer
I suggest reading if you don’t feel love or affection for computers too. Laugh if you love ’em, groan if you hate ’em
I do a lot of reading and groan when I have to use the computer.
During 1975 I was a full time student at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. That year I took a business course called “Modern Telecommunications”.
Back at that time there was of course no windows and input was done by punch card. Fortran was the business computer language and Cobalt the one used for science. Even large universities had time share for computer time.
The course was quite interesting and the Prof excellent. He was correct in most of his predictions of what was coming in the future. That people would one day have their own computers. That sound and video would be reduced to a format to play on a computer or other machines. That one day a persons medical records and work history could be stored in a form of digital media or any other records they could carry in their billfold or wear around their neck.
But one of his predictions was way off base. He told us that within the next 25-30 years we would be a paperless society and all business records and correspondence would be done in a digital format. Here it is 47 years later and even this truck driver has to deal with massive amounts of paperwork to do my job. For example at my last stop on Wednesday on the Skokie run I had a 11 Bills of Lading. Each one I had to write the name of the company I drive for, print my name, date, the dock number, and my trailer number. That top piece of paper is given back to the shipper and the other two copies I keep. If it is a shipment to be sent out of country there is a lot more paper on top of that.
After doing that I have to enter on the Samsara tab in my truck for transmission back to the company I drive for:
Bill of Lading number
Customer Code of the Consignee. (For example TENSE for Tenneco in Seward, NE)
Quantity of Pallets
Number of pieces (For example, how many boxes on the pallets or the number of parts in a gaylord)
Gross weight
Payment terms (Collect, Prepaid, or 3rd Party)
you mean you can’t just use your iPhone to scan all that info and send it
geesh / s
If I did that they would have to enter it into their system. By doing it this way, the driver is doing a lot of their paperwork for them.
You have to understand that the cross dock must plan and coordinate to get the shipments I am bringing back into the trailers that will take them to the consignee. By having the driver send the information in the format that goes right into the system it gives them lead time for planning.
I should have mentioned that in some cases as soon as a trailer arrives from a milk run they are pulling the stuff off to put into other trailers that will be departing to deliver it to it’s ultimate destination shortly.
we don’t say it often enough
thanks for all you do
love your posts, too
I work to get paid and because I like what I do. We all have or have had our places where we contribute and each is essential to make the whole thing work for everybody.
This is funny because my computer does NOT like me. It is a challenge to use it some days.
mee too – been there – done that
Threaten to throw the durn thing thru the window sometimes helps – but not always
“I pity people who can’t find laughter or at least some bit of amusement in the little doings of the day. I believe I could find something ridiculous even in the saddest moment, if necessary. It has nothing to do with being superficial. It’s a matter of joy in life.”
― Sophie Scholl
“I’ve just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can’t help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I’m really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert’s you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”
― Sophie Scholl
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river.”
― Will And Ariel Durant, “The Story of Civilization”
The origins of vaccines are a crime, as well – the worst sort of crime:
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/tag/medical-infanticide/
Two graphs kinds say it all. Brandon has blamed about everyone but himself and his policies and now he is blaming the American people :
Joe Biden Says He is Unpopular Because Americans Are Mentally Unwell (thegatewaypundit.com)
But these two graphs tell the story:
Thanks to Tony Heller.
Well, next week starts off just like this week did. Depart 01:00 for KC again to deliver Toyota service parts and pickup batteries at Saint Joesph again.
About everybody but Brandon and his minions are talking recession. But as of yet, this truck driver has not seen its effects on the road or at the consignors and consignees.
Truck traffic and traffic in general is just as heavy as it has ever been. We are still short of drivers.
The shipments I haul on the various milk runs (A “milk run” is a regular run delivering and picking up at the same customers) have as much freight as usual.
On Tuesday this week I had a backhaul of dry car batteries out of Saint Joseph, MO that was 44,808 lb. which is the heaviest load I have pulled in quite some time.
I and many more feel the hammer descending upon our heads but as yet it has not struck except in higher fuel and utility prices. When it does though there is no doubt it will be a hard hit.
That Arctic ice just won’t melt away! But that doesn’t stop the leftists from continuing to lie about it.
“extraordinary global heating in the Arctic” | Real Climate Science
The fact is that the pattern has been for warmer than the mean air temps during the winter months but colder than the mean air temps during the summer months at the Arctic. The problem for the leftist liars is that even though it has been warmer during the winter months it is still well below freezing and since it is colder than the mean during the summer months there is less melt. Thus the ice is still there and the leftist liars hate that fact.
The primary reason for this pattern is more water vapor in the air. The several El Ninos were a major factor in causing that.
Amen
Amen.
Amen 🙏
Amen.
Amen
“I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.”
~~Psalm 132:4 KJV ~~
Amen!
Amen.
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Mark Twain