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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PB didn’t show up yesterday.
I spent a little time with Steves new barn cat, Fred, while talking with Steve yesterday. Fred is a small yellow and white tabby and he is about most loving kitty I have ever met. Fred gets “fixed” next week. I hope it doesn’t change his disposition.
Ohhhhhh…please advise when PB does return…
Good morning Bet and rah! Poor Fred, I’ve always said that some poor cat was enjoying his life, minding his own business until someone decided to take care of him and the first order of taking that care is to rush them to the vet and get them neutered.
Before I get flamed, that’s a joke, mob! 😂 Those intact male cats’ urine is real stinky as they get older.
rah, you can tell Fred that he is going to get tutored.
Tutored!!😂 And yes on the urinary tract. Which is why the feral cat who stuck around our house and gets treated royally never is allowed inside. In the first place, it would be impossible for us to get him in a carrier without our needing ER treatment. It would be carnage.
Oh, and good morning, G😘
I could give you a hint how to get him but since he is outside, let him keep and enjoy his balls, Bet. 🙂
I wouldn’t put him through that. He’s content in his world, and that’s how he will stay😊
But he is not outside. He stays in the barn and the barn is not a dirt floor job. Concrete floor, insulated, and the part he is in is heated and airconditioned. IOW, he is really an inside cat, living in the part of the barn where Steve has his wood workshop, running water, and parks his golf cart and 4 wheeler.
Wow!!! Fred’s ship came in!
I am still trying to get my little outside cat to adopt us. We can get within about four feet, but no closer. He responds to us and comes to eat (of course), but no closer. When he first came up it was 15 feet or so and he was always hiding behind something. When we rise in the morning he is sitting outside staring into the house waiting to be fed.
As a feral cat he probably has had a hard life. He is beginning to look healthy and his coat has gotten thicker. Maybe soon he will adopt us fully.
VM…it took years before the feral who adopted us would even let me pet him. Now, he won’t eat until I give him a pet. After that, he scratches at the door, whereupon I go out and he leads me to his spot outside the garage and lets (demands) that I brush him. As he ages, he becomes more docile and trusting. He is not a cat that purrs, but ever since I’ve started brushing him, I can hear his motor running very quietly.
Patience on your part I suspect will eventually bring the reward you are hoping for…and I hope for it as well.
Bless you VibeMan. Sounds like you are making progress with him. Don’t get discouraged. It takes time and patience to overcome the hard life he has had. Your tender, loving care (and of course food) will slowly bring him around.
Good morning, rah. Fixing Fred will not alter his disposition. I don’t know how old Fred is but I always liked to get my cats fixed by 5 month. It is best to get it done before those male hormones kick in and it helps keep them home. They do not wonder off looking for females. I have had many cats over the years and found out the ones that were fixed later still wondered far off even tho they could not produce little ones. I have 5 cats, all fixed. They are inside/outside cats. Started as babies in the house and introduced to the outside as they grew up. They are all 4 year olds. My 11 yr old passed away last week. Miss him a lot. We no longer see any mice, moles, or chippies. I have 5 dogs and they all get along great. All were raised together.
Sorry about your 11 yr old kitty. That’s not very old.
Thank you Grandpa. I surely miss him. I got him at the vet office 11 yrs ago. He was in a cage in the office when I had one of my dogs in for her shots. The walked over to the cage and this yellow kitten came right up to her. Needless to say I brought him home with me. Love my cats.
Is there any room for you, Marti? 😉
Hi Betsy, sometimes it gets a little crowded around here. When I take the dogs for a walk the cats follow along too. Everyone loves to get out and run around. We live back off the road in the woods so no problem with traffic.
Your cats sound like Casco’s. He takes them out for walks. I know envy is a sin, but we lived in Wales down a small road with pastures full of sheep surrounding our property, and behind us a deep and dark forest.
It was so peaceful, and for all our animals it was a virtual playground for them.
And I miss it very much. Your situation sounds idyllic…lucky you and lucky your four legged family.🤗
🙂
Morning Ya’ll 🙂
Morning, Mr jay. Good music for a Saturday morning.🤗
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Morning jay!
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Winter weather is not all that far away . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08D9N4OigC4&ab_channel=CjamPhotography
Howdy Garrison , very nice! 🙂
Mornin’ Jay. Just noticed the double posts. Formatting is tricky. 🙂
Good sir, you can duplicate Jo Stafford all day long.
Music ‘Til Dawn on KRLD in Dallas . . .
Magic 🙂
Mornin’ Jay. . . well it’s wintertime somewhere. 🙂
Good morning, Garrison. Smoooooth and mellow. Don’t write lyrics like that anymore. Lovely to hear different artists play/sing the same song. 😘
Mornin’ Bet. I thank so too. 🙂
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Here is one appropriate for the coming season for you Garrison. Autumn, performed by the Edgar Winter Group.
Nice.
Love the 70s, memories of my childhood, old brothers playing their records.
I would reset the needle on the turntable so I could write down the lyrics…to sing along.
What a great song! Thanks for posting. 🙂
Thank you, rah.
A lovely song sung well.
Nice way to start my morning.
I am always late to post songs on Saturday, but here is one that I always associate with autumn — and then the rest of the seasons, too.
And meeting my darling husband 51 years ago this time of year, when the day comes one of us leaves this hard rock, I imagine this song will be bittersweet for the other to hear.
Can’t go wrong with Eva. :-0
Very nice Raven. Thank you very much for posting this beautiful song. It is a good one for all of the seasons.
Beautiful song!! Thank you.
Good morning Garrison!
Good morning, Gramps. Hope you have a good day! 🙂
I’ll take another dose of Sinatra thank you very much 😉
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Good afternoon Garrison. I enjoyed Jo Stafford version of this song. Listened to it both times. Thank you, very relaxing.
For those interested in the Queen, here is an article about her last few weeks at Balmoral. She was quite perky .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11220701/The-Queens-perky-days-Balmoral.html
Thank you for posting this…it was a sweet and peaceful tribute. Our lives are so different but yet so similar in many ways…the peace and beauty of the Scottish Highlands…nature is very soothing, no matter what one’s ‘state in life’ is.
And it is beautiful, Aggiegirl. Wild and so much of it still untouched…except by God. I’m certain she felt it very deeply.
Thanks, lindak. We saw this yesterday. It was so sudden that is making us wonder. We are relieved that when her earthly time was at an end, she simply went. And was in the one part of the country where she was happiest.
This hymn has given me so much hope lately as it seems evil triumphs all the time.
How Firm a Foundation.
“The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes; that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no, never, no, never forsake.”
Stay strong.
DD
I love that song, and have always especially love those words.
Our soul, that all hell endeavors to shake, God will never forsake.
This is about a 2017 municipal election, but goes on to explain a process about how absentee ballot fraud can be committed.
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Stamford Clerk Warns FBI of Possible Ballot Fraud in Second Election
https://ctexaminer.com/2022/09/15/stanford-clerk-warns-fbi-of-possible-ballot-fraud-in-second-election/
September 17 Oswald Chambers
What’s The Good Of Temptation
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. — 1 Corinthians 10:13
The word “temptation” has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly: Temptation is not sin, it is the thing we are bound to meet if we are men. Not to be tempted would be to be beneath contempt. Many of us, however, suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer, simply because we have refused to let God lift us to a higher plane where we would face temptations of another order.
A man’s disposition on the inside, i.e., what he possesses in his personality, determines what he is tempted by on the outside. The temptation fits the nature of the one tempted, and reveals the possibilities of the nature. Every man has the setting of his own temptation, and the temptation will come along the line of the ruling disposition.
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim — not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good. Temptation is something that completely baffles me for a while, I do not know whether the thing is right or wrong. Temptation yielded to is lust deified, and is a proof that it was timidity that prevented the sin before.
Temptation is not something we may escape, it is essential to the full-orbed life of a man. Beware lest you think you are tempted as no one else is tempted; what you go through is the common inheritance of the race, not something no one ever went through before. God does not save us from temptations; He succours us in the midst of them (Heb. 2:18).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own.
https://utmost.org/classic/what%E2%80%99s-the-good-of-temptation-classic/
Good morning, Cat🤗
Morning Cat! With the temptation God always provides a way out of it. ❤️
17 September 2017 Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist (Chicago), died on stage of a heart attack at 77
17 September 1997 Red Skelton [Richard], American comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84
Bonus Red
Red Skelton was a Great and Good man. We were Blessed to have known him.
The Tonight Show has been actively posting old interviews by request.
A Red interview was posted in the last month and was very interesting… how Johnny first met Red… very funny.. a must watch.
I knew Red Skelton painted art, didn’t know he also wrote symphonies.. what a talent!
I know great and good men today, they are not presentable in todays bent world. Times will change and possible even better times are at hand. Better as in Godly.
An American Classic!
I never tire of seeing this!
GOD
One Nation
Red Skelton was appointment TV in my house as I grew up.
The most wonderful, soul-nourishing things to hear right now.
Thank you for sharing Red with us this day, Magic.
brought tears to my eyes
I love it too.
beautiful
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
I always loved her easy, gentle and 100% natural God-given voice. IMHO the music world lost a treasure when she died so young.
Love the barrel house piano backing the song. Cass Elliot had a beautiful voice.
RIP lady.
Great song! She is wonderful. What a talented band!
Hello all,
Well, I had to work late tonight. Problems up at the shop, so naturally they tapped me. I love it. It’s what I do.
So anyways, I got home a while ago and I’m all jacked up on coffee, so I thought I’d offer another chapter in my little production of “A Tale of Two Kitties,” (hat tip Garfield) or “The Saga of C.J. and Libby.” ( hat tip Bullwinkle)
To recap, C.J. is the senior cat, we’ve been together for 10 years; and 4 year old Libby joined our family on July 4. Both are beautiful (of course) female black cats, shorthair. C.J. is grumpy, cantankerous, set in her ways, and a bit of an a-hole, and I love her to the end of the Earth. Young Libby is a sweet, bouncy little thing with the energy of a kitten, which no doubt is a constant source of irritation to C.J.
When I first adopted Libby almost 3 months ago, I started out by keeping them in separate rooms for a couple of weeks. On second thought, I won’t bore you with a rundown of the whole integration process, but I’ll just say that it didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped. And it’s still ongoing.
But wonderful things are happening in our little family, and I can’t describe the happiness I feel to witness this evolution, this process, this growing together that’s happening in real-time right in front of my (our!) very eyes. I say “our” because I think the cats are starting to feel it too.
A few weeks ago, I saw some signs, but I couldn’t be sure. But now I’m certain, C.J. is actually playing with Libby. That’s a huge step. I wasn’t sure before because the chasing could have been just aggression on C.J.’s part. But Libby is (mostly) no longer afraid of C.J., and she chases back as good as she gets (again, mostly). And that’s another huge step.
But it’s more than that. It’s hard for me to put it into words. The bond between me and Libby is developing, and I’d say that by now she trusts me about 95%. There are still a couple of things she’s shy about, but no worries. She’s a good sweet kitty with huge green eyes and a tiny little voice, and razor claws and needle teeth. You know it, you love it.
And C.J., I think, has changed also. She’s a bit more spry these days. She has to be, with this mischievous youngster running around, getting into everything. The little tyke even had the audacity to invade her personal apartment at the top of the cat tree! She’s become a little warmer, not so aloof, and she comes to me for attention more often. I’m thinking she seeks reassurance that she’s still No. 1, and she’s got that by the truckload. She’s my bebe.
In a way, bringing Libby into the household is improving my relationship with C.J., and on her part she seems to be developing a rapport, or at least an armistice, with Libby. And C.J. is the linchpin. It’s her acceptance of the situation upon which everything turns. For a while it was touch and go. Well, maybe not so dramatic. I knew we were going to get through it, the only variable was the length and level of the strife between the two. Now, after three months, I can say with assurance that we’re gonna be okay. We’ve still got a road to travel in front of us, but I get the sense that the cats are beginning to realize that we three are going there together. C.J. is coming out of her shell, and Libby is blending into our family very nicely (“Sez you!” – C.J.). And this right here is the source of my delight. That, and knowing that it only gets better from here.
Can you tell I’m passionate about cats? I fully admit it, I’m just plain cat crazy, and I don’t care who knows it. When I visit the shelter, I’d take ’em all, if I had the resources. I’m the one who sends you so many cat videos that you wish I’d stop. I’m a Youtube fan of Luna Pantera, and Gerda and Messi, and ShoKo, and OwlKitty, and Cole and Marmalade (RIP Cole). I don’t know, I’m just obsessed with cats. It’s said that sharks are the perfect predator. That may be so, but I hold that cats are the perfect land predator. Designed and built for that purpose, they are the perfect blend of form and function, and it is the beauty and grace of that synergy that is so appealing to me.
Best wishes to all you wonderful Treepers
“…razor claws and needle teeth. You know it, you love it.” 😻 😻 😻
Very sweet, Jeff! I know your passionate! Your bond will only grow! Our fur footed babies..
We had a kitty kat once…petting and playing with the little guy…I was always amazed at how delicate his little head was…so tiny compared to our then Golden Retriever. And so perfectly formed…he was a sweet boy…would be out hunting all day but he knew at exactly what time I left for work and come running across the lawn when I opened the door to look for and call him.
Well, he did have to learn the hard way, he got left out one night because he did not come home…and it was a chilly night. He met me the next morning, perched on the fence, looking a bit miffed…when I pulled up in the driveway.
I did feel badly but I could not let a 5 lb kitty kat make me late to work….
There’s a line from a novel by the late great Robert A. Heinlein that has always stuck with me, about his cat.
“He managed to stand perfectly still and look offended, a remarkable feat for one whose face is covered in fur.”
Beaitifully described. There isn’t a cat lover out there who hasn’t seen it.
But I bet you worried about him the complete time you were away. Right, Aggiegirl??
A smattering of new battle scars, worn proudly.
Nah…….them’s just love bites. 😀
Thank You So Much for
the Continuing Saga of
*A Tale of Two Kitties* !
I have a little smaller than medium-size , older
Doggo and have just
added , over the summer , an older Cat ,, both Females .
It really is Interesting watching the dynamics
of their relationship
move forward !
And , Moving Forward
it IS ,, because there is No Going Back Now !!!
Happy Day to You , Jeff 😊
That’s my feeling too. We’re in it to win it!
Jeff…there are no coincidences, so I must say over the past 12 hours I have been thinking of you so strongly and of Libby and CJ. I have been wondering how your journey with those two moggies was going, what was happening in your world with them, and hoping for exactly what you wrote.
Then, this morning, here you are, with the most glorious update on not only the pair of them adjusting to one another, but a delightful change in CJ. Talk about vibes!
All of this is the best news. Thank you for sharing your life with them with us, all animal lovers.
And don’t stop sending those videos😉 I’ve seen quite a few that tell me we don’t know the half about animals. We really don’t. What a good soul you are. I’ve felt your worry and concern when you brought Libby home, and I can now feel your joy as those two adapt to one another. It’s all good news from your branch in the Tree. Love the updates…keep em coming!🤗
Good morning Betsy, and thank you!
“Moggies,” I love that term. You over-the-ponders have such delightful slang expressions. 🙂
Isn’t it great?? I can’t call them anything else now.
It’s funny you should say that, because I think C.J. is doing the same thing. Playing to her reputation instead of her actual feelings. Gotta keep up appearances, ya know.
Sally pretty much has my husband wrapped around her claws…
she spends most days outside and comes in to grab a bite, then is back out until bed time. She sleeps on hubby.
Sally is the best because when we travel for a couple of days, we leave food & water for her. My adults kids have
dogs and have to find sitters, or hire kennels to keep them. I always say when we stop traveling, we’ll get a dog.
Yep, same here. I once left C.J. alone for 4 days. She was mighty put out with me when I returned, but otherwise she was fine.
Great update, Jeff! Thanks!
Thanks, Grandpa. G’day!
Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven (Live at Earls Court 1975) [Official Video]
John F. Kennedy on Secrecy
The Daily Mail is just having a field day ripping the Beautiful people of MV:
‘How much of that money is going to the migrants? Oh, none’: Tucker Carlson slams GoFundMe for Martha’s Vineyard migrants as it’s revealed none of the money raised will go to the 50 Venezuelans
Pure gold:
Tucker Carlson: Biden’s voters call the national guard the minute Venezuelans seek the American Dream | https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312446341112
😊 “thank you mommy” (close space after https: )
https: //imgur.com/fXAJQTP.mp4
Mornin’ comrade banana republic infidel fascists.
Morning WeeWeed!
Cracks me up everytime I read your greeting, “Mornin’ comrade banana republic infidel fascists.”
Thanks for the laugh, it is medicine. God bless you.
Good Afternoon WeeWeed!
Ramirez forgot the rest of the quote from Lady Liberty – “Give me your huddled masses… and let them come to anyplace here except where our self-entitled ruling Democrats have their mansions.”
Good morning all. The UN had their first international climate conference 30 years ago. They have accomplished nothing towards their publicly stated goal of reducing atmospheric CO2.
Climate Commitments | Real Climate Science
But they have accomplished a great deal in accomplishing their real goal. That goal was coordinating the decline of the majority of western developed nations as they cut their sources of reliable fossil and nuclear fueled energy and dumped massive resources into unreliable and far less efficient “green energy” sources. They have however accomplished much less in the goal of convincing developing nations that they should not build new fossil fuel powered sources of energy.
The bottom line is that emissions of CO2 by human activity is a miniscule part of what determines the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. The 0ceans are by far the greatest “carbon sink” on the planet and water temperature is the overriding control of how much CO2 the oceans absorb.
Colder water absorbs more CO2 than warmer water. If you have not already learned that fact in a practical manner you can demonstrate this fact for yourself by opening a cold can of carbonated soda and a warm can of carbonated soda just listening closely.
Water is warmed by direct insolation, or IOW the sunshine beating down upon it, and only a very tiny bit by the ambient air temperature it is in contact with. And thus on a global scale the vast majority of warming of the oceans occurs in the tropics. Ocean currents and weather carry that warmed water through the temperate zones where most people live towards the poles.
This is all besides the fact that CO2 as a “green house gas” is only a very minor factor. Water vapor is the most abundant “green house gas” by far and it absorbs the energy of 95% of the wave lengths that CO2 absorbs so there is very little for the CO2 absorb. Thus it is the “green house gas” of water vapor that actually effects our weather and thus our climate.
You can observe this yourself also. Arid lands or deserts tend to heat up during the day but at night, lacking water vapor, they get cold. While temperatures in wetter areas having greater humidity have a far lesser temperature range from day to night.
Hi Rah! Thought you might enjoy watching the “geek” takedown the fake news anchor… 😉
Morning, Cat❣️
I so enjoyed that clip the first time I saw/ heard it!!!
-Glad to see and hear it again.
He’s telling it like it is based on real science. Concerning “consensus in science”.
From the Encyclopedia Britanica:
Inevitably, Einstein’s fame and the great success of his theories created a backlash. The rising Nazi movement found a convenient target in relativity, branding it “Jewish physics” and sponsoring conferences and book burnings to denounce Einstein and his theories. The Nazis enlisted other physicists, including Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, to denounce Einstein. One Hundred Authors Against Einstein was published in 1931. When asked to comment on this denunciation of relativity by so many scientists, Einstein replied that to defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
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.
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)
Saturday of the 14th Week after Pentecost
Holy Hieromartyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch (+ 251) and those with him
Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses (+1531 B.C.)
Holy Martyr Hermione, daughter of the Holy Apostle Philip (+ 117)
Saint Anthimos the New, the Blind Ascetic of Cephallonia (+ 1782)
Holy New Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Dabro-Bosnia (+ 1941)
Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos called the “Burning Bush”
September 4th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
September 17th – civil or commercial calendar
Saints of God pray for us!
September 17
MORNING
A bruised reed shall he not break. Matt. 12:20
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psa. 51:17
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Psa. 147:3
Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. Isa. 57:15, 16
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. Ezek. 34:16
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Heb. 12:12, 13
Behold, your God … will come and save you. Isa. 35:4
EVENING
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psa. 34:8
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: he saith…. Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. John 2:9, 10
The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. Job 34:3
I believed, and therefore have I spoken. II Cor. 4:13
I know whom I have believed. II Tim. 1:12
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Song 2:3
The goodness of God. Rom. 2:4
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Rom. 8:32
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. I Pet. 2:2, 3
Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy. Psa. 5:11
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/09/0917.html
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.
Verse of the Day for Saturday, September 17, 2022
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“For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
Psalms 84:11 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Something different 🎶
Refuse to be burned out
God bless you all today, on my 60th birthday. God bless me too.
60!
And my first stop is here our CTH… can’t help it, you all have affected me. I love you’s guys..
And God bless you too on the big 6-0 Bananas! May the Lord bless all our friends here in “the Tree”.Happy Caturday! 🙂
Love to you, too. Hope you have a beautiful day filled with love and blessings!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Bananas!! As I’ve said before, your age is simply the number of years the world has been enjoying you😊 And we’ve been enjoying you here, too. God bless you. I hope this day will be full of all things wonderful.🤗🎂
Good morning Bet. Hope you’re having a wonderful and blessed day.
Hello, Joe!! I worked my way up from the bottom of this thread and left you a message there. Hot again, just as rah’s forecast warned. Sending you and your beloved hopes that unending blessings will find their way to you both🙏😘
Hi, Bet. I just spotted your message below. Had to laugh when I saw the article about illegals being dropped off near our esteemed (ahem) VP’s residence.
It’s really not a laughing matter concerning the ongoing open borders crisis. But it’s great to see some of the friendly folks in Martha’s Vineyard and DC get a taste of their own medicine.
Wait till the “migrants” experience an extremely cold winter in Europe and the UK along with the oncoming gas/energy shortage in that part of the world. Especially Germany and Northern England.
Civil unrest on the horizon….
There is a word for what is happening finally…RIGHTEOUS!!! They wrote the rules. Now it’s their turn to experience what we are…and pay as we do, with more than money.
And yes, its bad in Europe. Germany is getting their Sturmabteilung jackbooted for the coming massive unrest…and it will come. These troops will be armed as well. And it’s worth remembering, the ruling party is the Green Party.
Their motto?
Love the earth, hate the humans on it.
I am praying for the best but fully expecting the absolute worst.
Two sites for you, Joe, if you don’t know them already, chock full of info you’ll get nowhere else, from the belly of the European and Ukraine beasts. Gates of Vienna and the Saker.
https://gatesofvienna.net/
https://thesaker.is/
When you have some spare time, take a look at both. Blessings, my friend🙏😘
Enjoy your special day, bananas!
Happy Birthday Bananas. Wishing you many more. Isn’t it good to be alive and amongst friends here at CTH?
Happy birthday. Hope it finds you in good health and fit.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bananas! I made this just for YOU! 😀
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Oh MY!!!! 😍😍😍 MeOW!
She’ll love that, Ad rem. What a lovely, sweet gesture🤗
LOL, I love it… Thanks Ad Rem
Happy Birthday Bananas!! Hope you had a great day.
Found another yellow jacket nest in an old mole hole in my front yard. Though I had sealed the one under the aluminum siding of the garage I noticed that there were still a lot of them around. They have been all over the seed blocks I hang out for the birds. Must be something sweet in the binding agent I guess.
Anyway, after mowing I went out a poured some gasoline in that hole and lite er up. I burned for quite some time, the low oxygen level in the hole apparently slowing the combustion. I watched it for over 15 minutes before I was satisfied that it would not spread to the lawn, though it may still have been burning underground because the bee’s that would try to go down it would come back up quickly.
I’ll go out and see if my incendiary raid accomplished my objective. If it hasn’t my next attack will be with a poison smoke bomb normally used on moles and ground hogs.
If fire and smoke has not worked I’m going to shove a hose down that hole and turn on the water. One way or another those yellow jackets are done for.
If you put dry ice in the hole and plug it up the dry ice turns into a gas as it melts that displaces the oxygen with carbon dioxide. This suffocates gophers and rats. I’m not sure if it would work on hornets as it is dangerous to get to close to their nest. But it might.
Clearing out pile of fallen branches once, hornet stung me in my rubber boot, it hurt for days..
Now I am quick to flee around all the stinging things..
Be careful. Those ground-dwelling wasps can be dangerous.
This summer, I backed the Gator out to do some work and I was swarmed by bumble bees. I had 9 stings on my arms and head. They had swarmed under the seat. After dark, I threw a tarp over the gator and set off two foggers under the tarp. Still there the next day. I put a gallon of vinegar in my hand spray and completely soaked the Gator. I followed up with a hose attached to a lawn insecticide. One of those got them. I did not see any dead bees. I think they got mad and left.
My sister in law in Wales with her horses used to dress the dressage areas with wood shavings. Wood wasps about 2″ long would bury themselves in this shavings; and if they were disturbed, oh boy!!! They came shooting out from their hiding place and attack. Woe betide anyone who was stung by one of those. They were monstrously big in size and sting.
I have a small wasp’s nest near the roof of the house; not sure how to get rid of it without agitating the critters. I might have to get a ladder and spray the nest…
Also have a large orb weaver spider hanging out on my front porch near the barbecuer. I think it’s an orb weaver, anyways. I haven’t bothered it; it’s pretty cool looking. More arachnids and their webs around the brush near fence line.
I just checked the hole. No apparent activity. So it seems I got em. I’ll check it again later today. But there still has to be another hive somewhere because there are still a lot of them on my seed blocks. I’m wondering if it is in my next door neighbors yard since when I was mowing her side yard yesterday I had several yellow jackets buzz me.
A carbon dioxide fire extinguisher does a GREAT job on any bees in a confined area (i.e. hole in the ground or your attic).
It works great “in the house” leaving no residue or chemicals.
Just be careful of “freezer burn”………………….
Usually works well after the extinguisher operator preps himself with a couple cold adult beverages before using (courage) and the rest of the six pack afterwards.
I’d like to point this truth out, a small lesson of heaven and hell, as all decisions rest on.
We have watched the people, loved ones, neighbors, close friends, family, prostrate themselves before corruption and ignore truth due to hatred for Trump. Voter fraud is rampant and either ignored or championed to destroy Trump. Now Martha’s Vineyard shows another hatred, hypocrisy.
The examples are how a soul chooses hell over heaven. Though the truth is present the lie is chosen.
Be aware, your choice is not easy until you remove your ego or self. Once heavens light shines on it it becomes obvious.
Words do not exonerate a soul, they actually condemn it. For the tongue is a symbol of falsity. To reason corruption or falsity is to condemn yourself to hell. It is a choice always before us in every thought and deed.
Which is worse to know sin and do it anyway by weakness, or to deny sin is present and reason it into your life?
Reasoning sin cannot be redeemed it has to be removed and condemned.
The first action is to embrace your faults and rebuke or repent. To reason them into your life means you are justified in sinning. Justified as God not under his lordship.
for you, levi: “happy cartoons and cereal day” (levi)
Another bus load of migrants dropped off near Kamala Harris’s residence according to Gateway Pundit article.
Bwahahahahaha.
Afternoon (almost), Joe. I was thinking of you yesterday as well as Jeff above with his precious kitties.
Glorious. So many places have virtue signalled loudly, long, and clearly. Let them now enjoy the benefits of the invasion. That they are showing their hypocrisy to all and sundry is just a bonus.
Ugh…
“Amen!” 🙂
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Finally.
We bought a new dishwasher. Years ago after we had the old dishwasher installed I had a granite kitchen counter installed. I then tore up the old linoleum and put down 1/4″ thick Luan substrate and on top of the tar paper. Then on top of that I put 3/8 thick wood composite stressed maple wood flooring. The wood flooring was tongue and groove and stapled in place.
So my floor was about 5/8″ higher than the old linoleum floor was. We got the old dishwasher out, so I figured the plumber could get the new one in. He couldn’t even though he carefully tore out the two stressed maple boards in front of the dishwasher.
So much of my day was spent carefully tearing out 3 more board widths of the stressed maple. That did it. The dishwasher will now go in!
We also hated our kitchen faucet, so Sherry and I went out a picked a new one and I will have the plumber install that when he comes to install the dishwasher.
So I have another project for next weekend. Reinstall the flooring after the dishwasher is intalled.
Since the guy that owns the plumbing company is an old family friend he will give a us a break on the service call.
The company I had doing the plumbing are old family friends.
So when I was done with that
Rah, what kind of dishwasher did you get? Mine just gave it up.
Maytag. Model FC FR SS MDB4848SKZ. One thing that we really liked was it has stainless steel racks and not that plastic coated carbon steel one usually finds in them.
A note: It seems that in general dishwashers these days are considerably lighter than those they were making just 15 years ago. So if yours is not a tight fit vertically like mine is, one should secure it to the countertop so that it will not tip when you put a heavy load in it.
What’s wrong with this picture?
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Germany’s famed Oktoberfest opens after two-year pandemic hiatus – CNA (channelnewsasia.com)
First off the mast beers are half foam. They should be no more than 1/4 foam. Secondly those beers are to be served by a big buxom blond Fraulein wearing a flowing dress with a low cut top with a smile on her face and not some dude wearing lederhosen. The guys wearing lederhosen belong up on the stage playing in the oompah band or out on the dance floor dancing the Schuhplatter!
Just the opinion of a guy that has been to a couple of Oktoberfests and several other fests.
The no frauleins was the first thing that caught my eye. But with the new “culture enrichers” filling Germany, I wouldn’t blame them for not being there. And it’s a rotten shame. Their culture is being shredded to make room for an uncivilized one. Blame frau Merkel.
What about ours? Indigenous people day? WTH is that? I could go on but to recall our sins is painful.
A couple of good ones from the Ace of Spades HQ
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http://ace.mu.nu/archives/localfarmermarket%20cat.jpg
LOVE Ace, especially JJ Sefton’ s Morning Report every day. Thanks, rah.
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall. Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
And prayers up for all political prisoners. Prayers up for Julian Assange and for all the protesters of January 6 who were or are entrapped in DC. And, thank you, Lord, for restoring Pastor Pawlowski.
Thank you Father, for Your love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Thank you. I just got back.
I only saw your message about the family when I checked back before posting. I hope the evening went well.
It did. My son and DIL and three little granddaughters had a really good time.
Amen.
Amen🙏
Amen…
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Jetpacks available to the public? Pretty cool….noisy though.