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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My Panther would be jealous.
Breakfast in Bed !
Where’s ours??
I have named these beauties Eenie, Meenie, Miney… and Mew. Though how I’ll tell which is which is beyond me.😁
Good morning Bet. They are beauties. Russian Blues?
Morning, Joe😁 I will assume so. JWoo is the one who could tell you. They look so happy! Not mine, I hasten to add…though I’d take two.
I see that whoever owns these sweet kitties has put differently coloured collars on each to tell them apart. The only way I think.
Oops, I didn’t see your post about the collars til after I had commented on it. You are right, it is to tell them apart.
The only way, Marti.
Heck, until our first twin grandsons of our first daughter reached about 2, I couldn’t tell which was which.
Our two identical grandsons (2/3rds of the triplets) of our younger daughter are at 8, only now starting to look a bit different so I can tell them apart.
Indeed they are. And they are sooo soft. Like angora fur. Hypoallergenic too, I hear. Sweet and gentle and not too needy. The perfect little kittahs. Miss ours terribly. Loving him makes us want to adopt several others.
So cute! Russian Blue’s?
Morning, dear friend. They have to be! I’ve never seen a litter all one colour unless they are bred for the breed.
I doubt very much mom is a feline we could call a dirty stop out, as we’ve labeled the felines who have crossed our paths over the years, all producing a pick n mix of kittens😁
There is a family resemblance.
I’ll say!!!!😁
Good afternoon, Betsy. As these little ones grow and develop their own individual personalities you will definitely be able to tell them apart. They all have their own personality. They surely are beautiful. The one on the right looks like a nice sized Tom kitten.
I would like the little girl on the left. I see they all have different colored collars on. I have seen dog breeders do this so they can tell the puppies apart. At this age it would be very difficult to tell these beauties apart.
Same with human multiples… See above😎
what a beautiful color of light gray … never seen that before
I have once, nim…but only one. And his brothers and sisters…all 7 of them… were completely different Guarantee he was no Russian Blue.😁
My black cat also has a reddish orange tinge when the sun hits his coat. At certain angles outside you can see faint spots in the bengal pattern like his litter mates within his nearly all black fur!
I always marvel at the different patterns and colours in individual litters. I’ve seen one or two which had no indication of the father or mother. Nature is wonderful.
It’s been years since I have been able to have any cats on account of my fondness for rescue pit bulls. Most of the time if those dogs aren’t raised with cats from the giddyup they are oil and water. The dog I have now must’ve been around them as a puppy in his former life. He is great with them until they try to curl up on top of him when he is laying at the foot of my bed, then it’s fireworks which usually happens between 3:30 and 4 AM.
Yikes!! So with that set up and the bob-o’-links and the whippoorwills, undisturbed sleep is not a given for you😬
Sorry for the video…as if you didn’t know what they sound like!😁
Thats the one! Except unbelievably loud!
Egads!!!!
Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday, Treeper friends. Our Lord loves us and watches out for us with an abiding love that enfolds everyone who believes in Him.
Bless-ed Sunday morning, dear Garrison. With our beautiful benediction, may Almighty God, our Father, be gracious and merciful to each Treeper this day as we give abundant thanks for His great love and blessings never ending.
Mornin’ Bet. Sunday’s here at the Treehouse Church are always enjoyable. Hope you and hubby have a very blessed Sunday. Going for tacos with a dear friend in a little bit. I’m learning that if I don’t reach out, the fault is mine. Can’t think of anybody I’d rather spend quality time with . . . 🙂
What you say is true, though sometimes I realize it takes effort.
My experience throughout my life is that the get togethers that I don’t look forward to, be they with individuals or groups (parties) are the ones where I’ve had the best time.
Conversely those I can’t wait to enjoy, never quite meet my expectations. There must be a name for that…as Murphy’s Law has a name.
Chow down and enjoy😘
Two great meals for a total of $23 w/ tip. Multiple cups of strong coffee, 2.5 hrs of conversation . . . the little family-owned taqueria didn’t mind our long catching-up visit at all.
Does it get any better than that?? Awesome!💕
wish i could have enjoyed it with you . well , we sort of did 🙂
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Bless you, dear Patience and Ma💕💕 You are always so thoughtful with that beautiful blue pot of tea. We’ve just poured a cup😘🌻
Good Sunday, Garrison❣️
Just beautiful……
-thanks❤️
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A few weeks ago I told you that my son’s cat, a black tuxedo kitty named Sonic, had gotten outside unnoticed by them, and had been missing for a week. He and his wife just moved to Frankfurt and brought the cats and their baby with them.
You all gave me good advise, kitty litter outside, leave food outside, talk to neighbors and much more.
Well, minutes ago, my son texted me that Sonic is home!
It is 3 a.m. in Frankfurt but my son had set up a monitor outside and it woke him up. He checked it out and instead of the usual hedgehog or Blue Russian kitty, there was Sonic!
He reports the cat is very thin but otherwise ok and sent me a photo of Sonic eating from his bowl.
Anyway, I just wanted to update you with the good news and thank you for your concern, Molonabe, Lorrie,Betsy, Michael, JWoo and nimrodman.
The other cat, Nikita, is hissing at him as a welcome home.
He was actually gone for over a month and had only been in their place for a week when he went missing.
Thanks for posting this. Your son and his wife now have a much, much more street-wise kitty. It’s one thing to wander off and get lost, but it is something else entirely for a lost kitty to find his way back home. Smart kitty!!! 🙂
Thanks Garrison.
He is a cool cat. If only he could talk and tell us the tale of where he has been! A good adventure gives a cat confidence, I think.
Still, glad he made it home.
So happy Sonic is home and likely much wiser!
Great news, Lindak! Bet they all sleep very well the rest of the night.
patty – comment downthread about Lake Tulare – that’s your area, right? you were telling us about the former lake I think I recall
I would have set up the rest of the nite holding him and loving him and maybe dozing with him in my arms. Love my cats.
Thanks patty!
GPS maps show the wild adventures your cat goes on at night
Back home………….
Straight cat!
here’s another
Some-dang-body needs to invent a “CatCam” collar so we can get the keeter’s point of view during their travels!
They make those Apple Air tags, you could probably attach one to a cats collar.
Not mine. She is strictly indoors.
here’s another one — cat goes over a mile away to old house the family used to live at
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“When they got Chicha’s data, there was one trip so far away that they assumed it had to be an equipment error, but Dunn looked at the map and saw that Chicha had gone to a house where they used to live.
“The cat had gone a mile away and hung out the entire day at their old house,” Perkins says. “It’s really cool from a scientist’s perspective — cats really can remember stuff from a long time ago, and they have this spatial memory.”
And from the cat owner’s perspective “I wonder what kind of memory she has about the old house? Does she have cat friends she goes and hangs out with?”
https://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/where-do-outdoor-cats-go-a-gps-tracking-study-can-tell-you
… and that leads me do ask:
How did kitty find her way back to the old house the first time she re-visited?
I’m sure they moved house via car trips and maybe a moving truck and probably a right-turn, left-turn kinda pattern to get to the new house
How did kitty take that beeline path back to the old house shown in the map? She’s probably revisited several times but how did she get there the first time?
Maybe she caught an old, familiar scent that came in on the breeze one day? And followed it to the old house?
And then how would she have navigated back to her new house?
I know cats mark waypoints and objects with their scent and they “read the newspapers” where other cats have left theirs
Maybe she ventured out in forays from the old house and learned a “map” of other cats’ markings and then ventured out from the new house doing same and eventually got to a point where she connected the two scent maps of various cats’ scent markings into a cohesive single map?
A mile’s a long way for little legs
I mean, look at that map, the old house is a long trip compared to the couple-block forays she usually takes
And it’s a beeline there and a beeline back, not a bunch of right-turn / left-turn jogs
It’s almost approaching the actual geomagnetic locating of homing pigeons and other higher animals (dolphins? others? I’ve read about more and more animals who have small magnetite crystals discovered in their brains)
Fascinating
Don’t forget Salmon and turtles returning to their birthplace..🤔.. I think,as with our human brain, a lot going on that we still don’t understand 🤣…that’s why learning never stops..it’s part of how He made us..😀👍
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Good morning all.
Don’t forget the long migrations of these beauties.
Time to put those feeders out! The scouts are returning now in most of North America.
Many hours of enjoyment watching this amazing creation of our Lord.
My purple salvia is blooming and the nectar feeder I got from Mike Lindell’s My Store have the ruby throated males sparring already! My firecracker bush is trying to recover from our freezes and hasn’t put out any flowers yet so I will feed it some banana peel tea. I always hear the hummingbird before I see them. It is amazing how fast my brain zeros in on their location with my eyes playing catch up to my ears!
I heard my first fly by this morning and one almost lit on the feeder as I was putting it out. Can’t wait.
In case there are any here who don’t know…..Nectar is just 1 cup white sugar to 4 cups water mixed well. The stuff they sell for nectar mix has dye in it and is best avoided.
If you ever start feeding hummingbirds please be consistent and keep the feeders out the entire season. Clean with boiling water and refill at least every week.
Like you say CR it’s something to watch when they fuss over the feeders or do their mating dives.
Yes and pretty much all the “animal” world 🤣👍..I live on a pond that has been the nursery for a particular kind of duck.. Whisiling..they’ve come here for past 25 yrs..🤣👍..after young grow up and learn to fly they all eventually fly away until next Fall..
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That is a Teal Duck, sir!
When I heard them actually whistling on the water and in flight the duck book called them Whistling .. when I looked Teal pictures didn’t match but I bow to your obvious superior knowledge on the subject..if you say so..
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The Teals whistle as they fly at least they call them Teal ducks here in Florida and Louisiana, although I am sure there may be other ducks that make similar noises!
https://www.bing.com/search?q=black-bellied+whistling+duck+florida&qs=NM&pq=florida+whistling&sk=UT1&sc=5-17&cvid=DEC3DBA7B60241CB869626B7FBA86456&FORM=QBLH&sp=2&ghc=1&lq=0
Maybe this will help…
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BTW ..aka CR.. I also live in NCFL..😀👍
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hey, good morning monticello .. I’m glad you showed up .. I had wanted to reply about the Corinthian Bells windchimes you were asking about.. Did you get some ? I have 5 of them .. I love them. Some are as old as 10 yrs at least. They’re somewhat protected, under the eaves of the house and don’t really show any major signs of age.. I enjoy hearing their melodies from outside and inside, the house every single day.. This quote is the secret of their beauty : “The tubes hum with deep tones which continue to make melodies , long after the striker has hit the tubes “
i really can’t tell you how much i enjoy them ♥️
Good morning Annie,
They are amazing. Waiting for vacation to pick some up. They hold resonance almost as well as a very well designed bell.
Have a great day
i got a lot goin on up there im still tryin to figure out friend 🙂
Well as get older and live alone mine sometimes works overtime 🤣🤣👍… but a lot of it refers to times past in my life.. the good..bad..ugly.. 🤣and I enjoy it 😀👍..provides lots of laughter🤣👍..
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The second map is the only one with enough details to show how the cat traveled. The other two maps just draw straight lines between points.
yeah, the transmitters collect position points on a timed interval … if it’s not short enough, the fine details won’t be captured … you’d like a data point every 30 second or minute, not 5 or 10 minutes
This is really interesting. I am wondering about the right angle trip. Was that some kind of data gathering for the long trip or just a coincidence? What was the date of the long trip? Was it about a year from the original dislocation, and did kitty sense a seasonal pattern returning? What was the direction of the prevailing wind on the date of the long trip?
Finally, when kitty decides it’s time to go back, does she just load the same program and run it in reverse? That would mean she retains the geomagnetic information about where she started.
yeah, lots of fascinating questions come right to mind
keyword searching turns up a bunch of university studies and documentaries on cat territorial establishment and wandering
the best one I saw about a year ago was in Germany but I can’t find it just now … it might be the National Geographic one behind a paywall
Steve has two barn cat that roam free. Cali the female who is the mother of Buffy and Tom. The only time they want in the barn or garage is when it gets really cold, and even then sometimes decide to stay out. Though Cali, getting up there in age is more inclined to take the shelter during the cold times now than she used to be. I would be interesting to see where the roam.
My four go out at nite then come in when morning comes. They eat and go nap for the day. We don’t see any mice, moles, or chippies all summer. If the dry cat food is all they bring us body parts and leave them on the door mat.
We see them on the trail cams down in the woods.
I put my cats in the garage at night time. I have quite a bit of still wild Florida around my house. Between coyotes, feral tomcats, bobcats, wild hogs, owls with 6 ft wingspans, loose poorly trained pitbull mixes, gnarly raccoons, and a lonely panther not to mention gators in the waterways there is too much going on to leave them out.
The wild hogs and feral pit mixes are dangerous to humans. Just my opinion but pits or pigs not on a leash or in a pen are viewed as a threat especially if there are children around.
Do they say “you’re welcome” after they’ve deposited little gifts
and then stroll off so nonchalantly??🤗
Ha,ha. They just run in and go downstairs to check out the food dish. Then they sleep most of the day. Got to rest up for the night time excursions.
Oh nocturnal they are…there’s food…then there FOOD!!!💕
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We lost our little dog early one morning when it was dark. During my search, I went to the city pound, and they gave me the advice to check Facebook. There was a website, Lost Dogs and Cats of “Our City.”
What do I see, but photos of my dog luxuriating on the carpet, during the cold winter when I was so concerned that she was lost and freezing!
It turns out she had trotted three doors down the street and had been taken in by a very nice neighbor, who, by the way, fed her canned puppy food. Who knew that a luxury vacation with fine cuisine was waiting only three doors down for our dog? Facebook was part of our happy ending.
that’s funny – your doggy was working the angles for a better menu for a season
Oh lindak!!! I’m reliving the joy and relief that we felt when we heard first then saw our beloved cat coming from the back of our garden after have been missing for a week…less time than Sonic has been missing. He was thin as well, but that was soon put to rights.
Your son and his family are no doubt over the moon, their prodigal cat returned. Wonderful news! Simply miraculous! Sonic’s Great Adventure completed…home safe and sound. Happy news indeed!! Thank you for the update💕
Thank you Betsy. It is a great relief.
No adequate words to describe the feeling.
Good morning, LindaK,
So happy to hear that Mr. Sonic has returned from his travels. Great news!
Feel free to tell your son that they may ship all the extra Russian Blues that are happing about to your Tree pal here in Central Indiana. Special place in my heart for those.
Blessed Sunday to you and to our Treeper pals.
Mornin’ darlin’ I posted this in the afternoon on yesterday’s thread so you may have missed it. If you did read it, I apologize for the hubris in assuming you didn’t . . . 🙂
From the 4-15 thread . . .
And God’s afternoon to you, darlin’ 🙂 Just so you’ll know, the tree trimmers came yesterday afternoon. A whole crew of ’em went after my big tree and sundry piles — turned my back yard from urban prairie to something more closely resembling a real yard. They were going up and down ladders and tree limbs with an agility that—ain’t foolin’ myself at almost 79—I no longer have.
I was speaking from several decades of working with both children and adults with cognitive deficits. Most were also ADD, ADHD, LD, autistic, depressed, etc. All of us (and I’ll include myself in that mix) have faced and will face stigma and discrimination. That’s where having a strong self-image will really pay off.
Awhile back when I first read your comments, I immediately realized that you understood how critical teaching your daughter to be emotionally strong was. I said then that you were doing everything right—and you are. Insuring that Savannah has a solid sense of who she is will be the best protection against the bigoted idiots who will show up in her life. So, when I said I was proud of you, I was speaking from a lot of experience. I absolutely meant what I said.
good morning Garrison 🙂
Mornin’ Molon . . . 🙂
I did not see this post, Garrison. Thank you for making sure that I have.
Very encouraging.
Learned early on that most people who say “you can’t” do something… know very little of what they’re talking about and often underestimate the person’s will.
Just gotta find the brass rings to aspire to.
You’ve led such an interesting life, G… I always appreciate your stories and wisdom.
Thanks for giving those tree guys some valuable work. Hope you’re most happy with the results.
The tree guys were a pretty rough N ready crew. They had one speed—fast as possible—which put my phone, cable, and electric lines in constant peril. Fortunately, they didn’t charge much although they left one large, dead branch that needs seeing too. I’ll get someone with a little more expertise to deal with that.
Thank you JWoo! Those Russian Blues are sweet.
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!! 🐱❤️🧚
Thank you duchess.
Amen. Thank you duchess for this prayer with your post. I pray this every day!! Jesus has been very good to me. Many prayers answered and many blessings received!! God is Good.
That is great news, thank you!!. Have been keeping him in my prayers for a safe return home. Thank you Lord for prayers answered.
Thanks!
Good morning, linda. Glad Sonic made it back home. That’s good news.
It sure is! Thank you Joe!
A great Sabbath blessing! Sonic must have gotten lost and couldn’t figure out how to get back to his new home. May all lost souls find their way back to the Father on this day.
He was a tourist. Gotta take in the sights!
And a big Amen as well, Rileytrips🙏🏻💕
We’d like to know where he went, but that will remain a mystery. Glad he is back.
Amen!!!
🐾🐾🐾Best news ever!🐾🐾
Thanks Lorrie!
lindak: I remember this cat story. Great news.
This is a great song with a great back-story . . .
Excellent choices for this Sunday morning, Garrison… the Michael Murphey selections are so reminiscent of the time I spent living in Texas and evoke strong memories…. thank you
Back-in-the-day when I was in grad school at UT, he used to drink coffee with us in the Student Union. Nice guy.
Garrison, to break into your selection…
The other week I posted the gentle “Farewell to Stromness” in orchestral form.
I have since discovered it played with a guitar quartet and saved it for you. Different yet still beautiful💕
They are all Pepe’s former students from when he was (perhaps is) at USC. Nice guys!!
Well that explains the virtuosity. What an opportunity to learn from one of the greatest.
Farewell To Stromness is such a haunting lament. The music is perfectly well suited for guitar quartet.
It truly is. I thought so as well.
16 April 2021 Mike Mitchell, American rock guitarist (The Kingsmen -“Louie, Louie”), dies on his 77th birthday
16 April 2020 Kenneth Gilbert, Canadian harpsichordist, organist, musicologist, and educator, dies at 88
16 April 2019 Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (The Party, Sierra Sue), dies at 101
16 April 2016 Peter Tolson, English rock guitarist (Pretty Things), dies at 64
16 April 2015 Martin Quittenton, British rock and blues guitarist (Steamhammer), and songwriter (“Maggie May; “You Wear It Well”), dies at 69
16 April 1992 Andy Russell, American drummer and vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
Big Mike getting a little ax-lay on the ooming-gray
Looks like she’s purchasing a koala pelt
PETA’s gonna have something to say about that, I reckon
well, if I’m gonna go there, I might as well go there
oh, hell – it’s Sunday
now I feel bad
(nah)
Let me sooth you. It’s Cause he missed his?
Michelle must be getting fashion tips from Hillary.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/26/hillary-and-bill-clinton-spotted-in-the-hamptons/
Linda
I’m glad they got Sonic back
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Me too! Thank you Molonlabe.Now they have to get some food in him because he is very thin. He is eating intermittendly
though. It will take a little time.
Have they found an English speaking vet, lindak? Assuming your crew are not German speakers…
They are thinking of taking Sonic in for a check up because he is so thin. Actually, my son’s wife is German and my boy is fluent as well.
(He is good with languages and money. Picks them right up! Gets it from his Grandma.)
I know Gerber baby food#2 chicken flavor is much loved by stray cats that need taming. So delicious to them they will eat it from your hand.I recommended it as a supplement for Sonic, but I am sure they are taking good care of him.
I’d hoped they were fluent, suspected they were. Excellent. I’m sure he’s being pampered more than any cat has a right to expect… but with cause. Sonic will be his old self soon enough. Such great news.
I hope so and think so because he made it home.
In any case you are right. Hard to know if a vet is good at his job or how vets treat animals in different countries.
The British vets are excellent. Ours when we had to say goodbye to our beloved Jack Russell Penny sent us a handwritten sympathy note. I will never forget that.
When she had to have her anal glands removed. I went to pick her up and she wasn’t in a cage. She was running around in the waiting room, fit to do so. The receptionist said she was their “meeter-greeter”.
I believe German vets are animal lovers as well. Crossed fingers.💕
She has a heroin frown!
The smile deprived.
To reprise from yesterday..there are just times when it needs to be posted…look for it more often as necessary.
Tissues at the ready.
*sound on*
little touch at the very end
Yes!
That does a heart good. Thanks, nwtex.
WOW, he stands and salutes like he was in the service. Bless him. That respectful touch at the end, perfect.
♥️ x 10
Cats are very discerning as to who they approach. This is just lovely😍
Especially, the discerning cat in the picture you posted above ^^ 😂
You betcha, Donna! Couldn’t help myself…makes me laugh every time.
What’s funny… I realized I was making the same face as the little girl and cat in the picture.
I still make it!😎
SALVATION UNTO US HAS COME
Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
— Romans 3: 19 – 28
This hymn was written very early in the Reformation by Paul Speratus (1484 – 1551). A Swabian priest who became a Protestant preacher and hymn-writer, Speratus helped to create the first Protestant hymnal in 1524.
The hymn is a little long. But it is an amazingly good expression of the early Protestant understanding of grace, faith, law, gospel, sanctification, and salvation.
Happy Sunday, all!
A blessed Sunday to you, 1530. And thank you.
And a blessed Sunday to you also, Betsy. Thank you for all your commentary in all the threads here!
That was awesome! I wish Hollywood could produce talent like that today. And so many of them!
The Shirley Temple tap dance with Mr. Bojangles…always a favorite!
Good morning Treepers!
Let there be love
Abba Father
Racism is in the eye and heart of the beholder. I don’t see it here. The way I wish it were…
Stevie Wonder visiting a school for the blind.
None are so blind…
But Betsy, and my Treeper Family, this is a more honest expression of who we are than those snake oil salesmen pushing structural racism want us to know. We are good and loving people, God will not let us fail.
It is, Dave. This I know. The only people who do not know it have malevolent and cold hearts…more so the pot stirrers who take pleasure in their foul work.
We are all built in the image of God by God himself. We are the same to Him. I loved this picture, Dave. Thank you for it.
One of the sweetest pictures I ever saw was of two little 6 year old boys…one black, one white, each other’s arms across the other’s shoulder, smiling broadly into the camera.
The legend said that these two best friends got the same haircut so their teacher couldn’t tell them apart.
If only we thought as children do, how much better would this world be?
I took a screenshot of this and keep it on my phone to look at it when I need to remember that Christ said we all need to approach the Father as little children…🙏🏻💕
I remember that picture. Best friends forever.
Bet it went to your heart, too💕
Good morning Doc
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Good morning, dear Doc. The peace of Christ be with you and your family.🙏🏻
Bett
Can you imagine what it’s like for Doc.
Trying to do what’s right side up in an upside down
system. It takes courage , strength and stamina .
Doc
If your listening,
I say you retire and come up and buy a place on the lake here. Plenty of room , 350 miles of shoreline. Greatest fishing evva.
You drive down the roads here with the windows open and it smells sooo good.
Sir,
Your a doctor.
You can do it.
Whadaya need more money.
Forget about it.
Come join me on the lake.
It’s a big one.
We’ll go fishin.
You won’t regret it.
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Point is
Is crazy out there.
You come where I’m at, it’s like stepping back in time fifty years .
You’d get along just fine with some of neighbors.
Lots of doctors
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Hey doc
There’s a dock
Waitin for you
My dock
Be still my heart!!
MolonLabe, Betsy, Stevie, and Dave,
Thank you for your responses and encouragement. I continue not because of money, although with uncertain future of this country, insecurity of retirement, etc I don’t know when I have “enought” to retire. Through God, I am sure I can be content in any situations.
I would love to visit
I remain because I chose medicine as a platform through which to serve, use my talents and my heart, and hopefully reflect the Love and Glory God. I chose that over manufacturing (my dad), preaching/ministry, counseling/psychology, or teacher/coach. For me a physician is allowed into a sacred place of human hurt, continuity of exposure to the individual, family, and community. It is a sacred space.
I remain, because I wanted to find a way to demonstrate how to be “the old country doctor” in modern medicine. (much like the holistic priest of the old testament, or the shaaman of the indigenous cultures). What I did not realize is that “modern medicine” was the industrialization of medicine, coupled with the diversion of insurance and government money into profit centers. The change of locus of control of practice of medicine from the doctor/patient relationship to the C-suite of insurance companies who collaborate with large hospital corporations and pharmaceuticals.
I continue because my patients are the people in my community whom I have known for 30 years as a physician, and prior to that my ancestors came to this community after the revolutionary war as revolutionary war soldiers paid in land grant. They are friends, family, brothers and sisters.
Retirement is not in the bible, not in the words of Jesus. Rest, meditation, rejuvination, prayer, restoration, revival, Jubilee, prayer, — these are there in the teaching of God and Jesus.
Burnout is a common word in the medical profession — but it is really abuse, enslavement. Worse, it is moral dissonance. We have 12 years of training, ongoing experience. We and the patient know what they need, and what is technically available for them. What works for healthier behavioral change. We physicians have the responsibility, medical liability, responsibility for controlling costs, for meeting “quality measures” (really profit measures for the insurance companies)
I have come to the point where I am realizing that in this position I am in currently I am not able to sho the love and compassion of God as I envisioned and as I was called. None of us are, at least not like we intended. What I am supposed to do at this point, I have been praying about.
I do not think God brought me this far with skills in medicine, ministry, innovation, and creativity to survive — in order to quit. Change, reassess, and modify maybe. I am not sure. The costs have been great to my spiritual health, family relationships, family well being — I tried to put them first, include them in the ministry, place their needs first. But currently there is no margin.
I am not sharing here on this thread for myself, but to express what many healthcare workers are feeling. And I am sure many other benevolent people are feeling trying to serve in a world taken over by greedy, power hungry people and corporations. That is every American honestly seeking good and Truth, and Right.
I love you all here, and appreciate the passion in the fight for understanding and direction as we seek and serve our Creator and those he placed in our lives.
Thank YOU for being a real doctor…the kind that we remember having in our past. But most of all, thank you for loving your God, then your patients! Makes me teary!
A question for you. How does one go about finding a doc like you in our own community? I wouldn’t think there would be a ‘listing’ publicly available because of fallout from exposure, but I might be surprised! We have pretty much dropped medical attention because of experiences and becoming just a number to a clinic. The medical profession has been hijacked.
Thanks again Doc!!! ❣
We are dropping like flies, and despite my heart which you see here, the quality of my care has dropped in the last 20 years — despite my best efforts.
Keep your own medical records. Learn as much as you can about general health, your medical problems, your medicines. Your best return on investment is diet and exercise.
The more you eat in the form it was created, the healthier
The more you use your body the way it was created, the longer it stays young and functional
The more you help any doctor have all the information organized when you get there, the more they have time for assessment, advice, and planning.
The more you can hear the thinking of the doc, the wiser your can be about if they are trustworthy.
Whenever you are in a medical institution, have family with you, questions ready. State your needs up front, and let the doc direct how to use the time most effectively for your benefit.
If it makes sense, keep seeing them, if it doesn’t and they can’t explain, move on. Our Creator used the same logic that he put in our brains.
90 % of all chronic medical problems are due to lifestyle dysfunction and bad body and relationship stewardship. Seek the wisdom of the Creator in how to live, then your actions will match the DNA blueprint in your body, and health will be optimized.
Changing and maintaining lifestyle is a spiritual process. Be a steward of your body. Think AA/12 steps. Don’t let care of other people get in the way of care of your soul and body and healthy lifestyle. You can’t help others if your are crippled, and no one is going to respect your health advice if you aren’t healthy in a holistic sense. Your loved ones aren’t going to turn to you for health or listen to you if you don’t demonstrate in your own life what they want.
How to find a doctor:
Pray, take Jesus with you
Ask wise, healthy people about their doctor
Ask wise people with complicated illness about their doctor
If you use a Mid Level, make sure they work closely with a doc, not just someone signing their charts, and that the doc is also seeing patients in the building
There are good docs and bad docs, good NP/PAs and bad ones.
some independent docs who take insurance are still good
God eternally bless you for this. You have, with this post, been able to put into practice all that you were taught, and your deep Christian faith…all of which no doubt is more less forbidden in the environment you work in now, but not here.
I am immensely grateful, and I thank you.
Doc
Boy o boy , do I wish you would visit.
I wish my town had a Doc like you.
I got a lot from what you say,
I feel like I have been doing some things just like you say,
I’m on that page with you .
About my body .
I gave it all up .
All the bad things,
Except maybe ice cream.
Now my body is totally changed .
I can feel everything.
So now I know what I need to do to move forward.
Trouble is. !!!
I do feel everything now , before I was numb.
But , it’s my real body now telling me what was done and what to do.
I did a lot of damage to this bag of bones but now.
Nothin goes in it that shouldn’t.
All that you say kind sir, I’m saving it all
Your words are like a poem that duchess might write
Every thought
Perfectly placed
☘️
Your advice is so good,
This place is so good.
Thank you Doc.
Thank you for being our friend.
Doctors are special people.
We have a special place here and I’m finding it still more and more everyday how special it is.
I’m not just trying to come up with nice words to say to get likes or something.
I really mean it.
This is a special place.
Glad your part of it.
☘️
Thank you, Doc.
There is another doctor who comments on this site who is younger than you but who works in a larger hospital in a larger city.
He is a Christian who felt called to his profession and who, like you, can see how bastardized it has become, how contrary to the purpose he studied so long and hard for. He has made the decision to leave what he originally loved. He said he cannot in all consciousness continue…something he has agonized over and prayed about for a long time. He cannot practice medicine as he would like to, for the best for his patients. You outline the situation well.
And I am sorry for him, for you, and all others who chose their avocation and are, yes, abused and ordered about by those who see patients…at the worst time of their lives, many of them…not as human beings but as numbers and dollar signs.
I have nothing else to add except to say I am more sorry than I can express for your situation. What it has cost you, your family, others like you in your profession who simply wanted to be left alone to treat and heal, and your patients is unconscionable.
One final note…
I remember vividly when I was 8 years old, my dad said that one thing which must never happen is for the US medical system to be turned into a British one…a National Health Service. He was a man of few words but on this he was fiercely adamant. It was 1957 when he said it. Looking back, I wonder if he didn’t see the faint writing on the wall even then. Why that stuck with me all these decades I cannot say. You and he would have understood one another very well.
But that’s exactly what has happened. It’s a tragedy for everyone except the government and insurance companies.
God be with you, Doctor. You are in every way His good and faithful servant. B
Thank you. I looked up your name. Excellent. You too are a warrior, as are most long term Treepers.
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Bless you, Doc. This site attracts warriors, where we know He is amongst us. It’s a natural home for you as well. And I am exceeding glad you are here.
I can imagine. Very well. I know what my surgeon dad who served in a MASH unit in Korea and who returned to serve his patients as Doc has done and is trying to do in the face of fascistic madness would have felt. He was a man of deep faith as well.
I am glad he didn’t have to reckon with it. And I am truly grieved that Doc has to.
Well Bett
Your right
It’s like
It wasn’t like this when your Dad did it
It’s all assk’d backwards
☘️
How do the Brits swear
They say stuff like “blimey”and “bloody this “ bloody that, ors that just ,
bloody bul
😁
Nevermind
I shouldn’t swear
It’s something I really am workin on
Not kiddin
I don’t know molon…sometimes I think really strong language is required! Just sayin…😵
I here you
Sister
☘️
Good for you….there are so many other good words and phrases one could use…blimey isn’t a swear word btw👍🏻
We used to say “Flippin’ ‘eck (heck without the ” h”). I’ll try to remember some more….to save your blushes😎
I’m puttin in my reservation…if you please! 😊
I’m flipping
out
☘️
Eck eck
😁
Craig Anthony
1 year ago
There’s no such thing as a former marine. There is only active and inactive duty.
Crash Gear
1 year ago
Semper Fi Brother you Trump Loven Patriot!! God Bless!!
@powerup777
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Favorite Marine bumper sticker:
It’s not our job to judge, that’s God’s job.
It’s our job to arrange the meeting.
Another version of “Kill em all, let God sort em out.”
From the NRA . . . 2.4 million defensive gun uses in 2022.
Ray Charles – America the Beautiful
Have a prayer request.
Not for me, but for my sister. She just told my mother and I that a malignant tumor (is there any other kind?) was found in her pancreas. You can imagine how my mom is feeling right now. She has some really good chance of recovery, based on the initial findings, but I know how difficult it is to beat that thing.
I had to be at my mom’s place so she could break the news. I didn’t think I was going to handle it all, but I hope I did the best I could for my mom. She’s 89. And I suspect she has dementia, as a result of her own cancer battle.
Just keep her in y’all’s prayers, please.
Thank you. God bless.
May God bless your sister, duchess, and bring her back to health … and also ease they rest of your family’s stress and struggle
Praying for your sister’s journey through this and that they’ll be able to treat and remove that tumor effectively and leave your sister cancer-free.
Praying for your family’s peace of mind that God walks before you making your paths straight when you commit your ways to Him. He is a gentle and merciful Father, Abba, Healer, and God.
In Jesus’s Holy and Saving Name, AMEN
I am sincerely sorry, duchess. As the wonderful, loving people here offered their prayers for my husband and me, I will most assuredly do so for your sister, your mother and you. Our Father will be with you all through your storms, never doubt it. Let Him completely hold each of you in His loving care in the days to come, and we will keep along side in prayer with you. 🙏🏻💕
Prayers and lots of raw ginger!
Prayers Up, duchessofkitty!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Prayers up for all of you. God give you all the strength you will need to go thru this.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32474842/
Many many other articles on this I would consider it. We are talking about life or death and IMHO there is no boundaries.
Palerider, do no tell me medics throughout that once respected profession do not know this. Too many billions have been spent “looking for a cure” for the scourge of hateful, cruel cancer in all its forms.
They know it. They know it.
But the love of profits and money outweigh cure.
What other physical afflictions could be wiped out by the use of ivermectin and other drugs which were developed for other things? Off label use.
For example, from what I am reading high intravenous doses of Vitamin C are effective for many diseases and maladies.
Always remembering that a patient cured is a customer lost. And we can’t have that now, can we…
Those who know and suppressed the information are monsters in every sense of the word.
Hi Rider!
Except for the boundaries the elites set…
‘Domestic oil, natural gas…is the new ivermectin! You can’t have it because it would help end the crisis we’re trying to put you through…’
Add anything of value to that list you want…they’ll work to end it!
Praying for each of you! 🙏💕
Pancreatic cancer? I pray that God blesses your sister with a miracle.
Rob, it has been only on the last three years, give or take, that cases of that one and gioblastoma seem to be popping up everywhere.
Good morning all! Hope you have a blessed Sunday!
Well it looks like over 1/2 the country is in for an extended period of colder than normal temps. After summer like temps in some places that caused the plants to bud and flower it is going to get cold enough to cause severe damage. New England and the upper great lakes states, New York, and even down into Indiana are likely to see losses in orchards and vineyards.
Snow, some of it heavy will stretch from the upper plains states eastward and cover virtually all of Wisconsin and points further east from there. Chicago could even see some flakes.
And the cold is likely to persist for 3 weeks. Start this week and peak next week and then gradually warm up the week afterwards. My area here in central Indiana will see temps over 11 degrees below normal for the time of the year.
We got a huge peace lily from my Dads funeral in January. It has been doing well except for a couple leaves that Gabby the cat chewed on. Sherry put it out in the enclosed from front door entryway but today or tomorrow she’ll have to bring it back in. That’s the kind of cold we’re expecting. That after running the A/C for the first time this year yesterday.
It is looking more and more likely that later this week as the cold moves in there could be a another bout of severe weather along the same general line where the last two episodes were. So keep aware and watch your weather. And GrampM your area and most of west Texas is going to under the gun again on Monday according to the forecast map. While on the same day they are showing “mixed precipitation” for my area and points east and NW up into WI, where the snow starts coming in on the NW part of that state.
Joe Bastardi says it is looking like conditions are going to be favorable for a Tropical Storm to develop in the Gulf or down around the Bahamas before or very early in the traditional season.
Thanks Rah. More proof positive that God Is in charge of this world and all within it.
Bless you, Sherry, Allison and the kids, brother.
Thank you. Day of rest today.
God is in charge for sure. But there is no doubt that it is the warming of the oceans and not CO2 that is driving our weather.
It looks almost certain that we are headed towards a super El Nino. Now usually during El Ninos easterly air flow coming from the Pacific and across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean tends to make hurricane development in the MDR (Main Development Region) of the Atlantic less likely. And the majority that do form either have their tops blown off of them by the wind shear or are steered out in the central Atlantic and away from US shores.
However this year SSTs (Sea Surface Temperatures) in the Atlantic are high making for the development of TSs (Tropical Storms) more likely.
It is going to be an interesting hurricane season with so many mitigating factors in play. And to me, even more interesting in the Pacific where SSTs are high even outside of the ENSO La Nina zones.
I suspect we may see a much more active season for Typhoons than we have seen for several years. The last few years having been really pretty much duds there by keeping the Global ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) index well below the 30 year mean.
IOW I suspect that for the first time in over 5 years, this year we will see the ACE score above the 30 year mean.
Sorry for praying for Old Man Winter to return with such a vengeance! I just wanted the Greeniacs to choke on their lies.
Well with what looks to be a super El Nino coming on, I hope you don’t get too upset because in 6 months or so they’re screams for sacrifices to their CO2 God are probably going to reach a crescendo.
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CAN YOU COME DOWN?
“While ye have light, believe in the light.” John xii. 36
We all have moments when we feel better than our best, and we say – “I feel fit for anything; if only I could be like this always!” We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for this workaday world when there is no high hour. We must bring our commonplace life up to the standard revealed in the high hour.
Never allow a feeling which was stirred in you in the high hour to evaporate. Don’t put your mental feet on the mantelpiece and say – “What a marvelous state of mind to be in!” Act immediately, do something, if only because you would rather not do it. If in a prayer meeting God has shown you something to do, don’t say – “I’ll do it”; DO IT! Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness. Laziness is always seen in cravings for the high hour; we talk about working up to a time on the mount. We have to learn to live in the grey day according to what we say on the mount.
Don’t cave in because you have been baffled once, get at it again. Burn your bridges behind you, and stand committed to God by your own act. Never revise your decisions, but see that you make your decisions in the light of the high hour.
Oswald Chambers
April 16th Devotional
Coming after me for my past life is like looking for me at my old house…
…I don’t live there anymore…
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
A bless-ed morning, dear sis💕
i like that Bett
i dont live there anymore
Nor do I, molon.
Some of the places I lived
Oh brother
I mean , sister
You wouldn’t wanna
At least I can look back
Smilin
I love it
I love what God has done
He changed my address
If anyone out there
Is down
Maybe out
Don’t be
Come to Christ
It’ll be alright
☘️🍀☘️
I love how you phrased that, dear friend. I hope your words will reach someone whose “face” you will never know who needs to hear them. Life changing!!💕
Thinking of CS Lewis..
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
It doesn’t get more hopeful than that.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? – 2 Corinthians 6:14
In this passage to the Corinthians, Paul contrasts Christian living with worldly living. Righteousness versus lawlessness. Light versus darkness. Christ versus Belial (or Satan). Believer versus unbeliever. God’s temple versus idols.
When Jesus interceded for the disciples and all who believed after them, He prayed, “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world” (John 17:15-18).
Believers are to be in the world and not of it, sanctified by the Word of God and spreading the Gospel to others.
As today’s verse highlights, Christ’s followers are pulling together for a different purpose than the world does. The believer’s values, mission, and direction are aligned with the ministry of Jesus. Believers are holy—wholly set apart for God’s plans and purposes, yoked together as one. Jesus also prayed, “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one” (John 17:11).
Regard fellow believers as coworkers in Christ with the same mission of glorifying God, strengthening and supporting each other, and reaching out in love to others. Pray for believers in the United States and in Congress to, as Jesus said, “let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).
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April 16
MORNING
I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. Psa. 31:22
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. Psa. 69:2
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. Lam. 3: 54-57
Will the LORD cast off for ever? and wilt he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. Psa. 77:7-11
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psa. 27:13
EVENING
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him. Psa. 91:15
And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. I Chron. 4:10
Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said unto God…. Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. II Chron. 1:7, 8, 10
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. I Kings 4:29
Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power… O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa. II Chron. 14:11, 12
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. Psa. 65:2
J. Bagster
https://dailylightdevotional.org/04/0416.html
Cleaning out my bookmarks 😯 and came across —>
nwtex: I remember this video. Still hilarious. Such idiocy.
Imagine trying to be a primary care physician during this time. This same insane babble was coming from media, health departments, medical journals, professional societies.
Physicians who made sense were being arrested and ostracized when they made the most sense. The governor sent a letter to all physicians telling us HQ and Ivermectin was dangerous and should not be used for covid.
Patients were terrified, skeptical, pissed off and frustrated.
The care of my patients was in effect dictated by the news media, non clinical government workers, and social media.
Over 120 of my patients died in the hospital with a diagnosis of Covid. What killed them I still do not know. When I started prescribing non approved medications, pharmacists ridiculed me, threatening letters were sent to all of us for spreading “misinformation” threatening our license, privileges, insurance panel status, and board certification.
The seasoned and reasonable colleagues I had, and non infiltrated medical networks said we did not have enough information either way.
The amazing thing is, when I told my patients “I didn’t know”, that I was studying 3 hrs a day seeking reasonable answers, they breathed a sigh of relief, because I was being honest. It validated their own confusion. I promised to walk with them and share what I knew when I knew it. They saw I wasn’t politically motivated, conspiracy theorist, but that what mattered to me was what was best for them.
I fear for this country, for the medical care of this country. For the loss of a once effective medical system available nation wide and in rural areas. Now it is used as a profit center from which patients are used as an excuse for billable opportunities to the 4 Trillion dollars we give to the Insurance companies expecting them to be stewards of our medical care.
You know Doc. I was an SF medic, and I trained SF medics. SF medics are the only medics in the Army trained to diagnose. The Army classifies them as “Physician Substitutes”. That included doing our own lab work. Lots of training in parasitology and diseases found in “third world” countries but not common in the US.
During my time at the school house one thing I did was write scenarios for trauma and illnesses that the trainees had to notionally diagnose and treat. The patient would be another trainee and be briefed on S&S. The clinic operator, me or one of the other SF medic instructors would provide the feedback, telling the trainee being tested what he was seeing, hearing, and smelling as he strove to diagnose and treat.
One of the civilian instructors in the course had been sent to a studio in Hollywood to do make up and moulage and under his instruction we would apply it to the “patient” before the clinic.
So I ended up doing a lot of research into various subjects to compose those scenarios accurately and then the physician who was the commander would review it before it would be put into the book for use. And that included some study in epidemiology. I was at Ft. Sam Houston and thus had access to experts in every specialty or discipline imaginable.
One thing I learned and never forgot is that no viral contagion transmitted by aerosol and having a nonhuman animal reservoir has ever been controlled by mankind and that a vaccine while protecting a potential host does not prevent them from transmitting such a contagion.
Why did not more physicians know that? I mean the director of the CDC, Fauci, and others claimed that the so called “vaccine” prevented transmission but they’re government and thus their integrity should be questioned by anyone with working brain cells. But the vast majority of clinical physicians also bought that line. If they knew that information was false and a dangerous bit of misinformation, then why did not more of them push back?
It is easy to sit back and armchair quarterback, but you are making some assumptions, choosing conclusions based on assumptions that some facts were true
That it was an animal reservoir: We were told bats, but then escaped from a lab but not sure, other sources saying it was a bioweapon. I trusted no one, tried my best to verify everything I could, and expected anything.
Nobody was working in their role as they had with other pandemics. Other pandemics did not materialize as warned.
AIDS happened. we got answers fast, research fast, meds were developed quickly. Experts were trained and materialized, and improvement happened.
That it was aerosol spread- how could we know that? We weren’t even sure of the virus or its origins, or if it mutated, or if it had be bioengineered.
The “science” as it was being delivered to us did not make sense, and was delivered by many sources with conflicting information
You ask why did not more physicians know that there was all kinds of questions and debate. The most vocal and credible experts who went against the narrative were ostracized and humiliated. So they banded together, and they were ostracized and humiliated by larger groups of “expert organizations and authorities”; and so those honestly questioning faught back because it was clear that both the scientific process and free speech were being squelched.
People were dying by the hundreds that we could see, people that we knew. But the silos of our fragmented medical system did not allow us to work together. Many of us started prescribing HQ and Ivermectin anyway because we knew the drugs were not fatal because we used them. We were ostracized even more, threatened as above.
My patients went to get the vaccines not because I gave them or told them to, but because I couldn’t afford the deep freeze and costs of keeping the records, keep the the storage, and we could not be guaranteed we would have to pay for spoiled vaccine. My patients were sent by media, and I couldn’t keep records on them, follow them up for side effects. Remember we were doing televisits or seeing patients out in the parking lot. Staff was in and out of quarrantine. I didn’t know which patients got vaccines, when, or which ones.
Our own medical societies, board of medical examiners, hospitals, kept threatening to sanction or pull doctors citing “disinformation”, but there wasn’t even clarity over who would be deciding what was “disinformation” and what was accurate.
It was all criminal. The medical system was crippled. Many people died and there is not yet to this day clarity as to why many of them died. Many died from clear viral process with pulmonary inflammation, blood clots, myocarditis. Many clinical decisions were dictated by administration to a small group of hospital employed physicians.
What I learned is that the well being of patients were not the first priority of those in charge, and that suddenly much larger entities than the usual health care experts, people on the ground with patients — were not in charge.
I would never question the decisions of a special ops team retrospectively. It was a war zone, literally.
awwww
Long dead California lake comes back to life due to huge storms amid fears it could turn into an inland SEA – as massive melting snowpack on Sierra Nevada could triple flood size by summer
The Bonneville Sea was a real thing.
At one time, long, long ago, this valley was filled with ocean water. There’s a place east of Bakersfield known as shark’s tooth hill where you can still go and find shark’s teeth from long ago.
Those shark’s teeth could get up to 7-8 inches tall, each tooth. The sharks were so big you could literally drive a Mac truck into their mouths.
nimrodman: Yeah, the latest CA crisis we all need to run from is the flooding from melting snow. We need to hurry up and get rid of the flooding, so we can have a drought, again. Especially in the desert, which makes up a good part of California. Except for the mountains, were it snows a lot. And snow melts. Especially after it snows.
Love you comment. The only real crisis in CA is the crisis of malicious, incompetent government.
Got your message above…thanks!
There’s lots of local speculation the Tulare Lake may be back, not as big as originally, but back none the less. The down side is the loss of ag land covered by water and the loss of the folks who now own that land.
The upside is the Valley has just about decimated the underground aquifers that used to supply water and the lake’s return will massively help to alleviate that problem.
When we were little in grade school we learned about the lake. Back in the latter 1800s one could go by boat from Bakersfield to Sacramento. It was also told that the mosquitos were as big as a man’s fist. The mosquito part is probably a bit exaggerated, though.
The Yokuts Indians who originally inhabited this area would winter in the Valley but move up into the foothills during summer months to escape the mosquitos. There were vast herds of deer and such which freely roamed this part of the Valley. There were huge groves of Valley Oak trees which have long since been cut down. They are now a protected species.
I hope the lake is back to stay.
loss of ag land covered by water
they’ll need to convert all the flooded acreage to rice
Verse of the Day for Sunday, April 16, 2023
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“From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised.”
Psalms 113:3 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and. prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
Icon of the Archangel Gabrie
Gloria
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will.
We praise you,
we bless you,
we adore you,
we glorify you,
we give you thanks for your great glory,
Lord God, heavenly King,
O God, almighty Father.
Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son,
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,
you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us;
you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer;
you are seated at the right hand of the Father,
have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.
Icon of Jesus Christ Praying for the Cup
Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, his love is everlasting.
Let the house of Israel say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
Let the house of Aaron say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
Let those who fear the Lord say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
I was hard pressed and was falling,
but the Lord helped me.
My strength and my courage is the Lord,
and he has been my savior.
The joyful shout of victory
in the tents of the just.
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
By the Lord has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the Lord has made;
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
Orthodox icon of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel
Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Amen.🙏🏻
Good morning, dear molon🍀💕
Good morning Bett
We be tucked in here in the middle of duchess’s beautiful prayers .
Maybe it’s not where my prayers should go.
But it was kinda my way of sayin hello.
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Hello Bett
Is there a better place to be tucked up, my friend? I think not…💕💕💕 Really feeling always the warm prayerful comfort and hugs.
Magnifient!!!
Glorious!!!
Beautiful!!!
Good things come in threes
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Thanks for posting this each day!
Important! 🕊💕
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
So beautiful, dear duchess. Blessings be on your day.💕
Greetings Treepers!
Maranatha!
Good morning, Frank🤗
Have you ever heard of the Pemmican War?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican_War
Good morning, Treeper friends,
Impromptu slumber party at our house last night. Picked up Jimmy John’s sammies and huge pickles the size of cucumbers and took the girls to a little Drive-In movie theater about 30 minutes north of us. http://www.melsdrive-intheatre.com/
After destroying their full-sized meals, tuna salad with all the veggies and club with all the veggies (no cheese), they helped themselves to the concession stand with the largest bucket of popcorn you’ve ever seen (could easily hold 2 gallons of liquid – it was ginormous! $8), cotton candy and cookie dough bites for each $10, and drinks were in the car. (Super cheap $25 per carload for attendance and $20 at concession stand.)
The first star of the night was Venus in all its glory via the SkyView app on kiddo’s phone.
The place was PACKED like we had never seen before. We thought this place was going to fold last year, as they closed mid-season in frustration and a bit of anger. Owned by a Christian family and it is such an awesome place that we were glad to see rebooted for this year. Most times there would be only 8 or 10 cars and it was so sad.
Last night, there were over a 100 cars maybe close to 150!, oodles of families and giggling runaway kids – toddlers running in various directions with skinny dads acting the monster and scooping and gobbling them up – tackling and wrestling and playing. Kids of all ages from little littles to the aloof and goofy teens – but all respectful and fun.
Double feature of Super Mario Bros cartoon movie followed by “Champions” with Woody Harrelson (PG-13). “Champions” had some uncomfortable sexualized content in it – more in dialogue and inappropriate relationship that didn’t linger too long on such scenes – some vulgur and not too subtle language – but things we and they experience in the world today.
The story is of an embattled basketball coach (Harrelson) who is forced into 90 days of community service teaching a Special Olympics basketball team. Those players teach that coach and everyone who comes in contact with them exactly how one should view the special needs community and has some of the funniest and most colorful characters within it. Highly recommend. You know we in Indiana love good basketball movies and this one teaches some valuable life lessons.
My daughter is high ADHD, slightly Aspergers… though you’d never know it unless you were living with her or trying to teach her something. Her best friend and seemingly adopted sister also has some special needs and learning differences. These girls make my life colorful and they are simply a JOY. We were home by 1 AM – eldest girl starving so tomato soup and grilled cheese. Then to bed about 2:o0 AM. Church is at 10:30 AM where we will thank The Good Lord for our blessings. The obvious ones and the not-so obvious ones.
For me, time to make breakfast – bacon-wrapped eggs and my mother’s streusel coffee cake. Somebody pass me a coffee – fully leaded with nutmeg please?
Good morning JWoo
Your makin me hungry.
I think I will go make some eggs , but not these ones . These eggs are on my front deck in a planter. Not sure what kind of bird . I’m always out back . Pretty lil eggs. Have a good day J.
I didn’t know you had two sons !!!
Enjoy your “me times “
Now that Savannah will be at work sometimes.
Enjoy your day friend
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Blessed morning, Molon. I think I could visit your lawn and relish in your oasis. You love beautiful things and I imagine it’s very peaceful where you are.
I do not have 2 sons, Molon. Lord blessed me with only one daughter… another child I lost at 24 who never came to be. A miscarriage during my marriage and subsequent divorce. Married wayyyy too young.
The Lord knew what I needed and when my blessed father heard that I was pregnant and unwed at 32 yo… I was so afraid and ashamed… he said in the kindest words he ever spoke to me…
“Joanie, the Lord finally gave you someone to love”
Now go make you some eggs and nourishing breakfast. Taught daughters friend my mother’s legacy this morning… so she can share with her own family.
Thick sliced bacon.. half cooked… wrap it around edges, fat side down, in non stick muffin pan. Drop egg in middle. Small dash of black pepper… nothing else. 375 deg for 15 to 20 minutes until cooked in middle. Comes out like a little protein bundle of pretty and excellent cold for leftovers. Use GOOD bacon… we used Wright thick sliced Applewood smoked.
Your year 33
What a year
When you were 33
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JWoo
I saw someone talk of two sons , yesterday.
Thought it was you .
Joanie
The name
Many tales I could tell
Of that name
My tales
Many spellings
Same spirit
itsa good one
The name
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House Finches maybe? that would be my guess.
You’re living the best days of your life , dear friend. I suspect you know it. Fragrant memories after…💕 God bless you and those sweet young ladies.
I was Blessed to grow up where we still had a functioning Drive In theater in the 90’s. What a great time. I am pleased you found a movie to take the kiddos to. Sidenote: I am convinced that my ADHD diagnosis with slight Aspergers tendencies were caused by my diet. I don’t think I really needed the psychostimulants I was given starting at 14. The problem with those medications is that they reprogram the brain to make the person taking them dependent on them forever. I have found that L-Theanine and a cup of coffee work about as well for focus without the ups and downs and eventual medical dependence of the pills.
Medical dependence is what Big Pharma is after…customers for life. Wicked.
Look at how badly people who are given sips or sneak drinks from inattentive adults at parties as little kids become addicted to booze(me)! If we give kids amphetamines to “slow them down” so they aren’t a distraction to the other students maybe we need to siphon those kids who are bored and playful in class into their own programs, instead of priming them for potential stimulant abuse. Hardly anyone in our education system focuses on learning styles. Some learn by hearing, others by reading, a few by hands on approaches. I believe the obsession with technology is another major distraction misdiagnosed as ADHD.
I saw a horrid picture posted by a day care centre of children celebrating a birthday. A two year old boy was tied to a chair because he wouldn’t sit still. Two years olds aren’t meant to sit “quietly”. I felt sick.
These cruel people who should be banned for life from this sort of centre didn’t seem to think this was as horrible as it was, or they wouldn’t have posted it.
My son, Social, dug himself out of addictions, including alcohol. He did it with God’s gracious and merciful help. I’ve lost track of how many years not has been. But it took his saying to himself, “Enough”. It was a long, hard slog.
A pox on all those “experts” and “professionals” who have wrecked the lives of children. instead to think how many such children there are…
God love you for your strength of purpose, and thank God He gave you the wisdom and fortitude to get done what needed to be done. I truly understand what it has taken/is taking to free yourself of the chains which were put upon you.💕
“The problem with those medications is that they reprogram the brain to make the person taking them dependent on them forever.”
This has been weighing on my mind a lot lately.
Thank you for sharing what is working for you. I’m interested and I too see the significance of avoiding dependency.
What a beautiful night out. Those memories will never be forgotten.
RISE UP PRAYER WARRIORS
In the morning when you arise
Thank God for the lovely sunrise
Thank God you have the eyes to see
Thank God through Him you are set free
So many are suffering in various ways
From family problems to general malaise
From discouragement to deep depression
Hearts, minds, and souls suffer repression
Each day God asks you to boldly come
To the Throne of Grace and beat the drum
Sing Praise to our God – Sing Praise
To our Deliverer – Our voices we raise
God told us to pray unceasingly
Give Glory Honor and Praise to He
Bring our petitions and lift them up
So that all may drink from the Blessing Cup
When you are troubled the Body suffers
Take it to God and pray for others
When we reach out and pray for one another
We bless father mother sister and brother
Our own concerns become less of a bother
When we reach out and touch another
So Rise Up Prayer Warriors and shout
Defeat the enemy roundabout
Send him back to the dry places of doom
Back off and prevent his message of gloom
Declare your victory over all that prevails
Defeat his plan and all it entails
Our nation has been attacked mercilessly
Over a long span of time most relentlessly
It is time to defeat that father of lies
It is time for Prayer Warriors to rise
‘Go To The Quiet’ if it need be
To replenish and refresh on bended knee
You must be courageous and strong
To fight this battle all the day long
Rise Up Prayer Warriors and come to their aid
For many who are lacking let hope be staid
For those who are allegedly down and out
Sing Praise – Declare Victory – and Shout
Decked in your Armor fight the good fight
Send our enemy and his minions to flight
Give it your all and you will soon see
And taste the blessings of Victory!!!
D01: 11/18/2022
good morning duchess
wow
you wrote that in 2022
prayer Warriors have been around
your the best
friend 🙂
Long time Prayer Warrior, Molon!!! The life of a Prayer Warrior is not an easy one!!! (Poem about that)
You would be surprised how many here for whom I have prayed including Sundance and all of his helpers.
Inspired by the Holy Spirit, I began writing poems in 2013 – some individual – some universal – not bragging – mind you – just responded out of obedience.
It warms my heart when you and others respond to His pleadings!!!
God Bless You Real Good for all you do here, Molon – and for His animal creatures !!!
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duchess01, love your Spirit shares with us. We are so very blessed at the rich and fertile soil of this tree. The fruit is plentiful and joy- filled… even in trials… there is Spirit-led joy for the eternal destination.
Duchess
My rooster , his name is BJ for Bernadette Jr.
The babies are ,
Wilma
Susan
Sonya
Debbie
Jocelyn
Gerdy
Peg
And Viola
I’m almost ready to let them join the others.
Have a blessed day
Prayer Warrior
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Oooooooh!!! Feeling very special here – loving the Chickie Pics – I am
You are so sweet and accommodating!!! * Doing a Happy Dance * here!!!
God Bless You Real Good!!! 💙🧚💙
I heard Guinea hens are great for warning about predators. I also read some people had them to control Ticks. I wish I had the property to have them and do allot of wildlife habitat creation, as well as grow my own vegetables/fruit. Many people in Italy use their property for that purpose. They do not waste it on grass.
Very pretty birds.
Eastern Orthodox Easter eggs. I always loved their designs. Slainte
I love them as well. These are so beautiful that they take my breath away!
Hey molon…thought you’d appreciate😂😂😂
What a pretty flopsy eared garden destroyer. (Love them… make another garden for them… one for me… one for them)
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I’m captivated and inquiring minds want to know… why Bernadette for a gentleman chicken?
Peter Rowan is a national treasure. He has deep roots in Bluegrass (Monroe, Stanley Brothers, Clements and others) as well as rock…….
Enjoy.
Dry Branch Fire Squad is one of my favorite bluegrass outfits!
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
Ever think about FREE money? What I mean is handouts or more money than you actual posses.
It has destroyed our people. I’d say nation but we are a nation of people.
Bank loans! Instant slavery. And all tied to credit scores. See that? Everyone knows if you have no credit you are nobody, right? Now, even our freedom is attached to credit.
You want freedom? Dare you say. Freedom is total responsibility. In a free nation housing would not be regulated by government. It would be regulated by wages alone. As all economy would.
Good morning Treepers
Good morning Stevie
I know your in here somewhere 😊
Good morning friend
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Good morning Molon.
Good morning Joe
Nice to see you today
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I was driving over the Golden Gate bridge towards Marin County when this song played on the car radio. Bright, clear, and spectacular spring morning back in the early 70s.
Here I am molon…peekin in! 😊
Hope your day has been Blessed! 🤗🙏✝
Have a good day friends.
I have always loved quirky, unusual containers for flowers. I would so use this lovely pitcher exactly as here.
Last week you peeps were all talking about water pics , so I went out and got one.
Thank you Treepers, it’s the best thing ever.
Really , it feels so good.
I don’t like the cord right near the water but I guess it’s ok .
Why did I not have one before !?
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my bathroom sink has a GFCI wall socket, a regular wall socket but with a current interrupter in case of fault or short, such as shorting out by water
if you’re concerned enough, you could have an electrician upgrade your socket, or maybe there’s a pigtail extension-cord that comes with a fault interupptor
please consult your electrician or hardware store expert in the electrical section, I’m sure they can set you straight
I was looking up the dog that could see the wind from the Susan Cooper book series “the Dark Is Rising” (excellent books for young teenagers based on celtic mythology) and came across this very touching story about a man who found a stray dog, who rescued each other. It’s a short read, but as a Dog lover, I certainly can relate.
The Power of the Dog. Cabal (2003-2013)
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2013/01/the-power-of-dog-cabal-2003-2013.html
Thank you, Colkitto. I suspect the depth of a dog’s power is immeasurable to those who have never loved one or have been loved by one. 💕
His dog Cabal reminds me of Alexander Key’s dog Jagger
How prolific is your knowledge of lovely books like this? Screenshot sent to the 3+1 crew’s mom. Feeling the love in that picture. You are so right!💕
It’s a cool story for younger readers. One of Key’s themes besides the environmental, is of alternative worlds. He did work for Naval Intelligence during WWII and was a higher up as well in it. Allot of the things he wrote about in the 60’s & 70’s are coming true/being discovered/released to the public.
I think him & Lloyd Alexander are 2 forgotten authors whose works should not be forgotten. Key lived for a long while up near Cherokee NC. I wanted to see if I could find where he lived and inspired his writing, plus their is a Tartan Museum I could also see there. It’s gorgeous in Western NC.
I remember your going to Asheville for Thanksgiving last year. My grandmother lived there and I have visited. This was before it apparently changed and not for the better. Nevertheless the scenery is absolutely breathtaking. I remember saying to myself, “I could live here.”
A Tartan Museum? I’ll bet that would be one to go to.
My husband is entitled to wear the Stewart Clan tartan, and did so, full formal dress complete with Sgian-dubh, the ceremonial knife, for our daughters wedding long ago. I must say he looked quite the bomb! 👍🏻
Stewart’s besides being kings, were close allies and kinfolk with the Bruce’s. The highland attire is very alluring. He must have stolen the show so to speak. Eventually when I go I’ll take some pics and try and post them here for ya. I knew I liked your husband before I found that out. Now he gets some extra notches! Have a great night Bet!
PDJT’s is a MacLeod on his mother’s side.
Oh he did stand out. But we couldn’t detract from the beautiful bride, which she was. He did ask her if it would be all right to wear it, knowing what an impact it would make here in Texas. But she knows the tradition and considered it an honour that he wanted to. She outshone him anyway.😁💕
I was amazed when I first saw these Chestnut-sided Warblers (and still am) I have not seen them where I currently live. Where I used to live in my forest I saw them many a time during spring migration. I was lucky to acquire some breeding bird census’s from my forests dating back to the early 1900’s and found they had regularly nested there until the 50’s. The habitat had successionally changed. Same thing happened to a few other species, plus the parasitic Cowbird and forest fragmentation.
A little dash of cranberry, a spot of golden yellow…how utterly gorgeous is this little chappie??
Morning Bet. They never get old looking at them. The beauty that God created in nature is unbelievable. More people should take note of it, enjoy it, and work to assist it when they can.
All the best to you.
I miss my pretty little British birds. Our tinies where we are aren’t colourful…but oh their sweet voices!! I try to locate them in the trees around us as I pinpoint their songs, but can’t find them. Never mind. I’ll just stand a listen to their various and prolific melodies. I can almost see their notes hanging in the air… Blessed be your day, Colkitto. Thank you😘
Like this little beauty…they were everywhere non out trees and hedgerows.
(Oooops…bad editing my typos…in our trees and hedgerows)
Gorgeous. The Welsh version of our Chickadees?
He’s a little blue tit. Might be a cousin of the chickadee I’m thinking.
Like the one which purloined all the big Koi in our Welsh pond. I’m sure he thought all his birthdays had had come at once…
My old Koi’s behavior changed after a Great Blue Heron attacked them after I took down a few trees which opened up the backyard ( I was on a flyway with a 5 acre pond 1/4 mile to the West of me a large Lake 2 miles south of me, and another large group of lakes 2 miles to the north of me). He gashed the top of my big White one who survived. What was strange was I though they all were gone as I did not see them. After a while they came out and not one had been taken, though their behavior changed. Koi are very intelligent for fish but animals are in general more intelligent than Mechanist Science gives them credit for. I am a Vitalist Science advocate
What a relief!! Our Koi, given to us by a friend who was getting rid of his pond in Wales, were big and thriving. But there was no real place for them to hide from the heroin that dropped by….and continued to do so until they were all gone.
Not even a scarecrow
I fashioned scared him off. I can’t tell you, Colkitto, how utterly devastated I was.
As for intelligent? I’ve seen enough videos of God’s creatures, how they behave and how they interact with other species to convince me that we will neither understand or know about what they are capable of. Ever.
The new thing is Koi Caves, I have 2 of them. But i really do not want to jinx myself. I live near a river but have never seen any flyovers by them. They are crafty with really great eyesight and I think they have learned about these backyard little ponds, hopefully not in my area. There are videos about Heron’s eating and you would be surprised and horrified what they can and do eat. I don’t want my Koi to get eaten or have their behavior changed. They are free and easy now in their demeanor. I may get more I have 5 now they are about 8-10 inches
They are truly beautiful. We love ours, ornaments to our garden.
Whoa!
Good morning, Treepers. Believe it or not, San Francisco was a great place to visit when I was on liberty call. That was decades ago. Not so much any more.
backing vocals : linda ronstadt, emmylou and nicolette larson
Mahalia Jackson “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?”
File under: Did you know?
The three “Rs” basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic, aka usually said as “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic”
have been updated to the four “Rs” basic skills taught in MAGA, non-government schools:
“reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic and resist”
Pass it on.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe especially the DeXX gang.
Happy Easter today to all Orthodox Christians!
Atty Steve Lehto 16 min. you tube video on the terms of service people sign when using ChatGPT:
This is a good day to remember someone who is alone and imprisoned unjustly for participation in the J6 protests. He did next to nothing but was put away for 41 months. His name is Charles Bradford Smith, age 24. He could use prayers and support. You can read his story here.
You know they would…if they could…🥴
Oh amen they would, sis. As it is, they simply want to obliterate God completely…
…who’s gonna tell them…
guy in a black tee shirt with the writing “IF I SAID I’D DO IT I WILL there is no need to remind me every six months.”
That’s the situation with the ceiling fan here. I’ll get to it, but not today!
It’s a good thing you don’t say “when I get around to it”. In our house you would be given a paper plate with the words ROUND TO IT written on it and told “there you go, now no excuse”.
My dad used to say “tomorrow never comes”.
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As good as the one which said…
“My wife said I didn’t listen to her…or something like that.”
Somethin like that
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