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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Tonight, I wanted to post selections by Mexican composure Manuel Ponce. When I do this I often encounter a dilemma. Should I be a dutiful curator and select several excellent individual players? But then . . . what if my choices aren’t as good as a ready made complimation? This happened again tonight. This Siccas Guitar selection is so good that it makes my curator’s job easy.
This is a great selection of Ponce’s lyrical Mexican flavored music for guitar. Enjoy, Treeper friends.
Good rainy morning, Garrison 💕 These remind me of a very long ago trip I took with my in-laws through the scenic route in Mexico (certainly wouldn’t do it today, but there was a time in the 70s when it was safe). We’d overnight in some very picturesque towns and be serenaded at dinner by local artists playing pieces like these. Very romantic and most enjoyable…thank you, my friend, for the memories 🤗
Nornin’ Bet 🙂 Being a Spanish teacher, my wife loved traveling in Mexico. So did I.
It was an experience, especially travelling on those narrow roads in the mountains, where I spent a good deal of time on the floor of the car praying were get to our destination!
Morning Garrison. Thanks for your Classical posts.
Utube has started complaining that I use Brave and block some advertisements. It makes you links unusable with a “can’t download now” msg. As I was trying to find your curation on their site, up popped a favorite.
I love when there is such skill a guitar sounds like a harpsichord but better..
I’ve used AdBlock with success.
Will try
It’s sunny skies here in the morning in N.CA …
No kiss for the kid
I don’t know about this one, but seeing is believing?
The “trick” is that when they fall going left to right on screen, the top rear edge of the brick is slightly to the left of the bottom rear edge due to the slope of the brick. This allows the preceding brick to only just have support at its lower front edge.
When the last brick at the right hand end of the wall falls, it falls flat, rather than at a slope. So its top rear edge is directly above the lower rear edge. Its preceding brick no longer has support at its front lower edge, so it also falls flat. As each brick falls flat, it preceding brick loses its support. The process is repeated backwards down the line, right to left.
Damn that’s pretty good! Thanks for explaining!
Dog loves more
funny, he didn’t really choose
hey just stammered and spun circles in frustration, as if to say “I DON’T like it!”
Copy cat
LOL!!!!!
Those look like Section 8 kitty condos.
Aren’t they great??😁
Yes, been there, done that. One winter about 10 years ago 3 pregnant cats, not mine, decided to have
kittens on my carport. I didn’t have anything for them for protection but I had some cardboard boxes.
My neighbors coined them Section 8 kitty condos. Not pretty but they did the job!
😹😹😹😹
I interrupt these kitty cat pictures midst terms on to
post some more…😎
Afternoon Bet, this cat is ready to go on a murderous spree. ❤️🤣
Haha!! Now we know where the phrase “If looks could kill” comes from! 😁😘
🥲 that looks a lot like the last post by Leon💔
God,
Bless Leon.
-Amen
✝️
Every cat I’ve posted, I remember him, Patience.
Amen🙏🏻🕊
woke by kneading this morning and landed with friends. Morning Bets
Morning, Rob🤗 A gentle way to wake up…as long as there are no claws, or blankets between you and them 😁👍🏻
Uh oh
Every pot would be down and broken with dirt on me ceiling more…
😆
Last picture before the bleeding starts on that right arm…
No!!! NO!!!!
WARNING, WILL ROBINSON!!!!!
Thats the way my wife responds. My fight hard wire comes out. Blankets fly. The cat runs. There’s a ruckus at first light every time.
I wonder how long she sits there thinking, “should I do it now?”
Hahaha!!!! Imagine while you’re sleeping, your cat is sitting there staring at you and planning! 😂
That’s right, windbag!!!
Tell the world in case it forgot 😁👍🏻
-🫖
Allllll kinds of cute!
“This is my pumpkin, there are many others like it but this one is mine.”
That reminds me of Menagerie’s sweet grandson’s love of pumpkins; all of them.
True love dat, girl! 💕
Israel Update:
–Palestinian Report: “Israeli tanks invaded Gaza and are shooting”.
-Jordan: “Israel started a ground invasion. It will cause a disaster”.
-Reports from Gaza that the Internet and Cellular are shut off.
-IDF declares expansion of the the ground operations.
-IDF confirmed its forces are operating inside Gaza.
-Netanyahu’s Speaker: “Tonight the turnaround begins, Hamas will feel our rage”.
-American sources: “Looks like the beginning of the invasion”
-Grand Central metro in NY was shut off by pro Palestinians protesters. Some arrested.
-Heavy bombardment on Gaza continues.
-A Senior Houthi from Yemen (Iran’s proxy) tweeted : “Eilat”. A name of a south city in Israel that he threatened to attack. Missiles.
-The UN passes a bill that demands Israel to cease fire. 120 positive, 45 neutral, 14 against. Israel declines the resolution. Note Ukraine is neutral. Then they complain that we don’t give them weapons. US was on Israel’s side. France was against Israel too. Macron who came to Israel for solidarity is now against the right of Israel to handle Hamas. Go figure.
Austria with Israel and so does, Czechia, Croatia, Fiji, Hungary, Guatemala, Marshall Island, and a few African nations that I don’t know about.
-IDF tells reporters that it can’t secure their safety because Hamas intentionally get close to reporters. Also risk of failed rockets rolling inside Gaza.
-Senior in the Hamas was asked by BBC :”How can you justify murdering civilians?” Hamas man left the interview. Note: I don’t know why anyone would give them interviews?
-Foreign Minister of Guatemala gave the most pro Israel speech in the UN.
-Drones from Yemen are shot down over the Red Sea at the far South of Israel. They did previously hit an Egyptian city by Israel.
-Mob (hundreds) in the West Bank are trying to charge on the tomb of Joseph (a holy place for Jews) they want to destroy it. Palestinian authority stops them. Protesters in the West Bank are incited by Palestinian Authority to “escalate and confront “. They decided to stop strikes and start escalations.
-Large protests in Iraq, Morocco, Jordan , Turkey.
-IDF doesn’t answer the statements of Arabs that Israel started the invasion. Possibly because of the hostage negotiations.
-Report that the US tried to limit the IDF to do only a surgical operation in Gaza and not a wide invasion. Voicing doubt of Israel’s ability to collapse Hamas.
-IDF releases a video turn the main Hospital in Gaza with its Hamas structures above and below ground. Also releases sound tracks proof that they also steal fuel and resources from the hospital. Saying they have leaders in there.
-Al Arabia News saying that Israel agreed to cease fire for release of the hostages.
-Senior Israeli Official says that it’s not true that there is progress regarding the hostages.
-Shayetet 13 (Israel’s Navy Seals) landed in the Gazan shore attacked Hamas infrastructure and naval commando base of Hamas and left ok. Note that there were terrorists coming from there previously and killed in Israel. It’s a launching area for commando raiders into Israel.
-Iran Foreign Minister :”The warriors in Lebanon are ready with the fingers on the triggers for an Israeli ground invasion to Gaza. “.
-2 direct hits in a south city in Israel. No injuries (the south people left).
-NY Times admits it was wrongly covering the hospital attack in Gaza. Accused Israel and took Hamas’s data.
-10,000 in UK signed an open letter to release the hostages. Many celebrities and ‘culture figures”.
-Speaker of the IDF:”Reports of negotiations for releasing the hostages are psychological terror. I suggest to ignore rumors”. ‘We will share real info first with the families and then the pubic. “. Note that Arab outlets like Al Jazeera and Al Arabia were spreading news that there is progress and that ‘Israel agreed for cease fire for hostages” etc… This must have been a Hamas tool to mess with our minds.
-Iron Dome intercepts missiles over the center of Israel.
-An Injured Israeli at a medium condition at a central city in Israel.
-The 10/7 attack was accompanied with a cyber attack. The targets mainly media and software companies. Low level attack.
-Terrorists from Lebanon fire at a Jewish city and a base. . IDF returns fire.
-US Official: “Qatar agreed to re-examine the presence of Hamas leaders on their soil”.
-Four injured from a rocket in Tel Aviv. Three light and one medium injury.
-One of the heaviest bombardment on Gazan targets. From Air, Land and Sea, an hour and a half bombardment. One of the widest since the water began. Attacked defensive tunnels, Explosive areas, anti tank positions, observation positions, snipers etc…
-Israeli comedians make a skit about the BBC lying about the Hospital in Gaza. It goes viral in the UK. I will try to post it later. Its funny.
-Targeted assassinations of two on motorcycles. And on a house. IDF has people on the ground directing the assassinations. Those must be high level Hamas.
-Additional assassinations on three vehicles. Hamas is losing high command before the invasion.
-German police go harsh on pro ISIS/Hamas demonstration. I saw the video.
-Israeli Border Police kills 4 terrorists who tried to breach the fence at the West Bank with explosives.
-Very violent riots in the West Bank. 9 dead 120 injured. Note: Israeli forces can only shoot if their lives are endangered or someone else’s life is in danger or at armed people or Molotov cocktails (fire bombs). Some of those cities had hundreds if not thousands yell to “give Hamas weapons” etc.. Very important not to let the West Bank go out of control. The only difference between them and Hamas is the ability. Same ideology and thinking.
I got about a quarter of the way through and then thought “Wait a minute, this is such a thorough summary I bet David wrote it. Scrolled up and my guess was confirmed.
Thanks for your effort, David, your summaries round up a lot of information it would take me forever to get to simply by browsing news articles.
Much appreciated.
— Nimrodman
Thank you David for your updates. There is no other place to get this info..
Your validations motivate me to do it.
I am glad it has some Value.
David: Your reporting is better than all the English-language Israeli news websites. They do very little independent, fact-seeking journalism. Mostly, they watch CNN, read the NY Times, scan the wire services (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc.) and the transcribe what they see and hear.
I agree, bill. We are fortunate that David started commenting here long, long before any of the horrors erupted.
I know you are a reader of Gates of Vienna. There is a chap there who is giving a day by day report from where he is in Israel He’s an excellent writer. If you haven’t already, check in there.
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Astonishingly good reporting summary; the explanatory material where it’s useful is just perfect. Thank you! Know that in addition to many reading here, we are re-sending your summaries out to others.
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Great !
Thank you David for these updates. We can not get a word of truth out of any media. We need your updates to keep us informed about what is happening in Israel. Our prayers are with you all and especially your brave soldiers fighting for their country. God Bless You All.
Thank you. תודה.
AMEN.
David,
“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord [a]lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.”
And all of Israel.
Amen, M
Hi JWoo!
Howdy and Good Evening, GrandpaM
Amen🙏🏻🇮🇱
Love!
News video including Gaza, demonstrations in Britain and elsewhere, etc
I only skimmed so can’t account for the political views, but it is British broadcast, after all … right now I’m hearing calls for cease fire later in the clip
Early in the clip there’s footage of the newborn ward in that big hospital and crowds of civilians sheltering there because it’s a presumed safe space
IDF has produced a nice animation of Hamas tunnels and command center beneath Shifa Hospital. This link has a short clip, I’m searching for a longer clip that may be out there.
IDF shares proof of Hamas terror base built under main Gaza hospital – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
here’s a screen capture
Puppy & Butterfly
Tunnels. .
https://youtube.com/shorts/jW6_ijey3qw?si=eP_LUH2UpX-eOff7
Guess it makes sense tunnels would primarily be under streets. Very precise hits by look of it 👍 Maybe they could divert the sewer lines… just a thought
They are going to make a really tough decision and gas them.
It is what it is.
They can’t go into the tunnels.
The siege of fuel will make it impossible to ventilate the tunnels. They will have to come out.
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Israeli comedians on BBC. Note we also have one on CNN from a few years ago.
I hope the British people get t0 see that video. They will recognize those pompous morons.
It’s going viral in Britain.
Good!! Now it needs to go viral in Australia where shamefully the Lord Mayor of Melbourne hoisted a line of Palestinian flags onto flag poles outside his official residence or office. No Israeli flag in sight.
Shame, shame, SHAME!!!!!
Update Israel:
Note: My first update was at a time that the IDF was keeping everything confidential. Now there is more information so I am continuing.
-The IDF is in Gaza. After extensive action the forces remain in Gaza. Hundreds of targets were eliminated. Tens of terrorists were killed during the night. All IDF soldiers are well.
-The Head of the air defenses of Hamas was killed. He was the one who prepared the terrorists with the gliders also drones.
-IDF decides to to enable more humanitarian aide while the ground maneuver is happening. But no fuel. Remember the Hamas needs fuel for ventilating the tunnels.
-150 underground targets are destroyed while the ground operation is going. Underground combat spaces are destroyed.
-IDF’s commander of this attack : “We are using fire that has not been seen before in Gaza. The IDF will eliminate any Senior or junior terrorist and all terror infrastructure of Hamas. “
-Air Force Commander:”About a hundred jet fighters dropped hundreds of munitions and destroyed hundreds of targets of the terror organization Hamas. We are prepared to continue and we are working with all the other bodies of the IDF with a single goal: To destroy anything that a hand of Hamas touched”.
-UN: “We lost contact with our people in Gaza”.
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I had Fox News on and they had a bunch of explosions footage as background to their panel discussions
Many of the explosions dropping buildings, but I think I saw a couple linear ones, as if an entire block-length street went up, like they’ve blown a couple tunnels, maybe by pumping in gas (propane?)
On a few explosions, there were definitely secondary explosions, as if they hit munitions that also went up
I haven’t been bothered by the “delay” in the ground invasion
Last week it seemed to me that IDF was continuing with aerial bombardment because they still had many, many worthwhile targets on their targeting list.
With this new, limited incursion, it seems to me that IDF has a very decided strategy and they’re pursuing it, again with a strategic list of targets
That main Hamas command center under the hospital is a tough nut to crack
I guess they could begin by blowing all the feeder tunnels to it, the ‘spokes’ on the wheel
Thus isolated, it’ll be it’s own thing, I imagine it might be vacated if some settlement is reached
Or Hamas may blow it and the hospital to pin the blame on Israel
Perhaps Israel could pump in carbon monoxide once they’ve isolated it from spoke tunnels
Not factoring in hostages in this brainstorming, just thinking aloud
Thanks. The hostages is the problem. The tunnels can be dealt with otherwise in various ways. I think the strategy is to prevent fuel supply that is used to ventilate the tunnels. At some point the tunnels will become too uncomfortable. Therefore time is on our side.
Morning! Here is a fun version of the following hymn to start off the day.
When We All Get To Heaven
Mornin’ all!
The fly is a nice touch..aptly positioned.
October 28
MORNING
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him. Isa. 59:16
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire: mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Psa. 40:6-8
I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. John 10:17, 18
There is no God else beside me: a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isa. 45:21, 22
There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12
Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. II Cor. 8:9
EVENING
The Enemy. Luke 10:19
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. I Pet. 5:8
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Eph. 6:11-16
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. Micah. 7:8
Bagster
https://www.dailylightdevotional.org/10/1028.html
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
When something is transparent, it means that light may pass through it and be seen. The opposite of transparent is opaque, when light is absorbed and does not pass through. God has encouraged us to be like Jesus, who led a transparent life. He desired that, when people looked at Him, they would see through Him to the Father. He was also transparent before His Father, seen clearly in His prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane before His arrest.
How much of God’s light passes through you? Being honest and transparent leaves no room for hypocrisy. As you stand for the Lord, you could be mocked or persecuted. There might be social and financial costs attached. However, there are great benefits. As others see Jesus through you, they may be drawn to Him, and their lives forever transformed.
When you have received the love of God and follow Jesus, you learn to love and forgive as He does. As you do what God has called you to do – living with integrity, humility, and honesty – those around you see the Lord through you. Your intentions align with His and He strengthens you in surprising ways when you face difficulties.
Allow the Holy Spirit to show you today where your life has been opaque, or places where “a form of godliness that denies its power” (2 Timothy 3:5) has taken root. Ask God to help you become more transparent so that His light shines, unfiltered, through you.
Pray for increased transparency among U.S. government leaders, that they will embrace honesty and integrity that brings blessing to the nation.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing
Good morning ya’all! Kenji– thanks for the selections you shared yesterday
Thank you, Doc.
Solace . . . now. Thank you, friend. -)
Doc … your excellent musical posts (and commentary) inspires me. I believe our musical tastes are simpatico. Thanks for the nod. 🙂
Verse of the Day for Saturday, October 28, 2023
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“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.”
Psalms 85:10 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
BE MY VOICE
JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God,
cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
Good morning, dear sis. Time for the cuties in their Halloween costumes. May our Lord bless each and every one 🙏🏻😘
So precious.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
TEACH ME LORD
In the misty morning – at the break of dawn;
With sleepy eyes and – muddy mind I fawn;
Send your assistance and blessing my way;
Dear Heavenly Father – teach me today!
I fall on my knees to give glory and praise;
I sing with the angels – our song we raise;
In thanksgiving – I thank You for all I have;
For Your comfort – consolation – and salve!
Teach me – to love – as You willingly do;
To be servant of all – just like You;
Help me to learn to be humble and last;
Help me let go of mistakes of the past!
Teach me compassion – for my neighbor today;
Help me understand – his distress – if I may;
Help me bring comfort – condolence to him;
Lift up his spirit – when his faith is slim!
Help me be more like You – assured in love;
With confidence in my Father above;
With trust in Your steadfast faithfulness;
With fidelity – teach me – gratefulness!
Teach me – to invite – the Spirit within;
Through repentance and grace – let Him in;
To guide and chide me – when I should fall short;
Help me – to His wisdom – quickly resort!
Teach me – not my will – but His will be done;
Through Him and with Him – the battle is won;
Teach me – acceptance – when I find it hard;
To repent – reconcile – and pride discard!
Teach me – patience – a gift of the Spirit;
A virtue through which – I can endear it;
Give me Grace to hang on – and persevere;
Through fasting and prayer – help me volunteer!
Teach me – hope – a gift – to which I must cling;
Patient hope – endurance – blessings will bring;
Goodness and longsuffering – grant me these;
Precious gifts of the Spirit – grant them please!
Teach me – faith – that I may share it with all;
To lighten the burden – what might befall;
Calm my fears – and brighten earthly sorrow;
Increase my faith – childlike trust in tomorrow!
D01: 10/26/2013
🙏🏻💕🙏🏻💕🙏🏻
He does, dear friend. Many times negatives are just another chapter in our Books of Life. We should never consider them to be the last one. Hold that tiny mustard seed tight🙏🏻😘
Amen, Bet !!! ❤️. Keeping it close to my chest – I am !!! 😃
Having a hard time today – Missing people – you know !!! 💚
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED EVENING !!! ❤️💙💜
PS. GLAD YOU ARE HERE !!! 🥲
A lovely image of what I hope really will be waiting for us.
“God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.” — Victor Hugo
I think God is especially fond of cats, because he did that.
What a beautiful quote, jb. One I had never seen. I think CS Lewis was of the same opinion as you. Just look at Aslan 💕
I agree.
I really like the mountain landscape art work, the first of the three pictures you posted. the one with cabins and horses etc. If you know the name of the art work, and /or the artist, I would be interested in knowing them.
Perhaps you have no way of knowing the name of the artwork or the artist, because e.g. it was online with no info given, or if it was done for a greeting card company (commercial art.) However, it looks too good for that.
(I normally do not care for this type of art work, so am I surprised that this one appealed to me so much. 🙂 )
Could possibly be a thomas kincade?
It might be, I think he did paint similar subjects? I have heard the name, but I am not familiar with his work. At least nothing comes to mind right now. So if I do a little looking at his work I might be able to compare the styles. I am a bit rusty in my Art History, it is quite a few years since I got my Fine Arts degree. Thank you very much for the suggestion.
I just took a look at Kinkaid’s work ( rather small pictures hard to see details) , but IMHO I do not think they are by the same artist. They do paint similar subjects, but the one I like, the mountain landscape, I think shows the artist who painted it had more technical skill, better composition, better paint handling , and is a more competent artist in general, than Kinkaid, whose work is ‘dreamy’ and pleasant to look at but a a little too ‘sweet’ for my taste.
I hope to find who s/he is who painted the mountain landscape. that caught my eye, 🙂
I am not sure how they do these ‘quotes’ with artwork – I search for ‘free images’ –
like you – this one caught my eye – but I have no idea how to find it again to see
if whoever posted it indicated an artist – have been searching on and off for about
an hour or so – with no results – or even something that looks remotely like it !!!
Found some oil paintings – still no comparison – you know – just similar subject
matter – sorry I cannot help – I used to know someone who could help – but alas
he is no longer here !!! 💚
Some things just touch the senses – the way it used to be – maybe, jb ?
Thank you so much for trying to find it, that was kind. You are right, some pieces of art just touch your senses.
Sometimes you can pinpoint what it is that you like so much, ‘it’s the bold colors,’ ‘it’s the drama and shadows,’ ‘it feels strong and fearless in its approach to the subject’. etc. maybe at other times you do not know what appeals to you, you just know you really like it. it’s an emotional thing.
Art is intensely personal. When you look at a piece of art you should always ask yourself, how does it make me feel? I will look around on line maybe I will spot something that looks as if it was painted by the same artist, and find more clues that way :-)).
Is your neighborhood decorated with demonic Halloween displays?
Next block down from our house they have a 12’ tall winged satanic figure with skeletons in front of it on their knees bowing and praising with arms in the air. Sick.
Is this demonic? Or just fun for the kids?
Would you visit this house with your precious Angels?
Lord have mercy
Short answer, Humpty…
!NO!
NEVER!!!
I noticed in the stores’ displays/merchandise that it is trending a bit more demonic lately as well.
I have not seen much nasty demonic stuff thank good ness, as I have been indoors the ten days or so with a very nasty flu. I hope no one else on this site gets it. It goes right for the lungs, well it did for me anyway.’
I saw a few unusual Halloween costumes for children of the ‘plague theme’ eg ‘ mediaeval doctor’ with his ‘beak’ meant to be filled with herbs and vinegar to purify the air the doctor breathes. Probably works better that todays masks 🙂
(the origin of the term Quack?)
Hope you are feeling better!
Aw Thank you. Slow Cobra.. 🙂 Today I am feeling almost human. I have been very sick with it Bronchitis, The coughing is exhausting. I lost my voice for three days. Hard to get a good night’s sleep. doing all the usual things. and doing what did when I got Covid two years ago.(Delta) vitamin D3 5000 units zinc quercetin NAC, and vitamin C several grams of it. A good cough syrup. I did not go the the Doctor. I just don’t trust them anymore.
Order some apple flavoured Ivermectin paste on Amazon. We keep it always. Once opened it needs to be refrigerated.
Just a little finger to the first joint dollop. Every other day until you feel better…double up on Vitamin C 1000 mg, zinc, D,and Quercetin (500 mg daily) to help get the zinc into your system.
I am so sorry you’ve been suffering, my friend.
We always took Lemsip in the UK and it worked a treat. It is available at “britsuperstore.com usa”, delivered right to your door if you’re interested in checking it out.
Feel better, jb🙏🏻
Dear Betsy, your advice is spot on. I nearly followed it, ahead of time, to the letter. Except, when I first got Covid 2 years ago, I was unable to get Ivermectin . It was verboten in my neck of the woods.
.I live on the West coast of B.C. on a slightly chilly Pacific Island.
‘Dauphin’ Trudeau decided he did not want us to have any medications available, only his genocidal shots, so he cancelled Hydroxycloroquine and Ivermectin. Before that , one could get them with a doctor’s prescription.
If other treatments had been available the Big Pharma monsters, could not claim an ’emergency’ ( ie no treatments ) and so the right to shove their untested and poisonous shots on the world. It was all orchestrated.
My son, (who is at this very moment watching on tv the start of a Trump rally ( held in Las Vegas) I will watch soon, We both love President Trump God bless him) knew a sensible nurse practitioner who arranged to get us some Ivermectin, liquid emptied into a small bottle with a dropper.
We were were both sick as the same time, Carl got covid first , had just got it, met the nurse, in a parking lot, like in a spy story, surreptitiously, to get the Ivermectin enough for the two of us. Carl took it for three days and said he felt better.
I decided I would not take it, (yet,) We both recovered I was much more sick than he was for weeks but we recovered. My hair fell out and broke off in patches, and I lost my sense of smell and taste and other other nasty symptoms but made it on the vitamins that everyone I knew( including the nurse, was taking,) I was too chicken. and older, it took me weeks to get over it, but I was pleased, I was now immune and did not take the shot (for ethical reasons ie what was in it,)
Since those days, Carl has now managed to purchase Ivermectin from an animal (horse etc) supply store chain called ‘Buckerfields’ They wouldn’t sell it while Trudeau was keeping it from us. If you had horses I expect you would have to go through a vet. Since then, we bought some apple paste (still un touched, but now you told me how to take it I would feel more brave 🙂 ) and some liquid types. so we are well prepared , and I forgot to mention to ‘Slow Cobra’ about taking the Ivermectin this time.
It did help’ I think’ to speed up recovery.. Lem sip, yes it is very good. I think it is called Neo Citran here? I always called it Lem Sip as I once had a small store in the U.K for while, and sold it. (Lemsip and eventually also the shop 🙂 _ I think it has one of the medications in it that some drug stores were suspending selling, saying they were not helpful anymore, ( to their profits no doubt) I think the antihistamine that helps you to sleep was the one they were trying to remove from the public. I worked with a woman, a friend of mine for many years, who swore by Lem Sip, she also had been to the Uk many times and was in love with all things British, (that was before it was destroyed the the satanic WEF.)
I may try your British shop, there are a couple of shops like that near here but small , and mostly expensive food items and even Walmart sells some British things , biscuits, chocolate, even English beans, ha ha. (Beanz)Thank you so much for your good wishes.
I just had another coughing fit, once I start I can’t stop. I think I will take a dose of ‘Nin Jiom’ a great honey based herbal cough medicine. from China, it is excellent safe and very respected. . I also have a Benlyn one. for mucus I may try that one.
My lungs are having a tough time with this virus what ever it is. I am slowly getting better, and now at least I have ivermectin. and a lot of confidence in the effectiveness of the vitamin regimen. Have you had a nice deafening down pour of rain yet.? We had a long dry hot summer too. and we did have some lovely pounding rain just as the leaves started to look ready to drop.
That is really sick. Why spoil it for the children. Disgusting and malevolent. I hope the neighbors see it for what it is.
Some people get pleasure in shocking others, it’s a sort of sad attention-seeking, but is also a hostile act. It’s like perverts who expose themselves to women and children. They are also trying to make the offensive, acceptable. Such as having ‘drag queens’ read to innocent little children.
I wouldn’t take kids trick-or-treating in this day and age AT ALL. With all the fentanyl pouring in over the border – one can never be too certain about “gifts” from strangers.
Sorry – this is not the same world it was forty years ago.
So sad… they ruin everything traditional .
I was just thinking about how fun it was to trick or treat… the smell of the leaves, kicking the leaves to find that candy that dropped, wondering what the weather would be, finding and meeting up with friends, wondering how many more houses to hit up, should you sneak and go back to that one house twice that gives out the good stuff, fighting with your brother when you got home cuz he already stole stuff out of your bag, etc., etc.
yep, they ruin everything. Sorry, but trunk or treat for children today is just not the same experience.
it’s not just about acquiring candy, it’s about experiencing childhood!
Could not agree with you more.
We stopped a couple of years back handing out sweets. The people who were coming into our neighbourhood were not from here. That’s as kind as I can put it.
And we were getting teenagers way too old for trick or treating.
We have no borders now.
Finis.
It’s getting hard to celebrate things anymore.
I purchased some tickets to some events for Christmas and I’m wondering if those are even going to happen. A couple of the events are in popular local college campus event centers, but it is apparent that our colleges aren’t interested in protecting the public. One is a Night with C.S. Lewis. Will we have to wear bullet proof vests?
Notre Dame is in the news right now with their students protesting the Administration’s shoving drag queens down their throats. Students are protesting the 1 credit course at this Catholic school and the administration is calling it “academic freedom”.
Such shame and depravity.
There’s nothing academic about it, and nothing Christian about it either. That garbage does not belong in a Catholic school.
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Thanks Cactus!
Good morning! 😹
Good afternoon Patience! ❤️
Good evening, Pa❣️
blowin n rakin n sweeping n bagging leaves
Hope to finish tomorrow
Phew
Diversity
Betsy ???
Izzit next to apple pie city?
Yes it is!! It shows up on Google Maps…😏
🤣
Got my one way ticket ☕
Leaving on a jet plane 😁👍🏻😘
Ironically … he left us on a jet plane. Well … more of a prop plane to be certain …
John did a good job with that .
The population is up to 278 …
https://www.cityofcoffeecity.com/
But … a city of 278 people has a website, a police dept. and a municipal court!? Seriously!?
Interesting
We have a Coffeeville here in Mississippi 😁
Grits n coffee
Lol, with biscuits and gravy😊
.
Uhm….
-This one makes how many?
what a beauty.
news article yesterday that 4 cups of coffee a day are life-extending
has to do with caffeine and other compounds acting as anti-oxidants
also black tea, but lesser potency
whoo-hoo!
The institutions we all grew up admiring, the heroes we all aspired to be, in fact, turn out to not only have clay feet, but, murder in their hearts. They are, literally, assassins. In search of short term profits, power and sinecure, they all conspired to promote a “vaccine” that was NOT a vaccine, which, during trials they knew was not just deleterious, but in fact lethal. Big Pharma turned a blind eye to clotting, myriad heart disorders, still births, miscarriages, erratic and troubling menstrual cycles, lowered semen counts, high incidences of cancer, diabetes (The list is literally too long to print here.) etc. during the clinical trials. That information, that Pfizer wanted hidden for 75 years, has been available now for 12 months. The information on vaccine deaths is everywhere at this point. It is damning.
After the roll out of the Vaccine, many highly qualified experts questioned the veracity of the claims made by Big Pharma, and, indeed, produced study (The internet is free, these studies are ubiquitous.) after study which called into question and refuted the narrative that the “vaccines” were “safe and effective”. By June of 2020, the terror that dominated the news cycle in March of 2020, seemed to many Americans, specious and overweening. At this point, the cancelation and deplatforming of people who dissented from the “safe and effective” narrative was not only directed in the streets by self appointed, “Get your mask over your nose” “narrative” commissars, but was a full on enfilade from the AMA and legal authorities who stripped the few intrepid doctors and nurses that “noticed” the overwhelming anecdotal evidence that correlated the aforementioned maladies to the injections of their licenses. The press helped bury the dead, while they buried the lede. A new Holodomor denial, the press is, were and are complicit.
By the fall of 2020, studies showing that lockdowns, masks and social distancing did not work and in fact were not only counterproductive, but downright pernicious were available that anyone with even a cursory interest in the ongoing Covid disaster could see. Apparently Dr. Fauci was not au caurant with ANY available information that would disabuse even the hardiest of proponents of the “Clot Shot”. Did not the everyday doctors and nurses who injected us see the anecdotal evidence of increased heart, cancer and myriad other problems in their hospitals? They did, you know they did, I know they did, and, they know they did. The mask was not only slipping off of the faces of Americans everywhere, it was slipping off of the “narrative” and revealing to some, dark and dangerous possibilities too awful to really articulate. The proverbial elephant was in the room.
At this point in time, many if not most Americans had logical, reasonable, questions about the “safe and effective” narrative. The “vaccine” did not stop Covid and boosters were required. Why were we ostracized if we thought maybe therapeutics would be helpful? Hydroxychloroquine had been around for 50 years, it was NOT the poison that the media told us it was. Ivermectin was a wonder drug on a par with penicillin, but now, suddenly, it was only a “Horse De-wormer”? Suspicion increased exponentially.
It is important to stop at this point and ask the question that is the crux of the hoped for coming prosecutions. What did they know? When did they know it? There is no, plausible deniability in my opinion, after this point in time. They all knew. It is here, that RFK Jr.’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci” was published. RFK is a great writer and he proves it in this book. It is NOT a quick read. Annotated, footnoted and referenced to an almost painful degree, it is a scathing indictment of Fauci, and our government’s complicity in the greatest genocide in history. It is worth noting, that the most salient voices of dissent in the exposure of these crimes, are Democrats. Steve Hirsch who gave 20 Million to the DNC, Dr. Malone, Naomi Wolff (A very famous feminist and published author/darling of the left for 25 years.), Alex Berenson, Edward Dowd, the list goes on. The Democrats are, to this day, leading the charge.
By the fall of 2021, the evidence of the metaphysical failure of the “vaccine” (Which now, has been proven to compromise your immune system, make you more vulnerable to not only Covid, but will, without a doubt, shorten your life, prove to exacerbate your genetic disposition to familial morbidities and often times, flat out kill you the day or week you get the “jab”.) is well known. The increase in decibel level from the press was like a sonic wail. You were now, truly an apostate if you were an “AntiVaxxer”. This was a religion.
During the spring of 2022, Insurance Companies were losing money and talking about “Sigma” events which relate to “All cause mortality”. All of the major insurance companies were telling their stockholders, that the “sigma” event of 2021 was a 10,000 year anomaly that couldn’t be explained. This many unexpected deaths had NEVER happened before. Profits were down dramatically because Life Insurance payouts for so many dead young people were huge. The victims, sacrificed on the altar of the new vaccine Gods with Fauci as the holy pope in this new religion and the legions of CDC-FDA acolytes nodded in approval.
We have left “correlation” in the rear view mirror 36 months ago. We are firmly ensconced in “causation” territory with no other explanation possible, with the exception of the wilfully impercipient, the uniformed obtuse, or, the criminals/Covid/clergy who are in on the scam.
Just yesterday, I saw a commercial with Travis Kelce encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated. The god of the new religion must be appeased. Perhaps it would be far more appropriate to inject the kids on top of an Aztec pyramid.
Let’s be categorically clear about this. The aforementioned organizations, government and private, are guilty of Mens rae, pre meditated, criminal intent, capital black letter murder for profit. The media & Big Tech, in receipt of 7 Billion in ad revenue (Payoffs), Hospitals flush with Government cash ($36,000.00 if you go on ventilator. BTW if you are over 65, your survival rate from that ventilator is 13%.) Big Pharma, now King Croesus like rich, Big Government – donations to BOTH political parties from Big Pharma, making it rain in the club. Way, way more than 30 pieces of sliver.
We should put aside partisan differences in the face of this criminality. All Americans should understand, that this is NOT a political issue.
The Overton Window moves slowly through this Zeitgeist and information unsullied and filtered through the choke hold effected by the powers that were able to pretend that Hunter was a drug free business man, is hard to come by. But, it is coming out, sure as God’s vengeance. This information has the power to upend the status quo, at almost every level of society.
A tectonic shift that could lead to chaos and destruction throughout the land? Maybe.
But, as we all, who have been poisoned, languish and face our doom, perhaps, we should think of the future.
Nuremburg type trials for the thousands of traitors and liars, might, just might be a salve on the wounds of the dead diseased and dying, and, hopefully result in a more open and free America, where we can all agree to listen to each other.
Reiner Fuellmich who has been collecting evidence for Nuremberg II has been ARRESTED in the Mexican Embassy by German authorities acting on an international arrest warrant.
The charges?
Embezzlement…or as I call them “Embezzlement”.
He now sits in a cell in Frankfurt.
Pray for him. Too many doctors and researchers who are speaking out have been targeted, including the most published researcher in Germany, Sucharit Bhakdi, who spells it out here.
Herr Fuellmich needed to be stopped. The genocidal targets of his investigations seem to be panicking.
https://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=125922
And…
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-18-second-nuremberg-lawyer-reiner-fuellmich-arrested-mexico.html
This is four minutes….the head of the snake resides in Switzerland (as we all know). Moves are afoot to cut it off.
The fight back has started.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/documentary-implicates-schwab-gates-who-un-other-globalist/
Betsy, I discovered dr bahkdi in dec of 2021 and he is incredible! Thank you for posting this, I will listen! I dont often come across all these helpful, informative videos,etc., so I really appreciate when all the good folks here on the branch post things like this!
He is wonderful, Slowcobra. He was prosecuted for spreading wrong think and misinformation, and eventually cleared.
Dr Bhakdi!!!!!!
I’ve listened to his many videos. He is eloquent, so brilliant. This video is short and from quite a while back. But he is emphatic… do not take it!!!
He’d know. One of the few I trust.
Waiting for plane… Leaving this kinda quiet view behind.
Your branch is ready for your return, Magic. Know it’s hard to leave such a beautiful quiet place, but you have been missed. Travel safely, my friend 😘
Thanks, I have arrived safely.
Godspeed – Indiana sure showed off her pretty colors for you. Enjoy the ride home to Colorado.
Yes, it was showing off colors for sure, here it lasts about a week or two on the aspens and they just drop off the tree.
The bank had a nice aspen that had fiery red leaves but only on half of it, others were gone. Was going to get a picture to post but lost the light then they were gone, oh well maybe next year.
Some good photo op’s on the way back from DIA, but no place to stop and kinda dangerous anyway, overcast and snowing in spots… some heavily with multi car accidents from tailgating … kinda like Indy 465 for the first snow… everybody forgot how to drive in it since its been a year. SMH
Two great minds, Patience 😎
See above 😘
😎
😁💕👍🏻
Such a lovingly made costume. Charming.
Happy “cartoons and cereal day” everyone.
thinking of levi, and all other silent tree-branchers who are in our thoughts and prayers.
peace to all who gather here, and thank you Jesus for our joy in being together.
Oh AMEN, Slowcobra!! Where would we be without our family here to gather with every single day?
And we do miss dreadfully those whose roads have veered off in a different direction. Keeping them in our hearts and prayers always 🙏🏻💕
Eddie Fisher
“Sunrise, Sunset” on The Ed Sullivan Show
SUNRISE SUNSET
Fiddler on the Roof.
Probably my all time favorite musical.
Mine too. I loved it.
I don’t care for most musicals. But I quite liked ‘Paint your Wagon.’
Mine as well, Kenji. Topol was the best. Rest his soul🙏🏻
Cactus…
When I had no children and heard this, I thought it a bit twee. I was so much you get and naive…
And then I had children and watched them grow and leave the nest.
Now it means so much to me. I cry buckets when I hear it. Life has no pause buttons….I am sorry to say😔
Love this. What a story.
HAAAAAAY BETSY!
You got any of that apple pie left over from yesterday or did you and Aggiegirl eat it all ’cause I couldn’t get here, and out of spite from my taking a lick outa that chocolate cake the other day?
Couldn’t say I blame y’all if you did!
It wasn’t my fault, you know. It wasn’t even my idea, no ma’am, it’s all my little brother’s fault. He did this to you and Aggiegirl……..in the 1980’s!
So there I wuz…..(prerequisite to a story)
My precious Mamaw made the greatest jelly ever in the history of jelly. And she did it with black raspberries.
Not red raspberries.
Black raspberries.
Big difference.
She had two berry patches, one of which was behind her house on the side of a hill with a steep slope and a fence at the lower end. When they were ripe, we loved helping her pick them. Well, other than the thorns. Sometimes you’d slip and slide down the hill with the thorns wearing you out. Mamaw would sometimes slide and roll down to the fence, chuckle about it, and get back to picking. (Tough country girl, born and raised in a log cabin with a BUNCH of brothers and sisters.)
When fresh picked we’d go rinse them off and put some in a bowl and put a little sugar on them and happily chomp away.
Goooood stuff!
Well, Mamaw would make jelly from them, and she would also can them for future cobblers.
That jelly was joy in a jar!!!
My whole family just called it “Mamaw’s jelly”. Same with my cousins.
And Mamaw made enough of it that we could have it year round. She would send it home with us. When you went to her house it was always in a jar on the table just waiting to be enjoyed. And Mamaw loved watching you enjoy that jelly!
What’s all this got to do with me taking a lick outa that chocolate cake, you say?
Well, again, it was ALL my little brother’s fault!
One day I was craving some Mamaw’s jelly sandwiches and went into the kitchen. And, as luck would have it, my little brother had a plate of them finished up and ready to be enjoyed!
I looked at him, he looked at me, we both looked at that plate and we both darted to the corner of the counter in the kitchen with him getting lucky enough to get between me and that pile of sandwiches he had just made.
Not a problem, or so I thought since I’m several years older than him and was bigger at the time. I just reached my longer arm around him to grab some goodness wrapped in bread, but he somehow blocked my arm. Not a problem, or so I thought, since I had another arm.
I was wrong, there was a problem……
Being highly motivated, he kept fending me off and got me to laughing as he found a way to get an arm free and PICKED UP EACH DELICIOUS MAMAW’S JELLY SANDWICH AND LICKED THEM ALL (!!!!) the whole time I was trying to snag one!
Clever lil’ feller….
I had to make my own.
Took most of the fun out of it!
So, you and Aggiegirl can now CLEARLY see that it wasn’t my idea to lick that chocolate cake, nope, I got it from my little brother a looooong time ago.
When Mamaw passed nearly 25 years ago, Mom and my Aunt cleaned out her cellar before the farm was sold. It was literally amazing how much food she had that was canned. Mamaw wasted NOTHING.
Last year, Mom had enough remaining canned black raspberries to make the last ever black raspberry cobbler that Mamaw had a hand in making by virtue of having picked and canned the berries. Mom was reasonably sure those berries were canned in the late 80’s or perhaps the very early 90’s……..and they were still good.
Mamaw helped feed us one last time.
If Mamaw couldn’t feed you, she didn’t know what to do with you. She was a wonderful cook, just making fine country food, and she was a Gift from God as a Mamaw.
How I miss my precious Mamaw…..
Anyway, the lick outa that chocolate cake was every bit my little brother’s fault.
If you don’t believe me just ask me!
Sooooo if you make another apple pie, I’ll try to behave myself!
See??
This is why I LOVE this thread!!😍
Brilliant story, Greg, shifting blame for the bad habits you picked up from your brother…LOLOLOL!!!
And a trip back to simpler, beautiful times…your mental cocktail and now ours.
So, I did save you a piece…unlicked because what southern hostess would do that??!?!
Speaking of licking…
I’ve told this story before but it is worthy of a repeat.
The most perfect cheesecake I ever made was in Wales. I left on my small stove to cool and departed to do something else.
When I returned, I found Buster, a big burly farm Tom sitting on top of the stove licking his chops.
He had leapt over the open top of our Dutch door and had eaten the entire top off that gorgeous creation. And with typical feline insouciance, having been caught, he sat there replete and defiant! I would have loved to taste the product of my efforts. Alas it was not to be…
Thanks, dear Greg…all is clear now, though not quite forgiven 😉 Aggiegirl and I will be watching verrrry closely the next time Mr jay presents us with chocolate cake. We will pass a slice to you and not let you get near the rest. More for us 😂😘
Greg 1 and Betsy , thanks for two wonderful heartwarming stories. 🙂 Yes, this thread is very special. It also makes one long for special treats like Black Raspberry jelly, made with skill and love, and the delicious home made cheesecake purloined by a stealthy feline.
A similar tragedy happened to one my grandmas ( my maternal)many years ago. She lived on a modest pension so had to be careful with her money. For a special occasion she had bought some expensive steak, maybe for a pie, I can’t remember. she left the door open for a few minutes and was distracted, probably preparing veggies or mushrooms, when something caught her eye and she turned around to see the steak in the jaws of a stray feline beating a hasty retreat, dragging the steak.. she tried to catch the cat but he hung on to his prize and vanished into the neighborhood. You can imagine how mad she was.
I shouldn’t laugh, jb. But I suspect she was as mad as I was having to throw my cheesecake into the bin.
British pensions are not much. Bless her heart…💕
Oh for the good ole days…sigh…
Dean Martin –
Memories Are Made of This – Lyrics
Dean Martin –
Ain’t That A Kick In The Head
Good morning all.
The rain and wind last night dropped a lot of leaves in the front and south side yard again. And more pine cones and needles. Temp had dropped to fall levels now. Currently 49 deg. here.
Out in the Atlantic Tammy still wonders around piling up meaningless ACE points. Meanwhile there is still a threat of real development in the Western Pacific over the next two weeks. As I have said before; after September storms that reach into the Gulf tend to strike east of Texas and usually head for Florida.
Morning, rah💕 A cold front is blowing through here in the DFW area and with it generous unrelenting rains as you said they would. Flash flood alert until Monday afternoon. By Wednesday we will be near freezing, the earliest in the season I can remember.
Yesterday 84 and so humid it felt like 90…60 now and dropping.
Ooooops… not morning,.afternoon 😬 Gee!! Where is the day going??
Bet, some places around here got more than 4 inches. Not us, we barely got half an inch. Still thankful, though. 😘
Well phooey, G!! I’ll shoo it your way, dear bro. Our power daughter went to the Baylor Homecoming game today. She left in summer gear and I see the cold front will move into Waco. I’m shivering for her…brrrrrr😬
Tomorrow for us, 80s today 50s tomorrow with 30s tomorrow night with rain. I’m ready for some good sleeping weather.
Oh me too, deb! Sweater weather. 😊💕
We get the cold front and rain coming in tomorrow. It’s 80° here today. Have the windows open and fans on but no ac now for several weeks.
DAY # 6 – MIDDAY PRAYER
Psalm 91.The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing.
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdOT9vWh4o
Prayer for Israeli Hostages.Christian Prayer for the Liberation of Hostages in the Israeli-Hamas War
Pray Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QYsMsOZBIs
Psalm 68. Powerful prayer for spiritual battles and triumph.
Pray Everyday
See the link below. Turkey organizes a huge rally for Gaza, or I can say pro Hamas. The leader of Turkey calling Hamas again “freedom fighters”. No mention of what Hamas did to us. Israel should cut diplomatic ties with Turkey and work on kicking them out of NATO. We knew them before. Bibi tried to reconcile with them. Another mistake.
https://youtube.com/shorts/AsPPo0QxGFE?si=FP3migH7Yeww61ae
David, I have never understood how it is that Turkey holds NATO membership. In every way it is odd man out, a fox in the West’s henhouse. None of this should be surprising.
I don’t know. It’s not a Western Nation.
London now. Pro Hamas demonstration.
It is a culture war and they don’t yet realize what they brought upon themselves.
Those who support Hamas or are on the Hamas side will also oppose the Western Culture of freedom of religion and speech, they will eventually use a tenet of Islam which promotes a takeover of nations by the use of immigration.
https://youtube.com/shorts/2dg_AohArKc?si=rlgdlg9465W3neSd
The whole of Tower Bridge is infested. That is London, no longer British. Enoch Powell did warn. No one listened and excoriated him for speaking his prescient truth. Banished him for public life.
The police are overwhelmed and have arrested only one person as these conquerors scream for an intifada, laying bare the absurdity of Britain’s odious “hate” speech laws.
Erdogan now also threatening the West with incitement to terror.
Scottish First Minister the Muslim Humzah Yousaf is screaming about how horrid it is that many white people occupy high office in that country.
I fear much worse is to come.
Absolutely sickening. My homeland is no more. Went back to England in 2007 and had culture shock. I fear it’s coming here in USA too. Nobody listened to Enoch Powell. V sad
Breaks out hearts, Graham. Thomas Wolfe said you can’t go home again… alas too true.
There are a LOT MORE PRO ISRAELI people here, David. The criminals and miscreants always get the air time. Screw those traitors. When all SHTF, it’s going to be interesting watching those creatures try to survive. They’ll cry “uncle” faster than you can shake a stick at them.
Sundance I would like your expertise for explaining clearly regarding “ The 1871 Treaty” please. Then once that is explained; what did trump do in regards to that treaty during his Presidency 2016-2020. How does the Uk and the Vatican come into it? Thank you so much for any information! I VALUE your information!
Today is “The Next Morning” of the rest of your life … so make it … “A Jam of Love”
News from Canada.
Fiscal mismanagement by the Turdeau government is moving to the forefront. Alberta is looking out for their younger citizens’ welfare and is starting the process to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta Pension Plan. It is expected to be similar to what Quebec has.
The problem is the Canada Pension Plan is massively underfunded. Pension actuaries have calculated that Albertans are entitled to $334 Billion.
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/8453eb60-1ff8-4c87-9735-b253d4f28824/resource/ab628f2e-c365-4037-9070-ab65d8223d92/download/tbf-lifeworks-app-analysis-of-costs-benefits-risks-and-considerations-2023-08.pdf
Here is a link to a True North article on the subject:
https://tnc.news/2023/10/27/ontario-requests-urgent-meeting-freeland1/
It is important to note that the Canadian Dollar is known as an oil commodity currency. Turdeau and Pussy Galore Freeland are trying to kill the fossil fuel industry in Alberta. Alberta needs the economic benefits of fossil fuels to support it’s citizens. When the fossil fuel sector takes a hit, the Canadian dollar takes a hit. That results in a hit to Canadian banking and the economy. Canada is overbanked and most assets are tied up in real estate. All in all, a rise in interest rates and a significant drop in the value of the dollar results in a death spiral for Canada. Alberta sees this and is trying to get out in front. Ontario also sees this and wants to continue to leech off Alberta.
How & Why Oil Impacts The Canadian Dollar
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/021315/how-why-oil-impacts-canadian-dollar-cad.asp
WATCH: Ex-Hezbollah Fighter Meets Jesus: ‘God Didn’t Design Us to Hate’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/watch-ex-hezbollah-fighter-meets-jesus-god-didnt/
Watching and waiting
– for me to float by?
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/erdogan-vows-get-israel-branded-war-criminal-state-blames-west-gaza-massacre
We found something for Betsy.
Yesterday, we took a little trip up to the apple orchard. 1/2 bushels – buy one, get one free. We purchased: Jonagold, Pixie Crisp, and Golden Rush apples.
Soooo… many…. apples. However, they were a bit aged – so we had to make quick use out of them and gifted some neighbors.
Today, we made four pies for the deep freeze and baked one in the Air Fryer at 320 degrees for 23 minutes – perfection!
After the apple orchard, we went over to Attica, Indiana and saw this beautiful property for sale. Built in 1850 – a piece of Americana. Reminds me of Betsy and I bet she could make some good use out of these little outdoor gardens. We loved, loved that small city on the Wabash River. So relaxing and would be a lovely place to retire and write some novels.
This is the Norman S. Brown house right on Main Street next door to the prettiest church you ever did see. This IS the historic district of the city and it’s just a small meander to some lovely restaurants and historical monuments.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/306-E-Main-St-Attica-IN-47918/85251682_zpid/
https://attica-in.gov/about/
I bet we could have a pretty righteous tea party in the garden.
Savannah could have her wedding next door in the chapel and reception in the gardens. Sigh… so lovely. No place to park the car, though, and they get some righteous winters there with lake effect snow.
Don’t tell Greg for goodness sakes JWoo!!!! He’ll come lick all four like he did the chockky cake! 😂😂😂
Oh GOLLY!!!! I could live there!! 😍
I knew you would love it. We sure do. Just need a place to store the cars. Winter can be brutal. Or maybe just get rid of the cars and walk everywhere
Greg1… can I see you in the kitchen please???
Lol
What a lovely house. I wish I could buy it.
EVENING REFLECTIONS
Hymn To Hope
Secret Garden – Official
Historic Video. Translation: “Brigate 52, 28 Oct 2023, three weeks after the awful vile crime, is raising the Israeli Flag here in the heart of Gaza by the shore , we won’t forget ,won’t forgive, and won’t stop until the victory”.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ari23lulWpE?feature=shared