Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Awww…he is cute!
“The Plot to Destroy Syria” at Tales of the American Empire, posted 2021. The two million Aramaic Christians (language of Jesus) will be exterminated > https://aram-sadad.com/en/aramaic-villages/
The admiration by some, for the degenerate who murdered Brian Thompson sickens me.
Face the facts, ladies.
This piece of human debris looks a lot like Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld – except Kramer had two eyebrows.
Photo taken by dog 😜
Arctic Russian nomads take in mother-abandoned young deer as pets
https://youtube.com/shorts/dPdMWzNePe0?si=HIh1z_ejaJScF1hB
Wonderful!
like him, I also always ask for a cake mixer when the pipe wrench doesn’t work
Or the hand drill – there’s more than one way to get those bolts loose.
thanks all
yeah, we had a hand drill like that on the bench when I was a kid
but cake mixer made for a better wisecrack
“Cake Mixer “ -haha
-I have one of these and it still works!
Bits store inside of wooden handle (top unscrews).
This is a “cake mixer”
I do have the Golden-Oldie ‘cake mixer’ and a hand drill – the one that helpful little lady has in her other hand. I’ve admired the drill very recently (moving & uncovered it; it made me smile to find that box of greatest-old tools).
I have them too!!! So fun to see these pictures!!!
THESE TOO!!!
Not sure you’ll see this, hopefully I will remember to tell you in a later thread, I am loving all of the old pics you are posting!!! I actually have family pics that look similar to these, so fun to see these!!!
The Spencer Davis Group
– Gimme Some Lovin’. Stereo
ding dong
ditch
It’s especially fun to do that at the devil’s door!
Indeed 😎
Dogs taking in the double feature
~ Lassie & Rin Tin Tin
All funny Patience… brings smiles this very chilly morning in NCFL…👏👏👏
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Happy Cursday everyone. It’s a beautiful frosty day here in Mississippi. Our little curs are staying in keeping toasty.
May our Lord bless and keep all here.
Have a Blessed day, Gramadeb💞
love that one
at his own little picnic table
Gonna make one and see if the rascals use it
I’ve seen tiny picnic tables for sale for ever – never knew why… well, now I do.
I think my husband should build one of those for our 4 squirrels. It would fit perfectly beside the water bowl in the front porch.
Now that’s funny 😂🤣👏👍
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Close your eyes
listen
-see
AMEN!!!
-you’re my best friend
PERFECT, SONG AND ALL!!!
Foot in the door to ‘influence’ media.
“The federal government was left with a conundrum. Should it designate platforms and risk what has happened in Canada, where Meta responded to government pressure to pay for journalism by simply removing all Canadian news content from its platforms? Or should Australia take a different approach?”
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/a-meta-sized-question-can-the-australian-government-force-tech-giants-to-pay-for-news/qkboslfvd
“Israel’s military chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, met the UK’s attorney general on a secret trip to the UK for which the British government granted him special diplomatic immunity – just days after international arrest warrants were issued for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-chief-met-uk-attorney-general-secret-trip-after-icc-warrants-issued
Hey – I just had a really good experience with a family-owned company called ‘Everything Kitchens’ – they are in KS, have a wide selection of brands including many MADE IN USA… and the MADE IN USA Fiesta dinnerware that I ordered arrived broken. There’s a Christmas Miracle in this story, so bear with me –
My Granddaughter wanted a pink Christmas last year, but her mother wanted gold & silver and so that’s what happened; and Girlish disappointment also happened 🙁
I did find a little mug with “I’m Dreaming Of A Pink Christmas” and a flamingo dressed for winter on it back then (I believed then AND now it was Heaven-sent) – she’s been using that all year. Her parents agreed to pink Christmas this year and the Peony place setting is the perfect gift for her – I didn’t have any other ideas
{ Fiesta® 5-Piece Classic Place Setting | Peony }
She likes it that Grandma gives her grown-up things, so… Fiesta it is! (discovering the breakage on Dec.11 made my heart skip some beats & nearly took my breath away; never had Fiesta break in transit before – not with even very old Fiesta – and this was the *worst possible* time for it).
I lamented to my son the potter (who is also my Fiesta enabler, God Love him) and he said he would order a new set for her while I waited for the return/replacement process to play out according to the co. website;
stepping up without being asked…I’m talking Bona Fide enabler.
I told him I’d wait to hear their instructions and if no quick resolution could happen, then yes, OK & Thanks.
I woke up this morning to this in my in-box from the company:
“Hi Amara Grace,
Thank you for reaching out to me about this and for including the photos, there is no need to send anything back to us and I have ordered replacement plates for your Peony set to be shipped today. Please let me know if there is anything else I can assist you with.
Happy Holidays,
Tracy F., Customer Hero”
WITH shipping/tracking info included.
So… If you are still gathering gifts OR just want to gift yourself something good you can use everyday… -the black friday Fiesta deal has expired… but do check out their selection & prices anyway, it’s pretty good –
here is their website search for ‘MADE IN USA’ items
{ https://www.everythingkitchens.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=made%20in%20usa }
and this FUN brand is on special right now BUT, alas, made in (Trump voice here) CHY-na;
{ https://www.everythingkitchens.com/ototo-kitchen-gadgets.html }
That mushroom funnel tempts me to look the other way from my personal ‘MadeInChy-na’ BAN.
“Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Clause” – and he makes Fiesta dreams come True.
All their Fiesta
{ https://www.everythingkitchens.com/fiestaware.html }
I forgot to say their website offers FREE shipping with $49 & up.
The site has a cool feature – Fiesta color combinations (there is also a site-wide ‘Shop Brands By Color’ option under their ‘Shop By Brand’ feature)
{ https://www.everythingkitchens.com/fiesta-color-combo-favorites.html }
Check out their Red/White/Blue combination selections there
I got some dark/Cobalt blue pieces when they discontinued/clearanced that color on the factory direct website in their ‘Retired’ section
{ https://fiestafactorydirect.com/ } (FREE shipping on $39 purchase right now- usually $99)
and have found several more out in the wild in 2nd hand shops for a steal… not everyone regards Fiesta as valuable and sometimes it’s donated… I’m very happy about that when I find some.
There also exists a blue color called Twilight (I don’t have any yet; Miss Patience told me she has all the colors… and she also has my envy for it).
The Reds/Whites/Blues make a really *Wonderful* patriotic table – (Trump voice here) Believe Me.
Sorry I forgot to say Everything Kitchens is in MO – not KS … read their “About” page through a link above it’s a Great American Story.
I copied and saved the website link. Thank you!
Nice; score!
You Bet… and get this –
I just found this reply ( I told her the ‘Dreaming of a Pink Christmas’ story I told you in a ‘Thank You’ message after her replacement confirmation message):
“Hi Amara Grace,
Thank you for your lovely message, I hope your Granddaughter enjoys her lovely and caring gift from you, what a wonderful idea! I buy my grandchildren a Christmas ornament each year so they will have some decorations to use when they grow up to remember me by, I did the same for my children until they left home, then I made them each a Christmas wreath with their ornaments to hang each year from me and their father….”
What a COOL idea huh!
and so lovely she took time to share her personal story also.
Great company – populated by people like this.
Wow!!!!
See…, there are —other— good people in this world❣️
Merry Christmas, AmaraGrace🎄
-✝️
Merry Merry Merry Christmas – and Everything – Patience 😀
This entire “mini” thread about your granddaughter, your son, pink Christmas, the whole shebang, was so wonderful to read in these wee hours of this Friday morning!!! Yes, Amara Grace, there is a Santa Claus…!
Ha! Yes it is wonderful for me too – just precious to have this girl, by God’s Grace, in my life (that’s another story of multiple miracles). There’s one bit more… you might like the rest of the story (so far)… God never quits…
Years ago I found 3 Rose (retired color) Fiesta dinner plates, just 2 salad plates, & just 1 bowl 2nd hand;
they’ve been hanging around idle waiting with no companions for years. I found 2 bowls locally at a reasonable price a couple weeks ago & picked them up from *the nicest lady* who enjoys Fiesta too…
so decided to order the Peony set during the black friday sale. So excited to have 4 place settings to lay a mostly pink table for her Pink Christmas dinner!
I really hope I can resist spilling the tea before Christmas; I’ll have to giftwrap the box the minute the two replacement pieces they’ve sent arrive to feel congruence with this secret.
We’ll have 2 white and – Thanks to Jessica (the nicest lady), Tracy F., & EK – 4 pink place settings… minus one Rose salad plate.
The silver lining/small Miracle of a missing salad plate is…
she likes to set the table so we’ll set the table together as we do, and will give her own place setting a Fiesta Flamingo (retired color/2nd hand also) pink salad plate as a substitute for the missing Rose one – it’ll be a natural/Divinely Orchestrated conversation about how she kept her dream & desire of Pink Christmas alive by using her Flamingo-Dreaming-of-Pink-Christmas mug all through the year;
to always have Faith in – & refuse to give up on! – your dreams and you CAN make them come to be, with patient action and Faith that it CAN BE.; stay in Love with your dream and it will Love you back.
She will get many more exciting gifts for sure and she will like this one, but I’m under no illusion here, dishes will not be her favorite. However, having this Pink Christmas come together, in my small way for her -while I’m having to move (which always feels a lot like punishment) is living my Best Life. So I’m milking it for all it’s worth!… sharing it here is part of that.
Sharing Joy increases & multiplies it. That’s maybe what we Love most about this hangout – sharing each other’s Joys & dreams of good-better-best times; bringing Sunlight & exposing what’s wrong so we can dream/Love/Patient-Action-into-being the opposite… for our Dearly Loved Ones.
Thank you EE for finding & sharing this personal Joy, and for your *really sweet* comment.
Merry Merry Merry Christmas & Everything, EE!
Thank you for sharing even more of the story!!! I truly enjoyed it and she is a lucky little girl to have you as a grandmother!!! And don’t worry, she will treasure the “dishes” more and more as she gets older. I agree with your reasoning that this is what we love most about this “hangout.” Merry Merry Merry Christmas & Everything to you also, you are a treasure!!!
Thank You, EE, and thanks for sharing it happily with such sweet comments – I feel I am the lucky one.
and … a treasure… well!…
it takes one to know one! – (((HUGS)))
(((HUGS)))
Happy Cursday…it was 4 degrees when i let the boys out the older one started to run as usual, to chase squirrels….it was so darn cold, there were no squirrels in the yard…the older one stopped and looked at me as if asking where they were?
I Love this song. He sings it beautifully. Thank You for sharing it.
“When you kiss your little baby, you’ve kissed the face of God.
… The sleeping child you’re holding is the Great I AM” is a Truth.
I was a Student of Midwifery & a Birth & Postpartum Doula for many years – I had the “Christ Is Born” experience at every Homebirth; every month multiple times – it is always the same Holy & Sacred Blessed event. It was deeply healing for me to be – Thanks to God’s Grace – present and in service to the Loving families who gave me their Trust to assist them; to embody & give the consideration I myself (& my Mother) needed but did not receive.
I was Divinely Gifted with the opportunity(ies) to experience & live it myself – Earthly-dimension time delay notwithstanding.
I first heard this song sung by Kathy Mattea – hers has the lyrics included (not because I didn’t like your version, Atenizo)
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This song never fails to move me – it represents, to me, what real Joy of Christmas is more than any other.
Oh my…… ( sigh) 🤧🤧🤧
I never heard this before; that I can recall. Must have been living under a rock.
-Purefect.
Thank you, AmaraGrace.
You’re welcome Patience… I so appreciate all the uplifting messages you share here.
a very powerful 22sec. – Suzanne Arms on what creates less violent human beings?
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More available from this Wonderful teacher (these are pay-per-view
{ https://birthingthefuture.org/product-category/films-viewable-on-vimeo/ }
but youtube has a lot for her name &/or Birthing the Future – example
{ https://www.youtube.com/@BirthingTheFuture/videos }
OK… you think that song brought you to tears? Try not to weep at any point in this 6:32…
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Dr. Christiane Northrop’s comments @5:20 relate just exactly what I have experienced.
AmaraGrace, my earliest vivid memories are between 19 months and two yrs old. Some of them; I thought were dreams or just random ‘thoughts’, I have discovered through the years, are real memories.
I can recant a conversation and or specific occurrence; who said what , who was there, where it was, where people and myself were sitting etc.. in a room or outside. There are even smells and the time of year.
I have, for as long as I can remember, believed that deep deep deep down everyone remembers -even before they were born, and what each is to do in their life
-but, it gets pushed way back… ; like the first thing at the bottom of a tall pile,
learning to live in this three-dimensional life experience.
There is so much proof now, (thank God)
due to technology, about the un-born … the developing, living, feeling, knowing … human.
-I appreciate the info and links very much.
Human consciousness is never ‘infantile’ or absent… our consciousness remembers *everything* we’ve ever experienced; just because it may happen when we’re non-verbal, doesn’t mean it isn’t indelibly imprinted on our psyche & our consciousness.
I’m glad you remember – Thanks for paying attention… I hope the memories are pleasant.
They are alllll good
-and worthwhile; even the no so good ones. Ha!
You are right about that Patience. I agree they’re all good in that they all have value – all worthwhile, even the non-pleasing ones.
The non-pleasing events & their memories can & often do create wounds and weaknesses… therein it is possible to find our greatest strengths… and therein may also lie our life purpose, or destiny, as it were.
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.”
~ Joseph Campbell
Thank you
-will check it out.
Thank Heaven I live in these United States. That MP thought a ‘rule’ would stop a coup?
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2024/12/11/thai-political-stability-in-focus-as-military-reform-bill-withdrawn/#google_vignette
Looks like Russia has a builder like Buttigieg.
“From 2022 to 2024, Russia planned to build 108 airliners. According to a new BBC News Russian investigation, however, it’s managed to produce just seven — apparently using parts stockpiled before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s effort to transition its aviation industry to domestic production appears to be faltering. ”
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/12/an-imitation-of-activity-for-appearances
https://www.eunews.it/en/2024/12/12/nato-ruttes-warning-shift-to-war-mentality-two-per-cent-of-gdp-in-defence-is-no-longer-enough/
“Facing Russia that “is preparing for a long-term conflict” and will spend between 7 and 8 per cent of GDP on arming itself in 2025, the 2 per cent threshold set by NATO is no longer enough.
“We are going to need a lot more,” Rutte warned, pressed by Carnegie Europe director Rosa Balfour before an audience of journalists, European officials, business leaders, and defence experts. A new military spending target shared at the NATO level is not yet there, “but it is clear that in the coming months, we should agree on what the new threshold will be.”
“Inclusive” Word of the day by the West on Syria. Blinken, etc.
https://www.dw.com/en/syria-updates-olaf-scholz-calls-for-inclusive-transition/live-71030253
But Olaf should be thinking about his wreck of a record.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/12/whats-next-for-the-german-government
Aannnnddd ANOTHER dose of Winnamins for ya –
{ Nativity Scene Debuts at U.S. Capitol with Prayer, Carols, and the Biblical Christmas Story Thanks to Courageous Christian Group }
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ouch … had a wife like that …
-🎄
KEEP PRAYING FOR TRUMP
Amen.
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Amen.
Amen.
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Celtic Christmas Carols, Soft Holiday Christmas Music “Winter Sleigh Ride” Open Road Folk Music
Good evening, Treepers. We are still alive, but not posting much. Mostly elfing around in the Christmas Spirit.
Where we are in Central Indiana, it seems quite a few people are in the Spirit and decorating their homes in beautiful Christmas light displays. Tonight, we packed a few homemade cookies in a zip lock bag, made peppermint cocoa, turned on the Christmas music, and bundled up to journey out to see what we could.
It does my soul good to see the holiday Spirit and cheer. Hope you’re all well and finding such cheer in your lives as well.
I think I made close to a thousand cookies… given to everyone with still a few boxes to share. Tis the season.
God Is Good all the time and all the time, God Is Good.
Take time to smell the roses.
Hey JWoo!
Be well, ‘Woo love . . . 🙂
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.