We kind of hit on this in an earlier topic..
Thought I’d share this with all the Special people on here
Part of the Lyrics—
There never was anyone like me or you
Being ourselves is the best we can do
We’re priceless and precious for God tells me so
Oh, oh, oh we’re special you know
We’re quite unique, a walking work of art
And strong or weak we all have our own special place in God’s heart
We’re different each one from the other it’s true
God never repeats himself, never makes two
Be happy with who you are, God made you so
Oh, oh, oh you’re special you know
I have something to say, but I am not going to say it because it is really hateful and racist. I can’t even stand to see the clips of the Grammys. How they call so much of that music, I don’t know.
If it reflects the soul, the person who produces it and the person who partake of it, as of course it surely must, it is ugly and frightening. We see its fruits in the riots, deaths, and rage enacted in our country today.
Music is marketed and those of us over 50 are a niche market that doesn’t really register in the main market. The music, lyrics, visuals, etc are all planned out carefully for that all-important youth market, they are the ones in the psychological target zone who have the cash and attention to feed to the artist.
Y’all remember back in the late 80s/early 90s when stations would showcase artists like the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, all 60s and early 70s? How often do you hear them now, except on a few stations targeting our age groups? We ain’t as profitable as we used to be.
Cheer up, old timers, their times are Acomin’. One day thry’ll wake up and see their ain’t we just the coolest’ music being used to sell cars, laundry soap, denture paste and, when the shock wears off, realize they’ve been passed by for a new marketing target audience.
I was surprised how little politics there was, and again by how virulently anti-Trump a particular performance was.
Bruno Mars did an excellent rendition of Prince’s, “Let’s Go Crazy”, Pentatonix did their magic with Michael Jackson’s, “ABC”, and Little Big Town took part in a tribute to the BeeGees, singing “How Deep Is Your Love”, as Barry Gibb sat beaming and singing along in the audience.
I was surprised that there were technical difficulties. You could tell in some songs that the balance of instruments and voice was way out of whack, and then the balance would suddenly change dramatically. Adele apparently had no monitors at the start of her song tribute to George Michael, completely blew the song, uttered a profanity that was silenced (at least that technical part worked!), then apologized profusely and asked to start the song over. She apologized again for that profanity later when accepting one of her four Grammie awards.
My favorite performance of the night was Lady Gaga, backed by Metallica. Wow! Metalica’s lead singer James Hetfield found his mike was not working, so he just walked over and sang into Lady Gaga’s mike, which I think made the performance even better, seeing a tight shot of the two singing face-to-face. For my wife, their performance was literally jaw-dropping, several times.
I laughed at a guy who got into hogs, he bought into them when the market was really high, the highest in my memory. Market went down like it always does and he sold them all off. I tried to tell him it would go back up and he was making a huge mistake to sell while it was low, but he didn’t listen and lost his shirt and is now whining that the market is creeping back up.
A lot of people have lost their shirts on cattle as well, many around here when it got up to over $3/lb thought it was a good idea to become cattle ranchers. Then prices went down and they couldn’t make their payments. A few I warned against buying while so high and tried to tell them it wouldn’t last forever, but nobody ever listens and then can’t believe prices dropped so much.
If I did my quarterly taxes correctly, last quarter of 2016, I made $1100 net off cattle. That’s also not including my time……….it’s just something that I always wanted to do, and I’m doing this for a few more years. Then I will become a “Gentleman” farmer like Czar.
Don’t know about your characterization, though I’ll admit to being a farmer. Forget the income, we don’t do it for the money, unless you’re a big production rancher/farmer or a niche farm/ranch you ain’t gonna get rich. On the other hand, there’s an indescribable feling at the end of the day when you’re sitting on your patio with a drink and look over what you did.
It has been a bright bright day here.. but… windy… We just got back from a hour by the beach… So nice and quiet on Monday, as opposed to the screaming children who were there yesterday…
Mornin’!
I haven’t eaten breakfast yet, hubby just wanted cereal and I don’t like to cook for just myself, so waiting for the mommy and daddy to wake up and let the little man choose what is for breakfast, which will be fried egg or boiled egg and sausage, pancake and sausage or waffles and sausage. That kid is going to turn into sausage. lol
His mommy already tried that one, but he said she could suck a sucker. lol
He figured out today while she was getting a bath that she doesn’t have the same equipment as him. I almost had to roll in the floor.
He just kept on asking his mommy where her pee-pee go. She kept trying to explain that she was a girl like mommy and he was a boy like Daddy. Then his Daddy got the blame for her not having a pee-pee. He yelled at his Daddy to give her pee-pee back.
I told them both that this would not be the end of that conversation. 🙂
He’s moved past the boy and girl differences and is now on when is sissy going to play with him. He wanted to play ball with her and we told him she has to get a little bigger before she can play, so he went over beside her and told her she get bigger morrow and they’d play ball and racing cars. 🙂
I don’t think I have ever had lamb sausage. We never had lamb at home when I was growing up (my mother didn’t like it). I eat fresh lamb now and then, but never had sausage.
Wouldn’t the delicate flavor of the lamb be covered by the sausage spices? I love lamb and mint sauce but Czarina won’t let lamb in the county…not a fan at all.
I’ve noticed the taste depends on the part of the animal. Since I have no idea what part of the lamb the sausage was made from, I can’t really place it. I think it’s more dense than pork though.
Most commercial sausage is made from trimmings and bits you can’t sell as they don’t look nice but with lamb I can’t think which parts would have a ‘strong’ flavor unless the lamb were smoking. A lot of lamb eater I know like it because it doesn’t really have much of a taste. Yum….mutton sausage…fit those links right into the grease gun and lube up them fittings.
Depends on where the lamb is raised, and how old it is, I would imagine. Australian lamb is younger and smaller, I believe, than American lamb. I really like Australian leg of lamb.
The reason we never ate lamb in our house was that my mother grew up on mutton, and hated it.
He actually isn’t a big meat eater, he eats some pork and chicken with the exception of sausage, he’d eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner if you let him.
He doesn’t eat bread either. Rice, pasta, cheese, eggs, pancakes and just about any veggie is his main diet, and peanut butter and jelly he’d eat both of them out of the jar if you let him.
Nope, he won’t eat them either. He won’t eat pizza crust either, he loves pizza but he just eats the toppings off.
He loves cheese, but he won’t eat grilled cheese sandwiches. I tried Saturday morning to get him to eat toast with butter and jelly and all he would do is lick the jelly off.
He’ll take a bite of bread if you ask him to, but he’ll spit it back out and say it’s nasty.
I have no idea. I thought since he likes pancakes and waffles, he’d like french toast, he wouldn’t eat it either.
When I make croutons he eats them like candy. He’ll even ask me to make him “crunchy potatoes” what he decided they were.
So I tell him all the time that bread is crunchy potatoes, he just doesn’t buy it.
He’ll also eat cinnamon rolls and dumplings.
Nope he won’t eat them either. He loves spanish rice and sour cream and his mom has tried putting both on them to get him to eat them and he dumps the rice out and eats it.
I’ve tried making him sausage pancake sandwiches, but he tells me you don’t eat pancakes like that.
Got to the point with the last one that I was ready to feed him in the shower and just hose down the chair, him and immediate area. Then he graduated from high school and things got easier.
LOL After my granddaughter has finished, just about all they do is wipe her hands. She is a very dainty eater. Not like her father, who needed a bath and his hair washed when he finished. And, I have the pictures to prove it.
When my first gs was little, he ate in his high chair. When he was finished, we let the dog clean up on the floor around the high chair and the seat of the chair, before moving in with a more sanitary cleaning method!
I didn’t let my son eat anywhere but the table. Some of the kids in my daycare had a problem with that because they wandered all over the house eating at home. One child actually cried the first few days I had him because I made him sit at the table with the others. Even then, the first couple of days, he wouldn’t eat until the others left the table. I fixed that by taking his food away when the others were finished. He went hungry one afternoon (I would have been charged with abuse for that) but realized that was how it was going to be. So he got with the program after that.
Stella my daughter wasn’t a dainty eater either, she always needed hosed down after eating. She’s 30 now and still spills her food on herself. lol At least she outgrew putting bowls and plates on her head. 🙂
She was also one who put things up her nose, she was never bad to put things in her mouth because she was too busy trying to stick things up her nose. A few times she had to go to the ER because we couldn’t get them out.
LOL I worked in a church nursery for a while. The lady who was in charge gave me popcorn to give to the 2 year olds and I refused. It is one thing to feed something like popcorn or peanuts to your own child, but not to ones you are not familiar with. Then, the next Sunday she wanted me to do a project with them with beans. I refused. She got really angry. The next Sunday I was absent and she took over. They did the project with the beans. The daughter of the second minister stuck one up her nose (just what I was afraid of) and she had to go to the ER. She never said another word to me.
Mary, I saw on yesterday’s thread the news about Oroville Dam. sundance posted about it next door and it looks like this will be bad. Please keep us apprised of the situation on the ground as much as you can (IIRC, though I’ve slept since then, you and Derk are both out of harm’s way, correct? Are we missing anyone else who has not checked in?)
Here’s the link from next door about it, amwick. As far as I can tell, the dam is in danger because of postponed maintenance combined with drought conditions out in CA, but I might be mistaken.
Drought plays heck with dirt dams, the stored water keeps the dam hydrated and helps hold itself in. The grass on the dam also is part of the process as its roots can reach five feet or more into the dam and stabilize the soil. Drought weakens the dirt structure and kills the grass and you can get a whole mess of problems when the soil rehydrates.
We have some 98-million gallons of water in our lake, not counting the water in a smaller feeder lake we partially own to our north. That prompts us to have beaucoup liability insurance, water running free is a scary thing.
30 acres, average 10-feet deep. Quite a few in the area much bigger than that, it’s a nice thing to have when you rely on available water for so many things. We are miles from any utility lines…thank heaven. We drink well water and have pumps in case of a fire…about 7 miles from the volunteer FD…so the mo’ water the betterer.
She has family in Davis (near Sacramento). That isn’t in the evacuation area, but could be in danger if the dam is compromised, and the water moves south.
Praying for them all. It was so nice to see a ranch put out information on how he had room for some horses, and if some of the evacuees had an RV the ranch had room for them.
From what I am reading in my research, Oroville Dam problems were an issue that California needed to address a few years back. This part does not sound good for California..
Thank you for the concern, Rhea–and everyone. Things seem stable for the Oroville Dam spillways–for the moment–but it is a problem which will need to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Stella is correct, our daughter is in Davis, far away from any immediate danger. But our wonderful CA political powers-that-be better not put this off any longer. The snow melt may be a big problem, otherwise.
So, it is tempting to sit here and watch my laundry on its “soak” cycle,,, but, I can tell I need a change of scenery…I hope no one is getting that blizzard up north… Be safe figments..
Latest news on the Oroville Dam situation. Sounds like things are more or less stable. They will be getting more rain later this week, which will probably have a negative effect.
I guess I am going alone out on a limb here. First, I couldn’t care less whether they go or not, and doubt the President does either. But had I been given an invitation to the White House from Obama I would never have gone. So, I respect their right to say no.
I know that we should separate our politics and look at the occasion, the honor, if put in such a position. But I would not have gone and shook the hand of Barack Obama, not to make a statement though. Just because I don’t think I could have been civil and dignified, I despise the man that much.
I honestly don’t know. If part of a team, then I might have gone because I don’t want to tarnish the image of my team, group, whoever. If I am a part of something bigger than me, then I should respect that, and act with respect.
So, hell, I dunno what I would do. I’m going to have to think about this. That’s a good thing though.
Good thoughts. I think that being part of a team means something. I would probably go, but make a separate statement later saying that I recognize the honor bestowed by my government, even though I don’t support the policies of the current President.
Good thoughts but I really just posted the picture because Hillary was in it and it cracked me up. Like the pictures of people in attendance for Hillary’s inauguration 🙂 .
I wouldn’t have gone if I was part of a team and we were going to the White House to meet Obama. He maliciously carries the blood of too many innocent Americans on his hands and I know he hates me just because I am a person with convictions other than his own.
Plus what if they were serving one of Michelle’e school lunches?
Evidently this has happened many times in the past, for different reasons and nothing was really said about it. Like everything else with Pres. Trump, it becomes a big deal.
On Mornings with Maria this morning, Trump’s dear friend Robert Kraft and owner of the Patriots stated that there are always players that don’t attend the Whitehouse visits after they won the Super Bowl and that he doesn’t understand why a big deal is being made out of it. Of course we all know why, but I appreciated his thoughts anyway.
You have people who actually DO something for a living, people who risk their lives and don’t get paid ****. Here you have some sports dandies who make more money a year playing in 16 games than a cop, fireman or soldier could make in 10 lifetimes and they are experts why?
Before I take my political advice from a football player I’ll buy my gourmet wine and cheese at a gas station.
I was wondering if someone would catch that. I buy from my Maison d’Chevron, purveyors of fine wines with screwtops. They are rural Louisians ‘fine’, not gourmet, wines. Their assortiment de fromage is still somewhst young and lacking.
Three environmental groups — the Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba Citizens League — filed a motion with the federal government on Oct. 17, 2005, as part of Oroville Dam’s relicensing process, urging federal officials to require that the dam’s emergency spillway be armored with concrete, rather than remain as an earthen hillside.
The groups filed the motion with FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They said that the dam, built and owned by the state of California, and finished in 1968, did not meet modern safety standards because in the event of extreme rain and flooding, fast-rising water would overwhelm the main concrete spillway, then flow down the emergency spillway, and that could cause heavy erosion that would create flooding for communities downstream, but also could cause a failure, known as “loss of crest control.”
As always, it’s gonna cost them a lot more after the catastrophe than it would have to fix it. Of course, the state, I guess, would have had to pony up money they’d rather spend on immigrants or welfare versus now likely we federal taxpayers will foot the bill.
How does this not surprise me? Don’t tell me, let me guess: the money that should have been used went to some dumb pet project of the government, rather then to dam repair.
California is a comedy of errors, and it would almost be a funny one except that 1) people die from stupidity like this, and 2) the dumb state, when they finally go bankrupt, will want the rest of the US to bail them out.
I have the same situation here. There’s a 30-acre lake just west of me that feeds into my lake, both of which were built without State approval or to State standards. I’ve built up mine but the one to my west is a ticking time bomb. It has no outlet other than a dirt emergency overflow and that’s eroding.
USDA folks figure that if it goes it will go in stages as oposed to all at once but in any event it has to go through my lake to go anywhere. From what I see there’s only one family living along that lake now and it doesn’t look like they could afford to do the huge repairs it will require to make the dam safe.
I was in Utah for the Teton Dam fiasco, we responded with heavy equipment, so these dirt dam screwups are no stranger and seem to follow me. We know what it feels like to stand in our spillway on a 10-degree slope while shin-deep water rushes by us, don’t want to think about what a huge lake breaking free would do. Seen it, just prefer not to think about it.
The same birdbrains are dropping a few rocks on it from copters. The spillway is wide open and getting eaten by erosion. Looks bad with the coming weather. How long will the spillway last is the question?
This has to be illegal. I would call it sedition espionage.
‘The Washington Post’ Trolls for Stolen Documents
Well, you might say one is journalism and the other is espionage. But, especially latterly, is there any material difference? Journalists like to hold up the sainted I.F. Stone as an example of a fearless independent reporter, but in fact he turned out to be a Soviet agent. They also like to point to the Pentagon Papers case as an example of untrammeled First Amendment rights, which in fact it was. But it only protected journalists from prior restraint from the government — and not from any criminal consequences of their actions.
Here is an excerpt from an article I just read. I doubt the article would be of interest to most here, it’s deep in the Catholic woods, so to speak. However, this part about saving the seed seems a concept we may well heed.
I tell you this so you know that Marco is not oblivious at all to the travails of the post-Christian world. But, he told me, we must follow the example of St. Benedict, and figure out ways to serve Christ in the ruins of our civilization, and go forward with hope. The times call for Christians to be radical, said Marco, and that is something we have to accept. This is one of those times in history, he said, where we have to “save the seed” for the future, and we must be aware of the signs of the times. As we determine how to respond to the challenges of being Christian in this post-Christian civilization, we don’t need courage, he said, as much as we need imagination.
“Don’t worry if you haven’t got it all figured out now,” he said. “Don’t worry if you aren’t a thoroughbred horse. If there aren’t any thoroughbreds, well, use a donkey. I’m an old donkey doing the best he can with what he has. But remember, Jesus Christ came into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey.”
You’re excerpt reminds me of one of my favorite St. John Vianney stories.
A person who was unhappy with St. John Vianney called him a complete ass. St. John’s reply was simple “If God could destroy the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, just think what he can do with a complete ass!”
And then we have Chance the Rapper doing “How Great [is our God]” with what looks like a church choir at the Grammies last night.
Lyrics are somewhat strange, but he seems to be lifting up the name of Jesus.
I wanted to let you know that our book, Gosnell – The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer is now available on Audible as an audiobook, I am the narrator.
I didn’t imagine it would be difficult to record the audiobook, but it was. Many times I had to stop and it wasn’t because I made a mistake.
Based on a recommendation from a friend we hired an audio producer to record the book. Like most of industry people in LA, she was a liberal. But she cried many times during the recording and thanked me for writing this story, which she had never heard of before.
Here is what she said after we finished:
“I had an extraordinary experience with this book. It affected me deeply, and opened my thought to explore this issue in ways I hadn’t considered. McElhinney’s approach to the subject was thoughtful and academic, and it was clear that she took great pains to avoid any specific political bias in the telling of this story. I came away with new insight into the subject.”
She also told the Gosnell story to liberal friends and had played parts of the audio for them and they were all stunned and needed to re-think their position on abortion in the US.
That just confirmed what we already knew about the Gosnell book – those who read it will never be the same again. It has the power to move hearts and change minds.
Not everyone has the time to sit down with the book, so we made the audio version hoping people might be able to listen to it during the work commute or on their walk.
Sharing pictures of the baby on FB, I made some of them public so some family members I have on my restricted list and some friends and in-laws of my daughter could see them. A particular family member that I am not friends with commented about how precious she is. She is one who supports abortion and supported Hillary. I told her that she’s so precious she and her idol Hillary would have been fine with murdering her a few hours before she was born. So to not be commenting on my posts.
Stupid FB had changed my blocked list again, she’s now back on it.
Maybe I shouldn’t put it so bluntly, but it just makes me mad when someone supports abortion and then says something about a newborn baby. It was a baby at 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and even at 36 weeks when some of these people think it’s still fine to kill them. She was precious and loved then just as she is now.
We are having very mild and lovely weather here in Michigan, for February that is. Still, I can commiserate with those in the northeast who are experiencing more seasonal weather. Ran across this, and thought you might appreciate it:
I have a friend that lives just outside of Boston. She is a branch manager for one of the Boston Public Libraries… The dumb mayor kept the libraries open during the last blizzard, for the children, because the schools were closed. So, weather is too dangerous for schools but not for librarians. She ended up in a snow bank trying to get to work .. grrrrrrrrrrrrr…. She did get today off,, I believe,,, someone knocked some sense into the mayor.
I’m not sure anyone will care about this, but I am going to put it out there. I am going to be 62 in May and just filed for Social Security last week. I was contacted by Social Security today that they had questions about my filing. I suspected the worst, but was very surprised.. My husband passed away at 53, so I did not think that his income would be more than mine after working non stop since he died. I was wrong. I will actually get $330.00 a month by claiming his. I also found out a little know fact that as a widow, I could have actually started receiving benefits at the age of 60 because of his death.
I will also start receiving that amount in March (due to his death date) instead of waiting until June and my eligibility date. This is not published on their web site.
I just want people to know about this option. I spent the last two years unemployed and it would have been nice to have some sort of income. It has been rough for me, but doable. Some folks are not so lucky.
My aunt was married, had 3 children, divorced, and later remarried. Because she was married more than 10 years to her first husband, she was able to claim his social security. I don’t know if she had to wait until after his second wife died, but that might be the case. I was shocked.
It seems that 10 years married is the cut off. In one way I am upset I did not know about the 60 yres old rule, but am more than happy about getting more money. Mt husband died before he could apply for benefits. I am glad his work was not for nothing.
It’s kind of intimidating dealing with SS, I think – I’m glad your filing was checked and that you got the good news you did.
I got “good news” in a different way three years ago when my husband died.
The day I went to the SS office 25 miles away to file death certificate, etc. was so hard. That office was JAMMED with people under 35 (with all their kids). Obviously not there to collect SS after 90 years combined paying in…..
I had reviewed the information on the site and our recent tax forms, etc. and had come up with a figure that I believed would be my monthly payment. When I talked with the woman at the window she kept insisting it would be about $300 less per month. I left there in tears, already aware of how tight my long range budget would be. I felt completely helpless, so just hunkered down to see what would happen.
When my first regular check arrived at the time I expected it to, it was exactly the amount I had expected that it would be. The woman at the window was wrong.
Again, I’m so glad for you. Even those who have comparatively greater income and greater resources know by this point in life how quickly things can shift under our feet because of unexpected things.
The weight of the world has been lifted of my shoulders. I have been living on basically nothing for the last three years. I have not travelled more than 9 miles from my home in three years. I now feel like I can actually have a life again. It is truly a blessing from God.
I am so happy for you! I have lived alone for a long time, and have had those stretches where I didn’t have two extra dimes to rub together. Let’s celebrate!
I was in tears today to get the news about my benefits. I have been living a very stark life the last 4 years. I have been a large charity donator in the past to multiple animal welfare groups, it has broken my heart that I could not help then anymore. I can now budget to help some of them again. My favorite is Best Friends out of Moab Utah. They do amazing things and I would love to keep helping them and hope some day to go there. http://bestfriends.org/
sorry Ken, but the VA has been nothing but a thorn in my side since he died. We were both Veterans, and I was told because I am a woman, I can’t even be a member of the VFW. I have contacted the VA several times and gotten no response. I can be a member of the VFW auxiliary. What a figgin crock. The VA has a real problem when it comes to female veterans.
If you are a Veteran with overseas service in a war zone, you can be a VFW member. Yes I do concur with the VA and female veterans. As for benefits, seek out your county veterans representative, in your county courthouse. Most of these Vet reps in your local county courthouse are good people. Seek them out. On your behalf I will personally VFW Headquarters in Kansas City to square your membership issue. You can email me through Stella……..
I’m going to nit-pick (can’t help it). I agree with everything he says in this column, but it is “inherent”, not “inherit” (It’s got nothing to do with their inherit value, but with Beyonce’s value …)
I know, time to let it go, but I used to really enjoy Matt Walsh until he went nuts over Trump. He made me so mad I don’t think I can ever enjoy his writing again. I fully support his right to be for another candidate and to publicly support another candidate, but he was a rip roaring little bitch over Trump.
I must have missed those columns. Then again, I spent a lot of the election tuning a lot of people out. Was he a Cruzbot? I know he publishes on The Blaze pretty regularly and I don’t think Beck has checked back into reality since the day Trump starting winning in the primaries.
Today I did two more 20-minute raking/picking up sessions in the front yard – last fall’s work that I was unable to do. It’s good for building my strength back up and feels so good to be out there. I still find it ‘interesting’ how very long it takes to regain strength. I have learned from conversations with oncologists that it can take years and some people never regain strength. Sometimes I worry about what will happen to me if I can’t care for the house and then – I decide not to worry about what will happen. I have been provided for…. all acknowledgement to my Heavenly Father, and since He doesn’t change, I will stay with that perspective.
I discovered/learned something in August when I was the absolute weakest and sickest for six weeks – I’m not a very good sick person. Experiencing utter physical helplessness was terrifying to me. I’ve certainly BEEN helpless before n my life but always managed to evade it by making a list and doing some problem-solving for a couple of weeks. This was not quite as easy to manage. I EXPERIENCED helplessness week after week, not knowing when (or if) it would end. The situation caused me to see the limits of my conscious trust, ability to REST in the care of God for my day. Those days were both painful and productive.
I have intended to and would like to try to write about some of those lessons on MBOB-The Blog — but I don’t think I can yet. I’m reminded about what C. S. Lewis said when he was writing about pain, “I would write another chapter on pain if I could just get my tooth to stop hurting.”
Beyond grateful for the strength I feel – and that I have days of noticing that I feel GOOD.
Got a hearing test with ENT, etc. set for March 7 to evaluate significant hearing loss. Learned after the fact from one of the three oncologists that that is not unusual with the heavy treatment I had for 6 months. I can hear fine on the phone and face-to-face, but in group settings (or like in public/church settings) I hear the sounds but can’t understand the words….so looking forward to getting sme help for that.
Menagerie, Jon (and my neighbor Don) tell me that some people who do not have real severe hearing loss actually use Cabela’s product Hunting Ears and find that it helps for what they need – have you heard anything like that at Bass Pro? My neighbor actually uses that…..a whole lot cheaper than hearing aids which Medicare will not pay for. They will pay for diagnostic workups but not the equipment. Anyone else heard about using the Hunting Ears that way?
I live alone like you do, and my greatest fear is being helpless; that and dying without anyone knowing. I am so sorry that you had to go through what you did, but happy that you are now recovering, and able to get out in the yard a bit.
It will be good to read what you have to say about it all at MBOB.
I too live alone..
When I had my shoulder manipulation surgery my pulse kept going to 42, so I was scared to let them give me anything for pain.
At the same time they were talking about releasing me, they were talking about it starting to snow. I really wanted to get home before I couldn’t go. They took me home and a block from home it really started coming down. An hour later I looked out and it was about 4 to 6 inches deep..
The snow wasn’t the worse part. I was really scared about my pulse, so I didn’t take any thing for pain, not even Tylenol. Knew that pain meds can lower ones pulse even farther.
Yea I finally got some sleep that night, by taking a percogesic for bedtime, and when I woke up in pain…
I do believe the good Lord was watching over me all the way, especially when I looked out at the snow prior to bed time. ..
I haven’t been through anything near what you have, but I can say I am experiencing some of those feelings of fear of helplessness. My best friend of 56 years became very ill several years ago. It was very clear that she wouldn’t survive even though we didn’t know for a year what was wrong with her. Then, she passed away, suffering greatly.
In that time, I gained another 20 lbs and became less and less active, probably because of depression. Then, I hurt my knee, then my hip, and THEN I fell and hurt everything and it became clear that if I didn’t heal I was going to have trouble getting up and down the stairs in my apt. that I really love. Scary thought. So many friends have moved away and several have died. It’s difficult having no back up.
Looks like there are a lot of us who don’t have much local support. I have always loved living by myself, but it gets more scary as I get older and not as strong and able as I was not that long ago.
Yes, I like living by myself. And, I have been blessed with good health. I have some allergies, etc., but I don’t tend to catch diseases. And, I am not good at asking for help.
I enjoy it to auscit…
Except for the shoulder, been doing really good. Can sort of afford to hire help for maintenance and stuff. .Do like the freedom of doing what i want when I want and/or can afford it.
The people at the church are really good. However my church is about 30 mins away. When it snows the road there or to here from there is worse.
Seems one has to do a lot of fending for themselves.
My youngest keeps telling me to sell & move closer to her. If she lived any place but California I might…
But not moving back to California..(Well, can’t say never for the Lord is in charge).
My son-in-law told me as soon as they were married that if I ever needed a home, I could live with them. I wouldn’t want to do that, but it is good to know that I could. He’s a very sweet man, and always good to his mother too.
We do have some good kids don’t we..
I just don’t want them to try if I am full blown dementia or Alzheimers. Always told to not place me in a home that you can smell from the parking lot.
My brother just went into a group home, because his dementia is progressed so far that he requires a great deal of assistance. He is married, and his wife could no longer care for him, but she visits him every day, and his residence is only about 10 minutes away. It has been difficult for them both.
Just four years ago when I visited them in Washington, he was vigorous – working out at the gym and taking early morning spinning classes. They are now in southern California, near their son, and not far from their daughter, which is good. He’s 85, quite a few years older than I am.
For a year or so I have been reading your comments just for the fun of it and thought I had anything to contribute that you all haven’t already said, so didn’t say anything. Your recent comments about being old and alone hit home, been doing that for last 13 year or so after my wife died of cancer. It took me about 8 to 10 years to realize what I did not remember and slowly it comes back of a very difficult time and in that time I think I was lost in life, lived alone by a river with a steep bank and often thought if something happened to me it would be week for anyone to find me, that bothered me somewhat. Yet it did not stop me, so I drink and smoke to wash away the feeling. It helps sometimes; just want you to know you are not alone. Not a very religious guy but, GOD and I have an ongoing conversation, seem he won’t let me forget my purpose, which is to write it down, which I do, I just have a fear of someone might read it. Them what? I think I have said too much. Bye for now. If it is OK, I will keep watch.
Of course, you can just watch and read, if that is what suits you best, Joe. I’m glad you spoke up, though, and please do again. No, we are not alone in this respect at all.
I’m more convinced than ever that – it is not the specific cause of our fears and helplessness that give them significance.
There is good reason that our hearts stretch toward one another – in general – when we know that someone is about at the end of their resources or their wits.
We recognize that we can’t fix stuff, but the companionship and recognition of common sufferings actually does break the loneliness of the thing.
Sharon, there are several products on our website that sound like what you describe. This is the most expensive, by far. The next one listed is 199, this one is 600. Please, let me know if I can help you in any way.
Yes – Neighbor Don already offered – he said he has some extra/new tips that have not been used at all and once I have had the tests, I can use his unit to see how that works.
He says it totally meets his need and he has very specific job-related hearing loss that goes way back –
If all Bass Pro stores have the same return policy, and I believe they would, you could return it quite easily if it did not work for you. You can return online orders to the nearest store, or ship them back.
I’ve always feared becoming helpless and having to depend on others. I joke with my kids that if/when that day comes to just pretend like I’m a lame horse and shoot me and put me out of my misery.
Well….I was totally shocked and the revelation of how poorly I responded when I was truly helpless – wow. Lessons learned. I had never experienced such a thing – I suspect I have more compassion in certain areas of things than I did.
Don’t be sorry! Seriously – it wasn’t fun and I wouldn’t sign up for it voluntarily, but it’s ok. It’s just ok.
Life is what it is –
One thing this did was force me to allow my neighbors to care for me (and I have four trusted relationships now because of that) and I leaerned to know four ladies from my church, because I couldn’t drive for 8 weeks, and they helped with taking me to chemo. That was so hard….but again, the results aren’t all bad. Not at all.
My father was very independent right up to the last. He developed lung cancer and then a few months later, my mom died. He stayed really strong and independent until the cancer was really bad. There was nothing they could do at that point and he had to rely on me. He taught me how to accept help graciously and how it could be a gift to the one doing the caretaking. I just have to remember that.
Can you all believe this
Obama just keep up using millions upon millions of American dollars on his lavish life style.
White House: Trump Is Paying For Japanese PM’s Trip To Mar-a-Lago
Ryan Pickrell
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
Making sure the lights are working, now where did I put my coffee cup…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 12:11 am
The Col. is on duty!
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By MaryfromMarin on February 13, 2017 at 12:12 am
Time for my Hot Cocoa — Time for bed here.
Good Morn Col.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 12:23 am
We kind of hit on this in an earlier topic..
Thought I’d share this with all the Special people on here
Part of the Lyrics—
There never was anyone like me or you
Being ourselves is the best we can do
We’re priceless and precious for God tells me so
Oh, oh, oh we’re special you know
We’re quite unique, a walking work of art
And strong or weak we all have our own special place in God’s heart
We’re different each one from the other it’s true
God never repeats himself, never makes two
Be happy with who you are, God made you so
Oh, oh, oh you’re special you know
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 12:21 am
Morning everyone!
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 6:34 am
Good morning!
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:33 am
Morning Michelle!
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 7:45 am
Good morning Sand&Sea 🙂
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 9:01 am
Morning lovely!
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 9:24 am
Morning Sand..Pray you have an awesome Monday.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:37 am
Thank you, kin! You, too! 🙏🏻😊
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 10:49 am
😉
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:51 am
Good morning All..
It is nice to wake up when there is a hint of dawn…
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 6:48 am
Fox is playing bit of the Grammy awards.. pretty gross…
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 6:49 am
I have something to say, but I am not going to say it because it is really hateful and racist. I can’t even stand to see the clips of the Grammys. How they call so much of that music, I don’t know.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 7:25 am
I’m not much of a fan of modern music. In my car the radio is always on the oldies channel, I just can’t listen to this stuff today posing as music.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:37 am
I think that rap crap is the worst of the worst of the worst of what the black culture has put out, musicwise.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 7:46 am
I guess it’s just for folks who like drugs, rape and murder. At least when I see lyrics posted that’s about all it is.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:52 am
I was just watching the news, same thing, every morning…It was hateful.
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 7:55 am
I don’t like that ‘music’ either, and I don’t believe it is because I am old. It really is terrible.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:26 am
If it reflects the soul, the person who produces it and the person who partake of it, as of course it surely must, it is ugly and frightening. We see its fruits in the riots, deaths, and rage enacted in our country today.
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 11:21 am
Music is marketed and those of us over 50 are a niche market that doesn’t really register in the main market. The music, lyrics, visuals, etc are all planned out carefully for that all-important youth market, they are the ones in the psychological target zone who have the cash and attention to feed to the artist.
Y’all remember back in the late 80s/early 90s when stations would showcase artists like the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, all 60s and early 70s? How often do you hear them now, except on a few stations targeting our age groups? We ain’t as profitable as we used to be.
Cheer up, old timers, their times are Acomin’. One day thry’ll wake up and see their ain’t we just the coolest’ music being used to sell cars, laundry soap, denture paste and, when the shock wears off, realize they’ve been passed by for a new marketing target audience.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 12:56 pm
I was surprised how little politics there was, and again by how virulently anti-Trump a particular performance was.
Bruno Mars did an excellent rendition of Prince’s, “Let’s Go Crazy”, Pentatonix did their magic with Michael Jackson’s, “ABC”, and Little Big Town took part in a tribute to the BeeGees, singing “How Deep Is Your Love”, as Barry Gibb sat beaming and singing along in the audience.
I was surprised that there were technical difficulties. You could tell in some songs that the balance of instruments and voice was way out of whack, and then the balance would suddenly change dramatically. Adele apparently had no monitors at the start of her song tribute to George Michael, completely blew the song, uttered a profanity that was silenced (at least that technical part worked!), then apologized profusely and asked to start the song over. She apologized again for that profanity later when accepting one of her four Grammie awards.
My favorite performance of the night was Lady Gaga, backed by Metallica. Wow! Metalica’s lead singer James Hetfield found his mike was not working, so he just walked over and sang into Lady Gaga’s mike, which I think made the performance even better, seeing a tight shot of the two singing face-to-face. For my wife, their performance was literally jaw-dropping, several times.
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By John Denney on February 13, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Good morning!
Still dark here, but all the pre-dawn chores are done.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:35 am
I learned my lesson, couple years ago, sell the Beef before winter…….
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 8:52 am
I laughed at a guy who got into hogs, he bought into them when the market was really high, the highest in my memory. Market went down like it always does and he sold them all off. I tried to tell him it would go back up and he was making a huge mistake to sell while it was low, but he didn’t listen and lost his shirt and is now whining that the market is creeping back up.
A lot of people have lost their shirts on cattle as well, many around here when it got up to over $3/lb thought it was a good idea to become cattle ranchers. Then prices went down and they couldn’t make their payments. A few I warned against buying while so high and tried to tell them it wouldn’t last forever, but nobody ever listens and then can’t believe prices dropped so much.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:41 am
Just like the stock market (in other words, common sense): Buy low and sell high.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 11:45 am
I find I make my worst decisions when I sell while I’m high.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 12:58 pm
If I did my quarterly taxes correctly, last quarter of 2016, I made $1100 net off cattle. That’s also not including my time……….it’s just something that I always wanted to do, and I’m doing this for a few more years. Then I will become a “Gentleman” farmer like Czar.
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 6:40 pm
You probably have to feed yours more than we do in this area. Like this year we still had green grass into December.
With the warmer weather it’s starting to green up again.
Usually 3 to 4 months is all we have to hay them and we do grain as well in the winter.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 8:04 pm
Don’t know about your characterization, though I’ll admit to being a farmer. Forget the income, we don’t do it for the money, unless you’re a big production rancher/farmer or a niche farm/ranch you ain’t gonna get rich. On the other hand, there’s an indescribable feling at the end of the day when you’re sitting on your patio with a drink and look over what you did.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 10:51 pm
Darn, now you tell me I ain’t gettin’ rich. lol
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:45 pm
I know…took ne a while to figure it out too, and I’d already quit the day job.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 11:53 pm
Well, I’ve been doing it all my life, but I just thought I was bad at it as I’ve always had to have a second source of income.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:58 pm
Morning amwick…
Fog is covering up our sun again…But I know the Lord’s sun is out there & thankful for another new day.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:38 am
As is the Lord’s son.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 12:58 pm
Always burning brightly in my heart.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Foggy days are a favorite of mine.
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Note our header image, and tomorrow’s daily image.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Unless you have to some place but otherwise really neat.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 3:04 pm
It has been a bright bright day here.. but… windy… We just got back from a hour by the beach… So nice and quiet on Monday, as opposed to the screaming children who were there yesterday…
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 3:20 pm
Hey I sort asked for no more snow…so we got fog…LOL
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 3:22 pm
Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
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By nyetneetot on February 13, 2017 at 7:28 am
Mornin’!
I haven’t eaten breakfast yet, hubby just wanted cereal and I don’t like to cook for just myself, so waiting for the mommy and daddy to wake up and let the little man choose what is for breakfast, which will be fried egg or boiled egg and sausage, pancake and sausage or waffles and sausage. That kid is going to turn into sausage. lol
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:43 am
😊I love that your daughter is there and you get lots of time with your littles. Those first days bonding with new baby are priceless. ❤
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 7:51 am
I’m not getting tons of baby time, because little man has decided I’m his personal person. 🙂
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:54 am
Well helping his mother is huge… and I am sure big brother needs lots of attention at the moment. I would go and buy him a drum set… or not. 🙂
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 8:00 am
Maybe you could “help” him make a valentine, for his new baby sister???
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 8:02 am
He drew her a picture of race cars and flowers. lol
He’s getting the sharing down as well, it’s just too bad sissy is too little to eat sausage and eggs or his sucker he got after breakfast. 🙂
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:44 am
Can you show him that baby Grace has no teeth… none!! A little child would understand that.. ???????????
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 3:22 pm
His mommy already tried that one, but he said she could suck a sucker. lol
He figured out today while she was getting a bath that she doesn’t have the same equipment as him. I almost had to roll in the floor.
He just kept on asking his mommy where her pee-pee go. She kept trying to explain that she was a girl like mommy and he was a boy like Daddy. Then his Daddy got the blame for her not having a pee-pee. He yelled at his Daddy to give her pee-pee back.
I told them both that this would not be the end of that conversation. 🙂
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 3:33 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 3:52 pm
Oh… my….. he he he… 🙂
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 4:52 pm
He’s moved past the boy and girl differences and is now on when is sissy going to play with him. He wanted to play ball with her and we told him she has to get a little bigger before she can play, so he went over beside her and told her she get bigger morrow and they’d play ball and racing cars. 🙂
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 9:48 pm
Aren’t little ones adorable! 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 10:08 pm
He already has one, his PaPa bought him one awhile ago. lol
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 9:50 am
Thats sweet! 😊
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 9:23 am
I’m with the kid. And for some reason I like the lamb sausage made by the butcher out here.
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By nyetneetot on February 13, 2017 at 7:53 am
Never seen lamb sausage here.. sounds nice..
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 7:58 am
He loves sausage, hot, mild or in between. He won’t eat bacon at all.
I’ve never tried lamb sausage.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 7:59 am
Baby shower gift?
https://www.bourbonandboots.com/blogs/southern-stories/home-distillation-w-copper-whiskey-still
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By nyetneetot on February 13, 2017 at 8:07 am
Nye!!!!! Well, I do agree one must be taught the Right way!!!!!
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 10:40 am
My roots are in Arkansas, I can just go get the real thing. 🙂
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 9:49 pm
I don’t think I have ever had lamb sausage. We never had lamb at home when I was growing up (my mother didn’t like it). I eat fresh lamb now and then, but never had sausage.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:30 am
We walk down to the market to buy it, but I guess they also sell it online.
https://ulisfamoussausage.com/order-sausage#!/Lamb-Sausage/c/16247926/offset=0&sort=normal
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By nyetneetot on February 13, 2017 at 10:35 am
Do you buy the Merguez sausage? A local purveyor sells it, and I’ll order it next week if you recommend it.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 10:46 am
The same place also makes a Moroccan lamb and fig sausage, which sounds unusual.
http://www.corridorsausage.com/products/
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 10:52 am
I’ve had both and the Merguez is what is popular in the French restaurants here. It seems to have more spice.
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By nyetneetot on February 13, 2017 at 10:52 am
Wouldn’t the delicate flavor of the lamb be covered by the sausage spices? I love lamb and mint sauce but Czarina won’t let lamb in the county…not a fan at all.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 1:01 pm
I’ve noticed the taste depends on the part of the animal. Since I have no idea what part of the lamb the sausage was made from, I can’t really place it. I think it’s more dense than pork though.
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By nyetneetot on February 13, 2017 at 1:28 pm
Most commercial sausage is made from trimmings and bits you can’t sell as they don’t look nice but with lamb I can’t think which parts would have a ‘strong’ flavor unless the lamb were smoking. A lot of lamb eater I know like it because it doesn’t really have much of a taste. Yum….mutton sausage…fit those links right into the grease gun and lube up them fittings.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 1:32 pm
Depends on where the lamb is raised, and how old it is, I would imagine. Australian lamb is younger and smaller, I believe, than American lamb. I really like Australian leg of lamb.
The reason we never ate lamb in our house was that my mother grew up on mutton, and hated it.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 1:47 pm
My older gs used to LOVE bacon, but now he is a vegetarian, and has been for some years. You never know.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:28 am
He actually isn’t a big meat eater, he eats some pork and chicken with the exception of sausage, he’d eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner if you let him.
He doesn’t eat bread either. Rice, pasta, cheese, eggs, pancakes and just about any veggie is his main diet, and peanut butter and jelly he’d eat both of them out of the jar if you let him.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 9:57 am
Well let him, home made bread, and P&J from the jar. One of memories from childhood….
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 10:43 am
I don’t like having to clean the peanut butter and jelly off the walls, floors and tables. 🙂
He won’t eat bread, sometimes he’ll eat it on a cracker, but mainly he gets a bowl with peanut butter and jelly and eats it by the spoonfuls.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:34 am
Biscuits?
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 11:43 am
Nope, he won’t eat them either. He won’t eat pizza crust either, he loves pizza but he just eats the toppings off.
He loves cheese, but he won’t eat grilled cheese sandwiches. I tried Saturday morning to get him to eat toast with butter and jelly and all he would do is lick the jelly off.
He’ll take a bite of bread if you ask him to, but he’ll spit it back out and say it’s nasty.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:49 am
You mentioned that he eats waffles. I wonder if it’s the texture that bothers him.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 11:59 am
I have no idea. I thought since he likes pancakes and waffles, he’d like french toast, he wouldn’t eat it either.
When I make croutons he eats them like candy. He’ll even ask me to make him “crunchy potatoes” what he decided they were.
So I tell him all the time that bread is crunchy potatoes, he just doesn’t buy it.
He’ll also eat cinnamon rolls and dumplings.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 3:09 pm
I think it’s the texture. If he likes pancakes, make him sandwiches made with pancakes. Will he eat flour tortillas?
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 3:30 pm
Nope he won’t eat them either. He loves spanish rice and sour cream and his mom has tried putting both on them to get him to eat them and he dumps the rice out and eats it.
I’ve tried making him sausage pancake sandwiches, but he tells me you don’t eat pancakes like that.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 3:36 pm
Got to the point where I figured it was just as easy to paint over it. Just can’t keep up with ’em.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Nanny tries to make him only eat at the table in his booster seat or sometimes I let him have things that aren’t messy on the coffee table.
He’s a big enough mess as it is without letting him smear the walls. lol
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 3:12 pm
Got to the point with the last one that I was ready to feed him in the shower and just hose down the chair, him and immediate area. Then he graduated from high school and things got easier.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 3:20 pm
LOL After my granddaughter has finished, just about all they do is wipe her hands. She is a very dainty eater. Not like her father, who needed a bath and his hair washed when he finished. And, I have the pictures to prove it.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 3:48 pm
My daughter was not dainty. She’s the kid who put corn kernels up her nose. End of story.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 3:49 pm
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 3:57 pm
When my first gs was little, he ate in his high chair. When he was finished, we let the dog clean up on the floor around the high chair and the seat of the chair, before moving in with a more sanitary cleaning method!
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 3:31 pm
The dogs get to eat good at mealtime. Now that he’s older he throws food on the floor on purpose for them.
His Daddy hates it. lol
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 3:40 pm
I didn’t let my son eat anywhere but the table. Some of the kids in my daycare had a problem with that because they wandered all over the house eating at home. One child actually cried the first few days I had him because I made him sit at the table with the others. Even then, the first couple of days, he wouldn’t eat until the others left the table. I fixed that by taking his food away when the others were finished. He went hungry one afternoon (I would have been charged with abuse for that) but realized that was how it was going to be. So he got with the program after that.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 3:34 pm
Stella my daughter wasn’t a dainty eater either, she always needed hosed down after eating. She’s 30 now and still spills her food on herself. lol At least she outgrew putting bowls and plates on her head. 🙂
She was also one who put things up her nose, she was never bad to put things in her mouth because she was too busy trying to stick things up her nose. A few times she had to go to the ER because we couldn’t get them out.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 9:56 pm
Czarina still has a cover on my easy chair. She says it’s because the dog likes to sit on it with me but I still have my doubts…..
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 9:59 pm
When she starts putting a bib on you then you’ll know for sure.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 10:06 pm
You can always tell where I sit at table…………it is the chair with crumbs all around it. LOL
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 10:17 pm
LOL I worked in a church nursery for a while. The lady who was in charge gave me popcorn to give to the 2 year olds and I refused. It is one thing to feed something like popcorn or peanuts to your own child, but not to ones you are not familiar with. Then, the next Sunday she wanted me to do a project with them with beans. I refused. She got really angry. The next Sunday I was absent and she took over. They did the project with the beans. The daughter of the second minister stuck one up her nose (just what I was afraid of) and she had to go to the ER. She never said another word to me.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 10:15 pm
Thank you, Nyet! Morning!
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 7:48 am
Looks good Nyet! Thank you!
Morning everyone! Stay Deplorable!
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 8:33 am
Nye!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!! Mid morning snack……..thank you, thank you…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 8:48 am
Good morning Nyet 🙂
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 9:05 am
Got dibs on the croissant, bacon, eggs, some bacon, a doughnut, some bacon and ??
Good Morning NY Thanks for the Awesome breakfast.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:28 am
Don’t sippose you’re talking about those Mickey D’s croissants? They also do a great job stopping radiator leaks.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 2:29 pm
nah the ones on the NY’s plate LOL
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 3:04 pm
Good afternoon, Nyet, everybody. That plate is so pretty and looks so good.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 1:34 pm
Mary, I saw on yesterday’s thread the news about Oroville Dam. sundance posted about it next door and it looks like this will be bad. Please keep us apprised of the situation on the ground as much as you can (IIRC, though I’ve slept since then, you and Derk are both out of harm’s way, correct? Are we missing anyone else who has not checked in?)
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 9:09 am
:0 ????
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 9:09 am
Here’s the link from next door about it, amwick. As far as I can tell, the dam is in danger because of postponed maintenance combined with drought conditions out in CA, but I might be mistaken.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/02/12/immediate-evacuation-order-officials-oroville-dam-emergency-spillway-in-california-expected-to-fail-any-moment/comment-page-3/#comment-3586911
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 9:31 am
Drought plays heck with dirt dams, the stored water keeps the dam hydrated and helps hold itself in. The grass on the dam also is part of the process as its roots can reach five feet or more into the dam and stabilize the soil. Drought weakens the dirt structure and kills the grass and you can get a whole mess of problems when the soil rehydrates.
We have some 98-million gallons of water in our lake, not counting the water in a smaller feeder lake we partially own to our north. That prompts us to have beaucoup liability insurance, water running free is a scary thing.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 1:44 pm
That’s a pretty big lake.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 1:48 pm
30 acres, average 10-feet deep. Quite a few in the area much bigger than that, it’s a nice thing to have when you rely on available water for so many things. We are miles from any utility lines…thank heaven. We drink well water and have pumps in case of a fire…about 7 miles from the volunteer FD…so the mo’ water the betterer.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 1:58 pm
TY… I have seen snippets on the news… A slight improvement,,, but they are still in danger. 😦
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm
Very scary. 😦
I think Mary posted yesterday that she has family in the evacuation area. Not good.
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 9:28 am
She has family in Davis (near Sacramento). That isn’t in the evacuation area, but could be in danger if the dam is compromised, and the water moves south.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:34 am
Thanks for clarifying. Hope all our family and friends there are okay.
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 10:52 am
Pray Mary and her family fair well..
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:32 am
Yes!!! Praying. 🙏🏻😊
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 10:50 am
Praying for them all. It was so nice to see a ranch put out information on how he had room for some horses, and if some of the evacuees had an RV the ranch had room for them.
From what I am reading in my research, Oroville Dam problems were an issue that California needed to address a few years back. This part does not sound good for California..
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:32 am
Thank you for the concern, Rhea–and everyone. Things seem stable for the Oroville Dam spillways–for the moment–but it is a problem which will need to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Stella is correct, our daughter is in Davis, far away from any immediate danger. But our wonderful CA political powers-that-be better not put this off any longer. The snow melt may be a big problem, otherwise.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 14, 2017 at 12:20 am
So, it is tempting to sit here and watch my laundry on its “soak” cycle,,, but, I can tell I need a change of scenery…I hope no one is getting that blizzard up north… Be safe figments..
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 9:09 am
Impeach break squelch…..break squelch………
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 10:46 am
Latest news on the Oroville Dam situation. Sounds like things are more or less stable. They will be getting more rain later this week, which will probably have a negative effect.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/13/514955209/signs-of-hope-at-oroville-dam-after-water-overflowed-emergency-spillway
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lake-Oroville-discharging-water-over-dam-s-10926950.php
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:39 am
Thank you for the update.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:33 am
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 9:43 am
Hey Hildabeast…….. you could always take a tour………
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 10:49 am
Foundation donations are down so she may be penniless again 😎
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 1:41 pm
I guess I am going alone out on a limb here. First, I couldn’t care less whether they go or not, and doubt the President does either. But had I been given an invitation to the White House from Obama I would never have gone. So, I respect their right to say no.
I know that we should separate our politics and look at the occasion, the honor, if put in such a position. But I would not have gone and shook the hand of Barack Obama, not to make a statement though. Just because I don’t think I could have been civil and dignified, I despise the man that much.
I honestly don’t know. If part of a team, then I might have gone because I don’t want to tarnish the image of my team, group, whoever. If I am a part of something bigger than me, then I should respect that, and act with respect.
So, hell, I dunno what I would do. I’m going to have to think about this. That’s a good thing though.
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 11:52 am
Good thoughts. I think that being part of a team means something. I would probably go, but make a separate statement later saying that I recognize the honor bestowed by my government, even though I don’t support the policies of the current President.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Yes, I think it matters if you are part of a team. I agree with what you said Menagerie.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Good thoughts but I really just posted the picture because Hillary was in it and it cracked me up. Like the pictures of people in attendance for Hillary’s inauguration 🙂 .
I wouldn’t have gone if I was part of a team and we were going to the White House to meet Obama. He maliciously carries the blood of too many innocent Americans on his hands and I know he hates me just because I am a person with convictions other than his own.
Plus what if they were serving one of Michelle’e school lunches?
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 1:50 pm
Evidently this has happened many times in the past, for different reasons and nothing was really said about it. Like everything else with Pres. Trump, it becomes a big deal.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 6:53 pm
On Mornings with Maria this morning, Trump’s dear friend Robert Kraft and owner of the Patriots stated that there are always players that don’t attend the Whitehouse visits after they won the Super Bowl and that he doesn’t understand why a big deal is being made out of it. Of course we all know why, but I appreciated his thoughts anyway.
This is a very short clip, you can probably check FBN online for the full interview.
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 6:57 pm
BTW, this is not the part where he talked about the football players.
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By sandandsea2015 on February 13, 2017 at 6:59 pm
You have people who actually DO something for a living, people who risk their lives and don’t get paid ****. Here you have some sports dandies who make more money a year playing in 16 games than a cop, fireman or soldier could make in 10 lifetimes and they are experts why?
Before I take my political advice from a football player I’ll buy my gourmet wine and cheese at a gas station.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 2:57 pm
Don’t you already do that?
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 3:28 pm
I was wondering if someone would catch that. I buy from my Maison d’Chevron, purveyors of fine wines with screwtops. They are rural Louisians ‘fine’, not gourmet, wines. Their assortiment de fromage is still somewhst young and lacking.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 3:34 pm
They gots gooooood bacon though!
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 3:34 pm
The hats exactly what I was about to say”
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 7:35 pm
Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago
Three environmental groups — the Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba Citizens League — filed a motion with the federal government on Oct. 17, 2005, as part of Oroville Dam’s relicensing process, urging federal officials to require that the dam’s emergency spillway be armored with concrete, rather than remain as an earthen hillside.
The groups filed the motion with FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They said that the dam, built and owned by the state of California, and finished in 1968, did not meet modern safety standards because in the event of extreme rain and flooding, fast-rising water would overwhelm the main concrete spillway, then flow down the emergency spillway, and that could cause heavy erosion that would create flooding for communities downstream, but also could cause a failure, known as “loss of crest control.”
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 10:00 am
Water always wins.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 10:33 am
As always, it’s gonna cost them a lot more after the catastrophe than it would have to fix it. Of course, the state, I guess, would have had to pony up money they’d rather spend on immigrants or welfare versus now likely we federal taxpayers will foot the bill.
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 11:28 am
Was saying that upstairs but not with the back up.
Thank you Stella.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:34 am
How does this not surprise me? Don’t tell me, let me guess: the money that should have been used went to some dumb pet project of the government, rather then to dam repair.
California is a comedy of errors, and it would almost be a funny one except that 1) people die from stupidity like this, and 2) the dumb state, when they finally go bankrupt, will want the rest of the US to bail them out.
Sorry Mary and Derk. I don’t want to bail CA out.
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 10:57 am
Jerry Brown has already asked the Feds for disaster relief funds. So much for not caring about Federal funds for being a sanctuary state.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 11:42 am
Jerry Brown has already asked the Feds for disaster relief funds.
hahahahahahaha! The Trumpian response should be epic.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 14, 2017 at 12:24 am
I don’t want you to bail us out either, FRhea. Time to pay the piper.
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By MaryfromMarin on February 14, 2017 at 12:22 am
“FRhea”??? I need a break…
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By MaryfromMarin on February 14, 2017 at 12:26 am
I have the same situation here. There’s a 30-acre lake just west of me that feeds into my lake, both of which were built without State approval or to State standards. I’ve built up mine but the one to my west is a ticking time bomb. It has no outlet other than a dirt emergency overflow and that’s eroding.
USDA folks figure that if it goes it will go in stages as oposed to all at once but in any event it has to go through my lake to go anywhere. From what I see there’s only one family living along that lake now and it doesn’t look like they could afford to do the huge repairs it will require to make the dam safe.
I was in Utah for the Teton Dam fiasco, we responded with heavy equipment, so these dirt dam screwups are no stranger and seem to follow me. We know what it feels like to stand in our spillway on a 10-degree slope while shin-deep water rushes by us, don’t want to think about what a huge lake breaking free would do. Seen it, just prefer not to think about it.
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By czarowniczy on February 13, 2017 at 1:19 pm
The same birdbrains are dropping a few rocks on it from copters. The spillway is wide open and getting eaten by erosion. Looks bad with the coming weather. How long will the spillway last is the question?
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By Howie on February 14, 2017 at 6:59 am
This has to be illegal. I would call it
seditionespionage.‘The Washington Post’ Trolls for Stolen Documents
Well, you might say one is journalism and the other is espionage. But, especially latterly, is there any material difference? Journalists like to hold up the sainted I.F. Stone as an example of a fearless independent reporter, but in fact he turned out to be a Soviet agent. They also like to point to the Pentagon Papers case as an example of untrammeled First Amendment rights, which in fact it was. But it only protected journalists from prior restraint from the government — and not from any criminal consequences of their actions.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 10:15 am
Here is an excerpt from an article I just read. I doubt the article would be of interest to most here, it’s deep in the Catholic woods, so to speak. However, this part about saving the seed seems a concept we may well heed.
I tell you this so you know that Marco is not oblivious at all to the travails of the post-Christian world. But, he told me, we must follow the example of St. Benedict, and figure out ways to serve Christ in the ruins of our civilization, and go forward with hope. The times call for Christians to be radical, said Marco, and that is something we have to accept. This is one of those times in history, he said, where we have to “save the seed” for the future, and we must be aware of the signs of the times. As we determine how to respond to the challenges of being Christian in this post-Christian civilization, we don’t need courage, he said, as much as we need imagination.
“Don’t worry if you haven’t got it all figured out now,” he said. “Don’t worry if you aren’t a thoroughbred horse. If there aren’t any thoroughbreds, well, use a donkey. I’m an old donkey doing the best he can with what he has. But remember, Jesus Christ came into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey.”
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 11:39 am
You’re excerpt reminds me of one of my favorite St. John Vianney stories.
A person who was unhappy with St. John Vianney called him a complete ass. St. John’s reply was simple “If God could destroy the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, just think what he can do with a complete ass!”
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 2:00 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 2:07 pm
Your* not you’re . Good grief.
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By lovely on February 13, 2017 at 2:21 pm
And then we have Chance the Rapper doing “How Great [is our God]” with what looks like a church choir at the Grammies last night.
Lyrics are somewhat strange, but he seems to be lifting up the name of Jesus.
https://genius.com/Chance-the-rapper-how-great-lyrics
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By John Denney on February 13, 2017 at 5:38 pm
Update on Gosnell, the book, from Ann McElhinney:
I wanted to let you know that our book, Gosnell – The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer is now available on Audible as an audiobook, I am the narrator.
I didn’t imagine it would be difficult to record the audiobook, but it was. Many times I had to stop and it wasn’t because I made a mistake.
Based on a recommendation from a friend we hired an audio producer to record the book. Like most of industry people in LA, she was a liberal. But she cried many times during the recording and thanked me for writing this story, which she had never heard of before.
Here is what she said after we finished:
“I had an extraordinary experience with this book. It affected me deeply, and opened my thought to explore this issue in ways I hadn’t considered. McElhinney’s approach to the subject was thoughtful and academic, and it was clear that she took great pains to avoid any specific political bias in the telling of this story. I came away with new insight into the subject.”
She also told the Gosnell story to liberal friends and had played parts of the audio for them and they were all stunned and needed to re-think their position on abortion in the US.
That just confirmed what we already knew about the Gosnell book – those who read it will never be the same again. It has the power to move hearts and change minds.
Not everyone has the time to sit down with the book, so we made the audio version hoping people might be able to listen to it during the work commute or on their walk.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Sharing pictures of the baby on FB, I made some of them public so some family members I have on my restricted list and some friends and in-laws of my daughter could see them. A particular family member that I am not friends with commented about how precious she is. She is one who supports abortion and supported Hillary. I told her that she’s so precious she and her idol Hillary would have been fine with murdering her a few hours before she was born. So to not be commenting on my posts.
Stupid FB had changed my blocked list again, she’s now back on it.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 10:05 pm
Maybe I shouldn’t put it so bluntly, but it just makes me mad when someone supports abortion and then says something about a newborn baby. It was a baby at 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and even at 36 weeks when some of these people think it’s still fine to kill them. She was precious and loved then just as she is now.
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By michellc on February 13, 2017 at 11:53 pm
We are having very mild and lovely weather here in Michigan, for February that is. Still, I can commiserate with those in the northeast who are experiencing more seasonal weather. Ran across this, and thought you might appreciate it:
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 3:44 pm
I have a friend that lives just outside of Boston. She is a branch manager for one of the Boston Public Libraries… The dumb mayor kept the libraries open during the last blizzard, for the children, because the schools were closed. So, weather is too dangerous for schools but not for librarians. She ended up in a snow bank trying to get to work .. grrrrrrrrrrrrr…. She did get today off,, I believe,,, someone knocked some sense into the mayor.
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By amwick on February 13, 2017 at 5:05 pm
With a 2×4?
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 6:28 pm
Love it –
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 8:16 pm
I’m not sure anyone will care about this, but I am going to put it out there. I am going to be 62 in May and just filed for Social Security last week. I was contacted by Social Security today that they had questions about my filing. I suspected the worst, but was very surprised.. My husband passed away at 53, so I did not think that his income would be more than mine after working non stop since he died. I was wrong. I will actually get $330.00 a month by claiming his. I also found out a little know fact that as a widow, I could have actually started receiving benefits at the age of 60 because of his death.
I will also start receiving that amount in March (due to his death date) instead of waiting until June and my eligibility date. This is not published on their web site.
I just want people to know about this option. I spent the last two years unemployed and it would have been nice to have some sort of income. It has been rough for me, but doable. Some folks are not so lucky.
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By shiloh1973 on February 13, 2017 at 6:09 pm
My aunt was married, had 3 children, divorced, and later remarried. Because she was married more than 10 years to her first husband, she was able to claim his social security. I don’t know if she had to wait until after his second wife died, but that might be the case. I was shocked.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 6:11 pm
It seems that 10 years married is the cut off. In one way I am upset I did not know about the 60 yres old rule, but am more than happy about getting more money. Mt husband died before he could apply for benefits. I am glad his work was not for nothing.
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By shiloh1973 on February 13, 2017 at 6:42 pm
P.S.: Congratulations!
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 6:12 pm
It’s kind of intimidating dealing with SS, I think – I’m glad your filing was checked and that you got the good news you did.
I got “good news” in a different way three years ago when my husband died.
The day I went to the SS office 25 miles away to file death certificate, etc. was so hard. That office was JAMMED with people under 35 (with all their kids). Obviously not there to collect SS after 90 years combined paying in…..
I had reviewed the information on the site and our recent tax forms, etc. and had come up with a figure that I believed would be my monthly payment. When I talked with the woman at the window she kept insisting it would be about $300 less per month. I left there in tears, already aware of how tight my long range budget would be. I felt completely helpless, so just hunkered down to see what would happen.
When my first regular check arrived at the time I expected it to, it was exactly the amount I had expected that it would be. The woman at the window was wrong.
Again, I’m so glad for you. Even those who have comparatively greater income and greater resources know by this point in life how quickly things can shift under our feet because of unexpected things.
I am provided for and am so very grateful.
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 6:47 pm
Yes. Last year I had to have two root canals and two caps. Not in my budget. I am still trying to figure out what else to give up to pay for it.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 6:50 pm
…..I understand…. ((((here’sahug))))))
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 7:03 pm
Thanks. I needed one. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 7:09 pm
Here is an extra (((USMOM))) since I was gone most of yesterday.
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By lovely on February 14, 2017 at 7:29 am
❤
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By auscitizenmom on February 14, 2017 at 8:51 am
The weight of the world has been lifted of my shoulders. I have been living on basically nothing for the last three years. I have not travelled more than 9 miles from my home in three years. I now feel like I can actually have a life again. It is truly a blessing from God.
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By shiloh1973 on February 13, 2017 at 7:19 pm
I am so happy for you! I have lived alone for a long time, and have had those stretches where I didn’t have two extra dimes to rub together. Let’s celebrate!
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 7:26 pm
Heck yea!!! It has been a long hall since my husband died. I finally feel that I may actually be able to live again.
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By shiloh1973 on February 13, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Stella: How does the champagne glass glitter. I shared it on my fb and it doesn’t glitter. Any suggestions?
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By Yvonne Russell on February 13, 2017 at 8:47 pm
I don’t know. It’s a gif file that I copied from Bing images.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 8:50 pm
I tried it on Facebook, and it doesn’t glitter for me there either.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 8:54 pm
Try clicking on it. It’s an animated gif, and in some environments you need to click on them to make them “play”.
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By John Denney on February 14, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Nope.
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By stella on February 14, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Wonderful Shiloh! What a blessing!
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By lovely on February 14, 2017 at 7:29 am
I was in tears today to get the news about my benefits. I have been living a very stark life the last 4 years. I have been a large charity donator in the past to multiple animal welfare groups, it has broken my heart that I could not help then anymore. I can now budget to help some of them again. My favorite is Best Friends out of Moab Utah. They do amazing things and I would love to keep helping them and hope some day to go there.
http://bestfriends.org/
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By shiloh1973 on February 13, 2017 at 8:01 pm
Was your husband a veteran? If he was you might want to check with the VA for any benefits.
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 7:03 pm
sorry Ken, but the VA has been nothing but a thorn in my side since he died. We were both Veterans, and I was told because I am a woman, I can’t even be a member of the VFW. I have contacted the VA several times and gotten no response. I can be a member of the VFW auxiliary. What a figgin crock. The VA has a real problem when it comes to female veterans.
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By shiloh1973 on February 13, 2017 at 7:24 pm
Well, that sucks.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 7:28 pm
If you are a Veteran with overseas service in a war zone, you can be a VFW member. Yes I do concur with the VA and female veterans. As for benefits, seek out your county veterans representative, in your county courthouse. Most of these Vet reps in your local county courthouse are good people. Seek them out. On your behalf I will personally VFW Headquarters in Kansas City to square your membership issue. You can email me through Stella……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 10:07 pm
Beyonce seems to believe she is some kind of goddess. I think they have a term for that – I think it’s called narcissism.
Anyway, here’s Matt Walsh’s take on her Grammy performance and the bi-polar pro-choicers. Maybe the Left really is the party of the mentally ill:
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/matt-walsh-apparently-unborn-babies-are-only-human-when-they-belong-to-beyonce/
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 6:33 pm
I’m going to nit-pick (can’t help it). I agree with everything he says in this column, but it is “inherent”, not “inherit” (It’s got nothing to do with their inherit value, but with Beyonce’s value …)
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 6:42 pm
I know, time to let it go, but I used to really enjoy Matt Walsh until he went nuts over Trump. He made me so mad I don’t think I can ever enjoy his writing again. I fully support his right to be for another candidate and to publicly support another candidate, but he was a rip roaring little bitch over Trump.
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 7:44 pm
I must have missed those columns. Then again, I spent a lot of the election tuning a lot of people out. Was he a Cruzbot? I know he publishes on The Blaze pretty regularly and I don’t think Beck has checked back into reality since the day Trump starting winning in the primaries.
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By Rhea Salacia Volans on February 13, 2017 at 8:39 pm
Thank you. I couldn’t agree more.
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By The Tundra PA on February 14, 2017 at 12:58 am
Today I did two more 20-minute raking/picking up sessions in the front yard – last fall’s work that I was unable to do. It’s good for building my strength back up and feels so good to be out there. I still find it ‘interesting’ how very long it takes to regain strength. I have learned from conversations with oncologists that it can take years and some people never regain strength. Sometimes I worry about what will happen to me if I can’t care for the house and then – I decide not to worry about what will happen. I have been provided for…. all acknowledgement to my Heavenly Father, and since He doesn’t change, I will stay with that perspective.
I discovered/learned something in August when I was the absolute weakest and sickest for six weeks – I’m not a very good sick person. Experiencing utter physical helplessness was terrifying to me. I’ve certainly BEEN helpless before n my life but always managed to evade it by making a list and doing some problem-solving for a couple of weeks. This was not quite as easy to manage. I EXPERIENCED helplessness week after week, not knowing when (or if) it would end. The situation caused me to see the limits of my conscious trust, ability to REST in the care of God for my day. Those days were both painful and productive.
I have intended to and would like to try to write about some of those lessons on MBOB-The Blog — but I don’t think I can yet. I’m reminded about what C. S. Lewis said when he was writing about pain, “I would write another chapter on pain if I could just get my tooth to stop hurting.”
Beyond grateful for the strength I feel – and that I have days of noticing that I feel GOOD.
Got a hearing test with ENT, etc. set for March 7 to evaluate significant hearing loss. Learned after the fact from one of the three oncologists that that is not unusual with the heavy treatment I had for 6 months. I can hear fine on the phone and face-to-face, but in group settings (or like in public/church settings) I hear the sounds but can’t understand the words….so looking forward to getting sme help for that.
Menagerie, Jon (and my neighbor Don) tell me that some people who do not have real severe hearing loss actually use Cabela’s product Hunting Ears and find that it helps for what they need – have you heard anything like that at Bass Pro? My neighbor actually uses that…..a whole lot cheaper than hearing aids which Medicare will not pay for. They will pay for diagnostic workups but not the equipment. Anyone else heard about using the Hunting Ears that way?
Thanks for listening………………
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 7:01 pm
I live alone like you do, and my greatest fear is being helpless; that and dying without anyone knowing. I am so sorry that you had to go through what you did, but happy that you are now recovering, and able to get out in the yard a bit.
It will be good to read what you have to say about it all at MBOB.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 7:12 pm
Yeah – I really want to write about it in a useful way – again, primarily for my family and for other readers as well….
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 8:13 pm
I too live alone..
When I had my shoulder manipulation surgery my pulse kept going to 42, so I was scared to let them give me anything for pain.
At the same time they were talking about releasing me, they were talking about it starting to snow. I really wanted to get home before I couldn’t go. They took me home and a block from home it really started coming down. An hour later I looked out and it was about 4 to 6 inches deep..
The snow wasn’t the worse part. I was really scared about my pulse, so I didn’t take any thing for pain, not even Tylenol. Knew that pain meds can lower ones pulse even farther.
Yea I finally got some sleep that night, by taking a percogesic for bedtime, and when I woke up in pain…
I do believe the good Lord was watching over me all the way, especially when I looked out at the snow prior to bed time. ..
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 8:32 pm
I haven’t been through anything near what you have, but I can say I am experiencing some of those feelings of fear of helplessness. My best friend of 56 years became very ill several years ago. It was very clear that she wouldn’t survive even though we didn’t know for a year what was wrong with her. Then, she passed away, suffering greatly.
In that time, I gained another 20 lbs and became less and less active, probably because of depression. Then, I hurt my knee, then my hip, and THEN I fell and hurt everything and it became clear that if I didn’t heal I was going to have trouble getting up and down the stairs in my apt. that I really love. Scary thought. So many friends have moved away and several have died. It’s difficult having no back up.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 7:22 pm
Looks like there are a lot of us who don’t have much local support. I have always loved living by myself, but it gets more scary as I get older and not as strong and able as I was not that long ago.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 7:31 pm
Yes, I like living by myself. And, I have been blessed with good health. I have some allergies, etc., but I don’t tend to catch diseases. And, I am not good at asking for help.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 7:48 pm
I enjoy it to auscit…
Except for the shoulder, been doing really good. Can sort of afford to hire help for maintenance and stuff. .Do like the freedom of doing what i want when I want and/or can afford it.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 8:41 pm
The people at the church are really good. However my church is about 30 mins away. When it snows the road there or to here from there is worse.
Seems one has to do a lot of fending for themselves.
My youngest keeps telling me to sell & move closer to her. If she lived any place but California I might…
But not moving back to California..(Well, can’t say never for the Lord is in charge).
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 8:39 pm
My son-in-law told me as soon as they were married that if I ever needed a home, I could live with them. I wouldn’t want to do that, but it is good to know that I could. He’s a very sweet man, and always good to his mother too.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 8:52 pm
We do have some good kids don’t we..
I just don’t want them to try if I am full blown dementia or Alzheimers. Always told to not place me in a home that you can smell from the parking lot.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 9:00 pm
My brother just went into a group home, because his dementia is progressed so far that he requires a great deal of assistance. He is married, and his wife could no longer care for him, but she visits him every day, and his residence is only about 10 minutes away. It has been difficult for them both.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Worked at a San so I know that care that is required.
Watching the spouses & kids visit sometimes was probably the worse part.
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 9:54 pm
Just four years ago when I visited them in Washington, he was vigorous – working out at the gym and taking early morning spinning classes. They are now in southern California, near their son, and not far from their daughter, which is good. He’s 85, quite a few years older than I am.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 10:07 pm
I pray I go in my sleep, having had a good day of ???
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 10:16 pm
For a year or so I have been reading your comments just for the fun of it and thought I had anything to contribute that you all haven’t already said, so didn’t say anything. Your recent comments about being old and alone hit home, been doing that for last 13 year or so after my wife died of cancer. It took me about 8 to 10 years to realize what I did not remember and slowly it comes back of a very difficult time and in that time I think I was lost in life, lived alone by a river with a steep bank and often thought if something happened to me it would be week for anyone to find me, that bothered me somewhat. Yet it did not stop me, so I drink and smoke to wash away the feeling. It helps sometimes; just want you to know you are not alone. Not a very religious guy but, GOD and I have an ongoing conversation, seem he won’t let me forget my purpose, which is to write it down, which I do, I just have a fear of someone might read it. Them what? I think I have said too much. Bye for now. If it is OK, I will keep watch.
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By Joe on February 13, 2017 at 9:39 pm
Of course, you can just watch and read, if that is what suits you best, Joe. I’m glad you spoke up, though, and please do again. No, we are not alone in this respect at all.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 9:49 pm
Thank you for your comment. Sometimes sharing helps another more than you know. Glad to know you are lurking. 😀
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 10:05 pm
Than you Joe for joining in, (((Joe))).
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By lovely on February 14, 2017 at 7:40 am
I’m more convinced than ever that – it is not the specific cause of our fears and helplessness that give them significance.
There is good reason that our hearts stretch toward one another – in general – when we know that someone is about at the end of their resources or their wits.
We recognize that we can’t fix stuff, but the companionship and recognition of common sufferings actually does break the loneliness of the thing.
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 8:09 pm
Yes.
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 8:10 pm
Sharon, there are several products on our website that sound like what you describe. This is the most expensive, by far. The next one listed is 199, this one is 600. Please, let me know if I can help you in any way.
http://t.basspro.com/Walkers-Game-Ear-Micro-Elite-Hearing-Enhancement-Aid/product/10202930/
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 7:50 pm
Thank you!
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 8:08 pm
Sharon, is there anyone who will loan you their device so you can try it out at church to see if it helps you?
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 8:29 pm
Yes – Neighbor Don already offered – he said he has some extra/new tips that have not been used at all and once I have had the tests, I can use his unit to see how that works.
He says it totally meets his need and he has very specific job-related hearing loss that goes way back –
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By Sharon on February 13, 2017 at 8:34 pm
That’s excellent.
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By stella on February 13, 2017 at 8:35 pm
If all Bass Pro stores have the same return policy, and I believe they would, you could return it quite easily if it did not work for you. You can return online orders to the nearest store, or ship them back.
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By Menagerie on February 13, 2017 at 10:05 pm
I’ve always feared becoming helpless and having to depend on others. I joke with my kids that if/when that day comes to just pretend like I’m a lame horse and shoot me and put me out of my misery.
I’m sorry for all you have gone through.
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By michellc on February 14, 2017 at 12:04 am
Well….I was totally shocked and the revelation of how poorly I responded when I was truly helpless – wow. Lessons learned. I had never experienced such a thing – I suspect I have more compassion in certain areas of things than I did.
Don’t be sorry! Seriously – it wasn’t fun and I wouldn’t sign up for it voluntarily, but it’s ok. It’s just ok.
Life is what it is –
One thing this did was force me to allow my neighbors to care for me (and I have four trusted relationships now because of that) and I leaerned to know four ladies from my church, because I couldn’t drive for 8 weeks, and they helped with taking me to chemo. That was so hard….but again, the results aren’t all bad. Not at all.
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By Sharon on February 14, 2017 at 1:06 am
Cancer is such a horrible thing. I watched it take my sister’s life and how it took away her ability to walk and talk.
I’m sorry for anyone who ever has to battle cancer.
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By michellc on February 14, 2017 at 8:16 am
My father was very independent right up to the last. He developed lung cancer and then a few months later, my mom died. He stayed really strong and independent until the cancer was really bad. There was nothing they could do at that point and he had to rely on me. He taught me how to accept help graciously and how it could be a gift to the one doing the caretaking. I just have to remember that.
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By auscitizenmom on February 14, 2017 at 8:43 am
Thank you Sharon for sharing your beautiful soul and words with us. You are an inspiration.
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By lovely on February 14, 2017 at 7:44 am
Can you all believe this
Obama just keep up using millions upon millions of American dollars on his lavish life style.
White House: Trump Is Paying For Japanese PM’s Trip To Mar-a-Lago
Ryan Pickrell
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/09/trump-is-personally-paying-for-japanese-pms-trip-to-mar-a-lago/#ixzz4YcRu2YgC
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/09/trump-is-personally-paying-for-japanese-pms-trip-to-mar-a-lago/
https://twitter.com/kinthenorthwest/status/831311642621259780
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By kinthenorthwest on February 13, 2017 at 8:34 pm
Aw, “a personal gift.”
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 9:06 pm
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 9:01 pm
Amen
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By auscitizenmom on February 13, 2017 at 9:03 pm
Amen
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By Col.(R) Ken on February 13, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Amen.
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By The Tundra PA on February 14, 2017 at 12:44 am