Happy Friday Lucille : ) ! 50° at 2:40 AM. My dog decide this would be a good time to wake me up 🙄so I decided to see if any of the 4 holdouts committed to confirming Kavanaugh yet.
Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996)
The performance took place at the Blues Alley jazz supper club in Georgetown, DC, on the 3rd January 1996.
Yes, so very young. Dying from melanoma in 1996 was likely much higher than today. Often people don’t even think anything about changes in pigmentation or about moles. So it gets to an advanced stage, progressing into other parts of the body before it’s even looked at.
California is a hazard to your health! Imagine typhus! When is the last time you even heard that word?
Downtown L. A. has always been a hazard in every way…often filthy…often scary with derelicts, drug addicts, people who are visibly physically ill laying and sitting around the streets in certain sections…even around the main police headquarters, the county buildings and the courts. It was shocking years ago…I can’t even imagine what it’s like today. Democratic = Demonic!
The last time I was in LA was in the 1980’s, and there were derelicts laying in the gutters downtown even then. I was shocked, as you never see that in Detroit (imagine)!
Yeah, I had a buddy who lived in the Korean district. We’d been with the Koreans on Hiway 1 so we’d go and eat at the Korean spots and talk with the store owners. They complained about the junkies and rummies in the streets and how the city ignored them – unless they did something themselves and then the city came down on them. I particularly like how they said the streets and alleys smelled like Korean farms after a thaw.
Keep calling, keep tweeting! Their mailboxes are not full Jerry Moran is voting to confirm. The more they hear from us the more they understand this is not a a Clinton/Obama/Bush world any longer.
Had healthy yogurt with blueberries & strawberries instead of Mike’s plate of preferable bacon.
Continuing yesterday’s rant about my new boss, “Good morning to you, good morning to you, we’re all in our places with bright shiny faces, good morning to you, good morning to you”.
Good morning, Nyet! Potatoes, scrambled eggs and a couple chewey sausages fit the bill today. I’m definitely getting away from it all out here. It might take your deliveryman a bit of hiking to find me; so send along enough for him also as he’ll need strength for the trek back to civilization.
Maybe her thought processes are victim to global warming. If I were her Republican opponent’s PR guy I’d start hammering home what she put in danger for Alaska as Kavanaugh is more in line with individual property rights than prog groups like the tree huggers, DoI, BLM and others who’d mess with their rights.
Oh yeah…those ‘don’t drill for oil in Alaska’ groups that use the SCOTUS as their enforcement arm – there’d go, eventually – those $5000 a year checks to AK residents.
*Sigh* I hate this Drama Queen stuff from my despicable senator. Five more minutes to be the center of media attention. She loves this. She’s as bad as Schmuckie Shummer when it comes to getting in front of a camera. We have already emailed her today, and included that 64% of Alaskans support Judge K’s confirmation. If she votes against it tomorrow, DH and I will be all out in 2022 to see her defeated.
Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
1) Just to be clear on what @lisamurkowski
voted for today:
–to legitimize and sign off on the most despicable tactics ever in a nomination.
–to stand with Dianne Feinstein, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris.
–to leave Judge Brett Kavanaugh subject to claims of perjury/impeachment
2)
–to abandon due process and presumption of innocence.
–to potentially leave High Court at a 4-4 deadlock, putting the loony 9th circuit in control of everything that matters to Alaska–development, prop rights, gun rights, enviro rules, etc.
I would SO love to do that, lovely! Now that she’s come out as a NO on Kavanaugh, I will work actively and tirelessly for a successful primary opponent in 2022. I would love that person to be Sarah Palin!
11:30 Am || Receives his intelligence briefing
1:45 pm || Participates in a Defense Industrial Base Report Presentation
2:45 pm || Participates in a signing ceremony for H.R. 4, the “FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018”
$2.49 here yesteday. It’s b/c Calif. has lots of taxes on gas, & the “traffic will bear the price”. Both Gulf Coast & West Coast produce & refine oil, so it’s not about a shortage.
Why we don’t spray for insects here.
We will spray our garden if it gets so bad that the crickets lean up against the tomato cages and smoke cigars as they brag about what they done et, and we’ll have to start spraying the fruit trees a bit but beyond that – nothing.
Our main driveway and secondary route are both through trees, the main drive being 20 feet wide at places, the secondary much closer due to branches overhanging. You’d think that 15 to 20 feet would be a bit wide for spiders but no, the drive’s full of them. At times they’re so dense that the car’s antenna – or your face if you’re on the ATV – is just draped with them.
These webs are done by huge spiders, mostly by our army of native banana spiders, and they happen almost while you wait. I have no idea how they span ten to fifteen feet down the lake path in an area with little wind but they do, and the web itself is frequently the size of a double bed. They appear during the day and by the next morning are largely gone.
It’s much the same with the grass spiders. When we have a very humid day the dew will condense on the grass and hundreds of square feet of lawn will be covered in dewy webs.
Someone once told me that these rural areas will have as much as a million various spiders per acre – you just rarely see them. They’ve become as much of a visual treat to us as the regular and more edible wildlife.
No, that would be this afternoon when I went down to the mailbox and my drainage-ditch resident cottonmouth was crawling by my ATV about two feet from my bare feet.
The spiders do not bother anyone – those bol banana spiders just come up, look at ya, decide you’re either too big to eat or they don’t know what to do with the leftovers and slowly skitter off.
Nono…… Did I ever tell the story of when I was a small girl and I saw a very delicate small ball, it almost looked like a tiny Christmas tree ornament in the window sill of our cottage. I went to pick it up and it sprung legs and ran across my hand. It was some type of creepy spider masquerading as a small ornament. I can still see that moment and feel that moment.
Yeah, felt like that until I had some really big ones just run over my hand or leg – figured they were more scared of me so since them we’ve had a respectful truce.
I’m just amazed and fascinated by them. The up-close on a spider’s a bit disconcerting but the beauty of the spider and its web is…amazing and fascinating.
You got your opinion and I’ve got mine. In reality I can see the fascination in them and the beauty in the sunlight reflected in the dew of their webs. Just the same they creep me out.
I’m also amazed by the numbers of things out here that eat insects and how many insects there are. We have fish in the lake constantly breaking water for bugs, a dozen different birds that eat them – including specialists like the flycatcher that flits around branches snagging flying insects close to tree trunks.
The spiders just add to it, they have their special little niches and we give each other space.
My SIL had a Tarantula as a pet when my GG was about 4yo. She just loved her spider! She had no fear and liked to hold it and let it crawl all over. She took it’s exo-skeleton to school once when it had molted, and her teacher just about passed out! That spider lived a long and happy life!
I didn’t know I am home to many spiders until I had my eye surgery. I never saw all of the cobwebs until then, I was shocked! I asked DH why he never said anything. He said he thought they were Halloween décor!
Its in low 80s still. Finally opened the house for a .5 day. Nights are just about cool enough to leave open. Im ready for a season. That hurricaine rain storm was just a few windshield wipes worth for me.
The school district agreed to do the testing, although they noted that denial was considered. I’ve been filling out some paperwork, including 3 eval forms on behavior, social maturity, and other things. Not done yet. I dont like the legalese about “inviting” the parents to review everything when it is required for parents to ask for eval even if the school wants it.
Mr Gil said to start preparing for home school because he FINALLY understands public school is not an option.
I looked at his current math program, Saxon, and they have a home school curriculum. Im just going to bookmark it for later.
Check also to see if there is a home school association via a social club or church or simply a group of parents who get together. That will bring the socialization so necessary after school and usually one day a week for games, music, dances, etc.
Part of my family in Canada–Toronto area–homeschooled both a son and daughter for their entire school years through grade 12. A+ students, very well socialized via an association and through their church. They both graduated college with high scores.
Everyone says he is smart. I wont know what deficits he has until they do this testing. I can see his personality is not the same since starting school. Hopefully a better week next week.
Let me tell you this, Gil. Trust you motherly instinct. Don’t let anybody else convince you of things you don’t feel are right for your child. Don’t buy into it when they say he needs to go to school for “socialization”. Just remember so many of the kids that get that “socialization”. And, Lucille is right. There are many ways for him to socialize with other children. And, I think you are very intuitive and sensitive to what your child needs. Don’t be afraid to trust it.
I was worried about putting too much pressure on my son. At the time, that was what parents were doing to their children. However, my SON taught me that wasn’t a problem for him. I timed him for something on his math one time and he begged me to time him on everything after that. He loved being pushed. My stopwatch was always nearby.
Auscitizenmom is right. Other than school, can you name one aspect of life where you are forced into a situation where you are exposed only to people your own age? You are socialized by every person you meet, of all ages.
One thing I noticed right off when we joined the homeschool group……..that is, the children were so well adjusted. They weren’t perfect, they wouldn’t have been well adjusted if they had been. But, they related well to the adults and the other children of all ages. Of course, there were some who had problems, but they were actually rare. I have objections to children being put in schoolrooms with children of their own age all day.
I know a lot of people that home-school. They all have a group of some sort that they socialize with. They go on field trips together, or movies or just hang out with the kids at sporting events. Here, they can actually play sports with the local school kids. These are some of the brightist kids around these parts!
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.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/kavanaugh-v.-ford
“After watching her husband rip into pro-death senators who used Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in attempts to derail the appointment of her husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ashley is asking all people of faith to unite in praying Psalm 40, which reads:”
“BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME, LOOK DOWN, O LORD TO HELP ME. LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED AND ASHAMED TOGETHER, THAT SEEK AFTER MY SOUL TO TAKE IT AWAY. LET THEM BE TURNED BACKWARD AND BE ASHAMED THAT DESIRE EVILS TO ME.”
Things are going to get very ugly folks. I know we’ve all been saying it and seeing it.
Today I was with a group of friends and we were talking amongst ourselves about the Kavanaugh debacle and I was talking about Ford’s attorney and her position that Paula Jones should have suffered no consequences from Bill Clinton’s exposing himself to her and asking for a sexual favor because “the whole thing only lasted about 12 minutes”.
Out of nowhere a rabid nutcase wearing a Tony Evers (WI Governor democratic candidate) button and a “blue wave 2018” button started screaming at us about how she had overheard our conversation and was disgusted by women supporting a rapist. I told her I was disgusted by her supporting a partisan attorney who was abused and dismissed women who were real victims of sexual harassment. She was delusional in her anger spewing all kinds of crazy things.
Anyhow thankfully she stormed out of the building. These people are crazy.
May you have a lovely autumn Friday…
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 12:04 am
Happy Friday Lucille : ) ! 50° at 2:40 AM. My dog decide this would be a good time to wake me up 🙄so I decided to see if any of the 4 holdouts committed to confirming Kavanaugh yet.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 3:41 am
I feel good about it. Must be my famous (haha) optimism!
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 3:43 am
🙂 ! Me too! Your links below are great news. Sen Moran committing to confirming Kavanaugh probably gave a few more Leftist ulcers. Good!
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 3:52 am
Hoping for 53/47 in favor of Kavanaugh! Big weekend ahead! Morning Stella!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:49 am
It’s going to be in the low 90’s today. Fall, fall, whereforth art thou?
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By Menagerie on October 5, 2018 at 6:45 am
Low 90’s !? I’d be wilting 😊.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 6:58 am
Morning lovely!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:47 am
Evening Sand 🙂 !
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 7:03 pm
We’ve been high 80’s here. I’m ready for cooler weather! Morning Menagerie!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:47 am
Afternoon sand!
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By Menagerie on October 5, 2018 at 1:44 pm
It’s visiting up here. 50 now, high of 60 today.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 10:04 am
Good Lord…our lowest ‘low’ for the last month was an itinerant 70 that just stopped by.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Thanks, lovely! I’m reading the Psalms this morning…so helpful!
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 1:38 pm
Morning Lucille!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:46 am
Good morning, sand! Let’s keep on praying!
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 1:36 pm
Beautiful!!!! Thank you!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 3:03 pm
You’re most welcome, sand!
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 6:31 pm
Eva Marie Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996)
The performance took place at the Blues Alley jazz supper club in Georgetown, DC, on the 3rd January 1996.
French Connection: The Story Behind Johnny Mercer’s “Autumn Leaves”
http://georgiamusic.org/french-connection-the-story-behind-johnny-mercers-autumn-leaves/
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 12:09 am
Beautiful.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 3:42 am
Sad. She died of melanoma at age 33.
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By The Tundra PA on October 5, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Yes, so very young. Dying from melanoma in 1996 was likely much higher than today. Often people don’t even think anything about changes in pigmentation or about moles. So it gets to an advanced stage, progressing into other parts of the body before it’s even looked at.
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 6:37 pm
A friend of mine died in his early 40’s, leaving two teenagers behind.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm
YES!
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By MaryfromMarin on October 5, 2018 at 12:13 am
Morning Mary!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:49 am
Late afternoon, s and s ! See you later on twitter…
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By MaryfromMarin on October 5, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Terrific!
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 7:58 pm
Woof! A fly on Bill’s/Hillary’s wall? Think there’d be room there for more flies?
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:07 pm
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 3:32 am
I am always impressed with how diplomatically an attorney can flip someone the bird. Bravo Senator Grassley!
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 3:48 am
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 3:42 am
This is appalling. California has become a 3rd world country.
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/1048077788652040192
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 3:45 am
They are gonna need to run that wall right up the Cali border before long.
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By Menagerie on October 5, 2018 at 6:49 am
🤭
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:50 am
They are just getting the city ready for all the third world country people they are bringing in. Want them to feel right at home.
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 8:48 am
Ahhhhhh…I can see the one-donkey diapered food trucks now…
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 9:38 pm
California is a hazard to your health! Imagine typhus! When is the last time you even heard that word?
Downtown L. A. has always been a hazard in every way…often filthy…often scary with derelicts, drug addicts, people who are visibly physically ill laying and sitting around the streets in certain sections…even around the main police headquarters, the county buildings and the courts. It was shocking years ago…I can’t even imagine what it’s like today. Democratic = Demonic!
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 1:46 pm
The last time I was in LA was in the 1980’s, and there were derelicts laying in the gutters downtown even then. I was shocked, as you never see that in Detroit (imagine)!
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 2:37 pm
Yeah, I had a buddy who lived in the Korean district. We’d been with the Koreans on Hiway 1 so we’d go and eat at the Korean spots and talk with the store owners. They complained about the junkies and rummies in the streets and how the city ignored them – unless they did something themselves and then the city came down on them. I particularly like how they said the streets and alleys smelled like Korean farms after a thaw.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:17 pm
I’m shocked……..
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By Col(R) Ken on October 5, 2018 at 4:41 pm
Pretty soon we’re gonna have to check the CDC’s ‘recommended immunizations’ list B4 we travells to da La.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:19 pm
I’d say ‘more of a 3rd world country’. They didn’t have to remodel it much for Blade Runner.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:09 pm
Have a beautiful day folks!
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 4:10 am
202-224-2523 @SenatorCollins
202-224-3424 @SenatorEnzi
202-224-4521 @JeffFlake
202-224-3954 @Sen_JoeManchin
202-224-6665 @lisamurkowski
Keep calling, keep tweeting! Their mailboxes are not full Jerry Moran is voting to confirm. The more they hear from us the more they understand this is not a a Clinton/Obama/Bush world any longer.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 7:38 am
Got them all called!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:20 am
Woo Hoo! now we need to focus on that horrid Murkowski.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 7:02 pm
Sarah Palin tweeted at her today that she can see 2022 from her house! LOL!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:33 pm
Morning early risers! Hope y’all have a fantastic day!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 7:45 am
Mornin’ kids!
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By WeeWeed on October 5, 2018 at 8:10 am
Morning WeeWeed!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 8:21 am
Mornin’ S&S!
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By WeeWeed on October 5, 2018 at 8:45 am
Hey Ms.WeeWeed, home last night, still recovering from surgery………glad I’m typing, can’t talk……
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By Col(R) Ken on October 5, 2018 at 4:45 pm
Still in my prayers. Hope you feel better. ❤
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 4:47 pm
Evenin’ Colonel Sir!! Hope the surgery was successful and it’s UP from here!!
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By WeeWeed on October 5, 2018 at 6:51 pm
Prayers Col. Sir! ❤️🙏🏼
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:02 pm
Evening Wee!
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:01 pm
Evenin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on October 5, 2018 at 8:04 pm
#MomsforKavanaugh
https://twitter.com/catholicvote/status/1047976307999555586?s=12
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 8:28 am
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)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
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’ czarina33! (aka 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 Covfefe! (aka “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! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
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’ rheavolans! (aka “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’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
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 October 5, 2018 at 8:36 am
Morning Nyet! Happy Friday! Thank you for breakfast.
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:04 am
Had healthy yogurt with blueberries & strawberries instead of Mike’s plate of preferable bacon.
Continuing yesterday’s rant about my new boss, “Good morning to you, good morning to you, we’re all in our places with bright shiny faces, good morning to you, good morning to you”.
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By czarina33 on October 5, 2018 at 12:01 pm
I wouldn’t like that either, especially if I didn’t have appropriate levels of caffeine in my bloodstream yet.
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 12:27 pm
Good morning, Nyet! Potatoes, scrambled eggs and a couple chewey sausages fit the bill today. I’m definitely getting away from it all out here. It might take your deliveryman a bit of hiking to find me; so send along enough for him also as he’ll need strength for the trek back to civilization.
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 1:56 pm
Evening Nyet 🙂 !
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:03 pm
I think I will just have tea and toast today. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 8:55 am
Morning auscitizenmom!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:04 am
Evening Aus 🙂 !
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:04 pm
Not Doggityday, but a good outcome for this dog!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dog-with-3d-printed-skull-gives-researchers-hope-of-helping-human-patients/
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By czarina33 on October 5, 2018 at 9:13 am
Morning czarina!
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:23 am
Neato! Evening Czarina 🙂 !
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:06 pm
Have a happy day everyone!
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9lmzoz/5149_moving_forward_to_a_final_vote/?utm_source=reddit-android
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 10:59 am
You too!
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 10:59 am
Murkowski = NO
Manchin = YES
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 11:08 am
Hm. Murkowski tired of being a senator?
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 11:20 am
Swine stein got to her.
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 11:46 am
She’s not up for reelection for four more years, so she probably feels safe.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 12:28 pm
Oh, right.
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 1:01 pm
Maybe her thought processes are victim to global warming. If I were her Republican opponent’s PR guy I’d start hammering home what she put in danger for Alaska as Kavanaugh is more in line with individual property rights than prog groups like the tree huggers, DoI, BLM and others who’d mess with their rights.
Oh yeah…those ‘don’t drill for oil in Alaska’ groups that use the SCOTUS as their enforcement arm – there’d go, eventually – those $5000 a year checks to AK residents.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:28 pm
*Sigh* I hate this Drama Queen stuff from my despicable senator. Five more minutes to be the center of media attention. She loves this. She’s as bad as Schmuckie Shummer when it comes to getting in front of a camera. We have already emailed her today, and included that 64% of Alaskans support Judge K’s confirmation. If she votes against it tomorrow, DH and I will be all out in 2022 to see her defeated.
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By The Tundra PA on October 5, 2018 at 5:16 pm
Kimberly Strassel’s comments:
Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
1) Just to be clear on what @lisamurkowski
voted for today:
–to legitimize and sign off on the most despicable tactics ever in a nomination.
–to stand with Dianne Feinstein, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris.
–to leave Judge Brett Kavanaugh subject to claims of perjury/impeachment
2)
–to abandon due process and presumption of innocence.
–to potentially leave High Court at a 4-4 deadlock, putting the loony 9th circuit in control of everything that matters to Alaska–development, prop rights, gun rights, enviro rules, etc.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 6:46 pm
Tundra can you please bean her with a snowball on behalf of all of us?
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm
I would SO love to do that, lovely! Now that she’s come out as a NO on Kavanaugh, I will work actively and tirelessly for a successful primary opponent in 2022. I would love that person to be Sarah Palin!
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By The Tundra PA on October 6, 2018 at 1:25 pm
Today’s Trump Schedule
Friday, October 5, 2018
11:30 Am || Receives his intelligence briefing
1:45 pm || Participates in a Defense Industrial Base Report Presentation
2:45 pm || Participates in a signing ceremony for H.R. 4, the “FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018”
All times Eastern
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 11:07 am
Just passed two gas stations. Both $4.09 for regular.
Never seen this high.
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 11:23 am
$2.49 here yesteday. It’s b/c Calif. has lots of taxes on gas, & the “traffic will bear the price”. Both Gulf Coast & West Coast produce & refine oil, so it’s not about a shortage.
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By czarina33 on October 5, 2018 at 12:05 pm
It was pretty high when I was on the west coast in 2012.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 12:28 pm
2.69 a gallon here yesterday.
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By Menagerie on October 5, 2018 at 1:48 pm
You all are lucky. I cant imagine that anyone who is voting wont vote to remove the gas tax. But, its still too high at 41 cents.
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 1:54 pm
Our state tax is 19 cents, which is still pretty high compared to other states. Then the Federal tax is 18.4 cents.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 2:40 pm
Lowest price in my town right now is $2.76, according to Gas Buddy.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 2:38 pm
Why we don’t spray for insects here.
We will spray our garden if it gets so bad that the crickets lean up against the tomato cages and smoke cigars as they brag about what they done et, and we’ll have to start spraying the fruit trees a bit but beyond that – nothing.
Our main driveway and secondary route are both through trees, the main drive being 20 feet wide at places, the secondary much closer due to branches overhanging. You’d think that 15 to 20 feet would be a bit wide for spiders but no, the drive’s full of them. At times they’re so dense that the car’s antenna – or your face if you’re on the ATV – is just draped with them.
These webs are done by huge spiders, mostly by our army of native banana spiders, and they happen almost while you wait. I have no idea how they span ten to fifteen feet down the lake path in an area with little wind but they do, and the web itself is frequently the size of a double bed. They appear during the day and by the next morning are largely gone.
It’s much the same with the grass spiders. When we have a very humid day the dew will condense on the grass and hundreds of square feet of lawn will be covered in dewy webs.
Someone once told me that these rural areas will have as much as a million various spiders per acre – you just rarely see them. They’ve become as much of a visual treat to us as the regular and more edible wildlife.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 12:15 pm
So you’ve taken up horror writing as a pastime?
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:24 pm
No, that would be this afternoon when I went down to the mailbox and my drainage-ditch resident cottonmouth was crawling by my ATV about two feet from my bare feet.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:30 pm
😬As long as there weren’t hordes of spiders on you on the way back home then all is well.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:32 pm
The spiders do not bother anyone – those bol banana spiders just come up, look at ya, decide you’re either too big to eat or they don’t know what to do with the leftovers and slowly skitter off.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 8:34 pm
Still creepy and scary looking !
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:38 pm
How bout dem wolf spiders where deys carry dem babies on they backs? You jes touches one and they ex-plodes into hunnerds of spiderettes.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 9:10 pm
😱Grosssssssss!!!
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:13 pm
I’m astartin’ to find them buttons…
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 9:17 pm
Nono…… Did I ever tell the story of when I was a small girl and I saw a very delicate small ball, it almost looked like a tiny Christmas tree ornament in the window sill of our cottage. I went to pick it up and it sprung legs and ran across my hand. It was some type of creepy spider masquerading as a small ornament. I can still see that moment and feel that moment.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:21 pm
Yeah, felt like that until I had some really big ones just run over my hand or leg – figured they were more scared of me so since them we’ve had a respectful truce.
I’m just amazed and fascinated by them. The up-close on a spider’s a bit disconcerting but the beauty of the spider and its web is…amazing and fascinating.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 9:25 pm
You got your opinion and I’ve got mine. In reality I can see the fascination in them and the beauty in the sunlight reflected in the dew of their webs. Just the same they creep me out.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:36 pm
I’m also amazed by the numbers of things out here that eat insects and how many insects there are. We have fish in the lake constantly breaking water for bugs, a dozen different birds that eat them – including specialists like the flycatcher that flits around branches snagging flying insects close to tree trunks.
The spiders just add to it, they have their special little niches and we give each other space.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 9:53 pm
My SIL had a Tarantula as a pet when my GG was about 4yo. She just loved her spider! She had no fear and liked to hold it and let it crawl all over. She took it’s exo-skeleton to school once when it had molted, and her teacher just about passed out! That spider lived a long and happy life!
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By JTR on October 5, 2018 at 10:13 pm
I didn’t know I am home to many spiders until I had my eye surgery. I never saw all of the cobwebs until then, I was shocked! I asked DH why he never said anything. He said he thought they were Halloween décor!
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By JTR on October 5, 2018 at 10:16 pm
True dat…why take them Xmas decors down when for the next 11 months they serves to heighten the anticipation?
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 11:55 pm
Czarina like spiders but her bete noire be the scorpion. I’ve always wanted one of those 8-inch long emperor scorpions but Czarina has…reservations.
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 11:45 pm
I will take spiders any day over roaches. And the south has lots of roaches. Best place I lived was Utah, where there are no roaches!
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By czarina33 on October 5, 2018 at 11:28 pm
No roaches but LaRouche had a big following…
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By czarowniczy on October 5, 2018 at 11:39 pm
For those still enjoying warm weather…and those of us who would like to…
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 2:07 pm
Its in low 80s still. Finally opened the house for a .5 day. Nights are just about cool enough to leave open. Im ready for a season. That hurricaine rain storm was just a few windshield wipes worth for me.
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 5:52 pm
https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/04/outlander-season-4-ew-cover/
For you Stella! Scroll down to the various covers. Great photos. My copy came with the one of the gorgeous red-haired dude!
“Some Like It Scot!”
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By JTR on October 5, 2018 at 5:25 pm
Thanks for thinking of me!
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 7:33 pm
You’re welcome. Thanks for having me in such a nice welcoming place that I look forward to perusing daily!
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By JTR on October 5, 2018 at 8:59 pm
The school district agreed to do the testing, although they noted that denial was considered. I’ve been filling out some paperwork, including 3 eval forms on behavior, social maturity, and other things. Not done yet. I dont like the legalese about “inviting” the parents to review everything when it is required for parents to ask for eval even if the school wants it.
Mr Gil said to start preparing for home school because he FINALLY understands public school is not an option.
I looked at his current math program, Saxon, and they have a home school curriculum. Im just going to bookmark it for later.
https://www.hmhco.com/programs/saxon-math
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Hallelujah for Mr. Gil’s awakening! It’s possible you may home school, then opt to put him in public or parochial school later.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 6:13 pm
Check also to see if there is a home school association via a social club or church or simply a group of parents who get together. That will bring the socialization so necessary after school and usually one day a week for games, music, dances, etc.
Part of my family in Canada–Toronto area–homeschooled both a son and daughter for their entire school years through grade 12. A+ students, very well socialized via an association and through their church. They both graduated college with high scores.
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Everyone says he is smart. I wont know what deficits he has until they do this testing. I can see his personality is not the same since starting school. Hopefully a better week next week.
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By Gil on October 5, 2018 at 6:56 pm
Let me tell you this, Gil. Trust you motherly instinct. Don’t let anybody else convince you of things you don’t feel are right for your child. Don’t buy into it when they say he needs to go to school for “socialization”. Just remember so many of the kids that get that “socialization”. And, Lucille is right. There are many ways for him to socialize with other children. And, I think you are very intuitive and sensitive to what your child needs. Don’t be afraid to trust it.
I was worried about putting too much pressure on my son. At the time, that was what parents were doing to their children. However, my SON taught me that wasn’t a problem for him. I timed him for something on his math one time and he begged me to time him on everything after that. He loved being pushed. My stopwatch was always nearby.
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 7:27 pm
Auscitizenmom is right. Other than school, can you name one aspect of life where you are forced into a situation where you are exposed only to people your own age? You are socialized by every person you meet, of all ages.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 7:32 pm
One thing I noticed right off when we joined the homeschool group……..that is, the children were so well adjusted. They weren’t perfect, they wouldn’t have been well adjusted if they had been. But, they related well to the adults and the other children of all ages. Of course, there were some who had problems, but they were actually rare. I have objections to children being put in schoolrooms with children of their own age all day.
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 9:42 pm
I know a lot of people that home-school. They all have a group of some sort that they socialize with. They go on field trips together, or movies or just hang out with the kids at sporting events. Here, they can actually play sports with the local school kids. These are some of the brightist kids around these parts!
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By JTR on October 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm
We used Saxon when I homeschooled. I really liked it.
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 7:05 pm
Made a batch of my own powdered laundry detergent today. Really inexpensive for a large batch. I’ll let you know how it works.
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 6:45 pm
Neat, I hope it works well.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:12 pm
Me too. Not difficult to make and very economical!
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 8:14 pm
This is such a beautiful photo, though I don’t know where it was taken. It would make a beautiful painting…
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 6:50 pm
I think Lindsey Graham really enjoys not being a pansy.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 8:18 pm
Hell may have frozen over.
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1048170408170668037
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 8:19 pm
😳
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:02 pm
My jaw just hit the floor.
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:06 pm
Proud of these young conservative women:
https://twitter.com/RealMAGASteve/status/1048316584505303040
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By stella on October 5, 2018 at 8:22 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 October 5, 2018 at 9:00 pm
Amen
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm
Amen.
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:05 pm
Prayer for Judge Kavanaugh:
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/kavanaugh-v.-ford
“After watching her husband rip into pro-death senators who used Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in attempts to derail the appointment of her husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ashley is asking all people of faith to unite in praying Psalm 40, which reads:”
“BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME, LOOK DOWN, O LORD TO HELP ME. LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED AND ASHAMED TOGETHER, THAT SEEK AFTER MY SOUL TO TAKE IT AWAY. LET THEM BE TURNED BACKWARD AND BE ASHAMED THAT DESIRE EVILS TO ME.”
In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 9:00 pm
Amen
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:02 pm
Amen.
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By sandandsea2015 on October 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm
Amen
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By auscitizenmom on October 5, 2018 at 9:05 pm
Things are going to get very ugly folks. I know we’ve all been saying it and seeing it.
Today I was with a group of friends and we were talking amongst ourselves about the Kavanaugh debacle and I was talking about Ford’s attorney and her position that Paula Jones should have suffered no consequences from Bill Clinton’s exposing himself to her and asking for a sexual favor because “the whole thing only lasted about 12 minutes”.
Out of nowhere a rabid nutcase wearing a Tony Evers (WI Governor democratic candidate) button and a “blue wave 2018” button started screaming at us about how she had overheard our conversation and was disgusted by women supporting a rapist. I told her I was disgusted by her supporting a partisan attorney who was abused and dismissed women who were real victims of sexual harassment. She was delusional in her anger spewing all kinds of crazy things.
Anyhow thankfully she stormed out of the building. These people are crazy.
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By lovely on October 5, 2018 at 9:11 pm
To match your day photo, Stella…
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By Lucille on October 5, 2018 at 9:19 pm