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Good morning, Lucille! Cute little face! So much fun having my granddaughter here, yesterday. If everything works out, I’ll have both grandkids here this coming Saturday, so their parents can have a date. Very fun.
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Good afternoon, sand!
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Love that!!!
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19 Simple Psychological Tricks That Actually Work
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10 lovely lovelies.
1) The first a long line of lawsuits has been filed by Lin Wood for his client Nick Sandmann to the tune of $250,000,000. Filed against the Washington Post.
Every journey starts with a first step. The journey to achieve justice for Nick Sandmann will begin today. To borrow a phrase used by others – tick tock . . .__Lin Wood
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2 )The lavender fields of Washington Island, WI.
3) Marshmallows roasted on a stick over a campfire.
4) Paperweights.
5) Empire is “drastically” cutting Jussie Smollett out of senes according to the NYP.
6) A bright sun shiny day after days of rain and gloomy skies.
7) Blessed are the peacemakers.
8) “The biggest abuse of power and corruption scandal in our history, and it’s much worse than we thought. Andrew McCabe (FBI) admitted to plotting a coup (government overthrow) when he was serving in the FBI, before he was fired for lying & leaking.”@seanhannity @FoxNEws Treason! Retweeted by President Donald Trump
9) Rolling a Yahtzee!
10) The resilience of trees.
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Morning lovely! Love me some Yahtzee and Scrabble, too. Those are probably my two favorite games of all times. Isn’t lavender wonderful? There’s a company here in Texas called Enfusia and they make the best lavender bath stuff. https://enfusia.com/
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I love the scent of lavender.
On Washington Island they grow the scented lavender and the edible type also.
I am not a fan of the edibles, they taste like soap to me !
And Scrabble is awesome fun 🙂 .
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All winners lovely but I think I am going to print that tre picture! Good morning and thank you.
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You’re welcome Menagerie, I think it is an inspiring piece of art 🙂 .
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Well, I can’t find a way to print it, nor a way to find the photographer and buy a print, on the off chance I could afford it. I would love to frame a copy of that.
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In my new home, that exists right now only in my imagination, it would be the only picture in the room on white walls.
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Well I already have the white walls!
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left click on the picture, then in the next screen, right click on it and save the image.
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I can also right click on it here and save image.
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Menagerie…
Outstanding Nature and Landscape Photography by Jeff Walker
https://photogrist.com/nature-jeff-walker/
https://flipboard.com/@merlinite2015/like-it-u26m4aanz/outstanding-nature-and-landscape-photography-by-jeff-walker/a-HVrbhugBQIKI1tLfzr5kMQ%3Aa%3A1130591990-aaeb3351a5%2Fphotogrist.com
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Thank you! I love this guy’s stuff. Amazing pictures.
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YW, Menagerie. I would likely never have heard of him except for your post to lovely about the photo. He does exceptional work.
If you have or know anyone who has a professional printer and uses excellent stock paper, have a copy run off in a large size suitable for framing.
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Thank you Lucille 🙂 !
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YW, lovely!
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I’m in the sidebar so if someone hasn’t found it I’ll go back to where I think I snagged it from, maybe a direct link will give you a better chance. I don’t think the photographer was identified 😑.
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Those dogs don’t much like the infighting.
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It made me smile. The dog is just like “Nope. There will be none of that.”
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They boss them around all the time. They can make a noise and our goats will huddle together or run into the barn.
They make a noise when they’re butting each other and if they don’t stop, they bark at them and if they still don’t stop then they get between them and kind of nip at them.
Sometimes though with two who just keep going back to doing it again, they give them a look of disgust and go lay down.
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Re: resilience of trees. At the ferry crossing on the Mississippi I used to use there was an old dock up river about 50 feet from the terminal road. There was a broken piling sticking up, all by itself, and there was a small tree growing out of it. It lasted through Katrina but in the years after someone cut it down. It was never very large, it’s tough to find food in an old treated piling, but it hung in there for years.
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Why would anyone cut i down? Was it a navigation hazard?
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Actually it was just the tree that was cut, about 20″ tall, growing out of the top of one remaining piling from a long gone dock in front of some dirt leading up to a levee protecting a refinery. The piling is still there but no tree and neither was in the way of anything.
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Well, hope some folk got photos of it over the years as a memento. Stupidly unnecessary to cut it down.
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Every time I take that ferry I kick myself for not taking a picture. I took that ferry at least, and ,most btimes twice, a day for years.
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That is awesome. It is a shame someone cut it down.
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The NOLA area can be like that. A few years back someone clearing an abandoned, overgrown, junk filled lot for a strip mall in an adjacent city found a live oak tree estimated to be over 400 years old. Someone reported it, the news picked up on it and the developer and city went around whining about preserving it because the crap planned for lot would generate taxes…until it was abandoned.
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One of the trees that is on the land that the family cottage is on finally gave up the ghost and we had to have it cut down.
I imagine my dad as a boy, his dad as bot, taking comfort in the shade of that tree, climbing it, tying our childhood dog to that tree.
*Sigh*
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We have a few old-growth pines on the property, one particularly battered by the various hurricanes that have passed over here in the last century-plus. Sometimes I try to imagine what that tree’s seen in the time it’s been here.
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The sheep dog is a Great Pyrenees (Pyrenean Mountain Dog). I had a friend in Utah who had one, a HUGE guy in a small apartment, who was terribly intimidating. They are hearding and guard dogs for flocks, mostly used in Spain/France.
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They are smart dogs. My old neighbor had one. He was HUGE, but very sweet.
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Neat. Thanks Czarina 🙂 .
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Mornin’ kids!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Not exactly a job you wanna get into for the glory.
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Afternoon Z’s!
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Grooooaaaaaannnnnnnn. Yet another rainy, dreary, dark day where folks just might want to drink their morning coffee out of a shotgun barrel.
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Good afternoon, WeeWeed!
Another weed for you…the Common Mullein…found throughout the U.S. and southern Canada, though originally a European weed….
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Hmm. I don’t think I’ve seen it, but it sounds familiar.
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I’ll check in the spring, but I think the fire road which backs our duplexes has some in the brush there.
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Jeb Bush is a time Traveler!?!
Evening Wee 🙂 !
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Whoowee, y’all we had storms and storms and storms last night. Thunder, lightning, rain pouring down. In the middle of it we hear a huge racket. Turned out to be the fan motor on the brand spanking new heating unit.
So, I just slept in this morning, and am now enjoying my coffee. Happy hump day. I might go find my camel!
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Sorry it was a rough night! Morning Menagerie!
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Now the idiots are going after John Wayne.
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Picking on dead people means they can stay in the argument and not lose to logic or common sense.
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John Wayne has been a target for decades, he’s seen as the quintessential toxic-masculinity male example.
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Now he’s a racist and homophobe.
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Bah, just the Left redefining history thru their personal prism. I’m sure that at some point they’ll canonize Jane Fonda and Angela Davis.
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Confirms that they know nothing and are simply plugged into their leftist masters indoctrination machines which put big Xs over the lives and faces of anyone on the right.
Wayne was the kind of man who stood on set with his arms around his friends’ shoulders and kept his pals for a lifetime; professionally he had the respect of his peers. He was generous and a man who loved to joke and laugh and have a drink (sometimes more than he should) and share good times on his yacht. His usual manner was reputed to be courtly toward women. He adored his children and they adored him.
He had friends both on the left and the right. Robert Vaughn said he had a huge library and only the “best of conservative writers on his shelves.” Lauren Bacall had a wonderful time working with him on THE SHOOTIST (and if you haven’t seen that film, you must…it was his last).
He also was downright beautiful as a young man…
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51g-RIGhQmL._SX466_.jpg He didn’t complain endlessly when he was diagnosed with his second bout of cancer but took his illness with dignity and delighted in those who cared for him at the end.
I have a friend who knew Wayne well and felt privileged to love him. The day he died was my birthday and when I heard her voice saying “hello” on the phone I thought she was calling me to wish me a happy day. All she said was, “Duke died.” And we cried together.
So phooey to the naysayers. His was a life well-lived.
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I love John Wayne. I love his movies. I love the characters he played. I have seen all his movies more than once. Some hundreds of times.
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My goodness he was so handsome here…and RED RIVER is one of the finest movies ever made, PERIOD. Let the PC crowd yell and scream….
Red River (1/11) Movie CLIP – Don’t Ever Trust Anybody (1948)
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LOL I hated Red River the first time I saw it. I couldn’t handle John Wayne as a bad guy. After I grew up, I changed my mind.
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Thank you for the great commentary!
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Wayne is Czar’s all time favorite movie star for all those reasons. His former father-in-law loved Wayne, too. When Tom was dying, Czar bought him some VHS tapes of his movies, including “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”.
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Eric Price is Betsy DeVos’s brother.
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As some of us said early on, gotta bury the brothers’ screwups so they all look innocent. We can’t seem to stop black bad actions so we have to bury, excuse, redefine them. Sorta like how in 2014/15 the issue of the FBI report showing black perps being responsible for some 50+% of violent crimes launched a months-long process of redefining the stats.
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I don’t doubt this. 😦
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I don’t doubt it is true but I do doubt that someone outside of the inner circle would be privy to the words that passed between Rahm and Obama.
It is kind of a “cold read” in my opinion.
I also believe for all of Obama’s narcism that when Rahm yells jump Obama says “How high?”.
They are a very interesting pair.
Plus Jussie is officially a suspect in a crime 🙂 .
https://abc7chicago.com/jussie-smollet-a-suspect-in-criminal-investigation-for-filing-false-police-report-police-say/5147410/
In my opinion there is no way the Chicago PD is going to suck this up after all the bad press that they have received for proper and improper actions.
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The PD may recommend that he be charged, but whether or not he is is not up to PD.
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I believe things will be leaked if the CPD is strongly pressured. CPD already has a target painted on its back, some of the force was up here for our Officer Mathew Rittner.
CPD knows that what Jussie did endangers them. The last thing Chicago needs is a race war in its street. And if Jussie was believed things would be pretty die right now, I cannot imagine that is lost on LE.
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Just on our news, Smollet charged with placing a false rport. They said he paid the actors $3500 to do it, per Grand Jury testimony.
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Eating my homemade potato soup. So good! Why do we ever buy the canned stuff?
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Do you add cheese, chives, and bacon to yours? Now I’m hungry! Might have to make some. 🙂
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I cut up and crisped three strips of thick bacon that I had left in the frig, then I took the bacon out of the pan. Cooked 1/2 large onion and a couple of ribs of celery, diced, in the bacon fat on low heat, then added 1/4 cup of flour to make a roux.
Added 2 cups of water, 2-3/4 cups whole milk, 1/4 cup of cream and a spoon of chicken “better than bouillon”, then about 5 medium potatoes that were peeled and cubed. Heat and cook until potatoes are tender. Used crisp bacon on top in the serving bowl. Chives would be good, or green onion, but I didn’t add any.
You might want to cook the potatoes in the water, then add the milk, but mine worked out okay.
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Nothing like home made, especially potato soup. However my husband’s aunt, gone now but for decades one of the best cooks who ever lived, introduced us the Bear Creek packaged soups. When you have no ingredients except water, their soups are a pretty good second.
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Thank you, Stella! That sounds delicious. 🙂
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It was the first time I made potato soup, and it is good!
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Sorry! Just saw this. DD and I are thinking about making it this weekend. There’s no bullion or anything like that available that she can use, so we are trying to figure out a workaround. We will switch the wheat flour for potato flour. I think it will still be good, just not as flavorful.
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The flour is just a thickener, so you could use potato flour, or corn starch. Instead of water and bouillon, use chicken or veggie broth. You could probably do without it altogether, but add a bit of butter when you saute the onions/celery and make the roux. If you ever see the “Better Than Bouillon” in the store, it is a great product, as it keeps well in the frig and is available to add to water or any other liquid. Much better than bouillon cubes!
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Good ideas! Thank you, Stella!
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Oh yeah, NOTHING compares to homemade soup. I made cream of leek and potato last week, we ate that for three days with dark bread. One day plain, one day with homemade bacon and one day with fresh shrimp. Red beans and rice with smoked neck bones and sausage tonite.
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I love to make all kinds of soups, but my own specialty is chicken corn chowder. Ne of these days I’m gonna find me a soup contest to enter it in.
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Lemme know when, I’ll judge…or just eat…
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Unless you’ve been to NOLA and been on St Charles during Mardi Gras you probably don’t know about the Montgomery-Grace mansion, locally more well known as the Rex house. It was a fixture during the Rex parade, Rex ran along St Charles and would stop at the house to exchange a mutual salute/toast as the house was home to a former Rex and two kings of Comus.
The most salient part of the house was that during its almost 140 year life it was home to people with, and knew money and how to use it. It was a museum with people living in it, it was a prime example of late 19th century American-European opulence. The furniture, paintings, woodwork and appointments were classic – no pressed wood or plastic touches, all handcrafted wood.
No more though, it caught fire at about 7:30 this morning and is still burning, it’s a 7 alarm fire. The city has lost a major historical building and a priceless collection of art and Mardi Gras memorabilia. St Charles has lost one of its main mansions and attractions too. So sad…
https://www.wdsu.com/article/nofd-3-alarm-fire-on-st-charles-ave/26425164
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That’s awful.
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Ann Rice bought the property almost across the street from that house, property ran from St Charles a whole block back – even had an old Catholic church on the property. During Mardi Gras she used the house as a guest/party house, we have a lot of fond memories of her house and the Rex house just across the street. That corner had a lot of Mardi Gras history.
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What a shame about the fire.
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I want to share this good news here. It was posted on the next door on the Pres. Thread by Nick the Deporable.
The US revoked her citizenship.
“She is not a U.S. citizen anymore.
Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,” Pompeo said in a statement. “She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States. We continue to strongly advise all U.S. citizens not to travel to Syria.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alabama-born-isis-wife-will-not-be-admitted-to-the-us-pompeo-says
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One down, a whole bunch to go.
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I popped over here about an hour ago to post this from JihadWatch. Glad to see the story has progressed to a great conclusion.
Muslima from Alabama who called on Muslims to “spill American blood” and joined ISIS is sorry, wants to come back
FEB 20, 2019 8:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Shamima Begum; Safiya Zaynab, Shabina Aslam, and Alireza Sabar; Mohammed Ali; and now Hoda Muthana. The establishment media is now embarked upon an all-out campaign to compel Western countries to accept returning Islamic State jihadis. This is just more evidence of how insidious the establishment media really is.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/muslima-from-alabama-who-called-on-muslims-to-spill-american-blood-and-joined-isis-is-sorry-wants-to-come-back
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IMHO She should be shot upon stepping foot on this soil ever again.
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Before setting foot.
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She’s lucky not to be tried and hung for treason. I feel sorry for her little boy having to be reared by a criminal jihadist.
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Bravo.
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I’m so glad President Trump said no.
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I have to confess, I’m not doing very well since my little Foxy died. I have always handled deaths well, but this has hit me really hard. It has been over a month and a half and I am still struggling with it. In the last 12 years, I have lost my brother, my mother, my father, my best friend, and my sister. But, I guess I always had things to do and people to take care of………….until now. I’m not ready to take on a new pet. Last year, between dental work, glasses, car repairs, and vet bills, it just isn’t financially feasible and I don’t think I am ready emotionally anyway. I think I am okay, and then I come home and she isn’t here and I fall apart. I am not good at asking for help, but I could use some prayers for comfort.
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Of course! I will definitely pray for you. I know how difficult this is, especially when you live alone like we do. Maybe you could foster a dog for a rescue organization?
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I will have to consider that. But, it is hard in an apt with carpet everywhere and no actual yard.
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My heart goes out to you, aus. Your little Foxy knew she was loved and gave it in return. That she’s remembered with love and sorrow at her passing is a tribute to her great spirit and presence.
After my little dog that I had for 17 years had to be put to sleep, it took me a very long time to get over his death. He’d been devoted to my own best human love and that made me love them both all the more.
God bless you!
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I’ve had a lot of dogs over the years, most I was really attached to. Now that I think about it, Foxy was probably the one who needed me most. That may be part of the problem.
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Oh Aus. I am so sorry.
I think about that day when I will come home to an empty house or go to bed without my little buddies and it makes me very sad to think about it. I don’t know your pain but I really feel for you.
I will pray for God’s healing peace.
You missing her so much shows us us what we already knew that Foxy was a loved, blessed, happy and lucky dog.
I do know things will get better, the pain less acute, that emptiness will be filled, how is between you and God. I hope for an answer to come your way soon.
I’m also sorry that finances are tight, that makes everything harder. Playing catch up is never fun but you will find your footing, you are resilient you have shown us that 🙂 .
❤️🙏🏼
((((Aus))))
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Thank you. It is usually easy for me to just carry on, but this has thrown me for a loop. 😦
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Let yourself grieve and miss Foxy, sometimes we have to feel that emptiness before we are ready to allow the light back in.
So sorry Aus.
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I thought, but forgot to say it: Thank you for trusting us with your feelings about this. Maybe sharing it will make you feel a little better (and I’m still praying.)
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Yes, it did help to share.
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Oh… auscitizenmom… I’m so sorry. I missed this news somewhere along the way. I will be praying that God heals your heart. Sending you big hugs from Texas.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Absolutely aus. Im so sorry for your loss, and your pain. I hope that time and circumstances will bring you peace.
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Thank you. ❤
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Time for some beautiful photos (that look like paintings they are so well done)…
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Beautiful!
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Both are so tranquil. ❤️
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My old Daisy’s getting old. I went out to check on some things related to the rain and when I looked up towards the orchard area there were four big, beautiful does feeding under the trees about 100 feet away. Daisy just looked up and ambled away, too wet of a day to mess with deer I guess.
The lookout doe saw us, she was standing there fixed on us, nervously but slowly stamping alternate front feet but when she saw neither of us had her on our menu she went back to grazing on the fresh greens too. They were quite happy with giving us an occasional glance but my starting up the sump pump was just a bit too much. Another day…
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Awww… ((((Daisy)))) sweet pup.
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Yep, I bet these kids’ families don’t have that cushy retirement plan or health insurance paid for by taxpayers either. These teachers though follow this woman around like puppy dogs, so I’m sure they agree these kids are elite. BTW, I know it’s not kind to say, but that woman always reminds me of an obese beady eyed rat.
https://newsok.com/article/5623319/a-disappointing-attack-on-oklahoma-children?fbclid=IwAR2O9I2E0ZyzqLeyBDPgapX1SHjhk0c5mj1Ej6FyDF0-Es9GEfRTMG4d3eI
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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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Amen.
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A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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Sunset…(please click to enlarge–so beautiful I feel I’m there)….
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