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Annnnnnnnd, not satisfied, the god of Miserable Mondays has decided to slop the leftovers on to Tuesday! Luckily this isn’t a dry county any more.
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Well my Christmas cactus hasn’t bloomed yet but neither has it died so that is a positive for Tuesday!
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Don’t start me on Christmas cactus…
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Some real pain??
This is my friends Christmas Cactus.
She just “leaves it tin the sun and waters it when it’s really dry” 🤨
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Mine get suicidal.
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Mine is still alive. The plant itself seems “wilty” 😏. But I think the buds may blossom.
My friend who gave me the plant said it has always blossomed on Thanksgiving for her.
We will see.
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They have 3 seperate bloomers, Thanksgiving, Christmas a Easter but you can make them bloom at any time by playing with the temperature and light. The ones you find in the store may well be one of the three, the growers just manipulated their conditions for a Christmas sale.
As I go to the big box stores they have displays of them all over their stores and I can hear them whispering to me: ; ” Hey, GI, take me home…”
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My friend knew my history with plants but her husband is just tired of plants being in every corner. I think I took about 20 from her…. Killed quite a few, gave some away before I killed them, and I have a few hearty survivors 🙂 !
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We have plenty of tropicals that are thriving but with succulents I suck.
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I know you and Czarina, like most of the folks here (Menagerie and I being the exceptions) all have green thumbs.
I definitely do not which is what makes my surviving and about to blossom Christmas Cactus so exciting for me!
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We have green thumbs but that ‘black finger of death’ for certain plants proves problematic. I’m ready to plant a few thornless prickly pear cactuseses, a curry bush and a real wasabi tuber (ain’t that a grouping?) and try cuttings from a climbing yellow rose. I’m feeling good about the hardier ones but we’ll see.
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All of that sounds awesome. I have yet to be successful with a single outdoor plant. I do have a Rose of Sharon that is doing well, it even blooms, but I never do anything to it, I try not to even look at it too often 🙂 !
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One of our secrets is we don’t do anything to them, other than a regular fertilizing…which can be irregular. They do quite fine without us in the wild, it’s when we baby them they go roots up.
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I’ve tried that then I over water them because I feel like I’m neglecting them and I kill them.
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Video: Have You Seen These Hilarious Adam Schiff Posters That Are Popping Up All Over Los Angeles?
By Dean Garrison – November 18, 2019
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/video-have-you-seen-these-hilarious-adam-schiff-posters-that-are-popping-up-all-over-los-angeles/
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That’s terrific!
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Stellars, make it a…
…and I’m not just horsin’ around!
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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)
(Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
(Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
(Seventhree Cucumber Vodka, Fever Tree Tonic with a slice of cucumber)
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’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂
Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂
Mornin’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
Mornin’ Sam Felton 🙂
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!
Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Tarts
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Good morning, Nyet. Have a great day!
For my first day of the grapefruit and egg diet, some ruby reds from Texas…
Thanks!
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I miss grapefruit so much! Can’t have it due to medications! Not even a “Salty Dog”.
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I love grapefruit too.
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Me three!
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Ad rem!!!!!
Miss you!
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Aw…….thank you Col! Your sentiments are returned. It looks like you’re feeling better too….and for that I am grateful.
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One article I read when searching for photos said that Ruby Reds first appeared when a Texas grapefruit grower came across the mutation on one of his trees. It was tastier and the different color. So he set about cultivating them.
I also ran across some articles re the southern part of Texas which grows grapefruit (Rio Grande) and how environmentally harmful “the wall” is going to be for the orchards plus the flora/fauna. Apparently the dead bodies, mounds of trash, people trekking through with purchased children and/or raped women, and coyotes driving their four wheel drives is not harmful to the orchards or the environment. Yes, they do think we are stupid.
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My favorites are Florida pink. When my cousins were still living in Bradenton, they had a large pink grapefruit tree. One year I happened to be there just before they were to leave for home in Michigan. We picked all of the fruit we could reach (we had a basket picker on a long pole), and picked twelve dozen large ripe grapefruit! I sent a large box home to myself. So sweet and juicy!
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Yummmm…..Texas Ruby Reds!!! My mom used to buy the large cans of grapefruit juice, and I would knock at leat one down a day….easy. 😀
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That looks really good.
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Morning Nye!
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OK, I’ll have a little of this and a little of that. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂 Got to go get my hair done so I will look pretty when I meet Czarina tomorrow. 🙂 Well, if not pretty, at least not so scary that she runs off.
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No problem, she may be a bit late as TSA usually has problems with her carrying her attitude through their checkpoints.
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😯
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Nye !!!!!!!!!! Thank you,
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The bright side 🙂 !
Have a beautiful day folks !
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Mayor and City Council of New Orleans praying for snow.
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Afternoon Lovely, saves the city big bucks……
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Evening Sir 🙂 .
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Good morning, everybody! Warmer temps today (in the 40’s!!), and snow is melting.
Seen on Facebook this morning:
Generational ignorance is not ours alone–The Telegraph
@Telegraph
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A poll of 16-24 year-olds found that 28 per cent had never heard of Stalin, almost half had never heard of Lenin and 70% had never heard of Mao Tse Tung.
____I bet as here the ones who did know are not in publicly financed schools. Does this explain the political divide?
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And from my FB friend, Alex:
I believe it. I may have told this story before:
I substitute in a suburban Detroit system, very good district as far as these things go, and a very affluent area. In may I had a week long assignment and on one day we took a field trip to the local art museum.
The kids were divided into groups with parent and/or teacher chaperones and activities to do. I was asked to meander around the museum, if I found any of our people (identifiable by name tags) wandering around herd them back to their group, and see if any of the adults needed help.
I came across one group led by a nice mother, and although I just exchanged a few words, given the area it’s certain that she was a high school graduate and had at least some college.
Several of the girls were taking selfies with a pop art portrait of Mao, so I cautioned them, “Remember, ladies, this is a picture of probably the biggest mass murderer in history.”
The mother asked what I meant, not at all in a hostile manner. “He was dictator of Communist China,” I told her, “and responsible for at least fifty million deaths, probably more.”
“Oh,” she replied.”I didn’t know that. That’s terrible.”
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Obviously it is important to know history. Real history.
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Those who don’t learn their history are doomed to help the Left repeat it. The Left has had the help of the public’s short attention span, that part of the American psyche that drives us to welcome our enemies into our home while they’re still our enemies and our accepting them as teachers of our children. Situational ethics as part of our national ethic.
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There was a non-youth, I believe, at CTH yesterday who was giving out with revisionist WWII history about Germany’s invasion of Poland (she didn’t mention Hitler, as I recall) being more or less justified because of so many Germans living in the area who needed liberating. No additional mention of how many Polish civilians were viciously murdered during the “liberation” via the strafing of fleeing residents on the roads or the subsequent death camps.
She depended, apparently, upon family lore and POV, they being Germans who lived in Poland for a couple hundred years, rather than studying the complexities of lands across Europe changing hands on a regular basis during the centuries prior to WWI. I didn’t get into it with her as I truly dislike anyone in this day and age where information is so readily available essentially defending Hitler and Nazi policy.
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Mornin’ kids! Apparently our favorite congressional blowhards are shooting that hot air from both ends these days.
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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‘Swhat happens when those pols can’t vent fast enough from their primary political port. Your choice as to which is primary.
Maybe as part of Green New Deal each politician should have a catalytic converter attached. I volunteer to do the welding.
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Awright!!! Mornin’ Z’s!
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Might wanna send a few dem con-verters over to da CTH too.
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Actually I’m a bit surprised, the CTH seems to have calmed down quite a bit. There are some bumps…then again the closer we get to the 2020 political flying circus the more it should get back to its old self.
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Yup. It’d get the “Greta” treatment over there……
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And for all of those middle schoolers and politicians looking for a new dialogue:
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Nail first, then weld.
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The more I think about that…
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Ms WeeWeed!!!!!!!
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Afternoon Colonel Sir!
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Good day, WeeWeed! I seem to be in an angry mood today due in no small part to physical problems which kept me up half the night. So I will somewhat angrily say that this guy looks like all the really dumb boys in high school and college who thought they were big studs when in actually they were little farts.
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Evenin’ Lucy!
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Evening Wee 🙂 !
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Morning all. I’m sipping some Jack Daniels coffee as I surf around the internet this morning. Wanted to post a picture of the pretty can but I have to do too much crap on the iPad to even try, and every time I figure out imgur or some other site it seems like it changes. Anyhow, fairly decent, but next time I’ll just stick to tipping in a little Jack if I wanna.
Still unloading stuff. We are now at the point of trying to talk ourselves into hanging pictures on these beautiful untouched walls. 😀 The only thing I didn’t throw or give away from the old house was my pictures, and I love them. It’s blah without art or photography or stuff on the walls. Most of what I have is way to big and heavy for command strips, so I have to suck it up and put up some pictures!
We had the kids and grandkids over Saturday and all the grandkids are so thrilled to have their own room. The boys promptly named it The Boys’ Room and it was hilarious to hear our little two and a half year old grandson, who spent the night, tell us he was going to the boys’ room as he ran off for more toys. The girls, when they get wind of this, are sure to protest, but they are outnumbered.
Anyhow, one of our central hopes for our new home was to make a place here for the children to be at home as well. We are enjoying that. They also love the pond that is just a hop from our patio out the back door. So, first family gathering went well, and I still remember how to cook! On that note, I highly recommend a beef Guinness stew this time of year.
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Menagerie, so glad you are enjoying all the great things about your new home. It’s certainly true about walls looking blank without art and homey items hanging about. Perhaps the boys can assist with the choices for their room if you set out groupings of possibilities.
My art collection covers most of my walls but there are still items in closets and under beds. I’ve thought of putting them up for auction, but can’t cope with the reality of parting. I am contemplating giving some small pieces to one of my nieces who will be visiting me next week. Problem there is she’ll have to take them back over the border and you never know what the customs guys will decide re valuables. Honestly, why is it any of their business, anyway? It’s just one more way to get money out of us.
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My sister lived in Canada. She painted beautiful pictures. She gave some to my mom and dad to bring to some friends in the U.S. Mom was supposed to send the ones back that they didn’t want. My sister found out that the Canadian Customs were going to charge her hundreds of dollars to bring them back into Canada. So, she refused them and they were returned to my mom.
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There are times when I send things home with family that customs checks everything in the car thoroughly, unpacking boxes, etc. Other times they just wave you across without doing anything but look at your passports. Weird.
When you bring animals across the border they must have recent (within 10 days) vet papers declaring they’ve had their shots and are disease free. Half the time they don’t even check the declarations. But just try bringing across an animal without those papers…that’d be the time they would demand every proof possible. LOL!
Now, I understand the need not to have diseased animals go from country to country. But if you have by law to get the animals checked and certified, the border people should at least look at the declarations.
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Sounds wonderful Menagerie 🙂 !
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Someone asked me a while ago how much the cost was for ambulance service to the hospital. I just got the bill. My payment is $200. The total cost was $752.30. The amount billed was $483.16. Blue Cross paid $283.16.
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I had one last January, for $250.00. They only drove me across the street from my Dr.’s office to ER. Aetna Medicare paid the rest. DH said if he had been there, he would have just carried me!
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My ride was about 5 or 6 miles. They also administered nitroglycerin, checked vitals, and even did an EKG.
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I’m glad the Ambulance crew did this…….
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Me too! They were very professional, and informed emergency of my arrival with all info before I arrived at the hospital.
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I have heard that Patrick Henry Censored may have passed away. If I hear anything further, I will share it.
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Thank you for letting us know.
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It was just confirmed to me that he passed away yesterday.
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That it so sad, Stella. Thank you for letting us know. Please give his family our prayers if you’ve contact with them. Thankful PHC suffers no longer.
Some of us follow while lurking, and a lasting impression is left.
May his family feel the warmth of Our Lord’s Peace.
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My information is second hand, so I don’t have any contact with his family, but I thought some of you would like to know.
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I have been praying that he wasn’t in pain. I know now he isn’t.
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Oh, my, such a lovely gentleman. I remember when he pretty much bid us goodbye earlier in the year and then didn’t post anymore after he went in the hospice. Sad to know he’s gone. Prayers for the family.
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He started a little blog of his own and I followed him there. It got pretty rowdy and somewhat off color. LOL There were a lot of people from CTH that posted there and then seemed to disappear from CTH. Anyway, he kept it up for a few weeks and then had to quit. He was quite something.
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I’m too lazy to check but hope I didn’t post this yesterday…
Huckabee: Impeachment leading to ‘landslide’ re-election of Trump
Fox News – Published on Nov 18, 2019
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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 Gen. 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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