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And in 1918 William Franklin “Billy” Graham was born in Charlotte, NC
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“Do not fret because of evildoers, do not be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cutdown like the grass, and wither as the green herb.” PS. 37: 1,2 NKJV
Blessed morning everyone.
It is a gloriously beautiful day in sunny SC. We are entertaianing the biological grandparents of my daughter today. It is wonderful to have the chance to meet her biological family and express my gratitude for their unselfish actions which resulted my blessing. They are truly beautiful Christian people.
May you day be as full of blessings as mine is.
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Roger, thank you. It makes my heart feel good to read your bright and cheerful posts in the mornings. I especially appreciate that you are entertaining your daughter’s biological family. I like what you an Nana share about being on each end of the adoption. You for adoption and her for giving a son up for adoption. KBells adoption story always brings tears to my eyes. Thank you all the parents out there who were involved in adoption in some form or other.
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Sufferin’ ’til Suffrage – School House Rock (1976)
Now you have heard of Women’s Rights,
And how we’ve tried to reach new heights.
If we’re “all created equal”…
That’s us too! (Yeah!)
But you will proba … bly not recall
That it’s not been too … too long at all,
Since we even had the right to
Cast a vote. (Well!)
Well, sure, some men bowed down and called us “Mrs.” (Yeah!)
Let us hang the wash out and wash the dishes, (Huh!)
But when the time rolled around to elect a president…
What did they say, Sister, (What did they say?)
They said, uh, “See ya later, alligator,
And don’t forget my … my mashed potatoes,
‘Cause I’m going downtown to cast my vote for president.”
Oh, we were suffering until suffrage,
Not a woman here could vote, no matter what age,
Then the 19th Amendment struck down that restrictive rule. (Oh yeah!)
And now we pull down on the lever,
Cast our ballots and we endeavor
To improve our country, state, county, town, and school.
(Tell ‘em ’bout it!)
Those pilgrim women who …
Who braved the boat
Could cook the turkey, but they …
They could not vote.
Even Betsy Ross who sewed the flag was left behind that first election day. (What a shame, Sisters!)
Then Susan B. Anthony (Yeah!) and Julia Howe,
(Lucretia!) Lucretia Mott, (and others!) they showed us how;
They carried signs and marched in lines
Until at long last the law was passed.
Oh, we were suffering until suffrage,
Not a woman here could vote, no matter what age,
Then the 19th Amendment struck down that restrictive rule. (Oh yeah!)
And now we pull down on the lever,
Cast our ballots and we endeavor
To improve our country, state, county, town, and school. (Right On! Right On!)
Yes the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule. (Right On! Right On!)
(Yeah, yeah!
Yeah, yeah!
Right on!
We got it now!)
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Nana!
Good news! (Funny, that’s what Evangeline means.)
Grand Pre’ Nova Scotia really does exist I discovered. King George II and III ordered the continuous deportment of Acadians in the region for the duration of the French and Indian War beginning in the mid 1750’s.
There’s a church with a statue of Evangeline there. I think, however, that Evangeline was a fictional character of Longfellow’s. I’m still sorting through the fact/fiction of the poem. If anyone knows of a good link or anything about the distinctions in Longfellow, what he made up, what is real, let me know! Thanks.
I’ll check back later as I’m off to golf this morning. Have a great day everyone.
OH
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Back (sadly) to Fort Hood. The NYT has two items up of interest:
A profile of the young officer who stopped the shooting. She came right at him. Shooting.
Profiles of the known people shot. That was really touching, too: seeing the faces, realizing all the different paths that took people to serve their country. Like the 51-year old psychiatric nurse, another, the child of immigrants who was serving because her father could not; or the guy who simply loved his Fender (and was very nimble defusing bombs). Young, old, male, female. It was all quite touching.
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Roger, I’m so glad you mentioned this. The son I gave up for adoption reminded me the other day how much his adoptive father wants to meet me. Sad how little attention the pro-abortion-choice crowd gives to letting someone else raise the babies they’d rather not give the right to life.
The House today will vote on a Democrat amendment to prevent health-care legislation from leading to widespread federal funding of abortion on demand. Amen.
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Kim, how wonderful to read your encouraging post, thank you. Keep the Faith.
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Kim, how did the interview go?
I think I mentioned that our church had an “Orphan’s Day” a couple of Sundays ago. We heard interesting testimonies from various people and people who adopted, were adopted, and foster parents and children were recognized. There were many more than you would think in a church our size.
And the experience was more impressive than you would expect it to be.
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OH, keep those golf balls out of the Gulf
I never thought of Evangeline that way (I read it BC), but it makes perfect sense when I think of evangelize. Thanks.
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Nana, if Hickory drove a golf ball into the Gulf today, we’d never hear the last of it.
Maybe the Trinity River???
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Thanks, Chas, I wondered, perhaps a little skeptically, about that Orphan’s Day when you first mentioned it. In what way was it impressive? I’m having trouble imagining it – maybe only because the word “orphan” strikes me as negative. But I’m still considering it.
Kim, was your interview experience interesting?
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Chas, we’re having Orphan Sunday tomorrow. They are asking all those who are adopted or have adopted children to wear stickers identifying themselves. I think this will be good for my son. He has recently found out he is adopted and some of his friends have made him feel that he is too different. I think seeing so many other adopted families will help.
For some reason he associates his curly hair with being adopted.
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Nana, the testimonies were in video form shown at all three services. One was a young woman who would hve been aborted. It brought a couple of tears in some.
Then there was the previously mentioned owner of the Ford dealership who was surrounded by children adopted from China, Africa and other places. (As I said, he has 16 including 3 biological children.) But there were other testimonies, some didn’t know who there parents were, etc.
KBells, it could be interesting. But I suspect it needs to be handled carefully. Elvera has an adopted nephew who learned that he was adopted after his (adoptive) parents died. He became bitter and immediately detached himself from the family and disappeared. Some people just meddle too much. I think an adoptee needs to grow up knowing that he/she has other, biological parents.
But I have no personal experience in this at all.
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About prayer:
I awoke this morinig shortly after six. And because my eyes were hurting, I decided to just lie there a while before getting up. Then my mind went so some I regularly prsy for, including some of you. Then, it occurred to me that God is the Supreme multi-tasker. Not is he concerned about a sparrow falling somewhere in Italy, he is dealing with the concerns I have. Not only that, but I was confused about whether it was Joe B’s brother or brother-in-law – no it’s Klasko’s brother and she it going to NY. Is that right?
Never mind. Not only can God handle it, but he’s got it straight at 6:15 a.m. This may seem amusing after the sun is high and you’ve had your coffee. But it wasn’t at the time. And sometimes we just have to pass it off and let the Spirit do the intercedsin (Rom. 8:26).
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I have some decisions to make. The broker made me an excellent offer. I think David has opened the door for me to leave. I don’t know if this is his wimpy way of firing me or if he truly has my best interest at heart. I talked to him on the way to the interview and he was giving me pointers on what to say, but then in his next breath he said I could easily pick up 5 or 6 deals a year through him if I stayed. Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth!!!! Then I got an email from a friend about a bank position. Who knows????
This morning I am taking Chloe to have her photo taken with my stepmothers other grandchildren for her Christmas present. I am disappointed in that my ex-MIL has decided once again not to have Thanksgiving at her house. I was holding out hope.
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NANNA: Do your best to meet him soon.
God’s blessings upon you today.
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Here is an Evangeline link for you Old Hickory.
I am interested in the story too as some of my ancestors were granted land in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War for siding with the British. My great grandmother’s name is Evangeline most likely named after the Longfellow poem. She had a 2000 acre farm outside of Yarmouth Nova Scotia. My wife and I visited some of our remaining descendants there. It’s a beautiful place.
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Chas, we were told to tell him early and keep it causal. So, far except for these friends and the hair he’s handled it well.
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God is great. God gave me a promise back in 1990, that One day I would have a son. Well my wife and me are not able to have children. About 5 years ago, a single mother who was going to give birth to her second son, came walking into our Church with one child behind her and another on the way. She just gave her life to Christ. Little did we know she was going to change our lives forever.
She gave birth to a little boy in April and ask us to be the God Parents of him. Our Pastor made a statement one day if your want to see little Nicholas, you first have to get pass the big bear watching over him (that would be me). Well folks, when he was six months old, out of the blue his mother came to my wife an ask if we would take him and adopt him as our own.
Folks, when God gives us a promise, we may forget about it over the years but He does not. I am sitting here this morning with a great smile on my face. My morning wake up today, was a four your old America African descent boy standing above his white father and asking if was I awake, before I could say a word. He jumped on me, with a great smile on his face. The reason My son and me do not see black and white, we see our love for each other.
Folks, when God gives you a promise keep your eyes open, we do not know how He is going to keep the promise. Thank You God for my son and given the joy of being a father.
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#14 KBells
“For some reason he associates his curly hair with being adopted.”
Our first son associated his red hair for why no one wanted him. His mother took him and his fraternal twin to LA County adoptions when they were 10. They were adopted by a man, but when the two of them started fighting he brought our son back. In his mind this had to have been because he had red hair and his brother had brown.
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Our red head had anger issues, but he learned to control them about the age of five. I suspect they were a result of being human. Come to think of it, our dark haired children did too. As well as the blonde. Hmm. People get notions.
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Redheads appreciate “like-headed” role models
Mine were my mother and Lucille Ball.
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Congrats, Roy!
It has been a busy time. I don’t get here as much as I would like, but when I do, the threads are a mile long and the topics not to my interest. Sigh. Or it is an argument between a troll and those not willing to starve the troll. Double Sigh! Or it is a regular dissenter and another person going back and forth over territory that has been covered countless times. When will we all learn that a blog is not the place for convincing another?
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Pastor Roy, very sweet and amazing story. Thanks to all of you for sharing about the joys of adoption on both ends of the experience.
And fellow redheads of the blog, unite!
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My most difficult time of seemingly unanswered prayer was dealing with my infertility. Mother’s day 2003, I almost walked out of the church in the middle of the service, but I stuck it out and tried not to cry when all the mothers were asked to stand I had to stay seated. A week and a day later I had a baby in my arms. He was baptize last Wednesday. This morning he helped me make pancakes from scratch. They weren’t pretty but they tasted fine.
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Who are you trying to convince with that comment in 25, Peter L?
“When will we all learn that a blog is not the place for convincing another? “
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Donna,
If the redheads unite, I’m gone. (But my mom was a redhead–vivid enough red that I rarely think of anyone else’s hair as “red,” because few redheads are as red as she was. And I have a few red hairs mixed in with my brown, and a redhead’s complexion. So maybe I can referee or something?)
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I tried dyeing my hair red once and it came out kind of purple.
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I came across this article today. It’s over a year old but still interesting (and frightening):
Whither freedom of speech?
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal is now hearing a case that has been brought against Canada’s Maclean’smagazine for publishing an excerpt from renowned British-American columnist Mark Steyn’s most recent book, America Alone.
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But this is no isolated case. Authorities in Scandinavia closed down a website for fear it would “offend” Muslims. A story this week in London’s Telegraph described two Christian preachers who were told by a police community support officer to stop handing out leaflets about Christianity in a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Birmingham, UK, or face arrest on “hate crimes” charges.
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This is a dangerous threat to Western democratic society as we know it. It stands in direct conflict with the fundamental Enlightenment principles of rational argument, skepticism, and critical thinking. Rather than offer their own counter-arguments and provide evidence that contradicts the claims of critics who write or say things critical of Islam, the trend in Western Europe and Canada is to get such points of view labeled as “hate speech” and banned from public discourse.
In fact, America alone remains one of the last places on earth where the notion of freedom of speech is still cherished and essentially undiluted — hence the title and one of the major points of Steyn’s book. Dean Steacy, the principal “anti-hate” investigator for the Canadian Human Rights Commission put it succinctly:
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Mumsee @#28- I am trying to convince the arguers not to argue, but of course I realize I will fail. For instance, we both agree that animals are for outdoors, even those cute puppies and kittens that grow into dogs and cats. But we have both failed to convince the pet owners who mention their pets messing with their computers that those pets should be outdoors doing animal things, rather than pretending to be humans doing human things in human environments.
Okay folks, argue away! I am leaving for Iowa in a couple of hours and won’t be back until late tonight!
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PeTReL. Hisssssssssss.
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33. Sorry, PeterL. I think my cat got on the computer again.
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Kbells- get that cat a toy mouse! (Or send it to Mumsee to help with her mouse problems.)
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GOD IS AWSOME!
No special reason for saying that; just wanted to shout it out!
PTL!
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My adorable collie, who is a wonderful companion (much more than she would be if she were outside cooped up in a fence while I was inside working) has just decided that she’ll make a very rare new entry on her list of “Pepul I dont like” and I think it was Peter L.’s name that went on it. (Don’t worry, Mumsee, I don’t think yours is on it. She thinks your dogs have the good life.)
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My dog (and two fat cats) agree with Cheryl’s dog about Peter L.
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Nana – I’m sure the Graham family will have a wonderful family gathering for Billy Graham’s 91st Birthday.
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Happy Birthday Billy Graham
And Mumsee has a birthday this month, but I forgot when it is.
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My wife and me are now praying about adopting a little girl,
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Pastor Roy – that’s wonderful. GOD bless you
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CHAS, btw, for an update on KLASKO, see yesterday’s, WV #33.
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Kbells – A lady from our former church has a similar story. She would not come to any Mother’s Day functions, nor to church on that Sunday.
D & her husband had registered with a couple (or a few – I forget which) Christian adoption agencies. They’d even been picked once or twice, but then the mothers decided to keep their babies.
After a while, they each sensed the Holy Spirit leading them to register (is that the right word?) with a Christian adoption agency in Texas. They went through all the rigmarole which has to be gone through in this process, & finished it up in December of that year. The following March, their son was born to a young woman using that Texas agency.
There wasn’t a happier mother in church that next Mother’s Day than D!
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Kbells – 27 GOD bless you, I’m so happy you have your little boy. His baptism must have been more than special for all of you this past week
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Not to take anything away from the adoptive parents here (God bless you all!), but I would like to express my gratitude for being able to get pregnant & have healthy deliveries. My daughters are such incredible blessings to me, & I have a very good, open relationship with each of them.
They are so very different in almost every way, but I find each one delightful in her own way. I often say that Emily is my favorite older daughter & Chrissy is my favorite younger daughter. They’re both my favorites!
And I am sure that if God had given me children through adoption rather than my own pregnancy, I would love those children just as much as I love the ones He did give me.
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Pastor Roy, you made me get all choked up and cry! What a great story.
PeterL, I think my cat consider you yp be some sort of a blasphemer. He did outside until he was rescued and he no longer does outside. He hates being cold at all.
MattY, it is frightening. But don’t think it can’t happen here. It already has and not just on handing out Christian leaflets.
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XION
Thanks for the Evangeline link. The info there was good. It’s about what I’ve collected thus far myself.
Hey. It’s the evangelist Billy Graham’s birthday and we are also talking about Evangeline. It is officialy “Good News Saturday” which negates any sort of bad news from Vorrect Firday.
Chas/Nana
No shots in the drink today. Nana, I wish I could hit a ball to the Gulf from Ft. Worth. That’d be neat. And Chas is right, you all would never hear the end of it if I could. Sort of like Happy Gilmore on steroids.
But Chas,the Trinity was fairly close to a few holes this afternoon. Perhaps you are familiar with the Rockwood Golf Course off 199 just west of downtown? I cannot boast of my score, but I did have an enjoyable day and played 18 holes without losing a ball! That and I did two strokes better than the last time I played Rockwood.
OH
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Karen O – My little Guy is a blessing from God. His mother try to kill him, she took the morning after pill, but God protected him. An My wife and me earler this year after 3 and haft years of waiting for the court day. Shout the Glory of God from one end of the Court House to the other. We were blessed, Like I said he moved in at 6 month old and now he is 4 and haft years old.
We just heard from his grand mother that she has custody of his haft brother. We keep in contact with his grand mother every month. They are going to come back here nexts year, so we can all get together again.
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44. Karen, we had couple of stories like that. One birth mother had already agreed to meet with us when she miscarried, another day we sat by the phone while a friend tried to talk his niece out of an abortion by telling her we would adopt her baby. She had the abortion.
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We ought not fear when (and not if) our “freedom of speech” is taken away. The Constitution has been amended 27 times. It started with some botched constraints upon people’s freedoms (13th and the 19th fixed them). It’s my guess there will be other amendments which will reintroduce old-school, totalitarian ideologies at some point.
I mean consider the Whiskey Rebellion or the Alien and Sedition Acts. Two Presidents who were intimately connected to the creation of the Constitution and look how they used it!
And here is a thought/question for anyone.
When (or perhaps why) did (American) churches start not having a cemetery on their property? Is that a modern impulse? Ever notice how we have to “drive” to the cemetery nowadays? Or am I simply thinking too much?
OH
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Roy
That’s a great story. If I ever get married I pray we will adopt, too. Congratulations. Take care of that little guy.
OH
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Pastor Roy – 21
Your heartfelt story has touched my heart, more than you will ever know – maybe one day it can be explained. We have adopted as well, we never know what GOD has in store for us, or how the story of our lives will end.
I thank you dear friend for sharing,
Love in Christ,
Victoria
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Folks, need to go to watch Penn State beat Ohio State. God Bless and have a great day.
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Wow! Pastor Roy, Thanks for the neat story. All the rest of you, also.
I just heard one of my neighbors adopted a 4th child. She reared her own four boys, then adopted 3 girls and now another little boy. Her mom just told me about the latest. She and her husband have such a lot of love to give.
This couple had their first child out of wedlock. Another woman recently recounted how angry her own husband was, because this woman’s boyfriend was being so irresponsible by not marrying the mother of his child at that time. He subsequently did marry her and is now the most wonderful husband and father. God is great! Many prayers were answered in their lives.
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Pastor Roy
Now you’ve done it.
I am a Buckeye fan.
OH
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Pastor Roy – I’m so glad you still keep in touch with the grandmother & twin brother. It is so sad when siblings are separated.
May God bless your home with a sweet little daughter.
And when He does, remember this saying – There is a special place in Heaven for a father who takes his daughter shopping.
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My own adoption story involves my brother & my dad.
Chuck, my brother, was born to Mom when she was an unmarried teen. Years later, Mom met Dad, they fell in love, & got married. Dad adopted Chuck, then age 7, so that Chuck wasn’t a stepson, but his real son.
And when asked by his then-fiancee if he’d ever like to meet his “real” father, Chuck replied, “You’ve met my real father.”
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Karen O
What about sons who take their mothers shopping for quilt fabric and materials or shopping for cross stitch stuff?
OH
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Karen, that’s how I got my nieces. My brother adopted his step daughters.
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You have all heard many times that I went through 5 years of infertility to have Chloe and was even told that the only hope I had was to use a sperm donor. My husband refused to discuss adoption because he didn’t want to fall in love with a baby and have someone come back and take it away. I refused to discuss a sperm donor –well we don’t need to discuss the reasons why. Just night before last she told me I was her best friend. She can tell me anything and not worry that I am going to repeat it. I told her it was very nice to be her best friend but first I was her mother.
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kbells, your story always makes me cry because I had a few rough mother’s day’s myself until Baby Girl was born. She told me the other day she wanted to have a little boy when she had a baby. Not me!!! I always wanted a “Gull Baby”. (now, someone remind me why I was so determined to have a girl.
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Peter L, you are skating on mighty thin ice here.
Although I’ve gotten my share of arched eyebrows whenever I mention that AnnieO will eventually be an “indoor-outdoor” cat. Can’t win. Actually, my dogs choose to spend probably 80 percent of their time out in the backyard. I suspect Annie might be more of an indoor cat even after I let her go out, she’s really so content here already (
(Someone today at the dog training said a friend of theirs who had border collies got a black-and-white cat also and named him “Border Cat.”)
Cheryl, you sound pretty close to being a redhead. I got mine from my dad, but it’s not as red as it used to be. Still, hardly any gray hairs have arrived so far which is gratifying for someone who’s well into middle age.
I used some conflicting henna products on my hair once within a few weeks of each other and wound up with orange metallic hair. This was many years ago, before orange metallic hair wasn’t yet so popular.
And speaking of which, it’s my birthday today (same as Billy Graham’s?). I’m younger than Billy, but I am advancing even further into middle agedom.
KBells, I’m sure you enjoyed every bite of those oddly-shaped pancakes this morning.
They sound like they were very special.
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Sorry for the sloppy grammatical editing above.
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Happy birthday, Donna!
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Kim, Hubby’s says that with boys you pay up front.
Donna, we use to call those Border Kitties.
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Wooof, woof, Dona.
(That was Misten with a happy birthday. I think she meant Donna.)
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Donna – Happy Birthday, Red!
Old Hickory – Yes, indeed, that son has a special place, too. (And a Belated Happy Birthday to you, Dan. I forgot to say it on your birthday.)
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Thomas you wrote yesterday regarding Dad: ” to wit: German immigrants should not serve when we are fighting Germany. Your father was successful in his effort to serve, and we’re all glad he did.”
Daddy was DRAFTED in his mid-thirties.
Just so you know, Germans were investigated by the FBI before and during the war (not that that changed the draft notice!). It is neessary in war to cover all the bases. He always understood that and never felt the FBI did anything wrong when they inquired into some of his activities.
Being a slave to political correctness gets people killed.
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NJL
“Being a slave to political correctness gets people killed.”
Thanks for your post, very true!
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Being a Christian can get one killed, too.
Depends on where you live, I suppose.
Or how you live.
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Happy Birthday Donna!
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Chas
Did you ever have a favorite restaraunt in Ft. Worth? Mexican food?
OH
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Hickory, when I lived in Ft. Worth I couldn’t afford to eat out. I think we ate at a chineese restaurant once. Occasionally we would stop at a “fast food” place on McCart St. I never saw a McDonalds till we moved to Virginia in 1963.
In the early 1990’s, I took my son and his family to show them where we lived, and where Chuck was born. We visited the stockyard and I took them to the Cattleman’s Steakhouse. This was because I had always heard of it, but never could afford to go there. I hear meals cost as much as $5.00.
There were no cattle in the stockyard in the 90’s.
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Happy birthday, Donna!
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I didn’t get very far thru reading this blog. I started bottom up.
FIRST HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Donna.
Your story about an UNWED TEEN reminded me of my sister-in-law. She and my brother were killed in a motorcycle vs. truck accident on a highway on vacation two summers ago. He was a police officer in Miami FL for 20+ years. He was going to retire.
My sister-in-law’s mother made her give her up for adoption. She never forgave her for that.
The child she gave birth to in high school had just located her before she went on vacation. I saw the girl (a woman now) at the funeral. She looked so much like her mother that I thought it was a sister. I kept asking about her because I didn’t know who she was. It was so sad that she didn’t get to spend time with her birth mom.
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The sad part of that story is that the girl getting adopted was the happy part of the story. She was lucky to have been a part of a happy family.
When my brother and his wife died her children took over the estate. Since their mother died a few seconds after my brother they claimed everything belonged to their mother and hence to them. My brother had only one birth child because his other child died, and he also adopted one of her children.
Her children spent at least a year arguing over the estate, and my brother’s retirement money. They missed out on selling the house because of their greed. My brother’s daughter would not have gotten a penny except that his ex-wife made him put an insurance policy in her name only. The kids said they would include her when they split the estate if she threw her insurance money in the pot. She said no thanks because they were spending the bulk of the money on lawyers.
What’s sad for the rest of us is that my brother was holding stuff that belonged to us–just family movies and who knows what else, nothing worth anything. They won’t give it up. She seems to have raised an evil little brood before my brother came along.
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Kbells,
You can breathe now:0 Roll Tide!!!
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Good evening Roy! I finally found this site you suggested to me! I am so excited to know you are praying about adopting a little girl.
) Blessings
)
My husband and I have adopted two girls and birthed a boy and a girl. We did cradle care for a private adoption agency for 10 years and loved and prayed over 21 newborns during that time. It was a wonderful blessing to our family and the Lord has allowed us to keep in close contact with a couple of the babies and their families (one is 18,,,the other is 16!)
Adoption is a beautiful thing…and I for one am so thankful to be adopted into the family of God!
Here’s hoping OH beat Penn….sorry Roy…you know I am from OH…and hey…how about them Yankees!!
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News2me – How very sad!
I just want to add that I get such a kick out of some of the quips in your comments.
Jillanne – Welcome, Sister!
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Thank you Karen! Looking forward to conversing with “family”!!
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Wow, thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone, both human and canine.
I just got back from Walmart, a store I normally don’t go to hardly at all. The prices are wonderful, but what chaos. Didn’t find curtains, though, I’ll have to keep looking. I figure I’ll know what color I want when I see it, I have a couple color ranges I’m looking for. I did buy curtain rods for 97 cents each, though.
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Adios, Yes! Roll Tide!
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My little miracle got into my make up. He looked like the obama joker poster.
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That is a sad story, News2me. If people could just realize and remember that life on this earth is short. It is easy to be greedy, but never satisfying in the long run.
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BUCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!
O – H – I – O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IN NOT-SO-HAPPY VALLEY!
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Uh, sorry. Got a bit carried away there.
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Victoria
CT is back. Private Schools in Pakistan thread. He/she got under my skin again and I had to apologize.
Just thought you’d want to know.
OH
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2222222 4 Ohio State 7 Penn State
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Now that didn’t work!
I had a big 24 and a 7 all arranged. Uhk.
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OH – 90
I hadn’t visited this thread for a few hours, until just now. I see your post here at Oldhickory68 11.07.09 AT 8:02 PM – - I posted on the “Private Schools in Pakistan” thread about 8:15 PM.
Thanks for letting me know
– You didn’t need to apologize in my opinion.
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Thanks for the song, Victoria!
I’ve given up on sports for now, ever since the Dodgers & Angels didn’t make it into the World Series. Boo-hoo.
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Happy Birthday Donna!
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Thanks Matt Y!
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Jillanne – I am glad you have found the sites. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. I have only know these people for a weeks and it is great to be here with them.
Sad day folks the house passed Obama care 220 to 215 with only one republican voting for it.
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I must eat crow my Penn State got beat bad. I tip my hat to the Ohio State Football teams and their fans.
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Thank you Victoria…I look forward to getting to know everyone here.
Sorry Roy that your team lost, but I had to pull for Ohio State being a native and all :O)
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Jillanne – 99
Pastor Roy has been such a blessing since he came to this site. I’m glad that he has introduced you to us. May GOD bless you.
Jillanne, I do like Penn State…. but that’s the way it goes.
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KBELLS
My personal experience with INFERTILITY.
I was married for 13 years. The first few I was on birth control pills. It messed me up. The last few I went thru infertility testing and laporoscopy. I never could get used to the basal temperature taking. I would jump up when the alarm went off. It was so frustrating. I consumed reading materials on infertility. At the end of our marriage I refused to hold anyone’s baby.
Docs couldn’t find anything. Husband never would follow up on his testing. He blamed all on me. We went thru the motions of possible adoption thru the gov’t. Filled out papers, talked to counselors, went to groups. I think it was about foster care too. It was a blur. I knew he wasn’t interested.
When he divorced me I planned to never remarry or have children. I’m ashamed of my life in between my divorce and new husband. It was short but threw caution to the wind. My new husband was a God thing because we lived together first, got married, and then I got pregnant. Then Navy shipped him out for 6 mo.
My infertility doctor did a routine exam for something else and found I was pregnant. The nurse called with the “happy” news and I practically cursed her out. I was miserable. My new husband would be gone and I was alone and pregnant. At that point I was not wanting to be pregnant. I had other plans. My new husband already had 2 children from his previous marriage.
Long story short. He remarried and she bore him 3 children.
I may have had more children, but I was 35 and my husband got a Vas. when he got back from sea.
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Right now our 22 year old daughter is sick. And we don’t know why.
That’s why I’m awake at 2:00 a.m. mountain time. I was on the net looking at possible causes. She has symptoms that look like a lot of stuff. Now I am thinking termites and air poisoning. She isn’t throwing up but can’t eat much of anything without it bothering her stomach, among the symptoms of “malaise” as doc calls it. Blood tests were done with nothing showing up.
Not flu, not mono, not fibromyalgia, could be Valley Fever (freeway dirt and dust nearby). She is up and around but would rather be laying down. Goes to work part time–but it’s mostly a sit-down job. It’s the not eating much that is worrisome.
Our whole family was “malaise” when we had the house treated for termites a long time ago. It took us a long time to figure it out. But we could smell that stuff coming up thru the floor. You think, “They wouldn’t do it if it was bad for you.” So the next time we went with something not supposed to be as toxic to humans. Yeah right. I think it wet the previous toxic stuff and sent it right back to us.
She jokes about having “House” figure out what she has. I said that she would have to wretch her guts out, have parts fall off, a hole drilled in her head and almost die several times before they figured out what she has. If you have watched “House” on TV you know what I mean. We laughed.
It might also be the furniture she put together for her room–IKEA and OfficeMax stuff. The smell was a little strong at first. A bit concentrated for her small space. We talked about that but I can’t find anything on the net. Not sure what to call it. I believe I checked under formaldehyde.
Best not to have her diagnosed with something that sounds permanent before the health care bill kicks in. They might decide that caring for her is a waste of money–it would drain funds from the healthy part of society.
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A person sure can get information overload on the internet.
For instance, did you know that it takes longer for an American body to decompose because there is so much formaldehyde in our bodies? Who cares, I’ll be dead!
I’d sell everything and go live in a box, but the box is most likely toxic.
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News2Me,
I’m sorry to hear that your daughter has been sick. I know it’s frustrating to not be able to figure the cause. I had an allergic reaction years ago that caused my face to swell up until I was almost unrecognizable. I never did find out what causeed it. It just went away after a few days. It was during a time of intense stress, so I’ve always thought that was a major contributor. Those fumes do sound dangerous. I think there were reports of sickness among the Katrina survivors who lived in the trailers, because of formaldehyde fumes. My prayers are with you and your daughter.
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News2Me, I’m sorry that your daughter is sick. It sounds like she should see an allergist.
I’m also sorry that you think it’s ok to use her illness as a chance to take potshots at a piece of legislation thta will help millions of Americans. That says a lot about you as a woman and a mother, none of it good.
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Thomas1, I think you were out of line. People are entitled to their opinions, just as you are. I haven’t made a comment on the Healthcare issue since it first started and my comment then was that I just didn’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. I currently do not have healthcare and it costs my ex-husband $600 per month to have healthcare on our 12 yr old daughter. I have tried reading the info on it, but must admit that my eyes glaze over and I comprehend about every other word. I just don’t know. But for you to call into question what kind of mother someone is because they have a differing opinion than you is just mean spirited.
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Kim, I can guarantee you one thing: I’ve read the healthcare bill. News2Me has not. She used her daughter’s illness to make an ill-informed political point, which happens to be wrong. This is something that a vulgar person does. It is not something that a lady or a loving mother does.
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THOMAS 1 is as vulgar as they come. It is time to simply ignore him and his rantings.
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But a wonderful aside.
It is the Sabbath day of rest. “Trust in the Lord with all of your might, and lean not on your own understanding.”
May you all have a wonderful day in HIM, and draw even closer to the ONE who is our life.
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Looks like Thomas may want to consider offering someone an apology?
News2Me, I’m sorry about your daughter, hopefully they can pinpoint what’s causing the trouble. Good moms never stop worrying, even when their kids are grown.
I always think of that line I heard about how God can draw a straight line with a crooked stick. So often our lives take unexpected (and unwanted) turns, but God in his sovereignty works through it all to bring about his perfect will — and it all comes about for His glory and for our benefit. Praise be to him.
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Some interesting comments over at powerlineblog regarding the appeal of third parties for conservatives, a topic that sometimes bubbles up over here. I tend to agree with his assessment:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024912.php
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News2me – Prayers for your daughter.
And don’t listen to Thomas. His comment about you was what was vulgar, not you.
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We heard that chimed last time around on this blog from one individual – that individual made dozens of posts which proved the health care had not been read by them – and NOW, you make a statement which makes no sense as well.
A parent can make a point regarding their childs illness, that would mean you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The definition of VULGAR definition:
Definition:
1. crude or indecent: crude or obscene, particularly with regard to sex or bodily functions
vulgar language
2. tasteless or ostentatious: showing a lack of taste or reasonable moderation
3. lacking refinement: lacking in courtesy and manners
Before you start spouting off your understanding of the Health Bill, as you ‘claim’ you’ve read it – I would suggest you first begin to understand a simple word such as “vulgar” and then use it properly, instead of in such a CRUDE way which you did in addressing News2me –
A gentleman doesn’t talk to a lady or anyone else in the way you did.
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Thomas1 continues to parade his own vulgarities in the Health Care Passage thread if anyone needs any further reason to ignore his posts.
A dazzling array of complex ad hominems and short epithetical jabs which evade the subject matter entirely.
OH
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Old Hickory – Don’t let yourself get caught up in that thread, or you’ll end up angry at yourself for wasting your Sunday on a futile argument.
Instead, think of something pleasant to “talk” about here on Whirled Views. (I spelled it out to avoid confusion with West Virginia or Volkswagons.
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Thomas has us figured out on #55 of “House Passes Healthcare Bill” thread. No point in discussing it with him anymore.
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Apparently, Chas.
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Though, if he has any more good recipes for snacks or finger foods, I’m always looking for good ones.
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If one thinks he is losing, ridicule is always a defence one can fall back on. But wait! With THOMAS 1 and the others like him, ridicule, smearing and venom are the tools of their trade. Why should we get into the sewer with them? “Keep yourselves unspotted from the world.”
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Hmmmmm
The person causing the upheaval appears to have been here before? – with a few different monikers -
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Victoria – We’re so much fun, he just can’t stay away!
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Time for our pizza party for Emily (See Rants & Raves if you don’t know what I’m talking about.)
I’ll be back later, & I hope there will be a little more chatter here to read.
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Congrats to Emily!
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Misten and I just got back from the dog park, and she ran like a puppy. Usually she refuses to play fetch at the park, unless she and I are the only ones there–otherwise she’ll chase the ball once, but simply will not bring it back. Well, tonight there were a lot of dogs there, but she kept looking at a ball that was lying there, and I finally took the hint and kicked it. She brought it back, and I kicked it again, and when she brought it back that time, I finally started picking it up and lobbing it across the park.
Now, Misten isn’t like a Lab, a dog that lives for fetch. She’ll only chase the ball if I run too. I throw the ball, wait till she picks it up, and then I run the other way and she chases me to bring it back. If I don’t run, she simply drops the ball and the game is over. And tonight, rather than running after it three or four times and deciding that was enough, she was standing there with her tongue hanging out, nudging that ball to make sure I saw it and would throw it for her again. So my middle-aged dog and my middle-aged self got some exercise tonight, and now she’s sleeping and probably won’t wake up before bedtime. After a week of sitting in front of a computer, in this beautiful fall weather it was actually a lovely way to end a week.
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Cheryl, sounds like you two had a grand time. I got my dogs to the park as well, lots of dogs there and Cowboy ran & played quite a bit, which was good. Tess chased whatever ball was in the air at any given time, so owners playing fetch had to try to keep her from getting it before their own dogs could (she’s very fast). I’d have to go distract her, throw a ball in the other direction.
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Had a nice little “party”. Emily appreciated it.
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So, the one time I bring up something controversial, Mumsee avoids the thread and deserts me. I am ashamed of her betrayal. Oh, the nasty things I could say, but she would probably look me up and I might and up taking a swim in the Mississippi River with concrete floaties. And it is high now because of the rain. And they have been dredging to make it deeper. But I know our good friend Mumsee would not do that. However, perhaps some of her unwanted critters will arrive via UPS soon. Better be ready.
‘Night all.
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Karen O., I’m glad it was nice.
Peter L., if the displeasure of our dogs and cats was bothering you and making you feel guilty, don’t worry. Speaking just for Misten, it doesn’t matter how mad she gets at a person, scratching anywhere on the rear half of her body will get her smiling again. So, if you ever meet her, I’ll distract her and get her to look the other way long enough for you to get to her rump, and you’ll be OK.
Donna, when Misten was a couple years younger, she used to run over to any party playing fetch. But it wasn’t to chase the ball; it was to chase the dogs chasing the ball. It was quite a sight–tennis ball, Lab, collie, in that order, repeatedly. A couple dog-park visits ago, I made an important observation: When she was a puppy and had energy to burn, sometimes instead of walking her or throwing the ball for her, I’d simply stand in the kitchen and clap and yell, “Run, Misten, run!” And she’d dart up and down the hall, under and around the table, for five or ten minutes. Well, I recently discovered that that excited call to “Run, Misten, run!” still gets my now-five-year-old puppy running around. Tonight she was lazily watching other dogs, and I yelled it, and she ended up running, purposelessly at first, and then chasing the other dogs, and eventually asking me to throw the ball for her. It’s a neat trick, if it keeps working!
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I missed a controversial topic??? That is no fun.
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Mumsee, I think (but am not sure) that he wanted us all fighting over whether dogs and cats should live inside or outside. Which of course isn’t worth discussing at all, both because the answer is obvious and because by the time our inside dogs and cats join in the discussion, you two are greatly outnumbered.
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(Misten isn’t joining the discussion now, though. She’s napping curled up next to the step. I think she trusts me to represent her interests to those who’d deny her the right to a heated, carpeted house napping near a person she loves, with a water dish in the next room that never gets defiled by birds.)
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First, THANK YOU for your prayers.
I don’t usually share so much stuff going on in my life. As a child of 6 I have learned to keep it to myself.
Have doc appt this week.
I’m sorry to have caused trouble. That’s not what was intended.
Just me mentally bleeding in the middle of the night.
I took Sunday off because I should have a day to think on good stuff.
There are some so troubled who come here to seek out Christians and say whatever to belittle others. Especially some who say things like treat your neighbor as yourself.
Now I will go back up and read what I said in the middle of the night in my half-sleep that would cause such controversy.
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Well, News2Me, FWIW, I reported the harassment to the moderator, and I hope you did too. (They take it more seriously if the person who was attacked is the same person who hits the “report comment” button, for some reason.) I’m sorry it happened.
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Thank you Cheryl. I kind of feel like it would be me reporting on him because he told me earlier that he reported on me for calling him the same thing he called me. Sort of like nee-ner-nee-ner.
And aren’t animals fun to watch. We have a dog and three cats. The youngest is a black 6 mo. old orphan kitten. He is always in trouble. He’ll play in the water bowl. He’ll dump it over and look at the lake he made. He’ll go behind the shower curtain and attack you in the shower. He’ll run across the bed at 80 mph with a paper ball and bat it around your head in the middle of the night. He is a hoot. He loves only my husband. My husband didn’t like cats until this kitten came along and befriended him only. I raised the kitten from birth. That’s ok, my husband is enjoying the friendship. Sometimes it’s good to be distracted from the problems in life.
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