Lee Duigon

I Thought Today Was Thursday

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

Yes, somehow I thought today was Thursday. I ran around like a maniac, straightening and tidying because the phone tech was coming. When I was on the phone with my friend in Florida, it came up in conversation that it was Wednesday. Well, that sure gave me a jump on tomorrow.

I think the butcher who fills the online orders at WholeFoods must have been drinking on the job when I put my order in yesterday. Yesterday, instead of loin lamb chops, he sent a different cut. And today when I opened up what were supposed to be boneless short ribs, it was a nice small pot roast. Fine, I’ll take it. Whole Foods has a very detailed system. After every delivery you are sent a questionnaire–they want to know if you are satisfied, if not, why and ask what they can do to correct it. If they make a substitution and you are not happy, they will refund your money. It is a great system and I have always been happy with their choices.

Another thing–Lee’s manuscript has not arrived at Chalcedon yet. Hopefully it will get there today. I have the tracking number, but I sincerely hope it does not come to that.

Well that’s about it for today.

Pray for our troops.

God bless everybody.

Patty

German Shepherd Food Reviewers

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

I laughed my head off at this. No pretentious comments by the reviewers.

Unusual Animal Friends Very short though

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

Street Cat Becomes Indoor–Mostly

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

This sweet boy is now mostly an indoor cat.

Soaking Your Brain REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

From July 20, 2012

I grew up on comic books. On a rainy summer day, what could be better than a stack of comic books? Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow…

But I also grew out of comic books. I wanted more than comic books could offer, and real books took their place. Not that I wouldn’t enjoy an occasional reunion with Uncle Scrooge or Blackhawk, and I’d go out of my way for Little Lulu. But I’m not going to marinate my brain in comic books!

Have we become a nation of 10-year-olds? Is our imagination so undeveloped, so abbreviated, that we can’t get into a story unless it’s all laid out for us in pictures?

Yeah, probably.

But you don’t have to restrict yourself to comic books. You can go to movies based on comic books. You can marinate yourself in video games about zombies and hit men and then go to movies based on the video games. Or you can watch TV and soak up shows about the movies about the comic books.

Should the destiny of a great nation be decided by voters who have steeped their brains in comic books? Who, every four years, when they are told that they’re passionately interested in Olympic swimming, gymnastics, and track, actually spend many hours watching swimming, gymnastics, and track? It’s really rather frightening, how obedient we are.

You know that Lex Luthor has just got to be at the bottom of this.

Are We Grasshoppers? REPRINT

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

From January 4, 2013

Remember how, as the children of Israel approached the Promised Land, Moses sent out spies to reconnoiter? And do you remember what those spies (except for Caleb and Joshua) said?

We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we… The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants…. and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. Numbers 13: 31-33

God had commanded Israel to go in and possess the land, but Israel chickened out. They convinced themselves that the Canaanites were giants that they could never overcome: and they counted God’s help as worthless.

America’s Christians today are afraid of the ungodly, afraid to go up against them. They’re giants! They’ve got all the money, they’ve got all the media, they’ve got secret conspiracies that have already covered all the bases, their plans cover every possible contingency, resistance is futile, boo-hoo-hoo…

Wise up, O men of God.

They are not giants. They are deluded sinners whom God has raised up to chastise His people. It is a shame for God’s people to be afraid of Harry Reid, “gay” activists, “banksters,” FEMA camps, lizard people, and whatnot. Some of these boogiemen don’t even exist outside of our imaginations. The ones that really do exist will not enjoy worldly power for a moment longer than God allows: and their master the Devil has no power to save them.

Heads up, shoulders back! For we are marching as to war.

Hymn Locus Iste

leeduigon(patty)March 4, 2026

Lousy Day, Weather-wise

leeduigon(patty)March 3, 2026

Today was one of those New Jersey specials. Gray, dark, with a fairly steady mix of sleet and rain. Yuck.

The upside was that when I went to Walgreen’s to get my prescription, there was nobody waiting in line at the pharmacy. I was in and out in 5 minutes. Usually there is a line there.

I avoided the candy section, because it would be full of marshmallow Peeps,(which Lee loved) and which I used to get him for his Easter basket every year– along with a ton of other candies. Once when I was checking out his stuff the clerk asked me how many children I was buying candy for. When I told her it was all for my husband, she was floored. He made it last, though, he didn’t gobble it down all at once.

Spent some time doing my bank reconciliation. One of the myriad of doctors that saw Lee when he was in the hospital finally cashed his check. From October! I was almost ready to write it off.

Other than that, a quiet and rather gloomy day.

We are in for a few days of rain. I don’t mind as I don’t have anywhere to go right now.

I will be very interested in what the phone technician says on Thursday. I really hope he can fix whatever is going on because the static (which comes in random bursts) gets so loud I literally cannot hear what the person on the other end is saying.

That’s about it for now.

God bless everybody.

Patty