Amazing This cow selects what brush to use depending on what part of her body she wants to scratch.
Author: leeduigon(patty)
I have lived in Metuchen, NJ, all my life. I have been married to my wife Patricia since 1977. I am a former newspaper editor and reporter. I was also the owner-operator of my own small business for several years. I wrote various novels and short stories published during 1980s and 1990s. I am a long-time student of judo and Japanese swordsmanship (kenjutsu). I also play chess, basketball, and military and sports simulations.
Great is Thy Faithfullness
Tired
I was wrapping up the job of straightening the kitchen a little while ago (in preparation for the plumber’s visit tomorrow)–yes I am throwing in the towel and seeking professional help. When I was clearing out under the sink I knocked over the glass fixture that my neighbor had stuck under there when he changed my light bulb a few weeks ago. It shattered in a million tiny pieces, so I had yet another thing to do before I could finish the thing I was working on. Lord, how I hate when that happens.
Aside from that, everything is as OK as it can be. Doing a little bit of the tax prep every day, still waiting for some documents.
Have a good night, all.
God bless everybody
Patty
Three Men: Four Presences REPRINT
From November 18, 2013
I would like to share with you something that happened 100 years ago to Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer.
Their ship having been crushed in the ice and sunk, Shackleton left most of his crew on a desert island while he and a few men went for help. After crossing 800 miles of stormy ocean in a patched-up longboat, and landing on South Georgia Island, Shackleton and two men had to slog across the mountainous, heavily-glaciated island to reach a whaling station.
After incredible hardships and against seemingly insurmountable odds, they made it. All the men were rescued. The following is from Shackleton’s own memoir:
“When I look back at those days I have no doubt that Providence guided us, not only across those snow-fields, but across the storm-white sea that separated Elephant Island from our landing-place on South Georgia. I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four, not three. I said nothing to my companions on the point, but afterwards Worsley said to me, ‘Boss, I had a curious feeling on the march that there was another person with us.’ Crean confessed to the same idea. One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible, but a record of our journeys would be incomplete without a reference to a subject very near our hearts.”
Compare this to the experience of another three men, farther back in time. It’s from Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel.
“Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury… and he commanded the most mighty men… to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace… Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and said unto the counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”
Sophisticated modern pinheads reject the Bible story out of hand: miracles simply do not happen. But no one has dared to question the story told by Shackleton and his two companions.
Then again, what do I know? There are probably academics who say that never happened, either.
The Show Must Go On REPRINT
From March 14, 2013
Thanks to all my readers who sent their condolences on my mother’s passing. The viewing is tomorrow and burial will be on Saturday, so don’t expect anything out of me until that’s all over and done with.
She made me very happy when, just two weeks ago, she finished reading The Last Banquet and told me, “You can be very proud of these books.” That comment was a long time coming, and I will always treasure it.
Meanwhile, I think my mother would advise me that the show (as much as possible) must go on. So consider this bit of lunacy from our ruling class:
Admiral Makes Incredibly Stupid Statement
A few days ago Admiral Sam Locklear II, the commander of all our country’s military forces in the Pacific, overlooked North Korea’s threat to attack South Korea and maybe even hurl a few nukes our way, ignored China’s aggression toward Japan, and proclaimed that “the gravest threat” to the security of the United States is… you guessed it: Global Warming!
As Hercule Poirot would say, there are only two possible explanations.
1) The admiral is an utter nincompoop. And how happy are we about such a ninnie commanding nuclear submarines?
2) The admiral has no integrity whatsoever, and is willing to say anything, anything, to ingratiate himself with our feckless political leaders in hope of advancing his career–which, it seems to me, has already advanced more than far enough.
Mama Dog and her Kittens
‘The Rape Capitol of Europe’ REPRINT
From June 4, 2016
Warning: The maker of this video has employed a number of cuss words to express his indignation over the self-destructive lunacy practiced by the rulers of his country.
Listen to what this man has to say about Sweden. It’s his home, so he sees it up-close and personal. He is convinced “Sweden is the most self-loathing country on earth.”
But you could easily replace “Sweden” and dub in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or France, and everything else could stay the way it is. Self-destructive multicultural insanity is happening everywhere throughout the Western world.
The narrator is wrong, of course, when he pledges his own allegiance to “values” that include secularism and humanism. You won’t beat hyperventilating Islam with secularism and humanism. The reason our Western countries are going round and round down the drain today is because their people turned away from God and put their trust in secularism and humanism.
Islam, along with secular humanism, is a scourge raised up by God to chastise us for our ingratitude, our pride, our sloth, our lard-brained tomfoolery.
Doubt it? Read the Book of Jeremiah. Read it very carefully. Give it your undivided attention.
If God was willing to burn Jerusalem and tear down the Temple, what will He be willing to do to us–the countries that once were Christendom, who have committed all the sins of Israel and Judah and gone on to make up some really far-out sins of our own?
Look at the leaders He has given Sweden. Then look at the leaders He has given us.
Michigan Police Officer Accused of Theft
Here’s What Happens When a Cloud of CO2 Erupts Over a Location
This is why Decatur, Illinois can be flirting with disaster.
The Little Brown Church in the Vale