Category: Christian fellowship

An Up and Down Day

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It really was up and down today.

On the up side  I found lamb.  Actually Whole Foods did the finding and I was finally able to order some.  It was a very odd situation there for awhile, because I had a fear that other shortages would be coming.  You know, today lamb, tomorrow toilet paper.

On the downside, it really does look like the northeast may be hit with another snowstorm–possibly a substantial one.  I sincerely hope not.  Enough is enough, already.

And the big downside was having to read about the Oregon Dems refusing to protect the infants that survive abortion.  Truly, what is wrong with those people?  Are they people?

And the other upside is–the ants are really subsiding.  I will replace the trap tomorrow as it has been a few days.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today

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As I sit here on a gray and gloomy day, I can take comfort in seeing my little car sitting happily in the parking lot.  My neighbor took me to pick it up earlier.  No problems, inspection passed and all good.

I did have an experience a little while ago, however, that was new to me.  I think it may have been an anxiety attack.  I had a fast heartbeat  (which I do not usually have) and a burning feeling in my chest–not like indigestion, or heartburn or anything like that.  Imagine how your chest would feel if you stood in front of a blast furnace, opened the door and took a deep breath.  Needless to say, I sat down with a glass of cold water and did some praying and attempted to relax. That is a new one on me, and something I want absolutely no part of.

The ants have suddenly diminished greatly.  I guess the Terra does need some time to work.  If this kind of reduction keeps up, I won’t have a problem at all in a few days.

Another odd thing, I may have mentioned.  There seems to be a major shortage of lamb, at least around here.  Whole foods has not hat had any but the stew meat in Cryovac, which I do not care for.  Ditto Shop Rite.  When I investigated online I was told that due to drought in the Southwest, the herds are at their smallest in 25 years, but that does not explain the lack of New Zealand lamb.  Is anybody else having this problem, or is it just the New York metropolitan area?

It is five months today  since Lee passed away.  In some ways it seems like yesterday, and in other ways like a long time ago.

I am not sure what I will tackle tomorrow.  There’s more than enough here to keep me busy forever.

Catch you tomorrow

God bless everybody

Patty

 

A Really Good Day

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Today turned out to be a really good day.

The garage called, my car is done, inspected and stickered.   The fee is reasonable and I will pick it up tomorrow.  Hallelujah!  That is a huge load off my mind.

I have to work a little more on the ant front–they are still around and in the sink.  That only started after the plumbers were here.  I am trying one more thing and if that does not work I will have to call an exterminator.  I kind of dread that because some places are rip off artists, and it’s hard to know who is who from just an online listing.  I will thoroughly empty all the stuff under the sink–ugh.  Well, what has to be has to be.

The sun finally came out this afternoon and it is a lot warmer.  Good.

Isn’t it odd that when you get rid of stuff, you find a few weeks later you can use it?  Here’s what I mean–for weeks I had been throwing out a lot of cardboard boxes of various sizes.  Yesterday, when my neighbor took me home from the  mechanic, I noticed a tiny little dinosaur glued to his dashboard.  When I asked him if he was into dinosaurs he said his daughter was.  I told him I had a bunch of dinosaur figurines that I would give her.  Now I could use one of those boxes that I tossed.

That’s about it for now.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

Not Bad for Friday the 13th

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Much of today was spent on “diddly stuff”.   Stuff that takes time, but doesn’t really show–you know–new batteries in the bathroom scale, organizing files, an attempt at reconciling my bank statement, etc.

At least it was bright and sunny (still pretty cold, though).

Tomorrow I am going to go online to a couple of sites where I will try to sell some of our board games. Some are in excellent condition, and from what I have heard, are worth something.  I would rather do that than just give them away or toss them.  I have not done e-bay as that seems to be something that could end up as a full time job and I am not ready for that yet.

Have a good night.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today Flew By

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Today, I had a lot of issues and the day really flew by.

First thing this morning I went upstairs to work on clearing out the bedroom.  That was a mistake.  Lee had saved so many things–the boxes that held our wedding rings, a note I gave him of what to pick up at the store (he saved it because I drew a little cartoon of myself on it) it was all too tender and raw for me to handle right now. There are a lot of things like that up there and it’s far too soon to do anything with them .

Then when I went to change the water in our cooler, I found out that the bottle I had brought in from the foyer was frozen solid.  Fortunately, the water delivery is tomorrow and they will take the other frozen bottles and replace them.  They are 5 gallon and will take forever to thaw.  I really was not kidding about those freakishly low temperatures.

Shop Rite delivered the groceries to the wrong apartment, so I had to manage with the grocery bags and the cane, which is a real pain.  It is just laziness on the Uber driver’s part because there is NO WAY that apartment 5 would be the first apartment in the building.  It is the closest to the street, so they drop them there and let the people in the building sort it out for themselves.

Sounds like the patience is a little thin.

Well at least it is warmer and I know what I am tackling tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Counting the Hours Until the Warm-Up

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Today may be the last day (for a few days) of the bitterly cold and excessively windy weather for a little while.  Hooray.

It is supposed to warm up to near freezing tomorrow which will feel relatively warm by comparison to what it has been.

Today was a day of total loafing.

Watched a lot of things on YouTube and some other of my favorite spots on the internet.

It was the best way to take my mind off my total inactivity and inclement weather.

Now if all goes well, I can start up a regular work and fitness  routine tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Another Very Cold and Windy Day

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This weather is incredible.  It will be going down to around zero tonight, with wind gusts that will be high.  Again.

It has been very cold and windy all day, albeit sunny and clear.  Sort of like pictures I have seen of Antarctica.

Mid week, it is supposed to warm up (laughs hysterically) to around freezing.

I think I will eat supper early, as usual, and go to bed early while listening to some scary stories on YouTube.

Have a good night, all.

Stay warm.

God bless everybody.

Patty

 

 

I Finally Got Out!

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Well today felt like I was let out of Alcatraz.  I got out relatively early, did a couple of errands and squeezed in a small walk this afternoon.

When I was in the convenience store, we were talking about the weather.  The owner was remarking on how cold it was.  I was born within a few miles of where I live now and have lived in this area all my life.  This is truly the coldest winter I ever have experienced.  We have had years with more snow, and we also had years with severe (0-6) cold temperatures at night, but never for such a long period of time.  I heard a Ranger one time talking about how the bears love New Jersey because of the mild winters (they don’t have to hibernate here).

I just could not help bombarding you with sloths today–I was in “sloth mode”.  Another critter I would love to hold in my arms for a bit, especially one of the babies.

I hope everyone had a good day.

Stay warm.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Don’t Play the Guilt Game REPRINT

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From June 9, 2021

One way to enslave people is to shackle them with guilt–guilt for this, guilt for that, blame people living today for slavery that ended 150 years ago, or 300 years ago, whatever. Mark Rushdoony calls it “An Old Strategy.”

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/an-old-strategy

The important thing to remember, Mark points out, is that “manipulation by guilt… is anti-Christian to the core.” Why? Because Jesus Christ is our salvation. Because Jesus Christ removes our guilt. He has already atoned for our sins. We do not have to obey The Party or Dear Leader to pay for what we’ve done. Christ sets us at liberty; the sentence has been lifted.

P.S.–Now I’ve got to re-read R.J. Rushdoony’s The Politics of Guilt and Pity, published in 1970–but reads like he’d written it today. Well, you can say that about a lot of his work, can’t you?

A Tiny Crumb of Progress

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Finally today I got out for a mini-walk.  Not much, but a start.

Yesterday when I went to the drugstore, I noticed how really weak my legs had become.  That is not good, especially when you are older.

Tomorrow’s walk will be longer, and I can build on it daily, if the weather prevails.

Did more work on the tax stuff and did other things that had to be done.

We are still plagued here in New Jersey by very low temperatures at night.  In fact my large bottles of water in the foyer are getting a ” I might be thinking of freezing”  look about them.  We have been getting bottled water for 15 years and that has never happened before.  I did hear a guy on line the other day say that this is caused by (can you guess?)  global warming.  These hard winters and other weird weather events have happened before and they will happen again.  I will say that 2025 was an awful year in many ways, weather included, and I certainly hope that 2026 will be better.

We can always hope.

And pray.

God bless everybody

Patty