Category: Christian fellowship

First, let me say I can’t believe it’s Thursday already.  It seems the days, weeks, and months are really flying by.

We’re also in June, as well.  The half-point of the year.

Just can’t believe it.

I know time flies faster as you get older, because a specific time period represents a much shorter piece of your life.  Yeah, yeah, but it still seems to race by.

No major news from here today.

I did speak to Lee’s former editor at Chalcedon.  Susan is a great person and I wish she lived closer.  That’s another thing wrong with modern life.  Everybody is so far away.

Visiting is out, for me.  I drive, but only locally.  There is not enough money in the universe to tempt me onto an interstate highway.  Thanks, but no thanks.

Another sunny and warm day–we can always use those.

That’s it for today.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

PS in the picture (left to right) are Martis, Helki, Jandra, Jack, Lee, Ellayne, Ryons and Obst

Last night, I watched some TV (on the computer, as usual) and went to bed.   A typical, normal night.  At one o’clock I woke up.  I mean really woke up.  No matter what I tried, I could not get back to sleep.  I tried milk, crackers, etc.  The usual remedies–all to absolutely no avail.  At around  five o clock I threw in the towel and got up.  Between 5 and 5:30 is my usual wake-up time, anyway.

Needless to say, I’ve felt like something from Zombie apocalypse all day.  Glad I accomplished what I had to yesterday, because today I was totally useless.  Insomnia is such a thief of time–it ruins the night in which you are trying to sleep, and it wrecks the next day.

I’ll admit I sure watched a lot of documentaries today.  That’s about all I was good for.  Thank heaven for all the interesting stuff that’s out there.  I really got into poisonous plants this afternoon.

As Hercule Poirot would say  “the little gray cells were very tired today”.

At least the weather is lovely.

Tomorrow is bound to be better.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

I’m sure everybody has had this feeling at one time or another…

I wish I could talk to my parents, and ask them questions about things they were around to see (well before my time) while they were going on.

I’m pretty sure this is a universal feeling.  My Mom did tell me about the influenza epidemic when she was a young woman.  It was amazing to hear a first-hand account of her experiences during that time.   My Dad told me about grandpa (his Dad) having typhoid fever.  My Dad wasn’t born yet, but grandpa told him about it.  It did leave Grandpa with a bowel issue for the rest of his life.  And many other events and occurrences that I would find so interesting to hear about.

I guess the motto is “talk to people  while they  are here”.

Also Fatima.  I am not Catholic, but it sure seems that something really happened in Portugal in 1917.  Something worthy of note.

Well, that is the extent of my musings for today.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today it was nice and sunny, but on the cold side with really high wind gusts (which made it feel even colder).

Still doing a lot of sorting of Lee’s papers, but truthfully was not all that ambitious today as far as any other tasks go.  And there are tons of tasks.

My friend in Florida didn’t have any more news about the fellow who was shot, other than that he is in stable condition.  He was shot in the neck and shoulders as far as she knows.  Hopefully, he will recover enough in a few days to be able to talk on his own.

I feel a little bit like I’m stuck in neutral.  Not tired exactly, but without any real sense of ambition or purpose.  That’s probably par for the course.

Monday I will attempt to go pick up my glasses.

Tuesday is election day, so I will be going over to the school to vote.  This being New Jersey, I have very little hope for anything positive along those lines.  New Jersey really belongs to the teacher’s union.

The fawn was back again today.  That makes me a little nervous, because our landlord is due to mow the lawn and that would really upset the little one.

That’s it for now.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today I watched a video about the history of Newark, New Jersey.

Newark was a very big city, near to Elizabeth (which was big, too, but not as big as Newark).  Newark had much more of a big-city feel to it.  I remembered when I was about eight years old, and a neighbor took me to Newark for a day of shopping.  Those department stores!  They were incredible.  Palatial.  They had in-store restaurants–real ones– with waitresses in uniforms, and silver and china place settings.  They had floorwalkers–men with carnations in their buttonholes.It was a different world from today.  After WWII, there was a rapid decline in the population.  The GI’s returning from the war found that mortgage financing was easier to get for suburban housing as opposed to urban.  The population decline, plus poverty, plus other influences caused the decline of Newark.  Just in my lifetime, such a change.  It is gone forever.

Not all change is change for the better.  Sometimes I think it is mostly not for the better.

I also spent time reading through a lot of Lee’s Inquisitor  columns from both The Independent  and Today.

Now I have a better idea of what I will post tomorrow.

Another clear, sunny and beautiful day.

That’s always a good thing.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

First, I woke up tired.  That’s unusual.  Then right after lunch I fell asleep which is something I never do.  I had that crummy  have to catch-up feeling all afternoon.

A good thing did happen, though.  There was a fawn in the grass curled up about 5 feet from my apartment door.  We left him alone ( as you are supposed to) and he was gone later in the day.  There is a small herd of deer that hang out around St. Francis Cathedral, which is across the street from my house, and I’m  assuming he belongs with that group.  His mom probably came and picked him up.  I think I have a picture, but I have to play with it to see if I can get it on the computer.

The latest word on the man who was shot the other night–he is not in critical condition any more, but no word about the arm.  My friend and her husband will try to visit him in a day or two, if they are allowed to.

Aside from that, no news.

Have a good night, all.

God bless everybody.

Patty

Today I got a really shocking message from my friend in Florida.

You know how you can sort of know someone because a friend of yours talks about them?  You feel like you know them, personally, even though you have never met them.  Well my friend in Florida has a neighbor who has a long time buddy staying at his house while he’s home in New York.  These guys go back to Junior High as really close friends.  I feel almost as if I know this man because my friend talks about him all the time.  A nice guy who has helped them with their gardening and home repair stuff.  Let’s call him Joe.

Last night Joe was shot three times at the local MacDonald’s drive -through.  There is some confusion (a lot of confusion) about the circumstances.  Right now the police are calling it a “road rage” incident.  We know that Joe does not carry a gun.  The bottom line is that this man, once of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet is now in critical condition and may lose his arm.  There is no way this guy could ever be a threat to anyone.  Shot three times?  “Road rage” at a MacDonald’s drive through?  That sounds like attempted murder to me, rather than self defense.

As I say there is a lot of confusion right now.

What ever in the world is happening to our society?

I am in an absolute state of shock.

That is about it for today.

Have a good night, all.

God bless everybody.

Patty

The first piece  of good news is that I called the lab today and they said I owe them nothing.  Nada, zip.  Hooray.  The agent told me the bill that I got last week must have crossed in the mail.  I think she meant that the write off had been posted to my account just after the bill was sent.  That is a real load off my mind.

Second piece–a young woman who was seriously mentally confused was talked into “transitioning” after only two (2)!  one hour telemedicine  phone conferences ( by her team of  “doctors”)  She had both of her breasts removed.  She has since come to her senses, “detransitioned” and has just won a whopping lawsuit against these bozos.  If lawyers smell blood in the water over this, (which I am sure they will), it could be the beginning of the end for the whole corrupt industry of sexual mutilation in the name of mental health.  Can’t happen fast enough for me.

A sunny, warm day today.

I feel pretty good, all things considered.

See you  tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty

I was very busy with the blog today.  Some days are harder than others, finding suitable material, listening to the whole thing, then posting.  I can’t tell you how many videos I have had to reject because the person filming it dropped a lot of enthusiastic f-bombs at the very end of what had otherwise been a really good video.

So when I went outside a little while ago,  I was shocked to feel just how much the temperature had gone up.  I have been freezing my butt off for the last few days, and the change was really remarkable.  It also looks like the sun is trying to come out.   Yay!

Had a nice chat with Susan Burns, Lee’s former editor at Chalcedon,  It’s so good to catch up with people.  We usually talk a couple of times a week.

Well now I am going to pour myself a glass of wine while I make my supper and watch more of ER ( which I had never seen and am really enjoying).  Because Michael Crichton actually was a doctor, the medical stuff is legit.

I hope everyone had a good day and if you had cookouts, no rain.

Have a good night.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty