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Post by barb43 on Sept 16, 2020 23:02:15 GMT
I'm looking for something funny to say about the raptor snatching up that rabbit, but -even tho' it left me laughing- I can't think of anything. It's been a real estate kind of day ... Sweetie's out showing, and I'm doing paperwork at home. I'm hung up on a website that won't let me download more than half of the historical data that I need. It's my data, so I'm wondering if I'm going to have to call them up tomorrow. We're having baked steaks for dinner, and baked potatoes to go with them. Hope that's all tasty.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 17, 2020 0:14:28 GMT
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Post by warriorchild on Sept 17, 2020 11:20:27 GMT
Good morning 😃 It’s rainy & 66 degrees here at 7:20 am.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 17, 2020 11:31:36 GMT
Good morning! It is another really cold morning here. I'm heading off to my parents' place a little later this morning to make a big pot of chili for our lunch on this chilly day.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 17, 2020 14:32:35 GMT
Good morning! No rain here, fortunately - we're still drying out from that 3"-4" rain we had last week. I'm hoping for some wind. That pot of chili outside is cute. Our baked potatoes last evening were great - the skins were crispy, and the insides were soft. We had scrambled eggs and turkey bacon to go with the potatoes. We're baking the steaks tonight - couldn't work out the steaks and potatoes in one oven. MikeJ texted me about 11:30 last night to say we have squatters in the apartment next to his. Probably needless to say, I didn't sleep well last night. We're heading over there to see what's going on in a little bit. later: Thank goodness the squatters turned out to be people we recognized; the guy has done work for us. We had a good conversation with him. He's determined to get the gal to call me who is supposed to be living there - she is related to the tenants who'd lived there for years and just moved halfway across town to live with some other family members (family matters within a certain ethnic group - everybody claims everybody, unless they claim everybody in a different group ). Besides that, we looped around 3 properties I needed to check out for the lawn crew - they got the one mowed, yay! - and then we came home.
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Post by warriorchild on Sept 17, 2020 23:06:15 GMT
Thankful your trip to check out the squatters went well overall, Barb.
Mel, that there “raptor” was hysterical! Thank you, as I shared it with DH & kiddos.
DH was able to make some progress lasT evening on removing the ceramic tile from the foyer. He borrowed a tool from work & DD#3 borrowed bits from someone at her job. It is a slow, hard job and he’s got about two hours once he’s home, after dinner to work on this. 28 + years ago they put these things in ~ looks like concrete on the concrete slab!
Praying DH doesn’t get injured or totally over exert himself. Last evening, his finger got sliced through the new work gloves.
Thanks you guys!
Grouphug
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Post by warriorchild on Sept 18, 2020 10:54:48 GMT
Good morning 😃 ‘Rough night with the leg cramps etc. ‘Gonna go & child care DD#3’s kiddos at their house. May you all have a blessed day! Grouphug
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 18, 2020 11:33:21 GMT
Good morning! It is chilly here again this morning, but not nearly as cold as the last few mornings were.
Hoping you all have a wonderful day!
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 18, 2020 11:38:19 GMT
Our pastor posted a video on the church's Facebook page last evening explaining the new "no contact" method of receiving communion that our church will be using for the near future.
Not sure how I feel about this way of doing things. I get that there is a need for added caution right now, but i really hope that this change to the individual prepackaged communion kits does not get to be a permanent thing.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 18, 2020 14:51:46 GMT
Thanks, Jeanette!
I'll have to check out your pastor's video when I get back home afterwhile, Mel. I'm interested in seeing what he's doing.
Heading out to a planning meeting in a few minutes.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 18, 2020 18:25:56 GMT
Our pastor posted a video on the church's Facebook page last evening explaining the new "no contact" method of receiving communion that our church will be using for the near future. Not sure how I feel about this way of doing things. I get that there is a need for added caution right now, but i really hope that this change to the individual prepackaged communion kits does not get to be a permanent thing.
That's interesting. Somebody was really thinking to come up with this prepackaged kit & get it into production. It may have been in use some places prior to the pandemic. I can see where it would be very convenient for hospital chaplains. It was a little awkward when my late-dh was hospitalized & requested communion. A lay worker came to his bedside and brought a round wafer (size of Ritz cracker) and a small, open container, maybe just slightly larger that what's in the kit, of grape juice. He couldn't fully sit up but leaned up on one elbow to receive communion. As far as using that kit in a regular congregation, I had to chuckle. I can see older elementary-aged kids insisting they can open it themselves & then either dropping the wafer on the floor, or slinging the grape juice everywhere. Adults may have similar issues as well. When we were in the Baptist church out in the mountains, the deacons passed a tray down the rows of pews and we each took a small paper cup of juice and tore off a small piece of unleavened bread from a bigger chunk of unleavened bread, with our bare hands. And then, still seated, we ate the bread and drank the juice on command. I was aghast the first time I attended one of those communions. ... That was not the way to hold communion, in my mind. I don't think I took communion in that church after that, and they rarely held communion anyway. It will be interesting to see how things go ... and to see if that does become a permanent process. I'll be interested in seeing what you think.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 18, 2020 19:00:08 GMT
Quick comment - our dogs are bouncing off the walls today, and we can't figure out 'why'. Leela is overexcited, racing around the backyard and in the house, jumping on us full force. Franny is playing the role of packleader, nose up in the wind, standing stockstill with tail held high. She was posing to bolt toward something, earlier, but nothing appeared. FaithyJ was asleep in her cubby but jumped up & started out of the room. She stopped at the doorway and woofed a few times. I looked to see what she was woofing at, but no other dog was in her way. She was looking over her shoulder at me, so I told her to c'mon & show me what she wanted. She led me all the way to the back door (doggy door was open, she could have gone outside on her own). When I opened it, she bounced and ran outside, waving her nose in the air, tail up like she was on the hunt. She didn't find whatever she expected so circled the yard and wandered back inside after a few minutes. It's a little hazy, and the smoke from the western fires is expected to roll in later this afternoon & continue to lower our air quality. I'm wondering if there are smells on the breeze from far away that they're not used to smelling - ? I have no idea otherwise.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 18, 2020 21:25:09 GMT
I had a fairly productive day here.
I got my parents' yard mowed this morning, drove to the Amish market a few towns over and got us sandwiches for our lunch, and then came home and mowed my own lawn this afternoon.
The weather this afternoon was a cool but pleasant 70 degrees, but tonight it is forecast to get back down into the low 40s by morning.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 18, 2020 21:39:16 GMT
That's interesting. Somebody was really thinking to come up with this prepackaged kit & get it into production. It may have been in use some places prior to the pandemic. I can see where it would be very convenient for hospital chaplains. It was a little awkward when my late-dh was hospitalized & requested communion. A lay worker came to his bedside and brought a round wafer (size of Ritz cracker) and a small, open container, maybe just slightly larger that what's in the kit, of grape juice. He couldn't fully sit up but leaned up on one elbow to receive communion. As far as using that kit in a regular congregation, I had to chuckle. I can see older elementary-aged kids insisting they can open it themselves & then either dropping the wafer on the floor, or slinging the grape juice everywhere. Adults may have similar issues as well. When we were in the Baptist church out in the mountains, the deacons passed a tray down the rows of pews and we each took a small paper cup of juice and tore off a small piece of unleavened bread from a bigger chunk of unleavened bread, with our bare hands. And then, still seated, we ate the bread and drank the juice on command. I was aghast the first time I attended one of those communions. ... That was not the way to hold communion, in my mind. I don't think I took communion in that church after that, and they rarely held communion anyway. It will be interesting to see how things go ... and to see if that does become a permanent process. I'll be interested in seeing what you think. I can see where these prepackaged communion kits could have their legitimate uses for hospital/nursing home visitations, home bound parishioners, etc; but to use them on a large scale as your church's regular way of receiving communion just seems impractical at best.
Also, I can't help feeling that everyone having their own individually packaged and sealed wafer and juice cup doesn't really mesh well with symbolism of the whole church body partaking in one shared bread and cup.
I grew up in a church where everyone drank from the same chalice and ate unleavened bread broken from a shared loaf.
Even in more recent years when most churches in my current denomination switched to separate small cups and wafers, everyone's cups were still filled from a common bottle of juice and the pre cut wafers were taken from a common shared plate.
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Post by barb43 on Sept 19, 2020 0:35:54 GMT
In the Catholic church, we all drank from the same chalice - there was one common chalice for each half of the church, & whoever tipped it for you to sip from then wiped the rim before the next person sipped. That was only 30 years ago, but it sounds like such an archaic practice in this day & age! Communion really did mean a lot to me in the Catholic church. edited to add: Communion also meant a lot to me in the Methodist church, although it was done slightly different. We knelt up front, juice was passed out in small paper cups, and we selected pieces of unleavened bread from a plate that it was torn up on. . . . I have to say, those poor Southern Baptists - in all 3 SB churches I attended on a regular basis - they struggled with holding communion. Later: We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant this afternoon for an early dinner. It was delicious - carne asada bistek. We each brought home half of our steak to eat at breakfast in the morning. I reviewed the insurance coverage on the rent house out in the mountains and surprisingly, the fact that it has a detached 2-car garage had fallen off the characteristics list. How does that happen? Yes, I added the garage. It only added $3.96/mo to the policy cost so that's a good thing.
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