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Jeez. Just got a message that one of my co-workers was sent to the hospital from work on Wednesday. He wasn't feeling right so the boss got somebody else to do his job and sent him back to the hotel. On the way, my co-worker decided he should go to the ER. Sure enough, he was having a heart attack. The ER transported him to San Diego for surgery as fast as they could. He should be good, the docs said if he had waited and gone to bed that night he likely wouldn't have woken up the next day though. That's a reminder to not be stubborn. You only get one heart. Take good care of it and get it worked on if you need to...
 
@Spikedriver , I'm glad your friend should be ok! I hope you are feeling better this morning, also!
and I surely hope you are feeling better this morning, @hashbrown

Just a normal Sunday here (I hope).
Sunday School, Church.
Clean kitchen and put away some flour that I had frozen for a couple of weeks.
Back to Church this eve for prayer meeting.
 
Double R said:
I’m jealous! I’ve always wanted a corgi. Especially one to protect me 😉
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He's a mix, but a sweetie as long as he is not at the vet!
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hughewil said:
Played poker with the guys till 1:30 am last night. Today raking some crypto poker until the Browns gam starts. Also makin a pork Turnkey ICO solutions in the crock pot and cooking a big batch of baked beans. going to can some of the beans.
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Lead hand: A 3-card poker hand, which may just position as a high card, a couple, or three of a sort. Straights and flushes don't count. It should rank most reduced of the 3 hands. Center hand: A standard 5-card poker hand. It should rank higher than the lead hand. Base hand: A standard 5-card poker hand. It should rank the most noteworthy of the 3 hands. An OFC/P Progressive hand that disrupts these norms (by having a lead hand more grounded than the center hand, or a center hand more grounded than the base hand) is a fouled hand and naturally loses.
 
DrJenner said:
Finished day 3/6 at work. We were pretty much full, so just maintenance stuff on most patients, nothing crazy and hardly any admits which was a nice break. Some nice patients family ordered us pizza so that was fantastic
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Reminded me, a small hospital with a very busy ER. It was located in between south central LA and east LA. A long holiday weekend in summer. There were no longer chairs for the gunshot and fireworks victims in the ER, standing room only.

I stopped by monday afternoon to do maintenance on the CT. I notified the ER which closed to trauma until I was done. Not sure how it happened but the head of radiology ended up working alone for the entire holiday. His radiologists were out of town, one had a traffic accident. He was so happy to see me! He looked rough, had been up for a couple of days and it showed. He wasn't a young man anymore!

When I finished I woke him up as requested. Then he paid me $100 NOT to notify the ER that the CT was available for a few more hours... so they stayed closed to trauma... He insisted I take the money so he could get a couple more hours of sleep... He was my ultimate boss/customer at that hospital! What could I do? I took the money, went home... 3hrs later I called the ER doc so they could open to trauma again... The next time I stopped there the ER staff bought me lunch, guess they heard I was responsible for stopping their nightmare... And this wasn't the strangest request I've ever gotten by hospital staff! Not by a long shot.

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A quiet day here... watching lighting and rain, hoping I don't see a tornado.
 
25 pounds of cat food made and put up.
4 trays of freeze dried stuff put up. FD’r defrosted and prepped for next load.
Thousands of dishes washed. Ok maybe not thousands but it feels like it.
Need to get a couple harvest moons baked, purée’s and prepped for freeze drying. Been lagging on that for the last few weeks.
New chicken feeder set up and “trained” the ladies on using it. Mealworms make training easy. Need to sort mealworms this afternoon and get a new bin started. Colder temps sure slow them down.
Waiting on soap making supplies to arrive today. Still need to get oils figured out. Otherwise almost ready to tackle that goal.
Hope y’all are having a good day!
 
Urbanhunter, thanks for the recipe. I have always hated lemon zest in anything. Don't know why people like it. I do like some lemon things though. Lemonade is one. Some lemon candies are ok. I prefer lime though.

Sonya, prices are disproportionately high for the income levels in my area so people struggle. Some get take-out food because buying stuff to cook used to be more expensive-- but also, some don't have working stoves/appliances to cook. Many are too exhausted after working. A lot of people never learned how to cook.

It's looking good, Ben! Reminds me I need to get stuff done at my house.

Spikedriver, that reminds me, one of my cousins is a doctor in San Diego. I think he does something with pacemakers when they are installed. Haven't heard from him in a long time.

I got up early to sweep cobwebs/lint/dustbunnies off the ceiling and upper cabinets around the ceiling fan. Attempted to clean the ceiling fan but didn't have much luck (but got some gnarly dust bunnies), cleaned the counters, picked up trash, cleaned trash out of the washing machine bc my brother didn't empty his pockets and didn't shake his clothes out after they sat in trash, cleaned lint filter in dryer bc my brother didn't clean it after last use-- there was trash in it too. Opened a new bag of cat food, fed kitties, did a load of laundry-- should be about dry soon. Washed dishes, and cooked shepherd's pie. I'm exhausted.

I was going to cut weeds outside but it rained all day. Tomorrow I get up early for a dental appointment.
 
Hey Snappy 1, your pup looks like our biting Milo pup...same ears, same white racing stripe on his head. Body is bigger, though. Ha.
Took a bunch of veg out of the freezers for the dehydrators. Trying to make room in the freezers for beef that will be ready soon. Two dehydrators filled, and I'll do it again tomorrow. Little granddaughter still coughing, maybe take her in to the doc tomorrow, but still no fever. Her mom and the boyfriend came to visit her. Mom called and was having moments of clarity. She started on the dementia med patch a few days ago. Boy, she was talking non stop. Hope it continues. She knows something is wrong with her, and I hated to tell her it's the dementia. Husband and I went out for a late afternoon drive, since it's too cold to take a walk. The woodburning stove feels great tonight.
 
Hubby and I went skiing this morning. Saw two wolves on the way there! Hubby was told just yesterday that last spring they tagged 125 elk calves in the area. By Aug. the count was 17. If anybody needs target practice!
 
Patchouli said:
@Double R you've made soap before? I haven't but it is still a hope.
@hashbrown I'm guessing you've been given the new diet guidelines. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
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I have not. It’s one of those to do things I’ve not tackled but it’s my 2022 must accomplish list. I’m making it top priority before we need to place a new order. Tired of buying it when I can make it. Another thing I’d like to be more self sufficient with.
I joined a soap making forum recently and wish I hadn’t. I know better than to stray from here. Once I get it worked out I’ll be happy to share details with you. 🤗
 
Had little bit of company yesterday.
Estelle and her daddy came by to check on Granny.
Been putting ice melt out several times today.
Trying to melt the ice on sidewalk, bout fell Friday.
Will check on my Dad Monday.
Will go pick up groceries for him and me Monday.
Estelle is having Granny sleepover on the 14 th January.
We're going to looking at seed catalogs to decide what's going in the gardens.
 
Washing a bunch of bedding from the closet that was blocked by the claw foot tub for almost 10 years. I found my electric blanket, but not the cord yet. I will not wash that due to my concern about damaging the cords. I've washed them before with no problems, but it is clean.

Church was great. While I have usually liked going to church, I really like our pastor. He is in his early 40's, has a lovely wife and 4 children. We are having discussion the hour before church about different aspects of Christianity. Our last topic was angels. Today's topic was miracles. We're going through the book of Luke for sermons. Coffee and rolls after church for fellowship. It is a small congregation and today's attendance was low, 24 adults, and 6 children.
 
Weedygarden said:
Washing a bunch of bedding from the closet that was blocked by the claw foot tub for almost 10 years. I found my electric blanket, but not the cord yet. I will not wash that due to my concern about damaging the cords. I've washed them before with no problems, but it is clean.

Church was great. While I have usually liked going to church, I really like our pastor. He is in his early 40's, has a lovely wife and 4 children. We are having discussion the hour before church about different aspects of Christianity. Our last topic was angels. Today's topic was miracles. We're going through the book of Luke for sermons. Coffee and rolls after church for fellowship. It is a small congregation and today's attendance was low, 24 adults, and 6 children.
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I'm glad you have a preacher you really like. My church has a new pastor and I can't warm up to him. There's nothing wrong with him, but...let's just say that if I was trying to build the perfect pastor from scratch, the finished product would be our old pastor. There was literally nothing I could find fault with in him. The new one might not be a worse pastor, he's just different...
 
Spikedriver said:
I'm glad you have a preacher you really like. My church has a new pastor and I can't warm up to him. There's nothing wrong with him, but...let's just say that if I was trying to build the perfect pastor from scratch, the finished product would be our old pastor. There was literally nothing I could find fault with in him. The new one might not be a worse pastor, he's just different...
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This was part of the deal with my last pastor. Another member and I talked about how he never spoke to us, except from the pulpit. We never got a "Good Morning," or anything like that. My question, "How do you get to be an insider with him, or at last worthy of being greeted?" Friend told me he didn't think there were any insiders. I think there were, the people who had ministered with him in the streets with the homeless and addicted, long before a church was established and we came along. I always felt like an outsider. In my ten years there was no opportunity for bible study. Now I have two different sessions a week.
Current church, everyone is friendly to everyone. Is this the purpose of church? No, but I never want to be somewhere where I feel so much like an outsider. And in the last church, there were a couple of bossy old women who felt the need to seek me out and to make their demands. They had no manners and I was so done.
 
Spikedriver said:
I'm glad you have a preacher you really like. My church has a new pastor and I can't warm up to him. There's nothing wrong with him, but...let's just say that if I was trying to build the perfect pastor from scratch, the finished product would be our old pastor. There was literally nothing I could find fault with in him. The new one might not be a worse pastor, he's just different...
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Here is another thing about the current pastor. A woman I know, from a completely different denomination, lost her husband and sought out several people for counseling. Evidently it is not easy for find someone who is good at counseling. She went to a couple services, and then did 3 counseling sessions with him. She said of all the people she sought out, he was absolutely the most helpful. His previous work was in church planting in Belize.
 
Double R said:
I have not. It’s one of those to do things I’ve not tackled but it’s my 2022 must accomplish list. I’m making it top priority before we need to place a new order. Tired of buying it when I can make it. Another thing I’d like to be more self sufficient with.
I joined a soap making forum recently and wish I hadn’t. I know better than to stray from here. Once I get it worked out I’ll be happy to share details with you. 🤗
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Yes, soap making forum. Been there, that's how I got here.
 
Weedygarden said:
Here is another thing about the current pastor. A woman I know, from a completely different denomination, lost her husband and sought out several people for counseling. Evidently it is not easy for find someone who is good at counseling. She went to a couple services, and then did 3 counseling sessions with him. She said of all the people she sought out, he was absolutely the most helpful. His previous work was in church planting in Belize.
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My old pastor was a fantastic counselor also. Even non church members sought him out. He was so vital to everything the church did...the new pastor is rarely in his office during the day. I don't think it's wrong for the pastor to not be as accessible or involved. It's just different. The old guy (Rick) had a way of getting you involved in everything with him and making it enjoyable to be involved. The new guy (Rob) doesn't say, we're smoking 500 pounds of pork out back and we need a hand wrapping it, come with me! And you'd drop everything and go do it and have fun doing it. I miss that...
 
Spikedriver said:
My old pastor was a fantastic counselor also. Even non church members sought him out. He was so vital to everything the church did...the new pastor is rarely in his office during the day. I don't think it's wrong for the pastor to not be as accessible or involved. It's just different. The old guy (Rick) had a way of getting you involved in everything with him and making it enjoyable to be involved. The new guy (Rob) doesn't say, we're smoking 500 pounds of pork out back and we need a hand wrapping it, come with me! And you'd drop everything and go do it and have fun doing it. I miss that...
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Some people have charisma and some do not. While I never thought I needed a charismatic pastor, I think there is something of a need for being able to speak to and welcome people in order to reach them. This church has many older members, in their 80's and even 90's. One of the guys, in his 60's said during the pastor search, that there was a need for a young person, with children. There are currently 8 children in the church. How do you grow a church with a bunch of older people who will all be gone in10 to 20 years? This pastor has been here for 1 1/2 years and the church membership has grown by 8%. I understand that it used to have a membership that was large enough for two Sunday services.

I wonder how many churches in America are dying a slow death as their elderly members pass away?
 
I need to try making soap, my sis makes soap and gifts it out. Yesterday was the coyote shoot in our area. They skipped our road because there's too many cows in the farms on our road, and they get spooked. A local guy usually youtubes it (Jordan's Harvest) so I'll have to see when he posts it to see how many they got.
Our mennonite church here stopped doing services during covid and is now up for sale. Except the graveyard. So many of our relatives are buried in that graveyard! They do have a large community building next to it that's always being rented for reunions and other celebrations and town suppers. We have to go about 15 miles to the other town to go to church. That church has healthy numbers of people of all ages. So many people nowadays not going to church at all.
 
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