All That, and A Half Gallon.

 All That, and A Half-Gallon.

 

Yep, was about to chow down on some shredded wheat cereal when the first bite led me to give the entire contents of the bowl to my chickens. The expiration date on the carton was 9-14, but Dear Hearts, that stuff was blinky! Bleah. Used some half and half for my cereal. A little rich, but plum tasty in the long run. Such is life and expiration dates!

 

So, the insulation men were supposed to be here at either 10:30 or 11 a.m. Two hours later, Patty called the main office to find out that both of the guys—one from Oklahoma and the other from near Tyler—had had tires go flat on them. One was on the trailer that held all the equipment and bales of insulation. The guy with the big dumpster got here early and said he would be back about the same time in the morning to haul off the bags of stuff they vacuumed out of Patty’s attic. Apparently, the air conditioner people have been throwing their trash up in the attic rather than take it downstairs to put in the bin. Therefore, all that crud was choking up the vacuum cleaners. But the two men got it all cleaned out and a hole stopped up where a woodpecker had made a place to get inside. Or maybe it was some other critter. Who knows? They treated the attic with stuff to kill whatever and told Patty not to open the attic door for 24 hours. Oh joy! As if she would climb up there! Anyway, they are “supposed” to be at my house at 8 a.m. to fill the attic full of fluff and then go down and fill Patty’s attic with fluff. Here’s hoping all goes well tomorrow.

 

Cooked chicken for the dogs this morning and will feed them some of that tomorrow. They seem to do better with that than any other foods. The lamb and rice kibble is ok, but Thompson is just not impressed with kibble. It could be that his teeth are not as good as they once were. That happens to the best of us.

 

The news of rainstorms, flooding, tornado warnings, and assorted weather-related excitement just seems to continue to plague the East Coast. Those folks are getting all the rain that the center of the country could use so desperately right now. And now the hurricanes keep threatening the same areas of the eastern coast of the U.S. If it is not one thing, it is another to keep our country on its toes. Our infrastructure is taking a whiz bang beating. But at least we have not been hit by the kind of earthquakes that have happened in other places on the map. Saw an example of some folks who made their house out of plastic bottles that could prevent so many deaths. Not many folks in Texas would consider a plastic bottle house sturdy enough to deal with our wind storms. Not to mention that it would be pretty hard to build with those materials in some elite neighborhoods! Guess everyone just has to make their own decisions about what is an acceptable type of dwelling.

 

The lovely Senator Kennedy has been at it again reading nasty books in a Senate meeting. These are the types of shishkabob stuff that no one would want to read, much less let a child read. But some folks think it is terrible to ban any books. Guess the old woman is a fan of this type of censorship if it means banning books that depict sexual acts for the readership from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade! Parents really should have some input about what is allowed in the school libraries. Sorry. Not sorry. If you would not want to read this book to your mother, why would you let your child read it?

 

At one time in my life, the books that came from the library were decent without any suggestion of illicit sex or other out of wedlock situations. The little drug store down town might have had some “romance” paperback books, but those were not allowed in our home. Maybe my mom was a bit Puritanical, but growing up a little dumb had its benefits. Now Dick and Jane books have a totally different appeal to some really strange people. Isn’t there a scripture that says that when Christ returns it will be as it was in the days of Noah? Do you remember why only Lot’s family was saved? What happened when the two angels came to the village where Lot lived? Did they receive a warm welcome or were they set upon to be raped?

"As it was in the days of Noah" is a phrase from the Bible that refers to the truth that the world will be just as wicked when Jesus returns for His Second Coming as it was during the days of Noah before the flood was sent upon the earth¹². The phrase is from Matthew 24:37, which says "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be"². The phrase is also found in Luke 17:26³

 

May God be with us and help us use His blessings wisely.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.