The Taylors' Front Porch
Pull up a chair! Have a sit-down an' shoot the breeze with us.
Later on, maybe we'll go down to the drugstore to get a bottle of pop . .
. maybe see what's showin' at the Grand . . . . What
you gonna do tonight, Barn?
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80611:
Possum, I didnt know that ole cousin "O-ther" even owned banks! (That was a real s-t-r-e-t-c-h at a joke! ha) (Outer banks)
ROMEnna- my goodness, what a deal with your poor
spine/chest. pray all goes well.
Keep pappabear in prayer today also.
As to the squirels, reminds me of the endding of little black sambo story, but I guess that one is
no longer mentioned anywhere these days.
Well, keep cool!
MDC
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80612:
And S-W-E-E-P, right into September, bye bye summer! (well...)
mdc
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80613:
I see on the mayberry.com opening page that
TVLand is doing a 50th anniversary tribute
to TAGS. As someone mentioned here a while back,
WE SHOULD TOO! Maybe we could have balloons,
the mayor's daughter can sing, the squad car can
lead a parade, etc, etc. What do you all think?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAGS!!! WooHoo
MDC
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80614:
What a sweep - - have enjoyed Andy, even the colored ones too. Glad to see the spaghetti episode today. Always loved that one!
hm
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80615:
Hello porch family......got back today from my old shipmates reunion. It was GREAT seeing my old shipmates and getting to walk through the old ship. Brought back so many memories. 30 years have pasted but as soon as I got on that ship, it seemed like yesterday. To be honest with you....it brought a big ole lump in my throat walking back up that gangplank and as I boarded, they rang the ships bell.
The decom was also kinda hard for serveral reasons. They turned it over to the Pakistan Navy....that made me sick when they changed the flag. Some of the things they did right in front of us was so disrespectful. It was the "in your face" type things that really bothered us.
But seeing alot of the guys was worth the trip.
Well I've got to try and catch up on all the archives.
Love and prayers to all my porch family!
-REV.
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80616:
Hey there HM...I need to send you a facebook message concerning a certain goat that I believe is pregnant and its not the one I expected!...its Holly Berry, the one with the lame leg. She has never had kids and with the partial paralysis I am concerned about how she will do. Maybe I'm wrong and she is just getting bigger but there are some might suspicious things going on with her back end...I won't go into detail here..I will message you on facebook.
Sure hope your unusual pain gets better after treatment, Ro. That sounds kind of creepy..
My poor dogs are still on a chain or cooped up. Bruce has been working himself to death trying to get their dog run finished so I can put them in it. They guy next door is a real nut and I think he might actually shoot them if they end up over there again. I just hate that they can't roam free anymore. The time will come when they can, when they are out of that puppy stage and don't tear everything up but does anyone know when that occurs??
Boo
September 01, 2010 - Msg 80617:
Boo- doesnt the neighbor have a least little bit of a clue that maybe HIS dog is causing some of the damage!? Sounds like quite a JERK, especially when Bruce talked to him!
REV- Glad you had a good time with your buddies!
I went to a boys boarding school, so I kinda have the same experience. Ya really get to know people when you're with em 24/7 !!
That is weird about Pakistan getting the ship.
Strange. I bet they got it for a pittance too.
So sorry about the bad transition bro!
HM- good to see ya. No firewood to chop this year!!
Well, ya all have a great evening. Possum, keep yer head low.
MDC
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80618:
Morning porch, looks like nobody is up yet! wake up breakfast is ready!
menu: eggs your way, hashbrowns, sausage, bacon, ham, biscuits, gravy, grits, apple butter, jelly, fresh fruit, sliced tomatos, french toast with maple syrup! coffee, tea, orange, appleor cranberry juice. come and get it.
have a great day.
Big Maude
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80619:
Morning porch dwellers.
Been busier than a cows tail in fly season here.
Barney report: Things are back to normal with Barney. The "female in warpaint" seige has ended. Now I had a good long talk with Barney about how he will be visiting the Vet next week and not to take it personaly. I don't think he believed me. So I gave him the ultimatum. Your cajonies go or you do buddy. You ain't fit to live with twice a year. I think that got to him. :) In all seriousness, we had thought about using him for breeding (he is a pure bred and AKC registered) but he has shown some tendicies that we are not wanting to continue. They may be simple things of obidience we have been unable to teach him due to Debbie's health problems, or more of a bloodline issue. Not really sure. But because of her health we decided not to sire him out. So with that in mind, and due to the fact that the neighbors will not restrain their bi-otch, Barney is going to the "best clip joint in town". (pardon the pun)
Thanks for all who gave me advice on this delicate subject. :)
Rev, glad you had a good reunion but the story you mentioned really steams me up. What on earth is happening to our nation? I declare. I saw a thing on tv last night about Beaverton Oregon that has refused to approve a city celebration of the U.S. Independece day, but is forking over money for a city wide celebration of Mexican Independence? It just astounds me what is going on more and more in this Country. We seem to have lost all thought of common sense. Anyway, glad you had a good time (in spite of the other thing) and again, thank you for your service.
Boo, sorry about your dogs. It's good you are taking care of the problem though. Maybe they could join Barney with his procedure. That's supposed to calm critters down, ain't it. I know it would me!!!
HM, Yes the rocker is painted very nice. I love the little meatballs you painted on it. Makes it feel homey. But how did you get it smelling like meatballs too? Yer tricky.
Well I gotta get. Sorry I can't respond to everyone. Spot, get yer water line fixed, would you?
Maude, glad you and Beth are doing better.
Asa
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80620:
Good morning, porch. Asa, I commend you for making the decision you've made with Barney. Sounds like you made a very well-thought-out choice, and you cited some very good reasons for not letting him breed. That's exactly what I meant by "responsible breeding." You're a prince!
REV, that just made cold chills go up my spine, talking about the final displsition of that ship. Next thing you know, they'll be turning it into a warship and shooting at our troops from it. Insanity. And changing the flag in the presence of her old crew - that was beyond rude. It's a reflection of the same mindset that wants to build a mosque at Ground Zero. No sensitivity or consideration at all. Disgusting, but boy, we'd better be sensitive to their culture, at all costs. OK, I've said too much.
Well, I've got to hit the ironing board. Will be up again at around one, to get showered and out to the doc for the steroid injection. Will have to work to keep my blood sugar under control after all that steroid hits me, but I've got a good supply of insulin.
Blessings, friends. --Romeena
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80621:
Boo - I am here to answer all of your goating questions and yes, she should kid with maybe a little assistance.
Please pray for my poor Casey - the surgery can't come quick enough. His foot is detiorating (spelling, sorry) more and so it the foot will be fused and he will also need a bone marrow graph to help make the bones healthy. He is on vicodin and tramadol and in a lot of pain. Air cast and crutches. After the surgery - crutches until January.
hm
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80622:
Yep, ASA, my dogs are in line for "the big fix", too. Wonder what its going to cost to fix both? Yikes! You know, maybe that is why I am so calm...guess my ovaries are shriveled up by now. ;-)
Boo
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80623:
Morning all-- to paraphrase Barney (Fife's) line:
"There's nothin worse than a DOG on a cryin' jag!" ha
HM- prayers for Casey, you bet. He's your youngest right? A lot of pain for a youngster
to endure.
Maude, thanks for the great breakfast.
John Masters, check in when you can.
APB FOR LUCY MATHEWS.
Prayers,
MDC
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80624:
Thanks for B-fast maude..prayers for the coast with storms coming...just a quick check in...big glass of ice water and back to yard work...grilled hot dogs with baked beans ans maude slaw for lunch....SPOT
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80625:
MDC...I can't believe you missed that opportunity I gave you to suggest "oregano"!
Boo
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80626:
Hey MDC - Casey is my oldest. This condition of his foot is congenital. He always complained of foot pain but he wears a 16. You don't get there without some growing pains. It was more than growing pains and now that his foot is pretty well grown, we are getting this situation fixed. About 1% of the population has this - so he is very special. He is also 6'1". He turns 14 at the end of October. My poor "little" guy!! Thanks for the prayers!
Spot - grilled chops for supper with Maude's leftover beans and slaw!! Still trying to get your goat!!
hm
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80627:
One of our subscribers, Sylvia, lost her beloved pet cat of many years yesterday. Please send her a condolence message at bearshenan@yahoo.com. I know she would cherish them. Aunt Bee of Orlando
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80628:
Boo-so right, how'd I miss that! ha
MDC
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80629:
Prayers indeed for Sylvia. I think I've seen her on the facebook page.
MDC
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80630:
Prayers for Casey, Sylvia,and everyone from NC on up the East Coast as Hurricane Earl approaches.
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possum under a rock
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80631:
REV, glad to hear you enjoyed the reunion with your old shipmates. I have never attended a reunion. My ship had 25 years of service before I came onboard, so nearly everyone who attends the reunions served before I did.
You also mentioned that your ship ended up with the Pakistan Navy. When I was undergoing my initial training back in the 1970's, we were selling our old war ships to Turkey. Their navy would send complete crews to our base so they could sail the ship back to Asia. While they were here, they would challenge us to soccer games and beat the heck out of us. But then we got revenge by challenging them to baseball games and beating the heck out of them.
Hello Aunt Bee of Orlando. Why not tell us a little about yourself? And who is this subscriber Sylvia?
from Poor Horatio
September 02, 2010 - Msg 80632:
I forgot to include this in my previous posting.
I'm curious if anyone read the recent comments by the famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking concerning God. Check it out at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking.
from Poor Horatio
September 03, 2010 - Msg 80633:
I read some of that about Stephen Hawking, Poor Horatio. It seems he thinks that you can get something from nothing.
And he is supposed to be so smart?
I think he is just "hawking" his new book.
I saw you mentioned "Firing Line" back there, auh2o. That's the one with William Buckley Jr. right? I remember watching that sometimes on Sundays. I was always fascinated by his thought processes. And that was when I was still trapped by the politically correct world of liberalism. Seem to remember I liked Reagan too.
Things have cooled down a bit about the school thing, though my wife still mentions taking Kai out of the school at least once a day. I dread it when she brings it up. Kai came home from school early today because of a stomach ache. Though I have to wonder if it was caused by the stress around her about this, because she was fine a little later. She did take a long nap though. I still am praying that God heals this family and this issue.
Sorry about Casey, hm. I will pray for him.
And prayers for Pappabear. We need our mayor.
-Sterling Holobyte
September 03, 2010 - Msg 80634:
Good evening, porch. I'm back from the nerve-block procedure, finally fully awake and mobile. It's too early to tell whether it worked or not - I'll know in a couple of days, but so far, I'm encouraged.
Maude, that young'un is just 14 and wears a size 16 shoe? Good grief! I pray everything goes well for him, and he gets relief from his pain.
PH, the best I can say regarding Stephen Hawking is - sad, sad, sad. He is imprisoned in a failed body, but even worse, he is trapped within a closed mine. There is no doubt he is extremely intelligent, too intelligent for his own good. The Bible says in Proverbs 1:7: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. And in 1 Corinthians 1:25 we find: Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Hawking may be one of the greatest minds of this era, but he has missed the one single most important fact of all. God DOES exist. He, along with a number of other brilliant people, somehow misses that one simple fact. It's just not possible to generate something out of absolute nothing-ness. When I take a clean glass from the cabinet, I can "wish" all I want to, but it's not going to miraculously fill with iced tea. I must first add ice, which I have made from water and a system of freezing, and then add tea, which I have made by mixing water and some tea bags. In other words, the "ingredients" had to be there, and then I could combine them to make my tea. Similarly, there are basic building-blocks of life, and when a given environment is completely void, sterile, empty - nothing happens. Such was the cosmos, until life was spoken into existence by the power of an omniscient and omnipotent God.
I don't pretend to understand how He does this, but the evidence is all around me. Life is here! It takes faith, to be sure. But it takes even more faith, more than I possess, to accept that at some point in unfathomable time, a bunch of matter just appeared from nowhere, got together and BANG - the universe began. Maybe it did, but where did the matter come from? Did it make itself? What's beyond our universe? What's beyond that? Where is the end, and when you find the end, what's beyond that? Nope, there are no answers, at least not in our understanding, but it all exists, so there must be an answer somewhere. So until Mr. Hawking and his fellow wise men can explain it to me, I'll just go on believing that while I don't have the answers, God does, and that's enough for me. Oh, and I realize I'm preaching to the choir here.
As for Mr. Hawking, I pray for him. Imagine if that brilliant intellect could be combined with faith in God - what a power that would be! Poor Mr. Hawking. To be trapped in that unresponsive body, with a brilliant mind that's capable of such powerful reasoning, and to be unable to believe that there's anything more than that in his future. Ultimately, he's alone in that shell with his thoughts, and when his heart fails, according to his belief he will simply cease to exist. I can't think of anything much sadder than that, unless it's the fact that at that moment, he will find that he does continue to exist, but in a different plane, and he will be more alone than even he can imagine. Alone, and in that place we know as H-ell, which in its purest definition is eternal, unending separation from God.
The Bible has a lot to say about the value of possessing the "faith of a child" - and not without reason. No one is happier than a child who feels secure in the love of his parents, and it is the same with us. As it has been said, "I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future." That's good enough for me.
Sorry for the length of this, but well, you asked, and some things just defy brief discussion. Blessings, friends. --Romeena
September 03, 2010 - Msg 80635:
Hahaha! I stand corrected. Sometimes "brief discussion" is not only possible, but quite effective. Sterling said, "It seems he thinks that you can get something from nothing.
And he is supposed to be so smart?" That pretty much says it all, in two sentences! Thanks, Sterling. I love it! --Romeena
September 03, 2010 - Msg 80636:
Ro, there verse that came to mind for me when I read some of Hawking's stuff was, "Professing themself to be wise, they became fools" and "The gospel is foolishness to them that are perishing"...both quotes from the apostle Paul.
For some crazy reason I am up at 4am!! and tomorrow is a busy day. I think I have my friend on my mind..the one I mentioned was on trial this week. Well, yesterday the jury convicted him and found him guilty on at least 2 counts of s#xual assault of a minor. Sounds like he has a rough road ahead of him in prison.
Better try to get some more sleep.
Boo
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