Sorry to be so late, but I was in bed when Hubby called me to tell me that we had peacocks in our front yard. Normally the flock is a over a half mile away , several blocks north of our street and down nearer the park. People there feed them, so that’s normally where they hang out. I jumped up, grabbed my camera, and got shots of the fourteen or so birds crossing from our yard into our neighbor’s yard. I then stayed to talk to our neighbor for a while. It turns out he needs a water meter. If I can figure out how to upload the pictures, I’ll try to add them to the post later.
Last night Fr. Fernando came to our church for a healing mass. I’m not normally one to fully embrace these types of events, believing it is mostly psychological, but I decided to join in at the end (I was working the parking lot and some other stations during the Spanish mass). I listened to the long list of people testifying to their healings: able to hear out of an ear they had been deaf in, eyesight clearing up, various pains in various body parts disappearing, etc. There were a some people being “slain in the spirit” as well, laying on the floor. I thought “What have I got to lose?” Fr. Fernando came by grabbed my cheek by my jawline and said something that I didn’t quite catch. Then moved to the man next to me. As he passed by, my knees went weak and I almost fell backwards. The “catchers” put their hands on me and kept me from falling, and I continued to stand there. My friend Irma had gone all out and was on the floor, but I didn’t know until afterwards. Fr.Fernando, praying over the man next to me, reached out a hand and put it on my head briefly and then moved on. When I didn’t feel so wobbly I went to sit down and waited for Irma. We went to get her purse from the locked room (she had been helping out, also), and it was then that I realized that the sharp pain in my foot that had been bothering me all night was gone.
The English mass is tonight. I’m supposed to be running things, so I’ll be there anyway. May as well try for a second helping and see what happens. I’ll be less resistant tonight.
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It is 8:40 ish and I am the first one to comment this morning?? Like wake the H_LL up dudes and dudettes!
Well, I waited as long as I could. Here’s the whole thing: The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate… Read more »
Good afternoon Hamsters. Wonderful 39 this morning at 6, another wonderful day that we all deserve, and a few more coming. Have been busy stuck at home with renovations–gratefully mostly outside–last week and this. Can’t leave except briefly on the days spouse is at the office, and when he’s home he does not do well with the racket and disruption.… Read more »
TT are those the decendents of the peacocks that escaped from the old Vargo’s Restaurant?
I messed up the linkie.
I blame teh gayz
From the deparment of cutting off your nose to spite your face: By canceling all extra curricular clubs on campus, Flour Bluff ISD hopes to avoid the Equal Access Act — a federal law, passed in 1984, that requires schools receiving federal funding to offer “fair opportunities for students to form student-led extracurricular groups, regardless of their religious, political and… Read more »
#42 Pyro
Guess rich lefties aren’t “the eeeevill rich”…
#40 tedtam
Let him put his money where his mouth is – first.
Absolutely nothing is stopping him. Why interviewers don’t ask that obvious question is beyond me.
Moore is an imbecile. I can’t take him seriously enough to get upset about anything that emanates from his filthy pie-hole.
OUR money!? Money is a NATIONAL RESOURCE?!?
Somebody help me sit down, my head is spinning, spinning, spinning.
And not in a good way.
Whey does anyone even work at a job? Just hand out money to everyone and be done with it!
Oh, the nausea!
#38 Wagonburner
Beauty, brains, talent – and Salon was ticked off that she considered motherhood her “greatest role”.
Let me guess who has the smaller mind.
Natalie Portman makes me sick.
The Westboro “Baptist” “Church” prevailed in the Supreme Court in a case brought by the family of a fallen Marine for protesting at his funeral.
Sadly, the Court got it right, even though I hold Phelps and his “parishioners” in the utmost contempt.
My father’s mother was born in a house that was built in 1865 by her grandfather. It is still standing and is now a museum in Sam Houston Park downtown.
#33 Queen TT: It would be really cool if they could extract the entire concrete model and get it all away from the dirt. What a great museum piece it would be. I can only imagine what a BEYOTCH it would be to move it.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEXAS. We got here as soon as we could 42 years ago come the end of March. More than ever, Don’t Mess With Texas.
This makes me worry about what’s in my back yard.
#28 WW/ST
Great catch, thx for sharing!
#30 – I are a proud one – NO kleenex needed.
#15 – Ya RASCAL – you shouldda posted a *kleenex alert*!!
*Remember the ALAMO!! Remember San Jacinto! Remember GOLIAD!! Happy 175th Birthday TEXAS!!!*
Woodlands Obituary. Be sure to read the last sentence. 😉
#20 wagonburner
I would suggest an immediate check for hours worked and escorted off the premises, just like we do to pond scum in the real world.
Pretty as a peacock, they are.
Spoken by a a true Texan
#23 Texpat
That was great. I liked Freeman before, even more now.
Racists are always the first to call attention to race.
Perhaps you have seen this before, but I have not.
I’m terrified of birds. Probably too much Hitchcock for me as a yoot.
#18 Sarge I just posted some pictures. The males are obviously in 1:00 am honky-tonk mode. It usually takes more than one year for males to get their full plumage, and there’s obviously a junior in the group who is trying hard but just getting shown up by the older males, even with their plumage not fully in yet. Two… Read more »
The system worked.
🙄
Noted Zionist Louis Farrakhan sez the Juice are dragging us into a war with his good buddy Big Mo.
Dude’s hopeless.
Wangs. Peacocks.
This used to be a family blog.
#15 cbr: That brought tears to my eyes.
#13 Pyro: Jail records show Devol was arrested eight times between 2004 and last summer, on charges that include aggravated battery on a pregnant person and carrying a concealed firearm, and a probation violation. This was the last paragraph of the story. A couple of things bother me about the highlighted section: 1) aggravated battery on a pregnant person?? When… Read more »
Happy 175th Texas. Great read.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TEXANby Bum Phillips
That is still way above his level of competence, perhaps he should offer to shine shoes.
News from the land that birthed our benefactor:
What about the dead alligator in the back with a hole in its head?
Great Britain began a no-fly zone over Kadaffi-controlled areas of Libya to stop him from killing his own people.
Germany proposed an economic sea blockade
France vowed to support an arms embargo.
Obama offered to handle refreshments.
The King’s Speech won the Oscar for Best Picture Sunday. It’s about how George VI worked with a speech therapist to cure his impediment and give a great wartime speech.
We need to get the same therapist working with Obama to get him say that we must cut spending.
Fixeditforya
That’s why I write real slow, cause I know you don’t read too well.
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the following day after errors were noted in the text. In October 1835, settlers in Mexican Texas launched the Texas Revolution.… Read more »
A friend emailed me this one: Southern Ingenuity One morning 3 South Georgia good old boys and 3 Yankees were in a ticket line at the Albany train station heading to Athens for a big football game. The 3 Northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the 3 Southerners bought just one ticket among them. “How are the 3… Read more »
SUMTYMEZ MUH SPLR DUNT WERK SEW WEL
Think we could (of should) try it again?
#2 otl
Maybe he has happy feet.
Scientists in Switzerland, expressing surprise that they didn’t cause the End Of The World, are restarting the Large Hadron Collider.
We’re doomed.
G’Morning all
Glad someone else remembers
Fixeditforya
FIRSTICUS
HAPPY TEXAS INDEPENDANCE DAY!
It is 8:40 ish and I am the first one to comment this morning?? Like wake the H_LL up dudes and dudettes!