tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post3438186614613603323..comments2024-03-12T14:02:09.820-04:00Comments on Riverdaze…: YESTERDAY'S ADVENTUREGrizz…………http://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-66121618163999015612010-12-23T23:43:10.590-05:002010-12-23T23:43:10.590-05:00Val…
Everything worked out, for sure. Don't k...Val…<br /><br />Everything worked out, for sure. Don't know who we'd have called if the brake failure had occurred near where we live way on the other side of the city; it was actually in our favor that we were away from home. <br /><br />Book, fire. food, music…and a nice, easy, comfortable Christmas. Got it!Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-12043453976893158352010-12-23T23:39:14.287-05:002010-12-23T23:39:14.287-05:00Arija…
I think many are afraid to credit such thi...Arija…<br /><br />I think many are afraid to credit such things to providence because they fear what it implies…I don't. I don't for a minute we are simply creatures of chance and luck.<br /><br />No, it's actually not been quite so cold here the last few days, so the river's center channel remains open—though I'm "collecting" herons. In that portion you see in the photo in the previous post, today I counted seven great blue herons standing on the ice edge. Communal fishing!Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-25690111043775656792010-12-23T23:38:41.148-05:002010-12-23T23:38:41.148-05:00Arija…
I think many are afraid to credit such thi...Arija…<br /><br />I think many are afraid to credit such things to providence because they fear what it implies…I don't. I don't for a minute we are simply creatures of chance and luck.<br /><br />No, it's actually not been quite so cold here the last few days, so the river's center channel remains open—though I'm "collecting" herons. In that portion you see in the photo in the previous post, today I counted seven great blue herons standing on the ice edge. Communal fishing!Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-52928618510929944332010-12-23T23:32:12.809-05:002010-12-23T23:32:12.809-05:00Hilary…
We were just discussing this a few minute...Hilary…<br /><br />We were just discussing this a few minutes ago—how the failed brake application, had it occurred one push earlier or later, would almost certainly have turned disastrous.<br /><br />Friends—nothing replaces them.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-68025537431617308502010-12-23T18:48:12.978-05:002010-12-23T18:48:12.978-05:00whoa - glad you made it home safely. I am so impre...whoa - glad you made it home safely. I am so impressed with the systems you have in place there! now stay warm, stay home and open one of those books. Merry Christmas to you and yours VValhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060531713032236270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-17947284799227437652010-12-23T16:59:22.211-05:002010-12-23T16:59:22.211-05:00Thanks for the reply my friend. What other people ...Thanks for the reply my friend. What other people call coincidence, I have learned to call providence. When there is a need, it is 'provided' for.<br />When I give or do something for someone stranger, so often I get 'but how can I repay you?'<br />Invariably I ask then not even to think of giving 'back' to me, but rather to salve their conscience by passing kindness on to someone else, thus increasing it's effect and somewhere along the line when I have a need, it will surely visit me and be magnifies by the little bit of good it has fed into the world.<br /><br />PS has the ice reached the main stream of the river yet?Arijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03720793296992474762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-49667477329334937602010-12-23T13:24:39.496-05:002010-12-23T13:24:39.496-05:00Oh what a frightening thought! I'm so glad tha...Oh what a frightening thought! I'm so glad that you both had the best possible outcome for this potential disaster. And good friends... they're priceless.Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12787493532006658679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-45179919179227313222010-12-23T12:36:55.241-05:002010-12-23T12:36:55.241-05:00Anne H…
The trail here is unimportant…what matter...Anne H…<br /><br />The trail here is unimportant…what matters is that you found your way to the riverbank. And liked what you saw. Please return often—you're always welcome.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-81601791814488332262010-12-23T12:29:28.949-05:002010-12-23T12:29:28.949-05:00I'm not sure how or when I found you.
But I lo...I'm not sure how or when I found you.<br />But I love your pictures.... and stories....<br />and that last one was just wonderful!<br />Thanks for all that you share!Anne Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435482289459434828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-17025991819860806102010-12-23T12:26:13.101-05:002010-12-23T12:26:13.101-05:00Gail…
Thank you. I know you practice the gift of ...Gail…<br /><br />Thank you. I know you practice the gift of sharing—and I know your life is blessed and enriched by it, just as it enriches those you give and do for. You have a good and humble spirit, an amazing strength and outlook. Please take care of yourself as you care for others—and have a wonderful Christmas.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-57667381658068284922010-12-23T12:22:03.865-05:002010-12-23T12:22:03.865-05:00Weaver…
When I was growing up, family, friends, a...Weaver…<br /><br />When I was growing up, family, friends, and neighbors were good to me—patient, helpful, willing to teach me this or that, whatever. I was taught, by word and example, to follow the Golden Rule…and I believe in that even more so today. There's the old saying "you have to be a friend to have a friend" and that's true. Sometimes all you can do to repay friendship is to say thank you—and to carry on such acts yourself, in behalf of those who've befriended you. There are good people in this world—and it's almost a paradox that the ones who share the most are those who have the least.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-49260147850677328902010-12-23T12:10:24.067-05:002010-12-23T12:10:24.067-05:00Jayne…
You bet…you can't but friends, and you...Jayne…<br /><br />You bet…you can't but friends, and you wouldn't see 'em for a million bucks.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-37832335314187706912010-12-23T12:08:34.410-05:002010-12-23T12:08:34.410-05:00Arija…
Yes, the handbrake worked, just barely—but...Arija…<br /><br />Yes, the handbrake worked, just barely—but wouldn't have stopped the car at anything faster than a jog…or would have taken a huge distance to manage, anyway.<br /><br />I don't think you accumulate many true friends during a lifetime—or at least I don't seem to do that. I know a lot of people, but can count friends on the fingers of one hand. Of course that makes them all the more valuable.<br /><br />I really enjoyed the story of your sister's recent experience. How do you explain such things? Over the years I've gotten myself into several situations which required impossibly more time, experience, or cash to fix than I could come anywhere close to providing. Then, out of nowhere, a stranger walks up…with exactly whatever is necessary to make things right. In no time the problem ceases to exist—and my benefactor simply walks away, unwilling to take anything more for his trouble than my heartfelt "thank you!"<br /><br />I have an article I wrote several years ago on just such an incident. I may stick that up on the blog tonight. There is more to this world than the eye sees…Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-42537959906683809952010-12-23T09:59:46.772-05:002010-12-23T09:59:46.772-05:00HI GRIZZ-
wonderful post - with the truest of ble...HI GRIZZ-<br /><br />wonderful post - with the truest of blessings <br /><br />"Merry CHristmas"<br /><br />Love Gail<br />peace.....Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11337675996256691215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-5762335868758230532010-12-23T08:47:32.647-05:002010-12-23T08:47:32.647-05:00Can't help feeling Grizz that the sort of peop...Can't help feeling Grizz that the sort of people who receive this kind of help in an emergency are the very same people who would come forward to offer that kind of help - of course all the people who helped you should be thanked but I know you well enough to know you would have done the same for them. Have a wonderful Christmas on that lovely river of yours.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-21448763913845806472010-12-23T06:43:24.860-05:002010-12-23T06:43:24.860-05:00Wow, how scary. So glad it happened when it did a...Wow, how scary. So glad it happened when it did and that you all were able to be taken care of so graciously. Friends are indeed priceless.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057094040409159429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-61364281579792450782010-12-23T00:33:50.727-05:002010-12-23T00:33:50.727-05:00Very unpleasant when the brakes fail. At least you...Very unpleasant when the brakes fail. At least your hand brake still worked. I was in a downhill situation with two children in the back when the whole brake system failed. <br /><br />I see more the evidence of a Master hand guiding , just to make you aware of the value of friendship, which I know you are very aware of anyway and the Christmas spirit that does abound, than a mere brake failure. <br /><br />A little story from yesterday. My sister, 78 years old and a minister still insists on visiting each of her parishioners before Christmas who are too frail or sick to come to church, all 134 of them. Yesterday she was driven around greater Melbourne for a few hundred km to visit 13 of thereof. Although another lady drove her, she had to navigate. They had successfully done that and were to be met by my brother-in-law (80) at the half way point, still some 50km from home . Melbourne, by the way like Los Angeles, has peak traffic all day long. They had some time to spare so went into a store to do a little shopping. Tired as she was, She was selecting sketchbooks, coloured pencils and crayons etc. as gifts to the children at the Christmas service, when an elderly man asked her if she were buying all that for herself. Naturally she denied it with a smile. He promptly put ten dollars into her shopping basket. She was so surprise, she barely managed to say thank you.<br /><br />At the checkout there was a large packet of almonds which she picked up but on seeing the price, put down again. there also was a smaller packet which she inspected, then put down thinking it not a good idea to mix shopping with presents.<br /><br />Having paid for her goods, there was the little man again who silently put both packets of almonds into her basket and walked away.<br /><br />Gone was her tiredness and as she walked out the door, her husband arrived at it.<br /><br />If that was not an earth-angel, I don-t know who is.<br /><br />Once more, a very safe and happy Christmas in the warmth of the love of your family!<br /><br />Hugs and Blessings . . . ArijaArijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03720793296992474762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-84094429082888435542010-12-22T20:38:27.023-05:002010-12-22T20:38:27.023-05:00Bernie…
Friends and family are the greatest of ri...Bernie…<br /><br />Friends and family are the greatest of riches. Nothing beats 'em!Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-37347013643357838062010-12-22T20:34:52.563-05:002010-12-22T20:34:52.563-05:00Cicero…
He is, and I know that with all my heart....Cicero…<br /><br />He is, and I know that with all my heart. I have been blessed, protected, taken care of in so many ways all my life. God has been very good to me.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-27275007936060199062010-12-22T20:28:42.966-05:002010-12-22T20:28:42.966-05:00Rowan…
I once had a car's brake pedal break o...Rowan…<br /><br />I once had a car's brake pedal break off just as I came zooming up to a "T" intersection stop sign. (I slid the car around and through to the left and stopped safely, with five girls—my passengers—screaming all the way. My ears rang for an hour afterwards.)<br /><br />Another time the steering wheel of a car I was driving came off in my hands as I turned a corner. I, rather calmly, thought the lock nut must have backed off the threads, and decided I ought to be able to push it back onto the shaft, wiggle it until it reseated, and finish out my turn. (All this took about a quarter second to consider and try…which turned out to work. After which I steered to the side of the road and sat there for a long, long time.)<br /><br />But I've never had a brake line fail, allowing all the brake fluid to spray out—and the whole business to occur in one single stop. I'm getting too old to think such scary stuff is fun.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-86653257857312762292010-12-22T20:09:59.688-05:002010-12-22T20:09:59.688-05:00Carolyn…
Thank you. I'm really very glad it w...Carolyn…<br /><br />Thank you. I'm really very glad it worked out, too.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-10622845376182135532010-12-22T20:07:19.036-05:002010-12-22T20:07:19.036-05:00Solitary…
You know one of the things I've rea...Solitary…<br /><br />You know one of the things I've really missed this year was the time to read. And I don't mean a few minutes here and there—but a couple of hours at a stretch, times a couple of times per day, for several weeks. Over the years I've amassed quite a collection of books on Christmas. In the weeks before, I like to reread a number of my favorites—short stories, novels, a couple of historical things, and a few memoirs. That's my standard pre-Christmas routine. I've managed almost nothing this year, and it's surprising how much I miss that old mood-setting touchstone.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-47913630638819230662010-12-22T19:56:34.694-05:002010-12-22T19:56:34.694-05:00George…
I know what you mean and I do often feel ...George…<br /><br />I know what you mean and I do often feel that way—though in my case it is theologically based. Which is not at all to say I believe myself immune from harm.<br /><br />Last night's adventure, as uneventful as it played out, could have ended very bad, very quickly. I'm thankful that was not the case.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-11077635905756120062010-12-22T19:45:27.802-05:002010-12-22T19:45:27.802-05:00KGMom…
Yikes pretty much sums up what I felt when...KGMom…<br /><br />Yikes pretty much sums up what I felt when I pushed the old dependable brake and the pedal hit the floor. Yup, yikes nails it.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-49692912433087504582010-12-22T18:53:11.221-05:002010-12-22T18:53:11.221-05:00Gosh Grizz that was scary, so glad all worked out ...Gosh Grizz that was scary, so glad all worked out well. I so agree about friends, they are blessings for sure, I cannot imagine my life without them. Stay safe and have a very Merry Christmas......:-)HugsBerniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024565921761129108noreply@blogger.com