10/22/2019
We’ve begun to fix it up, this house we now live in. A few little improvements and touch-ups and we’ll seek a buyer. The biggest turnoff when hunting a new home is things which don’t work right. We go around the house and the property making sure we see anything that might fall into that category. If we do, we add it to our list. We just about always find more items than expected. But, we’ve sold a few houses, and the way to sell them quickly is to eliminate the negatives (and, of course, depend on the market-place!)
SIMH this morning was an old (probably WW1 or WW2 era) song, “Sound the Battle Cry!” —“Rouse, then, soldiers, rally round the banner, ready, steady, pass the word along!”—end result: “Christ is Captain of the might throng!” William Sherwin actually wrote the poem in 1869, so the writer’s thoughts might have been to stop thinking of war (i.e. “study war no more”) and think of being “on the battle field for my Lord.” The latter being the greater war! Though the words and music both were written by Mr. Sherwin, it was not to the forefront of the evangelical cry till the early 20th century. I love to hear (in my head) a good ol’ “by ear” piano player make this into the rousing “battle cry” it was meant to be.
Back to the house for one moment: we have a counter top range and a separate oven which, upon discovery, neither has a “pigtail” but both are wired direct. Another learning process, is this normal? I never knew. I thought 220amp wiring was required to have a plug for kitchen appliances—guess not. You see, that changes the way and what we buy to replace it. And now, we will have a “dead” 220amp circuit in our electric panel. I suppose that’ll be ok.
Ever have someone say something about you that, while it wasn’t a lie, just told enough about you to cause a lack of confidence the listener had in seeking you out for something? In the last year, a happening occurred to which I fully expected to be invited. No invitation. Another person asked the host if I was going to attend and the host replied of me, “He doesn’t do this anymore.” Someone told the host it wouldn’t do any good to invite me, I wouldn’t have been there anyway. It’s the kind of thing which makes one ponder, what did I ever do to that person who told the host that? I’m amazed at how that hurts. Of course, it passes. But why did it come out that way to the host? Retracing conversational steps doesn’t seem to relieve the hurt. I can’t find any reason for that to be said about me. Trying my best not to feel or show any offense, know what I mean?
Since I’ve brought up this sort of thing, many times we let our mouth run faster than our brain does (not literally) so what comes out is not what we really should’ve said. There are other times when what we realize later is we just shouldn’t have said anything. These things should always be tended to quickly, not letting time elapse and thereby allowing the other party to conjure up their own meanings to our words. Oh the words we use! Great for many reasons, but phased differently can be like stones thrown or fiery darts! Remember ol’ Hank’s Luke the Drifter song, “Be careful of the Stones that You Throw”? …..moving on
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