[Small Talk: The Prayer Closet]

This morning I received a weather warning from our power company.  Expected winds up to 70 miles per hour and possibly 9 inches of snow starting tomorrow morning. There is a blizzard warning for Tahoe.  I have my Halo Bolts and my Eco Flow River (all from QVC) all charging right now to be prepared.  I don't have a whole house generator, but at least I will be able to have some lamps and the radio on.  And maybe my heated blanket.  I'm picking up groceries from Walmart today, so I should be good.  

It sounds like there is bad weather in several places.  Every one stay safe and warm.

 

[Small Talk: The Prayer Closet]

1 hour ago, zoomama said:

i am currently watching the weather channel now and it is moving up and over into michigan now. also, northern texas has a massive wind driven fire that may take out several towns - 250,000 acres last i heard. weather is scary.

I hope everyone stays safe.  Maybe the Duggar emergency squad will show up to "help".

We have had several weather warnings already for this weekend.  Very high winds with maybe 8 inches of snow.

 

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

1 hour ago, BradandJanet said:

Can someone explain that top Jill is wearing? The kids are wearing plaid shirts, some over long t-shirts for unknown reasons. Is Jill wearing a very short gray sweater over a billowy white shirt, or is this a one-piece franken-thing she bought for the occasion? Surely, in honor of the party theme, she could have found something plaid in that packed walk-in closet of hers.

Good to see she kept the white cowgirl boots. She's been able to wear them twice now.

Maybe she shops on QVC.  They have had some atrocities that look even worse than this lately.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

3 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

I always hold onto my receipt when I get them or I give them to the person with the card. 

You are smart.  I have seen the clerks actually staple the receipt to the gift card packaging. Always keep the receipt for a gift card and give it to the recepient.  It is too bad that we have to be so careful now, and that some people think theft is an ok thing to do.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

I don't give gift cards anymore because there is a good chance they are no good.  I don't know the details, but people can remove the redemption code off the card and use it.  The card gets sold and it is already used.  I have seen clerks check the cards before people leave with them.  Emailed Amazon gift cards are the ones I use if I need a gift card.  I wonder how Jill would react if her gift (grift) card was refused.

I heard this was a TicTok challange, but I don't know if that is true.  I do know people that have received useless gift cards, however.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

I see the rag was back for this performance.  At least the chicken looked clean.

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1 hour ago, oliviabenson said:

I doubt that poor dog is even alive or she was left outside to fend for herself. Duggars shouldn’t even get pets. Who got 2 kittens as a gift that Josie grabbed roughly? Those 2 kittens aren’t around either.

I think that was Giddy.  Joy had wrapped the kittens in a gift box.  And yes, Josie was grabbing at them roughly.  They were never seen again.

[Jeremiah & Hannah: Done Counting and Done Caring]

Didn't Joy name her dog Brielle?  I wonder where Brielle the dog is now?

[Small Talk: The Prayer Closet]

I just rest my computer, and now I have this annoying arrow in a circle that keeps moving around my screen.  Does anyone know that this arrow is for, and how to get rid of it?

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

10 hours ago, all fall down said:

They weren't playing other people's music in the church. They were playing their usual stuff. When Jill posted the video on her facebook, instead of the sound from the actual video, she overlaid other music over it. A few people in the comments were confused, but I don't think they are the most tech savvy people. I think it's a new skill she learned as she did that with a bunch of her Punta Cana videos. 

I'm guessing the chicken was a prop for their song about heterosexual farm animals. 

Thanks.  That makes more sense (if "sense" can be used regarding a Jill situation.)

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

Why is one girl holding a stuffed chicken? (I guess it looks better than a dirty rag.) Why do they just stand there while playing other people's music?  Surely no one thinks that music is coming from them.  This is most strange.  Does Jill expect "love gifts" from people who just look at them standing in front of the church?  Does she somehow think just being in her family's presence is enough to make folks want to give them money and gifts?  I don't get it.  But then, I don't "get" Jill's mind, either.

[Kids Baking Championship - General Discussion]

5 hours ago, Nidratime said:

I think Carla Hall or Jet's wife would be great to add to the show.

Also Damaris Phillips or Aarti Sequeira might not be bad.

 

If they opt for Damaris I won't be watching.  She rubs me the wrong way anytime I see her.  I get real tired of her act real fast.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

14 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Not notes I've ever seen in a bible before.

 

  

I have a very old family Bible.  In the front pages that are usually used to write down family names, my aunt wrote, in pencil, all about a trip her family took by train from Iowa to New York to visit their aunt and cousins.  I have no idea why she wrote it there, but I'm guessing it was an important trip for her.  The trip was in 1916, and my aunt was 10.  She was not some full-grown woman who wrote all about herself in the the scriptures themselves.  A woman who has access to paper or a diary, neither of which my aunt had access to.  I have never seen anyone actually glorify themself on the pages of a Bible before.  It is rather disturbing.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

3 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

After everyone else left?

I was going to ask the same thing.  Where are the other people.  I think they really are loners on this trip.

 

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

How can she possibly bowl in that skirt?  And, as a poster stated above, why would you pay all that money for a special trip, only to go to a bowling alley?  You could do that at home, and your kids may actually have fun.  I'm guessing that no one wants to spend time with her on this trip.  Where are the other members of her "choir"?  No one to sing hymns with?  It appears to me that she and Dave are loners on this trip.

And how can she even go bowling?  I thought she had a severely injured knee AND shoulder.  Neither joint will be helped when she falls down trying to bowl in that skirt.

 

[Christine Brown Woolley: Nacho Sister Wife Anymore]

The B&B kitchen supplied with Temptations dishes, and possibly bakeware, is not a selling point for me.  I threw out all the Temptations I had.  It chips badly, and I had a baker crack in the oven.  I had a huge chicken juice mess in the oven and on the floor.  The brand is sold on QVC, and the quality is very poor, in my opinion.  I thought it was strange that she would mention this by brand name.  It is not anything special, and is sub par.  Just go back and look at some of Janelle's "food" pictures.  The plates and dishes are usually chipped.  Those dishes are Temptations.
 

[House Hunters International - General Discussion]

On 2/10/2024 at 3:40 PM, Pine said:

I do too!  My big oven is storage for pots and pans.  Breville Smart Oven with Air Fry has been our daily oven for a few years now.  

Me, too.  I use my Breville every day.  My oven looks brand new inside because I never have a reason to use it.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

Even with the free food, I'm not sure she can eat very much while wearing that skirt.  It looks so uncomfortable.  I'm glad I am going to be wearing fleece-lined pants and a heavy parka on my upcoming trip.  I would hate to have to wear a costume like her's.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

34 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Jill's oh so mahdest ensemble for opening night. I don't know how she walks in that skirt.

 

Or sits.  Maybe Dave just leans her against a pillar and checks on her occasionally.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

2 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

No essay on how great he is lol

Her hair looks lopsided in her wedding picture, just like her daughter.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

I have known people that do things at church--choir members, Sunday school teachers, for example--who feel they donate through their "church work" and do not give money.  It would not surprise me at all if Jill feels she gives to the church through her "music" and Ladies Retreats, and does not donate to the offering at all.

[Small Talk: The Prayer Closet]

1 hour ago, ChiCricket said:

😁

You are starting to sound like an OLD ( like me)

But I really walked ½ a mile to elementary school in the snow....with snow pants under a skirt or dress..brrrrrr.

Me, too.  I was always so happy the first day I didn't have to wear my snow pants.  I could actually skip again.

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I was just going to post the same thing.  Costco is the highest rated place for hearing aids in Consumer Reports.  I have had several friends go to Costco for exams and hearing aids, and all I have ever heard is how wonderful their service is.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

Shilling Plexus.

Screenshot from a video:

  

This is a creepy picture.  She is so fake.

[Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)]

That was a really nice post.  And it sounds like Tim has been totally accepted by his in-laws.  I am very happy for Heidi, and especially Tim.  I hope he finally realizes that  other families can be warm, loving, and unselfish.