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Our Daily Thread 9-4-12

Good Morning!

As you can see from the new title, we have our poll winner. This is the daily thread, talk about whatever you like.

Quote of the day

“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

Charles Spurgeon

52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-4-12”

  2. The quote of the day is especially meaningful. Today will be the funeral of the first person I grew up with who has died from “natural” causes. She had a cancerous brain tumor. The only other person was killed by her ex-husband. I will not be able to attend the funeral today as I start my new job. I did go to the wake last night and we “girls” went out afterwards.
    This is the second person I have known personally to die from a cancerous brain tumor this summer. Her husband said the doctor had told them there was a high rate of it in the Southeast…wouldn’t be something if they tied it to Sweet Tea and Fried Chicken.

    As it will be my first day I will have to be on best behavior so I can’t check in much. Be good while I am gone.

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  3. Good morning. Thursday, I am holding two auctions for a dozen eggs each from our hens. How much do you pay for a dozen eggs? What are you criteria for choosing eggs? Do they need to be organic? Free range? Least expensive? Do you buy eggs at Wal-Mart or . . . ? How do you like your eggs prepared? Do you want to place a bid? (Full disclosure: I could tell my hens to hike to your place to lay the eggs, but they are severely ADD/HD and likely to wander off.) Do you need to have a rooster in your flock to get eggs?

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  5. We live near a gravel private road and our chickens would cross it because it would make it easier for a hawk, eagle, owl, coyote, or raccoon to spot them and have a chicken tender. Actually, they are free range only in a confined area under netting, distraction banners, and electric fencing. Would you eat an egg from a hen who eats mice?

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  6. Good morning everyone.

    That’s a great quote from Spurgeon, especially as the regrets of middle age approach and we feel that we’ve accomplished little in this life. Carving our names on the hearts of people that God brings into our sphere of influence will be our lasting testimonial.

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  7. Mice is the least objectionable of what they eat. I scramble my eggs, otherwise, the white would never get eaten. That’s all I know about eggs.

    Kim, I’ll be praying for you today. Otherwise, I can’t promise to be good.

    I will be going to two funerals tomorrow. One, I’ve only known a very short time since I’ve been here. The other, the wife of a friend I knew in 1959 at Southwestern Seminary. They, like us, came to Hendersonville to retire. She was very active in our WMU. Her name is carved in many minds and hearts.

    Chuck and his family are in Northern Va. today. His wife’s mother died of cancer last Wednesday. She will be buried at Quantico Marine Cemetery with her husband.
    I have attended more funerals during the last decade than all the seventy years before. There won’t be anyone left to come to mine. I doubt that I will care.
    I hope I have made some marks on hearts, but it is not necessary for them to remember.
    I know where my treasures are.

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  9. Good morning. First day of school here, and I am excited! And so very thankful to have the opportunity to carve my name on hearts today and onward. 🙂

    Blessings to you all.

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  13. kBells – Listening to him practice may not be too much fun either. 😉

    Modesty – You need to get your name back to Random Name.
    We buy our (organic) eggs from a local farm. Emily insists they have a fuller flavor than store-bought non-organic eggs.

    I like mine scrambled or as egg salad. Every now & then I really enjoy a fried egg sandwich. With mayo.

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  17. I generally buy my eggs at the supermarket. There’s someone who sells eggs at nearby Harmony Grove, but it’s ell off the beaten path and down a long, curving road. I seldom travel in that direction.

    My favorite method of preparation is “over-easy,” I like my yolk a bit runny & the white firm. I love having one on top of a cheese enchilada, but that’s not exactly low-cal. 🙂

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  20. I personally like home grown eggs. The yokes are much deeper in color. When my mom was still with us and in practice as a chiropractor, this old farmer came into town and often paid her in eggs. I remember one egg that I had. The shell was greenish in color rather than brown.

    I am going to get Modestry/Random Name/Stephen a copy of Chicken Run, then he can see if he really wants to get a rooster or not. 😆

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  21. We have eggs for sale a couple of places on our street, on the way into town–not close enough to walk to, though. So far I’ve been a bad neighbor and haven’t bought any. (We have local honey, too, and that one is close enough to walk to. Though I like honey, I end up never using it, since I don’t tend to eat the sorts of things one eats honey on, and when I do make french toast or biscuits, I have other toppings available.)

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  22. You talk about toppings, Cheryl. My grandmother used to make Apricot preserves from her apricot tree in her back yard. I loved her homemade biscuits with butter and apricot preserves. Yummy.

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  23. JoeB, The green eggs come from Aracauna/Americauna hens. They can be various shades of green, blue, and brown. Some believe that they are lower in cholesterol than regular white eggs. I have a customer who is allergic to white and brown eggs, but can tolerate the green ones. We sell our free range eggs for $2.50 per dozen. I agree that Random might enjoy Chicken Run.

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  24. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Hope all are having a blessed day. Prayers for Kim!

    Over easy for me too! Although I’m not real picky…I like ’em just about any way.

    Local honey is the worlds best cure for seasonal allergies…really I mean that. A teaspoonful a day does wonders for fighting problems.

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  25. Perhaps my name should be “Horse with no name.” Drivesguy, thanks for nice comments yesterday. My wife and I have seen Chicken Run several times. It is one of her favorite movies. Chickens now seem to be the new dogs and cats for a lot of people. Though few people now want to deal with having roosters. They are a a lot of trouble for both hens and people. A lot of people (including my wife) buy baby chicks from the farm/feed store and then raise them. Sometimes the baby chicks turn out to be little boys. Then people don’t want them, but don’t have the heart to kill them. So on the island, they dump them off at a local recycling center, where they run wild and take their chances with the predators. The owners of the recycling center are vegan lesbians. I asked them what about the predators? They shrugged. I love the way people adjust their values to reality.

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  26. Random has a good sense of humor. I get a kick out of his posting. You learn to read between the lines with his posts to see the humor. I figured he would get a kick out of Chicken Run. When my wife and I saw it, we were both rolling in the aisles.

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  27. Roosters: though they are not needed for egg production, they are nice to have. If you don’t have neighbors. They are little gentlemen. Throw down a bit of food to one and he will call all his lovely brides, pick up the item, and toss it down for them or hand it off to them. If they don’t find it right away, he will pick it up again and show them again.

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  28. Kare – yes, we homeschool. My oldest two have graduated, the next three are high school, middle school and grade school age, and my youngest turns five this month and just learns informally for now. She does know how to read, though, having picked that up with almost no effort on my part.

    We started homeschooling 14 years ago, and I just about crashed and burned last year, but through the Lord’s faithfulness in picking me up out of the slump I’d gotten into, I am once again excited to be a homeschool mom, and we are having a great day, so far, on this first day back. Praise the Lord! 🙂

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  29. Homeschooling. We did it for about fourteen years and then we were done. Now we are doing it again for another possibly sixteen years. It was a nice break but it is fun to be doing it again. And much more relaxing even though it is three times the number of students….

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  30. I really admire homeschoolers. We almost had to do it as we couldn’t afford the tuition at the kids’ school one year. I’m glad we didn’t because I always figured my kids would be gone and I’d be in jail. 🙂
    The home schooled kids I have had in my life have always been wonderful children and those are now moving on to university and seeming to do very well.

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  32. Kevin, hubby is home! Though he does a great deal of chauffering (he has driven a child to a friend’s house to help out after knee surgery and picked up a nonfixable flat tire already this morning and is off for the next twelve hours to various appointments) but he is around and available to help with the schooling. The children love it and much prefer it to that other place. It is tremendous to see the growth in these children and watching them go from “special needs” with all sorts of IEP’s, to independent capable thinkers and workers.

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  33. Mumsee said on another thread. “She hates me but desparately wants to be adopted by us”. That is a strange but terribly sad situation.
    Yet, she could find a way. She didn’t appear there by accident.
    And I’m still praying.
    I knew a guy in Virginia who was a druggie and “I just wanted to die.” But Christ found him and he is now ordained (though not trained) and working in prison ministry.
    Some of the ladies in church were initially offended by his appearance, but he learned to shave and cut his hair. Now, he looks somewhat like a college professor. Though he doesn’t talk likeone.

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  34. Roosters are lovely to watch, and they make that distinctive crowing sound that is fun to imitate if no one else is around. Has anyone else ever crowed back at a rooster and are you willing to admit to it?

    Just don’t let roosters chase you and spur you if you are assigned to take care of the chicken house while someone goes on vacation. Also it is not wise to take on the care of a neighbor’s Easter pet chicken that turns into a rooster. Remember the dyed chicks? We inherited one when I was a child. Once the rooster was chasing me at the same time a carpenter bee was chasing me. I ran as fast as I could and did not get stung or spurred. Maybe that was the year I was one of the girls who ran as fast as the boys in the 600 yard dash. All that practice with the rooster and bee did wonders.

    I know that sounds like a Drill kind of tale but it is too true. Unforgetable. The kind of thing that can bring on nightmares but it was a daymare.

    I enjoy Eggland’s Best eggs scrambled or as a fried egg sandwich. Boiled eggs are good when made into egg salad or with tuna salad. I also like deviled eggs.

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  35. AJ, I don’t know if this is the place to alert you, but did you know that some of your posts are disappearing? I keep record of how many comments are on your posts so that when I come back to the computer after being away, I can figure out more quickly where to resume reading. I also record the dates of the posts to keep track of them easier, and I see now there are only 3 posts shown for August 30 when there were once 5, and only 2 posts for August 31 instead of the original 3.

    Am I too obsessed? Tell me I’m not going crazy! 😉 Are we slippin’ into the twilight zone? 🙂

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  36. Janice, you know my college team is the Gamecocks. Every time I mention them Elvera tells the time when “this gamerooster came and pecked a hole in my leg. He drew blood, and all I was doing was standing there.”

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  37. 6 Arrows,

    Nope, you’re crazy. 🙂

    You are correct, When I took down the 2 polls and Romney RNC livestream link, I mistakenly sent them to trash. 😦

    I’m working on trying to get them back and sending them to the archives where they belong. Oooopsy. I won’t make that mistake again, at least I hope. 🙂

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  40. Chickens? Eggs? We had a nice little chicken project going in The Gambia, but then the chickens went on strike after laying for only 2 or 3 months. All of those hens have now met the intended fate of the chickens in Chicken Run 😉

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  44. OK, that looks really strange with the emoticon to the left; it was supposed to be after the dash, but I forgot the emoticons have been shifting to the left.

    (Should a comment about shifting to the left have been put on the political thread?) 🙂

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  50. Eggs: Free-range is my general requirement. I buy eggs in a hit and miss way, I’ll get on an “egg kick” and buy them regularly — but right now, for example, I’m not eating eggs and haven’t bought them in probably 2 months.

    I prefer them scrambled or hard boiled.

    Our new hires aren’t home yet with their reports? Or maybe they collapsed into their beds.

    I’m pretty much finished in with the kitchen makeover project. I’m exhausted, but happy that things are better organized.

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