78 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-2-12”

  1. Have you noticed that by the time they get around to make an emergency warning, the event might have swept you away? They have this buzz three times, then a whistle, then a guy says “stand by for an emergency announcement” then after a while a voice comes on and says a giant flood is going to wash you and yours away. You should have left by now.
    Hendersonville is under a flash flood warning. If it gets to me, we’ll need an ark.
    But low lying areas are dangerous because water collects there.
    I wish Mumsee and some of you had some of this rain. We usually have dry summers, but we’ve had plenty of rain this year.
    MIM is getting the same thing. It’s coming from the Gulf.

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  2. We just try to help the rest of you out as best we can.
    Lots of stuff going on today. For one thing you can only get a marriage license in my county at the main courthouse in the county seat, Monday through Friday, 9am to 3pm. I don’t mind the whole Monday through Friday thing. People deserve their weekends but there are two or three satellite courthouses around this county (we are larger than Rhode Island) and most people work from 8 to 5 in the SOUTH end of the county or the next county over!

    At 1pm my “team” will have a meeting where Cal will explain my role on the team to the ten buyer’s agents. He is taking responsibility for the team being in disorder and telling them how it is going to be from now on. There is a fork in the road and he is going in “this” direction. Either come along with him or make other arrangements. Should be interesting. Most salespeople have large egos and tend to be prima donnas. They really aren’t going to like an upset to the status quo.

    Life continues to be good for me.

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  3. I’m happy for you Kim. Have you noticed that a good salesman who can bring in customers and make sales can usually write his own ticket? If you can bring in money, you can get away with a lot.

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  6. Wildmon makes a good case. We’re all guilty. But he doesn’t issue a call to arms. What can we do except go to church, listen to the preacher and go home?
    We can pray. Is that it?
    We can take a stand on issues. God isn’t a Republican, but Democrats are more likely to promote un Christian policies. Am I responsible for how I vote?
    The Tea Party is not a Christian organization. Should I participate in that?

    I agree with Wildmon completely and am ready to take up arms.

    Lead on.

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  11. I have had many answers to prayer. As MIM says, if you’ve prayed.
    Most of them have worked out well.
    The only one I’m still waiting for is my prayer for more faith.
    That’s not entirely true, I have several relatives who have messed up their lives by making numerous bad decisions in their young lives. I have been praying for them for years. Only one is on the way back.
    For now.

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  12. Actually, yes, it appears so. Long ago, when we were living in Greece, the company and the government overtaxed us by a significant amount. When the company realized the error, the money was already in the government’s hands so it was pretty much a given that we would never see it again. And when the country went into freefall, it seems more true. But, it appears now that they are honoring this and have returned our money to the company. I have not heard yet if it has hit our account but it is apparently on its way. Just about enough to cover the purchase of the replacement truck. So timing is good. And we are thankful to God.

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  13. Good morning. As far as we know, the planet we call Earth is the only one containing life. As far as we know the species called human is the only one with self-aware abstract intelligence. (I disagree a bit with other people about whales/dolphins having equal intelligence.)

    Humans have allegedly set foot on the airless moon. There seems to be no life there. We have allegedly landed probes on Mars. So far we have detected no sign of life (present or past).

    We don’t really know how many galaxies and stars there are. Astronomers think there are sextillions, at least. They claim to have located some planets. We have listened for signals from other planets and found none so far.

    AQOD: Do you think there is other life in this vast universe, or is Earth the only planet with this phenomenon? Are there other intelligent creatures in the universe? Would they already know about God? Or would it be humans’ task to bring them to humans’ God?

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  14. Last night I posted this:

    Oh, here’s a mini quiz. My husband wrote this note to himself and left it on the table. Two guesses as to what it means:

    TRASH
    ice cream
    pickles

    You get two because the first one is likely to be wrong.

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  15. No one guessed correctly. The word “trash” is actually the key. Today is trash day, and my husband was reminding himself to take it to the curb, and to add the half-a-carton of ice cream that wasn’t very good and the jar of pickles neither of us liked.

    But the “pickles and ice cream” combo struck me as rather funny, and it would have looked a whole lot different on a shopping list! (And 6 Arrows, I have met at least one person who did indeed crave pickles and ice cream. My sister craved pickles during at least one pregnancy, and she realized she needed more salt.)

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  16. Cheryl, it’s a cryptic reminder for him to take care of those three items.
    I do that all the time. Just one word to jog my memory.
    It could mean “Take out trash & buy ice cream & pickles”, but maybe not.

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  18. Chas: for the video link you can do a search for his name along with UTube and that is how I got the link.

    For some reason I am having trouble posting my prayers this morning. I get a blocking message that says something about the site is blocking those without security code or such. Funny, I can post here. Also, when I tried to resubmit my prayer for Kim’s daughter, WordPress said it was a duplicate entry. But it was not showing up. I don’t know what is going on with that.

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  20. Cheryl, yes, the pickles and ice cream combination on that list was fun!

    Yesterday’s daily thread was informative for me, as before then, I’d never heard of anyone who actually craved pickles and ice cream during pregnancy, nor anyone who liked lima beans.

    Learn something new each day! 🙂

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  21. Cheryl, I thought of that possible answer, but had trouble seeing why someone would want to throw out ice cream unless it had melted, in which case it would go down the drain.

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  30. Adios,

    I don’t get it either. I checked your comments and your IP didn’t change so I don’t see what the problem is. Is it not allowing you to log in, or is it saying you don’t have a profile? I want to fix it for you, but I’m at a loss here.

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  31. Chas, that was why I did not post the link for the video. I tried to do only the link yesterday and that is what happened.

    Thanks, AJ, for finding me hanging out in the Spam, plus size dresses and shoes. Good thing I am fasting from meat, otherwise I would have been into that can of Spam with a fork in each hand! Afterwards the plus size dresses would be a good fit. Thanks for not leaving me there!

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  32. Adios, when that happened to me I had to reenter my info in the little box that comes up when you want to do a comment. I had not changed it, but somehow it was different from before, and I just had to reenter what was there before.

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  33. Occasionally I’ll get logged out & will notice the comment about to go up as “Anonymous” with the cute quilt pattern (they are so cute!). Then I just log in again. Also if you’re on a different computer it’ll go up as Anonymous unless you’re set up there as well on your WordPress login. My phone registers me as Anonymous if I try to comment here during a break in the day.

    About cryptic notes to self: I see in my datebook a day in December where I’ve penciled in “Post Office dog.”

    Now I have NO idea what that could possibly mean. But it is in my handwriting.

    A story to cover? ? Maybe. That would be the most likely explanation. But it’s been bugging me.

    Whatever it was, I’m guessing I’ll just miss doing whatever it was I was supposed to do with that.

    😉

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  36. So did I miss something, is Cheryl expecting?

    AQoD: We are intelligent creatures, but I think there are could be “others” out there. Not sure what their spiritual paradigm would look like. God knows though 😉 C.S. Lewis has some great supposing on this idea in his space trilogy.

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  37. Ok, humor me. This is from that “other” Alan Jackson. I don’t listen to the radio a lot. I listen to my schizophrenic iPod. Today as we were coming back from the courthouse getting the marriage license this song came on the radio and it was the first time I have ever heard it.
    Of course I don’t have my daddy anymore and I was thinking about that and the first time I got married. By the time the song was over I had big puddles of tears in my eyes. Thanks goodness for big sunglasses! How well I remember sitting in my father’s lap driving. He uses to tell me to keep the middle line of the road on the outside of my left foot. I have thought of this recently as I will soon be teaching BG to drive (actually I have found a fool to volunteer for this) and it doesn’t really work of course I am not 6’6″ with a size 13 foot, but it worked when he was letting me drive.

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  38. whoa! I was reading and did not see the change of name and thought Adios had gone in for a marriage license. I thought after seven kids, it was about time.

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  39. A quote from Newt Gingrich:

    “President Obama has a psychological need to be totally oblivious of Muslim extremism.”

    I’ve noticed that too.

    is chadwja Adios?

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  40. Well, the funny thing about the ice cream is this: Hubby had told me that D2 had once asked him to buy one particular flavor of ice cream, and then once they got it, she only ate it once, and kept eating varieties other people had chosen instead. This summer I put a box of ice cream in the cart and he told me it’s the same flavor D2 bought and didn’t eat. (He wasn’t exactly approving buying another box.) But it’s chocolate and peanut butter, and definitely one of my top favorites. (It’s what I choose for a cone at Baskin-Robbins or another ice cream shop IF the carton is at least half full. Apparently it isn’t one of the fastest-selling flavors, so if it’s down near the bottom it will have freezer burn. Maybe that’s true of most flavors, I don’t know. Anyway, it’s my number-one choice if it’s not near the bottom of the carton.) In Nashville I discovered a brand that sold it by the carton, and I bought a carton every summer. (I was generally buying only two or three cartons of ice cream in summer, so it was half or a third of what I’d buy for the year.)

    Anyway, my first bowl of this told me that Turkey Hill cannot make good chocolate peanut butter. After the first bowl, I’d take a scoop of it along with other varieties because it was “decently” good and taking a little bit was using it up. But I can now tell Hubby that D2 didn’t eat it because it isn’t particularly good, not because she changed her mind and decided she wanted a different flavor after all. I’ve had several different brands in this variety, and it’s definitely in my top two or three favorite flavors (tied with moose tracks or a really good chocolate), but this brand doesn’t know how to make it well. And the last half carton went in the trash.

    Along with the pickles. Neither of us knew that it mattered that dill pickles are “kosher,” but we both thought these non-kosher dills annoyingly strong; we each ate only part of a pickle before deciding that if pickle-loving daughter likes them, we’ll keep them; if not, we’ll toss them. They went in the trash as well.

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  41. I posted this before on WMB, but today seems appropriate for anyone who did not see it. I was at a county office to take care of some business with my brother. I saw a sign at a counter offering Marriage Licenses and Gun Licenses. It really struck me as funny.

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  42. Mmm, moose tracks.

    But my all time favorite ice cream was fudge ripple — I’m not sure they make it in its pure form anymore. Vanilla ice cream with fudge ripples. That’s all. No nuts, no peanut butter, no cookie crumbs, no marshmallows no M&Ms.

    The best ice cream is the simplest, I think. The fewer ingredients the better. I find myself more and more going back to the very basic flavors — plain vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. Neapolitan, though — with all 3 of those mixed together — is another favorite.

    And, of course, your basic chocolate chip. Who can really beat that combo?

    Mostly I try to skip the ice cream these days, though — or I buy the Skinny Cow or Weight Watcher bars. 😦 But WW has come out with a pretty good low-cal version of the good old standard “drum stick.” Another favorite.

    There’s actually very few ice cream desserts I don’t like, come to think of it. 😉

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  43. Janice, that is funny. Of course you live in the South where “he needed killin’ ” is justifiable homicide. I have a list of “men what need killin” at the top of the list is my friend R’s ex-husband. Of course it is much better to be a grass-widow than a divorcee’. Being a widow and all people will bring food to your house and all but get a divorce and they are afraid you are after their own husband and they won’t bring you any of that good funeral food we are so famous for down here. The only other way I know of to get people to bring food to you I don’t want to repeat. The doctor told me on the Friday before BG was born that she didn’t weigh enough and I needed to go home, do nothing, and eat all weekend and he would see me Monday. (I have been trying to follow this plan for the last 15 years but it isn’t working).

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  45. From an American Spectator book review of The Victim’s Revolution, The rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind by Bruce Bawer. Review by John R. Coyne, Jr.
    There is a whole discipline of men’s studies, taught at “about a hundred North American colleges and universities.” Bawer quotes Lionel Tiger, who calls men’s studies “a wholly owned branch of women’s studies, examining maleness through a feminist and social constructionist prism.” Or, as Professor David Clemens of Monterey Peninsula College puts it, men’s studies is a “camouflage version of Women’s Studies in which the ‘operative question is, ‘Why are men so awful?’”

    😯

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  46. Francis Schaeffer has always been beyond my reading and thinking capacity. Especially now that I have the attention span of a goldfish. Anyway, last camping trip, my camping buddies, who have been trying to get me to read him for years, said I needed to get his Bible Study book for the family. I looked into it, found it for ten or thirteen dollars, and then noticed his complete works for forty five dollars. I said, why not? Purchased, arrived, and am thoroughly enjoying them. The children are asking me to read his sermons in the evening. God’s timing.

    Of course, there has been negative stuff about him so I probably will hear from people that I should not be reading it but that is okay, I am getting a lot out of it.

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  47. Posted this link on the prayer thread, too, but seeing mumsee’s here, it’s about the son of an Idaho family (members of our Presbyterian denomination) who has been held for 3 years now as a POW by the Taliban; negotiations are apparently ongoing.

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  49. Donna J,

    If the date in December is close to Christmas it may mean”Post Office :Drop off gifts”…that sounds like something I would do…

    And, lest I forget…

    Good Afternoon, Y’all!

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  51. Donna – When Lee & I were younger, we got into the various “sundae” or “candy shoppe” kinds of ice cream. But for the last several years, I very much prefer plain ice cream that doesn’t need to be chewed. My most favorite is Hood’s (a New England – or at least Southern New England – company) Golden Vanilla. I also enjoy a good Fudge Ripple, or plain Chocolate, or even Cookies & Cream now & then, but vanilla, especially the one I mentioned, is my all-time favoritest.

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  52. My favourite ice cream is Tiger Tiger – even though I do not like black liquorice – go figure.
    But vanilla is the best for pie, apple crisp and on fruit!

    And Donna, mosquitos live TOO long!

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  53. Donna,

    You do know that Google knows EVERYTHING?

    http://www.mosquitoes.org/LifeCycle.html

    “The length of life of the adult mosquito usually depends on several factors: temperature, humidity, sex of the mosquito and time of year. Most males live a very short time, about a week; and females live about a month depending on the above factors.”

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  54. The first serious frost should about do them in. Oh, wait. Never mind.

    Actually, we have had virtually no mosquitoes here in the past fourteen years. A couple now and then but they don’t buzz around for a bite in the evenings. We keep the standing water down and fish in the water troughs but we live by a swamp. Amazing really.

    As to the Bowe story, that comes up in the news every few months. It is a mystery and we do pray for the young man and family and the people holding him captive.

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  59. It doesn’t matter how long male mosquitoes live; females are the ones that bite.

    Mumsee, I love Schaeffer. A number of years ago I got a 40% off coupon to the bookstore connected with my workplace for a birthday gift, and the complete works is what I got. I read through most of the volumes, and getting back and finishing them really should be on my to-do list. (I’m not really sure where I stopped.)

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  61. Catching up:

    -Yesterday someone mentioned the post office. We got a letter asking our opinion as to what should be done with our small town (900+ residents) PO. I said keep it open but have the hours noon to 6PM so those of us who leave town early in the morning and return after 5pm can still get there.

    -Ice cream: I love anything chocolate. Especially Tin Roof Sundae or Rocky Road.

    And I like lima beans.

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  62. Another combine derby has come and gone. This one brought in four thousand paying ticket takers. That is a lot in a town of two hundred fifty. I was not one of them. None of the family was either.

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  63. Michelle, thank you for the link to The Atlantic Magazine article on writing. I printed it this weekend and read it today. (Or maybe I should say, Although I printed it this weekend, I did not read it until today.) 😉

    Excellent article!

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  66. And I just wrote something else over there, too.

    On another note – I just found out that there is a difference between possums & opossums. Why didn’t I know this sooner in my life?

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  67. Karen, if there is a difference, I’ve never heard of one. The only question is whether the first “o” is ever pronounced, not whether it’s ever written.

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  68. Karen,

    I’ve always known there was a difference. When it’s in the woods, it’s a possum. When you just hit it with your car, it’s an “OH POSSUM!!”, then a thump, and you drive on. See, it’s easy to tell the difference.

    Glad to help.

    🙂 🙂 🙂

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  69. And if you’re a young, jumpy girl and one emerges from the bushes next to your house just as you’re walking by, it’s called an “Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!”-possum!

    That young, jumpy girl, BTW, is now, many years later, studying to be a veterinary technician. Do people have pet opossums? 😉

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  70. Well, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who didn’t know there was a difference!

    http://zoo4950.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/how-is-an-opossum-different-from-a-possum/

    “There are some major differences between Possums and Opossums. For one we don’t have Possums in North America at all. Instead the many different species of Possum live in places such as Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand…

    “*Opossums are Omnivores wheres as Possums are Herbivores (i.e. Opossums eat both meat and plants were as Possums are strict vegetarians)
    *Opossums are usually silent, though may hiss, growl and clash there teeth together when stressed. The males will click when it’s mating season. Possums (Brushtails at least) on the other hand are quite noisy, calling to each other in a low throaty sound.
    *Opossums are known for ‘playing dead’, Possums don’t do this.
    *Opossums use their tail almost like another limb, the Common Brushtail Possum doesn’t do this.
    *Opossums are the only Marsupials in North America, the Common Brushtail Possum isn’t the only marsupial on it’s continent!”

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  71. Seriously, though, Karen, I didn’t know that either, but I just googled it now and must once again say I learned something new today!

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  73. Kim, thanks for the link to That’s What Christians Do Now. Very thought-provoking.

    How is Baby Girl feeling tonight (or this morning if you’re reading this on 10-3-12)?

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  74. I didn’t know there was a difference between possum and opossums. Huh. One was on my porch a couple months ago at night. My window was open and I said “Go away.”

    He hissed at me. The nerve.

    I’m getting bit by a mosquito at night lately, I’m guessing I don’t hear her because I’m running my fan in the bedroom most nights.

    Big meeting with LA engineers tonight that I had to cover — about how to fix everything after that big landslide we had last November. One of the retired harbor engineers I hadn’t seen in a while called me “babe.” I kind of liked that. 🙂 I’m definitely in my post-feminist years now.

    I looked again at that calendar date book notation. In full it says: “For Larry. Post Office dog?”

    Now I know 2 Larrys — our cop reporter whom I sit next to and (less well) our IT guy. Neither have any Post Office or dog link to my knowledge.

    I’m stumped.

    Very disturbing.

    Oh well. Enough brooding. Back to NCIS which I managed to get home from the meeting in time to see.

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