44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-26-12”

  1. It’s Friday! You know what that means.
    Among other things, it means the carpet cleaner is coming today. The entire house is disrupted. Ain’t nothing where it’s supposed to be.

    Don’t know how long he will be here. I’m not going to Lions today because we have a lunch at church fot those who have been married at least 50 years (to the same person).
    Have a happy day.l

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  6. Have you recently had the experience of being around a Negative Nelly or Nabob?

    I have recently been in some training classes and there has been an older man in them with me. First class he was passing around what he called a piece of Indian Pottery (I think I have seen the patten on a flower pot at Wal-Mart) that he says he found on his property. Then he stated that because it is private property there is nothing the Government can do about his excavations. BuZZZZ! Wrong! If it is delcared an actual Indian burial site or “dump” there is something the Federal Government can do about it. I asked where he lived. He told me and I was familiar with the area. There are mounds and mounds of oyster shells left by the Indians who lived in the area. I made a comment about there being no evidence or record that they (the Indians) ever were wiped out from a hurricane or suffered serious damage. He told me I was wrong and that the reason there was no evidence is because there were wiped out. Later someone asked about a ship that was uncovered in the Gulf of Mexico first by Ivan and then by Isaac. I answered the question that it was a Civil War era ship that had sunk. Once again Nabob told me I was wrong it was an early 1900’s era frigate. I leaned over to a guy I know and told him I was glad to know that history degree I paid for was worthless.

    Then yesterday the same Nabob was trying to pull some property information out of a program we have to tell the sales history of a piece of property (not MLS). He had the receptionist helping him for about 15 minutes. He wanted to know who owned some apartments in a certain town. He kept trying to put the property address in but it wouldn’t return any results. I spent my first year in real estate learning this program and I have researched just about every piece of property that is of any commercial value in this county. Finally I got up walked over and asked him what he was looking for. He told me so I reopened the program choose all the apartments on *Main* (this made it a wild card search) BOOM! There was the exact information he wanted. He argued with me that that didn’t make any sense and he SHOULD have been able to pull the info up HIS way and then he proceeded to try it again!!!! I couldn’t help but chuckle when I pointed out to him that he was searching for MAINE St instead of Main St. I also refrained from pointing out to him that I was able to pull the information and he was not! He kept telling me that any RATIONAL person would have been able to pull the info his way. I just very politely told him that the company that has this program teaches a class every so often at the Board of Realtors and he should make time to go take it if he wants to be able to use it.

    You just have to laugh at some people (to keep from killing them)

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  8. Of course, if I die here in The Gambia there won’t be a tombstone and the funeral won’t be expensive. Probably just a hole in the ground with no casket if I have my way.

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  12. I haven’t given it any thought either, Chas.

    But then, I can’t decide if I’ll be buried or cremated. Cremated makes a lot of sense, logically, but I can’t bear the thought of being burned up.

    And where to be buried? We left that part empty in the will.

    I do have thoughts, however, about the actual funeral! Let those Saints come marching in!

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  14. Funny, yes, Friday kind of funny, that I read what Peter wrote as what he would have put on his tombstone.

    I have not given it thought either as for what might be on my tombstone.

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  17. Ouch for BG. 😦 I’ve never had a tooth pulled (I even “came” without any wisdom teeth to begin with — OK, no wise guy comments, please).

    We had a good home study last night on 1 Peter 1. The group (led by my elder) includes Christians of many years along with a couple newer Christians/church members, so the discussion was lively.

    Nothing like being around enthusiastic new believers who remind you of all those basics, how we (and each new day) should look so different in the light of knowing Christ. 🙂

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  18. “She was a good and faithful servant to her God” would be nice, but I suspect it will go more along the lines of, “the tyrant is gone, party on!”

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  22. Janice- Funny, yes, Friday kind of funny, that I read what Peter wrote as what he would have put on his tombstone.

    Well, maybe I should have that as my epitaph. But then, it will probably just have my name and dates on it.

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  27. Pauline,

    Yeah, better.

    🙄

    I ran the dishwasher and got dinner together for later. Hopefully the others are actually doing something better, ‘cuz I can’t say I was. More productive maybe, but not really better. Life constantly interferes with my blogging. It’s annoying sometimes.

    🙂

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  29. “What?” says 1st Arrow, the night shift worker, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. “Did we just get a dog? Or what was that?”

    😉

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  32. 6th Arrow just watched the video with me, and her eyes got huge listening to it. After it finished, she said, “It sounds nothing like a dog.”

    I asked her what she thought it sounded like.

    “Like a cow. A mad cow.”

    Now she wants to see it again, the “funny dog video”. 🙂

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  34. I found instructions to make a template for a cube or block out of paper. I will use these blocks for Sunday School by having a word from the Bible verse on each block and all the blocks scrambled so that the children will have to put them into order. For those who are homeschooling or otherwise involved with children I thought I would pass this along to you in case you want to make some lightweight and inexpensive learning blocks.

    http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/coloringpages/l/blboxtemplate.htm

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  36. Janice’s mention of Sunday School reminded me I’m teaching upper elementary this week. I’ve been feeling so lousy, I forgot all about reviewing the lesson.

    Some other people have been complaining about something that smells bad in an office near mine. I didn’t dare go in to check it out, I’ve been feeling like I’d gag just walking down the corridor, but I couldn’t identify where or what it was. I hope they find whatever it is and get rid of it soon. I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with me, feeling sick from something no one else noticed.

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  39. The dog reminds me of my dogs but they howl at coyotes, not sirens. We don’t have sirens here. Though on occasion we can hear the noon whistle from the town five miles away.

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  40. I can hear the Ta-MA-le push-cart man walking up and down the block, hawking his Ta-MA-les for Friday dinner.

    But normally we get lots of sirens & police helicopters, sometimes (but rarely, thankfully) a gunshot or two.

    No coyotes howling although there are some living just a few miles away.

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  43. Heidi is half Miniature Schnauzer. Miniature Schnauzers are #5 on the list of breeds of dog that bark the most.

    We believe it.

    😦

    BTW, I didn’t watch the video because my audio is not working. It stopped working when my hubby switched my old mouse for a new wireless one. Would that have had anything to do with losing audio, or could it be a coincidence of timing?

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