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Our Daily Thread 1-4-13

Good Morning!

So what do you think?

I have some others that I may try in the coming days, so you can tell me what you think.

Or I could do a poll!

OK, fine, I won’t. But I could.

Quote of the Day

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

Ernest  Hemingway

78 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-4-13”

  2. Looks good to me.
    But I miss the snow. I used to move my courser around to make the snow fall in different directions.

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  4. That’s some kind of bright green . It took a minute to figure r e out where to click to post but that could have more to do with me being on a grandfather than a computer and only having two sips of coffee rather than a flaw in the design .

    confidential to Tammy: Welcome to the teenage years . Occasionally and mind you it is very rare that I do something right .

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  8. Wow, is it already St. Patrick’s day? Actually, green is my favorite color. 🙂

    Tammy, we’re with you. You were describing our youngest daughter (who is now 19) to a tee.

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  10. I can change the color any time. I was gonna go with orange. But what about the layout? My complaint is the lettering looks too small in the comments.

    This is why I’m changing it up a few times in the coming days, to see what we like best. I have 4 more formats to try, so it’ll change over the weekend for sure. And again, color change is easy, so I’ll try that too.

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  12. why don’t we follow the liturgical church calendar for colors and remember that orange is for Queen’ s Day in the Netherlands . (I have a friend from there and they have a party every year— I don’t look good in Orange)

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  13. I agree, AJ, the lettering is too small (or I’m just too old for small print). I also liked a colour background for the lettering so it’s not black on white. Thanks for playing around and doing this whole blog thing 🙂

    Off to work soon, hope I don’t see the wolf when I’m outside heading to the Jeep!

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  15. Our guests are leaving today. It has been nice having them here. It is fun to hear our son interact with his friends. We had dinner at the Crazy Crab last night, and they had lobster tails at about half price so that is what the young men had. The friend from South Africa and our son had never had them before so they had a real treat. The other young man who has mostly had them prepared in the Chinese style (which means litterly the whole lobster, eyes and all, cut into pieces and served cooked with other good things) enjoyed the ease of eating lobster American style. This was our only meal out while we have been on vacation except for a Wendy’s burger along the way here.

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  16. Crisp and clean! However, the print is a little too small for these 50-year-old eyes. Not unreadable, but would be easier to read if bigger. The previous print size was good.

    The white background where the comments go is a bit too bright for my tastes, also.

    Still, overall, I liked the looks of it when I came to the page!

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  18. Last night’s FB post from the mother (who is expecting a second daughter in January) that lost her first daughter Christmas Eve:

    “Thank you all so much for following this page and helping us remember and celebrate Ann Reese’s life. We were so blessed to have her and miss her dearly. I’ve tried to focus on God’s plan today, b/c I know he will be glorified through this tragedy. I’m not sure what that plan is or when I’ll know, but I take comfort in this bible verse today.

    Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

    Day 10 is over, and I made it through. ”

    To have such faith….

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  21. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Back to the grind today. I would have checked in over the holidays, but experienced all kinds of trouble with my home DLS service (fixed now).

    Hope all had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!

    I like the green but a larger font would be nice (seems to be a consensus).

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  22. Yay, it’s Friday. And we’re green. 🙂

    After hearing what I thought was a city trash truck in the distance, I’ve been racing around here, suddenly afraid that the trash pickup wasn’t going to be delayed like it was last week. I had a ton of stuff to haul out, if that were the case.

    But I checked online and it IS delayed until tomorrow, whew, so now I can get back to getting ready for work. I got all the recyclables out, though, so that’s ready to be wheeled down on Saturday.

    It’s very cold here, but I realize this falls on a lot of deaf ears around here. 😉

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  23. OK,

    At least in this style we seem to agree we need bigger font and post numbers. Got it.

    And yes, I’m taking notes. So if you all could keep telling me what you do and don’t like about each it’ll help. When I decide on a final choice, I’ll know what to tweek.

    Thanks!

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  24. While I thought the snow was pretty, it always made me think I was seeing a floater. Maybe I see enough of the real deal to appreciate it.

    I hear emerald green is the hot new color in the design world, BTW. I recently saw a bathroom in a community bldg. painted almost this exact color.

    I have typed up a few of these replies only to have them drift into cyber space. I will see if this one actually makes it to the proper destination.

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  26. Just a little too green for me–particularly reading on my Ipad in the dark as I was on this chilly winter morning in northern CA.

    33 degrees. Anyone would think that was cold!

    I’m starting my 11th year teaching a Lifelight Bible study next week. We’re tackling Job and I’m very excited. One of my favorite passages is out of Job 2:10: “Behold, can I accept only good from the hand of the Lord?”

    He used that in a trying time of my life to get me back on focus.

    I was just working on the study and came across these gems I haven’t noticed before:

    In Job 1:5 “And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, ‘It may be that my children hae sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.’ Thus Job did continually. He sacrificed for his children’s minds, hearts, and very souls before God.”

    Obviously, the kids should have been doing that for themselves, but the passage gave me insight into Job’s heart: he wanted to do what he could for the sake of his children.

    When one of my children was going through a rough patch (three years), began fasting on Monday mornings on his behalf. I hated doing so, but I prefered to fast rather than look back years from now on what might have been.

    He came through beautifully. Did my fasting make a difference?

    Only God knows.

    (On the blog I wrote today, I told the story of Stargazer’s accident. As I wrote it, I wondered if people would think prayer made the difference and if so, how and why? I didn’t have room to go into that spiritual discussion session! )

    Fear as a Catalyst for Prayer

    I’ve got more on Job to share, but have to leave for work. The snow stopped on my blog, too! 🙂

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  27. Yes, Chas, it matters that it’s Friday.

    I like this layout, and I just zoomed in on my screen to get the bigger letters. Of course, that makes the avatars bigger, which means I can actually see what some of them are! Green is good for those of us living in snowy areas- it will help us think Spring.

    But I do agree that a white background for the letters tires the eyes. Perhaps a very light brown (tan) or pastel yellow to go with the green. Anything darker would make it hard to read. (And make it too brown and I start thinking of chocolate.)

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  28. 33 degrees. Anyone would think that was cold!

    Not really, Michelle. Once we had an all time record low of -23°F. There was an evangelist at our church from Canada who teased that it felt like summer. It was -68°F when he left his home to come south.

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  29. AJ, one minor thing that would be nice- at the bottom of each page could we have “Previous post” and “Next post” links, so I don’t have to scroll all the way back to the top to go to another thread?

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  31. Green is my favorite color, and yet my first response was “Whoa, that’s bright.” I’m posting so y’all can get a good look at my pretty dog in this larger format, though. 🙂

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  32. It would be nice to have post numbers prominently displayed too. That’s one thing I miss about the old blog.

    But keep tweaking it AJ. You’ll get it. And thanks for doing this for us.

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  33. I’ve just finished tallying the curent Bowl Poll standings. With 2 left to play. Mumsee is our leader with 3 losses. I’m second with 4, and then we have a 3 way for 3rd with 5 losses, Peter, KBells, and Ricky Weaver.

    😯

    It will come down to the last 2 games.

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  37. Good bright green morning to you!! It’s very ummmm “art deco”!! Love the colours…..the print is a bit smallish 🙂
    Have a blessed day everyone….off to do carpentry work with the hubs….putting up chair rail in the guest bedroom!

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  40. MiM,

    How can you not see them? They’re so obvious.

    🙂

    OK, no, there aren’t anymore. There were, but not on this format. But I’ve been reading about how to add it in. When I decide on the new format, I’ll add them back in.

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  41. Finally the rain cleared so the guys got to have some fun on the beach before leaving. I am glad God gave them a chance to enjoy sun and surf before departure.

    It is a blessing to see twenty-something guys reading their Bibles in the morning.

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  42. I pretty much agree with most of you, the text is too small and hard to read against the bright white background.

    Green used to be my favorite color, until the tree-huggers changed its meaning to “things we approve of.” Now I prefer lavender and/or orange. 🙂

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  43. Please pray for Mr. Brown. He is my own personal WWII Veteran. He has been in ICU since Wednesday night. His body is not functioning. My heart is breaking.

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  46. I love the bigger avatars! I could get used to the green, but thought “wow! How bright!” when I first saw it.

    It would be nice if the fonts were a bit bigger, but I SO love being able to see the avatars so well.

    I really miss the numbered posts, though. 🙂

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  49. Chas, we (or should I say “I”?) prefer a photo of our resident grandpa.

    When I made an “account” for Misten at World, I tried to make it where she would use a photo of me, like I use one of hers, but I couldn’t get it to work. 🙂

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  50. Hey, the smilies are in the right place!!!!

    My hubby and I went for an outing this afternoon, to the mall. We were able to get a little exercise and have a date (the sort we used to have when we were courting–ending up at Barnes and Noble for something to drink at Starbucks, and some “window shopping” of books and magazines). And I also got a book on digital photography; I’ve been wanting one. 🙂 I’d been feeling “snowbound” (we’ve had snow on the ground since several days before Christmas, including full-ground coverage since Dec. 26–too long for this desert rat’s preference), and it was good to have a date.

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  51. Whoa! This green is bright! But if it were a choice between this or orange, I’d take this. Orange is my least favorite color.

    I’m picky about the shades of green that I like. I like a nice deep forest green, but can’t stand olive or avocado green.

    Like others, I miss the comment numbers, but AJ did say he’ll work them back in. And I agree that the white background of the comments is too stark.

    Speaking of stark white…Lee & I lived in apartments for the first 14 years of our marriage. One of the things about apartments that bugged me was the stark white that is used in every room. It is so harsh & plain!

    The prettiest apartment I ever had was a tiny one in an old house, & the walls were painted a creamy off-white. So much easier on the eyes.

    So anyway, it always astonishes me when I see pictures of homes with that stark white color on the walls. You can choose from an almost-endless variety of colors, & you chose white?! Why?

    (My apologies to any here who have chosen to paint any of the rooms in their homes this color. 🙂 )

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  53. Karen O- Landlords paint white so any furniture matches it. But I agree that when one has the choice, white is not good except perhaps as trim color.

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  54. I received a call from a guy in Las Vegas wanting to know how I would bet in the upcoming bowl games . I told him I didn’t bet . I believed the fastest way to double my money was to fold it in half a n d put it back I n my pocket . he thanked me and hung up . I guess he wasn’t interested in real estate .

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  55. When I bought my home in Nashville, I sent an e-mail to the ladies in my church (I hadn’t attended there very long, and didn’t really know much of anyone yet) saying something like this: “All the walls in my new house have wallpaper, which I am taking down so that I can paint the walls. I have no experience painting walls, or in choosing colors, and I’m perfectly OK with painting all of them white or off-white. If this sounds horrid to any of you, and you have experience choosing colors, I’m willing to let you help me choose colors. But my own tendency is to go fairly neutral, so you have to be willing to help me choose colors milder than red or dark brown.”

    One lady volunteered to come by and bring her paint chips, and we chose a tannish shade for the living room and hall, a grayish-purplish-pinkish shade (depending on the light) for my bedroom, pale blue for one bathroom, and two shades of peach for the second bedroom and second bathroom. (The den was paneled, and I left the pretty, delicate wallpaper in the kitchen.) All the colors were fairly light, but more interesting than the off-white I’d have used for simplicity, left to my own devices. The only place I shouldn’t have listened to her is that she chose two different “variances” of white, one for bathroom cabinets and one for bedroom trim–but the reality is, the whites weren’t all that different and we used far less than half a gallon of each, so I basically bought an extra gallon of white. Oh well.

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  56. I understand that white goes with everything, but a creamy off-white goes with everything, too. When we were preparing for our friends to rent our upstairs, we painted the main living areas a creamy color, somewhat darker than an off-white, but not by much. One bedroom had already recently been painted light blue, & the other two bedrooms we painted a light green, at their request.

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  57. Please pray for me and my Pastor, he is still out of church with a very bad back, the doctors want to operate on him. I am going now on my second month of filling in for him as Pastor.

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  58. No need for apologies, Karen O, regarding painting rooms white…I won’t take offense 😉

    We own a split-level home, and have white walls in the entry and stairway, and upstairs in the living room, dining room, kitchen and hallway. If that sounds like way more white than any of you would want, let me share that I like having the main living areas be bright because we don’t get a lot of sun in our location.

    Not only are we not in the “Sunny South” 🙂 (sometimes I wish we were, though), but we also have an attached garage on the south side of the house, so there are no southern windows. We would not have built the house that way if it had been up to us, but that’s the way it was when we came to it, and there were other things we liked about the property, so we bought it anyway.

    Also, we have about 3 acres of woods behind our house (west), so most of the sunshine we do get is for a few hours in the morning through our bay window in our living room (facing east). Once the sun gets into the western sky, the trees block the sun from shining for very long through the sliding glass door on the west side of our house, such that at this time of year, our house is almost completely in the shade by around 2:00 p.m. Saves a lot on air conditioning bills in the summer, but makes for a rather dark house in the winter.

    I’ve been prone to a touch of Seasonal Affective Disorder this time of year for a number of years (without recognizing what it was for several years), but brightening the surroundings of the living areas in which we spend most of our time really goes a long ways in combating those blues. Having white walls (and ripping out the dark brown carpet that was here when we bought the house and replacing it with wood laminate flooring) is cheaper than having lots of lights burning all day to brighten things up.

    That’s my personal take on walls painted white. 🙂

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  60. Maybe because you’re happy this year, oh, newlywed?

    We owned a raised ranch house in Washington–where you come into the house in the middle of the stairwell. A large white wall went up and one went down. Two days after moving in, my adorable three boys already had finger prints on that big white wall.

    I bought paint that matched my furniture and filled the entire entry with their handprints the next week. When my husband came home from work, he screamed, “Michelle! Have you seen what the boys did?”

    I showed him the higher handprints matched my hand . . .

    He wanted me to repaint the wall immediately, but I suggested we wait to see how people responded.

    Everyone who entered our house for the next four years laughed when they saw that wall. 🙂

    Our renters painted over it, however, as soon as we moved to Hawai’i . . . !

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  61. Not sure how many viola players there are around here (Phos, I think? And maybe some others?). Anyway, I am a violist, and I just heard another violist quoted who asked,

    “What’s the difference between a viola and a chainsaw?

    Vibrato.”

    😆

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  62. It’s hard to get used to typing in a box and getting only a little more than halfway across the box before the type shifts to the next line. My eyes want to still keep going toward the right end of the box at the time of the shift.

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  65. Anyone else messed up on what day it is? Having a holiday on a weekday probably contributed to my disorientation a little, but I think my husband’s work hours are causing more of the confusion. He always used to work Mondays through Fridays, but now he’s worked every day since Monday, December 17, with the exceptions of Dec. 23 & 25.

    It used to be when he was second shift, Fridays would be a little shorter than the other weekdays. Now he’s overnight, and would have been home by now if he’d still been on 2nds, and would not be working tomorrow. It does not seem like Friday now or Saturday tomorrow. I don’t know WHAT day it feels like now. Like nothing I’ve ever felt, I guess. It just feels strange.

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  70. Well, looks like Donna has disappeared and I’m talking to myself again. That’s probably enough pink quilts on this green background for one day.

    Nighty-night.

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  73. hi, it is way past bedtime but I thought I would check in in case anybody was concerned. We are all fine. Husband is off with some of the children to a political meeting. Good night!

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  77. The political meeting was a tough decision. He is convinced the country is going down and he needs to prepare locally. But if there is anything at all he can do to help politically, he wants to try. I told him George Washington and the rest were involved in really rough times and they made it work. He decided it was a good op for some of the children to see just how boring or interesting politics can be so he took three.

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