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Our Daily Thread 1-18-13

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! 🙂

Quote of the Day

“All  right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.”

Casey  Stengel

36 days until the first Yankee spring training game. I still need to get used to the fact that Youkilis is now a member of the Evil Empire. It’s just not right. He’s no Johnny Damon. And that wavin’ the bat thing drives me nuts. Oh well, at least it wasn’t Pedroia.  😡

Who has a QoD?

40 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-18-13”

  1. Some of my friends are thinking about touring Northern California and New England in Hummer H2s adorned with appropriate bumper stickers just to let the liberals know they haven’t given up.

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  3. It’s Friday!
    You know what that means?
    It means that I’m an hour late this morning. We had a forecast of 3″of snow, but it didn’t happen. But there is black ice out there and schools are on 2 hr delay. So I went back to sleep. No Y today.
    But Lions just the same.
    Only three posts at 7:55? Where is everyone?

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  4. I’m here, Chas, getting ready to go to Bible Study — we’re getting near the end of the book of Philippians. It’s been a great study.

    Have a good day, all!

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  5. NO QoD, but the discussion about candy yesterday, I mostly ignored, but when I went back to bed this morning, I didn’t go directly back to sleep, and I remembered that my dad had a tradition of giving my mother a box of chocolate covered cherries every birthday.
    We each got one, and she ate the rest.

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  6. There are a bunch of crooks in our prisons!
    I see in the Times-News that the IRS has stopped a racket where prisoners were filing false tax returns. They say they stopped inmates from claiming $2.5 billion in flase returns.
    Seems you can’t trust anyone anymore.
    You could go to jail for that sort of thing.

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  7. Question for our resident Real Estate agent Kim.

    I am thinking about using the firm We Buy Ugly Houses.com in order to get out from under the mortgage in Ohio. Have you ever had any clients or customers who have dealt with them?

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  9. Kim went all the way to Maryland to see a little baby.
    When Becky was born, Elvera and Polly went to Columbia to see her. She was still in the hospital and couldn’t hold her.
    I was on a business trip to Melbourne, Fl. On the way back, I diverted from Melbourne to Columbia, and then to DCA. It cost me over $100. She was home then and I got to hold her.
    On the way back, it occurred to me what a dumb thing I did. A hundred bucks and a day’s leave just to hold a tiny baby for a few minutes.
    Grandparents aren’t very smart.
    😉

    Re: Mother’s chocolate covered cheeries.
    Dad always got a box of King Edward cigars.

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  11. We’re not suppose to be smart– we act only with our hearts in that department.

    For example, I’m way too busy, but I sat by a lake on Tuesday for half an hour and watched an adorable nearly- three throw rocks in the water.

    That was all.

    Totally refreshing. 🙂

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  12. Chas, I have a husband who is a chocoholic, as much as any woman. So before “romantic holidays,” both of us go into the big city, making some excuse as to why we need to go and it’s OK if the other one is busy and can’t come, and each of us knows the other is going mostly to get fine chocolates. With Valentine’s Day coming up, I need to make such a trip in a few weeks. I have an easy excuse, though–one branch of the chocolate company is close to a hobby store, and naturally (if my husband is home when I go), he won’t want to go with me to the hobby store. He’ll probably guess my real reason, but that’s his problem.

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  13. Yes, Chas, we have driven thousands of miles to see those grandchildren. I don’t regret any of those miles. 🙂

    Pauline: Good thoughts on the candy issue. My grandchildren get more candy at one parade than we had for a whole year. Their parents have enough from each holiday to never have to buy any. I will say that they all have much more fruit and variety of it, too, though.

    I also agree with you on over restricting. My mom was a three meals a day person with maybe a bowl of popcorn in the evening, once in awhile. A cookie after lunch or dinner or maybe ice cream was ok, too. Snacks, not so much. I went overboard when I first moved out, too. Gained twenty-five pounds in a very short time. “All things in moderation” is very wise advice. If you can’t do it in moderation, then avoidance may need to be done.

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  14. Gotta love an uneventful flight. Wish me luck I have had no interaction with this son and have only messaged the daughter in law but I come bearing gifts for grandchild. We shall see.

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  15. Happy grandbaby-ing, Kim.

    Well, I’m going to have to work on Saturday, no lunch dates for me. 😦 But I’m hoping it’ll be quiet enough so I can work on the project story that’s due next Wednesday.

    After tomorrow morning, I’ll have 2 out of the 3 key interviews in the can (along with several less-key ones already completed). I’ve already started the writing.

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  17. Good morning, everyone! Things are moving slowly at my house as the girls have the day off from school. Both girls had a friend spend the night last night. The little ones were asleep by 10:15 and up by 7:00. The older girls are still sleeping…
    We went to get doughnuts for breakfast and the little girls have already been in the hot tub and are now playing with new Christmas toys. Sweet, joyful sounds at my house!

    Kim: I hope you have a wonderful visit with your new grandchild. Grandparents are such blessings to children!

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  20. The computer was down all day yesterday except for a few short minutes. Today my son and I are going to the funeral for our family friend JK. Prayers for his wife Ruth and family would be appreciated. I asked for them to have a better new year so I think that means seeing Jesus for JK.

    I look forward to catching up here later. Have a great Friday!

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  26. I went to the water fountain that was in the movie… It was hugh and the walls was taller then me, that I have to pull my self up in order to touch the water.

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  27. I spent a couple days in Salzburg during Christmas break, the year I spent studying in Spain. I would have liked to take the tour to see the sites where The Sound of Music was filmed, but I only had enough money for either the tour or to see a production of The Nutcracker at the Marionette Theater. I chose the theater, and it was a marvelous performance.

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  28. Rather a quiet day here today, it looks like. Only 26 comments.

    I finished Genesis and began Exodus today in my personal Bible reading. In the Bible Study I attended this morning, led by a good friend of mine from church, we are just one more session from finishing Philippians. We go s-l-o-w-l-y, digging deep. We only meet twice a month, too, so that’s another reason it takes us quite a while to get through a study. I didn’t write down when we began the study, but I see I wrote on the second page of the 16-page study “Assignment for 5-21-10” 🙂 So I’m guessing studying that 4-chapter book of the Bible will have taken us about 3 years when it’s all said and done… 🙂 That’s okay with me…the riches to be mined from that book make it worth the time.

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  29. It’s so quiet around here! I absolutely LOVE The Sound of Music. It’s also my Mom’s favorite movie, so I’ve seen it 100’s of times. I know almost every word of dialogue, and yet, I still enjoy watching it! We watched it with my youngest (age 7) a couple of weeks ago while we were at our “ranch” (only about 35 acres). She enjoyed it. My eldest has seen it numerous times and enjoys most old musicals (Easter Parade, Oklahoma, The King & I, etc.). Youngest thought the captain was very handsome (I must agree!). I’ve never been to Europe, though I’d love to see where it was filmed someday. My mom has toured the house used in the film.

    Sister and three of her kids are now rescheduled on a flight to Rwanda on the 26th of January. One of her daughters was running a 103 fever last night. They’ve been to the doctor and it’s evidently a virus that mimics the flu and lasts about 6 days. Please pray no one else comes down with it as they can’t change their flights anymore (airlines only allow one change to their tickets).

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  30. The Sound of Music has been a Christmas tradition in my family since I was 5. It continues with my sister’s family and my family. The only thing that bugs me when I watch it with my sister now is when they’re dancing around the horse fountain, she always says “I’ve been there!”

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  37. Ricky, thanks for the video. I went to YouTube to watch it. Show Boat is a great musical (what I saw of it playing in the pit orchestra for our college production of it). A friend of mine sang “Old Man River” in the production, and his voice rivals that of Robeson. Absolutely awesome to hear a voice like his live.

    I played in the orchestra for several musicals in my college years, and in one of them (I think it was Show Boat, but I’m not completely certain because you miss a lot of the story when you’re down in the pit playing your music) there was a character who was “walking the plank”. He had to walk blindfolded the whole width of the stage right along the edge of the orchestra pit. Of course his “blindfold” was tied in such a way that he could see where he was walking by glancing downward with his eyes, even while the position of his head made it look like he would be looking straight ahead. When he got just about to the end of the stage, his character was supposed to fall into the orchestra pit, where, unseen to the audience, there was a huge, thick mat (think pole-vaulting thickness or similar) on which to land.

    During one of the performances, the audience was particularly rapt in their attention during this scene, and when the character fell over the edge into the pit, the first 2 or 3 rows gasped in horror, leaping to their feet and frantically looking into the pit. We in the pit could hardly stand it, we just about died laughing!! Poor people! 😀

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  38. I know…bad orchestra people, bad, bad 😉

    I was glad to be a string player, though…it’s hard to play a wind instrument when you’re laughing!

    Bad, bad… I’ll quit now 😉

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  40. ANNMS, I live just northwest of Fort Worth. I think our culture is pretty close to yours. Reports from my son and others indicate Katy is a lot like Keller.

    6 Arrows, That is a great story. Over the last decade, we’ve had five girls from our church play in the band when they went off to college. All have had good experiences.

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