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Our Daily Thread 4-4-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1812 the territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state and would become known as Louisiana.

In 1841 U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.

In 1917 the U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.

In 1945 during World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.

In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.

And in 1969 Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart.

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Quote of the Day

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”

Thomas  Jefferson

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Ya’ gotta love the ‘stache.  🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-4-13”

  3. Misten is first, too!

    My computer does not do so well with the You Tube lately so I have reluctantly been bypassing the music posts to begin each day. You have had some good ones, AJ.

    Yesterday during Bible Study some discussion was begun about families and one of the ladies present said that an older woman in her family could peel an apple from start to finish without breaking the peeling. It then became a competition with the cousins when they gathered to see who could come the closest to doing that. Do any of your families have competitions within the family? I know some are like the Smothers’ Brothers with the, “Mom always liked you best,” going on. Others might be like the Williams’ sisters, Venus and Serena, and compete in sports. I did not ever feel very competitive with my brother. Maybe it is more of a thing with siblings who are both boys or both girls?

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  4. And it’s 7:37 already.
    I wonder how they found the name Louisiana?
    Certainally not from Lewis?

    It’s Thursday and raining and 38.7 degrees in Hendersonville. Not much happening today.
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  5. To partially answer Janice’s question…I am an only child. There was no competition and I did not grow up close to any of my cousins. During the worst of my mother’s alcoholism there was a woman who became my “mama”. She has two daughters. One is 12 years older than I am and the other is 6 years older. Not too long ago the youngest posted something on facebook about being the youngest child and her parents stopping at perfection when they had her (there was a brother between them but he died when he was 12). They were going back and forth about it but I stopped them when I posted on their discussion that “actually your parents had to go outside the family to find me”. They both ceded the points to me.

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  6. I notice my picture looked better than usual this morning.
    I’ve never heard of competition within a family. Neither mine nor Elvera;s.
    I have heard of people peeling an apple without lifting the knife. I can’t do it.

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  10. My siblings and I would get very competitive playing Putt-putt. It could get pretty intense…well as intense as you can get with putt-putt.

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  11. I read in Mark 6:5 that Jesus had four brothers and some sisters.
    Does it occur to anyone that descendants of Mary and Joseph are probably in the world today? Presumably Christians. We know that James and Judas (Jude) wrote NT letters.

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  12. Has anyone ever heard a “Motivational Speaker”? I don’t know that I have. I don’t know how a speaker can motivate someone to go out to sell, or invent something; or to stop drinking.
    I grew up poor; that was all the motivation I needed.
    One of the things that I regretted about raising Chuck was that he never had to do without anything. I know. I could have denied some things, but there was no reason to deny a logical or beneficial request.
    Chuck’s a good guy. But he spends money like it’s always been there and always will be.
    The first part is true. I worry about the second.

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  14. I’d not thought of that either, Chas. Apparently God somehow guarded their legacy so that they wouldn’t be turned into cult symbols; the early church had to have known who they were.

    As for my family, we can get very competitive with board games and the like–especially word games. And my older brothers are quite intense when it comes to debating one another (not formal debates, just intense discussions).

    We’re supposed to have a family reunion sometime next summer–the first one since some time before Mom died in the fall of ’93, so our first in 12 or 14 years or something like that. Actually, I remember that my 14-year-old nephew was a few months old at the last of them. I have photos of his mom holding him on the couch, both of them asleep–but the photo evidence proves that she fell asleep first, since in the first of the pair he was still awake, with her arms around him like a seatbelt. But this reunion will introduce my husband to that “side” of my family; I can’t wait. (He has never seen them as a group, except for seeing some of them at our rehearsal dinner.) And quite a number of children have been born (or adopted) since then. And one brother lost his wife and three of us and four of my nieces and nephews have married. Hopefully we can get all the siblings and spouses and most of the next generation; right now it looks like we can. (There are 45 of us total, Mom and Dad’s children and families; I just counted. Nineteen of those have joined the family in the last 14 years. Three–including Mom and her second husband–have died since the most recent family reunion.) Photos of this one will look very different than photos of the last one. The little children have grown up, the adults have aged, and we have several new people.

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  15. In the words of Scooby Doo…..

    Ruh-roh! 😦

    http://www.foxsportssouth.com/fox-sports-networks/story/Ex-Tiger-alleges-major-violations-by-Aub?blockID=888061&feedID=3703

    “Serious allegations have been levied against Auburn in an article on ex-Tiger safety Mike McNeil.

    The piece, which appears on former “New York Times” and “Sports Illustrated” staffer Selena Roberts’ site, Roopstigo.com, details claims of academic fraud, payments to players, recruiting violations and failed drug tests among the Tigers.”

    “But one of the biggest bombshells is that then-Auburn defensive coordinator and current Florida coach Will Muschamp tried to give McNeil $400.”

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  17. Oh Chas, what did you do? Do we have some kind of scandal here?

    (Big enough to make the news and get some publicity for us? Donna, could you look into that?)

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  19. Well, I do need a “weekender” (story) … But I may just go with the Eagle Cam instead of Chas. Eggs are hatching in the bald eagles’ nest on Catalina Island today. 🙂

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  21. No, Chas, the reason you lost the election is because you’re too honest for Washington.

    And in response to your “Motivational Speaker” question, I have heard them. They repeat a lot of psychobabble, using slightly different phrasing than the other guys. I saw a comic strip recently about them. It said that if you want a job that requires little work and pays a lot of money, become a motivational speaker.

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  26. Wray and Superman have two eggs hatched and one to go (?) Not sure what the current egg status is. Nest is on Catalina Island right off our coast.

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  27. We saw a bunch of bald eagles eating dead deer along the road a few weeks ago. They stayed for nearly a week, along with a couple of golden eagles.

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  29. Chas, I’ve heard at least one motivational speaker. My job asked me to attend, and so I did. Much of the day was spent preparing us to buy the speaker’s tapes. I asked him at the resource table if the tapes were available in book format, seeing as I’d much rather read, underline, etc. than listen to a tape one time, and he said no. He would say things like “Don’t use this word. Listen to my tape ‘Words You Should Never Use in Negotiating’ to find out what word to use instead.” I called his bluff and went up during a break and said, “So, what word should I use instead,” and he told me. But seriously, I don’t go to an all-day seminar to get a commercial to buy more from the guy! If he wants to say, “I expand on this more in this book,” fine. But not, “Here’s a question, but I won’t give you an answer–you have to buy my book.”

    It was fairly interesting, he kept us entertained, and my workplace paid for it and so I got a free lunch. And I probably learned some things. But overall, the industry seems to be way oversold. And I’ve edited a few of their books, and always get through the book asking myself, “Was there anything in here unknown to anyone in America?” I mean, really, is it “new information” to tell a person, “When connecting with a potential client, attempt to find points of common interest and talk about those before you get to the sales spiel”? Honestly, the “stuff I didn’t know” in those books could usually fit in a chapter, sometimes a page. I’d say “usually a page,” but it might sound arrogant. And yet, one of the things they tell you is that you should read a book like that every week. Yeah, OK. I guess there are reasons I’m not in business. I’d go crazy if I had to read 50 of those books a year.

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  30. Hey, Donna, could you post the link somehow in a way we can bookmark it? Or is there a way one can find the “address” of a link that is posted as a video? (I’ve never had any success finding it.)

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  33. Well, there were several deer. It appeared somebody hit a herd as it was crossing the grade. Not a place one wants to swerve.

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  35. So a banquet for some, as it turned out.

    I’m talking to the scientist in charge of the eagles tomorrow morning, 2 out of 3 hatched so far.

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  37. Today I told my sixteen year old that I was firing the other sixteen year old and she was my new volunteer. I told her I needed her to hatch out a batch of turkey eggs so she was to sit in the yarn basket for the next 28 days and we would bring her food and water. Sometimes my sense of humor can be twisted. I cleared it up as soon as I realized she thought I was serious. She was quite relieved.

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  41. So, mumsee, did you tell her “The yolk’s on you” when she realized what you were up to? And do you have egg on your face after fooling her? And how eggsactly could she sit on the yarn and not break the eggs? My mind is all scrambled trying to figure that one out.

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