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Our Daily Thread 4-8-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1789 the U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.

In 1913 the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of Senators.

In 1947 the first illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate Insurance Company.

And in 1974 Hank Aaron hits 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth’s record.

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Quote of the Day

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in  every leaf in springtime.”

Martin Luther

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The music today is my favorite rendition of this song.

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Who has a QoD for us?

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-8-13”

  1. Good Monday morning everyone.
    Back to the routine today.
    Tonight the final NCAA game.
    It will be shown on the big screen at Flat Rock Theater.
    A small 75 seat theater; Lions are selling tickets for $10.00 each. Attendence will likely be light because no NC team is playing.
    I willl be there to support the event. And to buy something from the concession stand.
    The owner is donating the theater free to the Lions. We buy something to help his enterprise also. It’s a win-win for everyone. .

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  4. Good morning all. It looks life it is going to be another busy week. That is good in this business. It means people are spending money and others are making money!
    I suppose I will get to play catch up all week.

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  5. Good morning. Hubby starts work at 1:00 pm today. THE OVERNIGHTS ARE OVER! It’s hard to believe.

    Lots of work for us to do at home today, too. You all have a great day!

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  8. 6 Arrows, I am so happy for all of you!

    It would have been better if IU were still in it (though I didn’t expect them to be), or if that last #9 team hadn’t been robbed by a lot of bad calls. But my husbanf would gladly seem Michigan win it.

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  10. 😦 I have this stupid song on my mind and can’t get it out.
    I was listening to a CD on the way back from the Y.
    Tex Ritter was singing”
    “I going to leave you, like I found you.
    You were no good then and you’re no different now.”

    Probably from an album of tender cowboy love songs.

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  11. Still feeling rotten with this flu. I’m so disappointed because it doesn’t seem like I’m going to be able to go on my scheduled trip to San Diego Thursday. Even if I’m better, if either of my girls get it, I wouldn’t feel right about leaving them.

    6 Arrows: Congratulations on hubby’s new work schedule!

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  13. Michelle,

    I read some of the stuff from liberals about Rick Warren’s son. The intolerant left strikes again eh? They should be ashamed of themselves, but sadly don’t seem to possess the ability to feel anything but hate.

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  15. Good Afternoon, Y’all!
    I knew the Hammerin’ Hank trivia…been to a few Bay Bear games at Hank Aaron Field.
    I missed y’all…I was out for spring break and my laptop had a configuration issue…

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  17. Yeah it’s beautiful here too. 🙂

    We just returned from the park. It’s like 70 and sunny. Other than a few attempts by bees to sting my daughter (she was sure of this conclusion), it was fine. Bees in her airspace is pretty much an act of war. So she calls in her security forces….

    “Daddy kill it!”

    So I have to remind her that not every flying bug is a bee. Or a stink bug. Or mosquito. Or that it’s not necessarily a spider if it crawls….

    “All bugs must die!” is her motto. 🙂

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  21. Cheryl, interesting article. It happens to me (more than I wished, but I might have to rethink my attitude about it being a bad thing) that I sometimes sleep about four hours, then wake up and can’t get back to sleep. And the funny thing is, it’s almost always right around two hours that it takes me to fall back asleep, like what was mentioned in the article. Hmmm…if I want to get up at 8:00 a.m., maybe I should go to bed at 10:00 p.m., and if I wake up at 2:00 a.m., I could just get up and do something useful for a couple hours instead of lying there frustrated that I’m awake. Then I could sleep from 4:00 to 8:00.

    A new perspective to ponder in the wee morning hours. 🙂

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  23. AJ, I’m not big into football, but that video above brought me to tears. And the first video you posted today, I’d never heard of that band, but First Arrow looks a bit like one of them, and would even more so if he had long hair and a perm. 😯

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  24. The wife called me today. Said she was scared. I was immediately on alert and ready to dash out the door, pile into the truck and go screeching out of the parking lot.
    Turns out there had been a snake in the house. Little brown snake with diamond patterns she says. She put her shoes on and herded it out the door with a broom.

    Must have gotten in between the door and the weather strip. There’s quite a gap there, but I didn’t think it was big enough for a snake…

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  27. If Elvera found a snake in our house, she would never enter it again. At least not until some physical action was taken to prevent it from happening again.
    She would not stay in the house with a snake. There ain’t no harmless snakes.
    Almost as bad for a worm.
    In Annandale, I was upstairs shaving and I heard a horrible scream. I dashed downstairs in my underwear to rescue her form something horrible.
    It was a worm in an ear of corn.
    I was displeased and said something.
    She cried.
    I hugged her. That made everything OK 🙂

    Pretty soon, I’m leaving to watch the championship game. They’ve already opened.
    Starts at nine.
    Elvera says she’s going to set the alarm and go to bed.
    I will probably leave at halftime and watch the rest of the game on my TV.

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  28. No snakes here (well, not lately anyway), but we’ve been seeing a skunk in the field across the road from our house. Today 6th Arrow informed me that 4th Arrow informed her that she saw the skunk in our yard. I was wondering why the older would tell the younger, a 5-year-old, about that instead of, say, telling her mom or dad. Turns out, 4th Arrow had soon realized that the black and white thing she had seen was a shadowy area on a small patch of snow. 😉 Might have to invest in some glasses for that girl. 🙂

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  29. I’m good and tired now. I planted the early seeds and sets out in the garden. Lettuce, spinach, radishes, yellow and red onions and peas. I’ve been sort of anxious to get these things out there, but today was perfect for it. Good weather and did not conflict with other events in my daily plans.

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  30. Five year old and I planted about three weeks ago but today was too snowy and hail filled. Glad I got the mowing done earlier…..

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  31. Yikes! Snakes and skunks! I think I would take the snake over the skunk. I would know how to get rid of a snake, but once a skunk has skunked (sprayed) there is not a good way that I know of to be rid of that odor.

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  33. I didn’t plant anything but I did stop at the store tonight and buy and onion, radishes, carrots and lettuce. 🙂

    Snakes are scary — we have rattlers in areas out here, mostly in the wilderness parks on the peninsula, but it can make for some dangerous hikes if you let your dogs off leash at all .

    You know my history with lizards (there was one on the front porch yesterday, but luckily the cat was indoors and didn’t see him. I told he he’d better scoot.)

    The worst are rats. Ugh. We have tree & roof rats out here, they can get big, and on (I think) 3 separate occasions in the 15 years I’ve lived here one has gotten inside. And yeah, once I actually moved out, set the traps and took the dogs and stayed on various friends’ couches or spare beds for a couple nights.

    I don’t know what it is about rodents, but they freak me out. They’re sneaky and yucky and they lurk and slink around in corners, under furniture …

    The cat has brought a couple live mice in the house to chase since then (one died, the other I caught and put outside, but only after the cat stalked him all night long in the living room.

    And skunks, they’re quite common here … Cute, but all I ask is that my dogs stay far, far away from them. Our last spraying was right before Christmas when the dogs got out of the yard and returned in the morning, stinking to high heaven but almost smiling, looking happy as can be. Guess it was quite a night out.

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  39. Well well well…it is Spring somewhere in the world eh? We have had the nicest weather lately…a friend at church yesterday told me she dug down to the dirt and actually saw a tiny glimpse of emerging green where she had planted a daffodil bulb last Fall….tonight it’s going to snow….tomorrow it’s going to snow…tomorrow evening it’s going to snow…we are supposed to get 12 inches here in the Forest and the high is to be 19…the low will be 7…it’s not Spring anymore 😦
    Last one to be skunked around here was Paul…while he was on his morning run…he threw his running clothes away…his shoes still stink…they were brand new trail shoes he was breaking in for his 100 mile run next month…he’s not throwing them away…I’m thinking his strategy is the smell will keep the other runners far behind him if he is leading…then again…if the other runners are in front of him…it will give them motivation to stay way in front of him…. 🙂

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  40. But (some) snakes can kill you. 😮 Rabies is bad, however.

    And by the way, rats are the main reason I’d never have a vegetable garden here, growing food is one of the things they say never to do if you want to deter rodents from coming onto your property.

    I just never want to wake up in the middle of the night again to that sound of “scratch-scratch-scratch” coming from the closet. It made me almost start to hyperventilate (and I spent one entire night in the bathroom occasionally kicking the wall to make the scratching sound on the other side stop.

    OK, I need to stop, I’m scaring myself.

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  41. When I was a kid, there was one time my mom went down to the basement to do laundry. There was a rug lying on the laundry room floor that my mom was going to wash. When she got downstairs, she noticed that the rug was bunched up and that there appeared to be something under it moving. She thought maybe one of the barn cats had gotten in through the open cellar doors from the outside, and was squirming around under the rug. She picked up the rug, and…

    SKUNK! 😯

    I’m not sure what she did next, but she didn’t get sprayed or bitten, and eventually the skunk went back outside via the cellar stairs (and the door to the upstairs of the house remained firmly closed the whole time). 🙂

    I think that skunk made an appearance or two near the barn, also. My grandpa who lived next door took matters into his own hands and shot that skunk as it wandered near one of our farm buildings. Stunk over there for months, if I recall correctly.

    I myself had a close call with a skunk one time (I think this was at a different time than the story I just told). I was walking to my next-door grandparents’ house one evening when it was getting quite dark. I was going over there to practice piano, as I didn’t have a piano at home growing up. There was a path through our yard that led to their yard that I always took instead of walking on the road. The path was quite narrow, with a strawberry patch and raspberry bushes on both sides of the path. I was walking along and happened to look down at one point and see ahead of me on the side of the path and only about a foot or two in front of me what I thought was one of the cats. We had several “tiger” cats and a few cats that were black and white. I saw the animal in the dim light, and started to lean forward and bend down a little, reaching to pet the nice kitty.

    Funny thing about that cat how it had a pointier face than I remembered. 😉 When I realized what I was looking at (and reaching toward), I pulled my hand back and just about froze. The skunk was standing there, looking at me, rocking from side to side. V-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y I turned around, walking stiffly, holding my breath, hoping not to rile up that skunk with any quick movement.

    I don’t think I blinked or took a breath until I got home.

    Piano practice didn’t happen that day, and I didn’t walk that path anywhere near dark again. 😉

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  42. NancyJill,

    I saw the foot of snow in Colorado forecast. 😦

    It’s coming. It’s already here in the East, so it’s only a matter of time. Winter knows it too, and these are it’s last insults.

    Plus it’s cool when stuff starts bursting out thru the snow, despite the snow’s best efforts. So you have that at least.

    This is my favorite time of year. 🙂

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  46. I love squirrels!

    Oh, and Tex Ritter — my dad liked him and I still remember the album he had of his music.

    After my dad died, that album for some reason was stashed behind the sofa with some other old albums my parents had. He’s the only person I knew who liked Tex Ritter. 😉 An acquired taste to be sure, and I don’t even remember what the music sounded like.

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  48. A couple weeks ago, 3rd Arrow was outside on the deck, washing the glass on the sliding glass door. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a raccoon come toward the deck and go underneath it. Seconds later, 5th Arrow came running around the house from the same direction the raccoon had come from. He had been in the front yard by himself, saw the animal, and decided to chase after it. BOYS!

    Third Arrow informed her brother that, no, you do not chase wild animals!

    “But,” said the little boy who loves to play pretend, “I wanted to tell him I was going to work!”

    Um, no. 😉

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