Good Morning!
On this day in 1784 Marie Thible became the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon.
In 1812 the Louisiana Territory had its name changed to the Missouri Territory.
In 1919 the U.S. Senate passed the Women’s Suffrage bill.
In 1942 the Battle of Midway began.
In 1944 the U-505 became the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.
In 1974 the Cleveland Indians had “Ten Cent Beer Night”. Due to the large number of drunken and unruly fans, the Indians forfeited the game to the Texas Rangers.
Also on this day in 1974 Sally Murphy became the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army.
And in 1985 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law that provided for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
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Quote of the Day
“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.”
Cal Thomas
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It’s Mr. Fender’s birthday today.
It’s also Robert Merrill’s.
And also John McCormack’s.
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Anyone have a QoD for us?
Wandering Views 
Good morning everyone.
Phos, did the child survive the snake bite? I presume so, since we hadn’t heard any more (that I know of).
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Freddy Fender isn’t my favorite, but I like “Before the Next Teardrip Falls”.
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Good morning, Chas. Did you like Johnny Rodriguez better than Freddy Fender?
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exciting day here as our fourth Kodiak airplane arrived on centre after three long days of flying across the Pacific. I took my Kinder class outside to watch it arrive from the playground. Couldn’t quite see it land, but close. Then we went inside to look at a world map and see how far it had come.
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Jo, isn’t it exciting to see children excited?
Is was a rainy day in the Sunny South yesterday. It looks like it will be another warm one today.
Perhaps you would like to answser what you most love about your job and what you dislike most about your job?
I am off to dress for work. Have a good day all.
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Good morning, all. The computer is up for the moment so I wanted to say hello and leave a prayer for Cheryl’s family.
Does it truly take three days in a plane to get there? That is such a long trip! Do you have children who already know how to read in your class?
For those who know anything about quilting, I have been looking around for a lone star quilt pattern. I am amazed at how many different star pattern quilts there are. Do you have any quilts in your family? What patterns are they?
My parents made a log cabin pattern quilt for me when I graduated from college. I have that one and another star patterned quilt with a star in each square. A friend recently made a lap quilt for me that is made of small squares with a pattern of dark red going in diagonal lines through other floral printed and plaid lighter squares.
If you don’t have any quilts, do you have any afghans, etc., that were made by family or friends?
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I appreciate the flexibility of my current work situation. I dislike the personality conflicts of too many queen bees. Also I would choose to tone down the colorful language some use at times.
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Quilts? Have have quite a number of quilts handed down from the maternal side of my family. The were not quilted for beauty, they were quilted for function. In some of them I can look at the fabric and remember the clothes that were made from the same fabric. In others, they were before my time.
I had a lady make a quilt for BG out of the scraps left over from her nursery and the clothes she wore her first year. The backing of the quit is the crib sheets that were on her baby bed.
Now people “quilt” with a sewing machine. The family quilts I have were hand pieced and hand quilted on quilting frames. As a small child my grandmother and great aunt would give me a corner to quilt. Does anyone know the thread number for hand quilting? #4?
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Ricky,I prefer Freddy Fender. Lots of songs I like.
He always sings a verse in Spanish. It’s his native language, though he is, I think, form San Antonio.
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What I like most about my job? Flexibility. I’m my own boss.
What I don’t like. Surprisingly, it has to be done. I’ve said a dozen times before, this place is getting to be too much for me.
But I can’t imagine not having anything to do. It would be terrible.
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QoD: I love my job writing for a magazine, but every job has it’s work element. I love interviewing people and researching history. And I love, as is said, “Having written.” The actual writing can be arduous work though.
Janice, my grandmother lived with us when we were growing up and putha her quilting frame in front of the couch. We couldn’t watch TV unless we were hand-stitching her latest quilt. All my siblings are well trained in quilting though only one sister and I, out of five, ever make quilts. I have five or six of my grandmother’s creations, plus a couple from friends and daughters. I also have a double wedding ring that my grandmother pieced that I will finish some day
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Chas, I just heard last evening. The child survived and is recovering.
QoD: The best part of my work is knowing I am doing what God has given me to do for this time. The worst part of my work is being away from my family.
Janice – Family friends made my siblings and I small patchwork quilts when we were born, just simple 9-square flannel ones. I still have mine I have made two quilts, one for myself, which I hand quilted (actually, we put the frame up, and it became an activity for family and guests to do together); and one for a baby in my family, which I machine quilted. I selected several different squares for my quilt, as I was working on a sea theme for my bedroom at the time, so I used patches with names like Stormy Sea, Boat, and a really difficult one called Mariner’s Compass. The sea theme has long since left my room, but the quilt remains. I started it when I was in my early teens and finished it in my early twenties. I used a simple 4-square patch and a pinwheel patch for the baby quilt and made it in a couple of months.
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I have a bunch of tiny little triangles that have been hand pieced together into larger triangles from which to make a quilt. I am trying to figure out if there is some way to make it come together as a lone star quilt for our son who will be moving to Texas. The relative passed away who had these so I do not know what it was to become. Has anyone seen a quilt that uses tiny triangles about an inch length per side?
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I’ve made a number of quilts on the sewing machine–and gave them all away. I’m not sure I could do it again, yet I have two more children to be married someday, so I’ll have to find a way to pull that off.
Cheryl’s brother-in-law’s funeral is today, as perhaps Janice already noted. I can’t imagine what she’s going through.
I’ve got our two favorite unemployed twenty-somethings coming over today to start packing, dismantling and shifting furniture. The piece of land we were going to buy was sold to someone else, so we’re back to square one. I’m trying hard to take the Oswald Chambers approach and it works most of the time–the Lord is in charge and He knows what we need, even if I don’t!
My job? Which job? At work, I like writing checks–I did that all day yesterday–paying royalties to authors. My home job I like cooking dinner with family members standing around talking to me like good Italians. My writing job–I love watching the stories come alive in unexpected ways when all the creative gears are moving together. And I adore the research–see last week’s Chicago trip. 🙂
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I have a couple quilts that my Grandfather made. When he retired he took up quilt making and collecting thousands of decks of playing cards for solitaire. He was usually doing one or the other.
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What I liked and didn’t like about my previous job: There was always something new. We were developing a new maping system to get into the modern world.
There was lots of travel, it soon got old.
As I said, something new.
What I didn’t like was lots of responsibility with no authority. That’s always a bad situation.
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I have a few quilts, too, including one old wool quilt — plain patches, dark, functional (don’t ask me why, but at the time I thought it was wonderful to behold) — purchased at a county fair in Iowa some years ago.
I also still have a quilt top my mom had finished just before she died unexpectedly. I’ve always planned to get that finished up.
Glad the snake bite victim is OK — prayers for Cheryl and her family, especially for Cheryl’s sister who must just be devastated.
michelle, yikes. House hunting again? I wanted you to live on the Lea or whatever that place was.
I really love so much about my job, I love reporting & writing both. And I love it that I can sometimes be so lucky as to spend a day at the beach in the guise of “work” (as in last week’s assignment on a rehabilitated sea lion release).
Alas, the newspaper industry is in dire straights — has been for years — and things just don’t seem to be getting any better. Profits are way-way-way down, cutbacks are a regular occurrence and sometimes many of us just don’t agree with the editorial direction being handed down to us from on top. But there you go.
If I ruled the world … everything might just be … a whole lot worse. 😉
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And while at the beach on that assignment, I was chatting with my latimes counterparts and they also are going through it where they are — we’re all pretty much in the same boat, all just hanging on by our fingernails while the powers-that-be do what they do.
And this is one of those weeks where I need to come up with some stories out of thin air. 😦 Another occasional downside of my job, when there’s nothing very obvious to cover or write about and you’re left to scramble.
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Quilts: My first one was a crazy quilt made with fabric scraps I had on hand. It was used for my toddler’s first bedspread. Then it became a picnic quilt and is now long gone.
I have made many after taking a quilt class in a community education class. I am glad we had a somewhat laid back teacher. If I had just saw some of the teachers who are very picky and have lots of ‘rules’, I probably would have given up.
In our class we did squares of different types–cathedral window, log cabin, crazy, patterns with squares and triangles. There a hundreds of patterns and they each look different with different kinds of prints or colors.
I made each of my daughter’s a graduation quilt. One was a double wedding ring in the colors requested. One was a fiddle quilt with a giant (my own pattern) fiddle in the center of many musical printed fabric. The final one was an autographed quilt.
I have made each of my grandchildren quilts, except for the youngest two. One is finished to the point of being sandwiched. That has a Vegie Tales theme. I do both patterns from others and those I make up.
I have used scraps from a shirt factory given to me by my MIL, who received them from her twin sister. It was the twin sister, who first sparked my interest when she showed me her crazy quilt.
Mostly I use good fabric today. Several of the quilts I have made are long gone. Some I have pictures of and some I do not. Most of the quilts were hand quilted, but machined pieced. I am trying to learn machine quilting now on my home machine and am much slower, as a result.
I have an impressionistic type quilt of a flowered walking path, which I made, for behind my sofa.
Can you tell you touched my button? 😉 I could go on and on…
Oh, and there would be many ways to use those little triangles. Any library should have ideas, as well as many internet sites.
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The wool quilt I bought in Iowa was a Depression-era quilt, very heavy. An Iowa friend who was skilled at auctions helped me get it for very cheap, as I recall. Being a Californian, I was just going to pay the asking price. They love visiting Californians back there. … 🙂
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It sure is lonesome here.
😦
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I love my job, because I get to help the boss be organized and I also get to help people heal. I don’t like my job because there is a lot of New Agey type stuff that several of the practitioners believe and it seems to permeate the whole office. I’m looking for a new job where I won’t have to drive 2 hours/day just to get there and home again, but I worry that I’m the only Christian influence on some of the people I work with. I know, I know, God can take care of things without me 🙂
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It does get quiet here in the afternoons, doesn’t it, Chas?
Nice to see you, Kare. 😉
Kim’s Q: What I most enjoy about my job is having my kids with me throughout the day. And as a homeschool mom, the second best thing is having lots of flexibility to educate my children according to their unique bents, challenges, giftings, and so on. It’s a blessing to have that freedom.
What I dislike most about my job is that my example (thus, my faults) are ever before my children. They have contact with other adults, of course, but not nearly as much as they have with me, so they don’t have numerous good examples of other adults to balance out the bad example I feel like I am too much of the time.
I will say that it has made me more conscious of the need to build my character, though.
Janice’s Q: I know very little about quilting, but I do love them. My husband’s sister made a quilt that she gave to us when my husband and I got married. She used clothing that hubby and I had worn as children, and in one corner of the quilt she sewed “1986”, the year we were married. I love that quilt…it remains one of my favorite wedding gifts.
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DonnaJ, I was not on the beach this morning, but I was interviewing a pro-surfer a and was thinking, “This is what I get to do for a living!” The best interviews are when the subject can get past what they are obviously famous for and talk about who they really are. My surfer did that today. Great, great conversation!
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Brief update. Funeral was today, and it was beautiful. My sister asked me to write a eulogy, which my husband and I did together, focusing on God’s grace in his life, Christ and not him. (My sister thought it was perfect.) She was very, very distraught last night–my husband said it was the most pain he had seen expressed at a viewing. They were deeply in love, and she has five young children, two huge reasons to take it hard. (Not to mention that at 46 it’s unexpected.) Three of six of us (and spouses) were able to make it, and of the seven adults represented (four couples minus my late brother-in-law), four had lost spouses. So my husband and my brother and his wife were helpful to her in “what to expect” and hope it will get better. My husband is a real detail man, so he’s the one who sees what needs doing half the time.
The five-year-old really seems not to know what’s going on. He looked at his dad’s remains with curiosity and not pain, though he has asked for his dad. The oldest two boys have been grand–they are fine young men and will be /have been a great comfort to their mother, even at just 12 and 14. The two in the middle are old enough to understand, sort of . . . old enough to understand but not old enough to process it, if that makes sense.
Continued prayers needed and welcomed. Their church has been truly wonderful, and sees her as their responsibility in the days ahead.
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Praying still Cheryl!
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Yes, lots of prayers needed for them, Cheryl. I was just reading that the younger children often have more problems later, than the older children. Perhaps because they have so little understanding? Of course, such studies are just that and mean little on a case to case basis. Praying for peace for them all and the knowledge of the Heavenly Father’s arms around them. May our God of all comfort, comfort them beyond what we can imagine!
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Thanks for letting us know, Cheryl. Just terribly sad about this for your sister.
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Good to hear from you Cheryl, so glad the funeral went well and is behind you all now (although the loss and even the sense of shock will be around for a long time). It sounds like the eulogy was very special and I love it when they are so Christ-centered. Nothing gives us more hope than that.
So strange when you think back to the hours or days before this happened, how normal everything seemed, isn’t it?
We never know when these events will just collide in on our lives, turning everything upside down again. But there will be recovery and peace, in time.
And it’s just as well we can’t see into the future, I suspect.
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