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Our Daily Thread 6-13-13

Good Morning!

It’s raining again. 😦

On this day in 1777 the Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the America to help with the rebellion against the British.

In 1789 ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.

In 1825 Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then sold the rights for $400.

In 1866 the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by Congress.  It was ratified on July 9, 1868.

In 1888 Congress created the Department of Labor.

In 1900 China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.

In 1920 the U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post. 😯  I’m shocked that they even had too say it was. 😦

In 1922 Charlie Osborne started the longest attack of hiccups ever.  He hiccupped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended. 😦 Poor guy.

In 1966 the “Miranda vs. Arizona” decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court.

And in 1967 Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Quote of the Day

“It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.”

Alexander Hamilton

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Nothing too loud today.

And some Beethoven, PianoGuys  style. 🙂

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QoD

Does the weather influence your mood?

And does the rain make you sleepy too, or is it just me?

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47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-13-13”

  2. it really is dark outside here, seems silly to be first so late in the day. Only 2 1/2 days of school left. Today went really well. I just keep praying to finish well and for the Lord to give me creative ideas to keep them learning and enjoying. Today I surprised the class with a soccer game the last half hour. The PE teacher had taught them how and they had their last PE class yesterday. I saw how well they did and decided to repeat it. My students are older as they have to be 5 by July 31st and the nationals have to be 6, so I have some almost 7 year olds with lots of energy.

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  6. So how many hours ahead of us are you Jo?

    And we finished yesterday. My daughter informed me last night that since today was the first day of her summer vacation, there was no need for me to wake her today. She said she might sleep until noon. I told her she must already be asleep ‘cuz she was dreamin’ if she thought I’d allow that. 🙂

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  7. Let her sleep AJ. It’s a first day treat.
    It isn’t cheating for Jo to be first. Tychius used to to that occasionally. And Phos and Ajisuun could too. But they are busy with their day. And Jo is just finishing hers.
    Interesting.
    Rain doesn’t affect my mood, but it does my schedule. That wasn’t true when I had a real job. It hardly meant a thing, unless we were in a drout.
    Snow was a different story.

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  9. I will let you figure the time difference. Chas’ comment says he posted at 7:24 in the morning and for me it is now 9:33 at night on the same day. To figure out the time in California where my children are, I add 7 hours to my time and go back a day. So for the east coast you are 10 hours ahead, but a day behind. Tricky!

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  10. Yes, the weather does effect my moods. There are times I enjoy a good rainstorm. I really don’t like cold weather unless there is something to show for it…like snow. I wouldn’t mind going somewhere this coming winter where there is snow. A week’s worth would do me.
    As I have told you all before I love the sun. Sitting and soaking up the sun makes me happy. I can take prozac or I can sit in the sun. I’ll take my chances with sunscreen and sunshine any day.

    I told you about my Saturday shopping spree where I got one pair of shoes because I just wasn’t in the mood and I found nothing I liked. Sunday Mr. P asked me if I wanted to go shopping. It was rainy and I wasn’t feeling well, so the answer was no. I got home from work Monday and he asked again. I misunderstood what he was asking and said yes. We went. I tried on clothes. He gave a thumbs up or thumbs down. From there I sorted what I really didn’t “love” out. I got to the counter to pay and he told me he would take care of it, he had more money in his checking account that I did in mine. (we have his, hers, and ours but they are all connected). I had that sinking feeling of “oh no he’s going to know how much I just spent on clothes”! My stomach sank, I started feeling twitchy. I held my breath as the lady totalled my purchases and said the amount. He very CALMLY handed her his debit card, signed the slip, and as we walked out of the store asked if I liked what I got. THAT”S IT????? No snide comments. No “we can’t afford this”. Nothing. He just asked which store I would like to go to next. We didn’t find anything there, so we went to the next. I got a nice dressier outfit there. Once again, I went through my spending money emotional turmoil and nothing happened. Suddenly I realized it was 9 pm. I told him he had kept me out past curfew and I was ready to go home.
    Tuesday I took the day off and spent it legally changing my name. We met for lunch and wandered around downtown. I had bought a friend of mine a julip cup for her birthday a few years ago and neither of us ever made it back in to have it engraved, so I dropped it off at the jewelry store. While I was there I decided to get her another one for this coming birthday and have it engraved at the same time. Next we with to another “frou-frou” shop. Mr. P made a comment about how good it smelled in the store. The sales lady stopped and showed us the oil and ceramice cirlcle thingy that sits on a light buld that was making the store smell so good…so I bought it too..
    He hit me on the way to work yesterday that for the FIRST time in my adult life I haven’t had anyone gripe, grumble, and tell me I can’t afford anything I wanted to spend money on. Mr. P’s attitude is that as long as all the bills are paid I am free to do whatever I want with the money in my checking account….and for the first time there is money left in my account between paydays. I don’t have to stop and think about spending $15 on something frivolous. I needed work clothes and he made sure I got them.
    I realize that to most of you this doesn’t sound like much, but I started paying the bills at home when I was 14 or 15. When my father finally realized what kind of financial situation my alcoholic mother got him into he shut down all spending. From there I married a man who is 8 years older than me and not matter how much money was in the bank he was broke. He is still the poorest man in America. From there I struggled to support myself. I really am having a hard time wrapping my brain around and accepting my current situation. Don’t for a minute think that I am not thankful. I am very thankful and give credit where credit is due. I have learned a lot over the years. Most of it the hard way. I am stopping for a moment to brag just a little and tell you all that I am thankful for this man God sent me.

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  13. Kim, I’m happy for you.
    Elvera and I have separate bank accounts, though both are joint. Savings accounts the same way.
    We did this years ago when Chuck went to school and Elvera went to work full time. We decided that we would not make her income part of our lifestyle. So, she put the max into her 403(b) and put the rest into her account. I paid the bills, sent Chuck to college, etc. She bought her car, paid for vacations and her clothes, etc.
    Now, she has all the money in the family. I have a nice retirement, but am essentially broke. Our financial advisor says that is very common. i.e. The wife owns the money in the family.

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  14. Seems that Jo is 14 hours ahead of us. i.e. It’s 11:41 this evening and Jo is likely in bed.
    Weather: Snow is another matter. I hated snow. Snow was the cause of most of my priblems when I lived in Va. It ran me off the road once. I was stranded in St. Louis for three days. Bright sunshine there, but Washington was closed. And when I got to DC National, I had to pay a guy $5.00 to shovel me out.
    But if it snowed, I wanted lots of it. Most of my career, I would look out in the morning and ask myself, “Can I make it?” If I thought i could, I went. later I asked, “Is it smart?” if the answer was no, I took leave.
    After I retired, it didn’t matter. I just stayed out of it. Still do.

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  15. It’s not raining here. It’s HOT. It’s already 80° in my office and it’s not even 10 AM. Sposed to get to 95° here today with 65% humidity. UGH.

    How many ways can you think of to say how hot it is?

    I’ll start:

    It’s hot as blue blazes.

    It’s hot as a two dollar pistol.

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  16. Thankfully there are no fires here… One of our WMB girls out in Colorado is having to evacuate, and one of her neighbors has already lost her house. She posted pix of the “pile of rubble”. It’s tragic. And the photo of the fire was terrifying! It looked a mile high!

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  17. But the real problem was black ice. Years ago, I was driving down the highway in SC. As I approached a bridge, a police car was beside the road with his lights flashing. Appropriately, I slowed down. It was fortunate that I did because I went across that bridge every way but forward. I was sideways when I slid across, and straightened up and went ahead.
    In 2007, we were going to Greensboro early one April morning. On the exit from I-26 to I-40, I hit a stretch of black Ice. I slid off the road, hit a bank (sode of a mountain) and totaled my car. The police closed the road after two other cars slid off.
    I try to avoid such situations now. Fortunately, I have that option.

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  19. When I say, “totaled my car”, I don’t mean it was a complete wreck. I paid a wrecker to pull me out, cut out the air bags and drove it home. But it was a ten year old Merc and wasn’t worth fixing. I gave it to the Shriner’s Hospital. They fixed it and sold it for $3000 at an auction and I deducted that from my income tax and bought a new car.

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  20. Hotter than the dickens.

    I’m affected by the weather, definitely. Many consecutive cloudy and/or rainy days can get me down. Low mood, low energy.

    I was talking to my brother on the phone last week. He lives in a different state than I do, but in the same general geographical area, and he mentioned to me how the many cloudy and rainy days they’d had there (and we’d had here) made him feel like not doing much. I never knew he struggled with that, like I do. He’s a farmer and gets up diligently every morning at I think 3:45 to milk the cows. He told me he doesn’t have a problem doing that because he knows it has to get done. It’s the other stuff — things that should get done sometime, but aren’t a vital necessity at any particular moment — that he struggles to get motivated about when the weather is gloomy. It actually made me feel better to know that I wasn’t the only one in my family of origin that is challenged with that.

    I wish some of that rain we’ve had so much of would go to Colorado. 😦

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  22. Anyone heard from nancyjill? She was posting a bit on fb yesterday, last I saw (and I think she said the same thing here) was that they were packed and ready to evacuate. 😦

    I hate really hot weather. And I’m frankly a bit weary of the sunshine. I like overcast, cool days (June Gloom has arrived and I’m happy — we even get a bit of mist in the mornings).

    When I was younger, this time of year always frustrated me, though; we’d be out of school and anticipating going the beach every day at long last when, bam, May’s sunshine vanished and everything clouded over until July.

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  24. “t’s hot as lobsters steaming in a pot.” If you haven’t heard that one, I think I just made it up because it goes along with, “red hot,” as in what we heard as children, “Don’t touch that! It’s red hot!”

    “It’s so hot you could fry an egg on the pavement.”

    “It’s hotter than Hades.”

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  33. Hi all! I’m back from vacation!

    Chas: I did notice that Jo wanted to wake everyone about 2:30 this morning wanting to chat.

    I was “up” at 2:30. We drove thru the night from Gettysburg to get home. At 2:30 I think I was in Eastern Ohio on I-70 driving in the rain. The wind was strong and the rain was heavy at times, but they were not so bad at the same time. However, as we were approaching Indianapolis, we hit torrential rains with strong winds. D3 was driving at that time (6:30) and does not have much experience I told her told her to pull into a rest stop. We sat there for over an hour waiting it out. Oh, well. We were on vacation and didn’t have to be anywhere. We pulled into the drive at 1:30pm CDT, after leaving Gettysburg at ~9PM EDT. We stopped for at least three hours total. Not bad! PA to MO in 17 hours minus stops and the traffic jam in Indy.

    A great time in New England (and a pleasant lunch with my cousin and her family on Long Island).

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  34. Donna, as the article says, one of the things people don’t understand about the SBC is the independence of individual congregations. There is a “Church Covenant” that is common agreement that all Southern Baptists believe. e.g. If you’re a Southern Baptist, you have been baptized by immersion on your own volition. You may have been as young as six, etc, but you made your own decision to trust Jesus as Lord and were baptized by immersion. You may belong to a megachurch or the country church.
    Lots of differences but much common agreement. If your teachings get too far our, you are reprimanded by the local association and put out of the convention.
    That simply means that you can’t advertise as Southern Baptist, you can’t send delegates to the Association, State or National Conventions.
    Bottom line: The convention will debate, and possibly pass a resolution. But when the pastor gets home, the church will do what it will do. I doubt that our church will disband it’s scout troop.

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  36. 🙂
    Interesting: It’s time for Jo to roll out and start her Friday.
    Tychicus is thinking about bedtime about now and Phos and Ajusuun are winding up the day.
    Me? I’m waiting for dinner. Another hour or so. It’s been a busy day.

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  37. Chuckle…

    “It’s hot”.

    “It never got this hot in Brooklyn.”

    “It’s like Africa Hot.”

    “Tarzan couldn’t take this kinda hot.”

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  38. yup, my day is off and running. Had my quiet time and then went to market at 6:30 and now ready to be off to school. Another gray misty day here, but that doesn’t mean that we won’t have blazing sun later. If it gets hot, they say to wait and hour and it will rain. We make our own weather here by the equator.

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  39. My SBC pastor will wait and see about what happens with the Scouts by the time the new rule goes into effect. At least that is what I heard recently unless he has has reason to change his mind. Our troop has been with us for years. They do an annual Christmas tree sale for fundraising.

    My son was in a troop at a Methodist church. He got to work in the pumpkin patch in the fall for fundraising. Also he sold popcorn. That means mom got to be in the background for all that work. Whew! Unloading all those pumpkins from a big tractor trailer truck in the middle of a hot day. My husband was up in the truck helping with that hot job…so to tie that in with today’s question…it’s hotter than the inside of a tractor trailer full of pumpkins being unloaded on a 90 degree day at noon…imagine the smell of a few rotten pumpkins and all that perspiration…well, you get the drift!

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  42. I just ate a whole bunch of gluten-free chocolate chip cookies my daughter surprised me by making. 😉

    I love how we wanderers are in so many places around the globe! Still June 13 for some of us, almost or well into the 14th for others of us. And God’s got His eyes on each one of us in our part of the world. 🙂

    Tomorrow (or today, for some of you), June 14th, my honey and I celebrate 27 years since saying “I do”. We’re going out for breakfast, and I’m looking forward to that! I can’t remember many times we’ve done that since having kids. Lunch and dinner on occasion, but rarely breakfast.

    Hubby has the day off tomorrow, and I’m not sure what we’ll be doing the rest of the day, but we’ll be spending it together.

    I’ll see you guys Saturday (or Sunday). 🙂

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  45. Quick update here. My sister’s family is doing better, but it’s still hard. My husband is great with paperwork and it overwhelms my sister right now, so we’re helping with that, with shopping for necessary things, with laundry, with childcare, etc. Church friends bringing meals (lots of food) every other day. It has been God’s grace that we both are “free” right now to simply spend time here. Continued prayers welcome, including for our return this weekend (long drive ahead). And I know it will be hard in a different way once we leave and life isn’t “back to normal.” And they’ve had a lot of “little” hard things added to the death: pet duckings killed by a raccoon, new infestations of mice (one seen so far) and roaches (multiple ones, apparently from boxes brought to the basement a few weeks ago–and my sister detests roaches). But people have been generous and helpful, and God is good, and she doesn’t sound as overwhelmed as she did a week ago.

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