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Our Daily Thread 6-14-13

Good Morning!

Happy Flag Day!

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And a Happy Birthday to The United States Army.

On this day in 1775 the Continental Army was founded by the Second Continental Congress for purposes of common defense. This event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.

In 1777 the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the “Stars and Stripes” as the national flag of the United States.  The Flag Resolution stated “Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”  On May 20, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed June 14 “Flag Day” as a commemoration of the “Stars and Stripes.”

In 1789 Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat. That was mutiny Mr. Christian!

In 1841 the first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

In 1846 a group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.

In 1900 Hawaii became a U.S. territory.

In 1943 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schoolchildren could not be made to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicted with their religious beliefs. That’s some irony there huh?

In 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an order adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

And in 1954 Americans took part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.

Quick! Everybody under their desks! 😯

As if that would help. 🙄

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Quote of the Day

“25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

Jesus of Nazareth, Lord and Savior

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It’s this gentleman’s birthday, so first, a fun one. 🙂

Extra credit question…. Who’s the kid?

And then one you’ve probably heard before.

And then one you probably haven’t heard before, since it’s also Chris Degarmo’s birthday. He was the lead guitarist/back up singer of this band.

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Anyone have a Question of the Day?

52 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-14-13”

  1. It’s Friday!
    You know what that means?
    I was working for the Soil Conservation Service in Ft. Worth, part time while going to Southwestern. A notice came around saying that in case of atomic attack, federal employees should report to the Post Office.
    We all enjoyed that.
    I may have a QoD later, if I can remember it.
    Off to the Y. We’re early because my bride and her sister are going to Greenwood today to visit her sister.

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  2. QoD Did AJ let his daughter sleep in for the first day of Summer? Perhaps that should have been yesterday’s question.
    I have always liked Burl Ives and have searched high and low for a copy of him singing “That’s My Heartstrings, That’s My Boy”. I found it on iTunes but it is by a Scottish singer.
    My stepmother grew up in South Florida and the Keys. For some reason haiving to do with that she cannot stand Burl Ives.
    The rain woke me up at 4:30 and I tried to go back to sleep, but the cat came in and pushed and nudged until she had her spot next to Mr. P then Amos came in and wanted in the bed as well. The bed is too high for him to jump up in it, so I had to pick him up. By the time he gave my puppy kisses and got settled down…well guess who was wide awake?

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  6. I like Johnny and Burl.

    QoD. Do you still use something you acquired decades ago?
    When I was assigned to Saudi Arabia, I was told to buy, with my own money, a pair of sun glasses. So, I went to the P.X. and paid $5.50 for a pair of aviator sun glasses. That’s 1952 dollars. It would be equivalent to about $60.00 today. Technology has improved so that they wouldn’t be nearly so expensive today. But they are good sun glasses. I still wear them when working around. They are the kind you see the Secret Service men wearing. I have to tighten the screws every year, buy they have served all these 62 years.
    I don’t have any emotional attachment to them the way I did for my first car. I almost cried when I sold it. Got $50.00 for it.

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  9. I figgered out how the Affordable Care Act is going to be affordable. The head of the IRS is going unfairly tax conservatives to fund it. 😀

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  11. We had quite the lightning show here last night. There were big blue branches of cloud to cloud lightning against a dull yellow sky. Trees and power lines were down all over the place. The AC has barely been cooling the past two nights, and last night the power went out completely for 2-1/2″ hours. It’s nice to wake up to a cool house with the power back on. Hopefully the A/C folks will fix the heat pump today…

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  12. Chas, If you click on the photo and enlarge it, it is a photo of my dad (Papa) and his two day old granddaughter. It is just my Father’s Day avatar.

    BG is experiencing Summer School. I am thinking it will make her pay attention next year. She is being a lot nicer and more pleasant to be around these days.
    She has had a few of her world famous melt downs with her daddy, but all is well.
    I feel somewhat guilty because I am enjoying the peace of no drama and am able to enjoy her company when she is with me.

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  13. My husband still uses a pink Flair brush (hair brush) we got from Avon in 1979. I never realized how old it was until recently when our son said, “that’s one of those things that I remember from my childhood.” I tried to replace it recently and Avon doesn’t sell them anymore.

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  14. Kim, when I click on it, it does enlarge, but over the text, so I can’t see it clearlyj.
    Is Sunday Father’s Day?
    I was wondering if you and BG were connecting. Moving in with dad might have been good for her. Adolescence is a difficult time for boys and girls.

    MIM, it was hot here yesterday also, but I only got fifteen minutes of rain out of the storm. Lots of thunder, but that’s it. It turned cool last night.

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  15. Chas- When you click Kim’s name it goes to her Gravatar profile and you can see a biiger version of her picture and a comment, just like when I clicked your name and saw a pixelated version of Burt Reynolds.

    BTW- It’s a picture of her man with his grandchild.

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  20. It’s usually easier to get up early when you don’t have to. 🙂

    Will have to think on the question. All my wedding gifts that I still have and use are several decades old, though. I have a lot of stuff that is very old–even fabric from my grandmother and some of her other things that I still use. I would never have been able to use sunglasses that long. I use clip-ons and inevitably I either lose them or find them too scratched to keep using.

    My youngest daughter and her four children will be here for the weekend. This is usually our biggest weekend of the year and one that we wish we could be several places at once. We will have to take all the grandchildren to an early parade in the morning and then to a huge craft festival. The parade has dwindled to more vehicles than actual floats, which is not as fun. Still, we will enjoy the marching vans and few floats and the grands will enjoy all the candy etc. handed out to them. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate. Rain is predicted, which is not unusual for the event.

    We will still enjoy our time with our company, of course.

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  21. the fire is on the other side of town. OUr other friend from Colorado Springs, did have to leave. She posted about it on face book

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  22. It is a photo of my dad and my daughter. I got married the first time on September 1st. When I returned from the honeymoon, my father’s first question was how soon could he expect to be a grandfather. I asked him to give me a few months so no one would think I was pregnant when I got married. He never missed an opportunity to say “Did you hear that? 46 and going to be a grandmother? My reply was, “When you were 46 I was 17 did you REALLY want to be a grandfather then? ” It took me 7 years and 8 days to give him a grandchild. During that time he offered all sorts of bribes, even offering to pay me $400 a month to have him a grandchild. When I finally had her, I asked if the offer was still good. He told me no, he was retired now. He did have her college education fully funded before she was a month old.

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  24. Amazing. Shocking. Just talked to my friends who live in Black Forest–everything on their street burned EXCEPT their house and one neighbor.

    Praise God–these are writers and the intellectual material in their house is profound. We’re grieving for those who lost everything but so thankful the Kingdom of God work in our friends’ house will continue. Wow.

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  26. It’s Friday! Yay. Yes, Father’s Day is this Sunday. Any big plans for any of you here?

    Haven’t seen the latest from nancyjill, but will check in on that shortly — I just got the veggies chopped and packed for lunch and need to get on my way. I’m hoping to pull together an update today on the progress of the Louis Zamperini movie.

    A friend from the dog park who’s in the film industry sent me a link yesterday from a Hollywood pub that says 3 actors are now screen-testing for the role. And I saw elsewhere, just a few days ago, that Angelina Jolie (the director) hoped to begin filming by the end of this year. So it sounds like it’s (at last) coming along.

    Amazing when you realize that the first talk of doing this film had a young Tony Curtis wanting to star in the lead role. Some things just take a long time to come to fruition.

    Kim, good to hear the update on BG. Summer school? Oh, the suffering teens today must endure. 😦 🙂

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  27. My house is 13.4 miles from the Black Forest fire, and in no danger. My drive home takes me over a hill that presents an unobstructed, panoramic view of the forest. That view is actually fairly “mundane” now (although I’m sure it’s a different story from other locations), but the column of smoke the first day of the fire was intimidating. My house smelled strongly of smoke. Due to wind direction, as close as I am, there are fewer effects in my neighborhood than there are to areas 50 and 60 miles to the north. Strange.

    Anyway, another fire close by has done considerable damage to the Royal Gorge area. Have you seen these pics, particularly the latter?

    Before: http://imageshack.us/a/img705/4630/fdu5.jpg

    After: http://imageshack.us/a/img824/3058/n0u6.jpg

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  29. I have this feeling Michelle knows a few people I know living around here…small world! Solar…we live off of Palmer Divide/County Line…the fire is contained on the south side of Hodgen now and we pray the winds do not send it northward….being stuck in a hotel…not being able to find my shoes nor my tops has become problematic this morning….small in scope when I grieve the loss of my two dearest friend’s homes…homes that were the gathering points of refuge, solitude and fellowship…

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  31. Doing that today….Farmers…I’m hoping they will be cooperative…our agent is Elizabeth Bryson in Monument…she has been great in the past…I’m thinking she’ll be the same with this!

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  32. Michelle, the account of your writer friends’ close call is a good lesson for making use of ‘the Cloud.’ Important docs, writing, pics and the like should be stored remotely, so long as one is comfortable with the security. It can be done easily and for free.

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  33. I bet she will, Nancy. If nothing else, poor service on a high profile thing like this would be bad PR. But I don’t doubt she’s sincerely concerned, anyway. Are you also hooked in with help from your church?

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  35. Never underestimate how bad an insurance company can act. Farmer’s was among the worst after Katrina. They paid when they were forced to and then they cancelled.
    Hang in there and FIGHT if they aren’t cooperative. You CAN win.

    (of course I might just be the tee ninyest bit bitter)

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  38. Hi Chas. The roads through there are scarce and narrow–none wider than two lanes and a bit of shoulder, and the tall pines tower over roads at many points, nearly touching at the tops. It’s a lovely drive when the trees aren’t all on fire. The narrower one-lane driveways wouldn’t retard anything but idle embers, and treetops over those paths really do touch higher up. I think the guy in the video mentions the homeowner had done well to trim the lower parts of the trees close to the house so the fire wouldn’t crown–spreading from one treetop to the next. Plus it’s been windy; that’s a tough wild card, not only because it fans the flames, but sends out embers a good distance–and you may not realize those embers have ignited anything until you see the smoke billowing in the middle of a bunch of green trees a hundred feet away. Plus it’s hot and dry. What a cluster. Although as I type, I think I just heard the rumble of thunder. I do see rainclouds over the mountains–that would be a godsend!

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  39. The second guy on the deck is carrying a drip torch, likely for setting back fires or fire guard which may have been what this fire is. A fire set to protect an area from the major fire.

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  42. Yay! for you folks! 🙂

    Solar I knew Roy and NancyJill lived there, but I didn’t know you did too. You stay safe too.

    And nobody else noticed, but my wife pointed out to me that I totally destroyed the proper spelling of Nazareth. I had it Nazerth. Yikes.

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  43. It takes a New Yorker to cut syllables from words. I was in high school before I realized my New York parents gave me a partial accent. Since most people my age were not born in Arizona, or have parents who migrated there,my English teacher (from Minnesota) had several of us pronounce “vehicle”. She mainly wanted to see how we pronounced the middle syllable or not [vee-hi-cul] versus [vee-yi-cul]. When she called on me, I said [vee-cul] or something close to that. Her comment, “Oh yeah, you have a slight New York accent.”

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  44. Thanks, AJ. I get a good view of the smoke from the roads I drive, but I’m not close enough to be in danger. And I’m not allowed to handle pointy objects, so I’m extra safe.

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  46. Sorensons on Holmes house was saved. I spoke with Rachelle this morning, NancyJill. The world is small. My other friends, whom I’ve not heard from, are a homeschooling/Navy family in Monument with eight kids; Bond.

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  47. I just heard that the Sorenson’s home was saved…the barn gone and their land burned, but, the home is still standing…the Anderson’s have walked this tough road with them…The Anderson’s are dear friends of ours and the Carlton/Edwards are friends with the Sorenson’s …Susan Carlton being my dearest oldest friend…she lost her home….’tis a small world indeed.

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  48. Nancy. I just can’t imagine. I have never had to evacuate.

    For my Facebook friends. There is another Father’s Day tribute featuring the Baby Girl

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  49. Kim, sweet pic of Little-Girl BG dancing with granddaddy. 🙂

    Solar, glad you’re OK. I didn’t know you were in Colo. either. I have a friend in Denver, but they’re fine. Our sister paper is the Denver Post which has been covering the fires pretty extensively.

    So glad to hear about the rain! Hope you can get home soon, nancyjill. But so sorry for the many who lost so much. 😦 I can’t imagine, either, I’ve never had to evacuate. I guess the closest I came was when the house next door caught on fire in the middle of the night. Someone knocked on my door to tell me to get out, firefighters hadn’t arrived yet (the house was vacant and being redone for sale; it put them back a tad, to say the least).

    Anyway, I grabbed my dogs and got out, didn’t “take” anything else … And luckily I was sleeping in my sweats that night, dressed enough for public. 🙂 The fire was put out before it affected any other properties, thankfully, and we neighbors just stood across the street watching until it was put out.

    Parts of our town are in a tsunami zone, but that seems pretty unlikely to ever happen. My house is well above those zones. But the dog park would be pretty flooded.

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  50. I did have to evacuate in California once. Sure made me appreciate the firefighters and all that they do. Here if it doesn’t rain for a few days, folks light fires to clear the fields and hillsides. Took some getting used to to not panic when I see a fire burning on a nearby hillside. Praying for those in Colorado.

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