Good Morning!
It’s Monday…… So get back to work. 🙂
On this day in 1773 the first schoolhouse to be located west of the Allegheny Mountains was built in Schoenbrunn, OH.
In 1914 the first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.
In 1940 John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River. The swim from St. Louis to Caruthersville, MO took him 89 hours and 48 minutes. 😯
In 1958 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
And in 1981 England’s Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married.
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Quote of the Day
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
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It’s Martina McBride’s birthday. And I know it’s not a national holiday or anything, I just like the way she sings it. 🙂 And with a flyover at the end.
It’s Neal Doughty’s birthday too, so you know I’m playin’ him and his band. 😉
Next up, we’ll go to the 80’s since it’s Geddy Lee’s birthday too.
And we’re not done, another from the 80’s, it’s Simon Kirk’s birthday too.
It’s like high school again, without the angst and acne. 🙂
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Anyone have a QoD?
Wandering Views 
Good morning! Fourth Arrow is helping with VBS this week — in the preschool class, so there should be some cute comments she’ll be hearing this week. 😉 I’ll be doing lots of shuttling my daughter back and forth with that, but I’m looking forward to it. Something different. Have a good day, all!
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Morning, I have already finished up my Monday at work. 🙂
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Doing my end of month chores. I am in charge of the offerings for the English service and am working on all the end of the month transfers. We take a cash offering, but few of us carry any cash, so we put transfer forms in the pew racks and at the end of the month I put them all on the proper form.
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OK then, everybody but Jo, get back to work. 🙂
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And I guess anybody who worked 3rd shift last night too.
But the rest of ya’s……
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Thanks AJ
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First Arrow worked 3rd shift last night, and is not home yet. Usually when he works 3rds, he sleeps when he comes home, and gets up in the late afternoon and does work around here, errands and such. He’s going to be going to school starting in about a month, though, and will work 3rds over the weekends and other shifts during the week when he has classes. Will take some getting used to, but he’s young (23) and can handle that kind of switching back and forth better than the older set. 😉
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Well, gotta go start my day. And 1st Arrow just walked in the door as I was typing that. Enjoy your work today everyone. Jo, enjoy your sleep!
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I’m getting my husband to purge his wardrobe so we can give excss to charity. I have a big bag of my stuff all ready to go out the door. I am even more motivated since the Sunday School lesson was on the rich young ruler who loved possessions more than God.
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Nice way to apply the lesson Janice. Well, I finished all the transfers for the offerings. people here are certainly generous. Time for some sleep, blessings
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My brother knows more family history than I do. He said when my mom was growing up that children had to wait for adults to be served their food first at gatherings. They would give a cold potato to each child while the adults got their food to momentarily satisfy the hunger of the children. He said there was a song about this practice. Thought Chas might know about such things. Was this a Southern practice only?
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I found the cold potato song but do not know how to copy and paste from the Smart Phone.
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Janice, Grandpa Jones has a song about that: “Take a ‘Tater and Wait”. We never went to gatherings when I was a kid. Now, they feed the kids first to get them out of the way.
There’s a comic in today’s paper where a kid & grandpa are fishing. He’s talking to gramps about taking his father fishing. Grandpa says, yeah, but in those days I didn’t have much time nor money to do such thngs.
The kid says, “Life sometimes works backwards, doesn’t it grandpa?”
Sometimes it does.
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😦 It wasn’t Grandpa Jones, it was Little Jimmy Dickens. I hope this works, it cut off in the middle for me.
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When Jimmy finishes, there are links to other songs. One of them is an Eddie Arnold song. I don’t know if it’s still true, the scale isn’t the same today, But at one time Eddie Arnold was number three in the number of records sold. Behind Elvis, Bing Crosby, then Eddie.
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AJ- I actually have today and tomorrow off, so no need to get back to work for me!
Also, re- this: In 1940 John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River. The swim from St. Louis to Caruthersville, MO took him 89 hours and 48 minutes.
Are you sure that’s Caruthersville, Missouri? Caruthersville, MO is only 190 miles downriver from St. Louis, according to my map.
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Thanks for the song, Chas.
It use to be that children were taught to wait. Without that teaching some can’t stand the frustration of not getting something the moment they notice their want. This
may be the cause of some crime in our society.
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Our children have to wait, even though they see other children scrambling to the front. They stand when we enter the dining room. It makes some of our guests uncomfortable, some don’t notice, some are mildly amused, and some appreciate it. We did not tell them to, just something they decided on.
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As I was reading this line of conversation I was thinking I would tell everyone what Mumsee’s children do. Then, there she had gone and told it herself.
It surprised me at first but then I decided I really liked it. They are very well mannered young people and wait until everyone is served and the blessing has been said to start eating.
Glad to have you back among us. We missed you last week.
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Hi Mumsee. As Kim said, we missed you.
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We’re on the slippery slope…“Pedophiles want same rights as homosexuals”from the Northern Colorado Gazette.
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Hi mumsee!
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Peter, the thing about the Overton Window is that when the unthinkable becomes policy, it only establishes a new level. That is, it’s the new norm. Now that homosexuality is celebrated in some places, we have to start again at the lower rung.
Pedophila is unthinkable. They want it started up the ladder to policy.
You can’t discriminate, you know. There is no end to the evil in the human heart.
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As I told you, my uncle died this past Friday. The 7 surviving aunts and the almost widow and her daughter gathered Saturday for dinner and discussion. (M is my uncles second wife, they had divorced and were getting remarried in September).
They have decided to let one of my aunt’s husband speak at the funeral. He is not a minister and has only met my uncle on a few occassions. I can’t imagine what he will have to say.
I am a little distressed about this. I hate funerals where the person speaking obviously didn’t know the deceased and it sounds so “canned”. I have thought of asking if I can speak. This really is completely out of character for me, but I want someone to talk about him as if they really knew him. He and my dad taught me to dance to an extensive collection of 45’s. He was fascinated by the fact that Angel Second Class Clarence was reading Tom Sawyer when he jumped in the river to save George Bailey. Mark Twain was an agnostic/atheist/anti-religion and Frank Capra was later credited with saying that It’s A Wonderful Life was a movie he made to combat atheism. I want someone to mention how much he loved children and how he could keep them (me) spellbound for hours with the adventures of a squirral that he couldn’t even remember telling me about. He did this as he painted my parents house one summer to keep me from getting in the paint. He adored his wife of 35 years and was devastated by her death. I believe that because he loved her so much he was able to open his heart and love another too. I want someone to remember that he was an excellent History teacher in an all black underpriviledged high school back in the 70’s when Mobile was under mandatory desegregation and riots were happening in the schools. Lord, he had some stories about that! This is his last party. I want someone to say something about him. Like my dad, he loved a good meal. I am thankful he spent the last two Christmases and Easters letting me cook a fantastic meal for him. I am glad I splurged on the good bourbon for pre-dinner cocktails. I have a vision of him sitting at my kitchen table having appetizer’s and saying, “Berley, break out that good stuff for one more drink”. Then he analyzed why it was the better bourbon.
Now THAT would be something! If I took a small bottle of bourbon to the funeral and had everyone drink a toast to him. I’m not saying my family is tee-totalers, I am saying that they don’t drink in front of each other. LOL.
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Children going into or coming out of foster care tend to be very appreciative of food and express their gratitude.
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Kim, just print out what you just posted and read it.
They will love it.
I don’t know about the bourbon toast though. 😆
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Lovely stream of memories, Kim. Maybe you could just ask to say a few words at the funeral. Everyone should appreciate your memories.
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I encourage you to tell your memories of the man, Kim. You never know who you will touch. I was a little anxious about it, but wrote some thoughts out when my wife’s mother died. I was also a bit anxious about how it would be received as I read it for the family. I’m glad I had the courage to do it anyway… It was greatly appreciated by my wife, and the rest of the family seemed appreciative.
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http://www.dekalblibrary.org/component/option,com_events/Itemid,133/seriesid,75/task,view_series/
That is a link to our public library pushing Muslim/Islamic culture into our community.
Hope I got copy and paste right on this phone,
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Kim,
If you don’t want to read it, maybe you could ask the Aunt’s husband to read it for you. 🙂
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Sweet tweets! A little bird just came up to my Window chirping. Wonder if a bird at the window is the new fly on the wall?
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Janice, I would like to hear about Islamic culturel contributions to the US.
Maybe they could tell how Islam limits the size of the stick you use to beat your wife to be no larger than your little finger.
And how a woman cannot be a witness; how a woman can only be half as smart as a man.
Or, how a “woman out without a man is like a piece of meat in the sun.”
It might make for some interesting discussion sessions.
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Kim, if they do a printed program it would be nice to have your remembrance written there so it could be kept for future generations.
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My son got a lot of his homecschooling from our public library resources. These days I would just stick with the church library.
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My son got a lot of his homecschooling from our public library resources. These days I would just stick with the church library.
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Janice, I assume that means you have a good church library? I’ve never seen a church library that was better than mediocre. Usually there are hardly any books, or it’s full of books from the fifities through the seventies, or it’s full of today’s mediocre titles. I’ve simply never seen one that had more than three or four books I’d be interested in checking out. But then, I already have a substantial home library, with enough books I haven’t read (between mine and my husband’s) to keep me occupied for several years, and that’s with reading a good number of books each year.
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Kim, that’s exactly the sort of thing I did for both my aunts’ funerals. The rest of the extended family received it very well as it seemed to trigger their memories of the good times they had with the aunts.
Cheryl, our church library seems to have a very large selection of current books – so far I’m just exploring the H section of the fiction area, but our pastor often references books that our in the library for us to take out for deeper insight.
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Hmm, books that are in the library. sigh.
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Good morning everyone. Lots to share today. Cindi starts work for OSU in Oklahoma City August 5th. It is part time work. She is very excited. I took her to Rush Springs Oklahoma on Saturday. She got her 1st taste of a Black Diamond Watermellon. She is hooked. :wink:. We had a family from church over for Dinner after church. They are two sisters and a brother from Michigan. We had Shish kebab. I carefully explained to our guests that two of the shish kebab had Jalapeno peppers. One of the sisters said she would pass on those. She said she did not like food that would bite her back. 😆
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Kim- Insist that someone (you or the uncle) read that post at the funeral. I agree that someone who knew him should talk about him. I went to my grandmother’s funeral, and it seemed the priest performing the ceremony didn’t even know her at all!
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Cheryl, we have a small church library that has a fairly good selection because the former librarian tried to keep things current. She has been gone a few years so it is not so current as it was. I hope it will eventually be built back up. There are other large churches with libraries I would use now for homeschooling.
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I finally talked to one of my aunts. They still haven’t met with the funeral home to make arrangements, so I am free to show property tomorrow.
Each of the siblings is going to be given the opportunity to say something about their brother. I will fill my dad’s slot. I read this post to my aunt. She laughed about Berley break out the good stuff.
My twisted sense of humor just reared it’s head. I hunted and fished as a child. People teased my father about what a fine looking little BOY he had and one uncle called me BURLy. It really is a thousand wonders I don’t have more issues than I do. 😉
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Mumsee, please check your email
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Donna, I just saw and chuckled at your answer to my question last night about Tess and Cowboy. It didn’t occur to me that Cowboy would be a husband or a kid, but I thought he might be some other kind of pet.
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Kevin,
I’ve met Donna’s “Cowboy.” His eyes are absolutely mesmerizing; he is the most handsome thing you ever saw. I can see how he could sweep a girl off her feet! (But yes, he’s a canine.)
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Cowboy’s eyes — marbled with both brown and blue eye colors in each eye — are pretty striking. Some people have asked me if he’s blind. Someone else said I should have named him “Casper.” The multi-eye coloration is part of the blue merle gene.
But enough about dogs.
I’m pretty rigorous about keeping the cat in at night but last night she didn’t show up when I was going to bed and she didn’t make it in until around 5 a.m.
With a big bloody gash on her stomach.
So it was off to the vet with her where she remains on antibiotics and all stapled. The vet thinks she’ll be alright, but wants to keep her overnight.
Not sure what the heck happened to her. He said it could have been a dog, a fall, a close encounter with a car …. But it looks like no internal damage, though there’s no real way to be sure. So we’ll hope for the best ..
Maybe I shouldn’t have named her Annie Oakley. 😦
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Poor Annie! That must have been an awful sight for you to see, Donna. I’ll say a prayer for her.
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Thanks, Karen, I’m probably going to miss her tonight. The dogs, not so much.
I actually couldn’t see the wound, it was under so much blood-matted fur (seemed fairly fresh) and touching it made her cry out, it was clearly pretty sore.
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My dad just stood up and got everyone’s attention at a funeral for one of his brother-in-laws. He wanted to share his memories of the man. It was well received and some others followed suit. Sometimes people are invited to do this during the service itself. I love to hear the stories myself and it is often cathartic for some.
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oh, you all saved 50 for me. How nice
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