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Our Daily Thread 8-3-13

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday! 🙂 Yay! 🙂

On this day in 1492 Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage would lead him to what is now known as the Americas.

In 1900 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.

In 1914 Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.

In 1923 Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.

In 1933 the Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.

In 1949 the National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed.

In 1958 the Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.

And in 1981 U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike.  They were fired just as President Reagan had warned.

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Quotes of the Day

“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.”

“What the detective story is about is not murder, but the restoration of order.”

P. D. James

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In 1963 the Beach Boys released this song.

Today is Ed Roland’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

And does anyone else own a Mickey Mouse watch?

59 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-3-13”

  2. some kind of meeting going on across the valley. They have loud music and a loudspeaker for the speaker so we may as well all attend. Sound travels very well around here. This is such a funny thing to post since you all deal with this all the time. In this silent place, it is quite the change.

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  9. Hello morning people. No, I don’t own a Mickey Mouse watch and never have. But I do have a sterling silver Mickey Mouse tie tack given to me in 1978 by a Disney ambassador. I worked at a radio station and these two young women showed up one day wanting to promote Mickey Mouse’s 50 birthday. So I got to record an interview with them. At the end of the interview one of them handed me a small box saying that it was a token of appreciation for my help in getting out the word. I don’t know how much it’s worth, but I still have it.

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  10. Re: Columbus- Most people don’t know this, but August 3rd was the day Ferdinand and Isabella set as the deadline for all Jews and Muslims to get out of Spain or suffer death. It’s thought that there were many Jewish stowaways on his three ships and he dropped them off in Morocco and the Canary Islands. Some may have come over with him and stayed on the various Caribbean islands since they had nowhere else to go. There is still a small community of Spanish Jews in Morocco which speak a dialect called “Morisco”, or the Castillian Spanish of the 15th Century.

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  11. Oh, and we also think that my family is descended from those Spanish Jews, but there is no clear evidence other than the word of a genealogist at a hotel in Spain which told that to my dad.

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  14. I owned a Mickey Mouse watch probably when I was in my early twenties. I also had one of those moon watches. That’s about it for novelty watches. I mostly have worn Timex watches but have had a few Sieko watches. Never a Rolex.

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  15. When my son was young I bought some various styles of watches so he could learn to tell time. Now he has no use for a watch since he just checks his cell phone.

    What has happened to Kay who use to be with us? And Tammy?

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  16. I am married to a wonderful man but two opinionated, set in their ways cooks cannot be in the kitchen at the same time. He us doing the townships way and I am doing the baked beans and potato salad my way except he doesn’t embroiled eggs.

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  17. Watches? I have mostly worn Bulovas. I don’t even know if you can still get them. I did have one Seiko but it quit. I wore my dad’s Omega for a while. Right now I use a computer or a cell phone.

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  19. Mickey Mouse watches periodically come back — I have my mom’s original childhood version from the 1930s. 🙂

    And my watches are always the stainless ‘sports’-military / Swiss styles that you can wear 24/7. They survive showers, crashes & bangs and dog washes — and keep on going for years. I still think it’s handier to look at my wrist that to get the cell phone out to check the time, though at work I mostly rely on the computer.

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  20. Twenty!!

    I don’t wear a watch these days–haven’t for years. My wrist is too thin for bracelets or watches to fit well, even if adjusted, and once I started working freelance I figured I’m within easy reach of the time always (on my computer, cell phone, or a clock). And the exact time is rarely all that important unless I’m going somewhere.

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  21. Have any of my fellow dog lovers heard of “The Dog’s Way” training method, &/or “master trainer” Sean McDaniel? If so, what do you think?

    Here’s a link I came across..

    http://petstoremethods.thedogsway.com/page1/?gclid=CMKs9sfp37gCFYaDQgod70wAsw

    Janice – I don’t know about Kay, but Tammy is still pretty active on Facebook. They were on vacation recently. I’m going to send her a private message to tell her we miss her over here.

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  22. Mickey Mouse? No, but I do have some pendant time pieces ( I don’t wear a wristwatch). I had not worn them in years until Mike had to exit the picture. Now I wear one so I can be in the car in time to drive people to driver’s ed. Why can they not drive themselves? Bizarre. Oh, and I did not have a cell phone until Mike had to exit either. But I have only given the number to him and the couple who have the fifteen year old.

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  23. Cathy Taylor

    Southerners know their religions:
    > Bapdiss
    > Methdiss
    > Football
    >
    > Southerners know their cities dripping with Southern charm:
    > Chawl’stn
    > S’vanah
    > Foat Wuth
    > N’awlins
    > Addlanna
    >
    > Southerners know their elegant gentlemen:
    > Men in uniform
    > Men in tuxedos
    > Rhett Butler
    >
    > Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas,
    > beans, etc., make up “a mess.”
    >
    > Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of
    > “yonder.”
    >
    > Only a Southerner knows exactly how long “directly” is, as in: “Going to
    > town, be back directly.”
    >
    > Even Southern babies know that “Gimme some sugar” is not a request for the
    > white, granular, sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the
    > middle of the table.
    >
    > All Southerners know exactly when “by and by” is. They might not use the
    > term, but they know the concept well.
    >
    > Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a
    > neighbor who’s got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of
    > cold potato salad. If the neighbor’s trouble is a real crisis, they also
    > know to add a large banana puddin’!
    >
    > Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between “right near” and “a
    > right far piece.” They also know that”just down the road” can be 1 mile or
    > 20.
    >
    > Only a Southerner both knows and understands the difference between a
    > redneck, a good ol’ boy, and po’ white trash.
    >
    > No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn
    > signal is actually going to make a turn.
    >
    > A Southerner knows that “fixin” can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
    >
    > Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, … and when we’re
    > “in line,”… we talk to everybody!
    >
    > Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they’re
    > related, even if only by marriage.
    >
    > In the South, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural.
    >
    > Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
    >
    > Every Southerner knows that tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are
    > perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; that
    > scrambled eggs just ain’t right without Tabasco , and that fried green
    > tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
    >
    > When you hear someone say, “Well, I caught myself lookin’,” you know you are
    > in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
    >
    > Only true Southerners say “sweet tea” and “sweet milk.” Sweet tea indicates
    > the need for sugar and lots of it — we do not like our tea unsweetened.
    > “Sweet milk” means you don’t want buttermilk.
    >
    > And a true Southerner knows you don’t scream obscenities at little old
    > ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say,”Bless her sweet little
    > heart”… and go your own way.
    >
    > To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southernness:
    > Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the
    > morning. Bless your little heart!
    >
    > And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this
    > Southern stuff….bless your hearts, I hear they’re fixin’ to have classes
    > on Southernness as a second language!
    >
    > Southern girls know men may come and go, but friends are fah-evah !
    > There ain’t no magazine named “Northern Living” for good reason. There ain’t
    > nobody interested in livin’ up north, nobody would buy the magazine!
    >
    > Now Shugah, send this to someone who was raised in the South or wish they
    > had a’been! If you’re a Northern transplant, bless your little heart, fake
    > it. We know you got here as fast as you could.
    >

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  26. A Southerner knows that “fixin” can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.

    Okay, Kim. I know it can mean “planning” or similar as a verb, but how is fixin’used as a noun or adverb?

    And up here there is a “Rural Missouri” magazine, but no “Urban Missouri”, primarily because most of us rural Missourians do not consider St. Louis and Kansas City as part of Missouri.

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  32. I view a watch as jewelry; I have over 30 – two or three Seikos, two or three cheapies, one that was a gift from hubby that was on the expensive side (which to me is over $100), and the rest somwhere in between. Shaw’s jewelry store has a deal that if you buy a battery from them (about $12) they replace it forever for free. They were sorry to see me coming. Lately, even though I wear one, I don’t use it to tell time but just wear it a jewelery. The other day the one I wore wasn’t even running. But it was pretty and matched my outfit. 🙂

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  35. I would be lost without my watch. I do not walk around with my phone out to look at it.

    Donna, have you ever had the old watch evaluated for it’s worth? What a fun item to have.

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  36. Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

    One of the fifteen year olds had an interesting experience. He noticed one of the cats walking around with a mouthful of feathers. He made the cat drop it and saw a little mangled hummingbird. He gently picked it up for its final moments of life and it flew away. He was glad.

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  37. Good article, Karen O; I’d seen the link also in fb (I ‘follow’ Aquila Report) but didn’t read it until you posted it again this morning.

    It’s not to say that churches don’t need to do some self-examination and be willing to go deeper, be more open about entertaining questions in a substantive way. Our church has offered youth & adults alike classes in logic, for example, in its quest to help believers developer a deeper understanding of good theology and apologetics.

    But people usually stop going to church due to unbelief.

    “I have a feeling that this whole conversation gives way too much credit to the millennials leaving church. I have yet to hear anyone say the thing we’re all thinking: people don’t believe and would rather not go to church. The shortest distance between two points. The simple answer.

    “After all, who wouldn’t want to sleep in on Sundays, lay around in their pajamas until noon, eat a block of cheese the size of a car battery and play around the rest of the day? I have this uncharitable suspicion that people like having their Sundays to themselves. When you combine unbelief with this strong temptation to the ‘Selfish Sunday,’ it’s easy to suspect that millennials give critical statements about the church after the fact to make their departure feel like it had some deep idealistic meaning.”

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  39. I think I checked once on the prices for old Mickey Mouse watches and they weren’t worth a whole lot, probably because there’s still a lot of them floating around.

    I have a girlfriend who also wears watches as jewelry, she’s got at least a dozen or more — but the batteries are an expensive hassle. My watches are always the heavy-duty utilitarian versions. 🙂 I also like the large face, easy to read. But I’ll occasionally wear a wrap-around or charm bracelet on the other wrist.

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  40. I read the above link before I went to church this morning. I introduced myself to my priest and told him I used to attend church there. (I hadn’t been for the entire month of July).
    Having lived the life where I left home at 7 am and returned at 6 pm Monday through Friday, cleaned house and shopped on Saturday, I admit it was hard to drag yourself out of bed on the ONE day of the week you can sleep in and do nothing. I am eternally grateful that our church offers at 10 am and a 5pm service. When the church was planted they were using other churches to meet. They met at 5 so that families could have the day together and then attend church. When they got their own facility they started having a 10 am service.

    I am also twisting around something else in my mind about some people who claim to be “Christians” who act anything but and turn people off. I haven’t quite worked out exactly what I want to say yet, but it is somewhere along the lines of Why I Am Still A Christian. I was thinking this morning in church about why am I still a Christian when I have been hurt THREE deeply hurtful times by people claiming to be Christians. I attended Christian school and had a crazy alcoholic mother and none of the teachers or staff ever gave me the slightest encouragement. I recently lost my job because of a man who hides behind being a “good” Christian. Like I said. I haven’t worked it out yet, but in the end I still remain a Christian–perhaps not the best one out there, but I see it as a journey not a destination.

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  41. I appreciated Kyle’s article, too, and reposted it on FB.

    Someone has to draw a boundary somewhere. A developmental part of youth is shedding everything from their past and rebuilding themselves into who they want to be. If they grew up in the church it either made sense to them or it didn’t.

    I’ve got a free-floater myself these days and when I asked him recently if he’d just given up, he told me no and that he missed church.

    He works some Sundays, has struggled with where he’s living, and hasn’t found a place that fits for him.

    (In five years? The mother did NOT say).

    He’s been reading Mere Christianity, getting a lot out of it, and I send him all the Reasons to Believe emails I get (plenty), which he says he appreciates.

    I think we all go through periods of life in which we need to look at our beliefs and how we express them. I’ve not walked away from the Lord since I started with him, but I’ve certainly taken different angles and approaches in my way of worship.

    My job as a forgiven sinner is to reflect who Jesus is to those I meet and to whom I’m close to. I’m to pray for those God lays on my heart. I’m to maintain hope and encouragement for those I see wavering. I’m to be genuine in my own relationship with the Creator of the Universe, so I can be genuine to the people with whom I interact.

    And I confess sin all the time; apologize frequently, and try to listen to the most absurd things people say with all stupid sincerity.

    Jesus called us to love.

    Today the youth group gave their report on their mission trip. One of them had a precious quote from a speaker: “Do not curse the darkness, but instead ask why the light is not reaching it.”

    We’re off to examine our new house and see just what we actually bought! (Measuring tape in hand.)

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  42. This is a question for Mumsee, but the input of others is also welcome.

    My young lady Christian friend, who claims to be “strongly pro-life” (but it has a “different meaning to me” she says) believes that abortion is the best thing not only for the women who would bring their babies into abusive or neglectful homes, but also for their babies. For much of her growing up, she lived in area where a lot of kids were abused &/or neglected due to drug use & crime, so she has seen the pain of many of these children.

    Mumsee, I know you have seen what this kind of life does to a child, the great damage it does to a little one’s soul. Knowing what you know about children in foster care, what would be your answer to her, regarding the thought that it would be better to be aborted than to suffer like that, & maybe never be adopted?

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  43. Karen, I of course am not Mumsee, but I do have an answer for you. Today at church there was a Baptism of an infant. The priest made mention that it was the 3rd Baptism in 5 weeks. The 2nd Baptism was of a young women who had been through hell. Our music minister has bailed her out of jail and worked with her quite a bit. She has a voice you wouldn’t believe. She gave her testimoney one Sunday in July and was Baptized after that service. She said she wouldn’t trade anything in her past because it brought her to her future with God.

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  44. Kim – You are often writing about how wonderful you southerners are, & I know some have the idea that we northerners are cold & unfriendly, so I thought I’d share this little tidbit with you.

    When our former associate pastor, Sterling, moved up here from Texas, he ran into some complications & financial issues. These matters were mentioned to the church. People began to help & to give. Sterling was amazed at the generosity that was poured out on him by these “cold” Yankees.

    Our pastor, who is also from Texas, has said that he thinks that the stereotypes of the friendly southerner & the reserved northerner are only surface matters. He says some northerners are hard on the outside, but once you “crack” them (gain their confidence), they are soft & squishy on the inside. His analogy for some southerners is that they seem all soft & friendly on the outside, but, like a peach, have a hard pit on the inside.

    Quite frankly, I have not found my fellow northerners to be unfriendly. Maybe a bit reserved initially, but not unfriendly. Of course, one can always find the unfriendly northerner & also the sweet-but-fake southerner, if one looks for them.

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  46. Kim – I wrote that other comment to you before I saw your comment.

    That’s kind of what I told her – that God can do wonderful things in these lives, He can redeem it all.

    Donna – That goes without saying. 😉

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  49. I wish I had gotten a photo of Mumsee’s hummingbird feeders. The only time I have EVER seen three or more hummingbirds share one feeder. They were everywhere.

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  51. We recently had four on a feeder at once for quite a few seconds. That is unusual and they soon started attacking one another again. I have seen them lunge and dive bomb each other. A women told me today that a mutual acquaintance once had one catch his beak in his window screen. It worked it’s way out before the guy got a picture. That would have been a cool picture.

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  52. Our hummers were hovering outside the dining room window repeatedly last week. We didn’t realize the feeder was empty – we think they were trying to tell us something 🙂

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  54. My husband and I took a walk this evening, and we saw (and I photographed): a monarch butterfly, two rabbits, a wire full of barn swallows (I kept getting a photo and then walking farther down the road, and they kept not flying away so I’d get another photo; we got across from them and they still didn’t fly, so I got several shots total), and various other birds, including two separate male cardinals flying to the top of a tree in their territory and singing about how wonderful they were and about how any other cardinal had better not think about trespassing. We also heard the splash of a turtle, but even though we were walking slowly and quietly as we passed the creek, as usual we heard it but didn’t see it. (We have seen groundhogs there, and once saw a mink, and today we saw one of the rabbits there, but the turtles and/or frogs nearly always manage to stay out of sight, with only a loud splash telling of their presence.) Got a few wildflower shots, too, but the animal ones were the best. Especially my “best shots yet” of three different species of birds. (Well, the cardinals weren’t actually my best shots yet, not by quite a ways, but they were the best shots of cardinals in natural scenery as opposed to being on a sidewalk or a fence, and I got my best shots ever of a redwinged blackbird and the barn swallows.)

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  58. We have never run out of Lord’s Supper supplies. But once, when Elvera and I were preparing it, we left an empty tray. Tha pastor was startled for about half a second, then managed as if it never happened. We were embarassed.

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