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Our Daily Thread 8-29-13

Good Morning!

Today is the one year anniversary for Wandering Views. 🙂

Or is it a birthday?

Anyway, I decided it was as good a day as any to make some changes. I hope you like the new look. 🙂

Oh, and the videos are HUGE! 🙂

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On this day in 1885 the first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. 

In 1944 during the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.

In 1945 U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially  accept the surrender of the Japanese.

In 1949 at the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.

In 1967 the final episode of “The Fugitive” aired.

In 1971 Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.

In 1977 three people were arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis’ body. 😯  His body was moved to Graceland as a result.

And in 1983 two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.

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Quote of the Day

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Today is Cheri Keaggy’s birthday.

Roy Orbison released this song today in 1964.

And in 1966 at Candlestick Park, the Beatles performed what would be their last public concert.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

66 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-29-13”

  2. oh, my, what a different look! and I love that the quote is about friendship since that is the essence of this blog. Love the brown trim. Will help to soothe my eyes when I get on here in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep 🙂

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  3. Only because I was up too early this morning, after not getting to sleep until too late last night. 😦

    I’ll be babysitting Forrest most of today, when he wakes up, which will probably be soon.

    Lots of tension in the house yesterday, & I feel like I have a “tension hangover”, with my stomach not feeling too well.

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  8. I like the new setup. It took me about ten seconds to figure it out.

    “Happy birthday to us,
    Happy birthday to us,
    Happy birthday everybody,
    Happy birthday to us.”

    Like I said yesterday, I thought it was Saturday, but AJ’s the one who knows.

    Let’s see how this works!

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  10. Happy Birthday to the Blog. Again, AJ, thank you so much for keeping us all together.

    Lulabelle ? Had a good night. After the first few minutes she didn’t whine. She rattled her kennel a couple of times during the night and I think Paul took her out around 2 am.
    I told Paul that maybe she can be a bridge between him and Baby Girl. She loves animals and was somewhat excited about the addition to the family.

    Amos is still not sure about things and has had to have a litlle extra attention this morning assuring him that he is still loved.

    Busy day today. Class, work, and then I am helping a new to the company agent get a listing tonight. Wish us well.

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  11. Kim, Did I miss something? Last I remember, you were going back with GYUTWW (guy you used to work with). Is that where you’re working or have you landed some other gig?

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  12. Good morning! Very distinctive look to the blog, AJ. 🙂

    I woke up this morning around the time you normally post the day’s threads, but I was so tired, I fell back asleep before getting up. Then I had a dream that I went to check your blog, and on the screen was a parade of people I didn’t know (and could only see from the back as they walked past). Music was playing automatically, and I was thinking, “Oh, AJ added some music to the blog!” 🙂 But I couldn’t figure out who anyone was — there was one person who walked by in a wedding dress who I figured was your wife — but I had gotten to the blog later in the day than I usually do, and I thought I had missed some announcement of who was who, and would never know. 🙂 Plus, I had somewhere I had to go for the rest of the day, and was thinking, “Aw, I’m going to miss the anniversary/birthday of Wandering Views!”

    It was fun to wake up and realize that was a dream, and then to come and see a new look today!

    I love this place! 🙂 Thank you for everything you do here, AJ.

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  13. Good morning, all! Love the new look, A.j.! Very pretty!!! I’m so glad you provide this blog for all of us. It’s a wonderful place to share. I feel like everyone on here is my coffee buddy, a virtual neighborhood of loving people to share the journey of life with. Thank you for all you do.

    Girls are both headed back to school today. L. is hobbling around on crutches. Becca is feeling all better and left for the bus stop with a spring in her step, this being the first time we’ve let her go there alone. I can tell it made her feel very grown-up to be allowed to walk the block to the bus stop by herself. I’ll be driving L. both ways while she’s on crutches, the bus being too hard for her to navigate easily. I don’t mind driving in the morning, but the afternoon pick up takes forever and drives me batty. People start lining up almost an hour before school lets out and the line gets extremely long. Becca rides the bus in the morning, and then I pick her up in the afternoon. Her school has an easier way to pick up in the afternoon than the junior high. Normally, each girl takes the bus one way, L. in the afternoon and Becca in the morning.

    Kim: Congratulations on the new addition! Glad the puppy had a good night and didn’t keep y’all up all night. Puppies are fun, but a lot of work!

    Karen O: Good luck with little Forrest today. Sometimes it can be challenging to care for a small child when tired, so you’ll be in my prayers today. Sorry about the tension. I can relate.

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  14. Linda, I have partnered with another agent at Keller Williams to start the Bay2Beach.com Team. We are working on our website and blog. I have also been taking and teaching a class at KW called Ignite. I am working on getting listings and sales for myself. I told someone recently that I have always been the “support” helping everyone else achieve their dreams and goals–it’s time to look out for ME. A friend of mine, you know her as Aunt Leesy, is coming to Keller Williams but she doesn’t know our systems and so I am helping her get a listing tonight. She is in a limbo situation where she can’t move her license but doesn’t want to lose the listing. I am taking it and when she transfers her license the broker will transfer the listing to her name.
    Guy I Used to Work With went to work for another company as the Head of their Commercial Division. We have maintained a good working relationship and call each other with questions. I saw his wife and mother in law at church Sunday.
    I saw something on line last night about the team I used to work with and it stung me. There is still some hurt there, but I try to remind myself to “drive witihout a rear view mirror”. Forward! is the only way to go.

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  15. It didn’t remind me of a chocolate bar; it reminded me of a leather book.

    Happy birthday to us!! I remember last year when they announced the closure and gave us three days to say goodbye, how sad it was–but also the sense that I almost missed being able to say goodbye, since my husband and I were about to head out of town for a week, the next week! I wondered what it would have felt like to go innocently onto World blog and find you all had ust disappeared. (I do have several people’s e-mail addresses, but still!)

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  17. FYI–I’ve told you about the books I’m printing for our anniversary in a couple months. Well, the last day of September two years ago (a month before we married), I asked on World blog for any advice people had for newlyweds. I just copied those pages into the “September” file. Thanks again, anyone who answered that question.

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  19. Good Morning! May I join the conversation? Happy Anniversary to Wandering Views! Thank you AJ for all your work and dedication to keeping this going.

    I spent yesterday catching up on posts. I see I missed Chas’ birthday and Mumsee’s reunification of her family. Praising God for both of your lives.

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  20. Great new look! Thanks AJ. It reminds me of a book cover, too. 🙂

    annms, How is L doing on the crutches? I had to use them once when I sprained my ankle badly and found them very difficult to navigate. And they really make under your arms hurt. Since it was so temporary, I didn’t use them long enough to really get the hang of it (such as in you’re not supposed to “hop”!).

    Glad to hear Lula-puppy-dog survived her first night. Dogs often are subdued during their first week or two in a new home, but then start coming out of their shell once they figure everything out and get to know the ‘routine.’ This can be both good and bad. I’ve had new dogs that I thought were just so calm only to have them spin out after they got settled in. 😉 But she and Amos, once they get acquainted, will probably enjoy playing and walking together. Initially, though, the puppy will probably try to play with Amos who will be very annoyed. But give it a few weeks. Outings together on neutral territory will probably help them loosen up around each other.

    I had a long day yesterday, interviewed the local man who was one of the most seriously injured spectators in the Boston Marathon bombing (he’s finally cleared to return home next week, he underwent nearly a dozen surgeries and has been in PT all summer in the Boston area; he’s doing well). His wife has been with him the whole time and fortunately their one daughter and SIL (a pro soccer player) live in Boston so they had/have family there.

    One of our editors was on Greta’s show last night so we watched that at the office (late, long day like I said). He did well but choked at one point, uttering some random words in non-sentence form and then, with that deer-in-the-headlights look, he blurts out, ‘help me greta.’ He’s already getting teased nonstop, someone said there’s got to be a company Tshirt somewhere in that. He rallied a bit after that, thankfully. 🙂 It’s hard when you’re not used to being on the spot on live television, most of us would have done much worse (although one of our reporters is very adept at handling guest tv appearances, he’s a natural).

    I’m off to cover a generating plant groundbreaking at the beach this morning — not in my regular beat but the reporter who normally covers it is out on maternity leave and there’s been no provision yet for a replacement. Sigh.

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  21. Oy, I just re-read that. A generating plant groundbreaking. How boring & pathetic does that sound? Well, at least it’s at the beach. And guaranteed, I won’t get asked to go on Greta to babble about it. 😀

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  22. QoD: What book(s) are you currently reading? I know that’s probably been asked before, but we do start new ones after finishing the old, right? 😉

    I’m reading Last Child in the Woods (still — but I’ve renewed it for the last time I can, and I’m determined to finish it) and The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing To Our Brains. The latter title is due tomorrow, and I just discovered yesterday that I can’t renew it because someone has a hold on it. I’ve got about 9 chapters left to read by 5 p.m. tomorrow. Think I can do it? So I’ll be away from the internet a lot today and tomorrow, which, by the end of the book, I may have discovered was a good thing. 😉

    I’ll come back and check your book lists when I’m finished. 😉

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  23. Jake had a good night in her crate. She and I got up and went for our morning constitutional, then we did chores together. My rose garden is fenced so she was able to run loose a bit. We practiced coming when called and she, of course, did really well. Being a border collie and all. We all know how incredibly obedient they are.

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  26. Welcome back RKessler (and your little one, I presume).
    A guy who’s been retired as long as I have shouldn’t be this busy.
    Truthfully, it isn’t the amount of doing, it’s the amount of energy to do it.

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  29. donna j: L. is doing okay on the crutches. I’ve never broken anything (other than my big toe!), but it looks difficult. She’s supposed to be on them for 2-3 weeks, so hopefully she’ll get the hang of it soon. She’s pretty slow right now.

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  31. And Cheryl is correct, it is supposed to have the look of a leather book. I had a day planner once that looked just like this. But I like chocolate better, and that brown makes me think of Hershey bars.

    MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM……………………………….

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  32. With the new larger gravatars, I was trying to upload a photo of a butterfly and a bee (the bee for Chas), but multiple tries wouldn’t let me get that photo. Instead I got just one butterfly, but a lovely one. (It’s a buckeye.) Anyone know what flower this is? We have a lot of them, and they are drawing amazing numbers of insects (some sort of beetle, bees by the dozens, flies by the dozens earlier in the summer, a few butterflies, grasshoppers, a few wasps, etc.). We don’t know if our daughter planted them or if they just decided to take over the flower bed. But a budding entomologist would love them.

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  33. Cheryl:Looks like something from the mint family with the square stems and all. Could be bee balm or bergamot? I believe they are supposed to attract beneficial insects to your garden.

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  34. “Our morning constitutional” – Mumsee has taken to peeing outside in the yard now?

    I am currently reading “The Kitchen House.”

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  35. R Kessler, yes, it does look like something in the mint family, but the flowers don’t look like either of those two. I suspect our kid knows, but she’s just starting up her year at college and it isn’t a time to start asking gardening questions.

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  36. Cheryl,

    I was just looking at your pic and thinking how much nicer it was to see them better. The butterfly is a good pic. I can make out Kim’s dog Amos finally, and Chas looks like Burt Lancaster again, instead of just a blur. 🙂

    Janice and Tychicus’ scenery shots look much better too.

    Even my fish looks bigger. 🙂

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  38. I was surprised by the new look. The only complaint is the font is smaller than the old one, so I had to enlarge the view. As for the scheme, well, I can’t decide between my first impression that it was chocolate, or Cheryl’s point that it is a leather book cover. Okay, so it’s a chocolate colored leather book cover. Good thing I had my fix earlier or I would be craving some now. Come to think of it…

    QoD- trying to get through Les Miserables. My, what a long book! I’ve been working on it since I got a free Kindle download in June or July, then hit or miss since school restarted. I’m not even half way thought it! Good storyline, but some of the tangential histories are tiresome. I’ve started skimming those if I read them at all.

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  40. I didn’t like The Kitchen House by the time I finished it.

    I’m reading Oswald Chambers: His Life and Work. 🙂

    Shouldn’t today’s question be that monumental one: “Where were you and what were you doing when World canceled the blog?”

    I was sitting in the free wireless zone of New York City’s Natural Science in History Museum under a mammoth skeleton waiting for my family to finish looking around.

    Aghast, I just had time to read all the mourning comments before the battery died on my Ipod!

    Thanks, AJ, for allowing us to continue reading, ranting, raving and praying for each other. I’m always here reading early in the morning, but often don’t get to a real keyboard until late in the day.

    And BTW, AJ, have you found a news editor/journalist’s job is harder than you expected? 🙂

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  41. Peter,

    I agree about the font. It will be bigger tomorrow.

    Michelle,

    Yeah, and I have a new found respect for people who do this for a living/professionally, that’s for sure. 🙂

    It’s not easy. But I do enjoy it, even though I’m still an amateur, and it’s nothing compared to what you and Cheryl do professionally. That’s a lot of work, and I tip my hat to both of you ladies. 🙂

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  42. I like the new look.

    I just finished “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. I started the auto-biography of Chuck Norris, “Against All Odds”. I like biography, as you may notice.

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  43. We had to put Cindi’s cat to sleep today. Her name was Ginger. She was the sweetest cat. Bless her little heart. She was in a lot of pain. She had lost so much weight. The vet was so sweet. She let Cindi hold her while Ginger passed away. :crying:

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  45. Joe, I know how she feels.
    No one here knows it, bucause of my talk about my pet rock.
    but i thought the world had ended for me when Rex died.
    Then, about a year later, Pal caught distemper from our playing in the creek.
    He died, and that was the end of pets for me.

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  47. Happy Anniversary WV’ers…it just happens to be our 38th wedding anniversary as well!! 🙂
    Jake is definitely a boy name…and just so happens to be the name of my first born….well…Jacob…but he prefers to be called Jake….I still call him Jacob 🙂
    I had to enlarge the font too….these eyes just aren’t what they use to be…But, I do like the look….thanks AJ for all you do in keeping this motley crew together!

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  51. Jake. Seems to me, in the distant past we had a goat named Sara, She had twins, one named Esau and the other Jacob. She would not accept Esau. Hence the names. Jacob went on to have babies of her own.

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  52. So sorry to hear of the loss of your cat Joe….Ginger was the name of my dearest friend’s cat as well…must be something in that name…her cat was so sweet and loving (although, one day I sat in amazement as she caught a hummingbird!) ….prayers for you both….

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  53. Don’t ya just love the detail of the stitching around this blog?

    Is Jake short for Jakette? Or maybe JakE? That of course is with a long A sound.

    Books: Still reading The Justice Game in the car with my husband. Reading Indebted, Holy Estrogen, and rereading Chasing Christmas to do a review for a winter newsletter. Just got I,Saul so I may try to read it along with the others or may wait to use it as a car book.

    Good news about my review of Home Run. A donation is being made to the ministry to supply the book and/or movie to a number of prison libraries 🙂 .

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  57. I started to cry a bit when I read that World was shutting us down, so to speak. IIRC, AJ had his blog up & running by the end of that day.

    Thank you, AJ, for making a way to keep our little community together. 🙂

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  59. That’s what I want to know Karen…seems they are just posting their names with no comment…on my screen some names are in black and some are in red…why is that? hmmmmm?

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  60. Thanks again, AJ, for the great job you’re doing! We all appreciate it so much.
    I like Jake for a name for a girl border collie – works quite well 🙂

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  61. At last! Somebody who knows about these things. Jake fits her. She went on my morning walk (and no we do not pee in the yard), helped with the chores, drove some turkeys, played some soccer with the boys and I and twelve year old girl, drove some more turkeys, went for a car ride, helped with some more chores, drove some more turkeys and some chickens, and now is one tired puppy. But we still have our evening stroll. Good girl, Jake.

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  62. Jake and I just got back from driving in the guinea fowl. Half of them were stuck outside the deer fence in the vicinity of a coyote. They are all happily back on the five acres. Soon to be roosted up in the crab apple.

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  63. For a minute, I misread that as roasted up in the crab apple and thought Mumsee was planning an exotic dinner . . . Glad she’s fitting in.

    I do not want a puppy.

    If my children ask you, please tell them that.

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  66. It was Carolina 27: Carolina 10.
    🙂
    They had a 1.5 hr weather delay with five minutes to go.
    When they came back, Carolina had a first and 10 on the two yard line and couldn’t score. 🙂

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