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Our Daily Thread 8-30-13

Good Morning!

Yay, it’s Friday! 🙂

On this day in 1682 William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.

In 1780 General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.

In 1862 the Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.

In 1905 Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.

In 1945 General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.

And in 1984 President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.

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Quote of the Day

“Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.”

Samuel Albert Bozeman, Jr. (Geoffrey Beene)

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On this date in 1991 Dottie West was injured in a car accident while on her way to a performance at the Grand Ole Opry. She died during surgery 5 days later. 😦

Today is John Phillips’ birthday. We sang this in middle school chorus because it was a favorite of my hippie music teacher. 🙂

And it’s also Mick Moody’s birthday. Whitesnake is a bit loud, so solo it is.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-30-13”

  1. Welcome to Friday everyone. Still praying for rain here.
    Glad to have a weekend to look forward to.
    I am taking a pie crust making class tomorrow and bought fresh apples.
    Apple pie is the best.

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  3. It is Jo, really. 🙂

    If you scroll down on the home page to where yesterday and today’s posts meet you can clearly see the difference. Go ahead, try it.

    But it’s not larger in the comments. Hmmmm….

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  4. yeah, that is what I meant. The comments are smaller. In fact, the comments are a nice size while I am typing, but when I post, they get small.
    I am trying to stay awake to have a conversation here, but after staying up til midnight yesterday reading a book and then getting up at 6 to have my quiet time before heading to market, I am fading fast.

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  5. Good evening, Jo. Good morning, Aj.

    Becca awoke with nightmares around 11:00 and ended up sleeping in my bed. I had a lot of nightmares as a child and remember vividly how terrifying and real they can seem as a youngster. Hubby thought I was being too indulgent, but she seemed so little and so needy, I didn’t have the heart to send her back to bed alone. I rarely slept with my parents, but had a very understanding big sissy (6 years my senior) who always let me sleep with her when I was feeling afraid.

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  6. You’re right Aj, I can clearly see that you made a change. Just the comments are small. Thanks for humoring my old eyes.
    What a sweet, understanding mama you are annms. I hope that you were able to sleep after making sure that your daughter did.

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  7. I’ll work on it and see what I can do about enlarging them. And adding comment counts. I found a way to add the numbers, but it requires tinkering with the code. I don’t know anything about the code stuff, so I’m a little nervous about trying it. I don’t wanna mess things up. 🙂

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  8. When Chas gets here, tell him I said, Go Gamecocks! 🙂

    And I know it was only the first game, but if Clowney wants to be a high draft pick, he needs to work on his conditioning, stop taking plays off when he’s winded, and get with it. Nobody likes a slacker. 🙂

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  9. Good morning everyone. A deal fell in my lap yesterday. Some friends have rented a house for the last couple of years. They thought they were going to be transferred and the owner thought it would be a good time to put it on the market to sell. The friends called me yesterday to ask if I would write up the offer and represent them. The listing agent is only paying a 2% commission, but for it to have just fallen in my lap I can’t complain too much.
    I am listing Gerges house today as well.
    I tought the Ignite course yesterday. Some great agents in the class, lots of good ideas shared.

    Mo and Amos have a common enemy—Lulabelle. The cat has moved herself to my side of the bed to hide all day.

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  10. How would you like to be a cat in a house full of dogs?
    I stayed up to hear the last of the game, 1.5 hrs later.
    Now, if the Gamecocks can beat them Dogs, they’ll be on the way.

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  12. We may see it later when Peter gets them up. Mybe not.
    The political cartoon in tonday’s Times-News has the TV set saying, “Miley Cyrus needs to realize that you can’t build a career on manufactured controversy.”
    Sitting in the bed is Madonna who says, “Right! You build an empire.”
    A sad state of affairs.

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  13. Good morning and afternoon and evening to all of you, wherever you are. I’ve got about 110 pages left to read in the library book that is due today. I am determined to get done! I’ll check in with you guys later and see how it’s going here.

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  14. The media just won’t leave poor Paula Deen alone. She filmed something in MARCH. It was aired on the 50th anniversary of the I Have A Dream Speech. The media is all over it!
    This morning I saw an ad on TV for Hank’s Furniture and she was the spokesperson. I don’t need any furniture but if I did I might seek out Hank

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  15. Jo: Aww…Thanks! I have a king sized bed, so we have plenty of room, but Becca loves to snuggle, so she always ends up right next to me! She snores, loudly right now b/c she’s still getting over her cold, but I’m a pretty hard sleeper and once I managed to fall asleep, slept pretty soundly. I figure there aren’t many years left where she’ll want to sleep with me–so I don’t really mind (shhh…don’t tell Becca, but I actually enjoy it sometimes!). With my girls so far apart in age (8 and soon-to-be 14), I treasure the little girl moments with Becca b/c I know they’ll be ending soon. And she’s my baby, so I’ll never experience these precious times again. Of course, we’ll have new (but different) precious times in the future–but every age has its benefits and the snuggling when they’re young is so endearing. Hubby and I don’t sleep together (I know–everyone thinks this is so weird) and haven’t in about a decade. He’s a super light sleeper and was perpetually tired b/c I snore loudly and talk and walk in my sleep. So–it just works better for us to sleep separately. I’m waiting on approval from my insurance company to have a sleep study done, b/c we’re pretty sure I’ve got sleep apnea (I was diagnosed 10 years ago in my first sleep study, but never went back to get the machine). Unfortunately, I can’t remember where I had the study done and the doctor who ordered the test is dead. So…I have to repeat the study. It was so long ago, most doctors wouldn’t accept it anyway. But, it would speed up the approval from the insurance company. They won’t just take my word for it that I have sleep issues, they require documentation from a doctor. It’s such a frustrating game they play! Anyway, I’m rambling. But, it makes it easier when Becca wants to sleep with me, b/c I’m the only one the decision affects (or is it effects?). Hope you have restorative sleep tonight, too. So glad you’re a part of Wandering Views now.

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  16. Back to where we were. As a former foster child, little girl qualifies for free lunch. We do not want free lunch so we send what we want. Because she does not take the free lunch, which she qualifies for and which includes free milk, she has to pay forty cents for her milk. I don’t care about the forty cents, nor do I particularly want her to have a milk. But it seems very odd to me. She would get a free milk if she took more free food, but because she does not, she must pay.

    Meantime, she is very much enjoying her time at school, though yesterday I noticed she spent a long time sitting on my lap rather than playing. She tells me she thinks of me a lot while she is in school. I think that is good. Signs of attachment.

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  17. Good morning and good night all.

    Annms, I was touched by your cherishing the ‘little girl’ moments with Becca, realizing how fast they grow up. It’s funny how slowly those growing up years seem to go when we’re kids. Watching my friends’ kids grow now, I realize how crazy-fast it all flies by. One minute I’m buying sweet little kid gifts for them, the next it’s iTunes music cards & wedding gifts. Where did that time go?? Of course now, it’s back to baby gifts again — now that “kids” are just beginning to have kids of their own. 😉 Who can keep up?

    California dreamin’ — we’re finally getting our August/summer weather, it’s been very warm and more humid than we’re used to the past few days (thanks to some hurricane or tropical something from Baja moving up into the southwest US). My house was still 84 degrees when I went to bed at 11 p.m. last night, the fan roaring on medium all night long in the open bedroom window.

    And I’m working (mostly) through the entire weekend — I have the Saturday and Labor Day/Monday shifts (at least there’s OT involved for the Labor Day hours). And there were some extra things I’d like to do on Sunday — we’re having a 4-part singing workshop after SS in the afternoon at church and then in the evening there’s a dog park ‘reunion’ with some of the folks who became such a clique in the mid 2000s (but who don’t go as often now). Would love to do it all, but that would be one chock-full Sunday in between 2 work days. We’ll see.

    And I really need to make an eye appointment, I need new glasses. I’m pretty good about going in every year but this time it’s been 2 years, I think, so I’m definitely overdue.

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  19. Jake has been sleeping in her crate in the mud room. I have been letting her wander in the mud room after chores as I help with getting the family moving. Little girl let Jake out when she went to get in the car for school. Jake came back when she was called though she was surrounded by turkeys, chickens, and guinea fowl. I am cautiously optimistic. She is about eight or nine months old. A good age to begin learning her jobs.

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  20. As for a cat living with dogs, Annie Oakley has managed to hold her own (I think moving dogs in on cats is harder than moving a cat in on dogs, though).

    Tess still herds her in and out of rooms and Annie humors her by ‘obeying.’ But only for a moment. She’ll turn right around and saunter right back into the room she’s just been herded out of, head and tail held high.

    So there.

    She’s a very self-confident cat.

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  23. Good Morning Everyone. Since this is the long weekend, I posted this Sunday’s lesson Early. I also attached the Power Point Presentation along with the word document. You must have office 2007 or better to open the word document or Power Point.

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  28. They didn’t have the cartoon I mentioned.
    At Lions today, I said to a Georgia guy, “listen carefully, you many never hear this again. ‘I hope Georgia wins tomorrow.”‘
    What I don’t want is for the Gamecock have to go to Athens to face Bulldogs with an attitude.
    Anlir had several people to participate, Peter. I suspect we two are the only ones here who care.
    And I don’t remember seeing the Missouri Tigers on the schedule.
    Anyhow, I’m picking the Gamecocks by 7.
    And the Boilermakers will surely beat Indiana State. Double digits is all I will say.

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  29. Chas- So Car @ Mizzou October 26. MU plays @ Georgia a couple of weeks before that.

    I can see where there would not be as many participants now. I think kbells and one or two others of the women played along. Oh well. I probably shouldn’t take the time to set it up every week.

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  30. I usually like the idea of Gamecocks playing Tigers in Columbia. Not so much anymore.
    I hope it isn’t a night game because you are on central time.
    We can pick some favorite games. Mumsee will remind us of Boise.
    It should be an interesting year.

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  31. Chas- The ESPN schedule has the time as “TBD”. I guess that means to be determined. IT probably depends on what other SEC games are going on that day, and how important they are, since the SEC has a contract with CBS. If it promises to be a game that the media find of high interest, it will be in the afternoon. If it really means something, it will be prime-time. Don’t worry, though. Mizzou usually schedules afternoon games. Oh, and it will be Homecoming.

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  32. I played once, the last one of the season as I recall (I’d been wanting to do so all season, and saw it was “now or never”), choosing teams based on whether I’d ever lived in that city or near it, or going first in alphabetical order if I hadn’t lived in either location, and guessing one point more for the “tie-breaker” score . . . and I won. As I recall, Anlir didn’t think it was very funny, but I did. 🙂

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  33. I think it would be kind of fun Peter.
    Had a good day. Listed Gerges house. Not too shabby to have jumped back into real estate on August 5th.
    4 Listings
    1 under contract
    1 contract written
    1 listing appointment

    I have done less in more time. God is good. A couple of things just fell in my lap.

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  37. Peter, that might have been Mumsee. I didn’t even know enough to know what colors or mascots a school might have, and had never watched a college game in my life. (I have now watched several IU games, and a few games of playoffs the last two years.)

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  39. I finished the book and got it to the library before it closed! Sometime I’ll tell you about it when we don’t have a sports thread going. 😉

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  40. Oh great, a sports thread . . .

    It’s okay, Linda. We do this now and then to get equalize the time it becomes a pet thread. Or at least to try and get a little more time in for those of us who would rather talk sports.

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  42. Say what? You want to hear more about Jake, Peter? Sorry, not this evening. I have to go pet my dog. After all, we just got back from another walk. She got to be off the leash for most of it. Just until we got back to our property.

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  44. I’ll tell you about Last Child in the Woods, Mumsee, when I finish it. The book I finished today was The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. A good book, but I don’t have a lot of time right now to talk about it.

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  46. So we had a Women’s Connect meeting today along with classes that you could take. So I took the pie crust class and choose to make an apple pie, since that is my favorite. The gal next to me is from North Carolina and she starts talking about the Apple Festival in Hendersonville. I told her that I knew someone there and that the Festival began today. Small world! 🙂

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  47. Now I am off to go bake my apple pie, yummmm. Wasn’t sure if it would turn out so didn’t invite anyone over. I might have to eat the whole thing myself. I know that it will make a great breakfast.

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