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Our Daily Thread 9-7-13

Good Morning!

And Happy Saturday! 🙂

On this day in 1813 the nickname “Uncle Sam” was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York’s Troy Post.

In 1888 Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.

In 1901 the Boxer Rebellion began in China ending the Peace of Beijing.

In 1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.

In 1930 the cartoon “Blondie” made its first appearance in the comic strips.

In 1966 the final episode of the original “The Dick Van Dyke Show” was aired on CBS-TV.

 And in 1971 “The Beverly Hillbillies” was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.

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Quote of the Day

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Thomas Jefferson

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Charles Hardin Holley was born today. They spelled his last name wrong on his first record contract, so he decided to leave it that way.

Today is Benmont Tench’s birthday, one of the original Heartbreakers.

And it’s also Sonny Rollins’ birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

90 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-7-13”

  1. Donna, 89 degrees may be warm, but it ain’t no oven.
    😯

    I finally started watching the “Hillbillies” after I heard people talking about them so much.
    I loved the show, especially Ellie Mae.
    I wonder what she’s doing now?

    The concept was pure corn. I think it was meant to be.’

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  6. Headline in today’s Times-News
    4 wounded at anti-violence vigil in NC
    😯
    “Four people were shot and wounded when gunfire broke out at an anti-war vigil near downtown Charlotte, police said.”
    We don’t have a Republican president.

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  7. We didn’t have a Republican Presiedent when people were shouting, “Hey, Hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?” either.

    We went to hear Gove Shrivenor play last night. He was good. I went to Youtube to find you a sampling to listen to, but I don’t know enough to find a good one. The main reason I wanted to find something is he played in Anita Carter’s band and had a piece he wrote for Mother Maybelle that he plays on the autoharp.

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  8. The other day I was with BG in the truck and this song came on the radio station she had on. (I don’t listen to music when I drive for the most part–I like the quiet). I thought to myself, that it was a remake of another song so I went digging.
    Here is the newest version from the movie Pitch Perfect:

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  9. Pet alert!
    Wasabi is a cat in Juneau, Alaska.
    Wasabi was chasing a mosquito.
    The mosquito flew out a window.
    Wasabi chased the mosquito out the window.
    The window was eleven stories up.
    Wasabi has a cast on a leg and is expected to be ok in about six weeks.

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  11. Good morning! Popping in for a quick hello before a busy 3-day weekend. Yes, I’m extending my weekend into Monday. 😉

    Kim, have you seen this one? The smiles on these kids’ (okay, they’re not really kids; let’s say youthful ones) faces are contagious.

    Have a great weekend!

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  12. Donna- Your house at 89° inside is an oven, no matter what Chas says. 89 outside isn’t too bad though. Now, imagine trying to teach 30 high school students indoors at 88° and 50%+ humidity. Not much learning going on!

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  13. Thank you, Peter, you’re a reasonable man. And remember, this was late at night with windows open and fans fanning as I was about ready to try to go to sleep.

    It’s still 78 degrees in here at 6:30 a.m., but feels almost “cool.” In a couple hours, though, we’ll be on our way back up. We’re not used to humidity and ours was hovering around 60+ % for a couple weeks. It’s finally down to 30%, which is still higher than we’re used to on the coast, but it’s a tiny bit of relief. Temperatures, though, are still 90ish and that’ll continue for several days at least.

    It’s some sort of monsoon from Baja that’s made its way north and now is camped out on top of us. At least that’s how I understand the technicality of it. 😉

    That Alaska cat was lucky to have only a broken leg after flying down 11 stories?? Eeek. But mosquitoes are evil so he was doing a good thing.

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  14. Less than 2 1/2 hours until the college football kickoff for today. Eight people have entered the College Football Contest (see yesterday’s daily thread)- Tychicus, Chas, Kim, AJ, Janice, kbells, adios and myself. Four guys, four gals.

    Monday I’ll announce the winner, and this year there will be no typos which invent a new holiday. Remember my slip when I typed “vorrect Firday”? Someone even posted a reference to it on Wikipedia that has since been deleted. Supposedly, there is “Not enough context to identify article’s subject.” It even made it on Google, but since the old WMB was taken down, there are no more references to it. Alas and alack, my chance at fame ruined by a web page upgrade. I guess I’ll go off in a corner and mope a while.

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  15. Donna- Try this: during the day, put a fan blowing out one window and have an open window at the other end of the house. The fan will act as an exhaust. At night, blow cool air in. In the morning, shut all the windows to keep the night coolness in a while. I learned this when I first came to Missouri and had no a/c. If you just have the fans on the floor, all you are doing is circulating the hot air that is in the house.

    Ceiling fans are good too, especially if they are reversible. When it is warm, set the direction to blow up. This brings the cooler air from the floor and forces it to the ceiling, circulating the cooler air. In the winter, set it downward, so that the hot air at the ceiling is forced down where you are. Of course, we rarely use the ceiling fans in winter, as we only set the thermostat at 68°, so it would move cool air around. We already have that in winter.

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  17. Oh yes, Kim. The department stores around here are loaded up with them every summer. And even with a/c, a ceiling fan is a must to help keep the cost down, as it evens out the coolness in a room.

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  18. Sorry, I misread your post. I don’t know about attic fans. I haven’t been in a house with one in a long time. But I would think one in California or other mild climates would be a great idea. The attic is the hottest part of the house and getting the hot air out of the attic keeps the rest of the house more comfortable.

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  19. Kim: My (almost) 14 year old, L., loves that song! She and her friends sing it a lot, complete with the hand movements. They’ve all watched the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    Today I’m taking L. to a practice for the horse show Sunday. Yesterday, we loaded the horse in a torrential downpour. We need the rain, but it was frustrating as it only rained for about 45 minutes which was exactly the time we’d scheduled for loading the horse. Anyway, it’s hot and sunny today with no rain in the forecast.

    My sister is back from Africa for a month. She arrived yesterday. I haven’t spoken with her yet, but know she made it safely after 40 hours of traveling. She came back to help her daughter adjust to college life. We have plans to see each other a little later in September, which I’m looking forward to.

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  20. We’ve got an attic fan. It’s suppose to be hot up here this weekend, too. 61 at 1 this morning . . . We close the double-pane windows during the da, which helps.

    Very poor sleeping night here. I’m off to the old house for a garage sale.

    I’ll be signing and selling boos, too.

    We authors get desperate!

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  21. I think Lulabelle has brought home kennel cough. Now Amos has it. Not much you can do for it but watch it and let it run its course.
    Of course cleaning up the spit up is causing me to cough and gag.

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  22. Isn’t there a veterinary medication (antibiotic) that can be given for kennel cough?

    Oh, and I hadn’t heard of the little blue-dot tattoos before. But with cats, they’ll “tip” one of the ears to show they’ve been fixed. Annie’s left ear point is squared off, she was spayed by volunteers before I adopted her, while she was still a stray hanging around our county animal shelter with some other stray cats.

    I have a ceiling fan, which helps a lot. Love that thing.

    But …. My house is relatively old (1920s), has a mediterranean-style flat roof and very thin-paned (but full-length, french-style) windows. they’re maybe not visible, but I obviously must have small gaps, too, around the frames. Wood floors. No insulation to speak of, really.

    So the house completely absorbs and becomes an extreme reflection of whatever weather is going on outside — in the winter it’s very cold, in a summer heat wave like this it gets very, very hot.

    I tried closing the house up for the day once to try to keep the heat “out.” But it only made it that much worse.

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  24. Donna, I have found that keeping my hair wet in very hot weather helps along with having ice water constantly available to sip on. Also, when I have done a juice fast for a day, by the end of the day my body always feels cool because it is not burning so many calories.

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  25. Also, you can get reflective shades for windows that have the sun shining into the house. Sometimes being cool doesn’t. look so cool. 🙂 But isn’t it always better to be cool even if you are the only one who knows it? 😉

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  26. Reflective shades would be good — I do have blinds and keep those closed.

    And I usually have a cold, wet towel draped over my hair/head/arms & shoulders on these hot days/evenings when I’m indoors; if I get very uncomfortable, I opt for a cool shower.

    It really only becomes miserable maybe 2-3 weeks a year, typically in late August/September/early October. The cold isn’t a problem — I have a good heater. 🙂

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  28. Someone online, though, had this clever suggestion: If foil is your only option, trying taping a piece of white fabric to the side the faces out so you don’t make you house look like a crack house.

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  38. I just checked the score on the Smartest, Phone @ CBSSports. They have a tiny green field laid out with an arrow showing where the ball is It is pretty cool to see the big picture (in a little frame).

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  40. So that’s where everybody is – watching football. I got into a mock argument last night with one of my teammates from the U. S. of A. about our respective countries. He said something about a country whose national pastime was skating around on the ice with sticks and beating each other up. I stared coldly and retorted in kind about a country whose national sport was men running around and jumping on one another 😆

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  41. Good afternoon everyone. I posted the 1st week of our study we will be having at Northwest Bible Church on Living by the Book by Dr. Howard Hendricks. I hope everyone is blessed by the Study. It changed my life. Hopefully, it will change yours.

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  42. What did they do before incubators were developed?
    I had an elderly friend who was born premature in the very early 1900’s, when incubators were still not widely available. So, her family kept her alive by placing her in the oven part of the wood stove with the door left open. She lived to be 96 and was whip smart to the last.

    In South America, they have experienced so many preemies getting infections from improperly cleaned incubators that they have returned to another old fashioned method – carrying premature babies next to the skin and studies show that it is as effective, if not more so, than incubators.

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  48. I seem to have lost my gravatar.

    Anyway, in college I did a research paper on the importance of touch in a child’s development. Many babies died before doctors realized that human touch is essential, not optional, for a baby. Healthy children died in orphanages; children in incubators died. Touch isn’t a luxury. (Chas, even your pet rock could use an occasional hug and some petting.)

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  49. I guess AJ is saying Boo! for this one: Ball St 40 – Army 14.

    But Adios isn’t saying Boo! So far she has all six of the completed games correct. Let’s see how she does on the four evening games.

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  51. I was booing the way the final few minutes the game went. It isn’t like Gamecocks to quit. That’s the reason they’re called Gamecocks.
    They had Georgia on the 1 foot line and let them get away.
    Georgia had control of the last five minutes. That isn’t supposed to happen.

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  52. I love robotic conversations with a computer robot. ‘Youve already said that.’ Doesn’t do much good to try to argue or explain.

    Go Boise.

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  54. I just talked with my brother who is a Georgia grad. We never talk football, but I asked if he knew the score. He said Georgia won and he told me about the end of the game, the part Chas is complaining about. He said Clemson did that last week.

    Thanks to you guys I now have something else my brother will more than gladly discuss with me. I never knew how much more exciting the discussion could be. Before talking football I was getting. to know all about lawn mower repairs. That is a routine subject. Hmmm…football all of a sudden is gaining popularity with my brain cells.

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  58. We ate at ChickFilA before heading to Saturday night church….the poor Air Force Academy fans came in draggin’ their tails….they lost…big time…glad we got our meals before the crowd spilled out onto the streets of Colorado Springs….what a mess all that traffic makes! Good sermon at church…and communion…and fellowship 🙂

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  61. Get ready for “Game of the Year” hype this week as Alabama comes to Texas to take on our Aggies. Alabama is the best team, but the Aggies have Johnny Manziel. The Aggies also will have several defensive starters who were suspended for the first two games for taking dope, carrying guns and assaulting people.

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  63. Janice, The Aggies welcome new fans. I cheered for the Longhorns for 48 years until I realized just how liberal UT had become. Aggies (my son is one) are great. When the Alabamans fans come to College Station this weekend, it will be the largest gathering of conservative Southerners since Ganeral Lee sent his army back to their homes.

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  64. Good morning, everyone. Hubby just left with L. for the horse show. She doesn’t compete until this afternoon, but had to be there at 7:00 to feed/groom her horse. Plus, her trainer wants her to watch the other competitors as a learning tool. I’ll be headed that way around 11:00 with Becca. I’m not feeling my best today, so I’m so thankful for a supportive husband.

    Texas looked terrible in last night’s game. Back in my day (’89-’93), we had a really good team, but times have been hard for them for awhile now. If things don’t change soon, I’m afraid Mac may be looking for a new job! I don’t really follow football, but Hubby loves to watch UT games, so I tend to see quite a few of them.

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  65. Ricky, as a Bama fan, I confess we are a little scared of y’all. You did beat us last year. It will be a good game but one I might be afraid to watch.

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  66. rickyweaver: My oldest, L., is in eighth grade this year and beginning to think about colleges. Even though I attended UT, I would much prefer for her to be an Aggie. Right now, A&M and Baylor are her two top picks in Texas. Both have equestrian teams, which is pretty much all she cares about at the current time. My dad forbid me to attend UT, saying Austin was a “cesspool of sin.” However, after I went off to school in Florida for my freshman year, he was so desperate to get me back to the great state of Texas, he relented and I transferred to UT. Not only is the school itself liberal, I chose to major in psychology, which is filled with uber-liberal professors. I was an atheist at the time and didn’t notice how everything was slanted to the left. However, by the time I went back a couple of years later for my master’s in social work, I had become a Christian and was appalled by my professor’s hatred of anything related to Jesus and orthodox Christianity. I believe my faith was actually strengthened during this time, but would much prefer my daughter to attend a school that isn’t so violently opposed to the values I’ve tried to instill in her.

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  68. KBells, Johnny Manziel is someone to fear, but I give Alabama the edge this year. I love both teams.

    ANNMS, Sorry, my iPad had not updated, so I asked the question you just answered. Your story of UT is interesting. It demonstrates how God can work in our lives no matter where we are. My son went to A&M and Baylor was his second choice. At A&M fraternities and sororities are weak because A&M itself is the fraternity. Unlike UT, A&M is not an environment hostile to Christianity. However, your experience showed God can work in any environment.

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  69. rickyweaver: Becca’s not into horses at all. Her big sister, L., is the one who is wild about horses. She’s been riding since she was seven (she’s now almost 14), but this is her first show. It’s a hunter/jumper show, but she won’t be jumping as she injured her hip about two weeks ago and it’s still too painful for her to canter. So, today she’ll just be competing in the walk/trot division.

    I was in a sorority at UT, but hated it the entire time. I stayed in only so my future children could be legacies–now, I hope neither of them go Greek. It is amazing how God can work in any environment. There was a girl in my sorority who was a very committed, loving Christian. I attended my first Bible study with her my senior year. I still didn’t believe, but was searching. She planted a seed (as did others, especially my sister), that eventually took root.

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  70. Ann’s story is a concrete example of how God needs Christians to be salted across society and not concentrated into one place (think what. Delicious steak would taste like if all the seasoning was in just one section?). God sends us where he needs us to be and where we can learn the most. It may not be in a place we consider safe.

    You’ll remember my anguish four years ago when my daughter passed up a $50K merit scholarship yo Azusa Pacific College to attend UCSB?

    The money drove me crazy, but mostly it was sending her, whose faith I worried about, to one of California’s party schools.

    God has worked in her life and used her in marvelous ways. We couldn’t be more pleased and thankful.

    Ann’s point is well take. When you live on the outskirts of Sodom and Gomorrah your faith has to be strengthened continually and taken seriously. The wolves constantly lurk.

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  71. Annms, so L must have recovered sooner than anticipated? I remember your saying they thought she’d have to wait until the October show.

    We have our big horse show going on here this weekend (and what a hot weekend for it). Horses are beautiful. 🙂

    And I agree with michelle, God disperses us into various places & situations for a purpose, both for us and those around us, whether we see it at the time or not (and often we don’t).

    Looking forward to church this morning as I missed last week.

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  72. I agree with Michelle, but from a different perspective. I went Kindergarten through 11th grade at a small private Christian school. I had never encourntered anyone who thought differently than I did. Even though my mother was an alcoholic and everyone knew it and I didn’t have many friends there was a certain amount of security.
    My Senior year my dad was just worn out and I am sure relieved not to have to come up with the tuition for private school when I informed him that if he made me go back to that school I just wouldn’t go. I went to the local public high school. The first person I was able to establish some sort of friendship with was in the school paper a week or so later talking about being an atheist. What? She didn’t have 666 tattooed on her forehead, how was I supposed to know????
    From there my AP English teacher informed me there was a whole world to discover outside the Bible Belt and I would meet all sorts of people. It would be to my benefit if I could get along with most of them. If I had not had that year between Christian School and college I would have completely fallen on my face.
    I confess that I have been judgemental in my life and there have been times I have looked around me and thought what the heck am I doing here and with THESE people???? For the most part I have taken a deep breath, pressed on, and discovered something about them and about myself in the process. I am a whole lot less judgemental.

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  73. Well, we just got back from the horse show. L. won two firsts and one second, making her grand champion of her class!!! I couldn’t be happier for her–I actually got chills when they announced her first place ribbon in her first event! I think I was more nervous than she was. Thanks to everyone who prayed for her.

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  75. I took riding lessons (western) when we lived in Southern Saskatchewan ranch country. Just from a young 18 year old, but it was fun and I got to see a very different view of the grasslands/hills/badlands. They weren’t really lessons, more of just a way of renting a horse and guide for a reasonable price 🙂 A good way to get to know one of the teens too!

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  76. I drive through horse territory on my way home from work and enjoy one intersection (where I’m usually stopped at a red light for a while) where there’s a practice ring. I like watching the young girls taking their horses through the jumps, cantering paces and other maneuvers.

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  78. I can’t (as a journalist). But our congressperson is a very outspoken “no” vote from the Dem side already.

    Even if I felt clear (which I don’t at all) that a response should be made to the use of chemical weapons, it’s simply too little too late at this point. The window of time in which something like that *may have* had a small chance of being effective has long-since passed.

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  80. Oh Ann….Congrats to L!! How exciting!…..my daughter in law is a horse trainer, instructor, competitor….and therefore my 2 granddaughters are avid riders and competitors….horses are their life and breath (after our dear Lord that is!)….horses intimidate me…I can regard their beauty from afar. My baby sister rides and owns a few horses….she has always loved horses, even though we never had them growing up…she made certain she would live on a farm as a grown woman….you name the animal…you will find it on her farm…I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an elephant hiding behind her barn!
    We live near quite a few large horse ranches and I see the horses frolicking in the pastures everyday…amazingly beautiful creatures they are….

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  82. The closest Walgreens does not carry post cards. I am surprised. I guess we are just not close enough to a tourist attraction.

    Congrats to Annms on L’s good showing with the horse. It is so encouraging to find something a child is good at. It is a confidence booster for life!

    Is there any word from Peter about the college games? I hope he is doing okay today and just had a busy day.

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  83. I am just watching Secret Millionaire. I don’t know how, but Oakridge, Oregon has made the school week only 4 days long instead of 5. They just don’t have enough money to run school 5 days a week. I can’t wrap my mind around that.

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  84. We have a few schools with four day weeks. I suspect it has to do with sending the buses around to pick up the children. They extend the four days by a couple of hours to get the full week, I think is how I recall but I could be wrong.

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  85. I was hoping the kids would still get in their hours, but that makes for a long day for some of the younger ones. I know our kids’ school decided to take 1 Friday off a month instead of 2 half days due to the buses not having to run but… I guess the town is really struggling, as are other towns in America.

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  86. Is there any word from Peter about the college games? I hope he is doing okay today and just had a busy day.

    I’m okay. Had a great day of fellowship and din’t get home until after 5pm. Then watched some NFL and a movie with D3 while Mrs L used the computer. I hadn’t even had a chance to check the late scores form last night. So here are the results, which I will re-post tomorrow.

    Adios, Tychicus and kbells all had 8 of the 10 games correct. All got close on the tiebreaker for UNLV. The final score was Arizona 58-13. Tychicus got UNLV exact, the others were one point off. But since Adios was closer to the Arizona score (she said 35), she wins.

    Here are the other players scores: Janice, Kim and I got 7 correct, while Chas and AJ got 6.

    Let’s play again next week!

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  88. Yes, it was an exhilarating day for L (and for me too, I must admit)! It’s great fun to watch your kid enjoy the fruits of their labor. She’d practiced a lot for this and was completely engrossed in the competition. I felt true joy for her when she won her class. Next time she’ll be competing in the pre-beginner division, which includes jumping. But, that’s not ’til January–so I have awhile to get used to the idea. She jumps regularly in practice–it just seems different at a show. Thanks for sharing in my joy!

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  89. Congratulations to L, Ann! What a great sense of accomplishment she must feel. And it is always such a sweet feeling of joy for a mom to see her children achieve in areas in which they’ve worked diligently. I’m happy for you both. 🙂

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