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Our Daily Thread 9-9-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1776 the second Continental Congress officially made the term  “United States”, replacing the previous term “United Colonies.”

In 1850 California became the 31st state to join the union.

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland’s wife, Frances Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther. It was the first time a  president’s child was born in the White House.

In 1919 Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin’s HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record.

In 1965 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history.

And in 1984 Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 yards.

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Quote of the Day

“I’ve only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.”

Colonel Sanders

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Today is Otis Redding’s birthday. This song was recorded 3 days before he was killed in a plane crash in 1967.

And on this day in 1956 Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was only shown from the waist up. And yes, I found it. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD for us on this fine Monday?

43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-9-13”

  1. Good morning, all. I awoke at 4:30 and couldn’t fall back asleep. I’ve already showered (which is unusual for me; I’m generally a slug in the morning). I’m going to visit a private high school for L. this morning, Concordia Lutheran.

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  3. Good Morning ladies…I,too, awoke around 4:30 and decided to get on up and make my coffee! We are supposed to experience cooler temps with rain this week…after a week in the dry 90’s I’m all giddy and couldn’t sleep I suppose!
    Praying for you Ann, that the Lord will give clear direction in choosing a school….does L know you are pondering a change?

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  4. Nancyjill: L. wants to go to Concordia. It’s only a high school, so she wouldn’t go until next fall. The high school we’re zoned to is huge–it’s the sixth largest in the state–and a little rough. Hubby has already agreed she can go there next year, if it’s as good in person as it is on paper. L. is friends with a girl who will be attending there next year as well, who currently goes to her junior high. We also have some friends whose kids are currently students there. They are very happy with the school. Now, if I can just get Hubby to change his mind about Becca’s school!

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  5. The Brown Dog, Lulabelle, has kennel cough AND a noisy kennel. I was also up early with the rest of you. She is going to the vet today.
    Today is my Baby Girl’s birthday. I called her and sang, Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, you look like a monkey and act like one too.
    I wish you all a good day.

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  6. Evening, Jo. I have no plans to return to sleep. I haven’t felt very good the last few days–something has been wrong with my stomach and head (I’ve felt like I’ve had a hangover, but haven’t had alcohol in years). So, if felt wonderful to awaken today with a spring in my step, even if it was an hour earlier than I had to get up. I used the time to plan my day and pray, as well as talk to my brother-in-law-in-Africa on Facebook.

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  7. ‘Morning everyone. I’ve been up, to the Y and settled down with my coffee and paper.
    There isn’t much in the Monday Times-News.
    I see where Obama says “common sense” demands a military response to Syria.
    😈

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  9. Up at 4:30 ‘cuz I’m leaving on a jet plane, after I finish this bus ride and hang around the airport for 4 hours.

    Abandoning my husband, but our daughter is moving her gear to the house and will hang around now that her internship is done before going back for her senior year of college. It doesn’t start until the end if Sept, so she’ll have a needed break.

    Maybe they’ll even finish the unpacking? Dare I dream?

    Interesting, Southwest did not send me an email to check in (so I’m going to be one of the last to board with a half hour layover in Chicago), but they did send an email that my flight has Wifi!

    I have a fat rich book. I plan to read and nap!

    I’m headed back to the Nashville area for a little more Civil War research and then to a writers conference in Indianapolis. I’ll just miss two WV denizens! 😦

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  10. Michelle, I was hoping your flights were headed this way, but it sounds like a good trip. Enjoy your research and conference. I flew standby on Southwest quite a bit to see my kids last fall. I would stand and wait and pray. More than once I got the very last seat and was glad to have it.

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  12. Nashville is 6 hours away from me. Perhaps you could have one of your characters in the Battle of Spanish Fort. It is only about 20 minutes away from me. Fort Morgan is 45 minutes and that would give you a view of the Battle of Mobile Bay where Farragut is supposed to have uttered those famous words “D the torpedos, full speed ahead” which some argue isn’t exactly what he said.

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  14. Wow! Must be something about 4:30 a.m. this morning. I was awake since then, too. I have a lot of reading to do so it was a nice quiet time for that. I made coffee early so I would not go back to sleep.

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  15. For Sunday evening Bible study we are going through the book The Life You’ve Always Wanted by Ortberg. The pastor (senior’s pastor) gave us homework to consider two of the qualities of Jesus that we would like to develop more fully within ourselves as individuals. That makes for a good question for today if anyone feels like thinking that deeply.

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  16. Jesus always quickly got to the heart of issues so He did not waste valuable time trying to please everyone. He knew Scripture and how to apply it and help others to do so also. His love transcended the failings of people. Those are some things I would like to work on. Anyone else have some thoughts? It is mostly an older group in this study so it is hard for me to imagine what some of the members I look up to would have to say on this.

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  20. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, BG!

    For those who missed it last night, here are the results of the WV College Football Contest:

    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. She gets a virtual High Five from me or the WV-er of her choice (or all of us if she wishes).

    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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  21. Happy Birthday to BG and (maybe) to 6 arrows.

    Annms, I think a Lutheran school sounds like a good option.

    I was NOT awake at 4:30. But the cat got me up at 5:20, which is too early enough, demanding food and her rightful release into the great outdoors via the kitchen doggie door.

    Something about the approach of dawn that gets cats all wound up. Hunting time I guess, she’s still hard-wired to think she’s gotta go out and find breakfast despite the grain-free chicken kibble and tasty canned Ahi Tuna I feed her.

    I have a long-overdue eye appointment today, I missed last year’s checkup — praying everything’s OK (as far as I know it is, but I really do need a new prescription).

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  26. A very happy birthday to Chloe and to 6arrows!
    Hubby is on the last leg of his 2 days to fly from the east coast to only the middle of our country. In that amount of time, I think he could have made it to China or Australia!

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  27. Notre Dame and SC did me in. But I’m a homer and I always pick them. Who knew Miami’s defense was back? Didn’t see that coming.

    Sometimes that comes back and bites you.

    Peter,

    If you’d like, you can just send me an email with your game choices, and tiebreaker, and I’ll post it on it’s own thread every week.

    Peter’s Peck (or Pack, or Pile) of Pickled Pigskin Picks is the name I’m leaning towards for it. 🙂

    But I am open to other suggestions. 🙂

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  28. Happy Birthday 6Arrows!! We celebrate our Lord’s most beautiful creation of YOU!! 🙂
    And a most blessed day to BG….Lord surround this precious much loved young woman with your grace and mercy…and bring to her thoughts and heart the truth of her mother’s love…that she loves her deeply and endlessly….may she embrace it this day…the day of her birth….amen…

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  30. Ooh! I get my own thread? Wow! Can I put that on a résumé? Will I make Google again? Like the “vorrect Firday” incident a few years ago? Sure, AJ, sending you an email and having it in its own thread would make it easier to find the entries. I almost missed one or two this week scrolling through two day’s threads. One problem- I don’t think I have your email. And I like the tongue twister reference (pack sounds better than peck, IMO).

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  33. Try to say this fast and furiously:

    Picks of the Pack of Peter’s Pickled Pigskin Players:-)

    Actually, I hope none of the players are pickled..

    Good idea on the special thread, AJ.

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  38. I was trying to say sweet with a Suthnn drawl accent. Maybe it would be more like Sah-wheat!I know Southern got messed up, too, but that was how this phone wanted to spell it. 🙂

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  39. Michelle has a really great Rafflecopter contest over on her blog. . Each of the authors of A Log Cabin Christmas have put something into a gift basket along with a copy of the book signed by each who has a story in it. Y’all need to check it out.

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  41. I just put a prayer request over on the prayer thread. It concerns my Daddy J. He will have some surgery tomorrow, but today he could talk. He told his wife of 58 years that he loved her and would marry her all over again. That made me smile. Then he told her they only thing he would have done differently is use protection and not had all those children. His daughter asked him what kind of fix he would be in right now if he hadn’t had all those children. He winked at her.
    I am going over for the surgery tomorrow.

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  42. Thank you for the birthday greetings today. 🙂 I had a nice, leisurely day today, and then all of us (except 2nd Arrow) went out to eat tonight at a restaurant about an hour away. I sat facing a west window and watched the sun set over the nearby river as we dined. Absolutely beautiful.

    Fifth Arrow had a fairly difficult time tonight, and his older siblings were not very patient with him. Yet none of that stole the peace and joy I felt this day. Something is really different now. Being fifty was hard, but now, at 51…I can’t explain it, but God brought me through this past year, a turbulent one for reasons I can’t put a finger on, and I feel such incredible peace looking at another coming year, knowing (and finally experiencing) true joy that is not dependent on circumstances.

    Thank you, Lord.

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