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Our Daily Thread 9-16-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1620 the Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England.

In 1630 the village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

In 1782 The Great Seal of the United States was impressed on document to negotiate a prisoner of war agreement with the British.  It was the first official use of the impression.

In 1924 Jim Bottomley knocked in 12 runs in a single game setting a major league baseball record.

And in 1953 the St. Louis Browns of the American League were given permission to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.

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Quote of the Day

“We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.”

Ronald Reagan

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Today is Trisha Yearwood’s birthday.

It’s also B.B. King’s. And since I like him, 2 of his. 🙂

This one is fun, and has a bunch of well-known singers and musicians playing along.

There’s your wake-up. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-16-13”

  1. So nice to have a quiet holiday today. Just four school days left of this term, then parent conferences. Then we have a 2 week break to prepare for the next term.
    Morning/evening all 🙂

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  4. Doesn’t it amaze you that the Pilgrims left Europe on that small boat this time of year? They didn’t know what they were going to face, but somehow thought it was better than the place they were leaving.

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  5. Good morning! It’s Monday and the weather cooled off. We will finally have a week of school with full schedule. And next week is Homecoming. This is going to be a long school year, is we can ever get things “normal”.

    Speaking of homecoming, that usually involves a football game. Here are the results of the weekly WV contest. Once again one of the females gets the Virtual High Five. Kim got all ten games correct, so there was no need for a tie breaker. The results:

    Air Force @ Boise State – BSU 42-20
    No. 5 Stanford @ Army – Stan 34-20
    Delaware @ Navy – Navy 51- 7
    No. 7 Louisville @ Kentucky – Lou 27-13
    No. 16 UCLA @ No. 23 Nebraska – UCLA 41-21
    No. 1 Alabama @ No. 6 Texas A&M – Alabama 49-42
    Mississippi State @ Auburn – Aub 24-20
    No. 21 Notre Dame @ Purdue – ND 31-24
    No. 25 Ole Miss @Texas – Ole Miss 44-23
    Tie Breaker- UTSA @ Arizona Ariz 38-13

    Kim 10; kbells 8; rickyweaver 7; AJ, Chas, inbutnotof, Tychicus & myself 6; rkessler65 5

    Look for the next list later in the week.

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  7. Kim: They didn’t know what they were going to face, but somehow thought it was better than the place they were leaving.
    It once occurred to me that each of us descend from someone in that situation. My ancestors were from Germany on my dad’s side. Ireland or Scotland on my mother’s side They didn’t know what it would be like here, but it would be better than the place they were living.
    A very few of us descended from royalty or wealth. We descended from people having hard times.

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  10. I don’t know if it is going to let me in or not; I’ve been having all sorts of “password” trouble. It tells me I need to reset it, and then it accepts neither the one I choose nor the one it generates. . . .

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  11. I would like to thank everyone who helped me win. All the people in my life who have forced me to watch football with them. Everyone who has given me a word of encouragement along the way. Blah, blah, blah. Mostly, I would like to thank my husband for being be my side through the good times and the bad. As you know it isn’t easy to pick a winning team, but we persevered and WON! Thank you to my first grade teacher who taught me to read, and my second grade teacher who taught me math and to more fully understand numbers, and…. 😉

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  12. Chas, they didn’t find anything yesterday. One house interests them, but will need a lot of work. It is a short sale, but a whole lot of house for the money. They are coming back for a week in October and we will look again. The man told me he IS going to buy something and it will be from me. They thanked me for giving up my Sunday.
    They brought their two dogs. You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat their animals. One of the dogs is a shelter rescue. She is attached to the man. She wouldn’t even let the wife do anything with her. Wife took care of the other dog. The man rescued her from the shelter just before she was to be put down. She was skittish and wouldn’t go to people. The wife told me she suspects it was a woman who abused the dog because of the way she acts. When the man went to the shelter this dog went right up to him and attached herself. She is a good dog. The other dog is much more out going.

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  13. Just got back from a trip to the Smokies and to see family. Guess what we saw in the Smokies? 🙂 The deer shots were better, and the butterfly ones, but “everyone” who goes to Cades Cove goes to see one thing, they say. . . .

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  14. What’s in the tree? Cat? Bear? Big Bird? Hmmm.

    I was hanging around a realtor and another guy at the dog park yesterday and they were talking about how these ritzy houses on the peninsula here were used in the 1970s as illegal gambling joints — they’d rent the homes & roll out tables and all the stuff come nightfall and go all night long. Then they’d put everything away and vanish by dawn.

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  16. A bear, I think. I’m still waiting for my new glasses to come in.

    And did you all know there were 2 dogs on board the Mayflower?

    “The first mention of these two early canine settlers appeared in the 17th century publication ‘Mourt’s Relation,’ a document describing the lives of America’s early colonizers.

    “Pilgrim John Goodman, a 25-year-old Mayflower passenger, brought his Mastiff and English Springer Spaniel along for the voyage. Though the names of these dogs were not recorded, they have been recognized in history for helping the pilgrims establish their settlement on Cape Cod.

    “Goodman’s dogs became essential members of the settlement, providing protection and accompanying their owner on hunts.”

    http://dogtime.com/the-story-of-the-mayflower-dogs.html

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  17. AJ, he was way, way up in a tree the other side of a field. One photographer did set up her tripod IN the field, but my husband and I followed the rules. He looked at the cub, its sibling, and its mother through binoculars; I saw only the one cub, but I got several photos of him. Not wildlife-book quality, but the fact that I could get photos of him at all from that distance is pretty amazing. (And without a tripod.) After a while they all backed down the tree and left.

    But I also got some photos of a doe that was practically right next to our car. She crossed several yards in front of us and went into the shrubbery and trees, and I looked for her as we drove past where she had crossed. When I saw her, my husband backed up the car a couple of feet to give me a clear shot (there were no cars behind us), and I got some great pictures. I think she didn’t even hear the Prius and had no idea we were just a few feet away. I’ve seen a lot of deer in my life, but I really think they are gorgeous animals, and these are probably my best shots ever.

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  18. Enjoyed that Trisha Yearwood song. She is very talented and it is a good song.

    I want to thank Kim for the laugh this morning. I want to thank my dad for giving me his sense of humor and for whoever gave Kim her’s. I want to thank whoever gave my dad his sense of humor etc. I want to thank God who, certainly, is the basis for all good humor and joy.

    We have a place near us where you can take a bus to a platform to watch bears up close. It is just done in the summer evenings. When I was a child it was not uncommon for folks to just go to the local dump to watch the bears come in and eat.

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  19. Good Morning….just returned from my walk in the misty rain. The deer have been hanging around our property, bedding down, eating my late blooming roses..grrrr….but, the herd has 3 fawns who are still nursing….I guess I’ll let them have the roses…but just this once!

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  22. Congratulations, Kim. 10 out of ten is impressive. Kim and KBells, being Southern women, simply have too much football knowledge. AJ, Perhaps you could come up with some Democrat way to tax their correct predictions and allocate them to the rest of us in order to create a kinder, gentler football prediction contest. Alternatively, you could set aside one victory a month to disadvantaged groups (individuals other than Southern women).

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  23. Our resident bear decided to bite our long hydrant hose in half. He’d already finished off the berries by the driveway and then I figure he tasted the habanero peppers in the garden and then needed a drink 🙂

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  24. Cindi had some really sad news today. One of her dear friends, John Sousa passed away. His wife Judy had suffered a stroke some years earlier. He was apparently getting out of bed to look after his beloved bride. He suffered a heart attack and died at her feet. It was 7 hours before someone came to the house to check on them. I knew John. He truly practiced Ephesians 5 where Paul commends husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. John literally gave his life for Judy.

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  25. Ricky,

    How about this. We’ll take a page from ObamaCare. Since the SEC is loaded, all Southerners will now have to pick 20 while everyone else picks 10. It’s time they start paying for these “Cadillac” teams in the SEC.

    Anyone living in a bad conference, like me (Patriot league) gets 2 correct answers from everyone in a good conference. If we get 5 people from SEC territory, I win ‘cuz all mine will be correct with the “subsidies” I receive from others. It’s only fair. 😯

    And remember folks, if you like your conference, you can keep it. 🙂

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  28. cold and clear here this morning. I may have to bring back some real winter clothes next time I go home. Sitting here with a vest and jacket on and a blanket covering my lap.
    Linda, you seem to know how it works!
    Maybe I should enter the contest and just pick any teams by if I like their names???

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  31. Just heard what happened this morning at the Navy yard in D.C. Can’t believe there’s been another mass shooting. Doesn’t say much for all of our wonderful security measures….

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  32. Since the SEC is loaded, all Southerners will now have to pick 20 while everyone else picks 10.

    I’m glad to see so of the old jovial banter. but AJ, I don’t live in the South and yet I am in SEC territory, now that Mizzou jumped out of the (not-so) BIg-12.

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  36. Since we’re talking football. Little noticed elsewhere, Coach Warren Geise has died. He coachec the Gamecocks football in 1957 when I was there. They went 7-3 that season and didn’t get a bowl game. My annual has a picture of them having a prayer before the game. I understand that was common in those days.

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  39. Chas, I bet you got home quicker than I did on Saturday. There were 90,000 at the stadium in College Station and at least 10,000 more milling around outside. College Station roads aren’t exactly designed to handle that amount of traffic.

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  40. I learned several things on Saturday. First, there are a lot of people drinking beer at 9:00 a.m. on gameday. Second, we should have invested in companies that make cowboy boots and short, frilly skirts for Aggie Coeds. Finally, not all coeds should wear those skirts.

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  41. Carolina Staium that seated 35k in 1956 is now Willians-Brice stadium that seats about 80k.
    Years ago, they wisely placed the stadium at the State Fairground. That means that it has excellent parking and traffic conditions. One road leads directly to the campus which isn’t far away, another leads directly to I-77. I haven’t been there since Chuck was a student. But the traffic moves well. Unlike Texas (I used to live in Ft. Worth, you remember.) nothing in SC is far from anything else.

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  42. I saw a question in the Sunday Parade magazine. The question was which school has the best tailgating. The answer was, “Choose any school in the South.”
    I have never tailgated. At Purdue, I walked to the games just before they started. I had an assigned seat for the home games.

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  44. Linda,

    Since your baseball team of choice is in my division, you get a waiver.

    Ricky,

    You get a waiver too. But only because you’re from Texas, and you’ll just ignore me and do what you want anyway, as you Texans are known to do. 🙂

    Peter,

    Normally I’d say I can’t give you one. As much as I would like too, this plan relies on you healthy SEC folks to pay for the rest of us poor conference folks. Without you guys paying in, the whole system collapses and we have to raise taxes on everyone. You guys have to pay your fair share. Which I’ve calculated to be yours and most of ours. 🙂

    However, after much debate and many hearings, I’ve decided that as one of the “ruling class” that helped set this football post up, we will include a clause that exempts you and your dependents. And you’ll get subsidies too. 🙂

    And if anyone else wants to complain, I’ll probably have the IRS audit you.

    I have to say, I don’t know why we don’t use the ObamaCare model for pretty much everything. It works so well, if you can get out of the consequences of stuff. I don’t know why nobody thought of this before….
    🙄

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