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Our Daily Thread 9-30-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1777 the Congress of the United States moved to York, PA, due to advancing British forces.

In 1846 Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient.

In 1861 chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley, Jr. was born.

In 1927 George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season. He broke his own record with the home run. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.

In 1946 an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. 

And in 1983 the first AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was rolled out by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company.

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Quote of the Day

“I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.”

Billy Graham

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Today is the day Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was born.

Today is Cissy Houston’s birthday.

And it’s Johnny Mathis’ as well.

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Anyone have a QoD?

27 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-30-13”

  1. the roads are getting rockier and dustier by the day as we wait for the rain to fall. Did you know that when it is dry the gravel comes up out of the road? And our gravel is rocks, it is difficult to walk or drive on these roads.

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  2. It was kinda fun to watch Aj post just now. I got on the blog and there was just the political thread and then I closed it and opened again and the prayer thread appeared. And, finally, Aj posted the daily thread. Okay, I’m first, now I will go back and read what was actualy posted! 🙂

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  5. Fog usuallly clears up when the sun comes up.

    Good morning Jo. Good evening, rather. 🙂
    Everyone else is asleep. We have a guy comong to cleran the carpets, so we aren’t going to the Y. Elvera is getting a better workout getting ready for the guy.
    When she finishes, we won’t need him.

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  8. We looked at about 14 houses. She narrowed it down to three. She is an interesting lady.

    A little bad news at work. Our receptionist was involved in a hit and run accident that took the life of a 27 year old man. From what I understand it happened at 11pm on a dark, rural road. She probably really didn’t see him, but she fled afterwards. She is only 30 herself. Sad from so many different angles.

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  12. Hi there! Hope ya’ll had a good weekend.

    Mine was pretty good. Saw the son of my college roommate married off on Saturday, and saw some lovely scenery driving up to Ellijay, Georgia for the wedding.

    Then my Sunday was wrecked by a Facebook tussle, that concluded in me being cussed out and unfriended by a “tolerant” liberal acquaintance. I suppose I shouldn’t have implied he was a liar for saying that the NRA opposes safety training.

    I guess if asking for truth and clarity means I’m a @#$% dangerous Christian, then I’m guilty as charged.

    It still bothered me all day though…

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  13. It was birthday weekend here. Number Two Son turned 28 on Saturday and Number One Son turned 31 on Sunday. We had a feast on Saturday night with ribs, crab cakes, potato salad, sweet potatoes, deviled eggs, veggies, baked beans, chips & dip, and cake. Grandparents and cousins were here and a good time was had by all.

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  15. Kim, how sad about the receptionist — the irony is that often the driver wouldn’t be considered at fault if a pedestrian was where he/she shouldn’t have been; it can be deemed an “accident” (tragic, but an accident). But by running, the driver winds up in a load of legal trouble for that aspect alone.

    We’ve had a real increase in hit-and-run cases here and one of our reporters recently did a story about why it’s becoming so much more common. I remember one of the people (cop? attorney? counselor?) she interviewed said it’s important for all of us to think about this kind of situation in advance — so that if it does happen to us, we’ll have already thought through the necessity (ethically, legally) of staying put at the scene and we’re not making a spur-of-the-moment decision based on emotions or impulse.

    Not saying this is true in your employee’s case — one can really understand how sheer panic alone could cause someone to take off, especially if you’re young — but often hit-and-run drivers flee because they have something else they don’t want police to discover, whether it’s being under the influence or (here in the west) being an illegal immigrant or not having a drivers’ license — or just having some outstanding warrants on the books.

    But leaving the scene always makes it 10 times worse. Not to mention the mental torment that drivers must experience in these cases. I’m hoping your co-worker wasn’t the driver?

    Adios, we’re definitely in a windy Santa Ana state of mind. My skin is as dry as paper, sinuses dried out completely, ends of my fingers chapped. But the dry heat doesn’t bother me much — especially since it cools off so drastically at night and my house stays relatively nice and cool.

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  16. FB is a dangerous place sometimes, politically speaking. I try to stay clear of the arguments mostly because of my job (and I use FB so much for work-related posts). But I’ve seen some real flare-ups.

    My pastor, though, has a way of picking an occasional topic (not overtly ‘political,’ but topics that touch on our changing culture, etc.) and then respectfully engaging people of differing views, always graciously responding but then asking people to think a little more deeply about why they think one thing or another, what’s the source of their views, what (or who) is their ultimate authority.

    Often these threads are very long and the discussion extends, off and on, for days, attracting quite a diversity of opinion, so it’s fun to check back in on those and see how the conversation is going.

    And they really are respectful conversations — as opposed to the usual flame-throwing you see on FB.

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  18. I like Ramirez because he calls ’em like he sees ’em.

    Foggy here, too. Since I’ve been sick with a bad cold for about a week and have decided to lay low because of upcoming travel, no problem. Yesterday, I sat in the recliner all day reading, snoozing, watching a movie and only doing a little sorting. The end may be in sight for this long summer of moving.

    A friend of mine went to a lecture on marriage at Boston College last week. The place was mobbed, and full of gay activists looking for a fight. He said there was some muttering, but the presenter just talked about what marriage WAS, not wasn’t and didn’t try to attack anyone. It went well, with honest and relatively polite give and take.

    My friend’s observation, however, was the students were arguing from emotion, not logic, which does not bode well for the future–for any of us. 😦

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  19. Hard to respond to Kim’s post about her receptionist. And Donna makes all the right points. There was a hit and run in our town about a year ago. The young man killed was a friend of my son. Yes, this man was j-walking at night between stoplights. And he was in a troubled cross-section of his life. He had probably been drinking or was high on something. The woman that hit him goes to my Bible study at church. She said she heard something, but didn’t know what it was. She drove home. Her husband saw the damage to the car and questioned her. He tried to get her to call the police, but she fought him on it. He finally called the next day, which of course put her under the suspicion of having been under the influence. Donna is absolutely right that the legal difficulties were a lot worse than if she had stayed, even if she was under the influence. She only maintained a defensive posture on this. She was upset at what was coming at her legally. It exacerbated
    problems already within her marriage. Her husband struggled greatly with her response. He was despondent that she never mourned the lost of this man’s life. Her grown children to have struggled with her response. Ultimately, she was just given probation that she felt was very unfair. Very, very sad.

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  20. So, I killed yet another snake in my house on Saturday, same kind as the one on Friday. That led us to believe there must be a nest somewhere in my backyard where they are hatching. So, partly because of that, I have shifted locations on the compound. My new place is much smaller, which makes it easier to take care of, and there don’t seem to be any snakes in the backyard – just little boys who run in to get the soccer ball they kicked over the fence.

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  21. Adios, it sounds as if she cannot admit to herself that she was responsible for the death of another human being. When I was in training, the realization that others depended on me to protect their lives was heavy. When I considered what it would mean if I made a mistake, the realization that I could hurt someone seemed like a nightmare. I can imagine how much more terrible it would be to have to acknowledge to myself that I had not only hurt someone but killed them. It would seem safer to just be in denial that it was my fault. That sense of unreality, of unbelief that one is capable of making so horrible a mistake is probably behind many hit and run accidents.

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  22. More craziness, or “drama”, between my grandson’s parents today. R had Forrest last night for their weekly overnight visit. (He’s out of work again, BTW. He just gets tired of a job & stops showing up.) This morning, when Emily needed to go pick up Forrest, he refused to tell her where he & Forrest were. He used this to keep her on the phone, arguing with him. This isn’t the first time he’s done this. He makes all sorts of crazy accusations against her & against us.

    Hoping & praying Emily decides to go to court for a custody agreement soon, but I understand why she hasn’t so far. (R would probably have more time with Forrest under a usual type of custody arrangement. And the truth is, he can’t really handle Forrest for a long time. Their weekly overnight visit is less than 24 hours, more like 18 – 20 hours, but he’ll complain about how tired he is from having him “for two days”.)

    For many reasons, which I won’t go into, I fear for my grandson’s emotional health.

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  24. 😦

    They had a surprise birthday party for Elsa at the VIP Support Group today. Since Elsa leaves for her primary home in Florida on Nov. 1, they thought she mignt not be around for the next time. (Last Monday in the month. But there is Oct 28, in which Elsa might be with us.)
    Elsa will be 100 in December.

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  25. That was suppposed to be a 🙂
    I don’t usually correct little goofs, but this one is significant.
    It could be misunderstood. But really, I started to do a 😆
    Or maybe 😎

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  26. I pray to God that I never cause the death of someone while driving a car. It’s one thing to have a car accident between vehicles, it’s quite another to hit a pedestrian or a bicyclist….

    But not to stop and try to render aid no matter what you’ve done, is unconscionable.

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  27. I once had the horrible experience of hitting a cat that dashed under my car while driving home from work. So much more unfortunately, children were in the yard and saw the cat do flips before she died? How do I know it was a she cat. Again, another misfortune was that the cat was very pregnant so the children were expecting kittens. I did stop although I suppose I could have saved myself a little grief but had much more of a guilty conscious had I not stopped. The mother was very sad when she came to the door. She got a box and a shovel and had her older boy, maybe eight years old, go get the cat off the street. I had to use the shovel to lift the cat into the box. It was one of those really awful and yet unpreventable happenings. I don’t think there is anyway I could not have stopped, though.

    I did read that when she was a young driver that Laura Bush hit and killed someone. I don’t remember if it was someone on the street or in a car. I just remember that it really impacted her life according to the book I read.

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