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Our Daily Thread 10-2-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1780 British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.

In 1835 the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.

In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.

In 1937 Warner Bros. released “Love Is on the Air.”  Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.

And in 1950 “Peanuts,” the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.

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Quote of the Day

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”

Groucho Marx

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On this day in 1937 this gentleman made his acting debut. And thanks to YouTube, I found it. 🙂

Today is Mandisa’s birthday.

And it’s Don McLean’s birthday, so the obvious choice is….

And it’s Mike Rutherford’s birthday.

I wasn’t trying, but I guess we have a Reagan theme today. 🙂 But this one kinda weirds me out a little. 😯

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39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-2-13”

  1. Groucho Marx understood American politics better than most political consultants.
    The wring remidy is always to create an agency to deal with the problem.
    Good evening Jo.

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  3. Good morning, Chas and AJ, and evening, Jo.

    Insomnia, then a nightmare, and I awoke with a start. I’d rather have the insomnia. 😦

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  4. My post last night was bothering me while I lay awake. I hope I didn’t sound like “too tired to talk”, or whatever I said, meant “I don’t want to talk to *you people*”, or something like that. I enjoy chatting with you, but sometimes I think I just say things all wrong. Anyway, my apologies if I gave the wrong impression.

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  5. Good Morning all. I am up early. I feel like I ran in circles yesterday never really catching my breath. Today promises to be more of the same. Busy is good. Busy for the sake of busy and not accomplishing anything isn’t.
    I did get an accepted offer on a house for some friends. They were renting and wanted to buy the house they were in but the seller kep negotiating until he negotiated himself out of a deal. They trick is to know when to accept or to walk. All he did was lose the only offer he has had on the house. I think the house they are buying is much better.
    I have shown property to a lady three times now. We keep ending up at the same house. That should tell her something.

    I have discovered the major flaw in my husband. He is planning the upcoming move with military precision. He has measured each room in the new house and placed all the furniture in his mind and on a sheet of paper. When I tell him I am not sure I want that piece of furniture there he confronts me with facts. ” It has to go there. It won’t go anywhere else. No that won’t look right. ”
    Talk about Mr. Left Brain.
    Those of you who have been with me for any time at all know that I can move on a dime and am pretty experienced myself. My plan is to pack everything up in a U-Haul, place Leesee (an interior decorator by training) and my friend M an artistic sort at the new house and have them tell the movers where to put stuff as it comes in the door. This plan has worked for me for the past 20 years. My comment, “Well, let’s see how it looks there and we can move it if we don’t like it” are not well received.
    On the plus side, because you knew there had to be one, is that the house my buyer keeps going back to have a wonderful “farm house” looking table in the dining room. She wants to make the dining room her sewing room. I know the listing agent and it is her parents home and they have already moved to the beach. I asked what they were going to do with the table. She said make an offer. ( See? Really everything is for sale for a price.) So I told Dear Hubby about the table and my thoughts on an offer. He told me to buy it. When asked if he wanted to see it, he told me if I wanted it to just buy it. It would be fine.

    I am off to try my hand at World Domination. I will let you know if I am successful..

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  9. Good morning, all. Y’all are up early today. Becca awoke around 4:30 complaining of a sore throat. I think it’s hurting from post-nasal drip due to allergies–there’s tons of stuff in the air down here in Houston currently. She was saying she couldn’t possibly go to school today until I reminded her it is her teacher’s birthday–when she jumped up to make her a card! She really loves her teacher (thank goodness something is going right this year! 🙂 ). We’re going to the store for flowers (the room mother requested each kid bring two flowers that she’s going to arrange and put in a vase) on the way to school and we have a Yankee Candle for a present. She’s all excited now….it’s amazing how quickly she’s recovered!!!! 🙂 🙂

    I’m headed to Navasota today with L.’s horse trainer to check out the venue for a show October 13. Y’all have fun!

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  10. KIm, I hope MR. P knows that the house is going to be the way the woman wants it to be.
    “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Said an unknown genius.

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  11. Evening all. It is getting late here but I hear the sweet sound of rain on the roof. Oh delight!!
    Aj, this is the evening that I didn’t check and you posted early, oh, well.
    I have been making cinnamon craisin bagels. I have only made bagels once perhaps 20 years ago, so it took me awhile. They are very strange looking, nothing uniform about them. Good thing that they are just for me. I will slice them tomorrow and freeze them for later.

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  12. The problem is that he has been single most of his life except for the 9 years (combined wives) he has been married. It is a “discussion” for another day. I have decided to let him jam two LARGE sofas, a club chair and ottoman, end tables, a china cabine and a buffet all in one room. Then we can decide what goes where. He can have the garage. He is beside himself on that one. The former home own has LOTS of storage areas above, peg board with hooks and LABELS for where everything goes. There are cabinets around the perimeter of the double garage and even rafters to hang the kayak from. It is a man’s dream garage. It seems though there will not be room for my truck. 😉

    Lucky for me he can’t wait to get into the empty house and clean and sanitize it to his satisfaction. It is taking all Lesee and I can do to keep him from doing that until the ceiling is fixed in one of the bedrooms. She and I have been around enough new construction to know that it can mess up a whole house with drywall dust and everything else. What is the point of cleaning before that is completed. We do have the utilities switched over.

    Life is good and he is still a Sweet Man. This coming weekend will be our one year anniversary and I have decided to renew his lease for another year or so. All things considered he is a keeper.

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  17. Kim, the farm table sounds wonderful. I love “rustic.” Can’t wait to hear how (or if) everything fits the way it’s supposed to 😉 But what a blessing to have someone carrying the major moving load for you. I absolutely hate moving — probably because most of it falls on me alone. 😦 Ugh. But I just hate asking anyone to help as moving is (in my mind) one of the worst ways to spend a day or a weekend or whatever.

    So I’ve decided if I ever have to move again, i’ll try to get married first.

    I have a phone interview to do here from home at 8 and then I’m off to cover a 9 a.m. meeting, then the 1 p.m. Cirque tent raising (it got postponed from yesterday), then in between all that I’ll write maybe 2-3 stories.

    But the rest of the week should generally be downhill from there. 😉

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  18. We don’t have a large farm table. We have an oak table that seats ten and a plastic table that seats six. They are end to end but don’t all fit into the dining room. One extends into a bedroom. That is where I sit. I can see husband down at the other end even without a spotting scope though.

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  19. Elvera is always amused by the “rustic” thing. She thinks rustic is an old place with an outside toilet, a well from which you derw water and two blankets on a winter night to keep warm.
    She prefers modern, especially with microwave, washing machines and central heat.

    I heard on the radio that Tom Clancy is dead. He was a young man. Sorry to hear that. I read most of his books.

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  20. AJ — Thank you. Hope you can get some rest sometime today, or a good night’s sleep tonight. Or both. 🙂

    Mumsee — (10:22) LOL! It does sound like I said that, doesn’t it? 😉

    Regarding room decor: we have a mattress on our living room floor. Long story and no time to tell it, but it works for us. 😉

    For the other classical music fans here, this is my sightreading piece for today from Beethoven. The “Hammerklavier” Sonata, 1st movement. Don’t you just love that name Hammerklavier? I’ll be hammering away at this today for probably as long as Mumsee thinks I read my Bible. 😉

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  23. Tom Clancy ? That’s so sad — they were telling me at our historic WWII battleship that their plan someday was to take him as a special guest to the very top of the ship someday … Guess he’d shown an interest in it.

    Rustic has all the modern conveniences but it looks, well, farm-y. 🙂

    I have friends on a farm back east (very large family that’s now growing by leaps and bounds again) who bought a long Amish-made table that you can shorten or lengthen as required by extending with panels or sliding them underneath. When it’s at its full length it’s super long, but they have a very big kitchen with a fireplace, everything fits well.

    My table is a smallish trestle table (it transitions nicely as a computer and Bible study work table as well). Plain, simple — and the perfect size for my needs.

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  25. Mumsee, your table works quite well and your children have excellent table manners.
    Mr. P mentioned going to Idaho recently. He would love to see the state. I explained where you live. He is quite the handyman. Start making your list of honey-dos. You might see me again sometime…just not anytime soon!

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  27. Well, thank you, sir 🙂

    Sixth Arrow has finished reading the first Nature Reader to me now. She sets her mind to something and there’s no stopping her.148 pages in 3 days! We did take a few breaks 😉

    Time for me to head to the piano — after I follow along in the score while listening to the video AJ fixed. Yay! 🙂

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  29. Good day, all. I had an adventure last night. I woke up with bad chest pains and arm/shoulder pain around 2am. Hubby and I tried the antacid, the sitting up, checked my blood pressure and pulse and at 3 decided to go in to emergency. Just as we got to town (around 4) the pain started to lessen. The nurses were awesome – got me in quick, gave me aspirin, took bloodwork, chest x-ray, ecg, inserted an IV in case it was needed (OUCH- it took 2 tries) and hooked me up to all the monitors. Everything came back normal and the pain was mostly gone by the time the doctor poked his head in. He suggested it might have been bronchial spasm (?!). Any how, I’m fine (except for a cough) and I now know why women do NOT go in to emerg when they are having a heart attack. The doctor had no bedside manner and made me feel silly for going in. Believe me, I do not go to the hospital for just anything. I must say, again, the nurses were especially sweet and understanding.

    We got back home again at 7:30, I showered and left for work at 8:30. It is now nap time. Have a good evening.

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  30. 6arrows, I remember when my daughter was learning to read. She would do the required reading each day (out loud to one of us) and get her paper signed by us that she had done her reading. She was quite a good reader and was leading her class in the number of pages read. One day it suddenly dawned on her that if you thought about what you were reading, it meant something and became a story. I had no clue she was just reading the words and not taking in the stories. After that moment, you could not find her without a book of some sort! Kids! 🙂

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  32. Kare, glad you weren’t having a heart attack! But how frustrating, that doctor and his attitude.

    I was having chest pains when I was pregnant with 3rd Arrow, but didn’t go in right away. In fact, I didn’t go until the day after the pains started. Not a good idea, that. But when I did go in, everyone was good about telling me that it was good I came in, though nothing showed any problem with my heart. (I was having a bad reaction to caffeine that was in a huge cup of lemonade I’d had the day before, was what they figured.)

    They didn’t do all those things you had done, though. I’m not sure if it was because I was only 33 at the time, and they didn’t think a heart attack was very likely, or because the pain had lasted a long time, but wasn’t really getting worse, or what. But everyone was nice about it all, fortunately.

    I enjoyed your story about your daughter reading. 🙂 I was wondering if 6th Arrow would comprehend what she was reading when she got to creatures she wasn’t as familiar with through hands-on experience. I was reassured, though, when she’d get to the end of pages and — this was kind of cute — sometimes at the end of a page, there would not be an end of the sentence she was on, a new concept for her, turning the page before the sentence ended, and she would try to predict how the sentence ended before she turned the page. Most of the time she was right about how the sentence would end (having the gist of the meaning, if not the exact words).

    However, today when she was reading, a mayfly was briefly mentioned in one of her stories. Yesterday, she had read a whole story devoted to the mayfly, but today, after its brief mention, she said, “What’s a mayfly?” 😉

    I think her brain got a little overloaded yesterday, reading something like 60 pages in about three installments. 😉 She loves it, though, so I just let her. And a little more discussion on my part probably would have been a good thing. 😉

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  35. Oh my word Kare…did you see my post a couple weeks ago on the Prayer thread…the exact thing happened to me and I had the exact tests you had…all coming back “normal” and they couldn’t figure out what happened to me….hmmm…must be in the drinking water around here or something!! Glad you are ok….that is a scary experience!!

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  36. nancyjill: remember when jury duty was in the drinking water around here? I’d prefer that 🙂 Just googled bronchospasm – it involves shortness of breath which I did not have at all. In fact I was playing with the respiratory monitor, trying to make the graph do funky stuff by breathing fast or slow etc. 🙂

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  37. Drinking water: I got a jury summons last week. Gotta report on Oct. 28.

    Glad you’re OK Kare (and I do remember nancyjill’s similar experience that she posted about) — weird. I think there’s been so much publicity about heart attack symptoms (which is good) that we don’t realize other things can mimic it.

    I had a super long (10 hours) and full day today — starting with that 8 a.m. phone interview from home, then the 9 a.m. meeting to cover then the tent raising to cover then writing 3 stories. Whew.

    Met a pr guy in person today whom I’ve talked to on the phone quite a bit lately, super nice guy, always nice to put a face with the voice. Made reference to his ‘husband’ a few times. 😉

    I still need to feed and walk the dogs I’m afraid. But I’ll sleep well tonight. Of course, I have no stories planned tomorrow so now I’ll have to start from scratch and find something. Although there is a 90-year-old GP (still practicing) I’m supposed to do a story on …

    Is the government still shut down? (AJ, some things just never change.) 😦 😦

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  38. oh, a nice hard rain is coming down right now. The other rain we got was lighter and really soaked into the ground. This is the kind that quickly fills water tanks. Praise the Lord!!!

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  39. So glad you’re getting that much needed rain, Jo. We’ve had rain the last couple of days – hadn’t even had 1/2 inch since the end of June – much needed here too 🙂

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