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Our Daily Thread 10-5-13

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday! 🙂

On this day in 1813 Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors. 

In 1921 the World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first  time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.

In 1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.

In 1969 “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” debuted on BBC television.

And in 1974 American David Kunst completed the first journey around the world on foot. It took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles.

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Quote of the Day

“Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.”

John Erskine

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Today is Wayne Watson’s birthday.

And it’s Steve Miller’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD for us today?

57 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-5-13”

  5. QoD
    Do you have any family traditions that don’t make sense to anyone but you/
    i.e. Something that defies logic if you had to explain it?
    Honey’s for us.
    Williamsburg also. We’ve been here a dozen times, at least. But we still come here. A tradition, but somewhat expensive for what we get.
    Every American needs to come here once.
    And visit Jamestown and Yorktown on the save trip.

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  6. Chas,

    We loved it, but it was sooo stinkin’ hot. Yuck. 😦

    Next time we’ll go in Nov. or March.

    Seriously, I don’t know how you southern folks live in that weather for so many months. I guess that’s why you’re always drinkin’ iced tea. Which by the way, again, Yuck.

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  7. AJ- I agree that having a little tea with your sugar is at times disgusting, but when it is so hot that you can fry an egg in your car, then anything cold tastes good.

    And I don’t know how you North-easterners can put up with 90° and 100% humidity without a/c. I remember visiting an aunt in West Haverstraw, NY. The sky was yellow due to the high heat and humidity. And stepping outside meant immediate sweat. Perhaps if one were used to being without a/c one would adapt.

    But try the Midwest. Yesterday it was near record heat at 88°. Today’s high was at midnight in the mid 70s. By tonight it will be in the 40s. Yeah, Mark Twain was right. If you don’t like the weather here then just wait a little, it will change.

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  8. Aj: How can you dislike iced tea?!? I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like it! However, I’ve never lived anywhere other than Texas and Florida–so perhaps that’s the reason. We drink gallons of the stuff. And, I’d much rather deal with warm weather for most of the year than have to shovel snow. Yesterday, we went swimming–it was 93 degrees! I’m so thankful God made the world so big and varied, so everyone can find their version of earthly paradise. I love sunshine and warm weather, so Houston is perfect for me, though I wouldn’t mind a little less humidity (but you can’t have everything, right?).

    Chas’ QoD: We don’t have many family traditions. I’m trying to establish more–so here’s an alternative QoD: What are your favorite family traditions?

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  9. Well, Hubby got an elk yesterday on his trip to New Mexico. We will soon have 300 pounds of elk meat in our freezer–that I need to learn how to cook! It’s supposed to be better than venison–so we shall see. The only parts of venison I like are the backstrap and link sausage. The good thing is, we’ll be able to give a lot of it to Connie (she loves venison, so should enjoy elk). Then, she can have a big barbecue with her friends. So, I feel happy about that. 🙂

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  10. The Real, the villagers would agree with your assessment of iced tea. They cannot understand how we can drink tea cold. They like their powerful green tea steaming, even on the most hot and humid days – three shot glasses of it, sweetened to syrup-like consistency with sugar. I drank it once or twice, but found I couldn’t sleep the night after and the next morning, I’d have a headache, the caffeine content was so high.

    Chas QoD: It isn’t an official tradition, but my extended family, when they get together, tend to go on pun runs. They use as many puns in a row as possible. My great uncle is the master, but my father and one of my siblings can keep it going for a while. One of the classics is at Christmas dinners when someone asks for the gravy. Someone will reply by quoting Scrooge, “There’s more gravy than grave about you” and the puns, and the groans, begin. Someone might say something about it being a grave situation, whereupon another person might retort that the subject of gravy has been beaten to death and so it goes from bad to worse. There is no logical reason we do it, it just seems to be a genetic trait that we can’t help. I remember my grandmother, a sweet, kind and gentle woman, remarking as we drove past a large graveyard, “People are just dying to get there.”

    Ann’s QoD: My favorite family traditions are storytelling and carol singing. The stories are family stories and thus true, or at least mostly true – there is often considerable comment about creative memories and whose memory was the most creative. We also love to sing the carols at Christmas. In fact, presents were not opened at our grandparents house until a decent number of carols were sung (and Isaiah chapter 9 was read). As an immediate family, we used to go caroling on Christmas Eve in the nursing homes. We stopped when the grandchildren started coming, but my siblings talk of doing it again when the children are big enough.

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  14. We have one really odd family tradition. We have a set of cousins, a brother and sister, who got in a big argument once when she called to fuss at him for not calling her on her birthday. His last words to her on that call were “By the way, Happy Darn Birthday!”, only he didn’t say darn. For some reason my brother found that so funny that every year on my birthday he calls and wishes me a Happy “darn” Birthday.
    Also, The Kid and i always make peep cupcakes on Easter.

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  15. This is or isn’t a family tradition but it is something I am dealing with today. My father brought my first Madame Alexander Doll to me in the hospital when I was born. It was Meg, from the Little Women. Over my lifetime it has expanded to about 75 or 80 of them. He brought one to BG in the hospital when she was born. They really have never been displayed exept for a few of them when she was younger. Most are still in their original boxes, although I have found some empty boxes and am not sure where the dolls are (probably in a box with the another doll). As far as I can tell I am the only person who cares about them but the sentimental value to me is enormous. I have both good and bad memories of them and was even able to claim this as a valuable collection when George and I applied for our first mortgage. Now you can find them on eBay for as little as 5 bucks.

    Do I continue to drag them around with me? Do I just keep the ones with the most meaning and let go of the rest? What do I do with them? They have lost value because of eBay and I also realize they are only valuable if you can find some sucker to buy them from you.

    What should I do?

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  16. I don’t care for iced tea, either. I will drink it, but it would not be my first choice. My daughter, who now lives in TN drinks iced tea without sugar, but with lemon. That way she can sweeten it her way. When we are down there we will still order coffee in the restaurants, although I also just stick more to plain water when out and about. Many restaurants have to make us a fresh pot, unless they are used to lots of tourists. I prefer my coffee and tea hot. Fresh is always good. It can very quite a bit in strength around the country, although, that may have changed some with all the new coffee shops.

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  17. I don’t like hot or iced tea, either. I think our side is winning.

    The hot winds are blowing out here today — wind chimes and clanging up a concert — and it’s dry as a stick, everyone’s on fire watch.

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  18. In my travels around the country I have discovered that there are at least three things you don’t want to order in a restaurant north of Kentucky or west of Texas; fried chicken, iced tea and barbecue ribs.

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  20. Kim, get rid of them! Keep no more than 5 – I’d say just keep that first one you received. It will be a weight lifted off your shoulders. Of course, I am less sentimental than most, but I do still have the blouse my dad gave me at 14 – one and only gift that was all from him alone. A blouse is also easier to store than doll boxes 🙂

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  22. I’ve been reading articles lately about these wonderfully small tidy homes–but I noticed in today’s fawning article, the couple are 28 and have no children. So, they don’t have years of family photos and so forth to haul around. I bet it’s all at their parent’s house!

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  24. I read on a blog written by a guy from California now living in Boston how to make Sweet Iced Tea. The amount of sugar he instructed be put in it could be used for glucose in the hospital.
    For a gallon of tea I put somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 cup sugar. I like iced tea unsweetened. I realize you are gasping at this point. I like hot tea several different ways but my favorite is with too much milk (did you know you NEVER put cream in hot tea?) and a little sugar. It is my cold weather drink of choice.

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  26. I didn’t know you could drink tea hot until I was out of college.

    In my experience, I agree with KBells @ 1:05

    Nobody smart enough in my family to come up with puns.

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  27. It’s appropriate to call your waitress a “serving wench” in Williamsburg. If black, she’s probably a slave; if white, likely indentured. In 2013, she will probably be a student at Wm & Mary.
    They make excellent beef stew. I didn’t taste any onions. I don’t understand that.

    Years ago, I was questioned when I said that Martin Luther nailed the 95 Thesis to the door of the Wittenberg chapel. They doubted that he would nail into a door. I said the doors were thick and that was the custom. Not this time, but soon after the discussion, I measured the door of the W & M chapel. The door was over two inches thick around the frames, and at least an inch thick throughout.
    Noooo. I didn’t say, “He used Scotch tape dumbkoff”

    Oboma has closed the parkway drive from Williamsburg to Jamestown and Yorktown. I expected the park offices to be closed. But there is no reason to close the parkway. It’s just a road with no services along the way. It’s an evil thing to do. Just meanness

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  28. I saw that the levee down by Lewiston is closed. A place where people run and walk their dogs and such. No services there, but it is closed. The people pick up after themselves and their dogs so no need to close it. But it was nonessential, I suppose. And cost nothing open or closed.

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  29. Clarification on that 94 degree thing. That’s what my car ourdoor thermometer said. It is not official.

    It isn’t just shutting down the road that Obama is doing. He’s trying to hurt everybody he doesn’t like, especially soldiers & sailors.

    U.S. troops deployed worldwide won’t get to watch their favorite pro sports teams while the government is closed for business.

    The American Forces Network will not broadcast Major League Baseball playoff games or this weekend’s NFL games during the government shutdown, according to its Facebook page.

    “We determined we do not have a sound policy or legal basis to air the sports channels at this time because it is not deemed critical to … military operations and activities,” the post reads. “In essence, we think we should walk a careful line on not providing any programs beyond the news/information realm, which can be clearly tied to direct support of force protection, situational awareness and readiness.”

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/armed-forces-network-football/2013/10/05/id/529464?ns_mail_uid=42135&ns_mail_job=1540445_10052013&promo_code=15186-1

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  30. We don’t have strange traditions….traditions yes…but they aren’t strange 🙂 .. to us anyway!
    I love Iced tea…no sweetener….and I drink hot tea as well….I love sassafras tea, hot or cold. And to keep a nasty cold at bay, I drink echinacea tea…
    It’s cold here…but the snow for the most part has melted….the water in the bird bath is frozen solid…the petunias are frozen and sad…that’s the end of flower season….the deer ate the last of my knock out roses…we’re all done for the year… 😦

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  32. Hi all,

    Haven’t been here for awhile.

    I don’t like iced tea. I really don’t like tea at all, but will drink it hot if I have to … preferably unsweetened. I wish I liked it.

    My husband adores sweet tea. His family (although not him) were from Texas.

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  33. Have had a lovely time the last few days reading through A Pioneer Christmas Collection. And just caught up on Michelle’s blog. What fun to read about the plotting that went into the writing. Thanks.

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  37. Kim that is interesting about knockouts…two years ago our local popular nursery had no idea what I was talking about when I asked about knockout roses…now they carry them! They say deer won’t eat them…not true…but, I love the knockouts because they are no fuss…and they keep blooming…a constant candy supply for our deer!

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  38. Sunday is almost over here. Just two days left of the school break. I got my last big project done tonight as I just sent a newsletter off for checking before I send it out. Such a relief. I only do newsletters during school breaks, so it was time.

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  39. If we were in NC, we would be on our way to early church. Instead we will wait around till 10:: and go to Walnut Hill BC here in Williamsburg. Not a tradition, just the church we attend when we visit here.
    I’ve told you before, some of the people at FBCMB recognize us because we attend there a couple of times a year. More regular than some members.

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  40. Good morning, Chas. Good evening, Jo. There will be no church for us today as Becca is sick again. She’s had really bad allergies since Friday, but it seems to have developed into some sort of upper respiratory infection this morning. She’s full of phlegm–coughing it up, etc, so I don’t think anyone would appreciate having her around their children! Besides, she feels rotten. She went to bed last night at 8:30 on her own accord, even though Monica and her daughter were here to spend the night. She slept in my bed. I ended up on the couch b/c her snoring was super loud. I had the humidifier on, but it didn’t seem to help much.

    We all went to see the movie, Grace Unplugged, last night. Everyone enjoyed it (except Becca, who was extremely bored; it was a little old for her). It was so nice to see a movie that treated Christianity with respect. I’d read a review of the movie from World and really wanted L. to see it. I’m glad we went. It was a low budget film, but didn’t seem that way. I’d recommend it for anyone with female tweens/early teens.

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  41. Had to get back up because I remembered a picture that really told a story. So I deleted a meaningless picture and added this wonderful one from when the class did Chapel. Much better now. God is so good as He brings this to mind.

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  42. Ah, Chas, if you’re in Williamsburg you should go to church there on in the village! Sit in Thomas Ballard’s pew.

    We were there about ten years ago and I took pictures of my kids in the pew. I then asked the docent if we could go into the graveyard and look for an ancestor’s grave. (They were renovating that year and it was closed–how do you renovate a graveyard?)

    She rolled her eyes and asked me for the name and other information. I told her Thomas Ballard, member of the House of Burgess, father of . . . and reeled off twelve generations to me.

    She didn’t care, the answer was no.

    I didn’t understand what the deal was until we were walking away and I overheard a young couple approaching the church. “Hey, let’s go in and tell them we’ve got an ancestor buried in the graveyard. Surely they’d let us in?”

    There are things about people I will never understand . . .

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  44. Michelle, then you know that the pews were owned by certain people. And members of the House of Burgesses got the front pews. Bruton Parish is an operating Episcopal church and not part of Colonial Williamsburg, but they allow visitors. They ask for a $1.00 donation from each visitor. Everyone in Williamaburg was a member of that church in those days. Baptists were in jail. The Church of England was the official religion in Virginia in 1776.

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  45. This was our priest’s first Sunday back after a month long sabbatical. He said he was power washing his deck and it scared his young (less than a year old) Lab, so he put the dog in the house. Someone showed up for a visit, so by the time my priest was able to go back in the house the puppy had scredded his Bible and chewed up his reading glasses. It contained notes in the margins from various things. He said right in the midst of all that he heard God tell him it was time for a new word, at least that is what he thought he heard AND it kept him from kicking the dog!

    He started out today with a new Bible. He was able to salvage the ribbons from the old one so he can mark his place.

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  47. I don’t like tea at all, hot or cold, except spearmint (which is 100% unavailable in stores; I’ve checked in three states over 20-some years, and the best I can find is “mint,” which includes both peppermint and spearmint and doesn’t taste like spearmint) and fruit-flavored teas (e.g., raspberry).

    Kim, not the same thing, but I had a stuffed raccoon collection, 25 or 30 of them. It was started in college; we had only two or three stuffed animals, collectively, when I was a child. I debated what to do with them when I married and ended up keeping only my six or eight favorites. They’re in the closet, and if we ever have a guest room they’ll probably go there.

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  48. Monday morning here and I’ve been to market. So nice that I could go a little later.
    I use herbal teas when I have a cold. Especially throat coat tea with echinea (sp?).

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  49. I like tea. Hot, cold, even lukewarm. Earl Grey & Chai (or Chai Spiced) are favorites. My current sweetener is stevia.

    Tough day today. Haven’t slept well in several days, & it caught up to me today. Throw in some interpersonal tensions. Not a good combo.

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  51. Kim: I guess I’m a lot more sentimental than most, but I’d save the dolls for a granddaughter, especially since they’re in such good condition. I had a collection of the same dolls as a girl–and now my daughters each have a few they really seem to treasure. (Mine burned in a house fire as an adolescent and we never replaced them). Anyway–that’s my two cents! 🙂

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  52. I’m late to this thread this weekend.

    Traditions: One that we’ve enjoyed is reading from all four gospels during Holy Week, comparing the gospel writers’ accounts of Jesus’ triumphal entry and all that happened leading up to His death and resurrection, plus His post-resurrection appearances. We’ve had that tradition for most or maybe all of our homeschooling years, and it’s something I look forward to doing each year.

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  57. Gallons of iced tea are drunk in my house during the (not long enough!) Buffalo summers. But NONE of it comes near sugar or lemon!! We like it strong and cold!!

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