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Our Daily Thread 10-14-13

Good Morning!

Happy Columbus Day!

And for our Canadian friends, Jour de l’Action de grâce.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have no idea if I have that used properly or not because I don’t speak French. 🙂

On this day in 1912 Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt’s wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech.  😯  William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.

In 1926 the book “Winnie-the-Pooh,” by A.A. Milne, made its debut.

In 1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.

In 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-range missile sites in Cuba. 

And in 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.

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Quote of the Day

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

William Penn

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My statement above brought this to mind.

“But I must go into the world and do noble things for the good of all. And you can’t come because you don’t speak French.”

It’s Cliff Richard’s birthday.

It’s also Justin Heyward’s. He’s the singer.

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Anyone have a Question of the Day?

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-14-13”

  1. Morning all. I love Winnie ther Pooh. There is always a Tigger in my class.
    Getting sleepy, must be close to bedtime. Hope you all wake up soon.

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  2. The Kid loved Winnie-the-Pooh when he was small. His stuff Pooh Bear was his favorite toy. When we went to Disney World when he was three, we had to get autographs from of all the Winnie- the-Pooh characters. I have an adorable picture of him showing Tigger his Tigger tee shirt.

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  3. Good morning everyone. I have searched high and low for a copy of Burl Ives singing “That’s My Heart Strings, That’s My Boy”. Yesterday while we were at my stepmother’s I asked about all the record albums Daddy had. She told me to sort through them. I FOUND IT! It was a double album sleeve and on the second record there was the song listed! The only problem is that only one record was in the sleeve and it wasn’t the one with the song. Also, there would have been the problem of what to play it on if I had found it.

    So there is my Question of the Day:

    Is there something from your childhood you remember or have searched for? Have you found it or not?

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  4. Kbels, that does sound like an adorable picture. I have a picture of my son with a praying mantis crawling on his cheek. He has a mixed expression like this is awesome and creepy—pun intended—all at the same time.
    Good question for today. What is your favorite picture you have of your children or of your nieces and nephews?

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  6. Kim, I have a a reoccurring dream at times about trying to get back to the home of my youth and it usually involves various forms of transportation and when I finally get there no one is at home. That is what your question brought to mind for me. I don’t think of anything else. I did not have a lot of material things when growing up so I did not have much attachment to things.

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  7. I strike out in both questions. I don’t have a favorite picture of Chuck or the girls. I think that’s a girl thing.
    Also, I can’t think of a thing from my childhood that I want back.
    I mentioned on yesterday’s R&R that yesterday was Chuck’s 55th BD. He had to work 12 hrs.

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  9. Along with pictures of The Kid with the Pooh characters we have one of him at a local railroad museum with Thomas the Tank engine. One day the little boy down the street was looking the pictures over and he told me, “That’s not really TIgger and Pooh, it’s just some guys in costumes, but that’s the real Thomas the Tank Engine.”

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  10. Sorry to dominate the thread this a.m.
    I wrote in my prayer journal earlier. In praying for Karen O’s situation, I was reminded of how in one apartment I lived in, two families shared a space by rotating use of the space because one family worked days and the other worked nights. I don’t know if there could be a partial sharing of some of the tenant’s area as a way of weaning them out of the home. There would have to be a common area with rules about leaving the space neat and tidy for the next user. I also have had the experience with sharing space at church with different people having to share a room for different purposes. It may not be feasible for you but I thought the possibility worth sharing.

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  12. My hubby has a favortie picture of our younger girl. The older one convinced her, when she was about three, that coloring her face with markers would be a good idea. (The older one didn’t admit her own involvement until years later.) So their mom saw the colorful face and called their dad, who grabbed his camera and took a photo of a girl with downcast eyes and colors scribbled all over her face.

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  13. Winnie the Poo was the first book I read to Chuck. He sat on my lap and laughed and laughed. I think he read it himself a couple of times when he learned to read.
    His girls were more into Barbies.

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  14. “That’s not really TIgger and Pooh, it’s just some guys in costumes, but that’s the real Thomas the Tank Engine.”

    Oh, the cute sayings of children!

    My favorite is of my son when he was 10 months old. We were driving to Arizona from Missouri, and he had been in his car seat for several hours. When I stopped for gas, I put him in the driver’s seat so he could play with the steering wheel. While washing the windshield I looked and he had this adorable look, standing on the seat holding the wheel like he was actually driving the car.

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  15. As for the childhood QoD: I think I would like to have a lot more time with my mother. She died when I was 7, so I guess I won’t ever find it again.

    But then, if she had lived, we would probably all still be members of a dead Roman Catholic church. I see the messes that my cousins have all become and am glad the Lord has better plans for us than we do.

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  16. Hi gang,

    It’s been a while.

    QoD1: I wasn’t looking for it, but living in the house I grew up in, we pulled some carpet and there was the original tile underneath. I knelt down, rubbed my hand across it and floods of memories came rushing back. Both my brother and sister stopped by that day for one reason or another and I sent them into the room that used to be my grandmother’s. Both of them did the same thing I did with the same result.

    QoD2: We have a classic pic of three of our kids at elementary school age in sheer terror. We were in a cabin in the mountains and hubby jumped out of a woodbox, camera in hand, at the climax of a scary story I was telling. It is a whole family fave.

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  17. Good morning. Neat stories today. 🙂

    Jo, thanks for your prayer and comment last night. I got back to bed maybe about an hour after I posted, and slept well for approximately five hours, which was better than I thought I’d do. 😉 I took steps this morning to try to resolve the situation I mentioned (by sending a message to the person of whom I spoke). I’m hopeful that that should help if there was actually a problem.

    Hubby has the day off today, so that will be fun! Hope all of you have a great day!

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  19. Things from my childhood that I want back. I want back my 1968, Ossi Blau, 912 Porsche! I lost it to a drunk driver and a driver who had been drinking on the I-5 Golden State Freeway by the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles.

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  20. The drunk driver stopped halfway in my lane of traffic. I stepped on the brakes and the flatbed truck driver, who had at least 1 beer, hit me. I was knocked out and my car then proceeded to hit the guy who had stopped partially in my lane. The Highway patrol found him a half hour later in Griffith Park, drunk. Jesus Chavez, the same name as my Drill Instructor in Fort Bliss, TX.

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  23. QOD1 reminded me of a book I’ve been trying off and on for a few years to identify, one I read when I was probably 8 or 10 in the mid-60’s. I’ve Googled it without success. The problem is I don’t remember the title or the author, only a little bit of the story line.

    It was about a boy who spent summers with his Grandmother out in the country, maybe on a farm. One summer he met an alien, specifically a Martinian (not a Martian), who had landed in the vicinity in some sort of spacecraft. The alien looked anough like a human boy that the Grandmother thought he was a boy from the area. When Grandson tried to explain that the other “boy” was a Martinian, she thought he said the boy’s name was “Martin E. Ann”, so the boy became known as Martin. (I guess both her vision and her hearing weren’t the best.) The two “boys” had adventures whose details I do not remember, until the end of the summer when they both returned home.

    I think there was a sequel or two in which the boys were reunited in later summers.

    Does anyone else remember those?

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  24. Re-reading that brought to mind a grammar question: “I think there WAS a sequel or two” or “I think there WERE a sequel or two”? Neither one sounds right. This isn’t the first time “or” has caused me grammatical anxiety.

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  26. Kevin, try this site. My husband found it and looked up a book I’d loved as a child, knew only a bit of the storyline (a teacher read it aloud in class), and when he found mine he also looked up, and found, a book he too had loved as a child, and couldn’t remember the title. Worth a shot: http://www.loganberrybooks.com/solved-d.html (I don’t remember if this is the main page; I’m copying the link my husband sent to me, but I didn’t open it today.)

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  27. QoD 1: I haven’t searched for anything from my childhood, but the question “Have you found it or not?” made me think of the U2 song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”. 😉

    QoD 2: We have a picture from back when 1st and 2nd Arrows were about five and two. They are sitting in a recliner together, with a small bowl of Teddy Grahams between them. Their faces appear almost expressionless as they’re eating the shared snack, but if you look really closely, there’s just the slightest terse set of their eyes as they each engage in the subtlest sideways glance at the other, making sure he or she is not eating more than his/her fair share. 😉 My husband and I chuckle every time we look at that picture.

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  30. I’m not seeing it.
    Donna, we are singing some old hymns with Dr. Farmer this week. It is priceless worship and lifts me up every time.
    I have a picture of my Katie hanging upside down which is the epitome of who she is.

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  32. I recently found a string pull top from a Christmas long ago (45 years?). My grandparents probably sent it from Pakistan when they were ambassadors there.
    I found it while perusing my Dad’s treasure room a few weeks back. I brought it home and promptly made a replica that actually worked. I even figured out why my first attempt to replicate it didn’t work.
    Now I’ve made three or four of them… You can see them on my Facebook page if you care to look.

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  33. I have never seen the like. Though I saw it a little while ago. I suspect the real has some spare time today.

    Where is your facebook page MIM?

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  36. I didn’t do it.

    I didn’t see it either.

    Hmmmm…..

    But there is one at the bottom of each post but I don’t have the option to do that on comments.

    Maybe they’ll have some new stuff coming. A comment count would be nice too.

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  39. From Yahoo News via Drudge. I knew this shutdown would eventually lead to disaster:

    😆

    By Roberta Rampton
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the famous White House kitchen garden, tomatoes are rotting on the vine. Herbs have gone to seed. And the sweet potatoes – a favorite of President Barack Obama – have become worm food.
    It’s another impact of the government shutdown, one that only the fox and the many squirrels that live on the White House grounds could love.

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