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Our Daily Thread 10-26-13

Good Morning!

The weekend has arrived! 🙂

On this day in 1825 the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York.  

In 1854 Charles William Post was born. He was the inventor of “Grape Nuts,” “Postum” and “Post Toasties.” I’ve always wondered who was to blame for Grape Nuts. Now I know.

In 1881 the “Gunfight at the OK Corral” took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.

In 1951 Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.

In 1962 the Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.

And in 1977 the experimental space shuttle Enterprise successfully landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

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Quote of the Day

“Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull’s-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.“

Pat Sajak

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Today is composer Domenico Scarlatti’s birthday. So classical guitar it is, played by Vladimir Gorbach.

Today is also Keith Urban’s too. So here he is with a bunch of guys.

And just for fun, another from Scarlatti, from Elaine Comparone. She’s very good.

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Anyone have a QoD?

42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-26-13”

  1. hmmm…. sorry, I almost never doubt your facts, but Winston Churchill was Prime Minister during WWII and it was over by 1951. Perhaps that is when he left office?
    So welcome to Saturday everyone. A very rainy day here which is unusual. Our rain usually only lasts an hour or two and today it has been off and on most of the day. Of course the temperature remains the same.
    I hear that next week we will be an hour closer. 🙂

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  2. Jo,

    You’re right!

    But………

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

    “Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, Hon. RA was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.”

    While most people know he was the PM during WWII, few know he had a “second term” a few years later. I didn’t either until last night. 🙂

    That one was kind of tricky. 🙂

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  3. thanks, I knew that he lost after the war, but didn’t know that he then got a second term later.
    Learn something new everyday. maybe this is because I only read the first half of his two part biography. The library here didn’t have the second book.

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  8. Good morning all. I knew that about Winnie. In history things always get messier and more gray after war. Sheesh, look at the American south after the Civil War as just one example. It is a much stickier wicket to build nations than to tear them apart. That phase takes the bravest and boldest leaders.

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  10. “Never give up. Never, never, never give up!” I believe that is a Churchill quote.

    Tombstone calls itself “The town too tough to die.” It lives on because of the OK Corral gunfight bringing tourists form all over. About 20 miles Southeast is the county seat, Bisbee, Arizona. At one time it was the largest town in Arizona with over 10,000 residents. There was a major mining operation there. In 1902 or thereabouts, the mining company moved the entire town so it could expand the open pit. Now there is a beautiful hotel in downtown built about that time. Of course, the mine went out of business 50 some years ago, and the town started to die. But then in the 70s, artists moved in and took over. Another nearby city is Sierra Vista, home to a large Army base, and in those days the fastest growing city in Arizona, Some people from there bought the old Victorian mansions for very little and restored them. Then during the bad economic times in the 80s, the town needed something to keep it going, other than being the county seat and having a huge open-pit lavender mine in the middle of it. So tey tried to promote tourism to a little success. Someone came up with an interesting slogan, playing off of Tombstone.s: “Bisbee, the town too dumb to die.”

    If you ate ever in Southern Arizona and want to see an Old West town without all the tourist trappings, take the scenic route through Bisbee. It really is an interesting little town in a small valley. Because it has very steep hills, it has the building which at one time was in the Guinness book (maybe still is) as being the only 5 story building with a ground floor entrance on each level. It is the old high school.

    There. You now have somewhere to go that you never knew about before.

    Disclaimer: This promotional message was brought to you by a former resident of Southern Arizona, but in no way can be taken at full true value because I may have forgotten a few facts in the 30 years since I lived there.

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  11. Good afternoon everyone. I just posted the last of the Living by the Book Series on Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth. I also posted the entire video series via You Tube. I hope everyone here is blessed by the ministry of the late Dr. Hendricks. If ever we need personal Bible Study and application is now. If America is to be saved, it will only happen when the children of God start living by the Book. God Bless everyone and I hope you are fed and nourished by your Pastor Teacher tomorrow and may the teaching help and challenge you. I know my Pastor Teacher challenges me when I am fed by the ministry of his teaching.

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  12. Anyone ever compare Post Raisin Bran to Kellog’s? I love Post but think Kellog’s tastes like cardboard. That would be a pretty lame QoD. 🙂

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  16. I don’t like the boxed raisin brans because the makers think they need to put a sugar coating on an already sweet fruit. And some of the cheaper brands seem like the raisins were baked with the cereal, making them hard. No, I buy regular bran flakes and add the raisins myself.

    Something I have always wanted to know, though. At least one brand says it has “plump, juicy raisins.” I wonder, how can a dried fruit be juicy?

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  17. I got the last box of Raisan Bran here. Won’t be any more for half a year probably.
    FYI: Ukarumpa, where I live, has a facebook page. If you go there and scroll down there is a picture of Ukarumpa from the air that I took. The plane circled back and I was able to get the whole valley. To the left is my view. The page administrator posted the pic. I teach one of his kids.
    Primary school is in the upper right corner.

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  22. thanks Donna. Of course you noticed my house on the hill???! I showed that picture to my students and two of them are from the valley to the left and showed me their homes.

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  26. they are all the same Ukarumpa. It has my name next to the one I took. The web site I usually visit has fewer members and doesn’t have the old time pictures.

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  28. Chas, I have been away since 3:45 and finally got out of bed at 5:30. I have packed up the bathroom and scrubbed it. I am “cleaning my way out” of this house. Yesterday I hauled a lot of out things over to the new house. I didn’t realize that the last weekend of the month means there isn’t a U-Haul to be rented in all of the county. We are using my trailer and one I borrowed. I scrubbed at the new house, put the kitchen to order, both bathrooms are clean and stocked with freshly laundered towels.
    I have come to realize that sometime in the past year I entered over into the “ain’t no Spring Chicken” realm of adulthood. My arches hurt and my feet cramped last night. My right knee hurts when I squat to pick something up, and my back hurts when I bend over to scub the tub. I am sounding like my grandmother!!!!
    Of course I do remember that my Sweet Husband is doing a lot of the same things I am doing with what is considered a failed back fusion. He doesn’t complain nearly as much as I do.

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  29. Time for bed here, to be ready for school in the morning. Those kindergartners have so much more energy than I do. Tomorrow is my aide Wendy’s birthday. so I am taking a cake and a box full of goodies.

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  32. Donna: My dad loves R.C. Sproul. I’ve only read one book by him, on predestination, which I enjoyed.

    Kim: I hope you are able to get some rest later today! I have always hated moving. It’s very stressful.

    We went to late church today. The sermon was on the importance of getting one’s finances in Godly order.

    I will begin homeschooling Becca tomorrow. I’m looking forward to officially withdrawing her from our local public school. I’ve been wanting to do it since last year! Testing for private school did not go well. But, I’m glad she did it as I’m now aware of what we need to focus on. We’ll be doing some remedial work to close the gaps uncovered in the testing, hopefully moving on to second grade work in a few months. I won’t have the actual curriculum until Thursday (Saxon math, Shurley grammar, Abeka readers), but feel I can wing it for the first few days. She’ll be attending Step by Step from 1-3 daily, during which time they have social studies, science, art and P.E.. The principal was one of the nicest women I’ve met in a long time. They’ve had other homeschool families do it this way before and it worked out well. Once Becca catches up, I plan to enroll her there full-time. Whether it takes one or two years of homeschooling remains to be seen.

    I heard the last part of a sermon on Christian radio after I dropped Becca off for testing Friday. It was all about how God equips those He calls. I have doubted my ability to do this and it felt like the message was being spoken directly to me. Then, I prayed to God, begging Him to make clear what would be best for Becca at the current time. The school had originally told me the testing would take two hours; they called 40 minutes after I dropped her off to say she was ready to be picked up. I immediately knew it had not gone well. What I wasn’t expecting was the compassionate response from the principal. She went over the test she’d administered and Becca’s responses. After that, she said she was concerned about my little girl and recommended I homeschool her for the remainder of the year. God answered my prayer Friday–I now have peace about my decision. God is so merciful.

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  33. Sounds like a good choice Ann. I have worked and worked with some kids, and found that they learn best with mom. They feel so secure and unthreatened with her. My kids stayed in my class, but it was the work they were doing at home that made the difference.

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  34. The homeschooling period will probably do much to boost her self-confidence. Sometimes there’s so much stress going on that either learning doesn’t happen — or the student crashes in the face of a test.

    We moved into Rom. 7 (1-6) today. Notes: “Christians are now called to serve in the ‘newness of the Spirit.’ What should be obvious to all is that the serving in the newness of the Spirit should not be inferior to serving in the oldness of the letter. The Pharisee should not out-study, out-obey, out-serve or out-love the Christian.”

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  36. Welcome to the homeschool ranks, Ann. 🙂 So glad God opened that door for you. I’ll be praying as you start your journey.

    AJ, loved the Scarlatti selections! Wow, some fast fingers on both the guitar and the harpsichord! I was impressed. 🙂

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  37. Lee & I finally decided we needed to set a “time frame” (couldn’t bring myself to use the word “deadline”) for our friends/tenants moving out. I emailed M that “Lee asks that we set a time frame for the end of January, so we all have an end in sight.”

    There have been a couple things that have disappointed me about how my friends have handled this. If I ever had this to do again, I would set a deadline from the beginning, a generous one, but still a deadline.

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  41. Honestly, I am praying that God will help them move sooner than the end of January. The end of November would be great! (But not very probable at this point.)

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