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Our Daily Thread 10-30-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1735 John Adams, the second President of the United States, was born in Braintree, MA. His son, John Quincy Adams, later became the sixth President of the U.S.

In 1875 the constitution of Missouri was ratified by popular vote.

In 1894 the time clock was patented by Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, NY.

1938 Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds” aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.

In 1945 the U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.

And in 1953 General George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Quotes of the Day

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

John  Adams

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Today is Bryan Goggin’s birthday. So Smalltown Poets it is.

For those interested, here’s the original radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” from 1938.

And it’s Gavin McGregor Rossdale’s birthday too. So one of my favorites, it’s Bush covering Floyd. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

46 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-30-13”

  4. I already got to it and my day is ending! My computer was hurting my eyes and I just figured out how to dim the screen. So nice.
    The firetruck came today and gave a demonstration. So fun for the kids.
    Heard some guidelines tonight for using social media, Hard to realize that every word is available to everyone.

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  6. Thanks, Jo. 🙂 I was reading all the dates posted above, and I wrote “First!” and it said I was on prayer requests, and I have no idea how that happened. What was right in front of my eyes was this thread.

    Today is Misten’s birthday. She is nine. She’s more mature and more obedient (usually . . . just yesterday she took advantage of my husband leaving the side gate open when he mowed, and she ran out, and pretended that she didn’t know the people calling her; minutes later, after we enticed her back, she ran right out the front door–it had been shut to but not closed all the way when we went out to retrieve her–and was even more dismissive of attempts to call her back, though she did run back through the gate that I’d left open for her a few minutes later), but she still is energetic and playful, and she still has a love of mischief. (“Mischief” in her case rarely means disobedience. She has never gotten into a trash can, for example. And a few days ago my husband and I got home and found that our daughter had left food at the very edge of the table–well within Misten’s reach, and it was food she likes–but she had not touched it, as she has never taken food from counter or table. But she will give you a look that says she’s laughing at you, and you have to laugh too.)

    It was two months later that I picked up a sweet, pretty puppy from her breeder, but for nine years this lovely collie has been part of my life. Nine years ago I got an e-mail from the breeder that the litter had been born: seven females and three males. Other than the breeder (who was going to keep one female and ended up keeping two), I had first choice of the females. Since I wasn’t looking to breed Misten, I was looking for different things than the breeder was, so in effect I had first choice out of seven females. The puppies were all sweet and friendly, and so I went ahead and chose the prettiest one.

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  7. Good morning. Today is my mom’s birthday. She is 73.

    Eleven days ago was my brother’s birthday, and eight days ago was one of my sisters’ birthday. So a lot of late October birthdays in my family of origin.

    QoD: Do you have any interesting birthday patterns in your current or original family?

    With my husband and me and our children, we have two birthdays in February, two in April, two in May (same day. 2nd and 4th Arrows), and two in September. I was the only one in September until 6th Arrow came along, so it was especially fun that she sort of “completed” the pattern.

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  10. Good morning, all. Good evening, Jo.

    QoD: Well, I don’t know of any patterns in birthdays in my family-of-origin, but there are some weird coincidences of birthdays with my best friend’s family: Our mothers have the same birthday, October 12, separated by about 20 years; Becca and Monica’s niece share the exact same birthday; and, Monica’s nephew was born on my birthday!

    Today is day three of our venture into homeschooling. So far, it’s gone better than I anticipated. Becca has had a really good attitude and has been very cooperative, thus far. She is an extremely strong-willed child, and I was afraid we would engage in power struggles, (which I’m sure will happen eventually), but, it’s been a surprisingly pleasant experience so far. I am glad we made this decision and that I have my husband’s support.

    Thanks for all the suggestions/information about homeschooling that were posted the other day. I know I didn’t post after writing a QoD, but I did read through the thread and thoroughly enjoyed it.

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  12. Cheryl, I appreciate and believe every word you said on your last post yesterday. I think with my comment about the faded beauty I. was just relating the tactic I would have used to make light of the Facebook comment made by MIM. I also have in my background a remembrance of an insurance salesman who once used some saying about a woman’s fading beauty as a reason to invest in insurance products so as to be financially secure in her older days. I still laugh when I think about that sales pitch.

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  13. Another birthday thing, my best friend’s birthday is within the month directly after mine so we were only about a month apart in age and our husbands were born in the same month.

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  16. Through a lady in our church, I often get e-mail updates from missionaries around the world. This, from a lady in Russia. I thought the cultural difference might interest some of you ladies, so I copied a portion of the message.

    “Everything is in full gear here. This past Saturday I visited three orphanages near St.Petersburg. We left early, around 6am. When I saw the sun rise in the car I exclaimed “Wow. I haven’t seen that in years!” I may not be a morning person but God has a sense of humor, because in the winter the sun will not rise until about 10:30am. Yes, you read that correctly, and since my language class starts at 9am …the sun rise will become a daily routine.
    Last week I had my first experience with going to a Russian doctor. Turns out I had a viral infection, the common cold if you will. What was my prescription you ask? Not to wear miniskirts for up to three days. The doctor typed and printed it for me. Women here always dress up. There could be feet of snow yet they will still go out in skirts and heels. If I was Russian, then his recommendation would be completely logical. I simply smiled and told him I would make sure to dress warmly for the next three days, leave the miniskirts at home.”

    She, BTW, will not see a sunrise in the summer, It will likely come up around 4 a.m.

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  17. In today’s lethal cultural confusion there is in fact no more important role than preaching to the choir, which otherwise would become demonized – in every sense – and would no longer know quite what song it was supposed to be singing at all.

    A bit of good advice by Melanie Phillips, a British woman quoted by Mindy Belz in World>/i>.

    Mindy, in the same article, says “Even in the vocal American right, not enough are willing to admit that the societal ground beneath their feet has shifted.”

    This is true, it is not so obvious in places like Hendersonville, NC. They still play morning hymns on the radio. But when I travel back up to Northern Virginia, it is obvious that the cultural ground has shifted.

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  19. Happy Birthday Misten! My two are 7 years old (Tess came with a firm birthday from previous owners, it was earlier this month; but Cowboy’s age is something of a guess since I adopted both of them as young adult dogs; based on info provided at the shelter in the high desert by the owner who turned him in — because he was moving — he also would be around 7, though).

    And speaking of dogs stealing food from the kitchen counter …

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  21. Thanks for the informative and helpful replies yesterday. Things have smoothed over, but have not been discussed. It just needed a little distance. Perhaps this evening after work… I’ll be more attentive and able to listen, and someone else won’t be so hurt.

    I’m always complimentary of my wife’s appearance. It always surprises me when she asks; “do you really think so?”

    And I’m always thinking: “Yes dear. I wouldn’t have said so otherwise.”

    I’ve always been leery of making an insincere compliment.

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  27. So, I may be on TV tonight 6-7pm, California time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xpq8SdaM8

    I’m driving three hours to get there and I required two hours of makeup training; we’ll see what happens! The others guests are Marci Seither, who is lots of fun and Cathy Elliot, a mystery writer I’ve not met before.

    I then drive home immediately to visit with a Navy wife friend I’ve not seen in 17 years, who is flying in tonight to stay with us! My wonderful husband will be in charge of that one! 🙂

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  28. Birthdays: My brother and I and our parents all have birthdays in an 8-week span from late August to late October, and all on the same day of the week every year. (We weren’t born on the same day of the week, but each year our birthdays fall on the same day.) This year it’s Sunday.

    We would kid my sister about being the black sheep. She was born in March, and her birthday is one day later in the week than the rest of ours.

    All my childrens’ birthdays are on the third of the month. That might be amazing if I had more than two children.

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  29. Delighted by birthday symmetry in our family:
    5/15
    5/25
    6/10
    6/15
    6/25
    We got an outlier the next month: 7/26!

    In September, my daughter-in-law has 9/11, 9/13, 9/17 and 9/20! I’ve got three of them, myself. 🙂

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  30. Some young friends of ours were married 5-15-2010.

    Our arrows have an interesting pattern to the days of the week on which they were born:

    1st Arrow: Sunday
    2nd Arrow: Friday (five days later, or two days earlier than 1st Arrow’s day)
    3rd Arrow: Wednesday (same pattern)
    4th Arrow: yep, Monday 🙂
    5th Arrow: you know what’s coming, right? Uh, huh — Saturday
    6th Arrow:

    Now, something you should know about 6th Arrow — she marches to the beat of her own drummer 😉 But you really want it to be Thursday, don’t you?

    My water broke on a Wednesday night. Late, like 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. So far, so good, right?

    Thursday at 7:30 p.m., I was STILL not in labor. Well, I don’t like induction, but the hospital staff told me it was time to start things going so I wouldn’t get an infection.

    3:10 Friday morning, she was born. So either Mom’s or Baby’s stubbornness caused us to miss Thursday and break the pattern. You decide 😉

    Still glad to have her, and all of them, right when they came. 🙂

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  34. I’m guessing you all know the above was me, 6 arrows. That comment maybe could be a little clearer — one of my arrows (Fifth) was born on February 7th. There isn’t a 7th arrow, in case anyone was wondering or likes to start rumors. 😉

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  37. I knew a woman who married for the first (and only) time at around age 40, and got pregant with their first (and, yes, only) child when she was 43. The baby was due around the time of her 44th birthday, and she was really rooting for that symmetry–it was not only her 44th birthday, but 10/10/10. But the baby was born two or three days later, instead.

    Oh, and here’s another “symmetry” from my family. I have four older brothers, and for a few years this happened:

    BB#2 married.
    Three years later BB#1 married, BB#2 had first child.
    Three years later BB#4 married, BB#2 had second child and BB#1 had first child.

    To continue the pattern, BB#3 should have married three years later and the other three each had a child, but alas that brother stayed single for thirty or so more years, the brother who married third waited only a bit over a year for his first child, and the other two brothers waited a little longer to have their subsequent children. But for a few years we had a definite pattern going. (I was almost 10, almost 13, and almost 16 when those brothers married, and thus quite interested in when nieces and nephews were born!)

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  39. Our only interesting birthday connection: third son was due Nov 15, which was second son’s birthday. We asked if he minded sharing, he said he did, so third son politely waited until December 26th (yes, that is a very long pregnancy and they told me they wanted to induce and I told them no thank you; he was also a very large baby). As that was quite close to Christmas, we thought it would be fun to have a six month birthday so he was not lost in Christmas. But that was first son’s birthday so we left it in December and never forgot him.

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  40. And i see the rumors have begun 😉

    some couple i heard about had three children, each about 13 months apart. The children’s birthdates were 7-7, 8-8, and 9-9 (the sequence may have begun one month earlier or later than what i wrote, but the pattern was the same, and i know 8-8 was one of the dates).

    1st and 3rd arrows have birthdays one day apart, and they share their half birthdays with an aunt and an uncle (my sister and my husband’s brother).

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  42. When was there shoe rationing???

    I got nabbed for jury duty on Thursday. Called in late today from work to check my status. When the recording got to the part about how I needed to be there at 7:45 a.m., I almost burst into tears.

    Making it more complicated, I need to finish an election story by the end of the week so I’ll have to work from the jury room as much as I can.

    And I think I figured out a way to make sure I stay off any jury. Carry my beat-up Bible with me all the time, reading it in the jury room, hallways, courtrooms, etc. 😉

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  44. mumsee, I’d definitely vote to acquit and let you go free.

    Does anyone else have the urge to hibernate during this time of year? Or is it just me who wants to crawl under the comforter every night and sleep for as long as possible?

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  46. I hereby charge Mumsee with rumor-mongering in the case of an alleged 7th arrow. Donna, are you going to serve on her jury?

    Oh, never mind. I guess you already voted to acquit.

    Free as a bird, that Mumsee… Carry on. 😉

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