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Our Daily Thread 11-8-13

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! 🙂

On this day in 1656 Edmond Halley was born.  Halley, an astronomer/mathmatician, was the first to calculate the orbit that was named after him. The comet makes an appearance every 76 years.

In 1805 the “Corps of Discovery” reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was lead by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory.

In 1887 Doc Holliday died at the age of 35. The gun fighting dentist died from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, CO.

In 1910 William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator.

In 1950, during the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15. 

And in 1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.

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Quote of the Day

“If somebody mistreats you, treat ’em good. That kills ’em.”

Bobby Bowden

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This first one covers 2 of today’s birthdays, Bonnie Raitt’s and Rickie Lee Hooker’s.

It’s Patti Page’s too.

Look out! Angry cat! in the selections at the end of the video. 🙂 ↑

Today is also Roy Wood’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD for us?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-8-13”

  3. Actually I am usually up at this time, just not necessarily online.
    My class was excited today since tomorrow is Carnival at the high school. I go to buy the good food and take some very cute pictures of happy children having fun.

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  5. Well you have to know that I like Angel from Montgomery. Bonnie Rait was in Mobile not that long ago.

    I have been awake since 3 so the kitchen is clean(er) and the coffee is made. I am training two agents today and need to boost up another who was really down yesterday.

    I may have mentioined this recently but Mr. P’s Middle Son has asked to come home for Christmas. Of course Dad and Evil Stepmother are paying for it, but it is a long way from last Christmas when I invited him and he told me he didn’t need strangers being kind to him just because it was the Holidays. He calls his dad quite frequently now. I still have nothing to do with him, but at least he is making an effort with his dad. I think you all know how I feel about family.

    I am participaitng in Notevember. I know some of you are on Facebook and see everyone posting what they are thankful for each day. This is different. You write a note card to someone each day and wow, you have to address it, put a stamp on it, and actually walk out to a mailbox to get it to them. Then you log it on the website and a donation is made to a charitable cause. One of my notes this week was to my stepmother (see there was a tie in) telling her how lucky I got when my dad married her!

    I KNOW it is possible for step children and step parents to have a good relationship. I have one with my own “Evil” Stepmother! Youngest Son will be with us for Thanksgiving and so will my stepmother so he can see that I am just patterning her!

    Wow, I just realized that with Baby Girl and Middle and Youngest Sons here for Christmas I will have a full house. Now, if we could just convince Oldest Son and Daughter in Law to bring Sweet Baby Boy we really would have a full house. Wouldn’t that be nice—or perhaps a disaster. “You just cain’t never tell”. 😉

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  6. Here I thought Doc Halliday was killed in the gunfight at the OK Corral 😉 That’s what happened to him in John Ford’s version of the fight in the movie ‘My Darling Clementine’. Henry Fonda was the lead character, Wyatt Earp, but Victor Mature’s cynical, bitter, lonely and doomed Doc Halliday was more interesting. Thus, art makes legend of history.

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  8. That might make a good Question of the Day – What is the worst historical alteration you have ever seen in a movie?

    For me it was the first and last time I watched ‘Braveheart’. Not only was the movie indecent, violent, and profane, but a worse mix-up of historical events and people would be hard to find.

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  11. Considering how poorly I fared last week with the pigskins, not sure if putting my guesses in would earn me anything over not putting them in, 🙂

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  12. Snow day for me today! Another 10 or so inches on top of the already snowy/ice roads means I’m staying home. I am very thankful we have a competent person who lives in town who can cover for me!

    I think I have a pretty good relationship with my stepmom. I just followed the example of both my parents whose fathers married again after losing their first wives.

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  13. QoD: The worst historical inaccuracy I can think of was “The Ten Commandments”. Why they thought they needed to add 2 hours worth of undocumented parts of Moses’ life, I don’t know. I suppose it was because they wanted to get their money’s worth our of Yul Brenner and Charlton Heston.

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  15. Peter – I had forgotten the ‘Ten Commandments’! The director, Cecile B. De Mille, liked over the top and he delivered it. He became famous as a film maker in the days before sound and censorship – I once saw one of his earlier movies and understood why censorship was introduced. The Charlton Heston version of the ‘Commandments’ was actually a remake of an earlier silent version – I can only imagine how much more historical alteration was done in that one.

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  16. It got down to 38 degrees last night here. Having not yet turned on the heat at home, it is 57 degrees in the house. Since we have heating bills to pay at the office and at home, I figure we can bundle up at home and save a mini-bundle. But I see we are scheduled to go down in the 20’s next week so guess that means time to hit the on button for heat.

    Will try a new guessing strategy, Peter. Maybe I will go for the team’s name closest to the beginning of the alphabet. Who knows?

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  18. Since this is a day to remember Reagan according to AJ’s post, I will mention the movie, The Butler. I have not seen it but have read it falsely portrays him as a racist. Did anyone here see it?

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  19. Janice, I haven’t seen it – no movie theaters nearby 🙂 But Reagan would probably have understood as an actor. The only movie of his I saw was fictionalized history, ‘ Sante Fe Trail’, where he played a young Custer (of Last Stand fame), alongside Errol Flynn as Jeb Stuart and Olivia de Haviland as Kit Carson Holliday.

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  20. Good morning. Hubby’s last vacation day today after two weeks off (plus the weekends before, between and after). I see the end in sight, too, for the projects I’ve been working on these past couple weeks. I think I may just be able to finish up today, barring anything unforeseen.

    Have a good day all. 🙂

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  21. I saw the Butler. It may have been written in an alternate universe. It was completely, historically inaccurate.
    That is what I hate about taking a historical event and shaping a movie around it. People will remember the history presented in the Butler and not venture to find out more. I also hated Disney’s Poccahantas for the same reason. NOTHING EVER HAPPENED BETWEEN HER AND JOHN SMITH!!!!!

    I just know that one day real soon a middle or high school history class will be watching the Butler and the teacher will be too uneducated to correct the mistakes.

    THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THEIR HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT

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  24. Kim, G. K. Chesterton agreed with you:
    ‘…there is a real danger of historical falsehood being popularized through the film, because there is not the normal chance of one film being corrected by another film. When a book appears displaying a doubtful portrait of Queen Elizabeth, it will generally be found that about six other historical students are moved to publish about six other versions of Queen Elizabeth at the same moment… But few of us are in a position to pay the money required to stage a complete and elaborately presented alternate film version… The fiction on the film, the partisan version in the movie-play, will go uncontradicted and even uncriticized in a ways in which few provocative books can… And most of those who are affected by it will know or care very little about its being brought to book by other critics and critical methods… A false film might be refuted in a hundred books, without much affecting the million dupes who had never read the books but only seen the film.’ – ‘About the Films’, As I was saying.

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  26. Yesterday I attended a Georgia State Board of Education meeting about Common Core. If it is still on the website you can find a picture of us ladies at the end of the post about the meeting. I am the one on the right wearing red and black. Georgia fans would be proud that I wore their colors. Look up Concerned Women of America-Georgia. I would give a link but this Smart Phone has a mind of its own.

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  28. Peter, I won by picking teams that played in towns/states I had lived in, or that siblings had lived in, and going with “first in alphabetical order” for the rest. For the tie-breaker scores, I took a score someone else had posted and added one point to the higher guess. Or something like that. It was effective, and Anlir wasn’t exactly happy about it.

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  29. Re stepparents: I’m blessed in that my father-in-law had a wonderful stepmother after his mother died. In her later years, my in-laws gave her the “better” part of their home to live in. (They moved upstairs and let her live downstairs so she wouldn’t have to negotiate stairs.) And my husband has very fond memories of her, really the only grandparent he ever knew well. So the girls grew up heaing about this good stepmother from both their grandfather and their dad, and they didn’t think of stepmothers as all being bad people.

    Kim, your kind words about your stepmother are an encouragement to me. I know the girls really “like” me, but whether they think this household is better for my presence is something I don’t know. (Do they appreciate that they end up doing less cooking and fewer dishes, that the house has a female presence? Have they decided that Misten is indeed a much better dog than the pesky little terrier that they had before my arrival–I never met him, but have heard horror stories about him? Do they see that my joining the family doesn’t mean that they “lost” their dad, but instead that they gained someone new to love them? Do they understand their own personal benefits from having my income added to the family income? Do they appreciate the benefits to their dad now that he is no longer a widower, but has a woman to love him? And so forth.)

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  30. Cheryl, I am sure, even if they don’t acknowledge it, that they do realize the benefits of your being their stepmom.

    We cancelled our small group Bible study tonight due to snowfall and very bad roads.

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  31. I refuse to see The Titanic for that very reason. My son is so vehement about not seeing The Titanic (undoubtedly because of me), that my daughter-in-law can only look at the cover and sigh–another romantic incident she can’t share with her husband!

    I’m off to be on TV again today. This time my husband is coming along as makeup artist! We’ll see friends for dinner afterwards, which will be fun.

    Health scare turned up nothing, thanks be to God, but the specialist who saw me was far more interested in my WWI story than my health record. He asked, “why are you here?” I didn’t dare answer “spiritual warfare,” but he might have understood that. He finished his training in Tehran in 1984–which means it was post-shah. I would have LOVED to ask him some questions! 🙂

    Have a wonderful day.

    I suspect men set the tone for step-mothers. If the kids have seen enough grieving, and have gone through their own grieving, they can accept a step-mother.

    If, on the other hand, dad has run to a new wife too soon, all sorts of problems can turn up. My father didn’t end up marrying the woman (who lived across the hall), he turned up with three months after my mother’s death, but he managed to estrange just about every relative he had in the process of NOT dealing with his grief.

    Note: substitution is not a good way to deal with grief.

    It was shame, because she actually was a lovely woman who, no surprise, looked like my mother. Once we could get over our own emotional reactions and get to know her, we liked her. But by then, it was way too late.

    Grief is strange. We all need to handle it, deal with, and let God lead us where we need to go.

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  33. Elvera had a stepmother. Her mother died on 7 December 1941. Pearl Harbor day. Her father kept the family together and the oldest girl was in charge of keeping the house. Then, the girl would move on, and the next one was “in charge”. They were happy when he remarried in 1943. She was a good woman for the family. She is the one who started the family to be regular in church. When her father died, the family took care of her as much as a natural mother.

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  34. Cheryl,

    They’ll see the difference in their father, and the happiness you bring him. Plus every kid loves a good dog. 🙂

    They see the value you bring, even if they don’t admit it. Love their Dad and them, and just be available. There will be plenty of times when they’ll need a woman’s advice and expertise. (sometimes us men are no help) 🙂 And that can go a long way.

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  35. When I first heard about The Butler I was fascinated by the star-studded cast and the potential look at history. But I read that not only was the history of the presidents wrong, but even the portrayal of the central character was wrong.

    And Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan?

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  38. Kim, that is a wonderful video and the music is perfect. Ono catches my eye because the children’s picture book I wrote and am trying to get published talks about people who make mistakes and say, “Oh, no!” The title is Make a Great Mistake. It is to help children think creatively when they make a mistake. Right before we were leaving to go to the conference I went to the dollar store looking for luggage tags. Didn’t find those, but instead I found giant erasers that had in large print, OH NO! It felt like one of those validations and God winks.

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  41. JANICE!!!!! You KNOW I am off to look into that book. I must have it.

    Cheryl, it has been a long road with the boys. Oldest son was raised by his mother. While he doesn’t vehemently hate me, I am mostly just a person in his life. His wife is happy that I am grandmother extroidinaire. Sweet Baby Boy helps in that situation. He is very nice to me. The Middle and Youngest Son’s mother walked away from them and they were raised by their dad from the time they were 6 and 3. Youngest son doesn’t have as much trouble because he really doesn’t remember his mother in the home. Middle Son does. He has “mommy issues”. I understand this because I do too. For my own mental health I had to take a step back from him. Younger Son is nice to me but he had some issues with lying to his dad. He hugs me and jokes with me. THAT I can handle. I am cautiously optimistic about Middle Son coming home for Christmas. I plan to give him a lot a one on one time with his dad but I also will have time for him to be with him. I am letting him set the pace.

    I am glad you all like the video. If you are able, please make a comment about it on Youtube.

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  44. Hello, AJ.

    Well, I finished most of the projects I wanted to get done. All but one. I’m tired, so I’ll let that one go for another time.

    Wow, do my kids ever have way more energy than I have, I see!

    And I’m rambling, I see. 🙂

    Have a good weekend, all, while I recover from being wiped out 😉

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  46. Hello Aj, did we all desert you?? I don’t think that anyone else is still on, but I am in my time of the day when I wait for you all to come back. 🙂
    Carnival was fun. My aide Wendy came just as I was leaving, so I got to see her littlest daughter.

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