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Our Daily Thread 11-12-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1799 Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.

In 1840 sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are “The Kiss” and “The Thinker.”

In 1859 the first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.

In 1920 Judge Keneshaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.

In 1942, during World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces.

And in 1954 Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892. 

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Quote of the day

“Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.”

Richard Baxter

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Today is Chris Huffman’s birthday.

It’s also Jo Stafford’s.

And it’s Neil Young’s too. So “Heart of Gold,” eventually…… 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

29 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-12-13”

  2. Raining here in Ukarumpa and I know some villagers, my aide, who live in leaky homes. Thanks for posting a little early Aj. I believe that this is the end of my day. Blessings to you all.

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  6. I just listened to Neil Young’s heart of Gold. He’s Young but gettin’ old. Did he ever find the heart of gold in Jesus?

    My husband has always been a fan of his We saw him in concert once. I always preferred spending money on albums rather than concerts because it seemed I got a lot more music for my money. Anyone else feel that way, too?

    Any good concert stories?

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  7. Jo Stafford? How deep did you have to dig for that one? Just recently I went through some albums at my stepmother’s and ran across several of her albums that had belonged to my mother. I believe at one time she belonged to the RCA Record Club.

    I haven’t been to a whole lot of concerts, but since we now have the Ampitheater at The Wharf in Orange Beach it is a little easier. We went this summer to the Can’t Beat This Summer concert tour of three country artists.

    Funniest concert story was a conversation I overheard several years ago at The Wharf. Ratt and Poison from back in the 80’s early 90’s was playing. The guy I was dating got us tickets–he always bought the best and they guy in front of us was telling his group of friends about telling his grandmother how much he spent on the tickets. “You what? You spent $65 on RAT POISON?” Pretty much sums it up doesn’t it?

    It is turning out that yesterday may have been a good day for my favorite veteran. We received an offer on the Brown’s house. Working out the details today.
    Life is looking good right now.

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  8. After the concert story that begins before the concert:

    A girl friend from high school and I went downtown to a concert at the old Atlanta stadium. It was daylight when we got to the area and parking was hard to find. We ended up parking in the yard of someone in the area who had opened up their yard to make a few bucks off of the need for parking. We enjoyed the concert but then we had to find her Mustang in the night. This was in an area of very low income housing and probably an area high in crime. We were two blonde girls out late in an area in which we were a minority. I think we were 18 and as the cliche goes about blondes, well,,, you know. My friend grabbed my hand and we walked down the middle of the road. I thought my friend was pretty smart to make us look like weirdos, two girls holding hands, and no one would bother us, looking so weird and all. And that is how we got safely to our car.

    Back then my friend had a boyfriend who had joined the Navy. She was my friend who later was befriended by some older ladies at her place of employment When she found out they were lesbian she was torn about continuing friendship with them. She hung in there with them. Unfortunately, their influence and friends took her in that direction. Sadly, I lost a friend.

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  10. That is so sad Drivesguy. Prayers for all who have been touched by the plane crash. Was it a small plane, and how many others died or got hurt?

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  12. I saw on FoxNews this morning that ?????? (a large number) of people were getting married today because 18 is 11-12-13.
    Elvera says it would be a good day to be born.
    Our Becky was born on 08-02-82.

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  15. AJ. I think the cat just likes to annoy you. Mine does. Now that I am older, my skin is thinner and subject to lacerations. When the cat tries to get up in my lap, he does his cat thing and needs and pins me thinking he has to soften up the lap so he can lay down. I finally had to resort to the spray water bottle to keep him off me. I still let him on the chair’s arm and scratch his ears, neck and chin, but he is not allowed in my lap.

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  16. I put a prayer on that thread for the son who died in the plane crash.

    Drivesguy, would you consider having a little folded fleece throw that you could put in your lap for the cat to dig into?

    When I was pregnant I had to stay away from our cat because cats can carry something, especially in their litter boxes, that can harm babies in the womb. My father died while I was pregnant. Our cat saw how sad I was and tried to come near to comfort me. I had to make the cat go away from me which made me even sadder.

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  17. I still pet the cat Janice. He will sit at my feet on the recliner and if he stifles his needing, I let him sit in my lap. Cindi thinks he just want’s me to move so he can have his chair back. I figure she is probably right.

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  18. Yes, Cindi is probably right. The cat wants the warm spot where you were sitting That does sound like highly refined cat logic, to need the host with claws to get the “need” of the desired comfort fulfilled. We have known oc several cats who could have been named Aggravation.

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  19. Good Morning….I would gladly take that snow you are getting AJ….my family and friends in Ohio are lamenting about the snow too…we need it more than you…no fair!!
    I enjoy the music and voice of Neil Young..so unique and talented…I pray he will come to know the One who has gifted him with such talent…..he and James Taylor have been my favorite musicians…
    Today Paul and I are having lunch with one of our “babies”…she came to us almost 22 years ago and her parents actually moved in with us for 4 months until her adoption was finalized (they were prevented from taking her across the state line due to some legal issues with birth father..so they moved in with us to begin the bonding process). The Lord forged a deep bond between us and here we are 22 years later having lunch with a beautiful young woman who has a strong heart for serving our Saviour…oh taste and see that HE is good!

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  20. We’ll take some snow too, please, AJ. 🙂 (BTW, Nosy looks almost just like Annie.) Looks like we’re at about 80 degrees for the rest of this week, with chilly nights. Hope it at least cools off before Thanksgiving. Sheesh.

    Stay dry, Jo.

    More work ahead today for me on the JFK piece, but I had a couple lengthy and productive interviews yesterday (with an African American college professor who was a kid when Kennedy was shot and with a former television newsman who interviewed JFK before the convention & later wrote one of the assassination books). With a couple more interviews today, *something* should start to take shape. The editorial direction I had for the story was very open-ended and (to me) a little fuzzy (but they want it to be long and sweeping in its scope), so I’m relying on some of these in-depth interviews to make it come together.

    I can’t believe Christmas is literally just around the corner now. It always comes so fast once Halloween passes.

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  21. Kim at a Ratt concert? I’m shocked. 🙂

    I’ve seen them more in my life than any other band. 6 times, 6 different albums. Once in Allentown they had some new act open up for them. Poor guys got booed off the stage. Some guy named Bon Jovi. I still can’t stand ’em. 🙂

    My favorite though was going to see a Bush concert with this gorgeous blonde (now my wife) back when we were dating. It was at Hershey Park, so we spent the day in the park and then went to the concert at night. While we were inside the concert I found an engraved zippo lighter from some guy named “Slug.” 🙂

    I never used it, but I still have the lighter. 🙂

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  22. The cat doesn’t bother me when I read. Only my wife and daughter. 🙂

    She’ll jump up on the desk and lay right on the book. And she sits on my daughter’s lap while she does school work. If my wife sits on the couch, the cat will climb on her and knead her while, I kid you not, sucking on her shirt like she’s nursing. She’s weird.

    Every night around 7, if I haven’t given her treats yet, she’ll grab my leg and bite it until I do. This provides an endless source of amusement for my wife and daughter. Me, not so much. 😦

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  23. Cats are rather demanding.

    I saw some of the greats in concert in their heyday (1960s-1970s) — Beach Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, James Taylor (a boyfriend was a huge fan of his, I wasn’t that impressed) … and more. Good music, fun times.

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  24. It is cool and windy here in Atlanta. The sky is a lovely blue. Next time I mow the leaves in the yard it may be all that is needed for this season. Another season, “Gone With the Wind.”

    I just made some rice pudding.It seemed good for this weather. My mother never made it maybe because of my brother having diabetes. My mother cooked a lot of rice but never did the pudding. My recipe is like an egg custard layer over the flavored rice and raisins. It is from an old Marriott Hotte Shoppes cookbook. It bakes for an hour in a water bath. As I remove it from the oven I always think I hope I will realize when I am too old to do this and won’t get to the point of spilling the roaster full of hot wster along with the pudding. Not sure if the loss of the pudding might be worse than spilling the bubbling hot water!

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  25. Just saw a Facebook comment about James Inhofe who is supposedly challenging the theory of gravity. I can’t find any credible source which confirms this as true.

    Anyone?

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  27. My favorite concert story didn’t happen to me.

    One Christian musician whose records we listened to a lot when I was a child was Doug Oldham. He was a very large man, very overweight.

    Well, when I was a teenager, my sister and I went to one of Doug Oldham’s concerts and met our youth pastor and his wife in line, so we sat with them. And he told me that he’d been to one of Oldham’s concerts some years before with some friends. One boy in the group didn’t know who Doug Oldham was; he was just hanging out with friends, So he asked who is he, anyway, and someone else said, “Oh, he’s just some old fat guy who knows how to sing.”

    As it was time for the concert to start, some man stood up from behind the teenagers and started to sing, and he walked to the stage singing. As he got to the front, he said, “I want to thank you all for coming out to hear some old fat guy sing.” (Whoops!)

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  28. Hello, all. Hope you enjoyed the only 11-12-13 in our lifetime. Too bad there won’t ever be a 13-13-13, unless you count January as the 13th month of the year, like my son. He was born 1-13-84, but once said it was 13-13-83. So he’ll be 30 on 13-13-13.

    As for concert stories, I have a lot of them. My first job was at the religious radio station in Tucson. I worked with one of the program hosts who brought in a lot of the early Contemporary Christian artists. One was Andraé Crouch.Poor guy. It was towards the end of the tour. When he got off the bus, very tired looking, he asked, “Where are we?” But by concert time he was awake.

    And a word to sports fans: The Pickled Picks Post will be early since one of the games is Thursday night.

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