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Our Daily Thread 1-6-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1759 George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.

In 1838 Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.

In 1942 the first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place.

In 1945 the Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and 77,000 Allied casualties.

In 1952 “Peanuts” debuted in Sunday papers across the United States.

And in 1994 figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI.  Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding’s ex-husband.

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Quote of the Day

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

Lou Holtz

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Today is Earl Scruggs birthday. So we’ll start with Earl and his gang, plus Charlie.

Today is also the birthday of composer Max Bruch. From the Israel Philharmonic, via Yevgeny Yehudin

And we’ll finish with another from Earl. From OpryLive

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Anyone have a QoD?

164 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-6-14”

  1. First? I can’t believe it! Everyone is well at our house (hallelujah!). Well, I think everyone is well–actually, I’m the only one who is awake…but, I’m hopeful!

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  2. Am I first at 7:00. A bunch of lazybones here. I was up abut 45 minutes ago and dressed for the Y, but changed my mind. It was 33 degrees ans slippery on the deck. Roads are probably OK but not worth going out to push weights and ride the stationary bike. If it were something important, I would have gone.
    It’s down to thirty now, and the man on the radio says that’s the high for the day.
    My prayers for you where it’s really bad. Seriously.

    If not for Sammy Morse, I wouldn’t have had a job in the Air Force. The Civil War was the first where communication was almost instant. The Viet Nam war was was the first in which Television lost the war.

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  4. Bracing for tomorrow’s expected low of 5 degrees and well below 0 with the wind chill factor. A belated Christmas gift from our Canadian neighbors. Since we are not use to such extreme cold weather, I am wondering if there are some traditional things people do during such cold days? Like Double Hot Chocolate, or bake up batches of foods for the freezer so the oven helps warm things up in the house (and then you can put things outside to cool them down quickly before putting them in the freezer)?

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  5. This isn’t necessarily a QoD, but a question. The LCMS church I used to attend had this on their sign last week and it struck me as odd. What do you think? “Jesus came to shelter us from sin.”

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  7. My new fur collar arrived just in time for this weather (Bosley makes a good and fashionable neck wrap for frigid days).

    We now have another one in our family who likes to watch football on tv. Bosley gets up so close and I think she wants to teach the players some of her incredible tricky moves. One of her toys is a lightweight football which is really a water toy for the pool.

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  8. Linda, it does seem rather odd words but when I think of the Chinese symbol for righteousness is the picture of a lamb over a person so that when God looks at the person, He sees first the covering (like a roof or shelter in a sense) of the Lamb of God, Jesus. That Chinese symbol is on the gravestone of Ruth Bell Graham which we saw recently when we went to the Billy Graham Library.

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  9. It’s so cold here the trash company decided to let its employees have the day off. We broke a record for low temperature this morning. Previously it was -9, but it is now -12 and dropping. I see that even Georgia is supposed to have below zero windchills.

    So, instead of a QoD, let’s do something fun. Each of us completes this sentence: “It’s so cold that…”

    It’s so cold that I am going to eat ice cream to warm up.

    Your turn!

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  12. Anon @7:27

    To say that “Jesus came to shelter us from sin” is unfortunate terminology. It’s misleading. Jesus came to save us from sin. It isn’t the same thing. Paul says in Romans 6:14 that “sin shall not have dominion over you because you are not under law, but under grace.” Which verse is another important subject. However, it doesn’t mean that sin doesn’t have effect. We studied in SS yesterday, John 15-16 where Jesus said he would send the Holy Spirit who would lead us. But the Spirit doesn’t always prevent sinful acts.
    It’s cold in Hendersonville. I have a warm house that shelters me from the cold. I don’t care what the wind chill is because I’m not going to test it. But, when I go out for the paper and mail, I am exposed to the elements. And if I should, perchance, slip and fall, I’m in trouble. Potentially serious trouble. But I have a wife who couldn’t help much, but could reach a source of life saving assistance.
    It seems that is an adequate illustration of the named situation. Jesus doesn’t “shelter” us from sin. He delivers us from it, but the Holy Spirit guides, protects and helps us when we fall.

    Comments?

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  13. I’m not good at those “it is so cold that____” I live in the Sunny South. I know, “It’s so hot I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking”.
    It is currently 30 degrees here with a high of 37 today.

    I enjoyed the music this morning. Thank you AJ.

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  15. It’s so cold that our vent stack froze up. Thankfully, we installed a cheater valve for our master bath until we could put a proper stack for it (I think we may just leave it as is). Our neighbours have been climbing up on their roofs to pour hot water down their stacks!

    It’s so cold we stayed home from church yesterday, but now we’re out of groceries so hubby is dropping me at ladies’ Bible study and heading in to do some shopping. (And it’s even colder today – we should have just gone to church, sigh…)

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  19. It’s so cold the heater actually came on . . .

    Amazed by the stories I’m reading about the rest of you. My son flew to Montreal yesterday, so our family is sympathetic . . .

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  24. kare: our vents freeze in this weather, too. 😦 More than 50 below windchills. Glad we don’t have to go out.

    It is so cold we cannot leave anything out to chill it. We have been known to leave soda pop or soup to be cooled out to cool it faster and without power.

    It is also so cold that they closed the ski slopes and the skating rinks.

    It is so cold that Hell’s Kitchen offered free meals to those in the coldest area up here free meals. The company told the citizens of Embarrass, MN to come down to Hell for a free meal. Apparently, hell is one of the few places not frozen over.

    It is so cold the cows in the field just need to be run into the barn and milked to give us fresh shakes.

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  26. Ok Peter, how is this. It is so cold that the dog didn’t even bother to chase the cat.

    That’s the way, Kim. Or: …the dog chased the cat just to stay warm!.

    Kathleena; I like the snowman one. Tychicus: Good one!

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  27. It’s so cold that Frosty the Snowman doesn’t melt in the Sunny South.

    It’s so cold that the cat’s whiskers don’t twitch.

    It’s so cold that Santa had to go back to the North Pole to find warmer weather.

    I agree with what Chas said about “shelter,” and thought before that Jesus shelters us from the wrath of God which we rightly deserve for our sins. I forgot to put that in my previous post to further explain my thoughts. He does not shelter us from sin, but helps us to recognize sin and stay on the path with him and away from the temptations that ensnare.

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  28. It is so cold the snowmen are on strike for warmer working conditions.

    A little sentence on a sign board can be misleading. It is meant to capture attention. It is hard to know what the actual sermon teaches about sin. It does seem a strange way to put what Christ has done, but I would have to hear the ‘rest of the story’ before making a judgment.

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  29. Thanks, Peter, for the fun in the cold.

    This may seem a surprising question after all this time, but how do you pronounce “Chas?” I have been pronouncing it as “chase,” but have been informed that may not be correct.

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  30. Chas, thank you for the response (that anon was me). Those were my exact thoughts. This particular church has been heading towards the I’m-OK-you’re-OK philosophy for a while and I suspect this is just one more step in that direction.

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  31. Wow, 30 comments before I even made it on. Sorry, guys, we are still warm and dry. In fact, it is so warm and dry that I told a friend (who lives in Reno) I would meet her in Truckee for lunch. I am so looking forward to seeing the mountains and Truckee is the other side of the pass on Interstate 80. In a normal year, I would not be driving those roads in January

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  32. It is Christ’s words in the Bible that show us how to live, and the Holy Spirit brings those words to mind in a timely manner. When we draw close to Father God and Jesus through Bible reading, prayer, and meditation on His word then the power of the Holy Spirit can become more evident through our physical being as the power of the flesh to rule is further erased as our days pass by with Christ having true Lordship in us.

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  33. It is my birthday today. I have received a lovely freshwater pearl necklace from Hubbykins. There was also another necklace and earrings-gold with a stone in the pendants and a pretty decanter to put my bath salts in. It is so nice to live in a house with a deep tub and large hot water heater again.
    I am currently racking my brain trying to decide where I would like to have birthday dinner. Just the other day I drove past a restaurant and thought the next time we go out that is where I want to go. Now I can’t remember where that was! Go ahead, laugh at me. 😉

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  34. Good comments from Chas (Chaz, short ‘a’?), JaniceG & Kathaleena — my initial thought was He shelters (covers) us from the penalty of sin, or God’s wrath as someone else accurately put it.

    I suppose you run into the same problem in putting up a sign with limited space as you do trying to write a headline intended to capture the gist of what is a very long story.

    Stay warm, everyone. It’s sunny and in the 70s here, warmer than normal even for us this time of year.

    Poor Al Gore.

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  36. “Jesus came to shelter us from sin”. Hmmm. Perhaps Jesus in the sense that He is part of the Holy Trinity would LIKE to shelter us from sin. I balance between pre-destination and free will. God the Father, like any parent would LIKE to shelter us from sin just as any loving parent wants to prevent their child from the pain and heartache of sin. However, He gave us free will to choose.
    As a parent I see the dangers lurking out there for my child. I can try my best to shelter her from it, but in the end she will make her own mistakes and learn from them.
    Jesus came so that we may have a pathway to forgiveness when we exercise that free will.

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  38. Hi, Jo! Would love to be in warmer weather right now. This cold stuff is for the penguins.

    It’s so cold that penguins have been sighted in Atlanta, Georgia. They were confused and thought yellow jackets were fish. They tried to have yellow jackets for a meal but couldn’t catch them. Only the bulldogs were up for that. The bulldogs went to the greasy V (Varsity) and stepped in the grease to make their paws extra slick. That combined with the black ice gave them the advantage over the winged creatures who were sluggish in the cold. So that is how bulldogs managed to have a dinner of yellow jackets. But those stingers didn’t feel very good going down.

    This weather, being the coldest in Atlanta for many years, deserves a tall tale.

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  39. Kim- ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

    As for school closing for cold weather, I guess that would be rare down South. We close for snow a lot, but it has to be -25 air temp or windchill before we close for cold weather. And tomorrow morning is supposed to be worse than today, so I expect to get another call later on telling me not to go tomorrow either.

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  42. We are supposed to have a high of 62 today, but I never believe it. The weather station is 8 or 10 miles away at the airport, right on the ocean. We are 5 miles from the ocean in the forest. It is usually different here. Micro-climes and all.

    It’s so cold I will have to wear socks!

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  46. We have been having water heater problems for 1 year. It is the water heater (Rheem on-demand) for the guest room, bird room and kitchen. Rheem has been very good about helping. They have sent us 2 burner assemblies and a complete electrical control panel. Finally they realized that there are 2 plates and a brass “washer” I should have taken off the original burner assembly and put on the new burner. When I put the plates and washer on the new burner it works. HOT water and it doesn’t turn off after half a sink.

    You have little idea the load of stress that has been lifted!

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  48. what do you do when it is too cold outside??? Get on the blog! This is the most talking that we have had here in a while. Nice to see everyone. So glad that your stress has been lifted, Bob. Now it is time for me to put on socks. 🙂

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  50. From a newspaper clipping posted on my MIL’s refrigerator many years ago:

    [It’s so cold that] the lawyers have their hands in their own pockets.

    I didn’t get up until around 9:00 today 😯 and at that time it was 20 below. About a half-hour later, my husband came home from an errand (walking to the end of our dead-end road to get the empty garbage cans — it’s trash pick-up day, and yes, the garbage crew was out in these temperatures) and from taking a walk in the woods and up on our neighbor’s pasture land. Hubby was outside doing these things for one and a half hours. He said it didn’t feel that bad in the places where it wasn’t windy. The places where it WAS windy, with something like forty below wind chills, well, that felt a bit worse. 😉 But he not only tolerated it, he enjoyed it!

    I was outside for about two minutes this morning, putting out suet for the birds. I expected to be hit with a blast of cold air when I stepped out of the garage, but it really wasn’t bad. Twenty below isn’t as horrendous-sounding when there is no wind. Once I got farther into the yard, though, away from the house, the wind really bit. I think those two minutes I was outside will do me for the day. 😉

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  55. I put on a crock pot with pasta, chopped onion, extra sharp grated cheese, seasonings, can of mushroom soup, some water, and some chopped up toasted pecans. I will add peas later. Son will like this along with a second try at sweet potato.

    Bosley got the drainings from the tuna cans along with a few flakes of the fish. O Happy Cat! O Happy Cat! And she said, “Mmmake me me more tuna and I’ll have some sweet potato, too!”

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  57. Janice,

    I had tuna for lunch. The cat comes as soon as she hears the opener, whether it’s for her or not. She always gets a little before I add the mayo. She’ll squeal until she gets it too. It sounds so cute that we make her do it before we give it to her. I have her well trained. 😉

    Or she has me well trained…. 😯
    It’s one of them. 🙂

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  58. Catching up on yesterday’s thread, and I haven’t yet read today’s.

    Kare, if you can’t have grape juice, would you be able to tolerate wine? That was the beverage instituted for communion in the first place. Grape juice was actually “invented” by people who thought they could come up with something better than Christ’s plan(!). Since wine is good for the stomach, it might well be an acceptable solution. Or if you can’t drink the juice, just partake of the part you can, the bread.

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  59. It’s so cold (and the snow so deep) that the collie needed her route to the backyard shoveled out . . . and she thought her master was outside to play with her until she realized how cold it was. You could tell by her face the moment she realized it. And she quickly scurried to the cleared area and went potty, and then wanted back inside. (Today’s high is below zero, with wind, so today is the coldest weather Misten has ever experienced. And she’s shedding, so it’s not like she has a full, thick winter coat, though I don’t think she faces the danger a short-haired dog would face, at least not for just a few minutes at a time of being outside.)

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  60. Decided on lunch. Buck’s Diner. I had a fried pork chop, collards, lima beans, and cornbread. I can’t tell you the last time I had a fried pork chop. Probably two or more years ago. I don’t fry a lot and why make the mess at home. I even had dessert because it IS my birthday!
    I probably won’t have dinner…soup or otherwise.
    This Wise Guy I am married to told me I am the oldest woman he has ever dated or been married to. Same goes buddy! I told him that traditionally this is the year a woman is to bend over and everything that droops needs to be lifted. 🙂 After that you wouldn’t believe how good he thinks I look. 😉

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  61. Karen, I just read on the prayer thread about your upstairs tenants not being able to move out this month. I went to Facebook and found your city, which I won’t share here, I “googled” Section 8 housing in Your City, Your State. There are some quite lovely apartments available all within a 12 mile range. I am not yelling at you. I am providing you a solution. I understand about them having pets, and perhaps some of these options will allow the pets.
    I have an acquaintance who owns about 30 Section 8 properties in Mobile. She says they are some of the best renters and take care of her properties because they do not want to lose their ability to qualify for this type of housing.
    There are options out there.

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  62. Cheryl, I’m not able to drink wine, either. I like the symbolism of partaking when everyone else does. I also am then not thinking about myself but preparing for proper communion and not worrying about what I am to drink/not drink. I have let the plate go by when there is no water in it, but I really would rather join with everyone and God hasn’t seen fit to let me drink wine or grape juice without painful consequences so… It was a good thought, however 🙂

    I do have a bottle of Invalid Port, which we found under my grandfather’s stairs in his old farmhouse (family has been teetotallers for generations). My mother was shocked and then amused – I Googled invalid port – probably ‘invented’ for those who think drinking alcohol is wrong and yet needed something for when medicine wasn’t enough. We’re keeping the bottle just for interest’s sake. I don’t think anyone would ever drink it as you can see floaties in it.

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  63. Addendum to my 1:21 post: there are nice lawyers out there, too. 😉

    Favorite soup: Creamy Wild Rice Soup. Containing ground beef, shredded carrots, wild rice, coconut milk, water, beef broth, salt and onion powder. Served with slivered almonds on top, for those who like them, which I do.

    Back to the school routine…

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  64. Of course, if I let the dogs and cat in, I would have to let the goats in, and the cows and horses, and chicken, and turkeys, and guinea fowl. Where would it stop? They all are well dressed for the cold. Well fed with plenty of water and shelter. We visit with them several times a day and nobody is shivering. In fact, the goats are preparing to kid and the newborns will be out there as well. In a shelter, we hope, with lots of fresh bedding. But that is sort of up to the goat mommas.

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  65. Many, many years ago there was some concern within the church as to the sanitary issue of drinking from the common cup. This was in the early days of AIDS when people were getting the disease from blood transfusions and their dentists. Not something you really want to have to worry about when you are taking Communion. The priest explained that the higher alcohol content in the Port wine helped kill a lot of germs. From that lesson I took away the thought that surely God would not allow you to become ill from taking Communion. I had not thought of it again (except for Dear Husband pointing it out to me) until yesterday when the priest encouraged anyone who may be sick or exposed to the bug going around to intinct the bread into the wine.
    Because we go forward to the rail and either kneel or stand to receive the bread and wine, it is perfectly acceptable to cross your arms right hand to left should and left hand to right shoulder and receive the blessing of communion even if you don’t partake. I would think this would have more of a meaning than to sit in a pew and let the bread and wine pass you by.
    I love it when parents bring their young children to the Communion rail and the priests stops and speaks a blessing over them and make the cross on their foreheads. It teaches them to grow up in that tradition.
    I can’t imagine ever not partaking. It is such an integral part of church that I just don’t feel as if I have been to church if I don’t receive the bread and wine. I really dislike churches that only have communion every other month or so on a Sunday or Wednesday night. It is almost like a game of keep away in my mind.

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  66. By the way, you people in the cold. If you must go out, please dress appropriately. Wrap a scarf around your face, wear a hat and coat, gloves or mittens. No exposed skin is best. Frostbite would not be much fun and can happen quickly in that kind of cold. If you are well dressed, you ought to be able to enjoy a few minutes outside so you can say you did it!

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  67. And a dog question: I have a first with Jake. I often take my dogs walking off leash. They roam and wander along with me, sometimes quite a distance away but always keeping along with me, wherever I turn. They may be four hundred yards away but still watching. That is how it should be. Anyway, the question. When I can’t see my dog and need to give her a call to let her know I am going in or whatever, Jake answers before coming running in. She used to just run in like the other dogs but now she gives a couple of short barks as she seems to know I cannot find her as easily as she finds me. None of my other dogs have ever done that. I like it and could have used it in others. Do other people have dogs that will let the owner know where the dog is?

    One time we had a terrier get away from a child who was walking her in New York. She ran off into the woods after something with her leash trailing. Child came home to report her gone. We could hear her yelping and whining up on the mountain, but as we got close, she was confident we would find her and stopped. It took quite a while to locate her, but if she had just yipped, it would have been easier. She had tangled her leash and could easily have been in serious trouble. I like that Jake lets me know where she is.

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  69. Mumsee, I’ve never lived anywhere that I could walk a dog off-leash. (We’re out in the country now, but the road is 50 miles per hour and too busy for safety. I think that when we lived in the country in Northern Arizona, we might have let our cocker off the leash a few times, but she wasn’t terribly obedient and the area had a lot of burrs, so I’m sure we didn’t do it habitually.)

    Misten will usually give just one “woof” when she’s outside and ready to come in. Unfortunately within the last week or two she has developed the habit of giving one woof, but she’s a long way from the door and has no interest in coming in. It’s like she’s checking to make sure we’re paying attention to her or something, timing us to make sure we act quickly enough when she “calls.” Sometimes I just call her to come on in when she does that.

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  70. That is a really neat thing for Jake to do. It takes dog to human communication to a new level. It makes me happy to consider it. I can see why you have an attachment to her.

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  71. Tess has a good recall, Cowboy not so much. But with the fairly strict leash laws here, that’s why the designated dog parks and dog beaches have become so popular. There are trails and other areas where I live that people commonly let their dogs off-leash, but in the summer time especially rattle snakes are an issue.

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  72. My dogs will woof to be let in from the backyard.

    And during the night, when they’re locked in, Tess will dive bomb me in bed to let me know they need a midnight break. I suspect she’ll do that whether it’s her or Cowboy who needs to “go.” But they usually last through the night, though I try to make sure they go out back just before I go to bed.

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  76. Enjoy your birthday in the Sunny South, Kim. It’s been sunny today here, too, and almost 50 degrees colder. We won’t get up to the single digits below zero until tomorrow, and maybe even go into the positive digits!

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  77. Chas, did you mean you were known as Charles outside of work or that a different pronunciation of Chas was used other than Chaz? How do you, being the owner of the name, pronounce Chas?

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  82. I did go out for a couple of minutes to blow some bubbles. That was fun for a very short time. they do freeze quickly and vaporize into bits. 🙂

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  85. It’s up to -1 here. I got tired of being in the house, so I went to buy bird feed since we have been out of it all weekend. Had to shovel the walkway to the garage, then shovel the snow bank so I could get the minivan out. Not too bad outside if I’m out of the wind. But in the wind- BRRR!

    It’s so cold out we didn’t get any mail service today. Really! I took some letters to the post office and found out the truck that brings our town’a mail from St. Louis got stuck in the snow somewhere. So since there was no mail to deliver the postman had the day off. So mush for the old saying, “Neither rain nor snow…”

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  88. First Arrow told me that when he left work at 6:00 this morning, the temperature was -22 with a -56 degree wind chill. The predicted maximum wind chill for today (in the overnight hours) was -49. Brrr. Glad I was in my warm bed at that time.

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  92. Now I know that calling one’s dog is called “recall”. I did not know that. But I have called my dogs, and I expect them to come when called. Funny, I expect that of my children as well.

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  93. Kim – First off, Happy Birthday! What did you have for dessert?

    Speaking of Section 8 (which they are not eligible for, unfortunately), just the other day I was having a discussion on Facebook with the older daughter. She mentioned that their old landlord now only accepts people with/on Section 8, & he has tripled the rents!

    I used that as an example of how the government pays more for almost everything. Same with insurance. People who self-pay often have around 40% knocked off their bill.

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  94. Here in lovely Connecticut today, we had lots of rain, & most of the snow melted away. 😦 We had a high temp somewhere in the low-to-mid 50s! But tonight we are expecting a low of 8, with tomorrow’s high around 12.

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  96. “It’s cold enough to crack your whiskers.” – My grandfather’s saying

    Happy Birthday, Kim.

    Donna, your link made me chuckle. I don’t dream of warmer climates in this weather. I used to say I’d rather die of hypothermia than heatstroke (when debating climate preferences with my heat-loving father) and after fourteen months in Africa, I stand by that statement

    Cool idea, Kathleen – Wish my nieces and nephews were still here to try bubbles in the cold.

    The Real, I never heard that piece by Max Bruch before. The classical radio station I grew up listening to only ever played the finale of his Scottish Fantasy:

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  98. There are other low income choices on the site I found.

    Mumsee, I am working towards being able to make travel plans. First I am going to have to go to Maryland to see a Sweet Baby Boy. Grandpa’s are like that.

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  99. Skin is starting to get itchy from all the heat in the house. By tomorrow I will need to put lotion on several times to hydrate my skin.

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  101. Roscuro, to embed a video, I go to YouTube, and when I get to the page with the video I want, I click on “Share” below the video. A rectangular box opens up that has the URL. I right click on the box, then copy it and paste it into my comment here.

    Here’s Bruch’s Kol Nidrei done that way. (I hope it works. I’m on a laptop, and I’ve never copied and pasted on one before.)

    http://youtu.be/kfSMVPJg35A

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  102. It is 14 degrees now in Atlanta. I am reminded that the year hubby and I got married we went to Yellowstone in Sept. and one night we camped and it got down to 17 degrees. Wondering now how we were able to do that??? We had heavy duty sleeping bags. Hot apple cider never tasted better than after that night.

    Roscuro, I have trouble on my smartphone doing links. But how I have done it is to do “copy and paste” using what is showing in the address bar to copy into the post. Seems like AJ was able to use that to get the video itself to appear rather than just the link.

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  110. HRW – 😆

    Mumsee, its called being snowed in. I have been home almost three weeks, and we’ve had only about three days of clear skies in that time. It’s a bit of a culture shock, coming from the cloudless dry season of West Africa.

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  111. I enjoyed following along with the Scottish Fantasy music score, Roscuro. Now I can see how very difficult the piece is — everyone I’ve heard play it makes it sound so easy. 😉

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  112. Yes, Mumsee, we had ice skating briefly on our back swamp, but then the ice rain ruined the surface for skating. We could try to walk in the woods, but we’d need snowshoes and we don’t own a snowmobile. As for the guy in the movie, it looked like he lived in one of those condo high rises in Toronto – if he tried to skate in the backyard, he’d get a nasty fall 😛

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  114. I know 6 Arrows, as a violinist I was wincing at all those high speed double stops. Virtuoso concert pieces are not my forte – I only mastered one, Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending, and that was enough for me. Concert violinist, I am not.

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  115. Linda, I love Dogwise books.

    Just look at you all, snowed in with nothing to do.

    Roscuro, I agree, I’d rather be cold than hot. I couldn’t stand the summer humidity of the east, Midwest or south. But,it’s hard to complain too much about being in the 70s (not hot at all) when the rest of the country is topping out a below zero and can’t even leave home. 🙂 so while I love snow, this week I’m more or less happy I’m not where you all are!

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  116. I’d love to hear you play Lark Ascending sometime, Roscuro. Work it up again and put it on YouTube. Or better yet, grab your passport and come here with your violin and play it for me live. 😉 Traveling to the U.S. has always worked out so beautifully for you, hasn’t it? 😛

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  117. Roscuro – Some days ago, you mentioned that you might share your observations about polygamy if I’m interested. Both Kim & I replied that we are indeed interested.

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  118. Donna, we would start shivering in The Gambia when it was in the 70s and the villagers would get out their thick coats and knitted hats.

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  120. Karen, thank you for reminding me. The post will probably be a long one, and it is getting late, so I’ll leave it until tomorrow. If I get to fired up, I won’t be able to sleep 🙂

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  122. oh 6 arrows, watch yourself with who you may be teasing.
    However, I do think that now that Roscuro is home, she should visit everyone, especially me!
    lovely drive over the mountains and back today.

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  127. Auburn’s going to win? I got another one wrong? I looked up the scores of the games on Peter’s list, and it looks like I already have six wrong and only three right, and I picked Florida over Auburn.

    Will there be a prize for most spectacular failure ever in the history of Peter’s Pack of…whatever the whole title is? 😛

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  129. Yes, Jo, Roscuro probably does not want the reminder. 😉

    Glad you had a nice drive. I miss seeing mountains. We have none around here.

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  130. I was pleased to get 100 up there at 8:25. There were 95 or 96 comments when I clicked on Roscuro’s link to Scottish Fantasy. After watching the video, there were 99 comments, so it was a perfect set-up. 🙂

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  131. Roscuro – I understand. I have made the mistake of getting involved in something online (like a Facebook debate), staying up too late, & then not being able to sleep.

    Speaking of sleep, it is my bedtime. Sleep sweet all!

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  145. WRONG! Florida State beat Auburn 34-31! I can’t see the game, but I googled it, and the page appeared to say that there was one minute left in the 4th quarter, with the score as I mentioned above. Later, I refreshed the page and it said zero minutes with the same score. I suppose there were some seconds left, though, which I didn’t think about when I posted above. Now it says 34-31 Final, with Florida State the winner. So I got that one right! (Well, the game — I was close with the score — 35-30 I predicted, but I got so many other games wrong, the tie breaker won’t matter for me.)

    I guess I should have put this on the sports thread. Novice! 😀

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  153. I don’t think that posts should count when they only consist of a number and nothing else. And, Aj, you do realize that I kindly left you those numbers, when I had lots of time ….

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  155. AJ, now you’ll have to edit my post that says “100!”. 🙂 And Cheryl’s “151.”.

    And what are we going to do with Donna’s 11:13 pm post that says ” 😀 “?

    🙂

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  159. Tongue-sticking-out smiley:

    colon + hyphen + P

    (Use the symbols for colon and hyphen, and leave out the plus signs; also, put no spaces between characters, but before the first and after the last, like usual.)

    😛

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