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Our Daily Thread 1-30-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1798 the first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.

In 1847 the town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.

In 1862 the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship, the “Monitor”, was launched.

In 1911 the first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer “Terry.” Pilot James McCurdy was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.

In 1933 “The Lone Ranger” was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.

And in 1972, in Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as “Bloody Sunday.”

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Quote of the Day

“I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should, or as our forefathers did.”

Francis Schaeffer

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Today is the birthday of Johann Joachim Quantz. A very nicely done “Trio Sonata in C Minor”

Today is also Phil Collins’ birthday. I always preferred him on drums more than when he was singing, so I found both.

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Anyone have a QoD?

46 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-30-14”

  4. Sleep well, Jo! Good morning, y’all! Had to get up and let the dogs out. They are normally outside dogs…but not in this weather…think I’ll head back to bed, we are out of school again today.

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  6. Good morning, all! Our weather is getting back to normal– high today of 63, low 35. Tomorrow, it’s supposed to be in the mid 70’s! Yay!!!

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  11. It has zoomed up from 4.1 to 8.3 degrees since the sun came up.
    I left the laptop on while I was posting on the desktop. My comment didn’t show up on the laptop.
    Interesting.

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  12. I had trouble with comments two days ago. While I was typing something earth-shatteringly brilliant, “post comment” would disappear.

    I’m sure you would have loved my QOD, too. 🙂

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  14. I think I have my days of the week messed up. 😦 I came on here looking for rants and raves.

    I’m deep into family research, finding out names of ancestors and who lived and died when and who is in which photo. That stuff is only the first few pages of the book I’m making for family; most of it is photos of all of us kids growing up. But it’s the first time we will have seen the historical stuff, and it’s important, and I want to get it right. I’ve already had to yank one photo since it turned out not to be of my grandmother, but of another woman in the family line with the same first and last name (my grandmother’s maiden name). I’d noticed the middle initial was different, but thought that might be an error.

    But I have found out amazing amounts of detail of family history, and, sweetly, I’m in e-mail conversations with two female cousins: the daughter of each of my mom’s two brothers. (Mom was the only one of the three to have two daughters, and she had to have six children before she had two girls. But my sister doesn’t have e-mail, and only my oldest brother knows I’m doing this, so for now my sister isn’t in on this conversation.)

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  15. What do kittens do when they are stir crazy? They discover climbing up through a lamp and its shade to perch atop the lamp shade. So that lamp has now gone away. Bosley will soon be too big to do such things. Then we can see the light of that lamp again.

    Bosley has turned out to be useful in quickly ending telephone conversations with my brother who, being a salesman by profession, can like to talk for a long time. A mention of Bosley this morning and brother immediately had to go feed his chickens.

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  16. Since my brother is single perhaps he will meet and fall in love with a lady with an indoor cat.

    I was a member of GASP (Georgians Against Smoker’s Polution), and my husband was the only smoker I ever dated. I use to say, “Love is blind, and it can’t smell either!”

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  17. Bosley. 🙂

    Good Schaeffer quote, and so very true. When you read the Puritans you become aware of how spiritually sensitive they were to their own shortcomings.

    I heard that the Noah movie turns him essentially into an environmentalist — and that the cause of the flood brought upon the earth by God was because man had treated the planet so badly. That’s second hand info but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me.

    Super Bowl Sunday means the dog park will be nearly deserted on Sunday.

    Cheryl, sounds like a fascinating project that will be a blessing to many in your family for years/generations to come.

    Frustrated to see we were scooped on a fascinating story in our own backyard via a posting from another L.A. publication on FB last night — scientists have discovered what they’re saying is a 10 million year-old whale skeleton on the campus of a local private school. Guess we’ll get busy on that one today, I texted our reporter who does most of our whale coverage asking if we knew about this and we didn’t.

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  18. I know one the school’s ecology teachers, too, have dealt with him through the years on other stories, so I’m wondering why we didn’t get a heads up from him or someone else locally.

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  19. I have only found one bible movie I really liked and it was a strict paraphrase version of John. It was too long for most people to enjoy, but it was well done.

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  20. Is anyone else out there being forced to use mail order for prescriptions? And what has your experience been with the whole affair? I’m at the end of my rope with the folks at Express Scripts. I know that CVS Caremark is just as bad since that’s who we had prior to this. But at least they didn’t bill me for unnecessary refill scripts that aren’t needed for another 3 months. So frustrating. I’ve spoke with them numerous times, but they just can’t, or won’t, get it right. I got an email on Tues. telling me they were processing my refill. I just started a 90 day supply and don’t need it. They supposedly took care of it and said it wouldn’t be shipped and I wouldn’t be billed. Then this morning I get an email telling me they shipped it and billed my credit card $160. This keeps happening. Numerous more phone calls and no satisfaction. So I did the only thing I could think of that might get thru to them. I told them I was refusing the order and disputing the charge with my credit card because they weren’t authorized to charge me. I then did so, but it could take a couple of months before I see the charge removed. This is supposed to make things easier, yet it doesn’t. I never had these problems with my local pharmacy. So frustrating.

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  21. AJ, I don’t have experience with that, but it sounds terrible. Brother and I were just talking about a credit card scheme he had to deal with where a caterer who did lunches had a credit card processor who was double billing. It sounds almost like there is a scheme going on in what you describe. You know how those Dems don’t like to let a crisis go wasted. Getting meds is a form of crisis. I would probably go to top management and if that did not work then go to one of those consumer patrol type people on tv news.

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  22. I went to Chik Fil A today. I was going to get a salad, really I was, but their food truck is stuck in Macon, GA and I had to get a chicken sandwich and those nasty, awful, repulsive waffle fries. Honest, I didn’ want them, really I didn’t but what was I to do?

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  23. AJ, I wonder why our experience with CVS Caremark mail order is so different from yours.

    We have CVS Caremark prescription coverage through my employer. It costs 17% less to use mail order than to go to the local pharmacy, but we do still have the choice

    We get most of our prescriptions by mail order and don’t have the kind of problems you describe. As far as I can remember, they have never refilled a prescription when we didn’t ask for it, or billed us for something we hadn’t requested. I’d rate the service as pretty good overall.

    This is an example of rampant service inequality. It’s George Bush’s fault, and President Obama should use his executive authority to fix it.

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  25. Was that ‘The Gospel of John’, Kathaleena? I heard it was good, but never been able to get a copy of it to watch. I liked ‘The Nativity Story’ because, in spite of chronological errors and overly dramatic insertions, it captured the pure wonder of the gift of God. I always have tears in my eyes at the birth scene, and I never cry watching a movie. I expect nothing good from ‘The Flood’ – I haven’t been able to bring myself to even watch the trailer. Movie makers deliberately mangles secular historical characters for entertainment, so I don’t expect them to portray Biblical historical characters with any greater accuracy.

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  26. Cheryl, I realize you’re doing your genealogy the “old fashioned way” and I applaud, but I have to say after spending five years of research on my family history, I’ve been shocked by how easy it has been to find family photos on Ancestry.com. Not of my immediate family like you’re doing, but of the several generations back variety.

    Also, you could be surprised by what could turn up with just googling their names. I’m a dinosaur, and there’s a lot of false info on Ancestry (which I’m not bothering to correct if they’re stealing my info anyway), but also a lot of good leads.

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  27. Here’s a story for you and then I have to write.

    Janice sent me her manuscript on Tuesday and I looked at it, made some suggestions and pointed her to the English major concept of scansion–which basically is the beats in a sentence/poem.

    I told my husband about it at dinner. We chatted for awhile about rhythm and what it means with words and so forth.

    Yesterday as part of a work initiative, he went to training on how to teach reading. He’ll be volunteering one day a week at a local elementary school to help one at-risk first grader for a half hour.

    The reading specialist was as passionate as you can imagine but talked about how the “block” readers books were not interesting to the kids, so she took the same words and wrote her own little books.

    R put up his hand and said “do they have good scansion?”

    She’d not heard of it before but when he explained, based on our conversation of the night before, her face lit up and she got really excited. “I’m going to go back and check but I bet that’s it!”

    Janice, my husband and I have been laughing that sending the manuscript to me, letting me play with it, and then telling my husband about it, has encouraged a reading specialist trying to help young children better learn how to read.

    Don’t you love it when God does things like that! Whirled Views is so very useful in the world. 🙂

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  28. Six Arrows and the noneaters: My husband asked if you need him to talk with your husband. He also commented that we only have heard your view of the discussion. But from what I have seen, I would suggest you not bother him about it, but put this out for him to consider: all children over age nine can make their own meals. They need to have a menu to you both by whatever day is your shopping day with a list of ingredients. Both dad and mom have veto power in the event they over extend the budget and they can use their own money to buy excessive stuff. That way you only have the little one or two to cook for, yourself, and your husband.

    Actually, we are doing that very thing right here as word came to me from a neighbor that the children were dissatisfied with the meals. They complained to her of a shortage of junkfood so they needed to go to her house for a visit. So, on this week’s chore chart, rather than assign one of them as cook’s assistant, I told them they were to plan and execute their own dinner meals. Either as a body or singly. They have half an hour before school for prep and half an hour shortly before dinner to finalize. So far, they have chosen to work together and are doing a pretty good job. Funny, but the meals don’t look much different from what we have been eating.

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  30. Mumsee – Wouldn’t having different dinners being cooked tend to be more expensive?

    I have suggested that when the girls & little guy finally move upstairs, we should try to have most dinners together rather than them cooking one dinner & us cooking another one, which I think will save money.

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  31. That is reminding me of scouting. The scouts had to take turns being cook for their monthly camping excursions. They had to do a menu, plan purchases, make cooking assignments, stay within budget, collect funds, and oversee cleanup. It was a really good thing to lesrn those skills.

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  32. Michelle, teachers used to take children outside and let them jump rope. A child who can’t jump rope doesn’t have the rythm to read. You can test this by using the simple clap or say ta… ta… tee.tee.tee.ta Sounds like that would tie in with your scansion. Librarians used to determine reading level by how many syllables are in a word.

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  33. Update: I found out that the photo actually was of my grandmother after all, because I had the wrong middle initial for my grandmother: her middle name became Mom’s first name and then my middle name! Meanwhile, I was wrong on her middle initial because I own a book that I thought came from my grandmother’s library. With the middle initial detail corrected, I see it was actually from the library of my great-grandmother. From a family with few heirlooms, that is a nice one.

    Michelle, I’m not really doing it totally the old-fashioned way, but a mix of ways. First, mostly what I have is a trunk of photos that belonged to my mom, and I have scanned in anything from it that looks good. Second, I took what I knew of family names, combined it with what my oldest brother knew based on research someone else did, googled to fill in some blanks, and then e-mailed a cousin who (it turns out) is in touch with a distant cousin who found our part of the family and has been filling in details through ancestry.com. Four of us girl cousins (me, one cousin from each of my mother’s two brothers, and that distant cousin) have been e-mailing each other frantically for about the last 20 hours. I’m the one with the family photos; what they are giving me is dates and new names. But I have gone from knowing names of only my mother’s parents and the siblings of both of my parents to tracing my roots back to the late 1700s on both sides. Now, my family tends to have long generations, so that isn’t as many generations as it sounds like, but that’s still five generations back (male line) on my Dad’s side, plus the birth and death dates of all his sibings and the names of most of their children, plus photographs of most of their graves (his parents and several of his siblings) and that is a whole lot more than I had a week ago.

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  34. Son searched out recipes they could do on a campout and the best he found was a sorta stir fry with onions, peppers, pineapple chunks and orange marmalade with frozen shrmp added at the end. I think it had cornstarch for a thickener. It was served over boiled rice. I don’t make it now because of its sweetness, but it was delicious. .

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  35. I see what Mumsee is doing is like what the Scouts did. If you teach a person to fish, they will have fish for a lifetime. If you give them fish, they will have it for that day, as the saying goes. It may cost a bit more up front (time and money), but in the long run, the life skills developed are worth it.

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  36. roscuro, That was the movie I was thinking of. I have a copy and have watched it several times.

    I also have The Nativity Story and agree it is quite good. Some parts drive me crazy, but over all it does capture that emotion. That redeemed the errors. Sometimes ‘errors’ are not so much really that, but others ‘interpretation’, which can differ from mine.

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  37. The Real: We have used mail order prescription service for years and Express Scripts for several years now. It has been mostly ok. It is only recently that they have an automatic service that they make your first option, unless you happen to notice it and undo it. Then you have to notice it every time! It irritates me greatly. I do not want anything coming automatically for the reason you state.

    Another reason is that we may be gone or the weather bad when a prescription comes. Unfortunately, we were just delayed because of weather and I had a liquid prescription come during that time. It sat in our mailbox in weather that was more than 20 below zero. I can only hope it will be ok. It is not a life and death type thing, but I do need it.

    It also is irritating that I can sometimes get prescriptions cheaper locally. It depends on what the prescription is for, of course. Our contract does not allow that, unless it is something that is needed temporarily and immediately.

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  38. We had a nice day with 2nd Arrow coming to visit for a few hours this afternoon. She has a shorter class schedule on Thursdays, and got someone to work for her this afternoon so she could come back around our area for a dentist appointment and a visit home. 1st Arrow was also home this afternoon, as he only had classes in the morning and did not have to work today. Hubby had to miss out, as he was already at work by the time 2nd Arrow arrived here, but the rest of us were together and had an enjoyable time hanging out in the living room, chatting.

    It’s been a good day. 😉

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  40. Mumsee at 3:29:

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts and Mike’s. Hubby would probably be more likely to speak with / listen to someone he has met.

    I was going to mention a praise the other day with my husband, but neglected to. He really looks out for our elderly neighbor (early 80’s) who is still farming by himself. He’s had eye problems that surgery has not helped, and it’s getting more and more difficult for him to continue farming.

    Also, hubby had been noticing that this neighbor’s wood pile was dwindling lower and lower. He had more wood cut that was across the highway from his house and barn, and my husband thought that soon the neighbor would be transporting that extra wood closer to the house. When it seemed apparent to hubby that the wood in his yard was about to run out and the other still had not been moved, hubby stopped in and told our neighbor that he would just bring over some of our wood that he had cut. We have a huge surplus this year.

    The next morning he delivered on his promise, hauling the wood over and stacking it for him.

    Truly I’ve got one of the hardest working and generous men for a husband of just about anyone I know, and I am very grateful to God for a man like that.

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  43. You’re right, Mumsee (10:43). We were husband and wife before the children came, and by God’s grace will continue to be after the children are raised. Child rearing is temporary; marriage is lifelong by God’s design. Good to always remember that and keep focusing on building one’s marriage.

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  44. Ancestry is worth the cost, even for just 1 month to poke around. They are growing what is a pretty substantial volume of documents, including census records and ship passenger lists, that can prove invaluable. I also found a photo of my great grandparents, the ones from Northern Ireland (most everyone else was from Scotland, but I didn’t spring for the worldwide membership, only the US — and I canceled that about a year ago when I realized I just wasn’t using it. But your research stays in place).

    Got home after a very long day — 3 stories — to find Cowboy was missing. I went to the back fence where the barriers have been holding well but when I called his name I could hear him scratching on the other side.

    So I grabbed the leash and flashlight and went out to gather up the lost sheep. I have tomorrow off but now I know what I’ll be doing with it — a trip to Home Depot to buy some chicken wire, a staple gun and pavers to try to secure the entire length of the bottom of that fence.

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  45. AJ, I had a similar experience with being more or less forced to switch from my regular CVS pharmacy to Express Scripts about a year ago. They said you could opt out, I called and thought I had, but the meds kept coming in the mail, a 3 months supply at a time. It is cheaper, and frankly I’ve enjoyed not having to be bothered with going to the pharmacy every month, but they really did strong-arm me. I suspect it’s cheaper for the insurance companies that way.

    CVS wasn’t that happy, as I recall.

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