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Our Daily Thread 2-4-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.

In 1789 electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

In 1861 delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, AL, to form the Confederate States of America.

In 1941 the United Service Organizations (USO) was created.

And in 1974 Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Quotes of the Day

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Today is Randy Hoslapple’s birthday. He used to play with this band.

And it’s Clint Black’s birthday too.

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Anyone have a QoD?

45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-4-14”

  4. Janice has been entertaining us with tales of Miss Bosley so I thought I would tell you about my cuterest Puppy Dog Boy. Amos is 5 and a half. Lulabelle is about 8 months. Amos is half Poodle/ half Shi Tzu. Lulabelle is some sort of Chocolate Lab and Pit Bull mix (the people at the animal shelter argued with me that she wasn’t). Lulabelle sleeps in her crate. Amos sleeps wherever he wants, which is mostly behind my knees. Lulabelle has Mr. P wrapped around her paw.
    At night when he tells her to get in her crate she just gets the most angelic look on her face, puts her paw over one eye and rolls around on the floor. For a while she was doing well when I told her to “crate up” but she started trying to pull the same thing on me. I fought her a little and then decided to go back to basic puppy training, so I got some treats that I keep on the shelf next to her crate. NOW at night when I tell her to “crate up” she comes reluctently. Amos on the other hand comes running from wherever he is to “sit pretty” on the end of the sofa and get a treat. Once he has made sure she is all tucked in for the night, his duty is done and he can go to bed himself. Of course you know he gets a treat too.

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  8. I wonder why it is that advertisers think they get a benefit when they pop up an ad when you click on something and instead of getting what you think you were, you get their ad.
    What you do then is either ignore it or add it to places you will not patronize.
    For some reason, I don’t have my avatar anymore. But the green blob is better looking than I am anyhow.
    😉

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  9. I seem to have found the name of my last or next-to-last first cousin. Yes, it’s remarkable that that takes actual research, but it did. He is the last surviving child of an uncle who died before I was born. His parents and possibly an older sister had all died by the time he graduated junior high! Another older sister (this one is definite) is also dead now–last night I tracked her down by finding, within minutes of each other, a wedding announcement and an obit. But there’s a girl in family photos who I’m guessing is their older sister (physical similarity to father and sister), and she isn’t mentioned in the obit of my uncle or my cousin, so if she is indeed a sister she died in her teens or twenties, before her parents died. But I have a phone number for him, and he lives in the same city as my younger brother and does the same kind of work, so if it is the right person by that name, I may just have found my brother a buddy! They’re in a different time zone, so it’s too early to call. But a man who lost his whole family young might just be thrilled to find a younger cousin in the same town doing the same line of work.

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  10. I have been reading the Bible for almost sixty years. I think I am pretty familiar with it.
    Yet, I had to go to the table of contents to locate Obadiah.
    😯

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  12. Kim, nice doggy tales!

    Cheryl, that is really interesting about the cousin. I hope your brother will be able to get together with him.

    As for Miss Bosley, her latest adventures have led her to find out up close what the inside of a toilet looks AND feels like. Also, I had tied the blind cords up high. My estimate of how high it should be was off by a kitten paw. So now after finding out she can miraculously balance on the wooden horizontal pane dividers and therefore climb windows, the cords have risen to the highest possible level. She really talked to me about her frustration over losing her newly found toy. Actually, when she was climbing the window I was envisioning her future career to be window washing. 🙂

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  13. Good Morning and oh what a beautiful photo up there AJ!! Seems as though our nation is frosted over…we are getting more snow today and later this week…getting a bit of cabin fever around here!
    I was trying to recall when I was 43 Ann…that was a long time ago…haven’t you heard 40 is the new 30…you’ve only just begun! 🙂
    I’m not so certain 60 is the new 50 though…I’ll turn 60 in a few months and I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel…even so come Lord Jesus!

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  15. Another snow day. This makes 5 so far, but this is the first one that actually has snow. Though it hasn’t started falling yet, we are supposed to get 6 inches by sundown.

    Annms: At 43 I was finishing my MA at University of Northern Iowa.

    Janice: Have Juice, Always Orange Juice. That is Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah

    I heard one also: Heaven Just Ain’t Over Jordan. I heard it when a preacher was going through eh book of Jonah.

    Cheryl: Interesting that you found a cousin that way. I have a few cousins and half cousins I have never met, but at least I know they exist and have a general idea where they are. The full cousin is in Florida and some day I hope to go there. I have contact with my aunt (her mother), so I won’t have a hard time. The half cousins, though, would be harder since I never met their dad, ho is my dad’s half brother. He would be well into his 90s, so I don’t know if he is still around.

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  16. Thank you Donna. Took that yesterday while the snow was still coming down. The snow is beautiful, but my body is in pretty bad shape from moving it all around. And they want another half a foot tonight. We’re running out of places to put it. And there’s talk of a major storm Sat/Sun that could drop 1 to 2 feet more. I don’t think I can take that, even with a snow blower. My knees, shoulder, back and hip are killing me. 😦

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  17. Good encouragement Janice! I feel like my stamina wanes and am in need of motivation…could be this frozen tundra is putting a quash on my getting outdoors…sometimes I feel like I am suffocating!

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  19. Also, General Electric Power Company is for Galations, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. I did not learn the books of the Bible in order until working with Bible Drill in my 50s.

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  20. AJ anticipated my compliment on his photo today. 🙂 Psychic, he is.

    Cheryl, that’s so fun, let us know what happens.

    Love the “juice” clues JaniceG, I also have trouble locating those tiny minor prophet books sometimes.

    This is a beautiful week out here, clear skies, windy, low 60s. And possibly more rain coming on Thursday.

    Got the animals all fed, I put little pieces of sardine in all the bowls today, it’s supposed to be one of the foods that’s good to give dogs and cats (in small portions and not necessarily every day); lots of omegas in sardines (get the skinless, boneless kind in water). And they all seem to like it, though I think it stinks (I keep the can in a heavy, sealable plastic bag when it has to go back into the refrigerator).

    Annms, even though I felt like 40 was “old,” I look back now and realize it wasn’t (though it’s hard to argue that it isn’t middle age; well, maybe 45 is middle age — they call 55 “senior” nowadays!). 🙂

    Age is all in your perspective. You’re older than you’ve ever been at any given age. But in 10 years, it’ll seem really young.

    Kim, dogs can go through something of an adolescent period at around 8-12 months. Things they learned and did willingly as puppies suddenly go right out the window. Just like with teen children. 🙂 Not that you’d know anything about that …

    And that reminded me of a funny line in this week’s Downton Abbey episode — “How you hate to be wrong,” said one character to the dowager.

    “I wouldn’t know,” she replied.

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  22. My first child left for college when I was 43. Indeed, that was the year I had a child in elementary school, junior high school, high school and college. I thought about taking a graduate school class just to keep all the educational basis covered . . . oh, maybe we did, my husband took a seminary class! 🙂

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  23. Don’t we all hate to be wrong? I sure do. Although, there are times I pray I am wrong.

    I have dozens and dozens of cousins, so I cannot imagine having to find just one. Nice that you could, Cheryl. It will be interesting to hear how any meeting goes between your brother and him.

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  26. That really is a lovely photo, AJ.
    And anyone who still wants snow is welcome to take either of our incoming ones–or both, if you want them. Or you can have the snow that is already in our yard, but that is definitely “used” snow (it has a lot of dog poop in it somewhere, for one thing, and at various levels, so you can never be quite sure when you’ll find it, as it looks like the snow-blower found out yesterday when my husband had to make his way to the fence and then cut a path next to the fence as well, to cut off Misten’s escape route over the fence).

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  28. Sorry NancyJill and Donna. The dog threw me. 😳 But thank you both.

    Michelle,

    They may be. The ducks more likely, they live here year round, but the geese move thru every few days. But it is the same place, but one has way more snow.

    It’s also the same place our wedding photo/avatar was taken. 🙂

    Thank you Cheryl. It’s one of my favorite places. I fish there, play with the kids, and walk there with my wife. Now that I have a better camera, I can’t wait until spring. 🙂

    Chas,

    As bad as the snow is, I’ll still take it over the heat you folks in the south have. Snow is only around for a few weeks total. That heat goes on for 7 months. 😦

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  31. Good quotes by Bonhoeffer. The first one strikes home, the indifference towards children in the modern West is chilling. The concept of an innocent childhood is being killed.

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  32. I can’t tolerate the cold at all. I’d much rather deal with the heat, running from air-conditioned car to building, than have to shovel snow. Fun memories of y’all’s lives at my age! I actually don’t feel old at all–it doesn’t seem possible that I’m (almost) middle-aged!

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  33. I don’t mind the cold or the snow. Oh, it does make me uncomfortable and sometimes it seems I’ll never get warm again; but the level of discomfort is easier to handle. I found the extreme heat and humidity in Africa to be disabling. I could barely function at times. Here, I can still think clearly and accomplish tasks even if my nose, fingers and toes feel icy.

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  34. The snow I can deal with, since I don’t have to be in it. And it looks pretty as it gently falls and covers everything with a white blanket. But the cold? I need a break form that and it’s only Feb 3! That means another month or two of it and I’m ready for warm weather now. We usually get a January thaw of several days over 50°, but this year we had two days over 40.

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  35. Can’t even imagine the cold you all are dealing with, especially having been in California for a very warm December.
    Good week for birthdays Annms. My son’s is Friday and mine is Saturday. I have invited a group of friends for dinner which I am fixing. Had to rent the guest house as my livingroom is only 10 by 7. This one is 65, so I am giving myself a party. I decided to do that every five years.

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  36. I just got home from the Common Core rally at the state capitol. It was a good rally, but I thought there would be more people there. Another group was there, something about autism. I was one of the good sign holders on the steps behind the speaker. That meant that I did not hear much of what was said. But I am pretty informed abouy the issue so that was okay. I talked with a younger mom who has children in the Atlanta public schools. She said there is a link on the school website to Common Core but that is the only mention, if you can even call that a mention, that has been made about it. It has all been done with grest stealth, just like Obamacare.

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  37. Well, maybe I won’t share what I thought I would. Michelle has advised me that it may not be a good idea to post these things on here. So please forgive me if your curiosity was piqued by my comment on the prayer request thread. It was pretty much more of the same that I’ve mentioned in the past, ramped up a bit. My hands were shaking from the stress.

    But everyone is safe & sound now at home, which is good. Please just pray for my family. Thank you.

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  41. As you may have caught on to, Guy I Used to Work With works as the same company where I work now. He is who recommended me for the job. Today he needed to know something that fell into my area. He had a question about if we could do something or not. I knew the answer, but knew he wouldn’t just accept it without me backing it up. They all laughed at how I handled him. I knew when I gave him the answer that he woould just rephrase the question, so I was ready. By the third time I told him, he really didn’t have another way to ask. The two guys I work with now just laughed.
    On a positive note, he was concerned with how I liked where I am now and what I thought of the company. There is a drawing coming up March 12 and I really want to win what it is…I already know what I am going to do with it. 😉

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