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Our Daily Thread 2-12-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is courtesy of Nancy.

On this day in 1554 Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine days.

In 1733 Savannah, GA, was founded by English colonist James Oglethorpe.

In 1892 U.S. President Lincoln’s birthday was declared to be a national holiday.

In 1915 the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, DC.

In 1973 American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict.

And in 1999 President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.

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Quotes of the Day, and there were a lot of good ones to choose from with Mr. Lincoln.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

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Today is Michael McDonald’s birthday. So here he is with the Doobie Brothers.

It’s also Chynna Phillips’, so the girls covering the Dads. I think. There’s Mommas and Papas in there somewhere too. It’s confusing. 🙂

From WilsonPhillipsVEVO

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Anyone have a QoD?

105 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-12-14”

  1. Good morning. It’s 25.2 outside. Up to nine inches of snow is forecast, but nothing is falling yet. I understand Janice, MIM and others in Ga. are having it rough. Snow is in our forecast, but sleet and ice south of us. I hope it isn’t too bad. South Carolina isn’t used to this sort of thing.

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  3. oh, my, that is a lot of cold weather. I can’t save the picture that I want to send, since I lost my computer a year or so ago. But I have the picture of my view from my windows here as the header on my blog. My daughter created this blog and I only posted a few times. Perhaps seeing my bright, sunny view will warm you all up. It certainly looks like spring.
    grandmajo-png.blogspot.com

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  5. That’s a beautiful view, Nancy. Wish it could be the view from my window today. 🙂

    Lots of weather going on outside. Bosley’s first time to hear sleet hitting the window. Would be neat to know what she thought it was. Probably some kind of animal with many claws.

    It’s 30 degrees. 20,000 Georgia Power customers without power now. Not looking forward to that happening here. Husband worked most of the night knowing he will probably lose power and then he will have plenty of time to sleep. He is in the area where ice is suppose to be thickest. Brother is in area predicted to have uo to 9 inches of snow. I will get a mix at home.

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  6. Good Morning. I love NancyJill’s view. I love to stop for just a moment and try to guess whose it is. Thank you AJ for taking the time to change the photo of the day. I know it is an extra step in all you do.
    We have rain forecast all day with a high of 46 degrees. Most of the nasty stuff is north of us. I am headed back to Mobile today to meet and greet the agents over there. I got my first recruit signed on this week. I have a few more I am working on. I am privvy to some confidential information until I learn who I can and can’t discuss this with my plan is to be just like Tar Baby and “don’t say nothin’ “. With my recruit I heard something that I knew would make a difference to her on staying where she was or making a move. I called her and told her I couldn’t tell her what I was talking about, but to just trust me and talk to the broker. She did and HE told her. She made the move.
    I have told the guys I work most closely with that I first, don’t want any rumor traced back to me and second, if they are discussing something in front of me that is confidential and really none of my business I have the ability to process that, tune it out, and am really unable to tell you what the conversation was about. For now they will have to trust me on that until I prove to them it is true.
    Because I have access to the accounting system, I know agent’s splits and how much money they are making. That isn’t something you want getting around. Besides that I have never worked for a “traditional” company that paid on a tier scale. It ranges from a 50/50 split to a 95/5 split. I did look around in the system yesterday as I was trying to learn it and realized one agent is a Real Estate Money Making Machine. I asked what all the company was doing to keep her happy. We certainly wouldn’t want her unhappy and going someplace else.
    One of my personal goals is in sight. I at least have to paperwork to apply to be a certified real estate instructor. I will be able to teach real estate, something I have wanted to do for ten years, since I took my own real estate course.
    Right now life is GOOD bordering on GREAT. It will be great this Friday when my check goes in on direct deposit!!!!!
    Just because this is funny to me, the 25 year old marketing director with an MBA and who is active in Young Life, was sick yesterday…she started calling me Mama Kim. An added bonus to this is that she is interested in getting BG involved in Young Life…say a little prayer on that one.

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  7. We have extreme cold here again, but nothing untoward like you southern folk. It’s -30F right now. The worst part is that I have to light the fire in the furnace and keep it going and start the car to warm up today. Usually husband does that for me.

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  9. It’s amazing how those guys can throw teir girls in the air and twirl then around. And on ice skates yet.!
    I used to be impressed that Gene Kelly could twirl 100+ pound girls around. I noticed that Fred Astaire never did that. Kelly had great athletic ability.

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  10. Kim, you have my prayers for BG on that Young Life thing. It was my involvement with IVCF at Carolina that got me back on track. The fellowship and confidence of other people help a lot.

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  11. The vet we have been seeing is great! She is probably not too far from my age. SHe is from this area and went to the high school that was my rival high school, right down the road from my school. She has cats herself so she likes to treat cats.

    Since she mentioned putting in a microchip to keep up with Miss Bosley in case she escapes, does anyone have experience with that?

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  12. Microchip her. It will keep her from being “euthanized” should she ever end up in a shelter. Amos is not chipped, Lulabelle is…it was part of her adoption. Both have tags with their names and our phone numbers.

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  13. Good morning! It’s 34 here now with a high of 52 this afternoon, so I can’t complain.

    Janice: I think microchips in animals are a great invention. When we found our dog (he was wandering the neighborhood), we had him checked for a chip, but he didn’t have one. We also put up signs, but no one ever called. That was eight years ago…

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  14. Chas, I posted on FB last night that I have gone from wanting to ice skate like that to thinking how my legs would hurt afterwards and how you could seriously break a bone.

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  16. A tractor trailer carrying milk has jack-knived off the expressway. I think it was trying to get milk to sold out areas.

    Now 40,000 without power. This feels like a countdown by countup to power loss. 😦

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  18. I was telling my husband last night how surreal life is with FB and you all. Out here winter hasn’t started yet, and we’re all anxious for rain. In apparently the rest of the world, everyone is so over snow and ice they can’t stop posting photos and telling us about it.

    I had the windows open to let in fresh air yesterday!

    We’ve had our pets microchipped. Sort of wishing we hadn’t bothered with the current 18 year old cat who will. not. stop. yowling. We lock her up at night far from the bedrooms now because she’s become such a nuisance.

    It all started when I began feeding her wet cat food since she has few teeth. We don’t know what the issue is with her, the yowling, but it goes on all day. It’s not pain, she’s got all she needs, it’s just really annoying. Other than Mumsee, anyone have a suggestion?

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  19. Good idea Janice. Prepare for the worst and hope it doesn’t happen.
    Kim, it must take a lot of nerve for a woman to let a man practice that on her on ice. I know they initially try the twirling routine on a mat or somesuch. But someday it comes to a hard, slippery surface. Some are impressed by the beauty of the motion. I’m impressed by the athletic ability of both of them.

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  21. Mumsee, I wouldn’t be surprised. Piper, my old cat, has spells were she goes crazy trying to catch her tail. Normally she just lays on the bed and scowls at everyone.

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  23. Catnip aka Kitty Pot. Eighteen years old and miserable for a cat …perhaps you want to consider the humane option?
    We are currently at a stand off at my house over the litter box. Mo spreads litter all over my laundry room. If I am forced to deal with it again she just might “got live at the farm” where my last cat went. She is also a pain because she is de-clawed and still tries to get out.

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  24. KIm,Chuck had the problem with JennyK’s cat, Socks. He was declawed. He also wanted to roam the neighborhood. Problem was, he was also territorial and wanted to fight the other cats. But he couldn’t fight, he couldn’t climb trees or defend himself. They had to keep him inside all the time. Which was a problem because he would dash for the door every time someone approached it.
    Mumsee has the right idea about pets. But I keep mine inside, on a shelf.

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  25. Husband called. He is without power.

    Bosley is still using a small aluminum litter box I have on a piece of cardboard. She somehow slid it all to the doorway to the bathroom as in clean this thing already. I think she got spoiled with boarding in that the stood ready with the pooper scoop for any sign of a dropping.

    If someone had told me two months ago I’d be in the litter box business in February I guess I would have laughed it off with, “Yeah, right. And it will be delivered by Saint Valentine himself?”

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  26. 🙂 All those pretty girls almost make me want to buy a teddy bear! Notice all of them have long hair and all but two are blond? Sure, I noticed that.
    😦 There is bouncing at the bottom of my screen a notice saying This is not a joke! You are the 100,000th visitor I suspect they want to click so they can get some information about me.
    😦 Every time I go from one site to another, e.g. “Daily” to “Prayer”, I have to go to the upper left and click out an advertisement before it opens.

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  28. Finished The Great Influenza on Monday night and wrote up a blog post about what is commonly referred to as The Spanish Flu. They estimate 5% of the world’s population died from the flu. Coming on top of WWI, can you imagine? Here’s the post: http://michelleule.com/2014/02/11/world-war-influenza-horror/

    As I mentioned in my response to Roscuro’s remarks, my cousin lives in San Francisco and was working at city hall during the AIDS horror of the 1980’s. He described to me what it was like to attend funeral after funeral every week, and the terror among so many.

    We were at a party when he told me the story, but I was curious to know how a non-believer coped with all the deaths. He basically indicated, they shouldered on and did the best they could. Terrifying because they weren’t sure what they were dealing with early on.

    A CT friend of ours at church worked for Pfizer during those years. I was headed to CA to visit family and would pass through San Francisco with my young children. I asked him if we would be safe. It was summer, what if we got a mosquito bite?

    He turned pale. “Oh, my word. We never thought of that!” He called me a couple days later after consulting with his colleagues. “We think you’ll be fine. Wear insect repellant.”

    Here’s your QOD. Do you remember when AIDs was an unknown killer? What do you think, now, looking back on that scourge. Did you think it was judgement from God?

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  29. A caption below the picture in a Washington Times article mentions “immigration rights activists”. What kinda ri”rights” does a person who sneaks into the country have?
    I think that’s the problem with this entire immigration bit.

    You people are going to have to put up with me a long time, dontcha see.
    I’m here all day.

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  32. Nothing here yet, but like Chas, we ain’t goin’ nowhere.

    We just came back from the store, my wife gets home in 5 hours, so we should be good. As long as there’s parking. 😦

    We live around the corner from a snow emergency route, so they have to move to our already overcrowded block. With the existing snow piles, it’s a mess. It’s gonna get about a foot worse too. 😦

    In order to keep your sanity, you must give in to the storm. Get what you need, hunker down, and enjoy it. We plan to be snowed in tomorrow. 🙂

    As long as the power stays on……

    If the power goes out we head over to Jimmy’s across the street. He has a generator, a 2 recliner sofas and a coal/wood stove.

    We got this either way. 🙂

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  33. Microchips are good — I’ve done stories on pets who were returned home after long periods due to someone scanning for a microchip. But it doesn’t replace the low-tech collar and tags for dogs (or cats either), those are always the fastest way home. I’ve returned dogs quickly and easily because they were wearing tags with their owners’ phone numbers and/or addresses.

    I do remember the AIDS crisis in the early days and the horrible mystery surrounding it all. Many of these diseases are certainly consequences of our sin, of course. And God does judge people and nations. Those are facts we can observe and know from the Word of God.

    But directly connecting the dots — God did *this* because of *that* — gets into pretty dicey “Pat-Robertson” territory, I’m afraid, and is beyond our knowledge in this realm.

    Chas, it’s very dangerous for declawed cats to be outdoors, they have no defense system at all and become easy prey. Declawing is falling out of favor, thankfully, but those cats who have been declawed should be kept strictly indoors.

    And, yes, animals can get some forms of dementia and their behavior changes. I’d think yowling was possibly from pain somewhere — cats normally are quite stoic, so it can be very hard to tell when they’re in pain (at least that’s what a vet told me). Dogs are a little easier to read.

    And I agree about the Olympic ice skaters, absolutely amazing what they can do. When you look at the older competitions from earlier eras it really has become much more of a true sport that requires great athleticism.

    Friends in the south, be careful in that ice storm, sounds like a bad one. Is everyone just staying home today?

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  34. Power is still on. Keep praying for us. It will get worse. Husband must have phone off since I can’t reach him. We have a misty drizzle which is clinging to things. Bosley is being a warm purr stole around my shoulders and neck. Makes it all a bit more bearable.

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  35. I guessed the picture was Nancy’s too! It just looked like Colorado, not that I’ve ever been to Colorado.

    Michelle’s QoD: I was a child when I heard the first reports of the disease. The Canadian Red Cross had to deal with a terrible blood donor contamination problem. I remember the announcements on the radio that anyone who had or might have received a donation in the 1980s needed to be tested for HIV. As I was born in the ’80s, I remember nervously asking my mother if she or I needed to be tested. My mother reassured me that I would be fine, but there was girl in my Sunday School class who was born the same year. Her mother had had complications, and that mother did contract AIDS from a contaminated donor. Her health slowly deteriorated, until she was in a wheelchair. Amazingly, she is still alive today, as her condition miraculously reversed course.

    I don’t think AIDS is a judgement for sexual sin. Rather, it is a consequence of sin. With unbridled sexual activity, the chance for pathogens to spread is increased greatly. Before AIDS, there was the scourge of the Great Pox, as syphilis was called. In its later stages, the disease caused scarring, deformity and gradual insanity. From the 16th through to the 19th century, it marked out its victims – Henry VIII’s later portraits carry evidence of the disease, and some attribute Nietzsche’s more bizarre ideas to the fact he had syphilis. In the 1900’s blood tests for syphilis became mandatory in some places for couples about to get married, as latent syphilis could cause serious birth defects. Syphilis was apparently dealt with by penicillin (it is now making a comeback) and it must have seemed to the ’60’s generation that casual sex was safe. Little did they know…

    God doesn’t need to visit divine judgement for every sin, as the natural consequences following our actions are severe enough. A greedy developer destroys natural resources, causing food and water shortages; a power hungry leader invades another country, causing war; we like to think the results of our sin can be contained, but the echoes of our wrong actions reverberate long after the action itself stopped. David’s adultery and murder was repented of and forgiven, but the natural consequences – sons who felt they could get away with rape and murder – followed for the rest of his life and into the reign of his son.

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  36. When AIDS first came out, and there was a big push for an AIDS cure, I said, “AIDS is the most preventable disease in the world”.
    Then I postulated a theory that all the diseases man has were created my men doing something they shouldn’t. That counts for the long lives of some of the ancients. None of them has sugar, bathed in the sun. etc. In early days, women protected themselves from the sun. Elvera did. She wore a big hat to protect her face from the sun.

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  37. Still, God is sovereign over those consequences of our behaviors (and over the cures and treatments as well). His is the unseen hand behind all that comes to pass. And there remains a good deal of mystery that we can’t fully know this side of heaven.

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  38. It is sleeting big time now. Seems a miracle we still have power. I can be on the phone since I can keep it charged while we have power. The ground is getting white, but the magnolia just outside my window just looks green. It probably has a clear coat of ice.

    With the AIDs, I remember the fear about going swimming. Could you catch it in the pool? And with all the mosquitoes, I wondered about that, too.

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  39. I can’t bring myself to think that AIDS is a judgement disease. Too many innocent people died. Children, hemophiliacs. I tend to agree more with Roscuro on this. Sexually transmitted diseases are the result of having sex with too many different people. My first big memory of AIDS was the first time I had my teeth cleaned with the hygenist wearing rubber gloves. I thought it was so odd, now I think I gross that they didn’t BEFORE!

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  45. There was so much unknown about AIDs. The French government (always, the French government–they were wrong on Rwanda, too), knew about the blood transmission issues, but allowed donations and nearly all the hemophilliacs in France got AIDs.

    Terrible.

    I agree with the actions have consequences postings. I don’t believe it was sent as judgement.

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  46. “sent” or?

    I think of Rom. 2:24: Therefore God gave them up ….

    Here there is a removal of divine restraints on sinful actions and consequences as people are allowed to go their own way. Is this “judgement”? I’m not entirely sure and hesitate to claim to know what God is doing in these calamities that befall us.

    Is our codifying abortion, in a sense, a judgement of God as he removes his restraints from what we want to do? We’ve been allowed to follow our own way to the point of even destroying our own (yes, innocent) children.

    Deep questions. I don’t like the idea of judgement at all. But I struggle with finding a difference — in a world in which God remains sovereign as Scripture clearly teaches — between ‘consequences’ that come from God allowing us to follow our own ways (that result in destruction and harm to the innocent and guilty alike) and the idea of some kind of judgement unfolding in our day.

    Perhaps it is both.

    Again, Scripture makes it clear that God judges individuals and nations (which may include ‘innocents’).

    But to say definitively that He is doing something specifically right now in response to something else (or, for that matter, that He’s definitely not doing something in response to something else)? That’s going further than I think we can go. Those are among the secret things of God.

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  47. Happy Birthday Karen! I have internet!! I’m in Ohio..I surprised my Mom for her 84th birthday on Tuesday…I’ll be here until next Monday. I flew into Indianapolis and drove 2 hours to my Mom’s…my oh my how this country is covered in a white tapestry looking down from the sky…so beautiful!
    That photo of my peonies was taken last June…right before we had to evacuate…I was so sad to think I would never see them bloom. But, we were cleared to return home 3 days later and they did bloom gloriously.
    Micro chipping is a very good thing. We have both of our dogs chipped. Gives me great peace of mind.

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  49. Donna, I agree that God controls everything, and in that sense He is behind the rise of STD. However, I believe that He created the world with natural laws written into its very fabric, so that, when those laws are violated, consequences follow. This is indicated in what God said to Cain, “The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground, and now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand; when you till the ground from now on, it will not yield to you her strength” (Genesis 4:10-12). God said of the Canaanites, who were steeped in sexual immorality, “the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.” (Leviticus 18:25). Christ warned his disciples not to assume that those who died in disasters were under greater judgement, because every human will face the judgement of God unless they repent (Luke 13:3). Disease and death have dogged humans since the Fall and will continue to do so until there is a new heaven and earth with no more curse.

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  50. It is not a good Idea to blame natural disasters on the Judgement of God. A few people did that with AIDS, Katrina and a few other disasters. Now every time we have a disaster in a Red State or area of the country with a lot of Christians you have people on News Comments sections making sick jokes about God’s Judgement. There are some already some at the Huffington Post for the Georgia snow storm.
    However, God tells us not to do stupid, sinful things.When we do stupid sinful things bad things happen and sometimes innocent people get hurt. It it is like when I tell my son not to play in the street. If he disobeys me and gets hit by a car it was not my judgement that hurt him, it was his disobedience.

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  51. Governor and Mayor are doing a great job along with all the others in leadership.

    Just heard this is the most aggressive flight cancelation in Hartsfield Atlanta airport history.

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  52. I might add that sexually transmitted disease are a very good example of how violating natural laws leads to unintended consequences. For example, HPV and herpes viruses have forms that are not transmitted by sexual activity – a wart on your hand or a cold sore on your mouth are not of much concern; however, it is the sexually transmitted forms which cause the most damage, such as birth defects (herpes) or cervical cancer (HPV). The HIV virus itself, which causes AIDS (viruses are made from RNA or DNA), closely resembles certain codes found in the human genome – one wonders about mutations…

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  53. roscuro, so in that sense I see it as potentially both — a result of sinful actions but also in a world that God set in motion and a world in which God is still sovereign over.

    But kBells brings up a good point — remember when 9/11 was said to be God’s judgement on America? Maybe. Maybe not. Again, the details of God’s overarching plan and how He is bringing his ultimate will to pass are simply not provided to us.

    But I do see all things as under His hand, however. What role they play in the big picture, I don’t have the information to say.

    And when bad things happen, it can be at least seen as a divine wake-up call for everyone everywhere.

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  54. I don’t see events or calamities as random, happenstance incidents. We may not know or understand what they ultimately mean (and we often sound pompous when we take a public stab at it).

    But God isn’t a mere watchmaker who sets things in motion and then simply sits back, hands-off, to let them lead where they will. He remains actively involved and sovereign over his creation.

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  56. “This is something. I haven’t seen snow since I was like five.”
    A young woman in Spartanburg interviewed on local TV. Some get out for the adventure.
    The kids are enjoying it. So far, all the power outages are south of us where it is sleet and freezing rain.
    I went out to take a couple of pictures of my house, but I can’t upload them to the computer. I have the instruction book, but something’s wrong.

    TV weather man says the worst is yet to come tonight.

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  57. Chas, I have seen videos of those skaters first practicing those moves where the woman is carried high by the man. They start out using a harness on the woman, so that she will not be falling on the ice over and over. Of course, at some point that comes off. A woman has to have a lot of confidence in her partner to do that.

    Politics added to a lot of the fear over AIDS. It was not treated like those diseases had traditionally been treated. I lived for many years just up the road from a TB sanatorium. People had no choice, but to be in one if they had that disease years ago. Those with VD had certain responsibilities as did their doctors. Whole homes were quarantined at one point. Then with AIDS, medical personal were not even told if a patient had it. I know some nurses who were very upset about that. Even today the reporting on certain diseases is limited by political correctness. None of that helped.

    I would be very careful about saying anything is God’s judgment. With AIDS there were many who simply received it from tainted blood. No way could I consider that a judgment from God. I did not think it was at the time. However, I was not happy about all the political correctness that went on, either.

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  58. I still have power, but have not heard from husband since he lost power. Between that and this cold, I am a miserable camper. My brother is staying in touch.

    A lot of trees were coming down in the area where my husband is because of the heavy ice. Please pray he is okay.

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  59. Oh, poor Janice & husband — will pray you hear from him soon. Do you have some soup you can make or heat up? Hot chicken soup always makes me feel better.

    The weather there sounds treacherous.

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  61. Our west-coastal weather is always so relatively mild, it’s sometimes surreal to see all the images from across the country while we’re sitting here dealing with nothing more than some heavy a.m. and p.m. fog, with warm sunshine in between.

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  62. Nice peony bushes, Nancy. Can’t wait until the snow melts and ours bloom.

    Who is it that likes #62? I can’t wait for her to coma along and claim it. Sorry.

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  64. I just heard from husband. Thanks to God he got power for the evening. He is okay. He stayed in the car some and ran the heater. Somehow his phone was not ringing when I called. He has an old cell phone and hardly knows how to use it because he rarely uses it. I am thinking the ringer may be turned down. He is on the office phone often with tax clients so he has never been enthusiastic about cell phones. And he hates this Smartphone except for the talking GPS.

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  66. Glad to hear that Janice.

    So it’s just you and Bosely tonight?

    Funny story — a friend on fb needed to charge her phone but was waiting in her car for her kids. So she used the car to recharge the battery in her phone.

    But in the process she killed her car battery. At least she had a fully charged phone to call road service.

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  67. I saw a tv interview with someone from Canada who said our snow is quite different from the drier type they have in the colder weather. Also a driver from Indiana said this is worse than what they have. So it’s not just that southern drivers don’t know how to drive on snow.

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  69. Anonymous likes #62. 😉

    Tomorrow is hubby’s birthday (Mr. Arrows). He’ll have the day off — yay! It’s also our media-free day again. Thriving Thursdays I call them.

    Hope you all have a good day tomorrow. Be careful in the weather in your part of the world.

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  70. Yes, it’s my birthday. Thank you for the good wishes.

    Our snow is definitely drier than snow that falls in warmer temps. Wet snow is much slicker as a layer of water forms when it is compressed by your tires, making things that much slipperier. Is that even a word? I would much rather drive on snowy roads at -15C than at around freezing.

    I drove home through not quite a blizzard tonight. Blowing snow, finger drifts – I’ll take that any day over what you folks are getting down south. Saw some of the damage and results on the news just now. Stay safe, everyone.

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  76. Cheryl I don’t have your email address….so do you mean . editor @ juno . com put all together? I just don’t want to send something to an unknown person who will think I’m nuts 🙂

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  77. I recognized NancyJill’s forrest from Facebook pics. What a lovely place to live!

    We’re expecting a snow storm beginning in the early morning hours, changing to sleet in the afternoon, & then back to snow again for much of Thursday night. Thursdays are one of the days Emily usually works with Lee, but he told her he wants her to stay home. He doesn’t want her driving in that stuff.

    He also said that he may stay in a motel in the town he works in tomorrow night if he feels the roads are too bad, especially since the storm will be continuing into his next work day. (No, he’s not a wimp at all about driving in nasty weather, but he’s not foolish, either.)

    Not putting this on the prayer thread, but prayers for his safety are greatly appreciated.

    And…HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KARE!

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  78. Oops. I’m so used to spelling my grandson’s name with two “r”s, I misspelled “forest”. 🙂

    AJ – Did one of my comments get stuck in your spam filter? I could have sworn that earlier today I posted a link for Janice, to an article about cat behavior. I could be mistaken, though.

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  85. Yes, I am. Thanks again for all the birthday wishes. I received flowers from hubby at work today. A friend stopped by with a small gift – very unexpected, but so special, lots of FB messages and phone calls from old friends.
    I’m going to change my picture for Mumsee and then go add some more wood to the furnace and then go to bed. All in all, a very good day.

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  90. I know I am sick because I had the tv on until after 11:00 and it ran all day on the same weather tracking station. I never watch tv. Really, I did feel horrible earlier. I was having chills and was so grateful I have heat. It has been a long time since I have suffered a cold. I actually shed a few tears while praying for my recovery and for those in the world who are feeling even worse.

    Bosley slept a lot today because of. getting booster shots yesterday. That was another thing to be thankful for.

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  97. I just had some pineapple chunks with juice, half a can of black bean soup and a piece of rye bread. I did not feel hungry earlier. Appetizing for a midnight snack!

    I decided to go outside for a moment. It is like a winter wonderland. So quiet that you can hear the quiet. So peaceful and not a movement around other than my own. And then I heard Bosley sneeze at the door…seems the whole family must suffer this horrid cold. Wish I could take her outside and let her walk on sleet, but I don’t think that would be wise. But it would be fun!

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  103. It’s about one minute before midnight here, and since my media-fast Thursday will soon be here, I’ll call it good for the night. Have a good night, all, and I’ll see you Friday!

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