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Our Daily Thread 3-4-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from me.

On this day in 1681 England’s King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area that later became the state of Pennsylvania.

In 1778 the Continental Congress voted to ratify the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance. The two treaties were the first entered into by the U.S. government.

In 1789 the first Congress of the United States met in New York and declared that the U.S. Constitution was in effect.  

In 1861 the Confederate States of America adopted the “Stars and Bars” flag. 

In 1908 the New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.

In 1917 Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

In 1933 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”

And in 1952 Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married. 

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Quote of the Day

“The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong”

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Today is Charles Dibdin’s birthday. From the accompanist, Dawn Fallon

Here’s some fun facts about Mr. Dibdin. He was a British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor. The son of a parish clerk, he was privately baptised on 4 March 1745 in Southampton and is often stated to be the youngest child of 18 born to a 50-year-old mother. Wikipedia

It’s also conductor Bernard Haitink’s birthday as well.

And it’s Gloria Gaither’s too. From hoover4000

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Anyone have a QoD?

62 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-4-14”

  4. Good morning, Janice! You didn’t get much sleep last night! I know, because neither did I. Becca has the bug now. She started vomiting around midnight. Hubby and L. are still sleeping.

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  6. Well that makes sense then. I thought it looked like my neck o the woods. I believe that is a palmetto palm. I will double check on that for you.
    My question is why oh why on the days you could sleep until noon the Alarm Dog–Master Amos decide that he would like to get up early. I am up, made the coffee, let the dogs out, fed them, gotten a cup of coffee and guess who is curled up on the back of the leather chair gazing out the window thinking about a nap.
    Today is Mardi Gras Day. Tomorrow will be Ash Wednesday. Are any of you of the tradition or do any of you give up anything for Lent? Also remember that you can take something up such as extra Bible study or something along those lines.
    If so what are you doing. This year I have decided to give something up. I am still working on the details of what it will be. Chocolate is too easy, because I don’t care much either way for it…it’s just there.

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  8. AJ, is that an Albino tree?

    Not much sleep for husband since I was awake to say goodbye to him and also because Bosley is being wild with morning kitten frolics, battings and bitings.

    Two cups of my Krispy Creme and Seattle’s Best custom home blend should get me going at least for the morning. Then a large mug of English breakfast tea in the afternoon will spur me on.

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  9. Kim, I use to do Ash Wed. service at husband’s church. I sometimes gave up things for Lent. We don’t put emphasis on that in my church.

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  10. Good morning! I was surprised to see there were 85 comments on yesterday’s thread when I came here this morning — it was at 70 when I went to bed last night.

    Loved the music today, AJ. What nice variety. I always like Fanny Crosby’s songs, the first video you featured was quite interesting (as well as the story of the composer said to have been born when his mother was 50), and with the Mahler finale, I literally got goose bumps. Thrilling music, and such a gorgeous location for its performance. Thank you always for locating and posting such moving music.

    I don’t give up anything for Lent. I think I did one time long ago, but I don’t remember what it was. We do have Wednesday Lenten services at our church (except the week before Easter, when there is no Wednesday service, but one for Maunday Thursday and another for Good Friday).

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  13. Chas is fine. They went traveling and he has his laptop but it wants a password so he is lurking. He gives his love to all, every one. Should be back home Wednesday and back with us Thursday. Hi Chas! Have a wonderful springtime experience! Wear a coat and hat and mittens.

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  19. Good Morning…I agree Janice…great quote from Rick Perry! And is Krispy Creme a brand of coffee too? Sounds wonderful!!
    Thanks Mumsee for cluing us in on the whereabouts of Chas…you know I was a tad bit worried and thought we may have to send out the troops looking for him…blessed to know all is well….Mornin’ Chas!! 🙂
    AJ…thanks for posting reminders that there are places in this world where the temps are warm and things grow!! Love that bluish/gray foliage amongst the green…great shot!
    Praying for Ann’s family to recover quickly….seems that stuff is spreading all over the country…not fun when it lands in your house!

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  21. Good morning all.

    And thank you.

    The next couple of days we will have some really nice pics from Peter and Kim. I’m now looking for a reason to go to Alabama. Maybe Paul will take me fishin’. 🙂

    And I had forgotten how wild little kittens can be. I remember now though. 🙂 We should have named her Bird instead of Mouse. She has this chirpy thing she does as she plays and runs around. Sooooo cute. 🙂

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  22. Hi Chas! 😀

    I kept thinking last night while I was walking the dogs that even when he travels he usually manages to check in on the dreaded laptop, at least while Elvera’s shopping. 😉

    Nice photo, I’ve never been to Florida.

    Our church doesn’t follow the church calendar (Advent, Lent, etc.), but sometimes I like to do the seasonal devotions only own.

    Glad to hear little Mouse is enjoying her new home so much. 🙂 Kittens are hilarious.

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  25. QOD: It’s so hard to keep Sunday different from other days of the week, other than that we attend church in the morning. Husband works most of the year on the weekend (job requirement), we try to get our groceries on Sunday as that eliminates another trip to town (and 2 hours of driving). Our plan is to have people over on Sunday evening, but we’re so tired after all of that, that we are close to giving up our plan.

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  26. Krispy Creme like Dunkin Donuts is now marketing their coffee. I found a big bag at Sam’s Club. It’s less expensive than Seattle’s Best so I cut cost and retain the zip by mixing the two.

    Sabbath usually means going in early to Sunday School classroom (prayers for a good class during five minute drive to get there). I set up for activities related to the lesson of the day. Clean up after class and get to service a few minutes late. After service if it is not tax season(when husband feels he must work even Sunday mornings) husband and I arrive home around same time. I may make pancakes or something else for lunch or husband may go pick up fast food. He likes to catch some sports on tv. We chat a bit about church service and try to keep Bosley distracted from our food. After lunch, husband goes to the office. I try to read and consider the next week’s Sunday School lesson. Usually drift off for a nap. Get awake in time for
    evening service or discipleship learning group at church. On the way home I may stop at grocery if I really need something since I am out. That’s about it unless I am sick like I have been recently. It is a peaceful day mostly. Oh, I may get a phone call from son or brother to keep me from much of a nap.

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  27. Chas- You would only need your password to post with your picture. Just put your name in the space below the reply box, and we’ll know who you are. When you see my avatar picture, I am at home. When you see the quilt block provided by WordPress, I am at school. I do occasionally log in at school, but it’s not worth the trouble just to get the avatar.

    As for the Stars and Bars- Would one of the Southerners verify that the name does not refer to the battle flag (the one with the red background and the blue X with stars in it), but the national flag no one sees much unless you go to Civil War reenactments (the one with the blue field with a circle of stars and three large horizontal red or white stripes)?

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  28. QoD- We are not Sabbatarians, but we go to our house church and stay all day (or most of it), sharing a fellowship meal and lots of conversation. Since everyone lives so far apart, we only see each other on Sundays. We do avoid shopping and other such since we can do those things during the week.

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  32. We need some Mouse tales to balance out the Bosley tales.

    I just made my afternoon English Breakfast tea and I don’t understand why Bosley still wants to sniff it to see if it is the same as always. She is smart in many ways but she definitely has a blind spot in her sniffer. She also tries to sniff my coffee each day, too. It has been since right before Christmas that I have gotten to really enjoy a hot cup of coffee or tea. I

    Well, speak of the devil…she was trying to sniff the tea again! This time was the worst! I grabbed the tea off the coaster and she leaped and managed yo dip her paw into the tea. Does anyone know if tea will stain a white cat paw brown? She wears evidence of her sin! And now I have tea on my top which she promptly got to sniffing. Now what was I saying about not getting to enjoy a beverage? My dream to drink in peace was foiled again. I don’t drink anything stronger, but the thought just occurred to me that The Boz would probably turn her nose up at alcohol.

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  34. Hahahaha!!!! 😆

    Toooo funny. 🙂

    Mouse has discovered the laundry room and 9,397 new places to lay/explore. She’s also discovered that you can in fact climb the curtain to get to the window. 😦

    We’ll work on that. As soon as she perfects NOT doing the Velcro thing that she does where she hangs on the back of the couch sideways. It even sounds like Velcro. 😯

    But she’s sooo stinkin’ cute. And she has imprinted well with my daughter. That’s why we put her in Liz’s room to start. 🙂 She loves Liz, and wants to be wherever she is. Unless it’s morning and she’s sleeping, then Mouse harasses me. 🙂 She loves attacking the shoe laces on my extra pair of sneakers.

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  35. Maybe I need to start making her a cup of catnip tea when I make mine so she will go for the “spiked” tea. Good idea Kare.

    AJ, wanna trade cats like yesterday? Bosley does not have a “brown nose”, but she now has brown toes. Her nose appears as a faint pink color. It is pink underneath the white fur.

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  36. There are certain herbs cats just want to sniff. Some teas, mint, and others too. If we buy celery, the cat will jump on the table to roll where it laid. Weird, but she does it every time. It has the same effect as catnip on her. Maybe tea is Bosley’s favorite.

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  37. I think she has her white toes back now. Never let a good foot bath in the tea go to waste. If you can’t manage to get a nose in edgewise then go for the toes in with a straight dive. She is sleeping like an angel now. You would never think if you saw her now that she could manage to create such havoc.

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  38. Misten used to love dirty laundry. She doesn’t get a chance to lay in it these days, but I used to pile it in my den to sort it, and if she got half a chance she’d roll on it or curl up in it. Unless she was actively in my way, I’d let her. I figured she had few joys in life quite as special as lying in soft, comfy fabric that smelled like her owner.

    I think her greatest pleasure these days is eating snow. She hasn’t drunk in weeks; she just eats snow in quantity several times a day, ice when she can get it.

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  39. Cheryl, now Misten could have an even bigger pile of dirty laundry!

    That’s funny that she “drinks” the snow. Sorta like having a snow cone I suppose or maybe a slushy.

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  40. AJ, I am glad you told me about the celery.

    Have you gotten Mouse a scratching post? And do you have any claw trimmers? I really need to get some of those.

    Mouse sounds sooo cutd, just like you said!

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  41. Speaking of Chicago, on the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon went to Chicago to do the Polar Bear plunge with Rahm Emanuel (sp?). For whatever that bit of news is worth to anyone!

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  42. Annie loves it when I have a glass of milk or a cup of yogurt or ice cream — out comes the paw and I’m having to hold my food or drink high. Dogs are much more polite.

    Cats definitely have an entitlement mindset.

    Annie loves-loves-loves catnip.

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  43. Pets are so awesome!

    Cheryl, Keva loves to bite at the snow as he’s running around – drinking on the fly 🙂 He also loves to catch snowballs and then eat them.

    I’ll have to get our cat some celery to play with.

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  44. I once dropped the end of a celery stalk on the kitchen door and Annie was thrilled, she batted around and it was her favorite new toy.

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  46. Our terrible cats (they actually have names: Snowball and Little One (Little One is a tom who likes to dominate the world, wandering far and near, intimidating all coyotes and owls and poor neutered Snowball) like milk. Straight from the goat. They don’t need a middleman. Though they do need somebody to turn the faucets on.

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  47. such adventures you all are having with your cats. Chas, isn’t it fun to have us all greet you as you lurk??!
    I made a committment to keep the sabbath by not doing any shopping on that day. Sometimes it meant I had to go late on Saturday. Here, nothing is open so it is not a problem.

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  48. Greetings, Chas. Are you enjoying the pet thread?

    Did I mention Misten got out for a third time yesterday? When my husband snow-blowed a trench next to the fence after her first escape, he couldn’t get all the way to the fence, but he figured what was left was too narrow and too vertical for her to get purchase. For four weeks it was, but exactly four weeks after her first escape, she made a third one–those pillars had iced up enough she apparently dug in with her claws and made her way out. (Neither of us saw her go over, but she left pawprints.) She went over and said hello to the dogs next door, then came back to our yard and looked over the fence (I saw her do that). When she figured out she couldn’t come back in the way she went out, she came to the front door. We opened it and she walked right in, less than five minutes after she got out.

    But it took some really hard work for my husband to break down those icy pillars so she cannot do that again.

    Misten is really going to miss the snow when it melts. But we won’t. And we won’t miss her looking for a chance to get out, either! Though I do have to say I’m impressed she turned herself in. 🙂

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  49. I have tried not shopping on Sunday and I stick to it for awhile, but I suppose because it is so nearby I will stop after church or if we need a food item for Sunday School I may be at the grocery at opening time. I don’t do major shopping on Sunday though. That would be too distracting from the peacefulness of the day..

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  51. We went to see Non Stop today. A decent movie. No sex and I don’t seem to remember any cursing. There was violence. I enjoyed it but probably wouldn’t see it again.

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  52. Sundays: I try to refrain from work and try to rest. That means planning ahead for meals and doing any major prep ahead of time. Trying to keep the dishes at a minimum. Try to spend a bit more time with children and Bible. No shopping. Though when that is the only day in town, we have in the past used it for shopping rather than making a separate long trip.

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  53. We also keep our pet rocks outside. Just in case anybody was wondering. Anybody on vacation. With a vested interest in pet rocks. Lurking.

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  54. Determined to try again for a cup of English Breakfast tea even though it is near “supper time” as we say in the south, I used a giant double size mug that just happens to have cats and Christmas presents on it. I just realized how meaningful that mug is! This time Bosley went for the string and tag attached to the tea bag in the cup. I can deal with that. At least I got to drink my tea so I will hopefully be able to stay up late tonight. ‘Tis the season…

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  55. I try not to shop on Sundays, too. Only if something has come up with a guest for dinner–then I sometimes have to stop at the store. Once in awhile I even lie down and take a nap. I’m trying to decide if I can risk not writing on Sundays . . . . so far, no. 😦

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  56. Kim,

    SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

    So what did you think of the “bad guy”? A (you know what, but I’m trying not to say) as a terrorist? Really? Only in Hollywood, where everything is perverted. I like Liam, but I’ll skip this one.

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  59. Misten, Misten. I was wondering if she’d escaped again. So far cowboy’s good, but someday I have no doubt he’ll figure out a way under the back fence at some spot — once they taste freedom …

    I enrolled Tess in obedience again as a refresher, it’s been the better part of a year since we’ve been. Caught up with some folks, one of the instructors lost her golden to cancer about a week ago, they were very bonded (but they also have a puppy at home now, so at least they’re not dog-less). Another class member’s dalmatian had died about a year ago and they’ve since gotten a new dog whom I met tonight, a springer spaniel mix found in a park as a stray in South Central LA.

    Tess and I were rusty, but it’ll come back to us I think. 🙂

    I want to see Non Stop. But I may wind up waiting until it shows up on cable or ‘on demand’ in a few months.

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