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Our Daily Thread 3-6-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Peter.

On this day in 1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam. 

In 1808, at Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded.

In 1836 the thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. 

In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens. 

In 1944, during World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin.  Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.

And in 1960 the United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.

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Quote of the Day

“Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”

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On this day in 1825 “Beethoven’s Opus 127, String Quartet #12” was performed for the first time. Here’s a sample. From Jasper String Quartet

In 1853 Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” debuted in Venice. Here’s a sample of that one.

And it’s the birthday of Wes Montgomery. In one word, smooth.

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Anyone have a QoD?

58 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-6-14”

  2. Good morning!!! I slept fitfully last night, but feel good this morning. L. Still felt terrible last night, so we’ll be going to the doctor this morning… Thanks for all the prayers. Miraculously, I haven’t gotten it yet.

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  8. I presumed that since Peter lives on thw west side, that it is a sunrise.

    We had a nice visit to Charleston, but it could have been better. The weather didn’t cooperate.
    It was nice Sunday afternoon when we arrived. So we walked down to the Battery and up to the park on the Cooper River. I should have taken some picturews of the Civil War cannon that my buddy and I used to drive off the Germans who were invading Charleston in 1952. Just the two of us saved Charleston from the German fleet.

    Then we walked up East Bay St. by Rainbow Row. Again, I missed a good photo shot.
    Tuesday and Wednesday were cold and raining. We left at noon Wednesday.

    Camelias and other early floweres were in bloom. Charlestonians were complaining about the worst weather they’ve had in 25 years. I didn’t mention Aj and some of you.

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  11. You all know the Germans didn’t invade Charleston in 1952 don’t you?
    Not in 1942 either. They were afraid of Bobby and me.
    😆

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  12. Facebook certainly has changed our lives. Did you ever think you would able to find out instantly that your nephew’s little boy had shoved peas up his nose?

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  13. Morning, all!

    The Common Core battle continues over in the Georgia House. They brought in the big guns yesterday. We could have used Chas and Bobby and the cannon. 🙂

    Aboug 200 teacherz came into the meeting ffom somewhere and now another tLking point is on the redoing of the SAT, etc., to align with Common (rotten) Core. I did not attend the meeting yesterdsy. I have not yet gotten an update from the group I am attached to.

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  15. I love sunrise and sunset photos.. Thank you Peter for the photo and AJ for taking the time to reset the photo on the blog.
    I pulled a muscle in my back last week. Now it has moved over to my shoulder and neck. I have a massage scheduled at 10 to try to do something with it. I also either have a cold or am having allergy problems. This last birthday has really kicked me in the pants.

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  16. Sorry to hear about that, Kim. Getting older can be really a pain for some and much is in the genes. I don’t have good genes for getting older.

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  17. Karen O, I just went to my husband’s office in the home and checked out the Three Stooges plate. It is not like yours. In the foreground something is broken laying on a table. A cleaning brush is flying in the air and the three guys are all in a row facing forward with one hand on their head making that flapping on the head that they do.

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  19. If those were green peas, I imagine when they came out of the nose all smished up it would have looked like the child had a super sinus infection!
    🙂 Better peas than (s)not!

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  20. Janice… RE the CC..the one sided comments that come from our system PR people and from my professional organizations are nauseating me! I can’t believe how many are drinking the Kool Aid…
    I had a chance to review the Next Generation Science Standards for Earth Science…Several topics that are central are just gone! No geology or mineral science to speak of…just a whole set of standards that relate Earth Systems to AGW topics…looks like it was created by Al Gore!

    If these pass, I am going to seriously consider going back to private school or teaching at a community college or industrial training…or something…:(

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  21. Research serendipity! I have to tell someone! On Tuesday night, I wrote the Oswald burial scene. I felt sad, but also relieved to be past it.

    Last night, some guy from Australia wrote asking for information after reading my Oswald blogs and casually mentioned his grandfather attended the funeral and, in fact, he had a photo!

    He sent the photo this morning. I love it when these crazy things happen to me!

    We’re off! Go Sporting Kansas City! My nephew starts as the goalie on Saturday!

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  23. michelle, great story about the Australian connection out of the blue. Have a fun trip to see the game.

    And beautiful picture of the sunrise! I love pictures of roads that lead to something beautiful. 🙂

    Kim, hope the kinks in the back and shoulder get worked out. I’ve had some jaw pain lately, I think it’s from overall first-of-the-year stress: work, upcoming big payments (property tax, homeowners’ insurance for the year) due, things that need taking care of at the house. And this morning I had to do battle with the mail-in prescription people who for some reason kept telling me I owned $20. I’ve tried to resolve it online but I can’t seem to find my membership # on anything (needed to log in) — they’ve “X”ed it out on all my paperwork. ???

    And then there was the skunk. Oddly, Tess seems to have gotten most of the smell rubbed off of her (but onto my favorite comforter which is now bagged and ready to be taken to the dry cleaners who will LOVE dealing with that, I’m sure — but they saved one for me before after the same thing happened).

    At least I don’t have to deal with de-skunking a dog, the baking power/water mixture I rubbed into the most evident spot on her last night seems to have worked for the most part. And the house is pretty much aired out, thankfully that horrible smell dissipates in about 24 hours. But last night it was making my throat burn.

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  24. The jaw pain is from clenching, I guess, which I never realized I did until I went to the dentist a couple years ago complaining of a vague toothache and he diagnosed it as the clenching issue. This time it’s just the right side and it hurts to open my mouth much, which may actually be a God-provided good thing these days. 😉 It’s like the joint’s out of whack, maybe from moving it around when I was putting in some ear drops the other night.

    I’m a mess this week. 🙄

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  25. That is cool, Michelle!

    Speaking of research, does anyone have a photo(s) of cardinals raising their young? Any of these: a cardinal with its nest, the young in the nest, parents feeding their young in the nest, or fledglings (young that have left the nest, preferably photographed with a parent)? If you have any such photos that you might be able to send me, I’d like to e-mail and explain what I am looking to do.

    If you have good photos of such for other species of birds (I’d especially like goldfinch, woodpeckers, house finch, or blue jay), that could be useful. Or a butterfly chrysalis. If you have good photos of any of those, if you could either mention it on here or e-mail me (tell me what you have and I’ll tell you what I want to use it for, and you can decide whether to send it), that would be good. Thanks.

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  26. I covered a youngish (30-something) minister distributing Lenten ashes yesterday outside a Starbucks and spent some time listening to his theology as he talked to me in between ”takers.” He’s a new pastor of one of our area’s aging (and dwindling) mainline churches and it was an interesting glimpse into liberal theology and how it perseveres.

    (Example: his view of how history culminates is that everyone evolves to the point where we all simply “get along” — he calls it God’s “kindom” rather than kingdom, pointedly leaving out the “g”.)

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  28. Man made kindom, in that pastor’s mind, must be preferable to God’s kingdom. Hogwash! Instead of Living Water, he gets Hogwash! When will these over-the-top intellectuals get the wisdom to see there is no utopia?

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  29. Donna, have you looked into the possibility of TMJ on the jaw problem? I once worked with a young lady who had that. Also, it was not too long ago that you had a bad cold. A lingering sinus problem can cause pressure in the mouth. Is is an upper problem?

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  30. Kbells maybe they need to have the child drink milk and laugh so that the milk goes into his nose and washes out the peas. 🙂

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  32. Cheryl, I don’t have bird pictures. I may see if I can take some since we have a lot of birds here. We do have some cardnals, but I do not know whete the nest is. Do they make it up high in a tree? Sometimes in previous years we had Towhee (sp?) birds that would be between our houses which are close together. I think they make their nests on the ground.

    My son did a Merit badge for Boy Scouts on birds and he learned to identify and draw many birds. He use to keep a life list, but I doubt he kept that up. We also at one time had a computer program that had bird sounds for identification. I believe that was Peterson’s.

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  33. KBells I have experience!!!! Don’t go to the doctor yet. Plug the other nostril by pressing on it with your finger and blow in the child’s mouth like you are doing mouth to mouth. Blow hard and the pea will come out.
    Lariope berries are about the same size as peas.

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  34. I am feeling much better. The massage therapist told me she could have spent the entire hour just on my shoulder! While it it still a little sore, I can MOVE! I am guzzling water today to flush everything out.

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  35. Janice, I have lots of photos of the adult birds of those species, but just no nests or youngsters. I think cardinals do nest pretty high; I’ve never seen one of those nests. In Nashville the parents would feed youngsters in my yard sometimes, but I didn’t have a camera that could get good bird pictures, and I never saw the nest.

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  37. Janice, I thought of that, too (TMJ), but in this case I think I did something to it when I was putting some ear drops in my right ear the other night — I opened my mouth wide, trying to get the drops to go in more (with my head tilted) and heard a ‘pop’ when I did that. So I think I just pulled the muscle in there somehow. It seems to be easing up and it only hurts when I open my mouth wide or put my teeth together. 🙂 So I’m trying not to do that.

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  39. EVeryone has been busy today.
    They say you can get your credit report free, but it’s a hassle. You have to join to get the report. Cost about $27.00/month. But you can call and cancel the contract. When I called to cancel, they offered to let me continue for $14.00. I canceled anyhow.
    It cost me $1.00.

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  40. I went out and paid a bill and got groceries. Then got a call from my brother and then another friend called. Also processed some junk mail in that time frame, too. No earth shattering accomplishments, but one little kitty is happy to have her couch (me) back at home.

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  42. It may sleet later here. The Birthday Tree floer buds look like the fur coats have been pulled more tightly around them in this col rainy weather. It will be an act of God, as in miracle, if we get some open blossoms by the birthday on the eleventh.

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  43. Chas. You CAN get your credit report free. You have to make sure you are at the right website. There is one that is a slight variation. I am not home or I would look up the correct one for you. I have gotten them free several times. I still have to do it this year. You may be able to find the correct site by checking at a government site.

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  44. Well, the sun has set here, but the picture is a sunrise my daughter took a few years ago. I drive down that street every morning on the way to work, except when it is coated in snow or ice. Then I take the other road out of town. Not as scenic, but no steep hills. We also take walks to the river that way. Quite a workout for sure.

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  45. Last night, 6 Arrows wrote, I believe it was KarenO who mentioned someone she knew who is in favor of abortion and sees an unborn baby as “a parasite.” This is an interesting article by Matt Walsh that addresses that notion and the mother’s so-called “bodily autonomy.”

    The same friend I mentioned also has written a lot about “bodily autonomy”. She loves to claim that a corpse has more rights than a pregnant woman (because their organs can’t be harvested without prior consent).

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  46. kBells – When I was little, I shoved a stone from a play ring up my nose. My mother’s efforts to get it out with tweezers ended up pushing it further up. They took me to the hospital, where I had a procedure where they put something like a little net down my throat, then pushed the stone down, & caught it in the net.

    I’m pretty sure I was out for that. I hope your nephew is okay.

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  47. We have foster children who stunk and it turned out to be stuff stuffed up their nose that was decomposing. One of our daughters had a paper towel stuffed in her ear. It had been there so long the ear skin had grown over it. Another had one of those medical patches stuck up her nose. Used in the manufacturing and or usage of meth. We learned, if they stink and a couple of good baths and hair washing don’t do the trick, take them in for an inspection.

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  49. My son shoved a rock up his nose when he was almost 2…I was very pregnant with daughter…we rushed him to the ER…they thought I was there for me…nope…kiddo has a rock up his nose…they had to knock him out the retrieve the rock….they found pieces of his storybook up there while they were at it!! You would think he would be traumatized enough to never ever stick something up there again…but nooo….a couple days later while pushing him in the grocery cart…he sneezed…and out came styrofoam balls! When we got home, I went in his room and found a big ‘ol hole in a toy a friend had given to him…it was stuffed with those little styrofoam balls…I’m pleased to report that at 38 years old…he’s doing just fine 🙂

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  50. I’m not sure how it’s been that, in almost 24 years of parenting and six kids, we have not had (so far, and I hope never in the future) any incidents with putting objects in noses or ears. Pretty amazing.

    AJ, yes — great music again today! It is interesting to me to see the varied seating arrangements of string quartets (and the string sections of orchestras) these days, such as the one in the first video you featured today . When I played in string ensembles, the 1st violins and the cellos were always on the outsides, and 2nd violins and violas on the insides. More often now I am seeing the cellos in one of the inner positions, and either the 2nd violins or the violas are on the outside, facing the first violins. That would be interesting to compare the sound differences, to play in a different arrangement than usual. (I’m a violist, and, clockwise from left, the order was always 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello when I played.)

    Different subject, but I got a rather annoying phone call just now. I answered the phone, and the person on the other end asked to speak to my husband. I told her he wasn’t available, could I take a message. She said something like, “Oh, we could talk to you.” It was some fundraiser for a breast cancer organization I hadn’t heard of, and after the usual spiel, she asked, “Could we send you out a pledge card for [whatever amount]?” I said I would need to discuss this with my husband first. Then she said, “Oh, we understand. We’ll just put you down for a $20 community pledge and then you can discuss it with him…”

    At that point I cut her off and said quite firmly, “No, please don’t put us down for $20. I said we would need to discuss it first. If you’re going to be that pushy, then we will not give anything. Please don’t call us again.” And I hung up.

    I couldn’t believe that response! We’ve had a lot of calls where I’ve said I would need to discuss it first, and all of them honored that and said they would call again after we’d had a chance to think about it. Not this one.

    Maybe I was rude to hang up, but, really, isn’t it clear that “We need to discuss it first” means “Don’t write us down for anything or send us anything until we tell you yes”?

    Has anyone here had an experience like that?

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  51. Free eBook available on Rom. 8 this month:

    Description in part: “In How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home, Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas explores Romans 8, which he calls the best chapter in the Bible. Here he finds an exposition of the steps through which God leads His people in the process of their salvation, but also loving counsel on such topics as prayer and resisting the Devil, as well as exhortations and comforts for weary pilgrims. Dr. Thomas begins at Romans 8:1 with the best news imaginable believers just and deserved condemnation before God has been taken away by Jesus Christ s work on the cross. He then contrasts earthly minded and spiritually minded people, showing that only those who are spiritually minded know life. …”

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  53. We need an answering machine. Do they even have those anymore? Or voice mail.

    A lot of those fundraising calls, or surveys, or things like that I can tell from the caller ID, so then I don’t bother to pick up. But the ID on this call only identified what state the call was coming from, and it’s the state where hubby and 2nd Arrow are traveling today, so I thought it might have something to do with them.

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  54. I hate to be rude, but I will admit that I hang up on those calls. They are trained to keep on talking & overcome objections, to get you to agree to give. So, as they start their spiel, I say something like, “Sorry, we can’t give right now. Thank you. Goodbye.” And then I hang up quickly.

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  55. When my sister did telemarketing, their rule (don’t know how many companies have such a rule) is that they wouldn’t take the customer’s first “no” as an answer; they kept going until they got either “yes” or three “no’s.” So I go ahead and give them three no’s. Talk. “No, I’m not interested.” Talk. “No, I don’t need that.” Talk. “No, that isn’t something we could use, thank you.” If they want to keep going then, I say, “I said I’m not interested, goodbye.” That’s their cue to be polite and said, “Oh, all right, thanks just the same” but if they keep going, I hang up on them. I give them the three no’s as quickly as I reasonably can so that I don’t waste their time (or mine), but at the same time treating them with respect as people who are just trying to earn a living. But if they push past my repeated “no,” then it is time to hang up.

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  56. I do the same thing, Karen.

    Today I got to meet & interview the artist who created the Endless Summer poster (50 years old this year) and album covers for the Beatles and Rolling Stones, along with that psychedelic Jimmy Hendrix image and so many other iconic pieces some of us grew up with.

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  58. Good evening, Jo. I hope you had a good day. Ours will begin soon.

    Do you ever have occasion or space to do your classes outside? And does your class ever get to go on a field trip?
    When I worked with preschool we were near a Fire Station so most all of the school would walk over or sometimes they would bring a truck over to the school parking log for the children to explore. They also had the firemen suit up so the children would recognize them and not be afraid if they were being rescued by someone in one of those Darth Vader sounding outfits.

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