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Our Daily Thread 3-7-14

Good Morning!

It’s finally Friday!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.

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On this day in 1774 the British closed the port of Boston to all commerce.

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone. 

In 1908 Cincinnati’s mayor, Mark Breith announced before the city council that, “Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles.” 😯

In 1933 the board game Monopoly was invented.  

In 1965 state troopers and a sheriff’s posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL.

And in 1981 anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman.

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Quote of the Day

“Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.”

Dave Barry

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Today is Kevin Mills’ birthday. From NewsboysVEVO

And it’s composer Joseph Maurice Ravel’s too. From SacriEstaTrio

And it’s composer Heino Eller’s as well. From ClassicalArtist

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Anyone have a QoD?

65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-7-14”

  3. It’s Friday.!!
    You know what that means.
    It is still snowing, but it’s mostly slush. We could have made it to the Y, but I decided not to go.
    Good evening Jo.
    Hi, everyone else.
    I guess it’s afternoon for Ajisuun.

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  5. Re: The Cincinnati mayor proclaiming that women were not physically capable of driving a car.
    Silly on the face of it, and each person should judge his/her capabilities.
    However, automobiles in those days didn’t have power equipment and sometimes it took some physical strength to manipulate the controls.
    Most of you don’t remember when we didn’t have power brakes and steering and you had to push the clutch to change gears.

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  6. Those birds are COLD. Thanks to Cheryl they aren’t hungry. Speaking of hungry…I was just hustled by two of the best flim flam artists I can think of. We went through our morning routine this morning. I sat down on the sofa to drink my coffee and eat my breakfast bar while checking in with all of you. Amos got on the back of the sofa, and Lulabelle distracted me by tying to crawl in my lap and give me all her toys. I put my breakfast bar down to cover up with a throw blanket and when I turned around again Amom had my breakfast bar and was licking it and nibbling on the corner. As much as I love him, I am NOT eating after him. He and Lulabelle got to split that bar between them and I got another.
    I have two bird feeders on the patio hanging from the eaves of the family room. I think I have told you before that this family room has three enormous sliding glass doors. I get to watch the birds eat in the morning and listen to them chirp and whistle. Not a bad way to start your day.

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  7. Love the birds in Cheryl’s photo.

    Three little red flying hoods
    Upon a stark tree branch stood
    Looking so sad and downcast
    In their song of morning asked
    “How long does winter last?”

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  8. Yes, it’s Friday all day!

    Re- Women and cars:Chas has some of the reason why women may not have been physically fit. But in 1908, I don’t think automobiles had electric starters, so in order to start a car I believe one had to turn the crank at the front. And from what I have heard, it could break your arm if it you didn’t let go before it cranked backwards. There were probably a lot of small framed men who couldn’t start a car in those days!

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  9. I notice that most of the early comics are about Ukraine. I saw a video this morning about an ambassador from Moldova. That is in Europe next to Rumania and southwest of Ukraine.
    They are worried. About half of their commerce is with Russia and half with western Europe.
    This Russian business has them concerned after Georgia and Ukraine.

    I remember seeing men crank cars. Yes, it was hard and dangerous. Sometimes it took several turns to get it started. And two people. One to crank, one to push the accelerator when it sputtered alive.
    There used to be a trick as late as my 50 Chevvy about pushing the starter button and working the gas pedal. (and holding your toung just right 😆 )

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  10. Terrific photo; love the red on them. Isn’t God creative?

    I agree with everything Peter said.

    Can you buy a drink at Starbucks with US money if you’re in Canada?

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  11. I was in the right place at the right time to get that photo of three male house finches. Two were sitting there, and I’d zoomed in and was about to take a picture when the third one landed. Well, birds don’t generally tolerate being that close to one another (just a mating pair or juvenile siblings will), so I snapped the picture right away, knowing I wouldn’t get a second shot.

    House finches nested in front of our kitchen window every year for several years when I was growing up. One year we had two nests, one at each end of the trellis, with the adults all keeping a wary eye on each other since they were only a few yards apart. At first we didn’t know what kind of birds they were, but when we were out camping one year, Mom mentioned them to a woman who loved birds, and she whipped out her bird book. Mom and I looked through it and identified our birds, and then Mom bought a copy of that book for herself.

    They used to be only a western bird. But apparently pet stores started selling them in the east as “Hollywood finches.” That was illegal or a law was passed making it illegal, so they released the birds into the wild. They met each other, and the rest is history. But they come from a smallish gene pool and so they aren’t as healthy as the Western ones, or so I’ve read.

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  13. That is a bird that seven year old is learning in his science class. He loves science. Yesterday we were looking at insects and their six legs and three body parts not to mention the antennae and mouth parts and compound and simple eyes. We had just closed the book and he stood up to go play when God provided a stink bug for us to examine. He was delighted to be able to find all of the things we had been looking at, and then I let it go outside.

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  14. Michelle @ 9:48.
    When I was in the AF in 1951, you could spend American dollars anywhere.
    I’m not so sure about that now.

    But a coffee at McDonalds is better and cheaper than Starbucks.

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  15. Mumsee, you are reminding me of when our son was with a group of children to sing for the small church we attended. Everything halted right before the singing started because our son discovered a bug to examine. Insects are important at that age. Son became a real expert on insects and spiders, so much so that fellow scouts would pay him to check out their tent before they ventured in.
    •¿●
    ~○~ Eeeek!

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  18. Good Morning and what a beautiful picture to see as I logged in this morning…thanks for sharing that gift with us this morning Cheryl!! That bird in the back appears to be a mirror reflection of the middle bird…this just makes me smile!! 🙂 Have a great Friday everyone…we are going to get 5 inches of snow today…and three more overnight…gotta run errands before the white stuff flies!!

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  19. Thanks, Kare. Sometimes I feel inclined by God’s creation to do things like that.

    I looked back at yesterday’s thread and got a big chuckle from what all Nancyjill’s son put up his nose. Saddened by what Mumsee’s children had up their noses.

    Michelle’s serendipitous experience is an example of God’s perfect timing and one of those “God winks” a book has been written about. Sweet!

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  20. Mumsee, very close. You have to look carefully to tell a purple finch from a house finch. The color is just a little “rosier” (pinker, purpler) on the purple finch, it doesn’t have as much streaking on the front, and it has red on its wings too. The beak is a little different, too. But all the differences are subtle. I grew up with house finches, so the first time I saw a purple finch I knew it was different (the color was what I noticed) but it was all subtle. I had to take a photo and look it up online, and confirmed that way that it was a purple finch. I don’t think my husband can tell them apart, though. He has asked me several times, “Is that a purple finch?” and it never is.

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  23. The choke. We had a car with an automatic choke (79 Buick Skylark). One day the choke would not shut off so the engine was running at a high RPM, so much that even with the brakes pressed firmly as hard as possible, the car still crept forward. The mechanic put a manual choke in for us. I am so glad most cars have fuel injection and no carburetor or choke.

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  24. Excellent photo Cheryl. 🙂

    We’ll get your other “friend” up soon too.

    I was just standing out side deciding where to put the feeder. I have 2 concrete posts near a small tree and I’m thinking it would be perfect. That will allow me 5 windows on 3 floors to shoot from. I’m looking forward to Spring. 🙂

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  25. Oh, and Linda,

    We’re planning a trip to Longwood Gardens and probably staying 2/3 days, most likely in Wilmington. We found a deal where the hotel includes tickets. 🙂 Right now we’re leaning toward the last week in April, Thurs/Fri/Sat. That’s the 2 week period where there’s a chance for a tulip, daffodil, and irises trifecta bloom, if past years are any indicator. I’m taking tons of pics there. 🙂

    We would love to get together with you and your husband if possible. Lunch, the Gardens, or whatever. Let us know if it’s convenient, a better date, or if that doesn’t work, we can try again another time. We plan on visiting again later, hopefully with my Mother-in-law. You can send me an email. 🙂

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  26. Eeeee. Three little birds! What a wonderful photo. Cheryl, you could do note cards with some of your nature photos and then sell them. I follow the Bedlam Farm blog and he’s recently started doing that with the amazing photos that they take of all their animals.

    http://www.bedlamfarm.com/?s=notecards

    Kim: “I put my breakfast bar down …” I cringed as soon as I read that line. NOOOOooooooo.

    Now we KNOW what’s coming next, don’t we?

    I liked driving cars with manual transmissions but would not have wanted to crank a car up to get it started! The hardest vehicle I drove was when I rented a U-Hall truck to move some of my stuff into my new house 15 years ago. The town I moved to is very, very hilly and the truck was a manual transmission. But it took a lot more strength to work the clutch in that than it did in any of my Volkswagens.

    The skunk smell is dissipating, but I did have to toss a big flannel dog bed which was a key source of the lingering smells in the house. It was a few years old and had some tears in it (and a few that had already been mended). But the cover wasn’t removable and cleaning it would have been a challenge — if it had been newer and in better shape I might have given it a try, but I’m not sure the smell would ever have come out anyway. So out it went last night with the trash. 😦

    The comforter is at the dry cleaners where they will probably have to keep it on life support to see if it can be revived.

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  27. Just wondering if anyone here has read the book Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead? I bought it a few years back thinking husband would like to read it, but he hasn’t. I am trying to decide if I should go ahead and send it as a donation to Christian Library International or wait a bit longer.

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  28. My husband’s submarine got swamped in a thrilling story too long to type on my phone, in the Irish Sea.

    One of his men’s dress uniform was saturated and when they returned to port three weeks later, the wife took the reeking (very expensive) uniform yo the dry cleaners.

    They cleaned it three times and we’re very sorry. Anne understood, but when they heard the story (my husband got a medal for saving the boat), they told her they would clean it over and over in gratitude for free.

    I don’t remember how many times it took, but everyone on the boat always used that cleaner after that!

    Frankly, I’m surprised they took you job, Donna!

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  30. I don’t know whether this writer is a Christian; it isn’t a specifically “Christian” treatment. But I would say it is wise, and worth passing on to any young women considering marriage–or maybe a lot of women who’ve been married several years. (I’ve included links to both parts 1 and 2.)

    They are about sex (understanding how important it is to a husband), so they aren’t rated G, but they don’t have any pictures or anything else that would make them inappropriate to adult or maybe older teen readers.

    http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2008/12/23/when_a_woman_isnt_in_the_mood_part_i/page/full

    http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2008/12/30/when_a_woman_isnt_in_the_mood_part_ii/page/full

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  31. AJ, that sounds awesome! Yes, let’s get together. Let us know the details as it gets closer.

    We have a gazillion stink bugs – did God provide them to us? If I can find it, I’ll send AJ a picture of the back of our house last fall after the farmers cut down all of the corn.

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  32. Dennis Prager is Jewish, but is very strong on Judeo-Christian principals. I hear his radio program once in a while, and, like Michael Medved, one would think he’s a Christian if one didn’t know his religion.

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  33. Michelle, sometimes God puts His serendipity in dates and other facts that we would miss if we did not get the facts straight on our side of the view.

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  35. Most of my children were given Stephen Lawhead books for Christmas and are thoroughly enjoying them. Don’t know if that particular one is part of what they have. I am enjoying them. Son who is away to the Challenge requested his be sent up so he could finish them and share them with the other boys.

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  36. I went back and read a couple of posts from yesterday. A long time ago I had a client who used to run call centers for the Policeman’s Benovolent Fund and all sorts of other charitable contributions. He told me NEVER EVER EVER make a donation over the phone or to someone who solicits a donation over the phone. About 75 to 90% of your donation goes to “administrative” costs.
    If you want to donate to something make it direct.

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  37. Kim, I have heard similar percentages. Also, there are some sound-alike “organizations” (that mimic legitimate organizations) that are actually scams. Red flags went up for me last night when the caller told me she was writing us down for a certain amount after I’d told her first I needed to discuss it with my husband. She seemed too desperate, much more so than any other caller about giving charitable contributions than I had previously encountered, so I nipped that in the bud immediately.

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  38. Good articles, Cheryl. 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 comes to mind, especially verse 5: “Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”

    For a wife to regularly defraud her husband because of her “mood” puts a very real burden on her man. That really does not exemplify the Biblical concept to “esteem others higher than oneself”, either.

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  39. Thank you again for the music today, AJ. May I make a request for tomorrow? C.P.E. Bach was born March 8, 1714. I would love some music in honor of his 300th birthday! Surprise me. 🙂

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  40. AJ, I put a bit of salmon outside and received a visit from Bad Boy. One look and DNA testing may not be necessary to file for support of Bosley. I sent you proof at your email address. 🙂

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  41. The snow is having a melt-off today. It has a long, long, long way to go, but if we can even get rid of three or four inches that would be great. It’s 45 degrees, the warmest we have been in weeks! They keep changing what we’re supposed to have for the next several days, but we have three more 40+ predicted next week, at the moment.

    Not many birds have been coming today, since apparently they can get food elsewhere now and they’re sick of sunflower seeds and suet. But we had a huge squirrel come earlier (biggest I’ve ever seen, a reddish one, not sure of what species), and the last 40 minutes a coon has come several times. I’m torn because part of me loves coons and I finally got some photos of a coon . . . but no way do we want it hanging around. So I’m photographing first, yelling second. 🙂

    I just found out that all that growling and stuff that little boys practice actually has a useful purpose. I woke my husband to chase off the coon, and he went out there. In his deepest voice he yelled, “Get out of here” and then uttered a very bear-like growl to back it up. I was impressed.

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  42. Cheryl, gals can growl, too! I had a neighbor, the same one who chased our cat who was chasing the chipmunk, and every morning when getting her son out the door for daycare or school she would make big growling noises. It was rather comical except that my bedroom was right beside the goings on. It was not done in meaness to her son in anyway, but it wasn’t exactly the most neighborly thing to do in the mornings either.

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  45. It’s snowing like crazy here….it’ll be gone by tomorrow afternoon…then we’ll get more on Tuesday.. 🙂
    Suffering through a bookclub book…I have to finish it by Tuesday…my head just may explode by then!! Why do others enjoy the books I absolutely want to shred to bits!! And I will either sit there smiling silently through the discussion or share my feelings…….perhaps I should just keep them to myself 😦

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  46. Chas, don’t worry, I didn’t mess with him. It was just a small coon, maybe the size of a medium cat, but I know they can be fierce, they are very smart, and they can be rabid. I took photos of him through the window, and I hit the glass. When he ignored my tapping the glass, I stood in the doorway (with a fence between me and him) and yelled, and he ran the other way. When I looked out and saw him inside the fence, I woke my husband to let him deal with him.

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  47. My van has a manual choke. No one told me that. Finally when I couldn’t get it started, the mechanic asked if I was using the choke? hmm… didn’t know that I had one.
    I am envious of these pictures. I am wondering if I could put a small glass window in my place somewhere to take pictures through? Screens, bars, and louvers do not allow for photography and the views here are great.

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  48. 20 yard sales going on up here on the top of the hill this morning. I will go explore as this is our only way to shop. I don’t need anything but it should be fun.

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  49. I have a friend in AL whose husband is allergic to animals so they put food out for a whole troop of coons they can watch through sliding glass doors. They enjoy that very much. What can I say? They are graduates of UGA. I’m sure they would love to have a bulldog but coons will have to do.

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  50. of course, one always needs books!

    Book Festival at school yesterday. Parade was lots of fun with all the children dressed up (I was going to say ‘kids’, but knew I would get a Mumsee comment).
    I was Missee Lee from Arthur Ransome’s book by that name. It is the book that I gave all of my children for Christmas this year. I have been giving them an Arthur Ransome book for Christmas each year since ’04 to carry on our tradition of reading and camping.
    oh, 49?!!

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  54. 6 Arrows,

    CPE Bach? Done. 🙂

    Janice,

    That was one guilty looking pretty boy. 🙂 You gotta love a man in a tux. My wife did at first sight. 🙂
    Reminds me of our Nosey cat, but she has shorter hair.
    And yeah, I’d say the issue of Bosley’s lineage is half-solved.

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  58. NancyJill – I think you should share your opinion of the book. It may stir up some interesting conversation, & give others another perspective to consider. There may be others who didn’t like it either, & are reluctant to say anything.

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  59. That was a beautiful article, Michelle. I read it, misty-eyed through much of it, and am reminded, with gratitude to God, of some very similar strides my younger son has made in his development. There are no words I could use to explain the deep, expansive extent of the Lord’s provision toward our son.

    Articles like this remind me of what a privilege it is to be the mother of an autism spectrum child. Thank you for sharing.

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  61. Looking forward to the CPE Bach tomorrow. (I hope I’ll get to it tomorrow — we’re going to my in-laws’ for the day. I should have a chance to listen to it tomorrow night after we get back, though.)

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