Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from me.
This one is from InButNotOf. It’s very nice. 🙂
On this day in 1496 Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.
In 1776 “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine was published.
In 1785 Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.
In 1848 the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.
In 1924 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
And in 1969 James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Quote of the Day
“When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least”
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Today is composer Arthur Honegger’s birthday.
It’s also Dean Torrence’s birthday.
And Tom Scholz has one as well.
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Wandering Views 
Welcome to Monday you all. Having a thunder and lightning storm here right now.
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I like the picture, Aj, but would you please tell me what I am seeing?
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Mornin’ Jo.
We have nothing to complain about weather wise here. It’s starting to actually feel like Spring. 🙂
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You’re seeing a geyser. It’s man made, but still cool to watch. It’s at the Wilderness Lodge in Disney. Goes off every hour I think.
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I would NOT have guessed that was Disney.
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Jan or Dean was recently at the Erie Myers Community Center in Gulf Shores recently. He was probably playing to some of their original audience.
I love this time. I love having more daylight at the end of my day, but this first work morning is hard. I thought I was dreaming that my alarm clock went off…then I realized it was my alarm.
I am too tired to think of a question.
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Of course Jan and Dean’s striped shirts reminded me of another video. As a child I thought my father made up the little ditty about “The monkey chewed tobacco and the goose drank whine, the streetcar broke, the monkey got choked, and the all went to heaven in a little rowboat. Later I found this song. This was among some of the better ditties he taught me.
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Morning!
Thought of Old Faithful but knew it did not look like that when I saw it in 1985, the year we got married.
Another truly gorgeous sunset (guessing it is sunset) picture. Thanks IBNO. Where is it?
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Because I seem to be the only one posting and this one is Downtown where I live…
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In the background of the above video you see Fairhope Pharmacy. Most of you know the story of what I went through to have BG. The gentleman who owns the pharmacy would have me fax my prescription over to him early in the day and he would go pick it up wherever he had to so that I would have it for the next rown of treatment. I also had a special charge account and paid what I could as I went. She was an expensive little project.
Oh, and the clock? We now have one made of seasonal flowers as you enter town.
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Hendersonville has a clock too.
Charleston has several in churches. Chimes still ring from churchbells in Charleston. You cal always know what time it is within 15 minutes.
Did you get those guys to dance like that? Ir is that a youtube video?
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Good Morning…what a fun video Kim…very talented young men..and that song is infectious!! I’ll be singing that in my head all day 🙂
Taking my doggie to the vet this morning…she is having a hard time getting up and down…and I think she broke a tooth…getting old isn’t easy for any of us…all God’s creatures great and small….
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Cute guys & good dancers. 🙂 And I like the clock. We have a big clock on the old ferry terminal building on the harbor (and at the end of the main downtown street). But it’s always off. Usually by a few hours. 😉 It looks cool, though, and is one of our most familiar landmarks.
We also hear church chimes from the Catholic and Presby churches.
nancyjill, so sorry about the pup problems 😦 hopefully there’s some medicine or another easy fix to help her feel & move better.
Why can’t we just stay on DST full time? We’ve already extended it by several weeks on either end. Someone needs to stop them from messing with our time — let’s pick time (DST or ST) and just stick with it, I say.
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Chuck Norris. Yeah, I’d agree his acting wasn’t the greatest. Or else it might have been the writers of “Walker, Texas Ranger” who made it bad, since every episode seems formulaic. The fighting was so phony. Every show had the triple high kick, and the bad guys always seemed to just stand there waiting for the second and third.
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Donna, my father would agree with you. He wants to stick to DST all year. In fact, during the ST months, he refuses to change the clocks he has control over, which include his watch and the car clock. He has no trouble remembering he is an hour ahead of everyone else, but it does lead to complications for others. His watch somehow got stuck on the alarm for 12 noon (my father has lost his hearing range for high pitches, so he couldn’t hear it go off) and so we were treated to a few alarms during Sunday morning service. When I came home from Africa, I not only had to adjust to the time zone change, but I also had to keep remembering that the car clock was not accurate. It caused me to panic more than once, thinking we were horribly late for something.
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Good piece on “four kinds of churches worth leaving”:
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/four-kinds-of-churches-worth-leaving
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Well, I suppose this proves we can save all sorts of federal cash if we just outsource our national parks to Disney . . .
Interesting and simplistic attempt to explain WWI, “What if WWI was a bar fight”: http://themetapicture.com/if-wwi-was-a-bar-fight/
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Where is everyone?
🙂 Daffodils are blooming in Hendersonville!
Michelle, did you feel the quake?
Michelle, I told you before that I did a paper on Der Schlieffen Plan at the Naval War College. One of the paragraphs on the category of “What Went Wrong?” goes:
a. The plan required violating the neutrality of Belgium and Luxumburg (Holland was not invaded). Barnett contends that this phase of the Sclieffen Plan was the direct cause of the four year war. “Without Count Schleiffen it is possible that the war would not have speead beyond the Balkans.” (I don’t think we can directly blame Schlieffen. If you tell a general to devise a plan, he does. Barnett also said the nations had no free will: “Once Austria declared war on Serbia, Europe moved helplessly according to a determined fate” I don’t know if the was Germany’s fault, but I do know that Bismark would not have permitted it. Bismark always knew the score; more important, he knew what game he was playing.)
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I’m lurking (or was), trying to keep my bad mood off of here. Not nearly enough sleep last night (see end of the weekend thread for evidence of my insomnia), zero ambition today. Plus, I sent an email around 2:00 this morning that now I wish I hadn’t. 😦
I hate the time change.
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Michelle, the WWI link was darkly humorous, and accurate in the main. However, typical of most summaries of that war, it is missing something. There should be a paragraph, probably just after the one about France being thrown through a window, which says something like this: ‘Germany was forcing Britain’s back to the wall, until Canada walked in and knocked Germany back with a one-two punch.’
One – Vimy Ridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge
Two – Canada’s Hundred Days http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Hundred_Days
To put it in Prime Minister of Britain Lloyd George’s words, “Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.”
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We were at the library. It’s gorgeous outside here. 🙂
And I see a lot of spring cleanup work to do around the property. Yay. 😦
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AJ, I sent you another tempting photo. 😉
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Good Afternoon, Y’all!
Yes, Janice, a sunset it is…
At the end of a wonderful Christmas Day on Pensacola Beach in 2004.
About every 5 years we all rent a big beach house together over the holidays.
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Re: The “Rubber Doll” song.
It’s a silly song with a catchy tune. I heard it eons ago and Chet Atkins has “The Rubber Doll Rag” on one of his albums. But the dance requires lots of coordination. That’s the reason we didn’t go far in our square dancing classes.
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Nice photos today….warmth…that what they speak to me!! 🙂 It is 70 here in the forest…what an amazing gift we have been given…a day of Spring!! Snow tonight and tomorrow…then Spring again…
Babe broke a tooth…has to get it out in three weeks…doc put her on something to alleviate pain for the arthritis in her back leg…and she has what is akin to Parkinsons…deterioration of the spine….had a long talk with our vet…he’s such a kind and caring friend….one day at a time….I’m a mess 😦
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Nancyjill, so sorry to hear about all of Babe’s afflictions. 😦
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The furrbabies do attach themselves to our hearts and we hurt when they hurt. I am so sorry. I can’t imagine life without my little fella’. I am sorry. When the time comes you will know and you will make the best decision. It’s hard.
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Oh, Nancyjill. So very hard to watch our pets hurting.
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If anyone has a daughter who doesn’t care for school this would be good to share with her.
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Somehow the voice does not playback properly. Hope it works better for others.
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An interesting night. I was awakened twice by earthquakes. Could really feel both of them. Most homes here are up on pillars, so you can feel lots of rolling. So glad that I could get back to sleep again.
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Greg Gutfeld made an astute observation on FoxNews. It is about the lost airplane., but it applies to many other things.
“What we know is inversely proportional to what we say..”
Translation: We’ve been talking about this for three days and we know almost nothing about it.
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nancyjill, so sorry about that news on Babe. Praying that the treatment and medication will work well.
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Sorry to hear that about Babe, NancyJill.
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I picked up a fascinating book at the library today, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, by Robert Whitaker. I’ve been home for two hours, and have spent almost this whole time paging through this 400-page book and skimming parts that looked interesting — a lot of parts!
From the dust jacket: “Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. [Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades?] First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix “chemical imbalances” in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startled — and dismayed — to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.”
At the heart of the book is the question of what did investigators who looked into the long-term outcomes of psychiatric drug use find? Which leads one to ask why the results of these long-term studies have been kept from the public.
From what I’ve read so far, the author does very well clearly stating the facts he’s uncovered. It’s an important read for anyone who has in the past or is currently using psychiatric drugs (or is considering using them), or has loved ones that do. And how many of us don’t know someone who falls into one of those categories?
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Beautiful sunset picture, InButNotOf. Thanks for sharing that.
AJ, the Honegger piece was quite interesting. The more contemporary “classical” tonalities take a little more getting used to for me than music of the earlier “classical” composers, but this piece really grew on me as I listened to it today. Very enjoyable when all was said and done.
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I have a relative who suffers from chronic depression – never took medication until a couple of unsuccessful suicide attempts brought about a diagnosis and prescription. The medicine has made all the difference in the world, and my relative is able to function at a stable emotional level again.
It may come as a surprise, but the medical professions do carefully monitor the use of psychiatric medication and watch very carefully for the more serious side effects. There are some abuses, like the over sedation of children. [Some of that may be laid at the feet of parents, who, like those who demand antibiotics for their child’s cold, now look to psychiatry to solve their discipline problems.] But to say that psychiatric medication causes mental illness because both medication use and diagnosis have risen together is far-fetched. What about the fact that only recently have conditions like autism or PTSD been clearly defined? What about the fact that we can now rule out other causes for strange behaviour, like nutritional imbalances or congenital defects? What about the fact that we are now living longer and thus have more time to develop mental conditions? What about the fact that better health records are now kept? There were a good number of potential mental health cases in West Africa, like the village eccentrics or the chronically morose, only they were never diagnosed or treated because even basic medicine was barely adequate.
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Good thing the weather is pleasant outside tonight. Earlier I went to get things out of the dryer in the utility room and Bosley stuck her nose out the door. I thought she might be brave enough to venture into the csrport.
Whoasy, Miss Bosley! She romped around the yard close to an hour not letting my husband or me catch her. She was thrilled. I don’t think she will be the same after that tadte of freedom. Now I must hurry and get her rabies shot and microchip and then the spaying to hopefully keep her at home.
She is at the door now meowing to go back outside. Sadness is known for the first time tonight. We have never heard this much crying from her. Except for the first day she was here. I think tonight she has discovered she has another life to live. And a warm evening outside is better than a warm evening inside with snoring peeps.
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