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Our Daily Thread 3+11=14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is Janice’s birthday tree, and it’s right on schedule with the bloom. 🙂

This one is from Donna.

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On this day in 1702 The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper was published. 

In 1861 a Confederate Convention was held in Montgomery, Alabama, where a new constitution was adopted.

In 1865 Union General William Sherman and his forces occupied Fayetteville, NC. 

In 1888 the “Blizzard of ’88” began along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard shutting down communication and transportation lines. More than 400 people died.(March 11-14)

And in 1969 Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans. 

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Quote of the Day

“If they can’t hum it after we play it, it’s not for us.”

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This guy will always remind me of my grandparents. 🙂

Today is Bobby McFerrin’s birthday. People always think of the silly “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” song, but the guy is way more talented than that.

Told ya. 🙂

And it’s Jimmy Fortune’s birthday as well.

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Anyone have a QoD?

44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3+11=14”

  1. Morning all. I kind of like this new game of “What will the header photo be today?” So Aj decided to surprise us all and wait to produce it. Keeping us in suspense. The moon is out tonight, beautiful.
    Thankful that God guarded my place tonight as was gone for 3 hours to Bible study and potluck and came home to find that I had left the oven on.

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  2. Good Morning Everyone. Are any of you experiencing some Spring like weather. Sunday and yesterday were glorious here. I have a window in my office that looks over some grass and trees. In the training room I have three windows that look out at the parking lot, but it was so pretty yesterday I could hardly stand it. Mr. P went fishing yesterday (he caught and released a 30 lb redfish) so I had to come home to let the dogs out. I sat out on the patio for 30 minutes and read a book. The sunshine makes me happy.
    Today, no such luck. We are having the company wide (6 offices) sales meeting and after that we are having a wedding shower for one of the agents who is getting married April 5th. I always wanted to get married in the Spring but have managed to do it twice in the Fall–How did that happen? I would have covered the church in daffodils, iris, and tulips–yellow, purple, and pink. I saw that once at a wedding at the Cathedral in New Orleans and it was so pretty I have had it in my mind ever since. Anyone the traveling hostess has to get to work early today to set things up. Her colors are champagne and peacock. Peacock left too much to interpretation so we are going with shades of white and cream. Cupcakes, finger sandwiches, and lemonade.

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  3. Spring is coming today. Supposed to get up to 75. Then we have another cold spell.
    But not too bad. The apple farmers like that. They don’t want it to get warm too fast.

    When I first looked, I didn’t realize that the new thread was up today.

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  7. My aunt always called Lawrence Welk by the name Lawrence Welch. And we called my brother Bubber but aunt called him Bubbles. So the bubbles on Lawrence Welk’s show always made me think of her and her mispronounced names.

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  11. Oooh, I caught the clever twist 🙂

    We’ve had “springlike” weather here. Slightly above freezing with warm sunshine so the snow is starting to melt. Had a bit of water in the basement yesterday so we’ll have to see if there is a problem outside where the meltwater is pooling. Tomorrow we’re supposed to reach 45F so things should really get started melting. Not looking forward to the slushy, muddy mess, but it’s all worth it 🙂

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  12. Donna’s beautiful picture for today reminds me of how the Pacific looks so much bluer than the Atlantic. Is that the difference of facing right and left? Does that have anything to do with political persuations? Sorta like getting out of the bed on the wrong side? 🙂

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  14. It should be close to 80 here; the vineyards are starting to bud, no rain on the horizon. I’m off to teach on Ruth and the barley harvest/kinsman redeemer and then I have to write a blog. Any suggestions? It’s too early for the research serendipity of last week.

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  16. It’s very spring-like here — but then it was spring-like in January. 😦 We seemed to have missed winter altogether this year, although they’re saying there’s a (slightly) better than 50% chance we’ll get another El Nino year this coming fall which could mean more than normal rain in California. Yay.

    We’re bumping up to around 80 all week I think, very blue skies.

    The picture was taken the day after our big storm the weekend before last. Somehow I can’t figure out how to transmit them as full pixel photos though; I thought this one would work via an attachment on the computer (vs. sending it by phone email), but there must be a trick to it I’m not getting. Hmmm. I have yet to score a banner spot. …

    I haven’t checked the news yet, anything new on the missing plane. Very strange.

    And Miss Bosley getting a taste of freedom. Annie was an outdoor cat when I got her but I kept her indoors for about a month before letting her venture into the backyard. The first time she got over the fence and into the front/side areas she panicked though — I was at work and my neighbor called saying she was meowing desperately at my side window but wouldn’t let the neighbor catch her to put her back over the fence where she could have come in through the doggie door.

    I looked and looked for her when I got home, finally found her all balled up in a tiny space between my neighbors’ garage and my backyard side fence, she was clearly disoriented and very happily followed me indoors. But after that, she figured it all out.

    Today I’m interviewing (by phone) the one of the 1960-70s rock guys who did shows for the stones, doors, joplin, and just about everyone else, and who also served as the master of ceremonies at woodstock. He lives in Australia and the interview is connected to a story about a woodstock revival show that’s being put on locally this 0=-w]\
    ‘/. (that was Tess saying hi). 🙂

    What should I ask him??

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  17. vineyards starting to bud here, lots of rain though sunny today, the creeks are flooding, ice all over this morning but headed to warmer. Probably up into the forties or even fifties. Spring is in the air.

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  19. It’s Spring-like here. We’re supposed to feel 70° today. But tonight it’s going to get cold again with a chance of snow showers. The weatherman said we’ll get all four seasons in 12 hours. “If you don’t like the weather here (in Missouri), just wait a little and it will change” (attributed to Mark Twain).

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  20. It was 70 here yesterday….it is currently 32 and snowing so hard we have white out conditions….so blessed to be in a nice warm home with my trusty dog at my feet….we’re living in a snowglobe 🙂

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  21. Good afternoon, all. 🙂

    That Bobby McFerrin surely is talented. Absolutely beautiful combination of Ave Maria with him humming Bach’s C Major Prelude underneath.

    I was reminded of a student piano book we have that combines the tune for the Lenten hymn “Glory Be To Jesus” (in the student part) with the teacher playing a simple arrangement of Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” underneath. Really gorgeous partnering of those two pieces.

    Spring — yes, we had a taste of it this weekend and yesterday — sunny and low 40’s on the weekend, and sunny and into the 50’s yesterday! Today it’s cloudy/rainy with temps a little above freezing. That still seems mild compared to what we were having not too many weeks ago (namely temperatures 50, even 60 degrees below our current temp). Still hard to believe how cold it was this winter.

    Thanks for that article link, Kare. I’d comment on it, but don’t really have time to engage in discussion on it right now, so I think I’ll refrain for the time being.

    I’ll leave you guys with a link today, a short, thought-provoking read on “taking a selfie”. (It isn’t necessarily what you might think.)

    http://bookoutsblog.com/2014/03/10/taking-a-selfie/

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  25. Just for laughs.

    I told you before that if you ever hear about mayhem in our house, you’ll know we went shopping together.
    I also told you that when TSWITW goes into a store and says, “Just a jiff.” Or “Back in a sec.” It has no meaning.

    I always keep a small tube of toothpaste in my travel kit. The size the dentist gives you. I usually check my kit before travel. It’s a long time custom, and it’s always worked.

    We went to Charleston on Sunday afternoon.
    On Monday, we ran out of toothpaste! 😦
    We were out Tuesday and stopped at a CVS. She jumped out, “Back in a sec.”
    I waited. I don’t know how long, but I waited.
    Then I got out and went into CVS.
    She was still looking at various toothpaste displays.

    At the end, she purchased two tubes of Colgate. Seems they had a special that anyone with a CVS card could get a special deal on the $4.99 tube where you buy one/get one. So she got two tubes of toothpaste for $4.99. i.e. half price.

    As I said before, it’s a sport with her.
    As I also said before, she doesn’t need to do that, but if she had been otherwise, we wouldn’t have survived the first seven years.

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  26. Time to check email, AJ.

    We had a nice birthday luncheon at the office for my husband. I went by Red Lobster and picked up meals for the group. I bought a large Strawberry Blast cake and put fresh strawberries on top and had Vanilla Bean ice vteam with it.

    Of course the phone kept ringing throughout so that kept people scattered and s few clients came by to pick up their work. It wss good even with interuptions that are routine during the seadon.

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  28. Chas, husband is like that. I always take a book when I drive somewhere with him in the car. It usually gets read. This time it was Janice’s recommendation a A Starfish at a Time. Enjoyed and encouraged, enough to take one more peek at all of those children available for adoption out of Texas. The book mentions lots of visits prior to adoption. We have never had that. The first adoption we visited once and they visited once. Since then, the children are just deposited in our house, kind of strange but effective.

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  30. Dogwood trees blooming in Atlanta?
    I don’t think Cherry trees are blooming along the Tidal Basin in Washington.
    I’ve always considered that the first harbinger of Spring.

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  31. Around here we know it’s spring when people who drive on unpaved roads go from getting stuck in the snow to getting stuck in the mud. Though most of the roads are gravel, it’s very messy for a while until the road commission can get the new gravel down.

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  32. Oh what a beautiful birthday tree Janice….so glad it is in GA…the three inches (so far) of snow we’ve received this morning would steal it’s beauty!! Our interstate has been closed due to multiple accidents…Hannah just called from school wondering if she should come on home…I told her to stay put and go ahead and get in her Algebra class…hoping her professor shows up!! Paul will likely pick her up from the college on his way home…no sense in risking two cars if you can both come home in one!!

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  34. I enjoyed McFerrin’s suggestion to use the Bach preludes as vocal exercises, too, AJ. I can’t say I’ve ever pulled out my Well Tempered Clavier copy and sung it. 🙂 Oh, and he was hilarious talking about that whole “singing just a split second behind [the section leaders]” business. LOL

    I liked the 3+11=14, too. I see the other threads say 3-11-14. Put an equal sign and a blank after it, and you’ve got a ready-made math problem. 😉 Or make it a story problem: The temperature was three degrees, then dropped eleven degrees, and finally dropped fourteen more. In which state is this thermometer located? 😛

    You can tell winter is still on my brain. 😉

    Janice, happy birthday to your husband. And that picture in the header is pretty — a beautiful taste of spring that I could use!

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  37. Just finished writing my post about Oswald Chambers’ death. I finally had time to review the information my Australian correspondent sent and following links, discovered a half dozen photos of Chambers’ funeral. We had only two blurry ones before and we weren’t sure they were from the funeral. Now confirmed. My archivist pal and the biographer are all very excited with me today! Now on to real work . . .

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  39. 6Arrows: That was a hilarious article by Matt Walsh! I felt that way a lot in graduate school in social work at The University of Texas. It was an extremely liberal program.

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  41. Fun fun fun, that’s us. 🙂

    The social work program at our state university had a reputation of being politically driven and very liberal. Sad. An anthropology professor I knew from the same university told me (when I was considering going back to school for social work when I was in my 30s) to stay clear of it, she said the entire department was simply ruined by its leftist political rigidity and agenda.

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  42. had to evacuate the school today for the last 40 minutes. They burned tall grass next to our fence and the smoke was so thick that you couldn’t see across the playground. We just went to a nearby, grassy oval.

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