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Our Daily Thread 3-19-14

Good Morning!

Only 1 Day Until SPRING!!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from me.

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On this day in 1628 the Massachusetts colony was founded by Englishmen.

In 1687 French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico. 

In 1831 the first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the robbery.

In 1903 the U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.

And in another bad day on this date for a French explorer, in 1905 S. de Segonzac was taken prisoner by Moroccans.

In 1908 the state of Maryland barred Christian Scientists from practicing without medical diplomas.

And in 1918, Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.

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Quote of the Day

“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”

David Livingstone

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“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”

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Today is composer Max Reger’s birthday.

Today is Billy Sheehan’s birthday too.

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QoD?

What’s the first Spring project on your list?

65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-19-14”

  1. okay, now I can post. Luckily I copied the post I already wrote when I noticed there wasn’t any way to actually post it!
    No Spring here, just rainy season and dry season and the dry season usually isn’t very dry. However next week is term break and I have several ideas for projects. Mostly getting more organzied at school. I want to learn to level books to have them more available for my class.

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  2. I have a question of the day for Aj. I always want to know details. What all does it take for you to do the daily posts??? I imagine you get the information from somewhere, but it is obvious that you love to chose the music, etc.

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  5. First spring project is to finish the little article I am writing for the summer newsletter. It has been quite difficult to get much done with kitten in house.

    Another project is left over from last year. Find the proper place to plant two Clematis vine plants. Last year I waited until they were on sale and asked husband to go get one. Two were left so he got both. I never could decide last year where to plant two of them. So now I get to try to have better thoughts on the subject this planting season. We have a fair amount of shade so that makes it more challenging.

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  6. Jo,

    I have several places for the on this day section. The On This Day website, Wiki, the History Page, and bible history online to name just a few. Whatever one I use that day is linked in the red “On this day” at the beginning of it.

    They also have lists of birthdays for the day. I have a couple of quotes sources, Brainyquotes, Good Reads, and Wiki, also always linked by clicking on the red quoted persons name.

    Once I know who’s birthday it is, I go to Youtube and select my music choices. I’ll listen to pretty much anything, but I try to look for out of the ordinary videos, the ones you wouldn’t normally come across. I screen everything first, to try avoid any objectionable material.

    It takes a little time, but I enjoy it. 🙂

    And that about sums it up. 🙂

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  7. Kbells, I love planting herbs, also.
    Dill is very easy to grow from seed and makes an interesting plant. Pineapple sage is gorgeous when it blooms. I have found that Rosemary plants weather the winter well here and keep growing larger each year. It’s great to use on chops and in soup.

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  8. I am glad Jo asked that question. You have lots of good sources, AJ. That is a big time commitment, so I am glad you enjoy it. Your joy flows through to us. 🙂

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  10. Good Morning Everyone. Spring projects? Fit into last Spring/Summer’s clothes will be a good start! Get warm. I am OVER the weather we have had.
    This year I have a great yard and want to dig in the dirt and plant things. I still have a big pot of rosemary and parsley growing on the front porch. I really want to plant some day lillies. I love them–they are so happy.
    Some good news that ex-husband let slip yesterday. It seems that Nana helped buy her other two grandchildren cars so she is doubling that amount and contributing it to a car for BG. We really don’t have public transportation around here and BG has a summer job babysitting every day. So while it might sound extravagant to buy her a car, it is more of a necessity and convenience to us. Anyway after he let it slip his next words were, “I didn’t mean to tell you that”. Why would you hide it from me? Big fat hairy deal.

    I don’t know how many of you caught my new/announcement on Sunday night, but Grandpa and I are getting another grandchild sometime this coming Fall. I am thinking late October-early November. I have wished and wished for a girl because “they” won’t let me buy anything cute for a Little Boy, so I would be able to buy cute things for a Baby Girl. Only problem with a girl is that I am afraid Grandpa would move to Maryland and live in a camper in their back yard!!!! 😉

    I have to finish getting dressed and head to the Beach today. My view today will be of condos across the street on the beach. Not quite the view Paul had yesterday but an improvement over my daily view.

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  12. Ree, Furman used to be a Baptist school. I don’t know that it still is. I doubt that your daughter will have a problem at all getting in. As someone, probably Kim, said, they like people from out of state and far away like California is good.
    Furman is on the northern outskirts of Greenville. If you have a SC roadmap, it is just south of Traveler’s Rest. That is not far from the mountains.
    Elvera had family in that area. Her brother used to go to Furman to run.
    A disadvantage is that she will also be close to Clemson. And there is danger that she could become a Tiger’s fan. 😦

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  13. Spring projects? The children are designing and building small portable chicken coops for the summer. They will be moving their flocks of three to five chickens each day and be responsible for it all. Including the small people. No power tools allowed. Husband lets them use power tools and they know how but they are not safety conscious and I don’t want to put up with that. I went out the other day and four of them were working, no eye protection in sight. Two were using a table saw and one (S, Chas) pushed the long board through without using a push board or push shoe, just his fingers right by the blade. I told them I would not take that responsibility so they are confined to manual tools for the next year and a half unless they move out and buy their own. The coops are nearly done and look very solid and yet portable. I did mention that power tools were a rather modern invention and people did not live only in caves prior to that.

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  15. Oooh, Mumsee! Do you think they could make a kitten/cat coop? Then I could get some sleep and work done. Last night Bosley could not get enough playtime in badgering the blinds. Lots of disturbing racket. 😦

    Power tools can have lifelong consequences. I hope they remain obedient to the rules.

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  16. Hard to imagine spring right now.

    Clematis does best on the west side of a home. Mine is on the south and gets a little too much sun. I do have plants near it to shade the root, which is important. Still, I think it gets a little over heated. There are lots of varieties and I suppose some do better than others with shade.

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  17. Well Janice and I were thinking the same thought this morning….the photo of the day for tomorrow will be a goose!! (we’ve had the duck, duck…all we need is the goose 🙂 )
    Spring project is for Spring to finally get here…then….scrub down the front porch and refresh with a new coat of paint….
    It is difficult to imagine Spring projects when you have just had a full day of snow and the temps are in the teens….

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  18. Thank you, Kathaleena. Most people in this area have them planted at their mailbox (just one vine). I already have passion flower vines at the mailbox. So that is why it is hard to consider. Seems I need some sort of small trellis. Is that what you have? These have purplish blossoms.

    Kim the day lillies I have and love are the Baracuda Bay variety. Is there a particular variety you prefer?

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  19. Love the Livingstone quote. It fits my book so I’m stealing it.

    12,000 words written since Saturday ( in between housework, teaching Bible study, cooking and having a dinner party and working). Only four chapters to go and I’m dying to be done. Not sure Ill finish by Friday, but there’s hope. I’m staring at the hardest, climax chapter right now . . .

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  21. Spring project will be to jump on those foxtails as soon as they pop up this year. Otherwise, they become the bane of my existence for months. 😦

    I had the best snippet of a dream early this morning about work — we were all back in our old building (demolished a few years ago) and the newsroom was completely full and abuzz — every desk filled, everyone chattering and working and happy again.

    I think I had that dream because yesterday there were only a few of us in (even when everyone’s there we’re a tiny sliver of a staff anymore) and the entire place, both editorial and advertising, looked like a vast sea of empty desks. I remember thinking that all the energy has just been sucked out of the place. 😦

    Sigh.

    But it was a very nice dream.

    Now it’s on to a new day, I have two back-to-back interviews this morning, the first with the woman who puts on the harbor international film fest every year (it’s next week) and the second one is with a local cowboy and his horse. 🙂

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  22. Spring project? Moving! But first we have to find a place.

    Last night about 8:45, the realtor called apologizing for the lateness, but she had two contracts for us to sign! One was $5000 under our already reduced price, the other $2000. Guess which one we accepted? Still, though, we’re getting about $10k under our original asking price, but that’s okay. We’ll still have a lot left over for a down payment after all the fees are paid. Now we hope the house passes the USDA Rural Development Loan inspections.

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  23. My spring project? Playing the music for my sister’s wedding. Most of the pieces, I already knew, but there are a couple of real challenges. For the recessional, I am playing a piano transcription of this big beautiful piece:

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  24. Second sibling always wanted this piece for her wedding. Unfortunately, no sheet music is available. I managed to transcribe an arrangement for solo violin using the audio recordings that are available.

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  26. 6 Arrows, I answered you last night: yes, I still check that e-mail account occasionally (rarely, since I had it just for the World blog and don’t actually list it anywhere anymore) and can check it if you alert me you e-mailed me.

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  27. Roscuro, that sounds like fun. I wish my sister had kept up the violin–she could have played at my wedding. Instead, I hired strangers. Oh well. It’s not like I heard the music anyway!!

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  28. One of my daughters played Canon in D on her violin for her sister’s wedding. The Wedding March would not have been allowed in this wedding. She also played and sang with my husband in my other daughter’s wedding. It was a song written by my husband and requested by the youngest of our daughters. It both delighted and surprised my husband, since he considered it unfinished. He always meant to write another verse. Surprisingly he had another person want it for a wedding.

    My daughter had her wedding in a church not our own, but closer than our own. The pastor made a point of saying The Wedding March usually used in tv weddings etc. would not be allowed, because of its composer. I was surprised because the church was relatively liberal in many other things. I shouldn’t have been surprised, since this was also true of the Pharisees. People are always the same through the generations.

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  30. Kathleena, which Wedding March was that?! There is the one, technically called Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, is by Richard Wagner – that’s the one that someone set the ditty to, “Here comes the bride, short, far and wide…” The other one, the slightly more popular Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is by Felix Mendelssohn. Now, I can conceive, though not condone, of why a church might object to Wagner, who was a cad and a womanizer in his personal life; but I do not see why anyone would object to Felix Mendelssohn. His personal life was spotless – he dearly loved his Huguenot wife – and there are strong indications that he was a Christian. The only objection ever raised against playing his music was by the Nazis, because Mendelssohn was Jewish, and I sincerely hope that no church would follow their example. Any church who decides to ban music based on the composer should take a good look a their hymnbooks – they might be surprised to see who wrote some of the tunes in there.

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  34. Here is Mendelssohn’s Wedding March:

    I was once hired to play at an outdoor wedding – a hillside in a field. I was informed that the bride wanted the violin to be played (no accompaniment or acoustical backup was provided) and she wanted the Wedding March. The violin is primarily a melody playing instrument, and as you can here, the March is a complex orchestral piece. So, I made a transcript, keeping the most popular sections. It worked! I had people coming up after and saying how much they enjoyed it.

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  35. We just had our first kitten hanging from the living room curtains episode. 😯
    Took a run up the back of the chair and leaped for it. Landed about 6 feet up.

    Yay. I scruffed her and told her no. I think she got the point since she meowed and went off to play with something else. Everything else might be more accurate. Oh well, better now than at 3 AM. 🙂

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  39. I love the Livingstone quote too. It perfectly fits my LIFE! (Only for road I might substitute working ferry or air conditioning or fast internet or any number of things that many people today consider necessities.) The only one of those that I put on the necessity list is a working ferry!

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  40. Cat story: I feed my guinea fowl in a wooden tray and a dog kennel under some trees. They are free ranging and roost up in the spruce trees. Usually, in the morning, a bunch of juncoes come flying out after munching down an early breakfast of the leftovers. Anyway, I went out in the predawn light to get them fed and bumped the side of the crate as I stepped past it. Out leaps the death cat, who had apparently figured it all out and was waiting for the juncoes. Stupid cat.

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  42. Cheryl, all she has to do is open her window for a bit of fresh air and the cat can slip in and snag a curtain.

    That is reminding me of a nightmarish dream I had. I dreamed about an open window with a baby in a crib beside it and an eagle swooped in and grabbed the baby and carried it away. It was very distressing and I thought about the symbolism of the laws of our land allowing abortion.

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  43. Cheryl, I just emailed you at the address I mentioned yesterday. 🙂

    Looks like a music thread today! And viola music by Reger! Yay! I haven’t read anything here yet, or listened to the music, but I am looking forward to doing that later!

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  48. Okey-dokey, 6 Arrows. I’ll get back to you this evening. (my hubby is trying to watch English football and having trouble with his connection, so I’m going to sign off now)

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  49. Chas, she actually already got accepted for admission, but along with that, she was also selected to be among the interviewers for one of their very generous scholarships. She’s certainly a very desirable candidate for them, partly because of her own accomplishments, both academic and extra-curricular, and partly, for reasons over which she had no control–the fact that she’s from a part of the country where Furman isn’t known and the fact that she’s half Asian Indian. And from what I gather, I think she’d be a good fit with the personality of the school.

    The school is no longer Baptist, but I’m hoping that it at least has a Christian vibe among the student body. Sadly, I know I can’t expect it from the faculty. A solidly Christian university would be my first choice, of course, but not so much hers, and not my husband’s. Boston College is her first choice, but they give almost no merit money, so I think it’s just too far outside of our budget. And my husband would prefer a UC, but after sending our first daughter to a UC, I just don’t want to go that route again, and she’s not enthusiastic about the UCs either. So Furman was no one’s first choice, but it was the one place we all thought sounded good. It has a very strong chemistry program, which is what she wants to study, and it just sounds like a nice place to be. And if they give her substantial merit money, and if she’s still interested after seeing the place, I can only interpret that as the confirmation I need that it’s God’s answer to a long-standing prayer of mine.

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  51. Roscuro, that Couperin piece is beautiful. I think it would make a good processional. I had Largo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMlxM69ZJFA (hope that works) It was a piece my mom had played when we were little girls and my sister and I would pretend to walk down the aisle (hall) with some sort of veil. 🙂

    Mumsee – you make me laugh! Sort of like when my pastor uncle played ball and when he was up to bat the other team would say “watch your language, preacher at bat”

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  53. Ree, you could always bring her to me and as an alum I could get her into THE Jesuit College of the South. 😉

    Peter, I am beyond thrilled for you. I doubt you have trouble with USDA but it will be a 45 to 60 day close so it might be a Summer instead of a Spring move.

    I have had an exceptional day.

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  55. Jumping in again while still behind on reading the comments. Still on yesterday’s! But I wanted to add my 2 cents on the subject of women’s Bible studies &/or groups. Excuse me if someone else already said this…

    First of all, I must have been exceedingly blessed to have been a part of wonderful women’s Bible studies groups & women’s brunches where much solid ministry took place. From comments I’ve read here & elsewhere, it seems a lot of women haven’t had the same experience.

    On the groups being separated by age group: I think this is such a shame. Those younger women with small children need the input & wisdom of the older women. The groups I was in had a mixture of young, middle aged, & older women, & I (as one of the younger in the beginning) learned so much about being a godly wife & mother from those dear middle aged & older women.

    On not having separate groups for men & women: ISTM that there are certain things that women need to learn from & discuss with women, & men with men.

    On women’s groups being a hen-pecking thing: This sounds like a stereotype to me. I guess there are groups like that, though not all women are like that. A group comprised of women from different age groups & such, with a mature facilitator, can be a wonderful source of encouragement & exhortation.

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  56. Thank you for your input on that, Karen O. I love the group of women I meet with. At sixty, I am one of the youngest in the group. We do little missions projects and learn about varios missions in our denomination. I think younger women could have their minds broadened by attending. An older retired missionary often does the program and she is so well informed. I wish I could have been part of this as a young mom ( I guess I was pretty old when I became a mom at 35). Once in awhile someone younger visits but they see no one else their age and don’t come back.

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  57. Ree,I agree with NancyJill that you will love the area.
    But stay away from Clemson.
    I used to say that nothing good came from Clemson but our pastor is a Clemson man and I have a Clemson friend in SS. We have a good time harassing each other.
    But my SS friend has a granddaughter who is a cheerleader for the Gamecocks.
    That sorta changed things. 😉

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  58. Karen, when that was being discussed, I did almost write a comment on how older women and younger women need each other. Biblically it’s a requirement that older women teach younger women . . . so I’d even say that if a church is deliberately making two separate groups, they need to look at the very real possibility the groups are doing more harm than good, in keeping them apart. (I will say, though, that the last couple churches I’ve attended have sadly not had senior women who are spiritually mature or able/willing to be an example to younger women.)

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  59. I was the one who talked about the Young Mother’s Circle”. All the circles met together in a larger meeting once a month, as I recall. There were plenty of other groups for young mothers to learn from the older women.

    I have been part of dozens of bible studies throughout the years. I was never fed enough by any church. I met many, many nice women throughout those years and learned so very much. Some of the studies were not quite accurate and that forced me to reexamine what the scripture said. I always learned something. I also got some wonderful recipes, since coffee an’ was the norm. 🙂

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  62. I don’t see my daughter taking much interest in sports, but who knows? Maybe she just needs the exposure to start caring.

    You guys are making the anticipation even greater than it was for me. And I had no idea, Chas, that you were that close. So cool!

    Does anyone know any good churches there that we can attend the weekend of our visit?

    And what’s the Jesuit college of the south? I have a feeling I’ll be embarrassed when I hear the answer because I think I should probably know this.

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  63. And there is another good man who came from Clemson…my husband 🙂
    Karen, I am currently in a women’s Bible Study at our church and the age range is from 40 to 75…it’s a good group of ladies and we are studying Ann Graham Lotz’s “Journey to Jesus”…a study in John. I went reluctantly….but I am so glad I took the leap!

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  64. I had the same experiences as KarenO, both as a young mom and now as an ‘older’ woman. I, too, learned a lot from these other wise women. We even had a 95 year old attending our study and keeping us on track and making us look at what the Bible actually had to say, rather than what we thought it said.

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  65. Mumsee, when I posted at 4:45 I was just leaving for school for the day. I stayed late today and am only now catching up.
    However, after Tuesday, we are on term break so I might be on at any time. Well, probably not during the middle of my night.

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