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Our Daily Thread 4-19-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1764 the English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing paper money.

In 1861 President Lincoln ordered a blockade of Confederate ports.

In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation that removed the U.S. from the gold standard. 

In 1960 baseball uniforms began displaying player’s names on their backs. 

And in 1989 a gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa. 47 sailors were killed. 

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Quote of the Day

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf at springtime.”

Martin Luther

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Today’s a good day for some G. B. Shea.

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Anyone have a QoD?

65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-19-14”

  3. There is a certain amount of truth in Martin Luther’s statement. Those of us who live in temperate climates notice the pattern of death and resurrection moreso than those who don’t. But it isn’t enough to cause a Spiritual transformation.

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  7. We were awakened by a phone call at five, never a good thing. Becca spent the night at a friend’s and the mom was calling because they’d been broken into and the cops were at their house. The dad shot the intruder, but not fatally. Theirs was the sixth house broken into in last three weeks. When we went to get Becca, the police had the dad in the back of the police car and wouldn’t let anyone talk to him. Prayers for the dad and his family would be appreciated.

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  10. Encore Azaleas are grown and shipped from a nursery near me.

    http://www.encoreazalea.com/history

    While I do enjoy seeing azaleas bloom for several months at a time, I do think we have lost some of the beauty and splash of the “old fashioned” ones like the ones Janice has sent in and the ones that were in my back yard. I used to know the names of all the varieties like Henry Clay, and Formosa. I have forgotten so much about gardening that I grew up knowing. Use it or lose it.

    Now that the azaleas in my yard have finished blooming I am left with GIANT green bushes. I have described the family room several times it has three oversize sliding glass doors. Two are on the wall that looks out on the patio. The azaleas are to the right, bordering the patio. I have hung two bird feeders and three ferns. I have discovered this week that if I get up early enough I can watch the bluebirds who are hiding out in the azaleas and perhaps building a nest in one of the ferns.

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  12. Kim, that Rhodie picture looks so much like the flowers, but the plant is an azalea. After getting this house in 1983 I would drive through the neighborhood and see these bigger than usual flowers on the azaleas. So this is an intentionally selected azalea. The other was probably one I got on sale when it was no longer blooming so I did not know exactly what I was getting. We did have a lot of Fashion azaleas but they all died when neighbors planted a maple nearby that cut out light to the azaleas. 😦 We’ve had a few Rhodies and Mountain Laurel but they always die. These old timy azaleas must be more hardy.

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  15. I love flowers. They are beautiful whether planted by man to decorate his yard, or planted by God to decorate His garden. Our yard has several kinds of flowers, both man-planted and God-planted. Some might call the latter “weeds” and try to eliminate them. But I like the yellow dandelions and purple and white violets that grow in the grass.

    And we had some daffodils bloom last weekend, but they didn’t like the 23° we had Tuesday morning.

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  17. Prayers Ann, for your daughter and the rest. I’m glad the father was able to keep everyone safe from the intruder. The actions by police are standard procedure. Don’t fret, they don’t usually prosecute for that, although they will and should investigate it. Cops have homes too, and they’d defend their families the same way if necessary.

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  19. Yes, Ann, that is very frightening. Seems violence is really growing in our land. Almost everytime I happen to see the tv news it seems someone is trying to grab a child. It is scary for the parents and the children. People just want to live in peace.

    When I was in college and waiting for the first bus of the day to take me downtown at 6:30 am while it was still dark a man slowed and stopped his car and opened the passenger door and told me in a mean and gruff voice to, “Get in.” I froze. No one else was around. I guess my zombie stance was not challenging so he closed the door and slowly drove away. These days it probably would not have ended that way. People can not be too careful. I don’t think it matters where a person lives much anymore. My brother lives more in the country about an hour from me and a child was abducted on his street. It was a domestic dispute. The dad got caught by authorities.

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  20. Peter, recently you said you may be looking for some ground cover. The three we have had success with here are vinca minor, ajuga and pachysandra. I don’t know if they are compatible with your weather and soil, but thought you might want to take a look to consider them. The pachysandra grows well as a filler under azalea plants.

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  23. Annms., that is very scary! Is Becca upset at all, did the kids see any of it?

    I was talking with my neighbor last week, visiting with their new puppies in their backyard, and she was telling me that when her boys were little someone tried to break into one of the windows. She got the household gun and stationed herself at the end of the hallway waiting for him, gun pointed straight ahead. She must have yelled something because he got spooked and took off.

    The cops were called and told her if it happened again to make sure he was all the way in the house before she shot him. If she shot him and he wasn’t all the way in, the cop said, be sure to pull him all the way in before they got there. 😉

    I wouldn’t mess with my neighbor.

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  28. Catch up day for me, had to:

    1. Visit the computer people for a laptop fix
    2. Stock up on dog & cat food
    3. Get several things at the drug store
    4. Fill the Jeep up with gas ($4.12 a gallon which is cheap right now for us)
    5. Load & run the dishwasher

    My living room still looks like a cyclone roared through it, though. 😦

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  30. Day of cooking, baking…running to the grocery for that forgotten thing from yesterday when I was there!! Now we are off to dinner with a couple new to our church. Easter service tomorrow morning…having daughter’s family over for lunch…grandkids…three of ’em….that means my living room is going to look like what Donna’s looks like right now!! 🙂

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  36. He is risen, indeed!

    just back from sitting four plus hours on the bleachers. Another track meet done. Whew. But it is enjoyable to watch them. It is just a bit tough on the little folk.

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  37. I just got an e-mail from a guy warning about a new method of hijacking. The hijackers stick a piece of paper on the back of your car. When you are backing out, you notice and stop, put the car in park and go back to get it. The hijackers jump into your car and drive off.
    I don’t know if this is true, but it makes sense to ignore something stuck on your rear window.
    Take it off when you get home.

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  38. Chas, I saw something like that a few years ago. Thing about it is, they’d have to sit around waiting for people to get back in their cars, and that might be a long wait. Seems inefficient.

    AJ, I just sent you an e-mail with several photos.

    (Chas, I set “cherylandmisten” as my name since it wouldn’t take just Cheryl and I didn’t want to use my last name, because of errors that would make the whole name show up. But I don’t notice if it has defaulted to CherylandMisten unless someone mentions it. Sometimes it defaults to “Misten,” and I don’t know why it does that, and I don’t notice when it does that, either!)

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  39. I had a piece of paper on my windshield as I got in from the track meet. The hijacker would have had four special needs children to deal with. Poor guy.

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  42. HE IS RISEN, INDEED
    I am teaching for Dr. Jones this morning. About the resurrection, of course.
    I don’t usually follow fashion customs women have. But this morning, even though it is 42.5 degrees, I’m pulling out my summer suit. Problem with summer suit is that I only have one. And I intend not to buy another because I only wear it five hours a week.
    I’m sure no one notices, and those who do won’t care. And I don’t care if they care, anyhow.
    Being almost 84 has it’s advantages. Mighty few, but there are some..

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  44. Thanks Jo — Happy Resurrection Day everyone. I’m up early (but not *that* early, the local sunrise service is just now starting). We’re going to the early (8:30) service, though, so we can go out for breakfast afterward — a few of us from church plus other people who will join us for breakfast only (one grew up Mormon and apparently has never looked back nor felt the pull to go to church since her ‘escape’ 😦 ).

    I’m a little concerned that I may wind up work today — but probably/hopefully not. I was getting text messages late last night from 2 people about a person police have apparently zeroed in on for the arson fire earlier in the week, including a tip that there is some gas station surveillance tape showing him filling up several gas cans not long before the fire.

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  46. I was at church not long after 8 am to set up the classroom. Another of my co -teachers was practicing with the praise band and the other had gone to an Easter sunrise service so she was late. So it was a bit of a lonely time for set up.

    Part way through class time the youth group brought in eggs filled with candy. Must have been left over from the egg hunt. The guys in the class were super wired. Some days go better than others so this was not one of the better days.

    Husband is working today. Sales tax reporting deadline is tomorrow. Bosley and I will share steelhead trout, leftover from last night. Husband is still waiting on one med he needs. Still not feeling well.

    We had three baptisms during the church service One was one of our students. That was nice..

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  49. No new outfit, though I’ve bought new dresses in the past. The Quaker church I attended for a number of years in the 1980s & 1990s always was very dressy at Easter. Presbyterians, I found when I transferred the that denomination, not so much. Which strikes me as odd, considering the Quakers’ traditional stress on plain dress without bright colors and the Presbyterians’ reputation as rather culturally high-brow. Go figure.

    Today at the early service a few were dressed up, others were quite casual (being that we’re near the beach, our dress standards are pretty relaxed). The guy in front of me was wearing shorts. I dressed somewhere in between, along with most of the others.

    Speaking of the plain people, I watched “Witness” last night with Harrison Ford (how cute is he??), loved that movie when it came out in the 1980s and I hadn’t seen it in some time. 🙂

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  50. I thought this thread would be abandoned since the Easter thread came up.
    My Summer suit looks like my winter suit except that it’s light weight.
    Katy (a woman I used to travel with when I was working) once said, “All men look alike.”.
    She said that to me at a conference when the guys wore dark suits with blue or red ties.

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  51. It was a wonderful wedding. The bride was fashionably late – a half hour in fact, due to forgetting the bouquets at home. I had to improvise a longer prelude to fill the gap, but it worked out fine. Second sibling looked lovely in her dress and a good time was had by all.

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  53. Sounds lovely, Roscuro.

    No new Easter outfit for me. I wanted to at least wear something spring-y, but it’s still just too cold out.

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  54. The American behaved very well, talking to all the right people and helping out with the set up and clean up. I think we might have worn him out.

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  55. What American? Is the groom an American? (I missed a week’s worth of stuff on here.) BTW, did Karen’s upstairs people ever get totally moved out, and the kid and grandkid moved in?

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  58. My Sunday suit was very special. I wore my winter boots and winter hat to the sunrise service, taking along a pair of tennis shoes to change into afterwards, because I did not want to sit through church with wet feet. Anyway, when I got set to change I found I had brought one shoe from my gardening pair and one shoe from my church pair. Which would have been odd but okay but they were both left shoes. oops. And my head covering (crocheted for me by my Ethiopian) got out of my purse somehow so I wore my winter hat. I never claimed to not be special and my special needs children are fine with it so everybody else ought to be also. They are. At least, when talking with me they don’t stare at my head or my feet. And so goes another day with husband off bringing in the money.

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  64. Glad the wedding went well. They usually do and the mishaps just add to the shared memories.

    No new clothes for me, however, it was warm enough to wear a blouse I had not worn since last summer. That was nice.

    We had a beautiful and quiet day. Altogether lovely.

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