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Our Daily Thread 4-26-14

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday!! 🙂

Today’s an exciting day for us. My family will be meeting Linda and her husband for lunch. 🙂 

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On this day in 1865 Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Sherman during the American Civil War.

Also in 1865 John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.  

In 1941 an organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.  

In 1954 Grace Kelly was on the cover of “LIFE” magazine. 

And in 1968 students seized the administration building at Ohio State University. 

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Quote of the Day

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

William Shakespeare

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Today is Bobby Rydell’s birthday.

And Sunday is John James’. From NewsboysVEVO

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Anyone have a QoD?

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-26-14”

  4. Well, I did my half mile run on the treadmill, followed by some bow flex and my mile walk outside with the dog, fed the goats and guinea fowl, chatted with the girls about their track meet, released the twelve year old from his alarmed door, called six year old to go help with the chickens, did some push ups and bicycles, and now it is time to start the pancakes. Good morning all.

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  5. Mumsee, are you trying to make the rest of us feel lazy?

    Let’s see . . . I’ve gotten dressed, gone with my husband to the hospital to drop off a card I made one of our church members (she has pneumonia and my husband is vulnerable, so we didn’t think it wise to go to her room), eaten breakfast, checked my e-mail, and checked this blog. (Of course, I didn’t get to sleep till 3:00 in the morning or so, and haven’t fully awakened yet.)

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  6. Oh yes, I also took a couple dozen photos of goldfinches, since four and maybe five of them were in the tree at the same time and they have most of their summer feathers. And I fed Misten. My husband fed himself.

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  8. I got up and “twitched.” I am the subject of an experiment in knee health. At my former church, First Baptist Church of Downey, California, the 3rd grade Sunday School secretary was an professor at USC of Biomechanics (physical therapy). I asked her if there was anything out there to help with my bum knee. 6 or 8 months later she said she had a place for me in one of her experiments.

    The cartilage in my right knee is disappearing and I have bone on bone on the inside of the right knee.

    I had a rice sized little goody injected next to the nerve for the large muscle on the top of my thigh. I was given a computer controlled radio wave maker. This makes that large muscle on the top of my leg “twitch.”

    So, I laid back in my recliner with my laptop on my chest, put the radio wave maker on my leg and “twitched.” My leg feels much much better when I twitch for 30 minutes twice a day. The twitching makes the muscles of my knee stronger.

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  11. I’ve had a shower. But that’s about it.

    We had rain and a very strong wind storm last night — the pole holding a worn-out, sagging basketball hoop in the backyard (left by previous residents) toppled over and is lying there. Now I have to get that hauled away.

    Bob, is your old church across from a street called Dolan Avenue and in sort of a parking lot area? Glad the experiment is working.

    Have a fun meet-up Linda and AJ. Too bad we can’t all hop planes and join you all. 🙂 But that’s a lunch I can’t afford.

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  13. Which could help explain the large pickle jar filled with swamp water on the table and the fact that I buy acne cream by the case.

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  14. Define “normal”.

    I thought I had already commented here this morning but I guess I didn’t.

    I went to a Lincoln Days lunch. Saw my congressman, state senator and state representative, as well as the current state auditor and state speaker of the house. Nice to live in a small town and be able to mingle with such important people. Yet it is better to be able to talk to the Creator of the universe any time.

    Now I am taking a break from mowing the lawn. Frustrating (See Rants and Raves).

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  16. I have run all my errands and am back. Mr P and I played tourist in town and went in all the shops. I bought several Bamboo and Papaya candles I like—luckily he said something about how good the store smelled to the sales lady when we walked in because we were there to buy those candles!
    I got the new wallet I wanted. It was time. The print is peeling off the other one and the cushy stuff underneath was showing.

    http://www.scentations.com/p-80-room-spray-4oz-papaya-bamboo-scent.aspx

    http://www.pricefalls.com/product/Spartina-449-Wrist-Wallet-Strachan/6252882?utm_source=GoogleShopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=PLA&utm_content=65511570751&utm_campaign=

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  18. Oh and we had lunch here:

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pinzone's+Italian+Downtown/@30.52262,-87.904291,2a,90y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1shttps:%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2F-Vs9zTBe270A%2FUXTaoMydfaI%2FAAAAAAAGw04%2FpGFBHdkkO5I%2Fs203%2Fphoto.jpg!2e4!3e12!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xcfa96e8f843401b!6m1!1e1

    At the last table under the roof before you get to the courtyard. We split an entree (Italian sausage and poleta–Paul said they were cheese grits. I had to tell him to hush before some of the tourists made the connection) and had an antipasta platter with salami, salmon, blue cheese, parmesan, two other types and an artichoke. I never can eat artichoke without thinking of Alfalfa on the Little Rascals saying “It mighta choked Artie but it ain’t gonna choke me”

    All in all a good day. Now I am hauling myself to the sofa to finish my book.

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  19. Yes. Several of you will get one from me. It isn’t something I normally do and you don’t have to forward me to anyone or even participate, but the lady who is in place 1 is a good friend and has been there for BG and me. She is the kind parent who shared what she knew.

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  21. i have just spent the past twenty minutes on the cell phone. That is quite a lot as I normally speak on it less than two minutes a week. But the six year old and a twelve year old made me some fine phones out of construction paper, including a charger and batteries. And fone cards, whatever they are. Anyway, i am tired of talking on the phone.

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  22. Mumsee – Earlier you mentioned releasing 12-year-old from his alarmed door. Do you have a plan in case of a fire?

    When we had my Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother-in-law living with us, we installed a lock on the front door that needed to be opened with a key, to keep her from wandering off. A visiting nurse saw that & said she understood why we had it, but was concerned that it could be a death trap in case of a fire.

    I forget what plan we came up with, but eventually we switched to a regular lock after MIL lost interest in trying to leave.

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  23. Karen, it is just an alarm. He can open the door at any time. But it is so I will know if he comes out of his room and so he will know if anybody enters his room while he sleeps. It gives him a lot of comfort. I have not broken it to him that he sleeps right through the alarm when it goes off, but I do not. It does not go off because somebody is entering his room, it goes off because his older brother likes to be annoying. But right now his older brother is away for six months so we have had no “accidental” alarms in quite a while.

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  24. a creative way to give comfort and security. I have an alarm on a window and it went off once. I figured that the haus meri hadn’t shut it correctly. But when I looked the screen had been cut, so someone at least wanted to reach in. So thankful for the alarm. I had just walked home with a package, which I opened right beside that window, but didn’t leave there.

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  26. Home from another sweet women’s retreat. I am tired and hope for good rest before tomorrow’s Sunday School class. The selection of conference classes is so good that it is hard to choose which to attend
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    We were surprised by seeing beautiful fireworks from the nearby lake where the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra did a concert.

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  27. Jo, would people from the YWAM medical ship ever come in as far as Ukarumpa? I’m wondering because a friend’s daughter is in PNG with the ship right now. Just enjoyed her pictures on Facebook.

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  28. Mumsee – I see. That’s a great idea for his peace of mind. But it is so sad that he needs that. May God grant him inner healing, & the peace that passes understanding, in all areas of his life. (And that goes for all the other nestlings as well.)

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  29. Karen, it is not just his peace of mind. It is mine and the other children’s as well. Remember, a lot of stuff happens to children before and during foster care and they tend to pass it on.

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  32. Kare, if the ship comes to Lae, we may see someone. We are in the Highlands, about 3 hours from Lae, but I have known folks from the ship to come up here to visit. Send her up.

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  35. A day of rest is good. I was glad when they said, “Let us go into the house of the Lord”.

    I know we are the house, but it is still good to gather with believers at the start of the week, worshiping the King of Kings together.

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  36. Amen. It also gives you time to recharge your phone.

    Volare — funny how songs can take you back to a very particular moment in time (even though you heard them probably many times in other circumstances). I was probably 12 when my best girlfriend and her parents rented a hotel suite at one of our local beaches that summer. They couldn’t afford a trip, I think, so opted to do that instead for 2 weeks.

    I stayed with them several days, it was probably at the height of the surfer craze and the hotel was literally on the beach.

    My friend and I had spent the entire day “boogie-boarding” in the waves and were walking along the strand to buy a hot dog when that song was playing from somewhere. And I always think of that day and that moment, the smell of suntan oil, the sound of the crashing waves and people laughing, the feel of the sun beating down on me (and, yeah, the sunburn I discovered I’d gotten when the sun went down — bright red, I was).

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  37. That summer on the beach must have been … around 1964? I was in junior high and remember having to get a doctor’s excuse to stay out of summer school for a couple days as the sunburn peeled and healed. 🙂

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  40. And I had the pepper confused with a lobster. Those Foster Grants don’t offer corrective vision and from the distance a red pepper and a lobster look much the same!

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  41. Making things worse, my friend’s mom for some reason believed that the best treatment for sunburn was vinegar. So she poured vinegar all over me before we had to get all dressed up to go out to a fancy diner that night.

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  43. Well it’s been a wintry snowy day here….started out as rain, then by the time we headed out for church…turned to a wind driven snow…exciting times they are!!
    Oh Donna how well I recall the sunburns…with big ol blisters to follow…Mom always rubbed Noxema on my skin to cool it…all I know is that it hurt like the dickens when she rubbed it on…not to mention I then looked like a sunburnt ghost who smelled funny!! 🙂

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  44. I endured no end of jokes about how I smelled. … 🙂

    I later learned how to “tan,” of course, being a teen in SoCal. Slowly and gradually — but I still never got as dark as my best friend Cheri who was part Native American. 😦 We lived at the beach for several summers in high school.

    Walked through the park on the cliffs today,but stepped in a bunch of dog poop which I didn’t discover until later when we (Tess & Cowboy were with me) were driving him and I kept thinking “what’s that smell??”

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  46. One of the big trees in the park near the lighthouse was uprooted during the wind storm the other night, yellow police tape all around it.

    Luckily there are a lot of beautiful, lush trees in that park. Stll, sad to see it lying on its side … 😦

    But a beautiful day out there, saw some dolphins bobbing in the ocean, lots of birds, and Catalina Island looked like you could touch it.

    Went to the dog park later, met my dentist’s cousin for the first time — I do like living in a “small” town, L.A. style.

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  47. Poor Donna, such an unpleasant thing to happen. I can remember when my young son stepped in it that I was highly tempted to just throw his shoes away. Nothing like trying to clean it out of shoe treads. 😦

    Looking forward to having Bosley back. Even the litter box seems tolerable considering…

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  48. The shoe treads are the worst. Luckily, these were canvas tennies so I just tossed them in the washing machine.

    I somehow stepped my entire heel into it, so it seeped up onto the back of the shoe and my jeans — all tossed into the wash as soon as I got home.

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