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Our Daily Thread 5-3-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1888 Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Works. 

In 1933 the U.S. Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time when Nellie Ross took the position. 

In 1952 the first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole. 

And in 1992 five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots killed 53 people.

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Quote of the Day

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.”

Golda Meir

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 Today is Chris Tomlin’s birthday.

And it’s Bruce Hall’s too. So 3 songs from REO on Midnight Special, from 77, 78, 80.

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Anyone have a QoD?

65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-3-14”

  1. Planes can often avoid the storm, or fly above it.
    No getting around old age.
    Correction: no good way of getting around old age.

    Is everyone slow this morning? I thought I was.

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  6. I imagine Jo is already asleep. Sweet deams, Jo.

    Husband has been to work and back. When he got near the office and stopped to get gas, he discovered he had left his wallet at home. So he spent about 35 minutes going down there, 35 minutes coming back home, and 35 minutes going back to the office. He said it’s starting out to be one of those days. I told him I would have brought his wallet to him,, and he said he knew that. At least he got to see the lawn I mowed yesterday in the full light of day.

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  7. I woke up this morning and turned on WTZQ before I even got out of bed. They were playing Bill Monroe’s “Footprints in the Snow”. Every time I hear that, I remember a time around 1946/47 that we lived in a ramshackled two bedroom shack in what was called “The Iron dog” It was summer and the windows were open. A neighbor somewhere was playing that song, “I saw the little footprints in the snow”. Over and over again. Most of the night. The records in those days were 78 rpm and they had to move the needle back to the beginning each time.

    ‘It was a happy day when Nellie lost her way,
    I found her when the snow was on the ground.”

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  8. Pretty, pretty bouquet, AJ!

    If you enlarge the photo it looks like a little bird is sitting between the petals on the right side. 🙂

    Chas, on the news the night before last there was a story about a rather aged lady in our area who took in people needing a room. One she took in was a Vietnam veteran who was not in the best of health. Somehow he was out of the house when we had the extreme cold weather and she would not let him in. He was found dead in her back yard because he froze to death. She has been charged with murder. When I read the lyrics to the song you posted I was relating it to this story. Inform me, please, that Nellie was found alive and they lived happily ever after!

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  12. Thanks Kim.
    I thought of linking the song, but figured that most of you don’t like the genre.
    It’s amazing that this song has survived so many years.
    Evidently Nellie was rescued, but if you’re concerned about logic, the words defy logic.
    After Bill Monroe sings it, you have a selection of 12 other songs. Marty Robbins has a better version, in my opinion.

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  13. Last night was First Friday in town. We went to several of the places that were open. We ended up at the Art Center and the woman who play the piano was playing a song I love. I spoke with her after she finished, she told me if I would go get her a glass of wine she would tell me something special about the song. It is the only song that is copyrighted with three different titles.
    Anyone want to take a guess? It is the theme song for a movie that was filmed in 1965. As I recall from the last time it was on TV it is a very long movie, but the song sticks with you.

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  14. I tried to link one that seemed like it was an original record playing from 1945 but it never would play so I selected one when he was older. I think I saw Bill Monroe at the Grand Ol Opry back in the 90’s. He sang Mule Skinner Blues. It was painful.

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  15. Speaking of defying logic. Janice’s story about the guy freezing does it.
    Both he and she were mentally off in this.

    Kim’s guess: The Sound of Music.

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  17. So it’s movie theme day. I can’t remember what movies came out in 1965. All the movies I saw as a child are jumbled in my memory. But my guess would be either a James Bond movie or one of the spaghetti westerns.

    I’m more thinking about Murphy’s Law- “Anything that can go wrong, will.” That’s how I’m feeling about our house sale. (See Rants and Raves)

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  19. We have some really freaky news stories lately. A mentally off man chopped his parents to death with a Samari sword on this same news program. Is it this bad all over? I hate to watch the news any more. Just when you think it could not get worse…

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  20. Living in an extremely cold place, we hear stories about someone freezing every winter. They are always horrible. This year one was a child who could not get back into an apartment building, because of a negligent caregiver. Then there was the young woman who drank too much and was left off in front of her home. She never made it inside. Apparently, confused she ended up on a neighbor’s porch. She was found quite frozen the next morning. She lived, but has lost many extremities. Lots of lessons in that story.

    I remember my husband singing that song, but it was slower. He had to watch the video.

    Chas: I would imagine many of those men you teach have grandson and great grandsons. Sometimes it is the generations that are more removed that can influence these young men the most.

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  21. I am cleaning the house whether I wanted to or not. I even took the mauve and country blue flowerdy wall paper boarder off the bathroom walls and wiped them down with bleach water.

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  22. I was just cleaning my dish drainer and did not realize how yucky the underside of the mat it sits on could get along the drip edge. I hope to work a lot in the kitchen today. I am trying to rearrange my small appliances for ease of use since the stove is not usable right now. I don’t usually use the stove much in summer anyway so that gives me time to think what to do about the stove situation.

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  23. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you this Kim. But I will anyhow.
    Be very careful with bleach. Stuff in there can kill you.
    And we would never know which song you’re talking about.

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  24. Bleach and Comet do not mix. I try to stay away from bleach. It never fails that I get some on my clothes and don’t realize it. I have “special” clothes I wear when I bleach anything.

    The stove in this house is Harvest Gold. It works but it is beyond too much cleaning.

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  25. Every once in a while, you hear a nasty story like that here, though I didn’t hear any this year despite it being a record cold winter. Cities and municipalities have gotten really good about issuing cold weather alerts when the temperature gets below a certain point, opening up extra spaces to shelter anyone who might be on the street. The one story that I heard about was of a family whose furnace failed, so they tried to heat the house with an outdoor propane heater resulting in carbon monoxide poisoning.

    Speaking of poisoning by air, that is what Chas was worried about with the bleach. If you mix bleach with vinegar, it produces chlorine gas and if you mix bleach and ammonia, you get mustard gas. However, most good housekeepers know not to do that.

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  26. Kim, I just cleaned the dish drainer with Comet with Bleach in it. Somehow the manufacturer can mix the two, but we don’t have the magic formula. Does anyone know the”magic formula” number of one of the cleaning products? (Not Love Potion #9 that works with the Honey Do list. 🙂 ).

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  27. well, as you well know, Phos, I am not a good housekeeper, but even I know not to mix those. But I am done cleaning the kitchen. I have super mighty floor scrubby six year old finishing it off. I do like to not stick to the floor but the twelve year olds are the least capable of cleaners due to some of their not yet overcome issues, and it has been their week. Ewww..

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  28. I didn’t know until I was in my thirties that bleach and ammonia can’t be mixed (my niece and her husband had a chicken farm, and chicken farmers can’t clean with bleach; my little brother knew why and I did not)–if Mom ever mentioned it, I didn’t hear her. And I didn’t know till just now until bleach and vinegar.

    All the split-pea soup stuff is put away and my teeth brushed. And to cover any lingering “pea” odor (my husband really can’t stand it), I made him a batch of shortbread cookies. Unfortunately I myself do not like the smell (or the taste) of those. Oh well.

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  29. Cheryl, don’t mix bleach with anything but water.
    And don’t use it is unventilated places.
    Don’t leave it where children can get to it.
    It would be wise to avoid mixing any type of cleaner with another.

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  30. Cheryl, I love both of those. I rarely get either. I had Lorna Doone’s on a flight so that was my shortbread during the past year. Don’t think I have had anything other than a few cans of Progresso split pea soup during the past year. If you can’t get homemade, do you have a particular canned brand you prefer?

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  31. Janice, before I started making it myself, I periodically bought the Campbells’s chunky or whatever it is called (the variety you don’t dilute). It’s what gave me the idea to make the soup with both carrots and potatoes (as well as ham–I put in lots of ham). It’s decent, but not homemade.

    Chas, I rarely use bleach and have only ever mixed it with water. But the point about “mixing” it with other cleaners isn’t necessarily pouring them in one bucket, but using one on the toilet and one on the mirror. That’s something a person could readily do.

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  32. What I really like is Lysol in the little dark brown bottle. THAT is what clean smells like.

    So here it is Saturday afternoon and no one has guess the song.

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  34. I found a great new cleaning product for dust bunnies. You just dump it out on the floor and it runs freely to pick up dust bunnies along the way. The new household cleaner is labeled Bosley. Nothing quite like it if you need a quick action cleaner to get with dust bunnies! She wears them well.

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  35. It’s been an unexpected working day for me after a local lapd officer was killed on duty early this morning in a hit-and-run. He was only 32 and had been married just 90 days. Also survived by his parents. 😦 very sad.

    Very moving procession as they took his body from the hospital and drove by the station where he worked before heading up to the Coronor’s office. The street was lined with officers, fire department suspended the U.S. flag from 2 extended ladders.

    Finally met the new commanding officer for harbor, he gave me a hug thanking me for a story I’d written about this appointment a couple months ago (but I was unable at that time to reach him for a quote). Now I have his cell #. 🙂 We had to jaywalk to get back to the station but he said it would be OK since I was with him.

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  36. Donna, that is so sad. I’ve been to several funerals for those killed in the line of duty and the respect from their fellow officers from their department and from different agencies from across the continent is amazing to see and very touching as to how they will show up from 1000’s of kilometres away to show their support.

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  38. You’re right Kim, I never would have guessed it. I never saw Dr. Zhivago. I told you before that the first movies I took Elvera to were Sound of Music and My Fair Lady.
    But I love “Somewhere My Love”. The melody is beautiful, but you don’t want to listen to it while you’re driving late at night.

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  39. bleach is a staple here. I add a couple of capfuls to the water that I soak my fruit and vegetables in. Periodically I also use it on the bathroom walls that are moldy. Scrubbing doesn’t work for mold, you have to use bleach. We once rented out our home and when we returned the bathroom walls were just covered with mold. When I called the gal, she said that she had scrubbed and scrubbed. The dilute bleach solution took it off easily.

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  42. Why does it seem the only way I get to enjoy the wonderful weather is when mowing the lawn? Oh, well. There is a positive angle to this: I got a two hour walk today in the sunshine and warm weather. Great exercise!

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  43. Janice, a collie does an excellent job of picking up dried leaves and assorted sticks from the backyard. Especially when she finds a bed of leaves in which to nap for an hour or so.

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  48. My alarm went off at 5:10 and again at 5:20 so I have been up for awhile. I made a pot of coffee and did some Bible time with my Scripture Union Discovery guide.

    Nice to hear the birds doing their early morning song routines. Bosley will soon let me know it is time to open the blinds when full daylight is upon us. Husband is getting ready to go to the office. He is still doing catch up after tax season. I look forward to him getting back to church and having Sunday lunch with me.

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  49. I just got up, but I sure could have kept on sleeping. I have to leave the house in 45 minutes to pick up my ride for church — then it’ll be a nap this afternoon, I think. 😉

    The air coming in the window feels much cooler this morning, I really do think our heat wave is gone this time.

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  50. I got up four and a half hours ago and we leave in forty five minutes to get there. A nap for sure. It is a balmy sixty three in the house today and I thought of starting a fire, but I didn’t. It is the day of rest. So I just fed the goats, set out the milking supplies, fed the guinea fowl, fed the other goats, fed the dog, fed the children, brought one of the twelve year olds back to reality, hugged a sixteen year old and another one and a seventeen and another sixteen, played with a seven and with a six, chatted with a twelve, folded some wash clothes and towels, ……….

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  52. The lesson went well. This is the outline I used, if anyone is interested. It was hard to make something out of that scripture that was relevant for our class. So, this is it.

    4 May 2014-05-04 Moral Purity Proverbs 5:3-14, 5:20-23
    6:23-24, 27-29, 32-34

    Told George don’t get sick through proverbs, collar bone anyhow.
    Proverbs, good advice- “Guard speech”, “Don’t be a slacker”, etc. How does it apply to this class?
    Now, Solomon tells us not to run around with strange women. How to handle that? Read, comment.

    Read Prov. 5:3-14 Good advice for young men. Not many of us are likely to succumb. Influence young men. My area of influence is married 34 years.
    Read Prov. 5:20-6:34 from Q. How does this apply to us? Not much. But it does tell about built in traps, and “your sins will find you out” (Num. 32:23) Good advice. Thing is, Solomon never followed it himself.
    I Ki. 11;3, 700wives, 300concubines and they led him astray.
    1. Solmon puts the burden on women. I wonder how the ladies class handles this.
    2. Lesson leaves out the important part in this: Matt. 19:5 – One flesh. Important concept:
    One of the MANY MYSTERIES of the Christian faith. The concept of one flesh.

    Segue into another subject: Mystery of the faith. Pastor: “the WOW of our experience”
    You are privy to mysteries the unsaved world doesn’t have.
    Matt. 11:25, This truth is “revealed”, not by being smart. By faith.
    Peter says our salvation is a mystery: I Pet. 1:9-12
    Heavy stuff here. Says prophets searched for truths we take for granted. (Did Isaiah understand his Ch. 53?)
    Coll. 1:25-27 Another aspect of the same thing. “Christ in you” another mystery Spiritual birth.

    Brings us back to original topic: Moral purity
    Jesus, in Matthew says the marriage binds them to one flesh.
    Paul, I Cor. 6:5-16, says the sex act itself makes them one flesh.
    Implications of this are significant: fornication, adultery, but also for another issue.
    Same sex marriage. It is not a civil rights issue. There is talk about a man loving a man, woman loving a woman. But they don’t say what these people do.
    No way they can become one flesh. No way this can be reconciled.

    There was some discussion and we got out a couple of minutes early. The problem will come in a couple of weeks when we teach the Song of Solomon. I hope George is back by then. T

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  53. Good lesson, Chas.

    Really appreciated what you said about one flesh. I heard mention of two gals who want to go to another state so they can get married. I thought to myself that they will be playing house. It is not the same as trying to keep things working out with someone who is in many ways unlike you. No matter how often and in how many ways same sex relationships are referred to as marriage it can never ever be the same as a one man and one woman marriage. Surely in their heartof hearts they must know that. I think sometimes they just want to have the beauty of the wedding ceremony in their lives. That is what children consider to be getting married.

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  54. Janice, we had some discussion on that. Someone asked how it happened. I said there were several factors. One, some are evil. They want to change traditional religious customs in any way they can. I didn’t mention the Overton Window because it would require more explaining than I had time for then, but it applies. This sample of evil people is very small. But there are others who don’t care and will, for political reasons, agree with, and support them. That is also a small sample. The largest group is those who are naive and uninformed and are convinced by the “civil rights” issue.
    The problem is that many mainline churches are falling into that category.

    I didn’t mention this, we’d still be there. But I’m beginning to agree with rickyweaver who participates mostly on the Political Thread. Judgment is coming, and may have already started.
    I still contend there are still ten good men in Sodom. But I’m beginning to wonder if they can affect much to change course.
    But we had a prayer meeting Thursday. That may work.

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  55. Kim, seems one thought segues into another in strange ways.
    A guy on FoxNews was talking about the song “I Dream the Impossible Dream”, that led me to think of the kind of song the youth sang in their program this morning. At which time, It occurred to me that they wouldn’t understand your song: “Somewhere My Love”. It doesn’t have beat, it has melody. I can’t think of a single song in their repertoire that has melody.

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  56. Two of my FB friends today are happily talking about the prospects of electing Hillary & Elizabeth Warren as prez and vp (either-or). Then, one of them said, after 2 terms, the vp could run for prez & win so that the country would have 16 years under them. How amazing would that be?

    Just thought I’d give you all a glimpse into what the true-blue state people dream about. 🙂

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  62. Another Donna I suspect. 🙂

    I’m not quite ready for Monday, but I did have a wonderful 2-hour nap this afternoon which I needed.

    And I received a very complimentary email from my editor on the long feature (one of 2) I’d been working on for the past couple months and finally got done — it’s running Monday.

    I could tell he was a little irked with me yesterday when I told him I’d arrived at the LAPD morning news conference, oh, just a teeny-tiny-little bit late, so maybe my nice feature counteracted all that.

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  64. Sounds like you did a good job, Chas. All that is so important in some of the discussions that will go on in families and among others.

    One of my husband’s pet peeves: no melody, just driven by beat, love means sex instead of real love.

    I had a discussion with one of my sons-in-law. He was telling me about a sitcom that was not ‘too bad’. I had recently tried a second time to see if I could watch it. After ten minutes I was finished. Yes, the show was cleaner than most on television these days. Still, it delves into sexual innuendo before too far into the show. I told my SIL, that he cannot realize how different what he expects is from what we watched in these shows that are supposed to be family fare. What is really sad is that, there is so very much humor in everyday family life. There is no reason to bring the sexual innuendo into the comedy. Cheap laughs will lead to cheap and shallow lives by those who do not know what real life can be like.

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  65. Hello, Jo. Hope all is well in your part of the world.

    We had a nice choral concert at the church during the evening service time. We are blessed with some young people who are being well trained by the pastor’s wife to make the most of their singing abilities.

    Do you sing, Jo? Do y’all have a choir at your church there?

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