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Our Daily Thread 5-16-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Peter.

On this day in 1888 the first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner. 

In 1939 the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League. 

In 1960 Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.

And in 1988 a report released by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine was addictive.

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Quote of the Day

“There is a higher law than the Constitution.”

William H. Seward

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 Today is Robert Fripp’s birthday, so here he is with the League of Crafty Guitarists.

And it’s Woody Herman’s.

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Anyone have a QoD?

34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-16-14”

  2. Wow, what a rousing welcome, Janice. I am certain that Bosley enjoys the night playing. Yes, God is good and my heart sings His refrain of goodness.
    I got a perm this week and the stylist left it all curly and told me to leave it that way for three days, not how I usually wear my hair. One of my students just kept staring and staring at me and then said “Miz Miller, you look different!”

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  4. Mouse is not happy about us dog sitting for the week. She’s not sure what to make of that dog. 🙂

    She did come out of hiding this morning but she keeps her distance and watches. She’s got a week to get used to it. 🙂

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  5. Last night we shouted good and loud when 2nd Arrow received her diploma. 🙂 There were three different cheering sections for her, in different parts of the gymnasium. The bunch of us in our section planned to yell, “Way to go [her nickname]!” We were crazy. 🙂 She texted 1st Arrow after she got back to her seat, “I heard you guys, lol”.

    Got to meet her boyfriend’s parents there — nice people. We all stood around talking for an hour after the ceremony. Late night, but fun. We were gone from 4:00 to half-past midnight yesterday, so late night.

    Off to Bible study this morning, then on to a celebration for our daughter after that. Have a good day, all.

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  7. Poor Mouse. Bosley has only seen dogs in the waiting room of the vet’s office. That is when she is most appreciative of being confined to her cat carrier.

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  8. Good Morning, Y’all!

    AJ…you should have named her “N. Mouse” Then you could introduce her as our cat N. Mouse…:)

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  9. The flower is so perfect it almost doesn’t look real. Busy day today, but made a little headway with BG yesterday and have plans coming up with her that she isn’t completely aware of yet. A nice parent called me last night to ask about her doing some things with them this weekend since they are moving right after school is out. They will be hanging out by the pool Saturday, so I suggested that she let me order pizza for all the girls and invite me over to hang out by the pool with them. Easy solution. Next they want to take her with them when they move and let her stay a week. I agreed to that and got an invitation to drive up on Friday night and spend the weekend with them and bring BG home on Sunday. She gets what she wants and I get what I want. Now I have to worry about the poor old XTerra making the trip 😉

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  15. Ah, I can actually feel a bit of cool breeze coming in the windows this morning … And the sun was not that glaring ball of fire beaming in at me first thing this morning. Seems like our weather is getting back to normal, thankfully. Now I can give my poor fans a rest.

    Annie came to me very dog savvy, it was harder to get my dogs used to her, they were quite fixated for a while. I still enjoy seeing all three of them together hanging out in the backyard. Sometimes she’ll rub up against one of them which is so cute.

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  16. About our nocturnal cats — Annie does that sometimes, she comes alive when the dogs and me are trying to sleep. But for the most part, she’s gotten into sync with the waking-sleeping patterns here. Although she’s still prone to waking me up at 4 or 5 a.m. as she tries to get me to open up the doggie door so she and her dogs can go out. 🙂

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  17. Chas- Yes, it is indeed Friday!
    Janice- I took the photo with the camera on my flip phone.

    The flower is a gardenia. They grow in warm climates like Arizona and California, but not in Missouri. That one came from a house plant another teacher had in his classroom. They have the most delicious fragrance.

    It is my favorite flower, mostly because of the beauty and smell. Also, one of the last things I remember my mom doing was planting gardenias in the flower box in front of our house before she got leukemia and died.

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  20. Good Morning…I have the windows open today!! Oh Spring!!
    I love that gardenia…and I couldn’t imagine they would actually grow in your region Peter….it is so beautiful….I think they may be growing in Kim’s neck of the woods 🙂
    I am so relieved to hear the temps are cooing in CA…praying for all in the path of the fires 😦

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  21. Donna- As I said, it was from a house plant. The other teacher bought it at Home Depot. Guess where I might be shopping soon?

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  23. Peter, your mention of your mom planting gardenas …

    Reminded me that my mom had planted her tulips before she died unexpectedly. Several weeks later, during one of my many trips up to her house that my cousins and I were cleaning out, there they were — all these bright, cheerful, colorful tulips had just suddenly popped up in the front yard. Made me cry and smile at the same time.

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  24. Donna, what a special gift for you.
    So glad to admire that flower and not be able to smell it. I don’t need any help with my allergies, thank you very much.
    This month’s rent has now come for my house in CA. praises!

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  26. And, yes, the tulips were quite glorious to see — such a surprise amid a dark few weeks for me. God is good. I love it when He gives us those sweet, unexpected moments. to encourage and comfort us.

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  27. My dad had planted fruit trees several times in his yard through the years, but Mom said he’d never eaten the fruit off any. (Guess who sat down on a peach tree when she was two or three and was responsible for one of those failures? Or maybe it wasn’t a peach tree–there’s no way peaches would produce in Phoenix, so I might remember that part of it wrong.)

    Anyway, the house where we lived the last two years before Dad died, he planted several fruit trees in the front, including apple, apricot, and fig. Only the apricot produced, but it produced an abundance of tiny fruit that blew off the tree as it ripened, so we finally picked it all and let it ripen inside. Dad ate half of one of those fruits on what turned out to be the last afternoon of his life.

    When we decided to move, Mom wanted to take one of the fruit trees with us, and she couldn’t decide which one. I definitely voted for the apricot, and initially Mom said apricot, and so we dug it up. Then she decided on the fig (which survived but never bore fruit–later I found out it needed cross-pollination from another fig tree). We’d already dug up the apricot, so we asked out new neighbors if they wanted the tree, and they said yes. Months later I was back in town, and went back to check on our property as Mom had asked me to. That lovely apricot tree had been dumped back over our fence unceremoniously, and was dead. It made me rather mad. If you didn’t want the tree, then you shouldn’t have said you did, because it was a lovely, fruit-bearing tree, and we could have given it to someone else. And it was the last thing my dad ever ate, so don’t just toss it over the fence like trash.

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  29. I took page out of Kim’s book and when my husband suggested playing hooky from our computers, I agreed. We hiked on a beautiful day at Point Reyes Seashore and I took photos of wild flowers.

    With my Iphone since I don’t have a camera anymore (an unnamed relative dropped it in the pool . . . . ). Maybe I’ll send in a photo . . . 🙂

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  30. I take photos of the inside of my pockets. As the recipient of a hand me down cell phone, I keep it in my pocket so the neighbor can call if necessary, and sometimes one of my children (usually the seven year old) will point out that the phone is taking pictures again. I have no idea how and I have never looked at the pictures and have just recently learned how to make it stop. But I have never deliberately taken a picture with the cell phone.

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  31. I was quite satisfied with my flip phone small and much easier to deal with. But with son moving quite a distance away and needing a GPS, we decided to get him a smartphone and also get one for my husband and me to share. Dince husband finds the new phone frustrating it means I get to be the keeper and learner regatding the Smartphone. I do like the larger screen so I can see what I am taking pictures of. My vision is lacking so I appreciate the camera’s capability. I was up so early I am about to doze off.

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  33. Haha — mumsee, I’ve taken a few of those abstract photos as well. We now have to also do video for work and the funniest result of that was when i took a fall on the tide pool walk last Jan. 1 — caught it all on film, upside down, sideways, fast-moving scenery flying by.

    The camera phones take remarkably good shots, though.

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