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Our Daily Thread 5-30-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!

On this day in 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.

In 1848 W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer. 

In 1883 twelve people were trampled to death in New York City in a stampede when a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing occurred. 

And in 1971 Mariner 9, the American deep space probe blasted off on a journey to Mars. 

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Quote of the Day

“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”

William Ralph Inge

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Today is Benjamin David Goodman’s birthday. And on this day in 1962 he led the first American jazz band to play in the USSR. And yes, I found some footage of it. 🙂

And this is because I’d like to hear something loud today.

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Anyone have a QoD?

135 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-30-14”

  2. First? All today’s posts went up while I was reading Janice’s nice prayer she posted this morning on yesterday’s prayer thread.

    Good morning, AJ — and anyone who may have beat me to #1 while I was typing this. 🙂

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  4. oh, that is funny, that you just want to play something loud to wake us all up!
    I didn’t listen, so I will be able to get some sleep.
    Senior/Junior Banquet here tonight. All of us went down to watch them arrive. Quite a lovely show. Other years someone has even come by helicopter.

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  13. I know. It was funny to type and have no other comments show and then to hit post and end up fourth!
    In my last ten years of teaching, I have only had one child that I felt would benefit from medication. And it was obvious to all.

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  14. Yes, nice flowers! I’ve been enjoying all the pretty ones lately. (That is to say, they’re all pretty, and I’ve been enjoying them! It’s all in the wording.) 🙂

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  15. With this many comments not much more than 15 minutes after AJ posted, maybe we’ll make 100 today!

    Off to do my Bible reading and get my day started. See you all later.

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  18. Just posted some photos from tonight on Facebook of the students arriving for the Banquet. They keep the theme a secret until they arrive. it is Treasure Island. Tomorrow night the rest of us get to go see the decorations and enjoy the play the parents put on. The first car to arrive was the one I purchased today, so I had to put it on too.

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  19. I love the flowers as well. I have some really good news to post. I guess it was about 7 or so years ago now that I asked everyone on WorldMagBlog to pray for a woman I knew who was pregnant and the tests on the baby were all coming back with horrible news. The baby girl (they named her Sophie) was deformed, I cannot remember what all was wrong now, but the mother went to see several specialists. Eventually Sophie died in utero and the mother had to labor to deliver a stillborn. Through it all the mother never once considered terminating the pregnancy. Eventually that marriage ended — turns out the father was into some shady dealings and was cheating on his wife.
    This woman got remarried the Saturday before Mr. P and I got married on Sunday, a year and a half ago. I just found out on Wednesday that she is 6 months pregnant!!!!! Everything is going perfectly this time. The baby girl is healthy and growing just as she should. The mother is in terrific health. She walks around patting her stomach and is positively glowing. Just telling all of you about it makes my heart swell and my eyes sort of teary, and of course I have a big smile on my face. I am so thrilled for her. She is married to a man who positively adores her and will be an excellent father. God is good;.

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  22. Good Morning everyone!
    It’s Friday. You know what that means?
    Good news Kim. At six months, she’s starting to get big. And apparently proud.

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  26. Rickyweaver: Thanks for posting the link! I love Texas!!!

    Kim: Thanks for sharing the story. Hope all goes well through the rest of her pregnancy. Children are indeed a blessing.

    Good morning, all.

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  27. When I lived in Ft. Worth, I had a book called Texas Braggs”. A lot of those facts are in it, but Rick added some new ones. e.g. “Houston” was the first word spoken on the Moon. Right before, “The Eagle has landed”.
    When in the Air Force, I started measuring distance by time rather than miles. I think I told this before, I don’t know how many miles, but Spartanburg is 50 minutes away and Columbia 2 hours.

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  28. As soon as I hit, “Post” I recognized that I hadn’t closed my italics. But it was too late.
    I know you don’t care, but it bugs me.
    😦

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  30. I noticed in World that yesterday was the birthday of an author both Cheryl and I like, Gilbert Keith Chesterton: http://www.worldmag.com/2014/05/happy_birthday_to_the_best_author_the_culture_ever_forgot
    So, in belated honour of the occasion, how about one of his poems – I used to think of this when I heard the village donkeys bray in The Gambia:

    The Donkey

    ‘When fishes flew and forests walked
    And figs grew upon thorn,
    Some moment when the moon was blood
    Then surely I was born;

    With monstrous head and sickening cry
    And ears like errant wings,
    The devil’s walking parody
    On all four-footed things.

    The tattered outlaw of the earth
    Of ancient crooked will;
    Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb
    I keep my secret still.

    Fools! For I also had my hour;
    One far fierce hour and sweet:
    There was a shout about my ears,
    And palms before my feet.’

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  31. Linda if you read Rick Bragg’s books you have a better understanding of the South. I can’t remember which book it is in but he tells of being so poor that the Black people down the road helped them out. Not everyone in the South was “to the manor born”, not all of our ancestors lived on plantations and owned slaves. Not all relationships between black and white were bad.

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  33. Michelle – for I presume that is who is behind the Anonymous – I agree with Moore. Male and female are immutable characteristics given by God, but the Bible offers grace to all those who are broken. I notice in the comment section that one ‘Tammy Beth’ is still advocating for the church to embrace transgenderism – I engaged him nearly three years ago on a World thread. I saved my comments, but I don’t care to re-engage, on the principle of “a man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition, reject.”

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  34. Beautiful Friday flowers.

    And nice photos Jo! Good looking young people and your car is very cute. 🙂

    I’m off to court this morning, have to cover an arraignment — I’m feeling much better now. But I’m still VERY glad it is Friday, amen?

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  35. Amen Donna!! So good to know you are feeling better!
    Rainy…and can you believe it…humid…day here in CO!
    Beautiful flowers up there…what are they…and what were the white bell shaped ones that were posted…did I miss the telling?

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  36. I just played the videos now. While I was watching the Benny Goodman one, 3rd Arrow comes over and says, “Boy, you can tell that’s old.”

    1962 was the year I was born. 😉

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  38. I am on the office computer. Wow! What a difference to see the flowers on a full size screen instead of on the Smartphone screen.

    I liked the poem you posted, Roscuro.

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  40. This office computer does not have sound on it, so there is that. But the big screen is so much easier on my eyes!

    Bosley’s heart grows fonder with my absence. I can’t make hearts on here like I can on the Smartphone.

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  63. Janice, type the word burrito with the symbol for a colon just before and just after the word.

    : burrito :

    (but without the spaces)

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  69. Yum :burrito:s and cake. Don’t go spoiling my supper! Let’s see. When I started reading this thread it was 68. I wonder if I can get 75?

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  72. Not 🌯 s. I think I’ll slice a leftover baked potato, fried it and add some leftover sausage. Mrs L will make a salad and we’ll be ready!

    Is this #75 yet?

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  78. :pizza:

    🌯

    Back at home on the Smartphone. If I can have a choice of virtual pizza ot burrito, I will have pizza. But if I can’t get virtual pizza then a burrito will do.

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  79. Donna put a space before the left pointy arrow “<" and then the number "3" right after the arrow. Put a space after that. No space between the arrow and the number.

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  83. oh, Donna, that was an interesting post!
    So grateful to sleep in this morning. I woke in the middle of the night and was up for two hours, so it was nice to sleep in until after 9 ❤ very quiet around here as all the juniors and seniors had an all nighter and most parents were working on the banquet

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  86. However, being a good student of the Mumsee method (at which I attained considerable success, if I do say so myself), I cannot post more than three posts in a row – that would be hogging the thread.

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  96. Strategy, strategy… Have I paused long enough for her to insert a post, or will I have stalled myself by being too precipitate in my posting.

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  108. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. Took me back to the old days (all of three years ago, but on the Internet, that is a long time).

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  109. wow, the competition is fierce around here, though the comments are not too interesting. Anyone want to talk. It is Saturday and I am about to make cottage cheese and then lasagna. I found a recipe that says to use powdered milk and gives the quantities. Why didn’t anyone tell me about this when I first came here??

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  111. What was to tell? That you could make cottage cheese with powdered milk? Or that you could make lasagna with powdered milk? I even make pancakes with powdered milk sometimes. Of course, I make just about everything into pancakes at some time or other.

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  112. How are things out your way, Jo? Any ants running around the house? did you find out if we could send tangerine jelly beans?

    We have ants in the back rooms, from what I understand. I suggested they not leave food there, but that is not likely to stop the invasion.

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  113. Well, clearly Jo’s invitation to chat did not include me….back to the petunias. But I was tired and wanted a break. I am not sure husband quite knew what he was about when he bought me the petunias. He knows I like them very much and had a brilliant plan for them. But he bought a lot of them. Which meant I needed to expand my plan. Maybe in a month I can submit a picture…..

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  114. Yes, that was sure fun. Phos had that certain gleam in her eye, and Mumsee, unbeknownst to us all, was waiting in the wings, vigorously rubbing her hands together in wicked anticipation.

    Ah, Friday nights…you never know what will happen. 🙂

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  115. Chas, I laughed out loud at your onions!! Scared the dog! My husband can’t eat onions or onion powder due to getting migraines from them, so we avoid onions like the plague around here.

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  117. Wow, I thought maybe I’d have a shot at 57 or 75 when I came back later, but here I am at 117 having missed the party with all those burritos. Did anyone put jalapenos in them for Mumsee? Would they be good with petunias?

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  121. Donna ❤ you just find the < and put it together with a 3, with no spaces in between
    Mumsee, I am still here, but had to get to work on my cooking.
    Enjoy your planting, whoops, probably too late for planting there, but not here, only 1:33 in the afternoon

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  125. We had a 3.8 earthquake off our coast in LA a little while ago.

    Cliffs still standing?

    Apparently so.

    I guess the good news is I can’t see the ocean from my house yet.

    But the bad news, too, is: I can’t see the ocean from my house yet.

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  127. Not all of the petunias are planted, I told you, he bought a lot of petunias. Anyway, one of the sixteen year olds wanted to walk along with me so I let him join me. He stayed up an hour past his bedtime but that is okay once in a while.

    Speaking of bedtimes, the little folk sure are suffering with these late games. They don’t start until five thirty and the bedtime for them is six thirty. Poor eight year old was sound asleep this morning at chore time. Ah well, it is only one more month. Then we can get back to a more sane routine. Did I just say “sane” in the same paragraph as discussing our lives here at the Nest?

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  130. Well, I missed out in the competition to one hundred, but I did not miss out on Miss Bosley’s fascination with blinds in the middle of the night. Lots of noise as she went behind the blinds and stuck her head back through, maybe looking to make sure her tail got hidden behind the blinds, too? This must be payback for the hours I have been away this week. Can’t get attention in the day? Make it happen at night!

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  131. The train is passing by behind the houses across the street. Such a familiar sound. I think it must be the same track, further down the line, that ran near my home when I was growing up about twenty minutes from here. I would have to look on a map to be sure. Listening to the same sound in the night at sixty that I heard at age six. So much has changed in this urban area, but the railways continue to be the same. Comforting to a sleepy :<3:

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  132. The train is passing by behind the houses across the street. Such a familiar sound. I think it must be the same track, further down the line, that ran near my home when I was growing up about twenty minutes from here. I would have to look on a map to be sure. Listening to the same sound in the night at sixty that I heard at age six. So much has changed in this urban area, but the railways continue to be the same. Comforting to a sleepy :<3:

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