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Our Daily Thread 6-12-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1665 England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. 

In 1849 the gas mask was patented by L.P. Haslett. 

 In 1923 Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket. 

In 1981 Major League Baseball players began a 49 day strike.

And in 1987 President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 

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Quote of the Day

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank

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This song was released today in 1959.

And it’s Brad Delp’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

123 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-12-14”

  3. In that time when you’re half asleep and half conscious, from out of nowhere this thought came to me.
    Charlie, you spread wood mulch right up against the house!
    Oh No! They invite termites. Something’s gotta be done about that.
    But no hurry. It’s supposed to rain all day today.

    😥 😦

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  4. Mornin’ Aj.
    Has it occurred to anyone why someone would invent a gas mask?
    Was poison gas being used in 1849? I know of no record of it being used in the Civil War.

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  5. At least you don’t have to move it too far, but, yep, I would move it away. No sense leaving a highway for critters.
    Morning, Chas and Aj.
    Quints arrive tomorrow, but I don’t have a ride to meet them. 😦
    Oh, well, I need to go to the weight room anyway.
    3 days left and ended today with joy!

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  6. Dandelions. That is something my child has missed out on. Sitting in the grass picking these, making a wish, and blowing … She also doesn’t know how to pick those little pods off of what I think is rabbit tobacco and chew them. I realized once that I was a total failure as a red neck mother. She has no idea how to use the bathroom in the woods. 😉

    Because I am such the Youtube Surfer, when I clicked on the Bo Diddly video and the women started dancing I could place it as sometime in the early 60’s when anytime a “rock and roll’ performer was on a TV special these women showed up and danced the same type of dance. I will be back in a moment to prove my point. It made me laugh.

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  11. Hmmm. I don’t know why that is because it started streaming music on my computer, next was Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down and then the Monkey’s I’m a Believer

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  12. 😆

    I just got an e-mail from a friend explaining some things about the South. I already knew them, though I had been away for a while. Kim & Janice will understand. e.g.
    There are 10,000 kinds of spiders, 9998 are found in the South.
    Didjeatyet. is a word that means have you had dinner, or supper.

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  13. I love the Clap Clap Song. My father used to repeat the little ditty about 3 6 9 the streetcar line…I didn’t know he didn’t make that up until I stumbled across that song one night on Youtube. There is another little ditty he used to sing about “She was a nice girl, a proper girl, but one of the rovin’ kind…” I found it on Youtube as well, but even thought it is from the 50’s it probably is best not shared here.
    Yesterday was 6 years since I lost him. I called my stepmother yesterday morning. She answered the phone by saying “I know” I cried, she cried, we talked. Later yesterday afternoon I one of my agents and I ended up in the broker’s office discussing a problem.. Before she could start telling him what had happened he told her, “First of all nothing in real estate is life or death. I have a friend who is a surgeon, and HIS job is literally a matter of life and death, now what happened?” She has lost her father, her mother in law, and several other people in the last year or so. She is selling her mother in law’s house. She burst into tears. Really, with all that is happening I don’t know how she is walking around without stuttering. I was able to hand her a tissue, hold her hand, and tell her I understood, it was six years ago that I lost my father. She got it together and now the broker is going to step in and handle the problem.

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  14. Kim, rabbit tobacco is a smoky color unlike dandelion greens.

    I don’t know about that many spiders, Chas! I think I would have found a new area to live in. Areas near here are having infestations of snakes so in some areas children can’t play outside. That makes for a rough summer indoors!

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  17. From a link Ricky posted on the Politics thread.
    ”So, while negative trends abound in the South today, it is clear that the Southern people still exist (and number in the millions), their culture is far more traditional than that of the mainstream United States, and they are increasingly alienated in a society and under a government which does not share their values or concerns”

    Having lived in Northern Virginia for 38 years, it occurred to me that this is true. It is not so different that we seem to be another country, but it is a different world here. My prime example when trying to explain it is the 4-way stop signs. Hendersonville is the city of 4-way stop signs. And people stop. And one of the things that frustrate me is people who have the right of way and don’t take it. So, I sit there waiting for him (more often her) to decide to go. Finally, I creep ahead.

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  18. To many it is a weed, but the dandelion is a pretty flower. I had never noticed the beauty of a dandelion in seed until today. Even in things we humans think useless, God put beauty.

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  19. Peter, a dandelion in flower is quite pretty too, sometimes. One day this spring I walked around my front yard taking photos of dandelion flowers. The trick is, each one I photographed had to be “different” from all the others. For example, some of them were spiky, star-shaped. One was huge, with lots of extra layers; some were only partially opened, some were beginning to go to seed, etc. But I only shot one of each “type.”

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  20. Kim, last week (almost two weeks ago now) was a year since my brother-in-law died unexpectedly. (Went to work for his typical every-other-Saturday half day of work, went to the hospital from work by ambulance, died in the ambulance at age 46. The ambulance wasn’t even using its lights and sirens, wasn’t expecting a healthy non-smoking 46-year-old to die of the heart complaint he told them he was having.)

    And last week marked THIRTY years since my father’s death. Very hard to believe. I’ve lived almost two-thirds of my life without him. (I wasn’t yet 17.)

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  21. Kim, we have a line we use at work when things get stressful, “We’re not saving lives here.” My son (who also works here) and I laughed one day when we were working together on our NASA account and he said that and then we laughed that maybe we are.

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  22. I saw that picture and thought, ” you better not blow that!” The weeding never ends with dandelions!

    They weren’t in Hawai’i when we lived there and my daughter, returning to live on the Mainland at 5, was absolutely charmed with them– the clocks and the flowers. We traveled the US that summer, LA to Maine and back in six weeks, and she pointed them out everywhere.

    I can’t imagine taking 5 toddlers on the mission field. I can hardly wait for Jo to start telling the stories. There might be a book in that one!

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  23. Good morning! The next few hours will be busy — my girls are keeping me on the run. 😉 I have to pick up 3rd Arrow from driver’s training at 11:00, take 6th Arrow to a 12:00 dentist appointment in the city just south of our town, and drop off 4th Arrow at a friend’s house in that same city. Then I can come back home and do the homebody thing. 🙂

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  24. Free for Kindle book on recent topic.

    More by Simon Ponsonby, an Anglican Sr. Pastor, in the UK. It is about the Holy Spirit and how to have more when you have everything in Christ. I have not read it, but I want to. Sounds very relevant to our discussion.

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  25. Dandelion caption: a-a-A-A-CHOO.

    I lost my dad when I was 18. So strange how the years multiply. I’m beginning to understand that phrase about how people’s lives “flash before them” in dire moments — it all sometimes looks very compressed from my vantage point now.

    We’re enjoying (well, I’m enjoying, maybe not everyone likes it) our June Gloom these days. The cool, heavy marine layer begins to roll over the peninsula just about the time I’m coming home from work and doesn’t lift until the following afternoon.

    Regarding the different regions and lifestyles of our country, I read about a Pew poll yesterday that said the county is more partisan and divided than ever in recent history (even compared to just 2 years ago), with people on either side feeling more hostile toward the other and thinking each will potentially ruin the country.

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  26. Lots of activity next door. I tvan.ink it is a moving truck/van. I should ask Bosley. I think she found some binoculars in our clutter (Michelle’s idea awhile back). 🙂

    I hope we get nice neighbors.

    Bosley has gone back to her science experiment. She clamps down with her teeth to see just how much pressure skin and flesh will tolerate so as not to puncture . She is very astute to knowing how to leave impressions but no wound. Then the “nose pinchers” start to interupt her experiment. She is very wary of the dreadful nose pinchers and toe snappers which are my fingers and toes that don’t take well to kitten/cat experiments. I hope she will be reformed as an adult cat. I have heard it is possible to lose this desire to leave graffiti on the hand that feeds. Who need to get a tat when you’ve got a cat (like Bosley)? 🙂 😦

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  29. The animals are hungry. But it’s Annie who takes on the role of the union rep on behalf of my much more polite & quiet dogs — she meows and doesn’t let me rest until the pet dishes get filled.

    And hers is filled first, of course. 😉 Who can stand anymore of that cat yammering?

    But I think the dogs must secretly like that she kicks up such a fuss to get me moving.

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  30. Oh, yes, dandelions have lots of possibilities for play.

    The beauty of that dandelion and God’s design was the first thing I thought of when I saw that photo. I still don’t want them or the other weeds in my yard, however.

    Chas, my hubby often asks me, “D’jaeatyet?” He has never been from the South. My daughter who moved to TN would agree about the spiders, though.

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  35. Poison gas didn’t become a war tool until–our favorite–WWI. The Germans were the first to develop it, followed closely by the British and the French; both sides used it. Here’s a blog post I wrote about the subject, those cannisters from 100 years ago are STILL deadly in France today. On of my readers worked in chemical warfare and notes that when the French army picks them up TODAY, they put them in sea water which makes them inert. Fascinating. Horrifying. Man’s inhumanity to man. 😦

    It wasn’t only mustard gas, it was also chlorine gas and other monstrosities. The original gas was developed by a German woman.

    Wandering the Somme in 2013

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  36. I’ve been in and out of my blog list all day today–I’ve now written 397 posts! I’m going to be interviewed next week and I can’t talk about the current project since it’s not contracted yet, so I’ve had to dig up other information to discuss. I’ll be giving away books, too, of course.

    I’m up for another contract, this one a sequel to the Christmas story coming this year. It’s another short story that will be released as an ebook next summer, The Sunbonnet Bride. Using the characters from The Yuletide Bride, this one takes place during a grasshopper plague.

    Yep, that’s me, one sun shiney story after another! LOL 🙂

    I’m spreading Egypt out on my kitchen island as soon as I’m done here and the cutting begins. I’ve got to psych myself into it! 🙂

    Tomorrow, we drive south to attend my daughter’s college graduation. My husband and I and our second son, his wife and two adorable granddaughters aged 3 and 8 months. Six hours in the car each way and then a three hour graduation ceremony.

    :-I

    Pray for the grandmother’s attitude . . . .

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  37. Kids. Sometimes you need to be really specific about what you’re asking….

    Me- Elizabeth, do you need any laundry done?
    Liz- Nope.
    Me- Are you sure, because it seems like it’s been awhile?
    Liz- No. I’m good.
    Me- Does that mean you don’t have any laundry to be done, or does it mean you still have clean clothes left?
    Liz- Uhhhh, well……..
    Me- Just because you have clothes left, doesn’t mean you don’t have laundry that needs to be done.
    Liz- Fine, I’ll go look…

    And now we have 2 more loads to do. 🙄

    And it looks like someone has way too many pieces of clothing. 🙂

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  38. Michelle,

    I did a stint as the NBC NCO for our company while in a reserve unit.

    A brief glimpse thru Army training material on the matter was horrifying and sobering. It scared the snot outta me. I can still remember some of the pictures and descriptions of the aftereffects of their use. The tiniest amount of some things can kill millions in a densely populated area. On a large scale, more devastating to the population than a nuclear bomb, without destroying anything but the living things. Probably the worst invention man ever created. And like all mad scientists, we continue to tinker with it, thinking they can perfect a monster. . 😦

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  44. Just had a long conversation with a dear friend while I walked around, and around, and around, the neighborhood. The profound Bible study she’s in is studying a Puritan book from 1655 which she says is “meaty and worth your time.”

    I found it for free on a pdf, and here’s the link to The Christian in Complete Armor:

    Click to access gurnal01a.pdf

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  46. Michelle, I will be and am praying for your drive. I have twice driven from Boulder Colorado to Grass Valley in one day with my daughter and her three young girls. The second time towards the end of the day, she asked me to read to her three or four year old. I looked at her and said, “I just want her to go away.” 18 hours was too long to be in a van together.

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  47. Thanks, Michelle, for the link.

    AJ, I can see the resemblance to our Nosy Rosy (Miss Bosley). Is Mouse just as curious or is that a special gene in the black and white cats?

    Gotta go back and read Kim’s link.

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  48. Under His Wings, Kim! What a great name for the ministry. How perfect the the house was avaiable for that use and that the flowers (roses) were showing their full face smiles of happiness. Such a sweet story.

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  52. Yes, I am around for a few minutes, then I will be going to a direct sales party for a while. If you haven’t reached the goal by the time I get home, I will be ready for a jog.

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  53. Have fun! I’m going to go fix supper now, then I’ll come back and lace up the ‘ole running shoes for that race to 100 again. Think we can pull that off three days in a row? 😉

    OK, everybody, what’s for supper tonight? Meatloaf here, and maybe some of that old familiar hunt-through-the-refrigerator special. 🙂

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  54. Salmon, again. I get really big portions at Sam’s. We’ve got fresh strwberries and maybe some frozen sugar snap peas. May be creative on the bread, but that depends on if husband finished off the doughnuts at work. May turn out to be a no bread night. I keep trying to think of how to get him to eat oatmeal. He is not very compliant. That is why I use oatmeal in my salmon patties.

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  57. Well, it appears to be warm enough that the lettuce and spinach in the garden are about done. The carrots, beets and turnips are doing well though as are the peas so we won’t starve.

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  58. Wow, Mumsee, mine aren’t big enough to pick yet, but they are growing 🙂

    I had a great paddle in the canoe this morning – 3 hours and the first time I’ve gone against the current. I actually had to work hard – usually husband does most of the hard paddling. It was absolutely beautiful out there.

    And bears LOVE to eat dandelions – we watched one munching on the flower heads/stems for about 15 minutes on our way to the lake. He was very cooperative. On the way home we saw another smaller bear but he was more skittish and ran back into the brush, but we could still see him. We also got ice cream in town – tiger tiger for me in homemade waffle cones – yummy.

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  60. Tiger tiger? Never heard of that.

    I’ve heard of bears, though — now we need a lion or two, and we can say, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” 😉

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  64. Tiger tiger is orange ice cream with black liquorice mixed through. Striped like a tiger! I don’t like black licorice but with the orange ice cream it so good. Husband and dog had vanilla bean ice cream.

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  67. Kim is an extraordinarily helpful person. I can attest to that. And I laughed when I read the snake thing and thought of her.

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  70. Kare, that actually sounds pretty good. Black licorice is so-so, I can take it or leave it, but added to orange cream? Yum. 🙂

    And I love Haagen-Dazs vanilla bean. I’ve been splurging on that lately, and it is SOOO good!

    By the way, Kare, this from your 6:56 post, “And bears LOVE to eat dandelions.” I was rubbing my eye as I read that, and I thought “bears” said “beans”!

    Beans love to eat dandelions. Always fun to learn about things that happen in different countries. 🙂

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  72. Hmmm…kind of a slow race, and we’re about to eat our supper. Last night something like 20 comments came in in the 10 minutes I was on the phone, and I missed 100. Can I assume that won’t happen tonight while I’m eating, since our cheerleader Yapamom isn’t here at the moment? 😉

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  77. I need some of those beans that eat dandelions planted in my yard. That way we could kill two appetites with one bean. The beans eat the dandelions, and then I eat the beans. Better than a 2for at the grocery store. No bag of groceries can take care of the weeds in the yard.

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  80. To check for a possible transposition error, take the difference between the two numbers and it should be divisable by 9 with no remainder.
    75-57=18÷9=2 Yes, a transposition error. Gotta watch out for those tricky numbers!

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  97. The ice cream truck used to come around to my grandmother’s part of town back in the days when my siblings and I were growing up. I think it came to the neighborhood every other day in the summer, and if we happened to be in town visiting, we’d run down the street and get ice cream. Fun memories.

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  99. I typed that longer comment hoping a few posts would come in and I’d magically swoop down onto 100. Maybe it will work this time…

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  109. The ice cream truck regularily comes down our street playing its inviting music. Recently I considered that must be the hardest part of the work. Can you imagine listening to that same music for eight hours?

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  111. Well, time for me to make my exit for the night. I have more things to do before hubby gets home from work tonight. It’ll be fun to see tomorrow morning how many posts this thread got up to tonight. 🙂

    Have a good night, everybody!

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  114. You’d think these ladies would have better things to do besides throwing eggs and running over each other to get to 100.

    And what happened to the ice cream? Did mumsee or Kevin eat it all? Oh, wait, it hasn’t been made yet. (And Kevin hasn’t been around that I see, unless he’s lurking.)

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  117. It’s time for the Bosley Wake’m Up Early Show! Mumsee could use a swell 4:00 a.m. alarm cat. 🙂 <3. You never have to wind her up or buy batteries. Just make sure you have plenty of cat food and(shutter) litter.

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  118. Blinds make that nice clacking sound. So much better than the typical bells and beeps. Strikingly upscale. Everyone needs one. This is a desperate lste night/early morning Infomercial to keep people informed of the latest in fashionable alarms. They only come in one color: black and white.

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