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Our Daily Thread 6-18-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1778 Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War.

In 1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions. 

In 1815, at the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22. 

In 1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

And in 1959 a Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration. 

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Quote of the Day

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Abraham Lincoln

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Today is Eduard Tubin’s birthday. This young lady gives a fine performance of Tubin’s “Shepherd’s Song” From Jekatherina

Today is also Paul McCartney’s birthday. From PAULMCCARTNEY

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Anyone have a QoD?

43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-18-14”

  5. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    Abraham Lincoln

    Wow. Abraham Lincoln (who did so much to destroy our freedoms) is quite a man to say that. As my husband often says sadly, “Americans don’t even know that states have a right to secede.” I remind him, “Even worse. They think we don’t.” Thank Abraham Lincoln for that.

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  6. And a good morning to you too.
    Do you have silly routines that you go through automatically?
    Me: “I’ll be out in the truck”
    She, “Don’t leave me”
    Me: “You better hurry”

    That nonsense has been going on for years.

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  7. God morning! Can’t dispute that fact. It is in His hands.

    Chas, we sometimes repeat lines from movies when they seem to fit the moment. Also, lines from books, etc.

    “I’ll think about that tomorrow.”

    “”She went sailing way over there.”

    “Please don’t put me in the briar patch.”

    “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”

    “I don’t think there’s anyone back there.”

    “Snakes, snakes, snakes.
    !Why does it always have to be snakes?”

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  8. The word “good” is derived from the name “God”, so Ann’s typo really does make sense, as Nancy pointed out. “This is the day the LORD has made” says the psalmist.

    My first thought in seeing the picture today was “duck, duck, goose.” But I realize it’s goose, gosling, gosling, etc. Or is that duck, duckling, duckling, etc.?

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  11. Welcome to Wednesday, which only has a few minutes left here. Stayed up reading a book.
    Today was my first day helping with the quints. Luckily a couple of sixth/seventh grade girls went with me. you can’t keep track of 5 without lots of help. It was fun and it was work.

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  12. Good whatever, all. Today husband returns for a few days as we have the graduation from the youth challenge. Then sixteen year old returns. Hopefully, he will be able to keep quite busy with all of the work the boys and girls have lined up for the summer and that will help to keep him busy and on track.

    Eight year old is still struggling, he has a follow up appt tomorrow so we can see if the meds are working properly. He has a way to go.

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  13. My husband will often say, “They ought to write a song like that,” when he hears a good line from a song. We use the “Ill think about that tomorrow” quite often and similar lines from movies, along with songs.

    I think this is one thing people must really miss when they have a spouse or sibling die. No one else ‘gets’ those things. Same with best friends.

    We tend to say “This is the day the Lord has made” as if it is referring to TODAY. The context is salvation, however. It was the favorite song of a young lady friend, who died at 18 yrs. old, so we think of her when we hear it.

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  14. Today I am freezing a case of broccoli and a case of cauliflower. With the older children off working all of the time, the youngers and I can no longer finish it all off. Our purchaser buys fruit and vegies by the case from a nice store owner in some small town. We get a good deal and the food is very good.

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  15. What a sweet picture. Our duck couple at work seem to have disappeared. 😦 We hope it was foul (fowl) play. Hahahaha. Oh, I’m pretty funny in the mornings.

    The country is sure in a mess. I can’t remember feeling so pessimistic about the state of the union. 😦 It’s like seeing the Statue of Liberty cracked and fallen on the shoreline at the end of Planet of the Apes … since we’re talking in movie themes and dialogue … We blew it. Or at least that’s what it seems like to me sometimes. 😦 And yet, it’s all in God’s timing and decree as history (His story, after all) comes to a perfect culmination someday.

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  22. Our office building was definitely NOT a good home for ducks, although from their perspective it may have seemed like it — a pond with a fresh fountain, tall native grass landscaping just a few feet away.

    We have a marsh and nature preserve about a mile away, I’m hoping they relocated there.

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  23. ARgh! Toronto is keeping husband captive at the airport! Which may mean he will miss his flight. Which may mean the fifteen year old and sixteen year old get to spend the night in the airport…..which means …..

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  26. Oooh! A peacock! We have them in the wild out here, but a lot of people hate them because they’re loud and can really mess up your roof.

    But they are gorgeous.

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  27. Seen on Facebook:

    “In the 1950s & 1960s when the top tax rate was 70 – 92%, we laid the interstate system, built the internet, put a man on the moon, defeated Communism, our education system was the envy of the world, our middle class thriving, our economy unparalleled.

    “You want that back?

    “Raise taxes on the rich.”

    Anyone here have a good response to that?

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  28. I didn’t realize that you have peacocks in the wild there, Donna. My brother lives near a zoo, thus he gets them in his yard. That is a very nice picture. God’s variety and beauty never ceases to amaze me. He could have been just utilitarian, but is not. Perhaps we need to take note of that.

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  29. Well, they were brought here in the 1920s by the Vanderlip family and the birds have proliferated ever since. A year or so ago I was driving home along a winding road on the peninsula and had to stop for a peacock, tail trailing long behind him, as he slowly sauntered across the street.

    They’re in the south part of our town near the ocean cliffs where I live now, someday we may get them in our neighborhood, who knows. There’s currently an investigation ongoing, though, looking into about 50 killings of the birds, some poisoned, a number of the him shot with pellet guns. The birds, especially during mating season, are very loud, their poop ruins car paint and they really can tear up roofs.

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  31. What kind of weather do you folks have over there that won’t let husband come home? You might want to straighten that out.

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  32. Our weather is perfect…if Mumsee’s husband was in Colorado, we would let him go home!!
    My iris has bloomed…this may be a silly thing to some…but I am just ecstatic!! When the peonies blossom I do believe I’ll be doing a happy dance 🙂

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  33. Interesting tweet from Ravi Zacharias speaking at a conference:

    “I’ve never seen such open hostility in parts of the world that should be open to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, especially in the West.”

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  34. Praying, Mumsee.
    foggy day here, but it lifted just enough so that the flights could get off. So many folks are leaving as school gets out.

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  35. That peacock seems to glow on my Smartphone screen. Good photo, Cheryl!

    Atlanta is the most liberal city in GA. Who else has the honor of living in the most liberal city in their state? Not fun, but it is a wide open mission field. When I went north of where I live, about halfway to where my brother lives, to the Ben Carson book event, I was amazed at the difference it made as far as looks and attitudes. I went through a line getting signatures on a petition so I talked to quite a few people. One man told me if I met any Democrats to send them to him. 🙂
    I felt like I was in a foreign land! I did not stay for the booksigning as I got over-heated doing the petition out in the afternoon sun.

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  38. Hubby’s going on a fishing trip tomorrow. He’s super excited about it, as he’ll be spending a long weekend with three of his best friends. And, he loves to fish! I’m hoping they have a good catch and he brings home lots of Redfish. For about the last five years, it’s been an annual event. They haven’t caught much the last couple of years, so I’m hoping they have more luck this weekend. I’m happy for him that he’ll be doing something he loves, with people he enjoys.

    My best friend and her daughter are coming to spend the night Saturday. I pick L. up from camp Saturday morning at 9:30 and return her Sunday at 1:00. I expect she’ll be dirty and exhausted. My weekend will be filled with trying to get the ground in dirt out of her camp/riding clothes for another week. She’s developed a crush on a boy at the camp. He is in the apprentice program, so he’s there all day from 8-5. They eat lunch together and he sometimes watches her ride. So far, it sounds pretty innocent. But, he’s fifteen (she’ll be fifteen in September). It’s scary.

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  40. Thanks, Janice. I got better photos of the male peacock, but I like that one since it includes his admirer. I saw three displaying peacocks, and this was the only one in which the female seemed to have some interest in the male. I don’t know if they purposely display in a beam of light or not, but he did have the sun shining right on his head and chest, as though he were in a spotlight. I’d only seen a displaying peacock once before, behind a fence, and I didn’t get a good photo that time (if I got any at all). So it was great fun to see three different birds displaying and to get photos of all three.

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  42. At prayer meeting my friend, Janice, brought a newspaper picture of her dad who caught giant fish in the Ocmulgee River. He would tie himself to a tree so the fish would not pull him away because they were so large.

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