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Our Daily Thread 6-20-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

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On this day in 0451 Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila’s army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France. 

In 1756, in India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the “Black Hole of Calcutta.” 

In 1898 the U.S. Navy seized the island of Guam enroute to the Phillipines to fight the Spanish.

In 1941 the U.S. Army Air Force was established, replacing the Army Air Corps. 

And in 1997 the tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for major relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills. 

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Quote of the Day

“Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.”

Charles W. Chestnutt

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Today is Chet Atkins’ birthday.

And it’s Jerome Fontamillas’ too. From BlackTree TV

And Remembering Mister Guitar – Chet Atkins – From Roger Niccum who has a lot more of Chet.

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Anyone have a QoD?

38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-20-14”

  4. Passion flower! We had a vine when I was growing up, and house finches nested at the top each year, in view of our kitchen window. (Our kitchen was in the front of the house, which Mom said was weird, and sure enough I’ve never lived in another house with the kitchen in front.)

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  6. The river looks like YooHoo. Won’t be nothing bitin’ in that, ‘cept maybe catties, and I don’t got no chicken guts handy. Guess it’s the lake tomorrow instead. I kinda have to, I promised the girls the leeches would be gone from the fridge by the weekend. 🙂

    Oh well. Guess I clean something instead. 😦

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  7. Good morning everyone. I had to share this with all of you. Perhaps it will spark a discussion. I don’t know. A friend posted this on Facebook earlier.

    Imagine for a moment if weddings were prohibited, or better yet, if you could only have one after 10 years of marriage. How much money would be saved? More importantly, how many ill-advised unions would never happen in the first place? I swear, weddings are the leading cause of divorce. If some girl wasn’t fulfilling her childhood fantasy of being a princess, holding court in the perfect gown with the perfect hair and perfect flowers, on a day dedicated solely to celebrating her ability to land a man, how much more effort would she put into finding the right mate, since the reward for doing so would be a lifetime together, rather than a coronation?

    Off to be a productive member of society.

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  8. Kim, whoever posted that doesn’t understand the concept of marriage. And it’s too much for me to deal with now.
    Chet was/is one of my favorites. I have several of his LP’s and CD’s.
    There’s something different about a Friday. Have you noticed that?
    Even after you’re retired for years, there’s something different about Friday.

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  9. Worthy thought, Kim.

    I was on the road early with husband to the office, so I did not get to check in here until now.

    I am writing a children’s story and had a question for y’all, but Cheryl gave me the answer in her post without me even asking! Thenks, Cheryl! Question was about birds that nest on window ledges and in vines. Any others that you thinik of besides house finches? Probably many, but do any seem to be more prevalent in those type places than others?

    When I was a child and saw the passion flowers in bloom, I thought they were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Now we have them sprouting up in the grass in the front yard. May have about twenty young plants including the ones at the mail box. Our crop each year feeds the gulf fritillary caterpillars so we have those beautiful butterflies to look forward to year after year. This bloom was the first of many that we will see this season.

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  11. Kim, I don’t think elaborate weddings are the problem, but they may be a symptom of the problem (in some cases). For me, I didn’t want an elaborate wedding, but I definitely wanted a romantic, pretty one. And for about 10% of today’s average wedding cost, I got a lovely one. I wanted a pretty wedding because I wanted family and friends to celebrate with me as I began a new life, a lifelong commitment. I wanted witnesses.

    But I do think that far, far too much emphasis is put on “being in love.” If you can’t think straight, it means you’re in love, and if you’re in love of course you should get married. (And yes, you have a wedding you can’t afford and you hope all your friends are jealous.)

    No. Ideally, I think, a man should decide that he would be better off with a wife, and he looks to see if any woman in his circle would be a good wife for him. If not, he keeps looking and gets to know other women. But he watches the woman he is considering and has some idea that he likes what he sees before he ever asks her out. He is considering the likelihood that she is a good marriage partner when he asks her out. He does not spend 20 years of his life dating various women “for fun” while getting each woman’s hopes up that he will want more, and making so many women friends he has no time to consider being lonely and needing a wife, nor does he decide she is “the one” because he can’t think straight when he is around her. He knows what is necessary in a wife and mother and he considers carefully whether she has those traits, and then whether he is attracted to her (not the other way around). And once he chooses, he chooses for life. (And part of what he is looking for is a wife who is equally committed to marriage being for life.)

    Anyway, I think the idea that “true love is all sparks and romance” and not commitment, and that marriage partners should be chosen based on sparks and romance and not character qualities, is the biggest marriage killer. What you do with the wedding is secondary. My sister had a lovely, fancy wedding (not extravagant; like me she’s Scottish and was able to do a lot with a fairly limited budget, though hers did cost several times what mine did), but they had a good, strong, committed, very loving marriage until death parted them last summer after 17 years.

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  12. Cheryl explains it very well. It’s like the old standard. When a couple become engaged you congratulate the man. He has managed to find the right woman and has accomplished something. You say best wishes to the woman because you don’t want to imply that she baited the hook, set the hook, and reeled him in. 😉

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  13. She didn’t set the hook for me. I did all the chasing. I went into it with eyes wide open.
    The question of non-marriage is not an issue.
    Every culture, throughout history, has allowed that a man have his own woman, several in some cultures. There is always a legal tie, accomplished however the culture defines it.
    Never. Not at any time, nor in any culture has there been a concept of two men or two women forming a family.

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  14. Exactly Chas. Men value more what they accomplish rather than what is given freely 😉

    Some women, not all, get stars in their eyes, get excited about planning a big wedding and never think beyond that, that there will be a marriage that follows.

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  15. Finishing VBS today; daughter starts new life in LA tomorrow; I’m still cleaning up the WWI desert section . . . Being thankful that God is in control and if the Middle East blows up again . . . well, as one of my characters said, “Death for a believer is like closing your eyes in one world and opening them in a new, better place of love.”

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  16. It’s Friday. This turned into a busy week after all, had to work late last night and have a full plate of things to get done today. But I’m going to see if I can at least “sneak” two days off next week, Mon-Tues if possible, for a long weekend, I need a break.

    I’m taking Tess in for a followup blood test early tomorrow morning to see if her liver enzymes came down. I’m wondering if she’s got a bad tooth that I can’t see. She’s been turning down her chewies for at least a week now, which is very strange. I even tried another flavor thinking she’d grown tired of the ones we had, but no go. She’s eating well, though, including her dry kibble in the evening meal.

    The state of the world and our nation seem dismal to me these days. For the first time in my life I actually am wondering if I voting even matters (at least in my city & state that are so heavily dominated by one party that the other party hardly even gets a place on the ballot anymore, let alone wins, with our new primary system).

    Wake me up in 2016.

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  17. That is one crazy land-of-Oz flower. 🙂

    I heard lots of screaming/screeching (from an animal) this morning and couldn’t identify the sound. But it got me to wondering if the peafowl have finally made their way into our neck of the woods …. I’ll have to check on YouTube to see if I can identify the sound I heard.

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  20. Foxes do have a really strange noise almost a feline sounding shriek. We have them here in PA and are careful to gather in our cats at night, especially the slower/weaker ones.

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  22. Donna, for the first time in my life I am having the same thoughts. Living in Alabama we are way down on the primary list, so by the time we get to vote in a national primary the candidate is already crowned. I have a feeling I am not going to like either one this next go round.
    I hate the feeling of defeat before I even try.

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  24. Kim, so much ground has been lost in the past 6+ years that I’m not sure much of it can even be regained, no matter who is elected. It’s really discouraging.

    I do agree with Rand Paul who apparently said the country is now in a full-blown spiritual crisis. So it’s a good reminder that prayer is always the first line of attack in times like these. .

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  26. How are things with you, Pastor Roy?

    Did I miss out on hearing what kbells is doing?

    I saw that Sawgunner posted recently on a World article.

    Where is MIM and IBNO?

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  27. I just counted twenty five passion flower shoots in the front yard. It’s a bumper crop unless I start mowing them down. I fhought I had overestimated when I said twenty plants, but no, the count is twenty five!

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  29. That plant is awesome. I had never seen one before.

    Robins nest in a wreath on our front porch. We tried to dissuade them, but they insisted on staying. They actually rebuilt on the nest every year. Finally, it must have been too high, so they built a second nest right next door to the first one. It looks like a split level. This year they must have decided not to nest there anymore. That is fine with me, although they are fun to watch, they are very messy. Trouble is, some other bird came temporarily and made just as big a mess. 😦

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  31. Donna, a peacock call sounds like someone yelling “Help!” After noticing that myself, I saw it on one of the signs at the zoo, so I’m not the only one who thinks that.

    Kathaleena, I’ve seen robins build more than one nest on purpose; some other birds do too. I think the idea is that they hope any predator that comes along goes to the wrong nest, finds it empty, and figures the birds have flown. Something like that. Or maybe Mr. Robin built a nest Mrs. Robin didn’t like, and it was easier to start over than to meet her standards through remodeling! (I actually don’t remember which bird builds a robin nest. It’s usually the female, sometimes both, occasionally just the male.)

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  32. 2016- hopefully the general public will not listen to the MSM and investigate the candidates on their own. If that happens, then they will see any Liberal as more of the malaise that has been the last 6 years. But I won’t hold my breath, since most of the electorate are lazy and just vote for the same party they have always voted for. And all too many are recipients of government handouts, so they’ll vote for the candidate that promises them more freebies.

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  33. I looked up the peacock sounds, too, definitely not that — I think what I’m hearing is raccoons, they apparently screech something awful when they fight. And I’m sure it was the cute “chatter” of raccoons that I heard last night just under my open living room window. Annie (who was indoors for the night) actually stood up on her 2 hind legs when she heard that.

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  34. we had a raccoon fight in our campsite one night. very noisy. apparently they had stolen the bag of donut holes I had purchased for dessert and were fighting over them

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  35. Just had some excitement. D3 started screaming and pointing. There was a huge spider (about a three inch leg spread), probably a wolf spider.

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  37. yup, it was quite the fight among the raccoons. We didn’t even try to reclaim them. 🙂

    I can see rain approaching across the valley. Beautiful

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