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Our Daily Thread 7-1-14

Good Morning! 

Welcome to the second half of 2014.

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

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On this day in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte took Alexandria, Egypt. 

In 1862 the U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue. 

In 1867 Canada became an independent dominion. 

In 1916 the massive Allied offensive known as the Battle of the Somme began in France. The battle was the first to use tanks. 

In 1943 the U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks. 

And in 1950 American ground troops arrived in South Korea to stem the tide of the advancing North Korean army. 

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Quote of the Day

“The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.”

Robert Fogel

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Today is Thomas A. Dorsey’s birthday.

 Today is also Willie Dixon’s birthday. So here he is playing bass with some of the best in blues.

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Anyone have a QoD?

44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-1-14”

  2. second half of the year so now we count down til I get to see my family again 🙂
    I would appreciate prayer today. I am being picked up at 5:45 am for a shopping trip to the port city of Lae. It is a three hour drive away and we will go and return on the same day. We do not take safety on these roads for granted so please be in prayer.
    You can go pretty fast on these roads and then there will be a washout where you have to basically stop and ease your vehicle through.

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  4. It’s only 7:31 Jo!
    Whadda you expect?
    I know, on MWF, I’m around at about 6:31. But I had a bad night last night. My right leg has been hurting almost a month now. Not just when I walk on it. All the time. About 11:00 I took a Melatonin tablet. It didn’t work because my leg still hurt. But I finally got some sleep and didn’t get up until about 6:45 this morning.
    I see Cheryl finally caught onto me. From last night:

    Cheryl | June 30, 2014 at 9:57 pm
    Sure, Chas. That has to be the only reason she’d keep a scoundrel like you. 😉

    She does need me.

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  5. Good morning from the office. There was a bad accident on Interstate 75 opposite the way we were going. All lanes were blocked and I saw an ambulance leave without flashing lights. Does that mean someone died or was it just because they had no traffic to deal with since all lanes had been halted? We are fortunate to always be traveling opposite the main flow of rush hour traffic. The trip would be at least twice as long otherwise.

    Just finishing up my Chick-fil-A biscuit and coffee. I have put away my home coffee maker for the summer so I am mostly drinking green tea. I do enjoy an occasional cup of coffee now if I get it out.

    I believe we got our Tiger lily plants from my MIL when she was living. They have really spread since they drop all those black seeds. They are top heavy so the blossoms point downward and are hard to photograph for that reason.

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  7. Good morning everyone. I am home for the week. The next door neighbor’s children call Cindi and I abuelo and abuela. The children brought me a Father’s Day Card. Cindi planted a garden below the porch and the children are getting the biggest kick out of watching the peppers and tomatoes come up.

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  9. Good Morning Everyone. Busy day ahead. Busy day ahead. I have been told I will need to get up at 3 am tomorrow. I am stocked up on Dramamine so that I can be pushed, searched and mauled before being herded onto the cattle trailer they still call an airplane.
    Someone posted on FB the other day a photo of the Economy Class passengers on a Pan-Am flight back in the ’60’s.

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  10. Janice,

    No lights means no emergency . . . which could mean the person is already dead or that the person isn’t believed to be in danger, or even that they don’t have a patient on board. (This is a non-expert guess at the options of what it means.) See, last summer my brother-in-law died onboard an ambulance traveling without siren or lights. My sister assumes that means they thought he was exaggerating his pain level and that a healthy 46-year-old male with no prior heart problems wasn’t in any real danger. But she saw that he had told them his pain level was 9 or something like that, and she said whoa, her husband was very pain tolerant, so if the ambulance people had known him, they would have known something was seriously wrong, even if he was sitting up and talking.

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  11. Ooh! Donna’s going to the Nest!

    And when the picture started loading, my first thought was “What kind of scary monster is that?” Then I saw it was a tiger lily. We are getting those along the roadsides now, but the ones in my yard haven’t bloomed yet.

    And I am glad a cold front came through last night. We are to have temps in the mid 70’s to mid 80’s the rest of the week.

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  12. Happy Canada Day!

    A good story about the man who ran the Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia, Nicholas Winton:
    ‘For 50 years we didn’t know who had saved our lives. Winton himself was so modest he didn’t even tell his wife what he had done…. his Kindertransport past lay buried until one day, 50 years after his trip to Prague, his wife, Grete, came across a suitcase in their attic she hadn’t noticed before.
    When she opened it, she found it full of lists of names, photos of children, letters and telegrams. When he told her what they represented, she set out to discover what had happened to all those children.’
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nicholas-winton-the-man-who-saved-children-from-hitler-1.2686198

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  13. Neat story, Roscuro. The silent heroes sometimes are the best ones.

    Sent my manuscript to the freelance editor and am going to catch up on life starting today. Oil change and wash for the car, overdue library books returned, grocery store visit and then the return of Miss Social Sonoma County for a six day visit. I may even read a couple books not related to WWI, oh, no I won’t I have several due soon . . .

    But I feel like for the first time in 18 months that I’m not responsible for WWI! 🙂

    Or at least for explaining and understanding it! 🙂

    Next up? Grasshoppers in Nebraska . . .

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  15. Happy Canada Day, Phos! Thanks for sharing that Winton story. I grew up watching “Joe Schlesinger in Wassshington”, as he always signed off, on the CBC National.

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  17. Good Morning and Happy Canada Day Phos and Kare!! Is this kinda of like your 4th of July or something? I know nothing about Canada Day!
    We have had the cool down as well Peter! It is gloomy and 54 degrees this morning…we need rain and I am hoping there is some liquid sunshine in the clouds that just might descend upon us!
    Donna is going to the Nest?! Will Cowboy, Tess and Annie be going as well…and the big question…if they go…will Mumsee allow them to stay indoors?
    Good to see you Joe! 🙂

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  19. If I were going & if I brought my dogs, I suspect we’d all be staying outdoors. 🙂

    I’m really tired this morning, but I did get some work done in the kitchen last night.

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  21. What?????? Donna is not coming to the nest? But Jo said…. I am sure I heard her… well you know that Jo, I guess we know her now… and so the rumors escalate.

    No, Donna is not coming to the Nest, just a little imaginative game I was playing to lighten the load around here. But we do have a lovely guest room and if she wants her dogs in there, I don’t care.

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  25. My tiger lilies are far from blooming yet. I love all the blooming flowers and green we have now.

    it is sad how so much of the median allow and say completely false facts in their news programs. I do not mind those doing editiorials. So called factual news stories are another story.

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  26. Donna, @ 12:07, I haven’t thought of google, I did, briefly, think of going to a doctor. But this has been going on about a month now. I know of nothing that caused it, so there’s nothing to fix. So, what can a doctor do? Give me some pain killer? Maybe, but it would likely make my leg numb. Or something else I don’t want. Last night is the first time it’s kept me awake.

    Some several years ago, I felt an irregular heartbeat. I went to the doctor. He strapped a bunch of instruments on me and I went back next day. Sure enough. I had an irregular heartbeat. Dr. said he could give me something, but it has side effects. I said that I don’t want no side effects. So, we decided to do nothing.
    I don’t know when, but the problem cured itself.
    Maybe this will too. I can’t identify a problem It isn’t a joint; the entire leg hurts. Bot bad, not constant, just annoying.
    Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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  29. I have had the same suitcase since 1999 when I went to Annapolis to visit a relative stationed there. Fifteen years later I have the same suitcase but the same amount of clothes won’t fit in it!!! Why is that?

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  31. Chas, the one thing that occurred to me about the pain you describe is it might be what is called arterial insufficiency. If the pain gets worse during exercise, it is probably that. It is caused by clogged arteries, but in the arteries to the leg. It is worthwhile asking the doctor about it, as the reduced circulation can lead to infections that don’t heal properly.

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  33. Chas- Batten down the hatches. It looks like Arthur is going to visit you this week.

    And go to the doctor. Roscuro is a nurse, remember, so she probably knows of what she writes.

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  34. Thanks Phos. I hadn’t thought of that. If it doesn’t improve soon, I will look into that.
    I haven’t noticed it so much during exercise, but when I’m resting, as I explained about last night. I am more careful when going down stairs now because I don’t trust the leg.
    Over the years, my ailments have profited by neglect. But I don’t hesitate to see a doctor when it’s appropriate.
    Arthur isn’t likely to affect Hendersonville. Hurricanes hate the mountains.
    I think I know why Kim’s clothes no longer fit in the suitcase, but I’m too young to die, so my mouth is sealed.
    As is my fate by now. 😯

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  35. We know the quality of fabric is much improved over the years and much thicker, made to last longer, of course, for all those who never outgrow their clothes , so naturally the suitcase won’t close with the extra high quality clothing Kim totes. 🙂

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  37. Chas, I am not an expert, but my hurting leg and hip seemed to be helped by taking glucosamine plus msm by Schiff. It is suppose to help with joint problems if that happened to be causing your pain. What Roscuro said makes sense, too. Is your pain all over or does it seem to radiate from distinct points?

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  39. here, too. The younger four are all in bed for the night. Always makes it more peaceful. The three boys are not back from backpacking in the wilderness yet and the two girls are not back from the yards they were working on. The one older child who is here is feeding his pig.

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  40. Sounds quiet, Mumsee.

    I was just asked to babysit three year old twins and their 1 year old brother while mom& dad attend a wedding. That would be 10 hours (several after bedtime). Guess I’ll know if I truly want to be a grandma 🙂

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  41. 3 AM Central Time and WAAYYYY to early to be up and dressed. Managed to get about 4 hours sleep. It is going to be a long day. Thankfully none of you will see me for a few days so I can adjust.

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  42. Is there more going on with Kim than we know about?
    Good evening Jo.
    Just checking in.
    The leg pain isn’t a joint pain. It isn’t always there. It doesn’t radiate. It just hurts.
    Not debilitating, just annoying.

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  43. Kim, how nice of you to join me on my time zone. I will pray for your travel, those early leave times can zap all your energy.
    Most of my flights back here now leave at midnight!

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