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Our Daily Thread 7-5-14

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday! At least it is here on the East Coast.

And it’s not just any Saturday.

It’s Meet at Linda’s Saturday! 🙂

That’s the reason for the early postings as well.

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On this day in 1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeated a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada. 

In 1863 Federal troops occupied Vicksburg, MS, and distributed supplies to the citizens. 

In 1916 Adelina and August Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City and arrived in San Diego, CA, on September 12, 1916. 

In 1943 the battle of Kursk began as German tanks attack the Soviet salient. It was the largest tank battle in history. 

And in 1989 former U.S. National Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in the Iran-Contra affair. The convictions were later overturned. 

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Quote of the Day

“I’d like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.”

Goose Gossage

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 Today is Sheila Walsh’s birthday. So here she is, with Third Day.

And today is Janos Starker’s birthday too. Pay attention kids, this is how it’s done. 😉

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Anyone have a QoD?

101 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-5-14”

  5. Good morning! I hear a siren in the night. I hope it is not fireworks related.

    Hope you all have a great day for your get together. Looking forward to the “family pictures.”

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  10. Great fireworks last night. Our community had them. From the pier we could see all around us. Annapolis and over to the Easteen Shore. (Which is weird for me to say)
    See some of you soon. To the rest you be good. Ya hear?

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  12. Husband worked on the 4th because we had no plans. Also a client wanted to see him. The client got sick so, thankfully, did not bring his throwing up illness to the office. 🙂

    I did cat duty after husband got home. I helped friends by recycling some cardboard boxes that needed breaking down. Husband and I took a load to the fire station recycling bin. I thought we would be the only ones doing that late in the day on the 4th, but no, another couple arrived in their truck with their cardboard. Husband and I shared the one remaining turkey leg for dinner.

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  13. It was only 11:00PM here when AJ posted the threads. I got on the News thread and posted, not realizing it was not this one. So I kept refreshing the screen until this one came up. Granted, I am not normally still up at that time, but I was waiting for D3 to come home after spending the evening with friends to go to fireworks 30 miles away. Even though she is 19, I still think of her as my little girl, since she is the youngest and looks like she is 15 or 16.

    Our little town had a great fireworks display last night. It started slowly, with several small red bursts to start. And I thought (and said to Mrs L), “I guess I got spoiled all these years going to the larger cities nearby.” (Our town is 930 population. 15 miles away is a city of 40,000 and 30 miles away a smaller one of 20,000.) I was impressed by the next 25 minutes of almost constant, colorful explosions. At times it seemed overwhelming since one group of 6 rockets would barely be finished when the next group started. It seemed more like an actual battle than a small town fireworks display.

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  14. I worked about an hour and a half in the cool morning getting honeysuckle vines off a portion of the azaleas. What a massive tangle. It is very satisfying to see the plies growing bigger of what has been removed. Husband twice saw a hummingbird on the tiger lilies.

    Bosley loves A/C. This is her first experience with it. She has reverted back to using me for her couch when she naps now that the house is cooler.

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  15. Wow, you all were busy during the night. Looking forward to the get together at Linda’s. I’ll be heading out in a few minutes.

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  18. We heard random fireworks until about midnight here. The news said Stone Mountain Park had to close its gates because of the number of people trying to see fireworks there. They will do another fireworks show this evening, the very same show as last evening. The weather has been perfect for the events this year.

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  21. A bunch of adults from this site have gotten together from distant places to celebrate a children’s movie birthday party? Bizarre.

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  23. I’m not partying, Chas. In an hour I leave to spend 8 hours behind the ticket counter on the busiest day of the biggest tourist attraction between St. Louis and Minneapolis. Let’s just say I’ll really appreciate being off tomorrow.

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  24. Maybe a really Anonymous masked person will show up at your gathering. Are you having fun yet?

    I’m just waking up, slept until 8:30 today — the fireworks were loud and continual from around 9-11 p.m. and some loud ones beyond that. The beach fireworks show went from around 9:15-9:45, but then all around that our neighborhoods were exploding. People somehow manage to get the big illegal fireworks and stash them.

    Sooo, poor dogs were miserable, especially Cowboy who finally jumped on the bed with me (he never does that unless he’s scared). We’ll have some random booms tonight, I’m sure, but for the most part it’s over.

    Annie lost her collar — this one lasted a long time, I think I put it on her last September. But I have “extras” so I got one of those out, stuck my last “extra” annie name tag on it, and put it on her this morning.

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  26. I love that photo…all creatures great and small the Lord God loves them all!! 🙂
    Oh how I wish I could join that gathering of the few of you today…how fun that would be…looking forward to the family photo as well!
    We went to a gathering yesterday then came home…no fireworks for us…someone in a neighboring community did set off what sounded like dynamite!! sheesh…enough already…poor dogs about jumped out of their fur!

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  27. The Frozen part is on the west coast! I’d rather be on the east . . . but! this is the final party of the six week–stretching to seven party season. We’re free for three weeks before we start up again . . . Surely, you have this situation at your house, Mumsee, with all your children’s birthdays!

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  29. Bosley’s taking little nips. Maybe she thinks it’s a party for her, but it’s not one as far as I am concerned. I had to go out and pay a bill that had tomorrow as the due date. Is that a trick credit card companies use to get late fees?

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  30. Lots of leftovers here today, from the picnic. People do believe the starving masses in a large family will clean them up. People are so right. Good stuff! We had leftovers for breakfast and leftovers for dinner. Tonight? I am planning leftovers.

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  38. I had a great time. It was nice hearing about ajisuun and yampa mom. I me yapa. Yapa mom made a great green been dish. AJ brought special pastries We had chicken potato salad deviled eggs and several other things. I did not contribute. I have to laugh because I have met seven of you now and right if I count the lively Mrs AJ.

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  39. Kim. I just came back to say that bunch has been partying almost six hours and we ain’t seen hide no hair of none of them.
    But here you are. I’m glad you had a good time.
    I’ll bet the potato salad had onions. 😦

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  40. We are all finished now. Several are still in transit. It was a great time and we learned a lot about Ajisuun’s life on the field. Thank you, Linda, for your hospitality. Thanks to everyone else who could come. It was a nice relaxing afternoon. Nothing like a meeting. 🙂

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  43. It does sound like a good time was had by all. When you said your goodbyes did you say, “See you tonight or tomorrow on the blog?”

    Chas, I can eat the onions in potato salad, but not the potatoes. Why does that remind me of Dan Quail?

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  44. I found a peanut butter jar in the backyard. No lid, no label — and mostly empty (cleaned out as far as the tongue could reach).

    I don’t feed my dogs enough apparently.

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  50. I made macaroni salad for our potluck and had to make an extra trip to our little store to get more pickles for the salad.
    So glad that you all got together with ajisuun

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  53. I would like Kare’s potato salad.
    JoAnne, when I get that, I just shorten my name to g2. But I suspect lots of others have that too.
    I mentioned before that my tongue is sensitive to onions. Like a shot to the ear is a small piece of onion to my tongue. Elvera’s family is used to it: i.e. “This is your potato salad, Charlie” or “This dressing is for you”. etc.
    Raw onions are worse, but cooked too. Onions in any form.
    Pickles make for a good potato salad.

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  54. Chas, that’s what my husband always has happen. This stuffing is for you, Tim, this lasagna is for you… He gets bad migraines from onions (even the smell of them) so I can’t even use store bought ketchup or sauces of most kinds as they have onion powder in them.

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  55. ajisuun, so happy to see you here, I’ve been missing you.
    interesting about the onions, I have just found that they are causing me problems

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  56. Yeah, Ajisuun, I was looking into the possibility of going to see Mumsee and family for a week or so the summer of 2011, finally meeting my goddaughter (a planned fall 2010 trip got cancelled when I got sick, and recovery took a while), and other things. And along came a man who took priority over everything else. 🙂 I definitely have no regrets.

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  57. a long day waiting at the airport for Donna, but I finally had to put the little ones to bed. Guess the guest room will have to remain empty for now.

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  59. We had a very nice time today. It was nice getting to meet everyone and share some time together face to face.

    The Jacksons would also like to thank our gracious host Linda, and her husband, for opening their home to all us wanderers. The food was great, and the company even better. 🙂

    More tomorrow, and pictures. 🙂

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  60. Glad the meet-up went well. Too bad no one lives near here except Pauline, who no longer visits the blog. I met her and her husband a couple of years ago when they took a short vacation to Hannibal and visited our church. Nice people.

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  63. Peter, About three years ago, we vacationed through Hannibal and saw your cave. It was really fun and different from every other show cave we have seen. We are coming up soon to a speleology course in our homeschool and are pretty excited about it. Wish we were closer so we could come again and meet you and see your cave again.

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  64. Greetings Maegear, and welcome. Glad you got to meet some of the folk. If you are ever in Idaho, the guest room is apparently open.

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  68. Hi Jo. I hope your Sunday went well.
    Hi Maegear it’s good to see you. Join in and we won’t tell Yapa anything you say. Just between us. 😉

    You always look on Sunday a little different when you know you’re up to teach.

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  70. Jo, I posted on the “politics” thread that the lesson went well. Lots of discussion and we went over. I had to end it because wives were waiting.

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  72. A couple from church invited us out to dinner this morning. Do you realize how big an endeavour that is? We accepted. I tried to pay but he said, ” We had six children, we have an idea…” I said thanks.

    When we got there, there was only one guy working. Our pastor and his wife showed up shortly after we did. My children had started pitching in, serving water, etc. The pastor and wife took over and started going to the other customers to take their orders and delivering water so the one guy could man the stove. I like where we live. The children bussed our tables and then set the tables back in place when we were finished. I don’t think they regret having us. I am sure the remaining customers had a lot to talk about when we left. Did I mention I don’t go out to eat much?

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  73. Today was our last sermon from our pastor who heads out now on a rather lengthy sabbatical and study break (he won’t return until late September).

    He preached from 1 Cor. 9:23-27 and 2 Cor. 12:7 — about how we are called to holiness; and how Satan is sometimes used by God as part of that refinement.

    Satan gains a foothold with us through our own tendency for sinfulness; but sometimes his attacks are a “tool’ that is being used by God (see Job) for our own sanctification. “Satan is a scalpel in the hand of God.”

    “God was honored and Job was refined.”

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  83. Glad to hear about the good times. And Buster is adorable!

    My phone is not holding power for long. For that reason I may not be here as much.

    We had a nice church service with several patriotic songs and a call to pray at the altar on our knees for our nation.

    Our pastor to seniors was filling in. He recently graduated from a seminary program in counseling. The person who spoke at graduation told that he use to judge church success by membership numbers, giving, etc. Now he judges success by if the members are being taught how to endure persecutiin.

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  84. Janice, your post reminds me that lately our pastor has asked us to kneel at our seats during the prayer before the sermon. I like it. But a number of older folks stay in their seats, of course, kneeling is one of those things that can get harder with advanced age (and know church kneeler rails to help!).

    Perseverance in the faith — regarding how to judge how well a church is doing. I agree with his changed perspective, Janice. Numbers don’t say too much. Just look at the stadiums filled with thousands of people listening to the “health-and-wealth” heresies. 😦

    Small world, the swimmer who was attacked by the shark yesterday in our area was someone I’d interviewed a year ago when he finished a grueling swim from Catalina to the mainland (and landed in the hospital back then after everything went wrong).

    He told our reporter today that he’s done with ocean swimming. At least for a while. But he’s out of the hospital and is recovering. I posted a photo of his injuries on FB that ran on our newspaper’s home page. Ouch and OUCH.

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  85. Yapamom- I didn’t see your post from July 5 @ 11:15 when I was here earlier. So you were at the Mark Twain Cave? Did you see a guide or ticket person who slightly resembled Mark Twain? That was I.

    If you studying speleology, that is good. You live in PA, correct? There are a few caves there you can tour. Also along the Ohio River. And if you’re ever out htis way again, go to the other cave on the property called Cameron Cave. It has no electricity so you get a better idea of what a limestone labyrinth cave looks like.

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  86. Peter, yes we are in PA. approximately 4 miles from Linda. We have visited about six of PA’s show caves already. We have also seen a couple in the Shenandoah valley. We try to incorporate them into our vacations whenever possible. I can’t really remember if I may have seen you, because I was not looking.

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  87. That is yes, we visited Mark Twain cave. But we did not know there was someone with the blog there until at least a year later, which makes it too late for that visit.

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  88. I bought a Mophie when my Iphone3 battery couldn’t last a full day. I’ve also got a car charger and plug it in all the time. I learned how to close apps, keep the phone on airplane mode and switched off a bunch of items, including location and any push notifications. Aggravating.

    I then got an iphone 4 (I buy these phones from young people upgrading for reasonable prices) and have NOT upgraded to the latest IOS on either the phone or the Ipad. The last time I did that nearly ruined my Ipad for battery usage and other problems. When they’ve got the bugs worked out, I may update, but may not. Good luck with the phone battery!

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  90. I do use my car charger and that helps. I need to work on closing apps. Thanks for tips!

    I am up late. I was watching tv and fell asleep. Then I woke up and got caught up in another show husband was watching. Last night I got involved watching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with him. I had to go to sleep around midnight so I could get up for Sunday school.

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  95. It is so easy to get a license now as they have a new machine that even does the laminating. Sounds so simple, but it is simply a wonder here.

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  99. Ho, hum…. I think it is strange that we are waiting for pictures of the big meet up at Linda’s house and all that we got was a picture of a cat. Anyone else???

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