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Our Daily Thread 7-16-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1790 the District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government. 

In 1845 the New York Yacht Club hosted the first American boating regatta. 

In 1950 the largest crowd ever gathered in sporting history amassed. The total was 199,854. They watched Uruguay defeat Brazil in the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

In 1964 Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives. 

And in 1985 the All-Star Game, televised on NBC-TV, was the first program broadcast in stereo by a TV network

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Quote of the Day

“Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don’t tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.”

Jimmie Johnson

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Looks like another random selection day.

First some singin’….

Then some pickin’.

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Anyone have a QoD?

90 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-16-14”

  2. I am at the office this morning. Did not get on the web until now although I have been up and at em for awhile. I have not had coffee or tea so I am dragging still. Husband has almost finished reading Passing Strangers to me on our drive into work. It is such a good book. Husband seemed to get a few sniffles so I know the story has touched his heart. I know someone here is rewriting a good book lately, but is anyone reading a good book, other than the Bible, these days?

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  4. He’s some type of rodent. He wouldn’t come out any further so I could identify him. He kept me company while I was fishing. I kept hearing him scratching and digging but couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. Then I found him like this a couple feet away. He is cute.

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  5. Good morning, all! We are having a wonderful time in Grand Cayman! Yesterday we went on a submarine ride; today it’s riding horses on the beach! It’s like being in paradise…the weather has been perfect and the people are very friendly. I feel very lucky to be spending a week here.

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  6. Good morning everyone. I was here before this mornings site came up, but had to leave.
    I may never get my avator back. But this one looks better.

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  7. Where is everyone?
    Looks like we need a good argument here.
    Question: Where do fruit flies come from? We haven’t had any fruit flies around. But we have some bananas that are overripe. And a bunch of fruit flies have shown up all of a sudden.

    The Merle Haggard clip is worth watching if you like country. A couple of surprises.

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  8. My friend who I kept the cats for brought up fruit flies the other day. I said they are from the bananas. I told her I use to bring bananas to work until a coworker complained that we got fruit flies in the office from the bananas. An apple a day keeps the fruit flies away!

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  11. Chas- Two suggestions: get cover for the fruit and/or put sugar and vinegar in a small container next to the fruit. The flies are attracted to the combination and drown themselves. It works in our kitchen anyway.

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  14. Eeeeeeeee! Cutest peek-a-boo critter picture ever. 🙂 🙂 Even though I’m not a fan of rodents in general. But as long as it’s not a rat … It’s not a rat, is it? I don’t think it’s a rat. His nose is too short.

    Fruit flies have been a problem for me this summer — I remember reading that they tend to breed & hang out in sink drains. So I guess it’s important to pour bleach or whatever down your drains periodically. We’ve also had issues with them at work for years. Most of us eat at our desks or in the lunch room and it’s so annoying when you open a container of food and suddenly there’s a fruit fly right in your face.

    I seriously need to wake myself up this morning, I feel so groggy. I am drinking some coffee. That should help. But I have 4 stories to get done before the weekend. Did one yesterday on a local public memorial being planned for later this month to honor Zamperini in the town where he grew up.

    I spoke with a few people who attended last Sunday’s invitation-only service at Hollywood Pres and was told Jolie was among the speakers. It was all hush-hush and the family was adamant about no media. So while we knew where and when it was we honored that (though we had at least one tv station calling us asking for the particulars — which my editor didn’t give them — and apparently some crews got wind of it anyway and were cruising around the church but did not cause a disruption).

    But people will appreciate a public event that will be open for everyone. They’re having it at the football stadium of Louie’s high school alma mater (the stadium was named after him some years ago). Someone I interviewed said he’d been able to see much of the film already at the studio where they’re now doing the editing.

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  15. I was glad to hear he’d seen much of the film in advance since he died just months before it’s release, so long anticipated (especially when you consider early plans for a film on his life go back literally decades — Tony Curtis was in line to play Louie in the film originally).

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  16. Those critters are always cute—until they ruin your yard or garden. I assume it is a ground squirrel or gopher. We had one that was living under a front concrete step. My husband had to get rid of the critter and then redo under the step. They can be very damaging, as can all rodents, no matter how cute.

    You can get products to get rid of drain flies. Those little containers for salad oil are good for getting them trapped. They only need a small hole to get into the container and then are trapped.

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  18. Kathaleena, my husband found that out by accident, and it is now how we trap fruit flies. But apparently they don’t sell such containers anymore–we looked in vain to get one for my sister.

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  22. It is adorable, and I can’t stand rodents either. He looks like my son’s late guinea pig(s).

    (Note: my husband ate guinea pig in Chile–said it was a delicacy. He, however, didn’t know what he was getting when he ordered it. Tender meat, tiny bones . . . )

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  25. Woke up this morning and thought I was in the northwest instead of Colorado….oh the glorious morning rain and fog! Thunderstorms this afternoon then we are all done for a while they tell us…
    Is that critter a baby groundhog? He is so cute

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  26. No, it’s not a ground hog. He’s much too small. And whatever built that nest was full grown. Since he fills the hole, I’m guessing he is full grown too. there were small holes like that all over the bank. Some type of mouse is my guess.

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  27. A little Dawn dish soap with water in a Dixie cup works too. Don’t mix it, just squirt it in the water. They like the smell, land, and get stuck and die.

    They are so annoying.

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  31. Donna, are you familiar with the bottles that are used for oil and vinegar (one in each)? It’s a tiny little glass bottle with a metal lid, and the lid has a very small hole in the top that you can pour vinegar (or oil) out of. Well, the good news and bad news is that if you use them, fruit flies will find the vinegar bottle, make their way into the tiny opening at the top, and not make their way out again. That makes the bottles of limited usefulness for salad dressing if you have fruit flies, but it makes the bottles into excellent fruit fly traps. Just put some apple cider vinegar into the bottle and ignore it. If you see you have a couple dozen dead fruit flies in it, then empty it, rinse it, and refill it.

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  32. Speaking of Dixie cups, or actually Solo cups . . . if you don’t think Christians ought to drink, you might want to skip this post.

    At our family reunion six weeks or so ago, my sister brought several bottles of various fruit wines her husband had made before he died (passion fruit, plum, and something else). Most of my family are non-drinkers, so those of us who think it is OK to drink went outside discreetly with our water cups. That would be the three youngest of us and my husband. We had no wish to offend anyone, but I guess we became the person in those testimonies “I was so far gone I would sneak out of family gatherings to get something to drink.” Anyway, we shared a bottle of plum wine, and it was a high alcohol content, and while none of us got drunk we definitely could “feel it.” My younger brother told us that actually people are considered pretty “far gone” when they are drinking out of Solo cups, so we had some good jokes about that.

    The next day some of us were leaving, and my sister didn’t get a chance to split the second bottle (a different variety), so she emptied two water bottles and poured a little of the wine in each and then sent my husband and me back to our hotel with the bottle. And at that point we simply had to ask whether drinking out of a water bottle was a step “up” or a step “down” in terms of drinking.

    A few days ago my sister told me she had sent me an early Christmas present, and she got the same thing for our little brother. We opened the box, and there in it were four wine glasses . . . made to look like red Solo cups only with the wine glass shape. Very, very cute and absolutely hilarious as a memorial to that afternoon of sharing a bottle of wine. (My sister wrote in the note with it that the four of us sharing her husband’s wine was her favorite memory of the reunion.)

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  37. Chiquita says we should never put bananas in the refrigerator.
    So, I have never put bananas in the refrigerator.
    But only because Chiquita says so.
    I no longer have any bananas (my 10:58) or I would run a test.
    Does anyone know what happens if you put bananas in the refrigerator?
    I promise not to tell Chiquita.

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  38. this passed around a while back and while not true is still pretty funny—don’t blame me CHERYL solo cups!:

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  39. Oh well. Link didn’t work. You can copy and paste or just google what the lines mean on a solo cup.
    I read a biography of David Cassidy once—I was bored and it was there—what a mess. He really didn’t know how to handle what that show did for him. The main thing I remember was that he was taking antibiotics for acne and that saved him from STD’s and “the 70’s, if you remember them, you weren’t there”

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  41. Oh no no no!!! …..my apologies to your dear daughter for opening up that can of worms……I am so thankful I didn’t watch that show…nor did I listen to that music…James Taylor, Carol King, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Crosby Stills Nash and Young…they had my listening ear back in high school… 🙂

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  43. I saw glasses like that, Cheryl. I am pretty sure it was at one of our Hallmark stores. They were hilarious and I am sure you got a kick out of them.

    I found the oil bottle in a kitchen specialty store, but I have seen them at Target, too. They seem to come and go.

    Bananas turn brown in the fridge. They will in the freezer, too, but still make for a good banana bread, muffins or chocolate covered bananas on a stick. Of course, you better take the peel off for the latter. 🙂

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  46. Bananas turn brown in the fridge, but they also just don’t taste the same. Frozen bananas can be a nice treat, but refrigerated are useless unless you’re using them for baking.

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  48. Morning all. I always have a coffee mug in my kitchen half full of apple cider vinegar with a few drops of detergent. Takes care of the fruit flies and makes me happy

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  49. The skin turns brown in the fridge and looks really unappealing, but the fruit does actually stay fine and doesn’t get overripe as fast. I never put them in the fridge because the brown skin is so unappealing, but you can. Once you peel off the brown skin, the banana looks normal.

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  52. Regarding fruit flies: a number of years ago, I began using a Mango shampoo. About two weeks later, I had bugs living in my scalp. I thought I had lice and treated for them, but they were still alive. I finally caught one of the bugs and took it to an exterminator and asked if they knew what it was. You guessed it–I had fruit flies!!! They were attracted by the very fruity shampoo. It was an embarrassing and disgusting experience. But, as soon as I switched shampoos, they went away!

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  56. I picked up two new cats today. They are currently exploring their new home in our shop. The one that got carsick on the way home, has gone into hiding (hopefully to clean himself off) but the other is a little more sure of himself. I never did like cats, but our last cat was so awesome that I might be turning into a cat lady 🙂

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  57. Hooray for cats!
    Good choice, Kare.
    Two to keep each other company. That was suggested by my vet. Two outdoors works well. What are their names or are you still working on that?

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  58. Gotta teach Miss Bosley to play the piano. So far she has only shown interest in playing with televised football. Perhaps more athletically than musically inclined.

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  62. Bob,

    I think it’s too small. The muskrats around here are much bigger and an adult wouldn’t fit in that small hole.

    Ree,

    It was taken in northeastern PA, about 10 miles in from the NJ border. And the only prairie dogs I’ve ever seen around here was in captivity, so I don’t think so.

    It’s a rodent is all I know. 🙂

    Or a 🐻

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  66. Aj, husband is out with the good camera trying to get pictures of both of them. They have quite unique markings. I will email you the pics.

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  69. Ah, I see. That’s pretty cool. I guess I never heard that before. It must’ve been some other number everyone fought over that I’m thinking of.

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  73. She just sprang to the top of her cat tree and now looks like she’s about to climb the wall, ears pulled back. Ghost spider?

    Sheesh.

    Off she goes again, across the living room floor.

    It really unnerves the dogs when she’s like this.

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  76. Have I been hanging around cats too much lately when I wake up thinking about small furry rodents?

    I saw that the vole is in the muskrat family. All those years looking at guide books to various creatures with my son when he was young must have been good for something. But the vole was so deeply burrowed in my brain that it took it all night to find its way to the surface.

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  77. Good job, Janice. You win the gold star. And the thanks of all of us as we were still puzzling over Aj’s critter. Now I can sleep without wondering.

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  79. Jo, I took a nap after work yesterday so I think that extra sleep was enough so I could awaken early today. My brain was on and curious when I remembered the vole so I got up to get my phone from where it was charging. Husband got up early and has already left for work. Now I have to fast because of doc appt. and lab work. In that respect it would be nice to be asleep and not feel hungry.

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