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Our Daily Thread 7-17-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Donna.

And all that talk about cats last night reminded me that I had not posted these Bosley pics yet.

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On this day in 1453 France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years’ War.

In 1867 Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S. 

In 1941 the longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games. 

In 1945 U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. 

And in 1997, after 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.

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Quote of the Day

“I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.”

Art Linkletter

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Thought we’d start with some PianoGuys this morning. “Nearer My God to Thee” (for 9 cellos) 

And this is in my Top 10 from these guys.

From VeggieTales Official

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Anyone have a QoD?

57 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-17-14”

  5. But Jo and Janice have been going at it on yesterday’s thread.
    They don’t wait for nobody.
    I couldn’t get ahead of Jo and Tychicus, even if I tried.
    I may never get my avatar back.

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  8. Jo and I were talking on Facebook about an hour ago. I’ve been up editing . . . because I couldn’t sleep starting about 1:30. I think I’m going back to bed now to get a running start on possibly falling asleep before the sun comes up and the birds start singing. See you later!

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  9. Wow, two wanderers have already come and gone.
    There are still Woolworths in Australia. Wonder if it is the same chain.
    Sleep well, Michelle.

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  10. What I’ve heard about voles is that often when you think you have moles, you really have voles. But when I heard that, I was in Nashville, and I looked it up to see which one I had . . . and I had moles.

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  11. I still say it is a southern bog lemming. Voles have more pronounced features and whiskers. Lemmings have a more rounded profile, smaller ears and whiskers. But we will never know because they don’t do DNA on pictures.

    We have mice, voles, gophers, shrews, and rats here, but not lemmings. But when the lemmings are in short supply up north, we do get snowy owls who will substitute all of our goodies for their preference. It all makes the snakes happy.

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  12. Morning, all! Almost time to go see the modern day medicine woman.

    The lemming is in the rat family and the vole is in the muskrat family. When I looked at the eyes of each it seemed to me the vole had the more perfectly rounded eyes and the lemming eyes were ever so slightly elongated. But it could have just been the angle the photos were taken from. There are many types of voles and probably lemmings, too. AJ saw the whole creature so he is our best expert. Did you check out lemmings, too, AJ?

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  13. Good Morning All. Today is the Puppy Dog Boy’s birthday. Lulabelle and I sang Happy Birthday to him this morning and he has special wet dog food for his birthday dinner tonight. (Lulabelle didn’t really sing. She mostly looked at me like I was crazy).
    Baby Girl will be returning from San Antonio tomorrow. I am not sure if I am driving to north Mississippi tomorrow night or not.

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  14. The picture of the book with Bosley is the book I received in the mail for my December birthday before the arrival of Miss Bosley. It just seemed too coincidental, but my friend claims to know nothing except that I generally like cats. She got a dog this past year after many years of her husband saying no on that so I guess she was just around more animal items when she picked the book for me.

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  16. Good morning wanderers. Another day to pretend I am a rodent under ground. Actually, it’s a day when I get to give tours of our non-modernized cave. It means walking a mile for every tour, up to 4 times. I could do all 5 tours, but Uncle Arthur (arthritis) and Old Man Time (age) won’t let me.

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  17. AJ, as to your flicker photos the other day, a hunch I have: I wondered when you posted them if the young just out of the nest would look fully adult, and sure enough they do. (I had a mother feeding a male youngster in my backyard a few minutes ago.) So probably those two male flickers were father and son, and that’s why they stuck so close together. The youngster had been out of the nest long enough that his father wasn’t feeding him very often, and you didn’t see it. But Son stuck close to Dad just in case he could get a good morsel, and also to learn by observation where the best food is, and how to get it. In the two I watched, the mother fed her son several times in just a few minutes, so he was obviously just out of the nest, but I wouldn’t have known he was an immature bird if I had seen him without his mother. (It’s possible I’ll be able to see a difference when I blow up the photos, but I couldn’t see a difference from the adult with the naked eye or the camera zoom.)

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  19. Michelle, I hear you about throwing up cats – try driving for 30 minutes with that smell – ugh!

    Thankfully, husband washed out the crate this morning.

    AJ, did you get my email with the Karl picture?

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  20. A while back, there was a cartoon in which a lady told Dilbert, “I made 75 fashion decisions before breakfast.” A bit of an exaggeration, I’m sure, but only somewhat.

    Elvera is going to Live Embers this afternoon. She’s wearing red, white and blue, the designated colors for the meeting. She asked, “Does this look all right?” as she usually does. Of course she looks all right. She always does.
    I never ask. I always wear the same thing. But there were times when she said, “If you’re going to wear that, I’m not going.” Or, “You’re not leaving here wearing that”. But I’ve learned a bit by now.

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  22. Janice,

    I didn’t see anything but what’s in the picture. The little rodent wouldn’t come out any further, so I have no idea what the rest of him looks like. 🙂

    Kare,

    Yep. Look for him tomorrow, along with the “view” from NancyJill’s. 🙂

    Peter,

    I feel your pain brother. I’ve got some Uncle Arthur too. He doesn’t like walks either, and complains whenever I try. 😦

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  25. I think Annie may have brought in a vole once. I thought it was a little mouse but remember looking up photos and thinking it could be a vole. 😦 But he was alive when I put him back outside (in the front & locking Annie in the house), so I’m hopeful he survived.

    There are California sea lions lounging on the red buoy in the ocean. But, yeah, it does look kind of patriotic color-wise, now that you mention it. 🙂

    Heard a scary story last night from my neighbor — early that morning she said a couple guys tried to break into the house across the street (sometime shortly after 3 a.m. she thinks). Something spooked them and they took off on foot, leaving behind their white van (which I vaguely remembered seeing on the street that night) and dropping ski masks & gloves along the way. 😮 The people in the house they were breaking into were home, too. That’s too close for comfort.

    So my neighbor is getting an estimate today for a home security system.

    Happy birthday to the doggie.

    michelle, I feel your pain — hate it when you’re up in the middle of the night and are never able to recoup the needed sleep. Hope the coffee helps and maybe you can catch a nap later in the day.

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  27. There’s a big shindig onboard the Iowa battleship in our town later this month, a benefit for U.S. veterans. Gary Sinise, the actor, is going to be there so I guess it must be for his foundation. Tickets are pretty expensive. And the dress code is red white and blue. 🙂

    Guess it’s that patriotic time of year.

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  28. Question of the Day: What does it mean to you, in action, to be a “partner in ministry?”

    I’ve been praying my monthly half hour for Hillary and decided I needed to write a blog for her website on that theme. If you’ve got some ideas, I could include them in.

    Or, perhaps change to, “What have you DONE as a partner in someone’s ministry.”

    Bragging allowed–it’s for a good cause. 🙂

    Also, what “tent making” ministry to you envision a missionary could do from overseas? What have you seen? Thanks.

    The exhausted one, still hoping for coffee . . . . but now that Hillary the barista is here, there’s hope!

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  31. Ministry partner for me means supporting in prayer, with financial gifts, volunteering to help out the ministry with one’s areas of gifting, promoting the ministry to others who may choose someday to become partnres, too, and making an effort, if feasible, to visit the ministry to help alongside.

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  32. Ah, vole. That makes sense to me. We have those and moles. My husband has bird feeders and the holes under the snow and ground are amazing. The squirrels can make the snow look like a cartoon on days when there is just enough to cover their tunnel. It seems the snow is moving. Kind of like that Worms movie. They all do damage, in spite of their cuteness.

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  33. It was 50 degrees here this morning and foggy. Sun is shining now but it continues to be a tad bit cool for July…
    We have voles….Fly has become very good at catching and killing them…none the less…we had to put “bait” in their tunnels this past week…they are tearing up the right side of our property…what a mess it is…those little critters are destructive. 😦

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  35. I was hoping the sea lions would show up a bit more than they did, but the buoy was bouncing and I was getting seasick just watching it through the viewfinder as I stood on the cliff-top. Something’s in the water next to them also, can’t tell if it’s another sea lion or dolphin maybe.

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  36. I didn’t notice the sea lions at first. I vote dolphin for the critter in the water. I’ve never heard of a vole but I’ve probably had them in the house at some point!

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  40. We had a record low yesterday of 52°F, breaking a 111 year old record. Today it 56°, two above the record.

    Michelle- I have a friend who is in Peru as a missionary, using his programming skills there. He is trying to get as many solid Christian books in e-book form for local pastors to use. Plus, getting them the technology such as Kindles or tablet computers. He knows his stuff as he used to work writing the software for Google+.

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  41. what a morning. I am doing some cooking before school begins. I went to market and then came home to soak everything. While it was soaking, I began to make the marinade for the bbq beef in the crockpot and discovered the raw beef had leaked all over the fridge. so had to clean up the mess, but my sink was in use so had to use the bathroom sink.
    Then got around to making some breakfast. Since I was doing other things, I almost burned the green peppers I was sautéing to have in my eggs. Saved them, but when I cracked the egg, it was obviously bad, so threw everything away. Chopped some more green pepper. But then I had the oven on to bake some chicken and, for some reason, the stove wouldn’t lite. So gave up and had a bowl of cereal for breakfast.

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  42. hmmm… partner in ministry. of course it involves giving, of my time and my prayers, and my finances. It also involves looking for ways to be involved or to support them. I will be having someone to dinner next week here that I support. I want to hear and listen to what they have been doing and ask questions. The same is true of my supporters, they are the ones that ask questions and want to know. Go out of their way to greet me when I am home. I appreciate those who send a brief response when they get my email newsletter – it shows that they care and that they are interested, and even, that they read it!! 🙂 I once sent a calendar out to lots of folks and one gal sent me an email saying that she had read the calendar. That specific calendar had each month on a different department in Ukarumpa with some information and I was encouraged that she had read it all. All of those things are a great encouragement.

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  43. and being on this blog is also an encouragement. That several of you greet me each morning and I know when I post a prayer request, I am being prayed for. All of those things make you all partners in my ministry.

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  44. Thank you, Chas. And it’s good to see you, too. I hope you fared well with the hurricane. If I remember right, you’re not near the NC coast, correct? You’re in the western part of the state, or that’s what I’m thinking anyway.

    Hope you’re all having a nice summer so far. There was a blog meet-up around the 4th, wasn’t there? I haven’t read the posts from around that time, but it looks like a nice picture of the event in the sidebar.

    Blessings.

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  46. Thanks for your words about partners in ministry. Keep ’em coming if you’ve got ideas! I think I got the reorganization of the first third of the book done today. I’ve still not slept since I woke at 1:30 this morning, so hopefully TONIGHT I’ll get some rest and be able to read tomorrow! 🙂

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  47. Bosley managed to get underneath the dining room tablecloth. Appeared to be a big lump moving around with occasional swiping of white paws at the edge. Husband and I had a good laugh at her new trick.

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  49. 49!
    am sitting here praying for wisdom for our pilots. It is almost 5pm, but we seem to be fogged in and I don’t think the flight from Port Moresby is going to be able to land. Guess folks will be spending the night elsewhere.

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  50. Hello, Jo. I am awake early again. Last night around 9; 30 or 10:00 someone was shooting fireworks a few doors from our home. It was very unusual since I think it is against the law. Bosley was very frightened by it. She would not even let me hold her for comfort.

    Did the fog lift, Jo? Do planes ever land on the water and then drift or motor up onto the beach? I guess they could not even do that in the fog.

    Glad you got 49!

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  52. Morning, Linda. I am thinking that the planes made it in. It was foggy here on my side than over by the airstrip. I took dinner to the quints and it looked much clearer over there.
    Janice, we are in the Highlands at 5,000 feet, so no water here to land on. The coast is usually clear. It has been cold and rainy here.

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  54. It’s the early morning crew!

    I did not expect to see anyone besides Jo and possibly Chas this early.

    Sunrise at the beach is awesome. Enjoy your last day, Annms!

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  55. Jo, the weather shouldn’t be much of a problem for the pilots. When I was in the AF, we used GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) for landing unless the field was totally closed. Now, I suspect they have GPS (Geographic Positioning System), which is much better. They can get in.

    6 Arrows, Hendersonville is so far from the NC beaches that we go to Myrtle Beach, SC for vacation. It’s two hours closer.
    I wonder if today’s thread is up yet?
    Think I’ll go see.

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  56. GPS = GLOBAL Positioning System.
    I know that didn’t matter to anyone, but someone may think my misquote was accurate.
    It’s early.

    🙂

    Gotta make it right.
    Gotta go.

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