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Our Daily Thread 7-18-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

Today’s header photo is from NancyJill. 🙂

And here’s Karl, one of Kare’s new cats. 🙂

Kare's Karl

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On this day in 1743 “The New York Weekly Journal” published the first half-page newspaper ad.

In 1914 six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation division called the Signal Corps. 

In 1942 the German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.

In 1964 Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) hit the only grand slam home run of his career. 

And in 1970 Ron Hunt (San Francisco Giants) was hit by a pitch for the 119th time in his career. 

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Quote of the Day

“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

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It’s Ricky Skaggs’ birthday.

And on this day in 1953 Elvis Presley recorded “My Happiness” It was his first recording, and he later gave it to his mother as a present.

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Anyone have a QoD?

38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-18-14”

  6. Good late morning, all you who wander and view. I hope Annms will share some vacation photos with us.

    Love, love, love the irises! What a beautiful color.

    Karl the cat is really unique! I hope he is friendly. He looks a bit like he could have a common ancestor with Bosley.
    She said to tell him, “Meowwww.”

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  8. I’ve been working on Sunday school lesson about Jonathan and David. Jonathan gave David his robe and military gear including his sword which indicated he was giving David his place as heir to the throne. I know God would have still made David king even if Jonathan had not been so cooperative. But Jonathon acted out of love, giving sacraficially. Do you think this could reasonably be used as a picture of how Jesus gave up his place so believers could take on a new role for their lives?

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  11. I never thought of it, Janice. We know Jonathon loved David. We do not know if he really wanted the throne. Not everyone would. Saul certainly wanted it for Jonathan. Jonathan seemed to care more about what God wanted. Saul did not. He was always interested in pure political power and would use religion to get it. Not an unusual scenario even today.

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  14. Some time ago, I read The Burning Land by Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin. She told about her reporter experience in Israel. She discussed, not trying to prove anything, but describing conditions, how Hamas placed their rocket launchers in schools and other places. Then when Israelis returned fire on that spot, they accused them of random violence against children, etc.

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  16. I knew that photo had to be from nancyjill. 🙂 Beautiful forest trees. And cute smudge-nosed Karl.

    I’m feeling especially groggy this morning, I’m drinking some coffee but can’t seem to shake the cobwebs out of my head. I have a lot to finish up today, then I’m off next week. But that’s filling up fast, too, with get-togethers with friends who also are free + my cousin whom I’ve been horrible about keeping in touch with.

    Newswise, the world remains a mess, I see.

    About the historical mention on newspapers and half page ads, it’s been especially painful for us to see the advent of advertisements on the front page in recent years. But you do what you can to survive, even if it means selling out part of your front page to the local back surgeon or chiropractor or some other company that can afford the space. 😦 😦

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  17. I am around…Just not a lot to say right now. I am curious why we are getting 24 hour news coverage over a plane crash that had no Americans on board, wasn’t in our air space, and really is not any of our business.
    I am not cruel and heartless…I am sorry for those who died, but what can we do about it? Nothing.

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  20. Nothing like a beautiful pine forest. The Bible camp my husband and I volunteered at for a few years was pine trees and sand – absolutely gorgeous.

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  21. Nice clipTychicus. I recognized about half of them. It must have been assembled from various presentations because Crosby has been dead a long time.

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  22. Kim, it helps the MSM to be able to report something besides Obama scandals. Of course MSNBC did it by reporting on Chris Christie’s bridgegate. But even FoxNews is pushing it now.

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  23. Kim,

    I agree, anything to provide cover, but I believe there were Americans on board.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/mh17-crash-23-americans-killed-malaysia-airlines-plane-ukraine-reports-say-1631672

    “There were 23 American citizens on the Malaysia Airlines jet that was allegedly shot down in Ukraine on Thursday, according to two reports, but the U.S. State Department has yet to confirm that figure.”

    Interfax quotes an unnamed Ukrainian Interior Ministry official as saying that 23 Americans were among those killed when flight MH17 went down near the city of Donetsk, Reuters reports. Moreover, a flight manifest included the names of 23 U.S. citizens, Fox News reports.

    “We don’t have any additional details at this point on American citizens,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a briefing on Thursday. “Obviously, we’re seeking that information as we speak.”

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  25. Oh my iris!! I planted that thing four years ago and this is the first year it has bloomed!! I was downright giddy 🙂 And what a cutie pie is that Karl….I love his nose ❤

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  29. Donna, (or anyone else) any hints on introducing grown cats to a grown dog? Keva got along really well with Katja, but he just seems to want to chase these ones.

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  31. Kare, I haven’t personally had that experience, but basically for all experiences of introducing animals to each other where there is a chance it might not go well, the two ideas are (1) introduce them in neutral space, not home. For example, friends of mine used to dog-sit Misten and they had two dogs that could occasionally be aggressive if they weren’t used to a dog. So they walked their dog and I walked Misten and we let them sniff each other and be friendly, and then they took Misten home with them and everything was OK. That probably isn’t realistic with a cat, though. (2) Keep them separated within the house for a period of time (days or weeks) so that they can smell each other but not interact. For example, the dog is in a bedroom and the cat has run of the house most of the time, but sometimes the cat is locked in the bathroom and the dog has run of the house. But they aren’t put face to face until they’ve gotten used to each other’s scents and have showed friendly curiosity and not hostility.

    Having never done that, I wouldn’t be able to give details, but I think Donna did some version of that.

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  34. We’re trying to do the second one, by keeping them in the shop but they managed to escape and one has had a growling match with the dog already.

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  35. I was told to keep Annie in her own space (which was the spare room that the dogs couldn’t access) for as many as 2 weeks, which I did. She was pretty dog savvy but my dogs were not used to cats (though I never felt they’d be aggressive with one — one of my former dogs I wouldn’t have trusted, but these two I felt could be trained to accept a cat).

    I was told to rub a towel on the dogs and leave that in her room (and did the same thing by rubbing a towel on the cat and leaving that on the dog beds) so they could adjust to the scents.

    Eventually, I let Annie out into the hallway, barricaded with a baby gate on the one end, so she and the dogs could sniff and look at each other through it.

    From there, I think I introduced them in the living room for short periods, but with the dogs on leash, until they seemed not all that interested in her anymore.

    It was a process, but it worked well for us.

    Tess will still “herd” Annie into corners and out of the kitchen at times, but has never hurt her to my knowledge). Annie’s learned to sort of keep her distance from Tess. Cowboy’s a teddy bear, while he doesn’t exactly love Annie, he’ll put up with her rubbing up against him and he’s never acted aggressively toward her in the least.

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  36. For dogs & dogs, I’ve heard (and have practiced) introducing them on neutral territory as Cheryl said. With a cat coming home from the shelter (who had to be kept indoors) it wasn’t really an option, so separating them in the house was what was recommended.

    The dogs were very curious about her during the separation period.

    I don’t think I began letting Annie outdoors until she’d been with us for a month or so. I was debating whether to keep her indoors only but since she’d come to us as an outdoor cat, my inclination was to let her use the doggie door. I also felt it was a quality of life issue for her. She was used to being outdoors and I think would have had a very hard time adapting to being indoors only.

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  37. And weirdly I do think dogs view “their” cats as unique. Mine will still lunge and try to chase a stray cat we run into on our nightly leash walks. But I’ve never seen them chase Annie.

    So that might explain why the new cats are seen as “different” than your other one. They really are different animals in the dogs’ eyes.

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  38. It needs to reach that point where the animals realize “we all live here” 🙂

    (And Tess’ herding Annie really is more of a border collie breed instinct, I think, not an aggressiveness toward the cat — but it can be really, really annoying and if I’m around when she’s doing it I call her off pronto.)

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