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Our Daily Thread 7-30-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.

That’s a really cool bug. Here’s another shot. 🙂

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On this day in 1729 the city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland. 

In 1898 “Scientific America” carried the first magazine automobile ad.

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack. 

In 1968 Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years.  

And in 1974 the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon.

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Quote of the Day

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”

Henry Ford

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Today is Paul Anka’s birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbMuauXcdY&feature=player_detailpage

 Today is also David Sanborn’s birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1vutrpd7zw&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

36 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-30-14”

  1. Now there’s a picture header to wake up a sleepy head! It looks like horse mint or monarda of some sort that has attracted some other worldly creature. Seems like the kind of creature that Tinkerbell would be friends with.

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  2. That is one scary bug! Exhausted tonight after Open House. We have ours at 4pm and all the children play on the playground while we meet with the parents. Two sessions for each class.

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  3. Good Morning Everyone.. I am off to the Big City of Mobile this morning for agent training.
    I would like to ask you to pray for my Puppy Dog Boy-Amos. For several weeks sometimes when he was touched he would yelp. I have thought for several days that he just seemed like he didn’t feel well. Last night was bad. He didn’t walk to the bedroom with me and when I went back to get him, he was sort of hunched up. I picked him up and he really started yelping. Last night he couldn’t get close enough to me to sleep. This morning when it was time to get up he wouldn’t jump down off of the bed. Once again, when he was touched he yelped.
    Mr. P has to be out of the house this morning for the home inspection and this afternoon is going to take him to the vet.
    All of you know that Amos helped to heal my broken heart. I have always joked about BG one day talking to her therapist about her mother and the dog. Right now he is on top of a bed pillow on the sofa where I put him. You can just tell he doesn’t feel well and it is hurting my heart to see him that way.

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  4. Jo, I hope you can get some good rest overnight to be refreshed by morning. Have you ever done home visits with the students and their parents at the beginning of the year? My son’s church kindergarten did that. It was nice to see the student in their environment. I think it was effective so the teacher did not have to be overwhelmed by meeting so many parents at once.

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  9. Hummingbird moths are neat. I first saw them growing up in Moscow, where the cat was trying to catch them in the flowers. Cat was successful, of course. We have them around here and the children are always surprised and amazed at the little hummingbirds that don’t quite look like hummingbirds.

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  11. We have seen the Hummingbird Moth around here. The sightings cause no little sensation, as it is so unusual – like a hummingbird, yet unlike.

    I’m with Chas, Ford was wrong. I have often thought I couldn’t do things that I did do.

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  12. Ha, I only skimmed over the remarks before posting – I see Mumsee and I think alike about the Moth. Well, great minds do think alike… and fools seldom differ 😉

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  14. That hummingbird moth was the best thing we saw at the zoo that day, even though they also had a baby wildebeest we didn’t know about until we saw it. My husband and I laughed that we went to the zoo to see a moth. I’d never seen one before (nor had he), but I knew what it was immediately, since I’d seen photos.

    The next woman who came by said, “That isn’t a hummingbird, is it? it’s too small” and so I told her what it is, and she told the next person who came by to look. It’s about half the size of a hummingbird and of course it has six legs and it has antennae . . . but in action it does look quite a bit like a hummer. It’s on beebalm or wild bergamot (which has other common names as well), best I can tell. I took multiple photos but it was moving so fast it was hard to get a good one. The second one was cropped in from a fairly distant shot (the insect small in the frame, not zoomed in, since it was moving too fast to zoom in), and thus it doesn’t have the detail to be a great photo. But for the top photo it was right by me and cooperative.

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  15. Kim my heart hurts for you and Amos….will be praying for you this day.
    We have quite a population of hummingbird moths around here… Fly is fascinated by them and they are not skittish around beast nor man…they are fun to watch…

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  16. Janice was right about both the animal and the vegetable. The number of names that flower is known by is just one example of why I’m having such a tricky time labeling wildflowers for the little book of them I’m making for myself.

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  19. Cheryl, we grow bee balm in our yard which is monarda that has red blooms. We got it from a plant nursery and it comes back each year. Once I found some growing wild which was colored like the one in your photo. When I looked it up in a book I saw it listed as horsemint. That was before availabilty of internef searches . Maybe there is no distinction in the names and colors, but since I had not seen that plant in that color for many years I was just remembering my long ago research.

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  22. Oh, praying for Amos. 😦 Keep us posted on what the vet says. The animals we love and care for and share our homes with are very special gifts from God.

    I don’t think I’ve seen humming bird moths (awesome picture, btw, cheryl). We have a lot of regular moths and one will sometimes make it into the house, providing much fun and exercise for Annie.

    I’m feeling grateful to God this morning for my job. As much as I’ve complained about the way things are in the newspaper biz (and they’re bad), the shrinking pay and all the other downsides, it’s still work that I love to do.

    I had a dream last night that one of our local developers offered me a job and I said yes. Then I realized how much I’d miss journalism and was regretting every moment of getting ready for my first day of work in a proper office with developer types. 😦

    We’re very busy this week planning coverage tomorrow night of the public Zamperini memorial that will be held in the high school stadium (his alma mater from the 1930s) named in his honor. I’m doing the main story and another reporter will be doing social media and live blogging. We’re also sending 2 photographers, one for stills and the other for video. I think we’ll have this one well covered, but it’ll be a very fast and hectic turn-around for copy with our evening deadlines. We’ll all be working very fast …

    I’m going through a couple books right now, kind of going back to the basics of the faith which I think I need. I feel I’ve grown complacent and have been coasting. So I’m calling this my “starting over” period, a time to return to seeing all things new through the eyes of faith (rather than through my eyes which seem to lose focus and become easily distracted by the world around me). I’m renewing a commitment to Bible reading and study & prayer in the mornings and evenings — and I’m working on being more conscious of my faith and what God is doing throughout the day.

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  25. Thank you all for humoring me and praying for my Boy. We just got home from the vet. He has inflammation along his spine in his hindquarters. He is on a muscle relaxant and is to take it easy for a while. No rough-housing, running up and down stairs, or jumping. I am blaming this on the Brown Girl Dog. She is just a big dumb Lab and one day will be a good dog, just not today.
    Of course Amos whimpered when I picked him up to take to the truck to go to the vet, but when the vet was holding and stretching him not a peep.
    I am just so relieved it wasn’t anything serious. ” He is him mama’s little heart”. 😉

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  28. Just received a a text message that the buyer was not scared off by the home inspection this morning. She is going to get some quotes and estimates and will let the agents know by Monday.
    I really am considering leaving everything here and going and getting a one bedroom apartment and just starting over.

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  29. Thanks for your thoughts, Donna, on your time in the Word. I am reading through chronologically and am in Jeremiah. Moved to pray for our nation as I read.

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  32. I don’t like the Ford quote, either. I agree with Chas and Roscaro. I think it is unfortunate to give children the idea that they can do anything if they want to enough etc. It is one thing to encourage others and to not be defeatist in our thinking. It is another to engage in magical thinking. Too much of that is taught today and I wonder how many suicides happen when reality sets in?

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  33. We had hundreds of those hummingbird moths on our lilacs in Elk Island NP. Fun to watch 🙂

    The dog was inside for 12 hours straight today – boy was he glad when I got home to let him out. (I know, Mumsee, a dog in the house?).

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