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Our Daily Thread 7-31-14

Good Morning!

Today is my daughter Elizabeth’s birthday!

So a note to ‘Liz. –

Your mother and I are very pleased with the young lady you are maturing into. We love you very much and hope you enjoy your day. 🙂

And no matter how big you get, you’ll always be my little Doodle Bug. 🙂

This is for you, as requested. 🙂

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On this day in 1498 Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad. 

In 1932 Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name. 

In 1964 the American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon’s surface. 

And in 1991 President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. 

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Quote of the Day

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

Milton Friedman

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With apologies to Linda, I know you’re probably sick of this, but I have to… 🙂 From DemiLovatoVEVO

 And “The Cat Came Back,” Rowlf style. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

51 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-31-14”

  1. Happy Birthday Miss Elizabeth. You are a blessing to your parents.
    Sad to say, but your birthday is almost over here in PNG.
    Celebrate and enjoy. Let the adventure of the new year begin.

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  3. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Liz. You’re a pretty girl, so don’t let your dad tell you something different.
    Is that Janice’s cat you’re holding?

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  4. Elizabeth is my middle granddaughter’s middle name also.
    And my great grand daughter’s too. Her first name is Addison, so sometimes she gets Addiliz.
    I have always liked the name.

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  5. My daughter requested some things for her birthday and Daddy wanted to make her happy, so the first 2 music choices were her’s. The last one is from me because I know she’ll love it. 🙂

    Ann,

    She is named after her 2 GrandMa’s, Elizabeth and Rose. 🙂

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  8. Happy Birthday, Liz! The outside of your house looks interesting. At least, I assume it is the outside since there is a cat in the picture.

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  10. Well I see it is a VIP Birthday around here today. Enjoy your day.

    Last night Amos as all revved up running through the house jumping across the living room from sofa to ottoman to the other sofa. He ran and got a toy and was teasing Lulabelle training to get her to play with him.
    This morning he was not cooperative in taking his medicine and when I had to hold him down to squirt it in his mouth he started whimpering again. Could it be possible he is playing me?????

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  13. Kim, YES! When we had two dogs, one hurt his paw and was limping. We were inspecting it and washing it off to see the pad better, to check for a cut or sliver or whatever. The other dog was running around watching us and suddenly started limping – FOR NO REASON AT ALL. She just wanted the attention. Dogs are like that – very manipulative – we mostly like that about dogs.

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  14. Which is why I never made a big deal about thunder when Keva was a puppy. He couldn’t care less about thunder. He is, however, scared of every other little thing 🙂

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  16. Off to lunch with Cheryl and 3 tweens. 😯

    I’m feeling outnumbered.

    Mumsee,

    Don’t ask. The fact that that wall paper remains is a sore point with Cheryl. 🙂 My grandparents picked it in the 70’s.

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  18. Enjoy the conversation, AJ. 🙂

    While talking with son in the car I mentioned “the blog people” which he thought to be quite amusing because he said it made him think of “pod people”.

    He had a good flight home. We ended up getting lost a few times as we had to circle through and keep moving. The signs are not helpful. Recently the separate International flights area opened up so the whole airport area is a major maze. We may have spent an hour trying to get him which was about half his flight time from Dallas.

    Thanks to those who prayed for him to have a good flight.

    Bosley’s tail went electrified since she did not remember Wesley. He has been away at school for six months.

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  19. Happy birthday to a beautiful young lady with a lovely name!

    Janice, we recently had one of our grandsons stay for several days. I looked up some things to do on a ‘too hot to be outside’ day. He opted for making paper chains and objects from old paper tubes. We were making minions (and I finished mine). He had two tubes covered in yellow paper, which he turned into a rocket ship, including a window with an astronaut. It takes so little to make them happy at this age. 🙂

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  20. Good Afternoon, Y’all!

    Nice to “see” all of you. Hope all is well!
    Happy Birthday, Elizabeth! ((And ..on a somber note…my youngest is almost 19 and he is STILL doodle bug…sorry!))

    Jo…one of my dear friends just returned from PNG where he is starting a Bible College…very interesting stories!

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  21. Good Morning…still rainy and gloomy around here….I do so love the moisture!
    Happy and most blessed birthday to Miss Elizabeth…what a beautiful photo of you and Mouse giving to you a hug ❤

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  22. Laughing about Let It Go. I just posted this to FB: “Where are preschool granddaughters when you one? I need to let this book go! 🙂

    Hard to see your baby grow up, isn’t it AJ?

    I was in LA last week with mine–who celebrated #22! Since she was just born yesterday, that number must be a lie. 🙂 We had a fun time together, which is an answer to many prayers spoken long ago.

    I came home to two house guests–a friend of Hillary’s who met a guy on the Pacific Coast Trail and has hiked with him the last two months. They’ve taken a week long break from the hike and spent two days with us.

    We liked them both; Hillary’s former roommate made less sense to us than “Sunny” the guy she met on the trail. They had interesting anecdotes and I asked lots of questions. Fascinating that a 30 year-old and a 34 year-old insurance executive can take off for six months just to hike from Mexico to Canada.

    Sunny is much better organized with his life than the friend.

    The friend is a recent divorcee and as I watched them together, I was struck by how when you’ve been married a long time, you can fall into that intimacy with another guy easily–because it’s so natural.

    Sunny is unmarried, but you could see the fascination and attraction to a beautiful young woman who treated him in such a loving way–not weird, but such a natural relationship way.

    She’s a Christian; he is not, though he is amiable to Christian activities and listens to her podcasts on her phone as they hike–10 hours a day. (Solar charger keeps that Iphone going)

    As she said, “we’re both talkers, so we’ve had lengthy conversations about every subject imaginable.”

    He went off for a nine-mile run (!) and friend and Hillary got some good girl talk in. Friend doesn’t want to make a mistake with another guy. She married a supposed Christian last time and he showed no spiritual growth or maturity over 10 years. Sunny, the nephew of church-planters whom she’s met, is far more open to things of the spirit.

    My husband and I didn’t know how to react to a lot of this. Prayed for them, listened, I asked a million questions–but when the counselor in me began to ask more probing questions, I decided I need to remove myself. My husband and I both felt we needed to be loving, but to let the Holy Spirit work in their lives.

    We live in such odd times.

    All so very interesting. Now I need to pick up my book and FINISH! 🙂

    Here’s a question of the day: Would you hike the Pacific Coast Trail by yourself?

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  23. What a fun morning among the Blog People.

    Loved Frozen, loved the Muppets which gave me a giggle. I may share that one on FB. Just for fun.

    Elizabeth, happy birthday! You remind me of a young Laura Hillenbrand in that picture. 🙂

    And Mouse!

    So good to hear Amos is feeling so much better.

    I have the morning off, I’m going in late today to cover the evening memorial for Zamperini. It will be a challenge — it’s being held outdoors in football stadium of his long-ago alma mater. At least I won’t have to do everything, we have divvied up the work so we have another reporter doing social media and live blogging so I can concentrate on covering and writing the story. But it will be a hectic night with deadlines looming.

    Prayers welcome!

    And also prayers that the story might glorify God in a specific way (I know that’s what Mr. Z would have wanted). It’s curious to me to read the eulogy by the author of the book — it was very uplifting and sweet, a reflection of their close friendship. But it gave all the credit to Louie for who he was, not a mention of Who was the first cause of it all.

    Same with some of the other pre-written remarks I’ve seen that will be delivered tonight — everyone loved him so much but a good number of them are not believers themselves and so they somehow “miss” the Big Story. Sounds like there will be a couple folks speaking, though, who will be giving personal testimonies so I’m praying for good copy from that.

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  24. I noticed the same thing when Hildebrand’s eulogy was posted on FB. Any believers in his actual family?

    I just fell into a conversation with my husband and Hillary about justification. (The joys of working from home).He made this observation: “when you ask people to describe a time in their life or a story about grace being shown, what do they say?”

    Inevitably, people refer to the scene in Les Miz where the priest not only tells the police our hero was given the candlesticks, but he hands him the rest of the silver as well.

    “That’s because people are so much more familiar with Christians bestowing judgment than grace.” 😦

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  25. michelle, I’m not sure (about the family question), I think maybe yes, but I’m not sure. But it’s interesting to me that so many of the people involved in the book/movie — or even who knew him from his early years and have remained in touch all these years — appear not to share the faith (though that’s a superficial assessment on my part, admittedly).

    But in seeing some of the ‘script’ from tonight in advance, I just get the sense that Christ has been mostly missed in it all (beyond a cursory, token role, as in, oh, by the way, he went to a Graham crusade and … But now getting back to the real story… ).

    Not their fault, it’s something that is, I think, only perceived by those who have been given ears to hear. Others simply chalk it up to a piece of the story that was important to him in his turn-around, but does not relay any kind of universal truth for anyone else.

    A journalism blog that critiques how journalists cover (or rather, don’t cover) religion often refers to the phenomenon as making religion or God a “ghost” in the stories — the really important element that is treated by most reporters as if it’s invisible.

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  28. 😆 I just got an e-mail that reminded me of Kim.
    It showed a girl being swarmed by puppy dogs. It was labeled, “Instant Antidepressant”.

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  29. Son is loving playing with Bosley.
    I made a new toy for her by attaching the stretchy red gauze ( that was used when they took blood for my lab work) to a back scratcher and on the end of the gauze I attached a black curly ribbon bow. Bosley is worn out from chasing and jumping.

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  31. It is hard not to laugh when a puppy is crawling all over you and kissing your face. If they could bottle “puppy breath” I would be a happy woman.

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  32. Puppy breath=Yes
    Dog breath=No

    Just had a giant rain storm. I think we heard three transformers blow. Now we sre in the dark. Son has been enjoying the rain. He got use to a lot of it on Lookout Mt. Even though it has been considered to be more rainy than usual where he lives in TX it is not nearly as rainy as he likes. He loves to read and that is what rainy days are good for.

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  33. I would not hike the Pacific Coast Trail by myself. I don’t like to do things like that by myself. I guess I have always felt the beauty in nature, God’s creation is meant to be shared. Each person sees details missed by others so you get double, triple, quadruple, etc. treat by sharing. God shared it with us. I think He wants us to share it with others.

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  34. oh, that must be why I am in this rainy place.
    off to school on this sunny Friday morning.
    at the market I got: green beans, carrots, avocado, lettuce, green peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers,and broccoli

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  36. Not having hiked the Pacific Coast Trail, I have no idea how safe it is. There are places I wouldn’t hike by myself (including a place I hiked a lot, as a child with family and as a young adult by myself after work–there have been several murders there in recent years as illegal immigrants move in to portions of Arizona in large numbers).

    Though I often do “see more” with another pair of eyes–my husband has good eyes–I tend to see more than whoever I’m walking with, and I can go more slowly when I’m by myself, and ultimately see more since I go more slowly and more observantly and since animals are less likely to flee. There’s a time and a place for fast walking, but when I’m out to see what I can see, I like to linger.

    When I was single, only once did I ever eat at a sit-down restaurant by myself; it was a very lonely meal, and I never tried it again. I never have gone to a movie by myself (though, admittedly, I haven’t gone to vast numbers with other people either–less than one a year since I was 18 and went to my first). But walking trails is something I readily do alone, as long as the area is safe.

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  37. Jo thinks it’s already August. Where has this summer gone? I know it’s still a couple of months yet. But the Gamecocks play football by the end of this month.

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  38. I was pleasantly surprised when I went to a movie by myself in recent years. I wanted to be supportive of the Christian film, October Baby. It was fine being there by myself. Also, as a single at times I enjoyed lunch out by myself with a book for company.

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  39. Cheryl, you would enjoy hiking with friends of ours. We always spend a lot of time looking at tiny plants, or bugs, or rocks. It’s a great way to walk/hike.

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  40. I wouldn’t hike any trail by myself – I’m scared of bears and there would be no one to carry my extra gear. Yes, I am a princess in the wilderness 🙂

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  41. Happy Birthday, Elizabeth! You have a very sharp Dad.

    I also don’t mind to hike alone. I have enjoyed hiking with my Dad and my son, but sometimes it is very relaxing to climb alone. Like former Texas gubernatorial candidate, Clayton Williams, I try to climb Guadalupe Peak (the highest point in Texas) once a year. It always takes the same amount of time except for three years ago when large parts of the trail were covered in ice. That added 90 minutes to the round trip.

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  42. I wouldn’t go hiking alone, either. In my younger, more adventuresome days, though, I did go running alone on country roads on moonlit nights.

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  44. Busy day doing more piano teaching preparation — looking through a lot of the method books and supplementary music I have in my personal library; writing out practice tips; and tweaking my lesson policy as I go. Things are coming together pretty well. I just need to find some money to get my piano tuned, then I can start recruiting students. I wouldn’t want them playing on a piano that needs tuning as badly as mine does right now. 😉 (Even though my own kids have been playing on it for a while like this — not good.)

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  45. Michelle I had the priest’s collar on again today. I went to one of our branches’ monthly luncheon. There was a mortgage lender there. I can now tell you anything you may or may not want to know about him. 😉

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  48. So good to know Miss Elizabeth had a wonderful birthday!
    I would not hike the Pacific coast trail alone…I have run trails around here alone…with my bear spray in hand…but that was only three miles of running. I much prefer to have a hiking/running buddy along for the fun of it!
    Janice, I just finished reading Beautiful on the Mountain…I enjoyed it very much!

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  51. Elvera agrees with Donna. She thinks Days Inn is roughing it.
    Kim, at 844. The thing is, since you were wearing the priest collar, you aren’t allowed to tell anything you know.
    Leastwise, that’s how I understand it.
    But I don’t tell nobody nothing.

    It’s August

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