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Our Daily Thread 8-2-14

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday!!!

On this day in 1776 members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. 

In 1791 Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent. 

In 1892 Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator. 

In 1983 the U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

And in 1990 Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait.

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Quote of the Day

“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”

Dennis Prager

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 Today is Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s birthday.

And it’s Garth Hudson’s. So The Band, with help.

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Anyone have a QoD?

82 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-2-14”

  2. I have to get a lesson on Daniel 3 for tomorrow. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are thrown in the firey furnace. Chapter 2 is skipped, but I’m going to tell it because it’s a very important chapter. Prior to this, prophesies against nations was only against near neighbors of Israel. Edom, Egypt, etc. This concerns the world powers as they affect Israel and have implications for the end times. The end of Ch. 2 also tells why the three were involved in worship of the image.

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  3. Some time ago, I mentioned the woman singing “You’re No Good”, and some of you defended her. She was right.
    This morning, as I was getting up, Loretta was singing, “Don’t tell me you’re sorry. I know how sorry you are.” 😆

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  4. Morning Chas. As I’ve said before, I am reading through the Bible chronologically and just looked at tomorrow’s selections and it will include Daniel 1 and 2. I will enjoy praying for you as I read.

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  6. Thanks Jo, I will need it because Dr. Jones, our regular teacher, will be there, but not teaching. His children have grounded him. But the problem is, I think, though he has never said, that he has held the “Replacement Theory” most of his life. Some of my teaching may be contrary to his beliefs.
    But I teach the Bible as I read it.

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  8. I’m here, I’m here. We just posted at the same time! However, I won’t be around for long. It costs too much to just hang around the internet. Facebook is my entertainment. I got to see pictures of Ginger’s birthday today and a 10 second video of my Portland grands riding their balance bikes down a grassy slope and even swerving to avoid a tree. Pretty impressive for a three year old and an almost 5 year old.

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  12. Good mornin to one side od the world and good evening to the other side.

    Husband left for work around 6:00 a.m. Bosley is asleep in husband’s chair. Son is asleep up in his room. I hear the clock ticking and occasional burdsong. It is a peaceful morning.

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  16. Jo. (For when you wake up and start reading Daniel 1 & 2. This from my note sheet A comment on the name change.)

    Lesson skips v. 3-7. Read anyhow. As part of the training and conditioning to make them Chaldeans in the service of the king. They changed their names. Names were important. Hevrew names, their god. To Chaldean names, concerning foreign gods. It took with three of them. But Daniel uses his name throughout. But even in Ch. 10, Daniel has the Chaldean name. The total impact of this was to create new people. Mostly didn’t work.
    Daniel=God is my judge
    Belteshazzar=Whom Bel favors

    Hananiah=God is gracious
    Shadrach=Illuminated by Shad (Sun god)

    Mishael=God is great
    Meshach=Who is like Shach (love goddess)

    Azariah=God is my helper
    Abed-nego=Servant of nego (fire god)

    “El” has to do with God: e.g.
    Ezekiel=God strengthens, Israel=ruling with God, Emmanuel=God with us, etc.
    When a nation conquers another, it tries to convert religions. A religion determines the culture. Islam, Wars between Catholics & Protestants, Christians didn’t use force, except likely the Catholic church in South America and in Spain during the inquisition.

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  17. Good morning/evening. Thanks for your 9:16, Chas.

    I enjoyed watching the Hartmann video, AJ. The camera shots were in the right place at the right time, filming particular players as they were performing a distinctive part of the music. The conductor was interesting to watch, too; excellent nuances in his hands and facial expressions.

    As I was looking through my print music library yesterday, I had a CD of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances playing. I have really been enjoying listening to Dvorak’s music ever since reading the book I’ve mentioned here before, Alice’s Piano. His music is brilliant, and it is said that he threw away a lot of what he wrote because he had such exacting standards for himself.

    Anyway, what remains is high-quality stuff, and the urge suddenly struck me in the middle of poring over all that music I had pulled out of my closet to stand up and start conducting the Slavonic dance that was playing at the moment. 😉 (Yes, I have music on the brain.) I stood behind the dining room table, and was looking at my “orchestra” in the kitchen, cueing in the (imaginary) players as they made their entrances or played out their important parts in the music.

    No one saw me doing this 😉 but now that you have seen it in your mind’s eye, go ahead and chuckle. 🙂 You are getting a glimpse of the real me, ha!

    Enjoy your day in your own unique way! 🙂

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  18. You know how there is an event in your past that doesn’t hit you until many years later? From the time I got my drivers license until I was well into my twenties almost every time I went somewhere with my father he made me drive. I asked h about it and his reply was that he really didn’t line to drive and was just waiting until I was old enough to haul him around. I shrugged my shoulders and drove. Now BG has a license and a car and her father and I make her drive anytime we go anywhere with her. We are checking out her driving skills. Making sure she is still following the rules and is a good driver. Reckon she will figure out what we are up to one day herself? 😉

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  21. 6 arrows- I often “direct” the orchestra when listening to music or a movie. It drives D3 crazy. I also “play” the drums on the steering wheel while driving and listening to music.

    You are not alone.

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  24. Third Arrow started behind-the-wheel this week and did well. Her instructor is quite talkative, so I heard all about it from him, as I was outside when she arrived back home in the driver’s ed vehicle. I thought her first day would be mostly driving in parking lots and quiet streets, but she went all over, including on highways with 55-mph speed limits. I was impressed. 😉

    She is 17, and her instructor said students are much easier to work with at that age than are the younger ones, in general. I’m glad we waited with her, and did not sign her up at 16, like we did with her older two siblings, or especially at age 15. She needed extra time to mature, as she has some challenges the older two did not at that age.

    She’s grown a lot in confidence by having that successful first run.

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  26. Loved the twins names for themselves, Kim. My MIL was named Allie. She hated it, because her twin was Sally and she thought her name was just a quick thought to rhyme. I always pointed out how a movie star had her name. Today it is very popular. In fact, cousins on both sides of our family, beat my daughters to the name or they would have used it. My MIL would be amazed about that and many other things, if she were still living.

    Children can ground parents? When do we get to do this? My dad is 87 and he still doesn’t listen to us. 🙂

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  27. I had one driver’s instructor who made me a nervous wreck. He was sure the problem was me and handed me over to another instructor. Later, he mentioned that we should go somewhere more difficult and was surprised when the new instructor said we had been in a major downtown area already. I was a nervous driver, but a good teacher can mean a world of difference.

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  30. It is a beautiful morning in the Forest and the air smells so fresh and springlike 🙂 (we had to turn on the furnace two days this week!) We have had lots of rain and the forest floor is green and lush…time for a brisk walk about…

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  31. I was visiting Stargazer in Las Cruces, NM a couple years ago and he took me to the newly remodeled New Mexico State bookstore–which had just opened the first escalator in the city. People came from all around just to ride it!

    We followed a little boy down one the other day, and he was so timid about that first step. Remember that? We cheered when he finally launched on!

    And many years ago in the dark ages, my brother and I were running to find our father at the airport. Somehow, he twisted the toe of his tennis shoe into the crack between the moving stairs and the side. The escalator continued down, slowing and he turned to look at me with terrified eyes.

    I started screaming, “Stop the escalator, stop!”

    It screeched to a halt three steps from the bottom.

    He would have lost his toes . . .

    But he didn’t.

    My father showed up a few minutes later, grumbling about the escalator being stopped by some kid . . .

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  32. I just went back and noticed Jo’s.7:32. The Replacement Theory, briefly, is the theory that the promises God made to Abraham, Isaac, etc. accrue to the church. I have a book by the late James McKeever called Claim Your Birthright. The question, to him, is “Who is
    Israel?” I like McKeever, but we differ on this.
    It isn’t an unusual theory. Some in the early church believed it. Martin Luther did.
    I went back and read those promises and can’t see where substituting “church” helps at all. The main promise to me is in John 14:3, “I will receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” All other promises are miniscule beside it.
    But I see God working in the world every day. And Israel is in the middle of it.
    As I said many times before, there’s going to be a big fight. And I don’t want to be on the wrong side.

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  34. Correct, some type of Heron, at least that’s what the birdwatcher guy said. 🙂

    Just came from the park where I had an interesting experience. First off, I had no idea sapsuckers travel in flocks. I counted 7 different birds on 3 trees, all clustered together. They moved down the treeline together. I also discovered if you just stand still and snap pics on silent mode they’ll come within 3 or 4 feet of you. Twice I thought one was gonna land on me. 🙂

    It was fun and I got some nice shots. I’ll post one tomorrow. I also got a bird from a distance that I have no idea on. It’s not the best shot, but you can make him out well enough. Maybe one of you will know.

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  35. AJ, I might be wrong, but I don’t think sapsuckers travel in flocks. My hunch is it’s a family group. But I’ve only seen sapsuckers a couple times in my life, and others can correct me. . . .

    Chas, yes, many in the early church believed in some version of “the replacement theory.” Including the apostle Paul! 🙂

    Michelle, a few years ago I read that a lot of people think of elevators as dangerous, but it’s really escalators that are dangerous. Well, I’ve always been careful on escalators (step on the middle of the step, lift my foot all the way when I step off, etc.) because they have always seemed hazardous to me, so that didn’t surprise me.

    Of course, a couple of years after college I could have lost an arm to an elevator. I knew from my experience cleaning on the campus that if an elevator opened and you didn’t have time to jump in, you could keep it open by waving a hand in the doorway, and a beam could be tripped and it would reopen. That was a super-handy trick when one had a cart full of cleaning supplies to load onto an elevator.

    But one day the elevator in a newer building of the campus was closing. It never crossed my mind that a newer elevator wouldn’t have the same “safety feature” as the old one, so I swung my arm within the doors . . . and the doors closed. Stuck, I couldn’t even reach the elevator button to open it. I glanced around quickly, hoping someone else was near enough to help me, and saw my roommate. (Not my college roommate, but a roommate I lived with off campus; she was an alum too.)

    I yelled her name, and she looked over and laughed, thinking I was pretending my hand was stuck. But I was deadly serious. I was afraid if someone on a different floor “called” the elevator, I might well lose part of my arm. I quickly told her I wasn’t joking, but my arm was stuck, and she ran and hit the button. But it really felt like a close call. I felt stupid for putting my arm in there–but realistically I had no reason not to expect it to stop the door from closing.

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  36. Actually, AJ, they might have not been traveling together, but they were simply all drawn by the same good trees. Sapsuckers are said to defend their wells from other birds, but maybe they tolerate other birds on their trees as long as they dig their own wells. I don’t know. I do know that in Chicago I came home from work once, parked my car, and noticed the tree right in front of me had several woodpeckers on it. Although the tree was still alive, I figured it was a goner. Something was attacking the tree, and that drew the woodpeckers in large numbers. Sometimes they can save a tree, but this time it did indeed die.

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  37. Yep, those are “our” islands Janice. 🙂

    I was really tired and slept in longer than I have in ages. I had another late work shift last night — a quilt show to cover in the afternoon then an outdoor movie to go to for a feature we’re doing on the popularity of outdoor movies.

    (There was a big crowd along the harbor for the movie — “Big” with Tom Hanks — maybe 500?, and thankfully a cool breeze as the sun went down; I’d been sweltering that afternoon in the old WWII warehouse where the quilt show was being held.)

    Today I’m taking my disabled friend shopping as she should get her monthly government check today. Unfortunately she tends to spend it all in a mad-dash whirlwind at Walmart and is left with only spare change (if that).

    I’m tired of summer. When will it be over?

    Tomorrow’s sermon is on Isa. 5.

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  38. BTW, in case you can’t figure out what my hummingbird is doing–at the bottom is a branch underneath him; to the left is his beak, on top are his two wings, and at the bottom is the tail he is “stretching.”

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  40. In the “you learn something new every day” category: Groundhogs can climb trees. Just watched one do so, and I even have pictures.

    Question: I have an author referring to goats braying. Well, donkeys bray, but I can’t think of the word you’d use to say what a goat does. Anyone? (Not looking for smart-aleck answers, Mumsee. Thanks anyway.) In terms of sound, I mean.

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  42. Driving – I was just practicing driving today. They use a graduated licensing system in Ontario with three levels. I had made it to the second level, but due to various circumstances, I was never able to test for the third level. I admit, it wasn’t a huge priority, as the second level allows you to drive by yourself. Well, my license expired while I was away – due to the extension of my stay. So, when I came back, I found I would have to go back to the beginning. So I’m gearing up for my road test. I really haven’t lost much, just a matter of honing those parallel parking skills.

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  45. Replacement Theology: I never learned the labels for systems of theology. The pastor I sat under, in my young adult years, had no use for systems. He simply taught, verse by verse, through complete chapters and books of the Bible. John plus a special series on John 14-17, Galatians, Ephesians, Hebrews, I Peter, I John, I Corinthians 15 – he taught in painstaking detail, examining the original languages and referred constantly to cross-references throughout the Old and New Testament. When he came to Romans 4, Galatians 3, Hebrews 11, and I Peter 1, he taught us that all Christians are the children of Abraham by faith and therefore, we received the promises made to Abraham. After all, that is what those passages say:

    “For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also..
    For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect…
    Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all…
    Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead…” (Romans 4:9-11, 13-14, 16, 23-24)

    “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise…. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:16-18, 29)

    “And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” (Hebrews 11:39-40)

    “Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.” (I Peter 1:10-12)

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  46. Son is playing our horribly out of tune piano. It is nice to hear it again. It sounds like our old homeschooling days. Now if he would get out that clarinet. On second thought, I don’t think it would sound so nicely as piano when he is out of practice.

    When he was quite young we would watch the Disney movie, Fantasia (sp?), and he would pretend to direct the symphony. 6 Arrows reminded me of that. He also did a lot of bird study and made a book of drawings of birds to give to my mother. I suppose my brother has that somewhere since he lives in my parent’s home. One of the merit badges for Boy Scouts was for bird study. I asked him about yesterday’s bird picture and off the top of his head he said maybe a vireo or warbler. I think Cheryl got it right with her best guess.

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  49. I like Fantasia. 😉

    There is a piano series I’ve used in my teaching that has a song where the teacher plays the accompaniment that’s written out, and the student improvises a melody on black keys. The song is called “Scarlatti’s Cat”, and the lyrics at the end of it are “Kitten on the keys.” The note at the bottom of the page is that legend has it that the keyboard composer Alessandro Scarlatti wrote one of his most famous pieces after hearing his cat run along the keyboard.

    Get out some staff paper, Janice, and write down what Bosley played. You could be famous. 🙂

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  50. FYI to Chas- the package arrived today. I’ll see what I can do. I hope a disk made for Windows 3.1 and 95 works on a Windows XP machine. It should, as other programs that old work on it. I have a program that is even older- a golf game made for DOS!

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  51. I was carrying a load of laundry out the door, and Bosley was nearby, but I did not think she went outside. The next time I opened the door to go back outside I saw her on the mat by the door. I was mad that she escaped. I was trying to pick her up, and she yowled. I came back in the house and told husband and son that she had gotten out. They said that she hadn’t because they had just seen her. As it turned out, it was the cat we call Bad Boy that looks like he could be Bosley’s daddy cat that I had tried to grab. Lucky for me it was him because Bosley would have bit at me for grabbing her. So her daddy cat has a redeeming factor. He did not bite when provoked. I also know now, he is attracted to the aroma of reheated Chinese sizzling rice soup and garlic chicken. 🙂

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  53. Just walked the dogs and it started raining. Well, sprinkling steadily. There’s another chance of thunder storms tomorrow (we had some on the coast a week ago), but that’s in the general LA area which includes the mountains to the east so it could be just inland this time. But it was cloudy all day here.

    And I do think I heard some thunder while we were walking, but I wasn’t sure.

    The rain feels good, we’ve been trapped in this hot, mid-80s w/humidity stranglehold for going on 2 weeks now. Blech.

    When will summer be over?

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  56. Sorry Chas. But I’m just done with it already. 🙂

    It rained steadily (but lightly) most of the night so at least we had enough to soak into the ground a bit this time. But it’s sure made our weather more tropical this morning. 😦 But the birds are singing and the dark clouds are rolling out to sea (wish they’d stay here, we need so much more rain).

    Trying to wake myself up with some coffee (stayed up too late las night) — then it’s on to hear all about Isa. 5 in this morning’s sermon.

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  57. Donna, it’s a good summer day in Atlanta when it is in the 80s and humid. The 90s with humidity makes us appreciate what you have grown tired of. 🙂

    I forgot to tell son our service is now at 10:30. We got to hear the pastor’s sermon. We missed the worship music. I had to pick up son after Sunday School so he was not quite ready to go. It was worth it going just for the sermon, but I did miss the music.

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  58. The lesson went well. It irritates me though that I forgot one of my illustrations of how God delivers some, but not others. Acts 12 starts out, “Abut that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.”. The rest of Chapter 12 (thru v. 19) tells about how an angel delivers Peter.

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  59. Last week I posted a prayer request about my back aching, & said that lying down made it worse. It would get to a point of feeling not too bad during the day, then get tired in late evening, & then get pretty painful when I lied down to go to sleep. By the early morning hours (like around 4:30 or 5), it would be painful enough to wake me up. For the first hour or so after getting up, I was in some pain.

    But it has gotten better a little bit each day, thankfully. Even so, yesterday I asked Daughter E to tell R that I’d hurt my back, & ask him to take Grandson F overnight Sunday & keep him through Monday morning. (E leaves to meet up with Lee around 6 in the morning, & Daughter C isn’t here on Monday mornings, so I’d be on my own with active little F.)

    R said he would do it… if she brought F over to him for a couple hours last night. E was exhausted from not getting much sleep the previous couple nights, & wanted to go to bed early, so she said no. He claimed he is writing down every time she refuses to let him see F.

    That’s almost laughable. According to the custody agreement, he is supposed to have F Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, & Friday evening until around 5pm on Saturday. But he doesn’t take him during those times. Sometimes he takes him for a few hours Monday evening, which, although it is not one if his “official” days, as part of the agreement, he is allowed to have F whenever E will be out for four hours or more.

    And he keeps asking E to let him see F when it is her time with F. Still no full-time job, but it sounds as if he is getting occasional days working under the table for someone he knows.

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  60. Daughter E is doing great in LPN school! I think she has gotten all A’s so far. Saturdays are “clinicals”, where they work with real patients. Right now their clinicals are in a nursing home.

    She has a two-week break coming up the last couple weeks of August (which will also a break for me), & she will be taking F camping for a few days.

    Daughter C seems to be quite happy with the McKs. I should be happy for her, & part of me is, but I kind of wish she wasn’t so happy there, if you know what I mean. I am grateful, though, that she is here Monday evenings to help babysit (she gets dropped off & picked up by one of the McKs that evening), & she also is here (to help babysit) Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, & she arrives late Friday night to be here for babysitting on Saturday. We have a pretty good time together.

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  61. My fifteen year old is out driving fifty one thousand pounds down the highway. Farmers are amazing. The amount of food this country produces is amazing. God’s provision is amazing.

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  62. A fifteen year old with a driver’s license?
    God’s provision is amazing. But when we start using the land to grow gasoline additives, narcotics, etc.. He may reconsider is system.

    Details may be fuzzy because this information is a couple of weeks old and my memory isn’t that sharp. But the principle still applies.
    The USDA wasted millions of dollars trying to get soybeans to grow as an alternate crop in Afghanistan. Turns out. Soybeans won’t grow in the Afghan soil.
    I used to work with a USDA soil scientist. A week in Afghanistan and he could have told them that.

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  64. Peter you could send the floppy to me if you don’t get it to work. We’ve got an old machine we scrounged up to read floppies from the 1990s. Well, contact me first and I’ll have my IT guy answer the question. 🙂

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  65. Among other times, every time I pick the wild produce God has planted and produced, I am reminded of his wonderful provision.

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  68. Chas, like your forgetting that part in your lesson, I’ve remembered a piece of a quote that I really should have gotten into the Zamperini story. Sigh. Oh well. Actually, since we’ll be writing more about him, I may be able to use it later. I still have my typed out notes from my interview with Zamperini a year and a half ago and am finding some of those formerly unused portions now usable in later stories. 🙂

    Janice, yes, weather is all quite relative. Annie insisted on coming out the front door with me this morning when I was off to church — she was stunned to see it was raining. Deal with it, I told her as I was already running late. The porch is sheltered and I figured the light rain would stop soon enough anyway. She’d survive.

    Last night she slipped out as I was taking the dogs for a walk so I had to coax her back in before we left (which took 10 minutes — she’d *almost* come in and then pull back — along with a bag of cat treats). If she’s out when we go for our walk, she’ll follow us. Cute but dangerous for her.

    Our sermon was on Isa. 55 this morning (not 5 like I thought, guess I misread the email). Good message by the pastor from one of our sister churches.

    Stocked up on fresh veggies on the way home for next week’s salads.

    Is there really a big difference between organic and regular? I buy both, although this time I grabbed from the “regular” bins because I passed by them first. 😉

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  70. Michelle- I may take you up on that. The disk is a Kodak disk labeled for Windows 3.1- 95/98. For some reason, my XP computer says it is not formatted. I have a friend who may know what to do. I’ll check with him first. if he can’t, I’ll send you an email.

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  71. My sweet Amps still isn’t better. He spent the weekend with George so that he could have peace and quiet away from Lulabelle He was fine this morning but a little while later yelped when George petted him and scratched his ears. Paul and I picked him up after church He has been on the sofa most of the afternoon. We are going back to the vet. This isn’t just inflammation and muscle strain. It moves all over his body. This afternoon he has allowed me to rub his back.

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  72. Turns out that Ryan is indeed coming to get Forrest. I am grateful, because I need to be able to sleep in, after not getting much sleep lately.

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  73. Peter, Michelle, as you can tell, it is an old Kodak disk. Someone sent it to me and I think I had the pictures on my old computer. This reunion happened in 1999. So, it is indeed, old.
    But it contains pictures of some who aren’t around anymore. I would like to have them, but it isn’t urgent. I have lost contact with all of them.

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  76. Donna I know you need rain but flash floods are never good.
    Karen thank you for understanding and praying for Amos. He is my love puppy and I can’t stand the thought of anything happening to him. He finally ate and is sleeping on the sofa. He can’t have any more medicine until morning.

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  77. Well, it’s official — 5th Arrow (10-year-old son) can now handily beat me in a race up our driveway. I’ve mentioned in the past that he liked to go down to the mailbox with me, then race me back up to the house. We ran at pretty much the same speed, but he was more tired out by the top.

    This was a few months ago, and then he lost interest in doing that.

    Tonight, when I’d realized no one had gone down to the paper box to get the newspaper, I went down to get it, and I heard boy come running out of the house after me. I let him get the paper. He walked a few steps ahead of me, and at the bottom of the driveway, he turned and looked at me with that gleam in his eye and mischievous look on his face, and leaned forward like he was waiting for the starting gun. 😉

    I started running, and he immediately bolted up the driveway, a couple steps ahead of me. I had to run top speed, but I could not catch him. In fact, by the top, I was several steps behind him, not the two steps or so behind that I had started at.

    Did I mention I was wearing running shoes?

    He was wearing flip-flops. 😀

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  78. Another control issue with R.

    F has curly hair when it grows a bit, & we all love it. Letting his hair get a bit long (not long as in hanging down, but long as in the curls bushing out from his head on top) just fits his personality so well. We say that his curly hair sticking out from his head is “so F_____”.

    Whenever it gets to be a bit too bushy in his opinion, R cuts it. He “buzzes” it, & gives him a haircut just like his own. It goes straight across in front from one temple to the other, in a weird, non-attractive way. We hate it when he does that to F, so E decided to cut F’s hair before it came to that.

    So this afternoon, she gave him a Mohawk-type cut, with the sides very short (though not shaved), & the top of back longer, in a strip about two or three inches wide. I’m not fond of the Mohawk style in general, but there was something about the curls & his cute face that made it look adorable. And F had said he wanted his hair this way, because his Auntie used to have her hair that way.

    As soon as R arrived to pick him up, he (R) said, “I’m gonna cut his hair.” E told him F wants it this way, but R didn’t seem to care.

    Through texts, R told her that F wants him to cut his hair. E knows that he sweet-talked him into it. (“Don’t you wanna look just like Daddy?”) 😦

    I know it’s only a haircut, but the way R does it just isn’t cute on F, & takes away some of his “personal style” so to speak. And we also don’t like it because it is a way of R trying to make his son look just like him.

    I hope he’s just bluffing. We’ll find out tomorrow.

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  80. Sounds like fun 6 arrows. 🙂

    So we are getting roads washed out in the mountains w/evacuations. At the coast we’re getting “hard sprinkles,” according to one person on FB. We’ll take it.

    Also praying for Amos.

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  82. You know, that was one of my concerns about a digital camera. Buying a cassette player is difficult today, and if you have an eight-track forget it. And then we have VHS/DVD/Blu Ray. How do we know that ten years from now, let alone fifty, we’ll still be able to read today’s digital-camera files? Techie experts I know say that isn’t an issue . . . but I find that hard to believe.

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