Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from Peter.
Oh, and 2000!
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On this day in 1718 hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana.
In 1814 the U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.
In 1875 Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
In 1920 the first airplane to fly from New York to Alaska arrived in Nome.
And in 1944 Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.
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Quote of the Day
“Is that your final answer?”
Regis Philbin
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Today is Leonard Bernstein’s birthday. This will wake you up. 🙂
Today is also Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus’. AKA, the other Elvis. And since I like weird stuff, with Diana Krall, and Willie Nelson, singing a song Patsy Cline made famous that was written by Willie.
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Wandering Views 
Good morning. Today is spinal tap and catscan day. 12:45 central if you would say a little prayer
I also have to iron out the details of house today and start getting info to the mortgage company.
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Morning, Kim. Congratulations on the house! I pray everything goes smoothly.
Today is the first day of Becca’s third grade year. Any and all prayers would be appreciated. We will begin at nine and should be done about one. She made a lot of progress last year, but is still behind in math. Wish us luck!
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Hmmm . . . I suspect that “2000” is aimed at me and is related to baseball but I don’t know what it is.
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Let’s see…. Aj does at least 3 posts a day, has he now done 2,000 posts??? All those football posts probably put him over the top.
Appreciating each and every one. Blessings on you.
Finished with Monday and so glad that Tuesday is a holiday
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I’ll be praying with you Kim.
I suspect this is the 2000th thread on the blog.
Quite a bit of doing in that.
I need to go over to Peter’s Pigskin Picks and print the list for some serious cogitation.
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Go Boise.
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Chas- How dare you utilize advanced vocabulary at such an early period of the day. I mean, who cogitates at 8:30AM?
The picture is from our family zoo trip last week. D3 took it. She is slowly becoming quite a photographer. The problem is, she sets the camera for these close ups, then when Mrs L and get the camera we forget about resetting it for distance shots and get blurring.
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Peter, I didn’t start cogitating until about 9:00.
Anytime after I’ve had my coffee.
🙂
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2000! refers to the number of posts. 🙂
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AJ, you’re a prince, this has been a lot of work — and we all love you for it. I’m familiar enough with the world of blogging to know that on some days you just don’t want to go there. Burnout is a very common ailment.
Loved Bernstein. And yes, that did wake me up — along with the morning coffee. 🙂
I am still feeling burdened about my 81-year-old friend who’s facing this decision on what to do about the sarcomas. A retired nurse and one of our matrons of the last two churches I’ve been a member of (who moved last spring to Colo. with her husband to be with the rest of their family) called me last night and we talked about it — her take was to go with the surgery and I’m finding myself thinking that way now as well. Despite the risks, it seems like you’d be charging ahead and at least doing what you could to fight.
If the masses weren’t growing so fast I’d say maybe doing nothing is fine, considering her age. But they seem to be growing so I just don’t think she’s survive very long without any treatment — and surgery seems to be the only other course. Chemo isn’t an option, according to the surgeon, which is just as well, frankly. I’d almost hate to see her go through that more than I would a surgery.
Anyway, keep praying for her clarity of mind, that she can connect with some people who can provide just the right information to make the decision, whatever it will be, easier. Right now I think she feels rather stuck and paralyzed.
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Lovely header photo, Peter. Your daughter has talent.
Got lots (almost typed loots but caught myself) to pray about today. I was going to post a prayer last night but power message showed up so I couldn’t.
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Just back from a refreshing week with my family at Cedar Campus, on Lake Huron in Michigan’s upper peninsula. What have I missed?
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Congrats Kim and Mr. P. 🙂
Kevin,
Ask Kim. 🙂
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Just going over the threads. The discussion about women’s vs. men’s conversations reminded me of this Chesterton essay: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Apostle_and_the_Wild_Ducks/A_Case_of_Comrades
“…Men’s debating clubs have a pedantic phrase which exactly expresses this truth: they talk of `speaking to the motion’. It is true; men do speak to a motion, not about it; they talk to a topic. Women talk to each other; that is why their conversations are frightfully fascinating, but too terrible for us to listen to for long without running away….”
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From yesterday’s discussion on the News thread about the recent defection of a popular Christian musician – here is Russell Moore’s thoughts: http://www.russellmoore.com/2014/08/19/should-we-stop-singing-vicky-beeching-songs/
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First!
Wait. I’m not?!
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A blog post for music lovers to enjoy:http://www.maryvee.com/2014/08/the-music-that-moves-us.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+MaryVee+(Mary+Vee)&m=1
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Pet Post: after years of using the dogs as therapeutic dogs, having the children walk, feed, water, etc, I have taken them back and have been reminding them of their training. Today I let Barney off the leash with Brutus. Barney is a twenty pound rat terrier, Brutus is a one hundred twenty pound mutt. I kept Betty on leash. Brutus and Barney ran along nicely, leaping at mice, sniffing at gophers, checking where the coyotes stopped. I called them back as practice. They did fine. I was ready to leash up Barney and Brutus so Betty could have her turn. Barney did not come when called. I called him again. He did not return. I mumbled something about never letting him off leash again once he returned. He came back a few seconds later and the big dog grabbed him and shook him. He does not like it when the others don’t listen, I suspect he picked up on my irritation. So this gentle peaceable giant sent the little rat guy to the vet for stitches and a drain and the cone. Poor little fellow. Maybe he will listen next time. They had just been playing moments before. They shared a chicken last night, silly thing wandered into their pen while we were out. You would think they were best friends. But, of course, we all know Brutus could have severed the rat terrier in two with one bite and all he had was one small hole. He was just trying to correct his bad behavior for me. I try to remind him that is my job and I don’t hit my dogs but he doesn’t listen. The problem was the shaking, pulling the skin from the muscle creating a pocket. Anyway, he wears the drain and the cone for the next week. Now to find his new sleeping area for the next week. He normally sleeps on top of Betty, being a shorthaired tiny dog, he steals her warmth.
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We are still at the hospital. They haven’t managed to do the procedure year because of the scar tissue. He has been refusing pain med but they just took some to him. The nurse didn’t know if he requested it or the doctor insisted.
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Thanks for the update Kim. I was thinking it was all over by now.
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Mumsee, I was thinking that it was only kids that gave you trouble.
😆
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Chas, the children sometimes give her trouble too, not just the kids.
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Poor Barney!
Pain meds for a spinal tap would be an absolute necessity I’d think! 😮 If they can knock him out completely, all the better? Yikes.
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Cheryl!
Booooooooooooooooooo
😉
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you all enjoy your Monday, while I enjoy my holiday
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Jo. Are you feeling better?
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We are home finally. They gave him some heavy duty pain med. Because they stuck him 3 times before getting what they needed they gave him a push of some really heavy duty antibiotic before they let him leave.
I once again displayed how you just can’t take a Southern Woman anywhere. The nurse who was taking care of him was married to my friend Aunt Lesee’s cousin–he passed away last year, cancer. I don’t know if Lesee knows or not. I haven’t heard her mention it. We talked about their family reunion that I helped with about 15 or so years ago. She, the nurse, didn’t attend. If Paul had had to stay another hour I probably could have found a distant relative.
After almost two years of marriage, I finally got to drive the Titan. He has thought all this time I that couldn’t drive a big truck. Poor dillusional man.
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Re: the Russell Moore article that Roscuro posted- If we only sang songs written by sinless people, we would not sing very many songs. Many of the tunes we use were written by lost people. Some were tavern songs, some were adapted from classical music or operas. As Mr Moore points out, the main psalmist was a fornicating murderer who repented. If the song itself honors God, it doesn’t matter to me who wrote it or what sin that person later committed.
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Well, we obviously can’t sing any songs written by people who never sinned, but I do think that singing a song by a person who is in current rebellion against God is a distraction from worship. As far as I know, I’ve never sung any of this woman’s songs (I’d never heard of her, and haven’t seen any titles that sound familiar–well, one sounded familiar, but when I checked it out on YouTube, it turns out to be a different song than the one I was thinking of). But if we had been singing her music, I’m pretty sure our elders wouldn’t be comfortable continuing to do so, nor would I be.
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