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Our Daily Thread 8-26-14

Good Morning!

The picture below is from Cheryl. For some reason I can’t get it to upload into the header, so I’m posting it this way. It’s a good one. 🙂

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On this day in 55 B.C. Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar. 

In 1842 the first fiscal year was established by Congress to start on July 1st. 

In 1945 Japanese officials were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II. 

And in 1961 the International Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto. 

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Quote of the Day

“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth—all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.” – 1957

Lee de Forest   🙂

That’s not the only quote he totally blew it on. Here’s another…. 🙂

“So I repeat that while theoretically and technically television may be feasible, yet commercially and financially, I consider it an impossibility; a development of which we need not waste little time in dreaming.” – 1926

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 Today is Cliff Young’s birthday, so Caedmon’s Call covering Rich Mullins. 🙂

And on this day in 1964 this song was released in the US.

I have no idea what happened there at the end. Television was weird in the old days. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

Here’s one…  Do you have a favorite TV show?

58 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-26-14”

  1. I like the Amazing Race. I enjoy watching how the teams relate to one another over time. And I always root for teams that know how to encourage one another.

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  2. Morning all. Welcome to Tuesday. I saw a photo today that the new bridge was actually open to traffic. That is an actual miracle. Heavier vehicles need to wait a bit until the bridge has better foundations, but lighter vehicles are using the bridge.

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  3. Good morning to most here.
    Good evening, Jo.
    Wonderful news about the bridge. Nothing related to road work in our area gets accomplished that quickly. It seems about a two year minimum for projects is par.

    I am sitting on our love seat where I just did my Bible study. Miss Bosley is curled up beside me. She still follows me around from room to room. She’s a “mama’s cat,” and I can’t imagine that I did not want her when I first saw her. She was just so totally unexpected and unplanned for.

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  5. Re: The quotes.
    You’ve all heard this by now.
    When Spurrier was considering going to SC.
    all his friends in Florida said, “Don’t go up there Steve, you can’t win there”.

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  7. Peter and Cheryl closed yesterday’s thread talking about songs written by lost people, or people out of God’s will.
    Makes me think of Hank Williams every time. He didn’t live a righteous life, and I wouldn’t speculate on his spiritual condition. But his song were straight Gospel. He knew and understood what it was about.

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  8. As most of you know, I became a Christian at age 26, at Second Baptist Church in Houston (I will always love the Baptists!). Caedmon’s Call was just starting out and frequently led worship for our ~80 member Sunday School class. They were a really wonderful group of kids. Thanks for the sweet memories, Aj! My favorite song of theirs (which I tried to find on YouTube a minute ago, unsuccessfully) had a chorus that said, “Water, water everywhere and still yet I thirst.” I can’t remember anymore of the words–but the tune and sentiment is playing in the background of my brain this morning.

    Today’s QoD: I’m embarrassed to admit it, because the show is so liberal, but I love Parenthood. I think the writing is good and the actors are believable and I enjoy the humor that results from the drama of a large family. I have four siblings–so, I can sometimes relate to the various issues that are presented.

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  9. My favorite TV show?
    I never watched much TV. Now I watch FoxNews in the evenings.
    My favorite is the Kelly File. Most favorite is anything Shannon Bream is heading.
    Chuck and I used to watch “Get Smart” together.
    I’ve mentioned before, I saw two episodes of “All in the Family”. The second was a summer replay of the first.

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  11. Many a male did Chas. We have Netflix so we have “bingewatched” several shows lately. I have to say my favorite right now is House of Cards. It is pure evil in politics. What is scary is that it is probably closer to the truth than any of us realize.
    Keven Spacey plays the Majority Whip from South Carolina. He has lied, cheated, stolen, killed, and bamboozled his way to Vice President. Part of what makes it so good is that he very often stops and talks to the audience to let you in on his thoughts. In one episode his wife was up to no good in trying to cover up something they did. Spacey’s character looked at the camera and said, “I love that woman. I don’t know whether to be proud or terrified”.

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  12. Chas, I think Hank Williams was a tortured soul. He was born with a spinal defect and self medicated with booze. Back then doctors handed out pills like candy. He was raised in the rural south at a time that the whole community attended church and had the fear of God imbedded in the fiber of their souls. He knew gospel and he wrote it.
    I get so disgusted when I hear a country song by a young artist that mentions Hank. It’s as if Country Music is still riding the coattails of Hank Williams. Just randomly sticking his name in any ol’ song. Makes me wonder if Junior gets paid every time his father’s name is sung. These people singing probably would recognize a Hank Williams song if it were on the radio and I don’t think they care.

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  13. Morning all… “television was weird in the old days”….AJ television is weird now…just a different kind of weird 😦
    We don’t watch network TV….PBS has some shows I will watch…Antiques Roadshow, Lark Rise to Candleford, Doc Martin, This Old House. There are some antenna stations which carry old time TV, you know, back in the day when it was “weird”….Father Knows Best, Andy Griffith, Make Room for Daddy, The Real McCoys, I love Lucy, Perry Mason….now that right there folks was TV!! 🙂

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  14. Good morning. Another hot one here in the Midwest.

    My current favorite show is NCIS. My all time favorite is probably Andy Griffith.

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  15. Favorite t v show? I halfway watch what my husband has on. I would pick other shows if I had to watch t v. I don’t turn it on usually when I am home alone. My family was not big on t v when I was growing up. Our son does not have a t v in his apartment.

    The most recent show that my husband watches that I find interesting is Scott & Bailey which is similar to the old Cagney & Lacey (sp?) with two women detectives on the job and off the job. It is Brittish, and I enjoy their accents. It does not have Christian based morals, but it does show the briar patch people end up in when they don’t live by God’s moral standards.

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  17. We watch NCIS and Bones. Husband’s favorite is probably House, but I am so tired of that. Also, I do enjoy Castle sometimes. Now I am remembering more of the shows. The Mentalist is pretty good, and there is another that I can’t recall the name of but it has “the machine” in it if anyone happens to know the name of that program. Thanks to my husband I know a lot more about tv than I wish I knew. 😦 🙂

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  18. I didn’t see any of those shows, NancyJ. When we lived in Annandale, we lived in a split level and the large TV was on the lower level. You had to intentionally go down to watch it. Elvera saw lots of it. I stayed in my room (office) and seldom saw anything. I would go down to
    watch special things. Here, I have a flat screen in my room (office) now and I turn it on around five to watch “The Five”. It stays on most of the remainder of the evening. I channel surf to the SEC channel to see if they have anything interesting.

    I have a CD called, “The Gospel according to Hank Williams”. On the flyleaf it says these songs were written by Hank:
    I Saw the Light
    When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels
    Jesus Remembered Me
    Help Me Understand
    Wealth Won’t Save Your Soul
    Are You Walkin’ and A Talkin’ for the Lord
    Calling You
    I Heard My Mother Pray for Me
    Dear Brother
    How Can You Refuse Him Now
    Pictures from Life’s Other Side
    A House of Gold
    And several songs written by others.

    That’s quite a list of Gospel songs. All of them are scripturally correct.

    In the DC area, there was (probably still is) a woman named Jett Williams who claims to be Hank’s daughter. She sued the estate for years for part of the income. I think she finally won and started getting part of the funds from Hank’s music from that time forward. She sang a bit herself, but never became well known.
    She was (is?) married to a lawyer.

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  19. We have the ME channel that has oldies on it so while son was home he got to see Get Smart. 🙂

    Husband and I have watched some Perry Mason and Columbo on there, too. I enjoy those oldies more than the more graphic blood, guts and gore of today’s t v (not to mention the language).

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  21. Ah, Columbo, that was a good show. “One more thing … ”

    I also would put NCIS & NCIS-LA toward the top of my watch list most weeks (this year they’re spinning off a new one — listen up, Kim — NCIS New Orleans).

    I’ve been watching Criminal Minds which can be grizzly but … for some reason I do like it. And they do a lot of filming locally at the port & in our downtown so that’s kind of fun (so does NCIS).

    Monk was pretty good in its day.

    But some of those old shows like Columbo, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore were great.

    AJ, the end of that Kings song was hilarious. I have no idea what that was all about either! 🙂 But I remember dancing (in our PJs) to that Kinks song one night when we were at Girl Scout snow camp. The leaders quickly retreated to the other room of our dormitory-style accommodations — and shut the door tight.

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  22. A friend got me started watching Longmire on A&E, about a modern-day sheriff in Wyoming. I’m not as hooked on it as she and others seem to be, but it’s not bad. The seasons are very short, only a few months long, so this last season just ended — shortly after it began! — and it won’t return until next spring I guess.

    The rest of the week for me will be spent doing a drought story for a special magazine we’re putting out — my piece has to focus on home landscaping, a sort of “What’s a homeowner to do?” conversational piece that looks at the watering regulations being imposed now, what’s the best lawn alternatives using drought-friendly plants, what rebates and other helps are available.

    This is timely since I’ve been doing a lot of that research already for myself as I try to figure out what the heck I can do with my dead front yard which looks horrible. 😦 😦 I have to plant something out there, but I’m stymied and somewhat paralyzed. I am, however, done with the California ideal of a lush lawn as long as this drought continues.

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  23. Janice- there is another that I can’t recall the name of but it has “the machine”

    it’s called “Person of Interest” with Jim Caveziel (sp?). We watch it, but it is not a favorite.

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  27. You can’t see it in the photo above, but the two little guys (they’re skippers, a form of small butterfly) both have their tongues in the flowers, so it looks like two friends sitting down for a drink together. I e-mailed it to a couple of friends the night I took it.

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  28. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Also a fan of Criminal Minds…good writing and acting.

    Always a fan of Andy Griffith. And WKRP…I wish they would release more on DVD…

    And Magnum PI on Netflix…

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  29. I don’t watch much, but I have a list.

    River Monsters- love Jeremy Wade
    Monster Fish- Zeb Hogan wants to be Jeremy Wade when he learns how to fish better. 🙂
    Wicked Tuna- We have friends who lived in Gloucester and I fished the area where they bring their boats in and out near the drawbridge. Some of the best fishing in the world happens here. 🙂
    Dr. Who- loved Matt Smith, but I guess we have to give the old guy a chance. The season premiere was OK, but Matt’s better.
    And the Yankees whenever I can.
    Same for the NY Giants.
    And sometimes Phineas and Ferb with Liz. 🙂
    Oh yeah, and Lucas McCain on ME-TV.

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  30. Glad I’m not alone in liking Criminal Minds. 🙂

    And I see that Modern Family won the Emmy for comedy last night (again) — that is a clever show, I must admit. I don’t watch it in any regular sense, but have seen enough of the reruns in the past few years to be pretty familiar with it. The director (or producer?) is the dad of one of our former reporters, she got passes to the studio filming one day for our editor who loved the show at the time and enjoyed meeting the actors on the set.

    One of the most popular shows among people I know was Breaking Bad — I tried watching it when it began, but just didn’t care much for it. But that also got the Emmy last night for best drama.

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  32. No TV, so we don’t have a favorite show. Donna, you could interview me about the gray water gardening. I’ve been thinking about writing today’s blog post on it . . . we’re overflowing with beans, but Kare has been advising me on what to do with them.

    My husband: “I think this is the best garden you’ve ever had.”

    Me: “Maybe because I didn’t do anything . . . . ”

    Face status: improving, but still horrifying innocent bystanders. 🙂 I can smile now without pain, but still have more than enough swelling and color.

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  34. Donna @ 10:43…Monk! We never knew of Monk when it was a series on TV…but, four years ago, a friend told us about it. We had multiple marathons of watching the entire series on Netflix (I have seen every episode at least three times!)……oh how my OCD self loved Monk. Netflix no longer has Monk in their lineup…I went through serious withdraw!

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  35. TV shows come and go in our house. The constants are NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, and Blue Bloods. We were on Criminal Minds for awhile, but I think we got tired of the grisliness (or grizzliness 🙂 ).

    I’ve watched reruns of NCIS all the way back to the beginning. I really appreciate that I’ve never heard them use “Jesus” as a swear word. That’s the one word on TV shows I’ve seen that makes me cringe.

    NCIS LA never held my attention. As a fan of Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap and Enterprise, I’ll give the new NCIS New Orleans a chance.

    AJ, funny that you favor Matt Smith in Doctor Who. My daughter has a t-shirt that says “You never forget your first Doctor”. In our house David Tennant rules. We don’t get BBC America so we have to wait for the show to appear on Amazon Prime or for my daughter to get the DVDs.

    We are also long-time fans of Star Trek’s original and Next Generation series, but never caught up with the later series until this year when we got Amazon Prime. Over the summer my son binge-watched Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and has started on Enterprise. I’ve watched quite a bit with him, but couldn’t keep up with his pace. I think the start of school will slow him down.

    Last summer we got sucked into Under the Dome. Generally I don’t read or watch Stephen King’s stuff, but the mystery of what the dome’s about is pretty interesting. I didn’t expect it to turn into a multi-season show, though, and I wonder how long they’ll keep milking it. After last summer’s cliffhanger we were easy marks to get sucked in again this summer.

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  36. We loved Monk, but never saw it first-run since we don’t have cable. D1 saw it at college and told us about it. A local station had the first three seasons on late-night reruns, which we recorded and watched. We eventually saw all the seasons. Great show in every way.

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  41. My husband got me the complete “Andy Griffith” show on DVD for Christmas, and we’re watching through them. I had never seen some episodes, including the very first one (though my mom had told me about it, so it was “familiar”), and I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen anything from the final season (which we haven’t gotten to yet). The girls like some newer shows, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a “current” TV show since 2003, the year I moved to Nashville. I used to watch ER, and the summer I moved to Nashville I saw a few episodes of a few reality shows because my housemate watched them. (Actually, I would have seen a few episodes of ER since 2003, and I did see the last “Seinfeld.” But I rarely find TV worthwhile, especially when one can get news on the internet. I used to turn on TV when “something big” happened, but I rarely even do that anymore.)

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  42. I never discover TV shows until years after they’d already been on and turn up in sufficient episode numbers on other stations (which is where I stumble across them). That was the case with NCIS, Criminal Minds & even Law & Order. And Monk.

    Hey. We almost forgot, but today is National Dog Day!

    Back to plant research …

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  43. Yes, we watch Criminal Minds some, too. And I think that my husband’s big favorite right now is Foyle’s War which in addition to watching on tv, our son gave him a season of it. Person of Interest is the show with “the machine” in it. As I said before, I halfway watch. Sometimes I do Sudoku, read emails, write, read Kindle/books/ magazines, brush Bosley, etc. When I was younger the tv put me to sleep so I have to do something else while I “watch” or I will snooze on out. Is anyone else like that?

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  45. I’m almost always doing something else while I watch TV — reading (esp during commercial), computer, picking up, petting the dogs or a cat). Sometimes I miss chunks of the plot, but what the heck. It’s just TV. 🙂

    Here’s a piece on how James Foley’s faith was covered (he was raised Catholic, it was unclear from what I’ve read whether he was a believer, but he seemed to write much about the role of prayer while he was in captivity — his parents appear to be fairly devout). :

    http://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2014/8/slain-us-journalist-james-foley-was-living-his-faith-and-the-media-take-notice

    On to gray water research

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  46. QoD: We never had a TV, so my favorite shows were the ones that played on Sunday afternoon. That was the day we often visited my grandparents, whose TV was usually on. ‘Road to Avonlea’ and reruns of ‘Looney Tunes’ were our favorites.

    When the era of DVDs and digital downloads made old shows available again, my favorites became the political satire ‘Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister’, Patrick McGoohan’s ‘The Prisoner’ and the 1980’s productions of ‘Miss Marple’ with Joan Hickson – all British productions. The times when I have had a television where I was staying, I have sampled Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, etc. but they didn’t stick with me.

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  47. Foyle’s War- I like it! I just wish it were on more than four episodes a year. PBS has some great shows, but the best ones are more or less mini series: Downton Abbey, Foyle’s War, Sherlock. Of course, when Masterpiece has classic literature, I usually watch. I want to see some of those again, like Dickens’ “Bleakhouse”. Not having a fast enough Internet connection means Netflix or Amazon Prime are out. I guess I’ll have to see if the library has some of them.

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  52. Peter, I’ve heard the last season wasn’t very good. But it’s probably “worth seeing once” to say I did.

    I too grew up without a TV, though we got one when I was 15 because we moved to a place where we didn’t get radio reception. We watched Andy Griffith and Little House on the Prairie, and eventually I Love Lucy, The Bob Newhart Show, The Brady Bunch, and Gilligan’s Island. In her later years Mom was quite a TV junkie. But roughly half of us kids don’t own TV at all, and I doubt anyone watches network TV more than an hour a week. (My husband watches some sports, mostly what we call soccer, but mostly we watch videos.)

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  53. Oh yeah, I remember when Barney left — it definitely wasn’t ever the same.

    The Bob Newhart show (both versions, though I wasn’t a regular watcher of the 2nd one) was always fun, I liked him. (He’s done at least one guest spot, maybe more, on NCIS.)

    And Foyle’s War seems good but I’ve never watched it enough to get hooked — Ah, but Downton Abbey, now THERE’S a fun show. 🙂 Forgot about that. It’s another one that has very short seasons so there are long time gaps in between and I almost forget about it.

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  54. Bleakhouse is one of my favorites!!!

    Husband also likes the new Sherlock Holmes with the lady Watson. Do you get the impression that if my husband is at home he is watching tv? If so, you are right. Right now some PBS program is on.

    We just got home from seeing Allen West speak along with some other really good folks in politics. We saw the new GOP Faith Engagement person. He was making me think a bit of Robin Williams if you add the faith factor. He said he was on the Huckabee show this past week. I was highly encouraged to be in a church facility with so many like-minded people.

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  55. NCIS, New Tricks, Coast are some of the shows both my husband and I enjoy. We watch way too much TV 🙂 so we cut back our satellite to just the basics, so now I don’t get my home decorating/design shows or other extras. We watched Criminal Minds when it first started, but it just became too dark and we stopped watching. I’ve also enjoyed Rizzoli and Isles.

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