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Our Daily Thread 8-29-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And it’s our 2 year anniversary here at Wandering Views. So thank you all for your participation, and for what you bring to this blog. Without you folks, this wouldn’t be possible. 🙂

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On this day in 1833 the “Factory Act” was passed in England to settle child labor laws. 

In 1945 U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese. 

In 1962 the lower level of the George Washington Bridge opened. 

In 1977 Lou Brock brought his total of stolen bases to 893. The record he beat was held by Ty Cobb for 49 years. 

And in 1983 the anchor of the USS Monitor, from the U.S. Civil War, was retrieved by divers. 

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Quote of the Day

“In a circle of true Friends each man is simply what he is: stands for nothing but himself. No one cares twopence about any one else’s family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history…That is the kingliness of Friendship. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts. This love (essentially) ignores not only our physical bodies but that whole embodiment which consists of our family, job, past and connections…Hence (if you will not misunderstand me) the exquisite arbitrariness and irresponsibility of this love. I have no duty to be anyone’s Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

C. S. Lewis

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 Today is Cheri Keaggy’s birthday. From Cheri Keaggy

And this one is because for some reason I like it. 🙂 From 98RockVideosOnDemand’s channel

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Anyone have a QoD?

150 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-29-14”

  1. It’s Friday?
    You know what that means? A busy day for me. Today starts the Apple Festival weekend.
    Goes through Monday.

    😦 We all guessed wrong on the Gamecocks.
    I suspect Spurrier will have some changes made.

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  5. Hey, no fair, I’ve been awake since 5:00 (let the dog out) and up since a bit before 6:00, and I’m still not first. (But I read half of Mark and ate breakfast before posting here, so oh well. Priorities.)

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  6. Good morning, Chas! Hello to everyone else. I’m still waking up. L. has to go in early to take a makeup quiz. She normally carpools with a friend and her big brother, but I have to drive her today. We have to leave by 7:10–so I’m drinking coffee and checking in with y’all.

    Congratulations on the 2000th post! Way to go, Aj! Thanks so much for providing this blog.

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  10. Good Morning Everyone. AJ, thank you for keeping us all together. I don’t know what I would have done without the community I have here. Probably taken more happy pills 😉

    Last Summer and Fall you were with me as I said good-bye to the third man in my life who served as a father figure, Daddy Jim. Earlier this week I received a call that Mama Ruth had fallen, had been in the hospital, and was in a rehab facility. Luckily nothing was broken. She was asking for me. I dreamed Tuesday night that I didn’t make it to her in time, so I went yesterday afternoon to see her. When I walked in she asked her daughter who I was. At least I looked familiar. She didn’t remember that my father had died. She asked if Chloe was an only child. She still isn’t able to walk and she cannot use her left arm. Every so often she would cry out in pain and she just had a blank look on her face. It broke my heart to see her like that. I took her a vanilla milkshake and she enjoyed it. I promised to come back.

    The family dynamics are still going on. The two sisters are fighting. One has control of most of the money and won’t tell the other what she has done with it. She refused to pay the nursing home bill until the Younger Sister told her fine. Pick mother up on Sunday and take her home with you. Suddenly the bill got paid. Younger Sister is making plans to take her mother home with her when this next month is up. It is just sad all around.

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  11. My life has been so enriched by this blog. Thank you, AJ, and thanks to the rest of you who have been faithful to keep posting and sharing your lives. I find wisdom here that I do not find elsewhere. I find joy in the Lord. I find loyalty and integrity. I find people who enjoy the arts and sports all on the same page! Miracle stuff 🙂

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  13. AJ, we have the second anniversary, and you know how many posts have been made.
    Do you know how many visits have been made to the blog.
    I often come on to scan, but leave without commenting. You likely have over 4000 visits..

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  14. Sometime in the last week or so we were discussing that “at some point in our lives one person made all the difference”.
    Mama Ruth is that person. I met her when I was 12. As my mother deteriorated MR stepped in. I went on family vacations, I had my own bedroom, and a key to the house. Her two daughters are 12 and 6 years older than me. The youngest teases me that she moved out and I moved in.

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  16. Good morning all….what a beautiful day in the Forest…44 degrees and the sun is shining…the furnace kicked on last night 🙂

    Paul and I are celebrating our 39th anniversary today…great day for anniversaries eh?

    Thanks to AJ for keeping us all together here…what a blessing you are ❤

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  22. Chas has gotten into the coffee this morning. 😉

    Well, this is one of those days I’ll have to pull stories out of nowhere. My drought story is nowhere near finished (and I know the editor will be clamoring for it by noon). Eeek. And I somehow have to find 1-2 more stories to do for the weekend if possible. One at least. Long weekends mean lots of copy is needed to get us through.

    Yesterday’s two-hour staff meeting didn’t help. But it was informative, mostly about metrics and how we’re measuring website visits, story clicks, etc.

    One interesting stat: Only 23% of Americans now get their news via a print product. Sixty-plus percent of us get our news from digital online sources. Not surprising, but interesting numbers nonetheless.

    Unfortunately, revenues from digital ads still don’t come close to revenues from print ads (which continue to fall like a rock).

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  25. Went fishin’, got nothin’. 😦

    But I did get some pics, like the one above with the caterpillar in it’s beak. And the sunflowers in the neighbors yard drew in a flock of gold finches. I got shots of 2 different females and at least 5 different males. 🙂

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  27. Happy 2nd Anniversary, Fellow Wanderers!

    BTW, on Facebook, I have my friends divided up into Friends Lists. The list for those of you on here is called Fellow Wanderers. 🙂

    And…

    Happy 39th Anniversary, Nancy & Paul!

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  30. What’s the gift on a second anniversary? Pixels? 🙂

    Happy anniversary, all, and thanks for bearing with all of us! 🙂

    I went ahead and wrote Donna’s drought story on graywater: http://michelleule.com/2014/08/28/drought-gray-water-gardening/

    If I get time later, I’ll write about my family attending a professional football game last night. Lots to ponder on that one! But now I’m off to work.

    Oh, latest face news–adorable granddaughter tried to kiss me last night, tripped over a cousin and planted her puckered lips square in the middle of my still swollen cheek. That was me you heard screaming from the west!

    Once I recovered, I offered the other cheek, but there were no takers . . . 🙂

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  31. Thank you michelle! 🙂 🙂

    I got those earlier stats wrong — 82% of American adults now get their news through digital sources; 78% use social media; 30% rely on social media for their news; 23% of Americans read a print newspaper.

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  34. Donna, a client came in the office earlier talking about how disgusting the school lunches are now. She said the children want their carbs (rolls) and fruit, and throw away the rest of the unappetizing food from the plate, and then go home and gorge. Hmmm…is there a story in that you could use?

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  35. Be safe, Jo! A volcano sounds pretty exciting.

    We are having a beautiful blue sky day here.

    Last night the sky was so clear at dusk that it looked like a western sky here in Atlanta.

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  36. Janice, that is true. All the menus in my county are made in a central location and every school has to have the same thing as every other school. They are not allowed to season the food at all. No salt, pepper, butter, oil…anything. It is all “healthy” and low fat.
    When BG was in elementary school I tried to go have lunch with her about once a month. I tried a few times to buy a tray and ended up the first time spitting food out and then I threw a few trays away before I broke down and bought lunch for the two of us at Chik Fil A.
    As it is right now the money being poured into the school lunch programs across the country are going into the trash.

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  37. Good Afternoon, Y’all!

    Happy Anniversary to us! Thanks so much for all you do, AJ! 😀

    I would feel lost without “seeing” you all once in awhile!

    JaniceG…the sky was beautiful in Lagrange as well!

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  38. The client said there is no more mustard or ketchup or gravy or anything to enhance the food flavors. She also said that M’s daughter’s school has a chef and they do not have to suffer the unseasoned foods of the masses. I would want to verify that, but I have the sense that is probably true.

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  39. Son and I visited at LaGrange College when he was looking for an undergraduate program. It has a lovely campus. The library was smaller than expected, but I believe the tour guide said they were going to put in a new library. Has that happened, IBNO?

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  40. I’ve been behind on here for the last week, but am caught up now. Nice to be here on the right day when it’s the blog anniversary! Congratulations and well-done, AJ! This wanderer appreciates you and everyone who contributes here. 🙂

    And Happy Anniversary to NancyJill and husband! 39 years! Blessings to you both. 🙂

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  41. School lunches have been thrown away as long as I can remember. I never had one, my mom sent in a bag lunch. I always threw away the apple.

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  43. The Georgia Power Company sent out this list of items needed in an emergency. I need to put this together not only for home, but for the office, too.

    Store enough storm supplies to get each family member through three days without electricity or running water.

    Include:
    •Canned goods and non-perishable foods that don’t need cooking. (Canned meats, fishes, soups, fruits, vegetables, juices, bottled water, baby formula, etc.)

    •Prescription medicine (a two-week supply).

    •Manual can opener.

    •Disposable plates, cups and utensils.

    •Water purification tablets (halazone).

    •Infant care items (disposable diapers, wipes).

    •First aid supplies.

    •Flashlights or lanterns and extra batteries.

    •Ice chest.

    •Masking or duct tape.

    •Battery-operated radio.

    •Non-electric clock.

    •Canned heat (sterno).

    •Portable outdoor camping stove or grill with fuel supply.

    •Fire extinguisher.

    •Plastic sheeting for drop cloth.

    •Chlorinated bleach.

    Does anyone want to add anything else to the list?

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  51. If we’re going for 100, we have 54 to go.
    I have all that stuff except infant care items, halazone and sterno. But I have s gas grill.
    Maybe I should buy some halazone.

    I think they will stay with Dylan Thomas for a while. It wasn’t the offense that lost the game. The Gamecocks stopped the Aggies only twice during the game.

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  53. The race is on! Now I have to go fight Atlanta traffic! Not sure which race is more hazardous, here or Interstate 75. All those lanes on 75 and only one lane here. Better push the pedal to the medal, or unzip the lips (Got words? Type them), or play tap-tap as fast as 6 Arrows can play the piano. 6 Arrows should be the fastest keyboardist here except for the Grand Master, Michelle 🙂

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  54. I get my news from the internet and the radio. There are a couple of small local papers, stuffed with advertisements and flyers, but I just glance at them. It is strange, that the outer world seems nearer to me than my own community. Though, I need to read a little more as we have a municipal election coming up and I have no idea who to vote for. I played for a funeral of a local man this week, a former neighbour from my early childhood – I saw so many old familiar faces, and so few young ones. I too often take my neighborhood for granted. I need to appreciate it while I can.

    I have been thinking about our increasingly advanced communications and wondering how far we will get before something happens to stop it all, especially in light of Ebola, ISIS and Ukraine. As Ebola spreads to Senegal (which surrounds The Gambia on three sides) and Nigeria and West Africa reels under the physical and economic blow, I am reminded of a documentary which talked about how Europe was on the edge of a cultural revolution when the Black Plague struck and set them back a couple hundred years. ISIS is the epitome of the barbarian in the gates, vandals that care nothing for history, culture, tradition, education or human life – like the Gothic and Teutonic tribes that destroyed the Roman empire, causing their cultural advancements to be lost or forgotten, or the Vikings which burned the monastery libraries of England. Then, there is Russia in the Ukraine – I told you so. So, I wonder if we have reached our peak, and whether the internet will be available in a few years time – or if warring governments, ruthless saboteurs and wrecked infrastructure will have fragmented the web and we will no longer be able to chat in real time across continents.

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  55. Janice, I can type fast (my best time in my first high school typing class was 83 wpm with one error), but I think s-l-o-w, so it doesn’t do me a lot of good here when I have to come up with my own words instead of type from a copy. 😉 Michelle, Donna and Cheryl, most notably, and probably just about everyone else here leave me in the dust. 😛

    News sources: We get our local newspaper on weekends (we’ve been off-and-on subscribers, and are on again at the moment), but I frequently neglect to read it. Sorry, Donna. 😦 I never watch TV, and only listen to the radio when I’m in the car, which isn’t frequently, and most of the time that’s just music. I get the World print magazine and read some articles, but most of my news comes from this blog and one other.

    I’m like Roscuro in that I’m more familiar with what’s going on in the outer world than in my own neck of the woods. Although, I will say that there was one time this year when AJ posted on the News thread a story that happened practically in my back yard, in a manner of speaking, and I heard it here first. 🙂

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  56. AJ, I think your spam filter grabbed a comment I just made. I tried re-submitting it and WordPress said, “Duplicate comment detected. It looks like you already said that.” The comment hasn’t shown up. Can you release one of them if it went to spam? Thanks. 😉

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  57. OK, I see it now. My comment is awaiting moderation. Is this going to throw off the race to 100? I always cause trouble when I’m here, don’t I? 😉

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  58. Phos, 3:56
    Those are important questions and several people are working on them. But likely not the people in the right place in this administration. Concerning the internet:
    The cyber war is just another threat we need to face. I had a “Great Courses” lecture some time ago considering the threat. We are the most vulnerable nation in the world. Not that we don’t have the expertise; we are far ahead of them in knowledge and ability. And most other nations learned from us. However, we are vulnerable, because everything depends on it. Especially, but not limited to, the electric grid. That’s the one they fear, but not the entire story. If the Chinese took out our GPS satellites, modern planes couldn’t fly. In my day in the AF, every plane that left continental US had to carry a navigator and radio operator. Now, they take neither.
    There are actions that the electric companies could do to eliminate, or at least reduce the effect of the threat. But it cost lots of money and the Directors think it won’t happen on their watch.
    “Not on my watch.” Is the reason we are in the mess we are in. In this country, anyhow. I don’t know about Canada. Maybe we could migrate up there and let Mexico and Central America have the lower 48. 😥

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  62. Sometime ago, I was having this discussion in which a guy said we took Texas and California from Mexico. I agreed, and said, “If Texas and California belonged to Mexico, San Antonio would be like Monterrey and San Diego would be like Tijuana and people would be crossing the Red and Sabine Rivers looking for work”.

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  63. I messed things up because my 4:25 comment went to moderation. It has shown up now, so my 4;31 comment is actually post #57 on this thread, NancyJill’s “60!” comment is #61, and Chas took #62 from me at 4:49. 😉

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  67. the sky was beautiful in Lagrange as well! No it’s not. We have clouds and the threat of rain. Oh, you’re talking about Lagrange, Georgia, not La Grange, Missouri. So, IBNO, do you live in Lagrange, GA? Interesting coincidence if you do, since I live in La Grange, MO, across the street from where there used to be a La Grange College. It moved to Hannibal 85 years ago and is now Hannibal-La Grange University.

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  68. “Happy Wedding Anniversary”
    Nancyjill & Husband of Nancyjill
    Many years of ♡♡♡♡♡♡ before today, and many years of♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ after to you 2 ♥birds. Tweet, Tweet, tis sweet!

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  69. My brother is the one in our family who is in the know about family history. He told me something about our family ancestors that had to do with La Grange College and it may be the one that is where you are, Peter. It seems like Emory University was involved somehow, too, but I may have something mixed up about it all. I will have to check with him. He tends to talk a lot as most salesmen do and sometimes I don’t listen so well as I should (selective hearing loss as my husband would call it). I think there may have been a La Grange Rd. near where my mother grew up in AL that was woven into the story about the college. That sounds so far fetched that perhaps I had fallen asleep as my brother was talking and I dreamed it. 🙂

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  70. Really? All that needed for 3 days without electricity? I have urged some young people to not get down so low on food that if there were an emergency their children would go hungry. I shop the sales, so we tend to usually have an abundance. I make sure we have some extra water for emergencies. Mostly I do this in the winter, since we could be stuck in our house for a few days.

    I was told our local school set up a table for students to leave unwanted fruits or vegies they get for lunch. All that is left on the table is then given to provide for food programs for the poor. There is also less garbage and what garbage there is, is recycled.

    I did have a daughter who was quite upset that the school had money for spring greens for salad, but her son did not have a textbook he needed. The school had no money for that, it seems. Of course, they are in different funds. It is difficult to understand that children NEED fancy salad greens, though, when we all grew up with ice berg lettuce. Textbooks are another story.

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  74. Wow, two years already! I remember that World blog ended just a few days before my husband and I were going out of town for a few days. I have little internet access when we travel, and if the farewell days had been just one week later I would probably have missed them. I might have checked in and found out it was shutting down or I might not have. But even if I had, I likely couldn’t have posted, or for sure couldn’t have been in on the conversation on much of a level. I might well have gone a few days without checking the site and come back home to find you all gone. If that had happened, I would have e-mailed Kim or Chas or Donna or someone else, and would have found out about this site, but I wouldn’t have been in on the farewell. That was a bittersweet time, but I was glad to be in on it. And all of us scrambling to have the last post, and then one time I refreshed and -poof- it was all gone as though it had never existed, and I had no idea who made the last post. (I thought it would be archived or something, not just gone.)

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  80. We need a Labor Day parade with the 76 trombones!

    I will find the link about the old La Grange College in AL. There is a wonderful La Grange College where IBNO lives somewhere near Callaway Gardens.

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  82. MIchelle, you will enjoy the history on that La Grange College (AL) link.

    Bosley is purring while dozing in my lap. She seems to still be growing. Does anyone know when a cat gets to its full adult size?

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  87. I’m posting too quickly again. 😉

    You make a burrito by putting the word burrito between two colons with no spaces. (This is what it looks like with spaces–

    : burrito :

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  91. So there was a La Grange College in Alabama as well as Georgia and Missouri? The one here in Mo. was founded as a Baptist college in 1853, then moved to Hannibal in 1929. HLGU is a Southern Baptist university. The one in Georgia is United Methodist. (That was a funny typo. I had that as “Untied Methodist” but caught it when spell check underlined my misspelling of Georgia. Would an “Untied” Methodist be the same as a Free Methodist?)

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  93. I, too, appreciate this blog and all the work AJ does for us. I look forward to reading about your days and your thoughts, even when I don’t have much to say.

    Today was my last day at the chiropractic office – they all took me out to lunch and gave me some sweet cards and gifts. I will miss working there, but I will NOT miss the hour drive there.

    Tuesday is my first official day at Camp Kadesh – those of you on FB might have seen the northern lights picture from the camp that I shared.

    I will be making salsa and pickles and picking potatoes all weekend 🙂

    On Monday, Tim and I will celebrate our 30th anniversary – still not sure how we will celebrate.

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  98. Is it possible when the AL college got burned down in the Civil War that some faction of it went to Missouri?

    Just considering the dates…I have not seen that anywhere.

    Better get off this phone NOW so it can start recharging!

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  103. LOL! It went from 88 to 97 when I wasn’t looking, then I read the posts I’d missed, and, lo and behold, I got the magic number!!

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  109. Did you enjoy your burrito at 7:29, Janice? 🙂

    Well, I’ll leave the race to 200 in all of your capable hands here. The weekend is beginning, hubby is due home in a few minutes, and I’ll have more catching up to do around here on the blog after the holiday weekend is done.

    Have a good and safe weekend, and Happy Anniversary, fellow wanderers! 🙂

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  129. Wow, look what missed. I couldn’t sleep last night so ended up reading at book until 4:30am. So… I got up rather late and then had to read all these posts. Let’s not quit now!!

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  131. Well, finally I turned the phone to off and let it charge. It got to about 60% charged so I am back. Those on the West Coast will have to have a long conversation with Jo to make it to 200.

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  132. Scott and Bailey just went off. I do enjoy that program. Pretty funny that husband fell asleep during the program, and I, the one who doesn’t like tv so much, continued to watch until the end. Husband woke up and said, “What’s going on?” I told him it was morning already. 🙂 I had to take advantage of him falling asleep while watching tv, but he figured out that I had turned the tv off while he was snoozed out.

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  134. Donna, do you know how much longer we can expect Bosley to continue growing larger? She has such a long body. Her tail does not seem to be proportionately long. Her ears still look pretty large and hairy. Her weight is helping to keep her grounded.

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  135. Jo, are you on the email list with bookbub.com and bookshout.com? The have some free books for Kindle each day. I have the bookshout app, but I usually can find their offerings on Amazon and get them for Kindle.

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  137. Just did facetime with Maia on her 5th birthday and saw Paxton and little Jude. I couldn’t afford a gift on Paxton’s birthday so sent him one now. Worked out great and he is loving flying the airplanes I sent. However, when I do Facetime I see dollar signs as I know it is expensive, like loading video.

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