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Our Daily Thread 9-19-14

Good Morning!

Todays header photo is from Linda. 😯

It’s Friday!!!

On this day in 1796 President Washington’s farewell address was published. 

In 1819 John Keats wrote “Ode to Autumn.” 

In 1955 Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy. 

In 1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management. 

And in 1984 China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997. 

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Quote of the Day

“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

Dr. Seuss

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 Here’s Jon and Steve from the PianoGuys, with Love Story Meets Viva la Vida.

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Anyone have a QoD?

33 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-19-14”

  3. Hornets do have an eerie look with the white on them where you expect to see yellow. It’s like the white is a forewarning that if you mess with them they will turn you into a zombie or a ghost!
    Great photo, Linda!

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  4. That nest is in a tree in our front yard. Supposedly there used to be a guy in the area who would take them down (and used for some scientific purpose?) but he no longer does. The nest is actually quite beautiful, though.

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  5. I am trying to pack for our trip. As I am flipping through clothes in my closet, I am doing the classic lady routine of, “I have nothing to wear.” Miss Bosley looks at the movement in the closet and has the look, ” Oh, fun. We’re doing the clothes thing again. You should have been a cat!” Then she leaps up and hangs on to the moving clothes. Gotta get a few snags in there so the clothes are marked with her label, By Bosley. Do you think it is about time for me to carry her to her boarding locale?

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  6. I am in love with this Roomba. Every morning I clean out its little belly and set it loose. I am amazed at the amount of dust and cat hair it collects. If you have hardwood floors, pets, and some money to spare, I highly recommend it. It works on carpet, too, but it’s actually a sweeper and not a vacuum, so only picks up the surface stuff, not the ground in dirt. I guess I’ll have to break down and vacuum the area rugs one of these days.

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  7. Of course, for the moment Miss Bosley is purring while sleeping in my arms having her morning cuddle time. She has to be where I am if I am at home. She looks like an angel cat at the moment.

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  9. So, with a hornets nest as a banner, we shouldn’t mention any hot topics and stir up the hornets nest? I guess we cannot discuss controversies like the end times, or homosexual rights, or music in church, or pets in the house? Perhaps I shouldn’t even post a link to the Friday (not-so) Funnies. Oops! I just did. Better hide from the angry hornets.

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  12. The other day, I called the young ones to go walk dogs with me. Thirteen year old girl came walking up with a hornet nest in her hands. She is on the autism spectrum and a wonderful artist with a great eye for beauty. Hornet nests are beautiful and intricate. I had to tell her there was a possibility there was a hornet in her nest. She took it back. We went on our walk.

    Hornet stings hurt. All summer we carry a small bottle of Sting Eze. I highly recommend it. It is easy to carry and very helpful. If applied within ten minutes, stings leave very little pain. Yellow Jacket stings may itch a little later but the sting is gone. Hornet stings may itch and have some residual pain, but the swelling and agony are gone. It gets used several times around here. We don’t even eat outside from mid August to mid September as the bees and hornets are so bad. We spray nests when we remember, but no torches. The prairie is no place for fire in the summer.

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  13. I got the cat carrier out (sorry, Peter for talking pets, again). Bosley’s tail went electrified. This will not be good. She has burrowed under a blanket. She has enjoyed exploring my suitcase.

    Thanks for recommending Sting Eze, Mumsee. Sounds like a valuable substance.

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  14. My dad had honey bees. One stung me on top of my head. As long as I was running it didn’t sting. When I stopped it stung me. Caused a most terrimous headache.
    I guess today I will rent a house for $1,200 since I couldn’t get the mortgage that was only going to have a payment of $850 or so.
    It is a 3 bedroom with a garage so what can go in the garage will get stored there. What needs to be climate controlled can stay boxed up in one of the bedrooms with the door closed. Who cares where it is what it is or what it looks like. I just need a place to hang my clothes and sleep.

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  15. Kim: sorry you didn’t get the mortgage. That must be really disappointing and frustrating. Hoping you find something suitable soon.

    Good morning, all. I’m not feeling 100% this morning. We’re starting school late today because Becca has a checkup scheduled this morning. We have to leave in about an hour and I still need to shower! Y’all enjoy!

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  16. Well, the U.K. is still together. There’s that.

    Poor Bosley with the electrified tail, being forced to leave her happy home … I have read some advice that says you should keep carriers out in your living space, maybe put some cat treats or cat nip inside them now and again, so cats get used to them being part of the non-scary environment.

    It may give you a somewhat easier “loading” experience (or at least a shorter one as they don’t realize until it’s too late that they’re being forced & locked inside this time).

    But it is amazing how many legs cats can sprout when you’re trying to shove them into that little box.

    Speaking of hot topics, I noticed a movie trailer last night on television for “Left Behind” opening this fall. Didn’t they already make movies out of those books? Anyway, this one stars Nicholas Cage, I guess it kind of surprised me …

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  17. Kim, I’m sorry, too, that the mortgage (for now) didn’t work out, especially since the monthly payments would be so much less than paying rent. Crazy, but not unusual out where I live either.

    Happy travels, Janice.

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  19. The movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467046/

    Annie’s carrying case stays in the living room, on the floor near the front door, so it’s a pretty familiar sight and smell to her.

    Meanwhile, Tess raided Annie’s food this morning. Arrgh.

    I feed the cat up high, away from the dogs, on a beat-up old butcher block table at the back of the kitchen (the table has one of those old deep-tin drawers that pull out for flour — my mom bought it years ago and it was “old” then).

    But if I’m not fast enough to pick up Annie’s dish once she’s done and exits to the backyard, Tess will sneak into the kitchen & stand up on her two hind legs to finish the left-overs.

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  20. I’ll have to get some sting-eaze. When I was a kids my grandmother would put wet snuff or tobacco on our stings. I started to borrow some from my uncle across the street but the sting was so close to the Kid’s eye I was a little afraid to put anything on it.

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  21. There’s a lot more $ involved in owning a home than the mortgage payment. The rent may actually be cheaper in the long run. And this allows for “breathing room” instead of making a rash decision – it’s always better to step back and take some time.

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  22. I have rented since 2006 and in that time I have moved 7 times.
    I am done. If we rent this one I am not unpacking much. Some things can go in the garage. Some things can stack up in the third bedroom. The husband asked about furniture placement after he had determined where the tv, sofa, and his chair were going. I told him I really didn’t care where he put anything. I am not hanging pictures. I will unpack enough to function.
    It is too late for it to do any good to explain to anyone what the house I was in meant to me. There wasn’t an alcoholic mother making life a turmoil like in the two houses I grew up in. There wasn’t a sister in law wanting to sell the 3rd house I ever lived in. The 4th house was temporary11 for years. Couldn’t buy anything for it or decorate. I got family hand me downs. The 5th house is where my marriage fell apart and I never could find a spare dime to decorate. The 6th house I moved into for a few months. The 7th house was a divorce special townhouse. My dad came to live with me in the 8th house and it was too small so we moved after 3 months. The 9th house was next door to the Lying Cheating &(&(**&(U&(*&(*&. The 10th house was 900SF and 50 years old but it was all I could afford. The 11th house was one my dad bought but I had to let foreclose because of the insurance. The 12 house was nice, but always temporary as I lived in it, staged it, and had it for sale. The 13th house was fine for BG and me but then along came Mr. P and it was too small. The 14th house was where there wasn’t supposed to be turmoil. There was a hope I could convince Mr P to buy it. I let myself start having hope. I started imagining what I would do when/if it were mine. I was happy for a short 6 months, then the landlord decided to sell. P wouldn’t entertain buying it because it wasn’t his dream house. There was a brief hour on Tuesday when it looked like we could do a lease purchase on the house we are in now. That screeched to a halt.

    I am flat out tired of moving and renting and wasting money. I am just emotionally, mentally, and physically tired of moving. I am just done. I can’t make anyone around me understand and I can’t change anything. If I could I would curl up in a ball under the covers and not ever move again.

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  24. Kim, my “Like” above doesn’t mean I like the situation.
    It means I’m with you and praying that it works out well.
    It may not comfort you for me to say I lived in a 8×35 ft house trailer for seven years. It can and will improve.

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  25. Understanding, Kim, but can only point you to Christ. Keeping our hearts and minds set on Him can help, though there is a time of weeping. Frustration is understandable, but don’t let it take you to the hopeless stage. Waiting with you, beloved Kim, to see what He has in store.

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  26. we are back from our dog walk. We went about two miles and took a kite with us. It stayed right behind us for the first mile and then lead the way home. From about sixty feet up in the air. I like kite flying days.

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  27. I love kites.

    Can’t even imagine moving that often, Kim.

    Praying you’ll get a glimmer of what God is doing in all of this — and if not (we usually don’t know until we can look back), you’ll trust Him somehow. But I know it’s sometimes very hard.

    Hang in there

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  29. I am at the Christian Writers Guild conference, Writing for the Soul. We will be seeing an exclusive showing of the new Left Behind movie tomorrow night. I am looking forward to seeing a movie with my husband since he has been too busy this year to do much of anything. When I read the Left Behind series I had never really read any Christian fiction. I loved the story, but did not think too much about how the end times were portrayed from a theological point of view. It was a fiction story and I did not know much about the end times since I was still getting down the basics of the Christian faith.

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  31. Have fun Janice, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the conference.

    And try not to think about poor, abandoned Bosley, curled forlornly in her boarding cage, wondering why you’ve left her there ….

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  33. Seventeen moves in the first seventeen years of marriage. I had always expected to live in the same town I was raised in. Did not happen. But all of our moves were good moves with none of the challenges Kim has had to deal with. Every place was an adventure and I enjoyed them. None of them would I like to go back to.

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