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Our Daily Thread 9-24-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

On this day in 1869 thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street.

In 1929 the first all-instrument flight took place in New York when Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchell Field. 

In 1960 the USS Enterprise became the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier to be launched.

And in 1977 “The Love Boat” debuted on ABC-TV.

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Quote of the Day

“When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.”

Jim Henson

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Today is Gerry Marsden’s birthday.

 And in honor of Jim Henson’s birthday, some classical music. 🙂 From The Muppets

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QoD?

Who is your favorite Muppet?

65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-24-14”

  2. Good morning, noon, and night according to your location. God continues to make the world go round. He is good!

    My favorite Muppet is probably Kermit, but Miss Piggy takes a close second. We have the Center for Puppetry Arts here in Atlanta. There is a museum on location with some of the old muppet menagerie. We had a birthday party there for our son when he was three and invited his whole preschool class. They had a room where we could serve lunch and cake and then go see the show. We saw The Breman Town Muscians. Since it was a summer birthday we invited the preschool teachers along with students and parents. I guess that was the BIGGEST thing we ever did for our son’s birthday. It served like a class reunion, too.

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  3. My dad loved The Muppets. We used to watch the show together when I was little, along with The Carol Burnett show. I still know all the words to “A Rainbow Connection” and still chuckle over the lyrics to “You can’t live with ’em, You can’t live without ’em.”

    Everyone’s still sleeping at my house…

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  10. Confession: Not having a television growing up, I never watched the Muppets. There, I said it. Also, I have never watched the Muppets Christmas Carol. I have seen some clips of the show on YouTube, enough to know who Miss Piggy, Kermit and the two crabby puppets were.

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  11. I have heard the song “Ferry across the Mersey” before, but it strikes me that a band called the Pacemakers, led by a singer called Gerry limits the band audience to older people 😉

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  13. I have never liked the Muppets. But then, other than a bit on Sesame Street, I don’t think I have ever watched them. Husband, of course, thought they were hilarious and I believe he liked Animal best.

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  14. Reasons to read the genealogies in the Bible: http://info.alliancenet.org/christward/6-ways-to-benefit-from-reading-genealogies#.VCLGUjp0ywo. “We get out of genealogies from what time we are willing to put in. If we are prepared to spend the time, do the work and be guided by the Spirit, we will be presented with potted-histories of God’s kindness to man. So we mush read the genealogies of Scripture and study them. They, like every other part of Scripture, are profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness, that you may be made perfect, equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16).”

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  15. I too grew up without a TV. (Interestingly, when I’d say that in college, people were always first surprised, but often their next response was something close to jealousy. One young man said directly, “You were blessed.” I don’t think anyone ever said, “You poor thing” nor did I ever feel that way. I did feel that way about children who grew up without ready access to books!) “Sesame Street” and similar shows have been proven not to do anything in helping children read. Not having ever seen any of those until I was quite a bit older (teens at least, though I certainly never saw a full show in my teens), they always just seemed goofy to me, though I can see clever touches now. Still, I wouldn’t have chosen to have my own kids grow up with TV; that really does seem like a wise decision by my parents, and one that I would have copied.

    I don’t mean to “rain on the parade” of those who did like Sesame Street, or even those who see TV as a basic, good part of childhood.

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  16. The Muppet Show is not the same thing as Sesame St. Same creator, completely different shows.

    I love the Muppets, but I don’t care for Sesame St. at all, especially since it’s turned into a tool to indoctrinate children into leftist philosophies. PBS ruined Sesame St.

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  17. When Stargazer was three I’d had enough of putting my children first and ignoring my own skills and so I put him in front of the television to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers so I could write.

    That worked about one week, maybe two, and he was bored, so I put away the writing, yet again, and we did other things. Sesame Street mostly taught children to have a scattered attention span, which has worked out well for this Zombie google-attention spanned society–which includes me. (You don’t have to have watched Sesame Street to have an easily distracted mind.). 😦

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  18. I liked the two crabby men the best. They were funny even when I was a child. I had the noble idea of doing away with TV when BG was born, but I was over ruled with the argument of not making her an oddball.

    On a different note, you may remember that she got a ticket for following too closely. Her court date was yesterday. She and her father sat through the whole thing, spent the day at the courthouse, finally going to pay the fine. Seems the state trooper had a change of heart and deleted the ticket. No court cost, no fine, nothing. It won’t even be on her record, but hopefully it scared her enough to pay more attention.

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  20. I saw my first TV in a store window in New Orleans on my way to basic training in Texas in 1949. There was a TV set in the day room of our squadron at Kelly AFB. I used to watch Kooka, Fran and Ollie. I was in love with Fran.

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  21. Kim, that is how we felt when our kid came home with a warning from a police officer when she paused at a stop sign but didn’t stop. She was coming home from work at 11 p.m. or so, and he probably was really checking to see if this teen driver had been drinking . . . but it felt just scary enough to her that we were privately happy about the stop, though she is a good driver.

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  22. What kind of plant/flower is that in the header photo today. We had something similar when I was growing up only it had different leaves. It had a distinctive smell that wasn’t floral. Looking at the photo of the blooms makes my throat itch, although my throat was already itchy, so are my ears, I had to sleep breathing through my mouth, which means I didn’t sleep. I am NOT a mouth breather.
    I am also not a very good patient. This started Monday night and today is Wednesday. That is time enough to feel like death warmed over. If you will excuse me it is time for more DayQuil. Ugh.

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  23. AJ- Two things- 1) I just resent the pigskin picks in RTF format.
    2) I realize you meant the Miuppet Show, but my favorite muppet might actually be Grover or Ernie from Sesame Street, or at least when it wasn’t so PC. Those two characters express the innocence of childhood in a way few other TV childrens’ characters (including animated ones) do.

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  24. Hey, I think it’s raining here!

    Oh wait. That was just cheryl raining on the parade, never mind. As you were. (Putting the umbrella away).

    On that note, I missed the debut last night of NCIS. I thought it was on at 9, but it was on at 8 so when I turned the TV on it was all over. Bummer. But I did watch the new NCIS spinoff set in New Orleans which came on at 9. 🙂

    I missed the muppet era, but am vaguely familiar with them and the music — just because you can’t really escape it in our culture, at least in years past.

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  25. Oh, I guess I put the apostrophe in the wrong place: children’s.

    And some trivia- Which Muppet is the only one that is on both the show/movie and Sesame Street?

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  26. I didn’t like the NCIS New Orleans. It was a blah storyline filled with stereotypes. You had your requisite black man playing in a jazz club and then they don’t always play going to the Mardi gras. Even though I assume the one guy is originally from Alabama the drawl was just too too much. Then the beginning with the hot little number in the short shorts sipping through a straw making her husband jealousy be flirting with a deckhand on a shrimp boat. Unt huh. I ain’t buying it. Oh and they just HAD to mention the 9th Ward. Oh and you don’t eat remoulade sauce with eggs,biscuits, and andouille sausage. It is more of a cocktail sauce and andouille is not a breakfast sausage.

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  28. Probably because I saw the muppets on Sesame Street before the Muppets were the Muppets, I never watched it. I did like Bert and Ernie and Cookie Monster (I can so relate) but I could not abide Miss Piggy, whom I believe is the one who was on both.

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  29. I remember years ago hearing or reading that the name Methuselah meant “when he dies, it shall come.” Via the internet, I see the meaning is “his death shall bring” (close enough). Anyhow, the point was that if you map the genealogies with associated years, you see that the flood started when Methuselah died.

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  30. I liked Mr Rogers and Romper Room, but they only really worked for children who did not watch anything else. The more fast paced things, like Sesame Street, destroyed the ability to focus, which was needed in those two. Mr Rogers delved into things of interest to children but he did it as though they had brains and could think rather than as though they needed to be entertained.

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  31. Mumsee- Miss Piggy is not the one. And I agree that she is overdone.

    Kim- We didn’t watch NCIS – New Orleans because D3 doesn’t like Southern accents (especially phony ones) and I wasn’t impressed with the pilot last year.

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  34. My children loved both Mister Rogers and Sesame Street. I never found Sesame St. as a problem for their attention spans. Of course, their watching was limited and they were read to a lot. I did hear all the fuss about Sesame Street, since I was enrolled in Elementary Ed. when it was first popular. “All things in moderation” always seems a good idea to me.

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  39. I gained an appreciation for the muppets, including Miss Piggy, when my former roommate and longtime living in CA now friend told me how much she liked it. She had been an elementary teacher back then. As a dry accounting/business type I would not have watched it without her recommendation. So there you know what I found out! Friends will lead you to keep company with frogs and pigs!

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  40. Good Morning….Stonecrop…the easiest and prettiest fall flower in my estimation…just plant it and watch it grow…no brainer! 🙂
    I have never particularly liked the Muppets….but I will say my grandchildren thoroughly enjoyed Tickle Me Elmo!
    I quite enjoy a good “southern drawl”….living in SC for eight years gave to me a great appreciation for the southern ways of life….but I still do not like sweet tea…. 🙂

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  41. After extensive youtube research I picked the one least likely to anger me for an Alabama Southern Accent. This is the best I could do. I have spoken with some of you in person or on the phone so you will know how close this one comes.

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  42. Kim- We have a lot of friends from Texas (including the wife of my nephew), Louisiana, and Arkansas, and D3 has heard their accents often. And living near Hannibal, MO, doesn’t help, since many of the residents are descended from the Kentuckians that settled the area in the 1820s and 30s. Once we went to a Bible camp near Alexandria, LA and we were the only “Northerners” there, so she was surrounded. One of the preachers was form Lake Charles and had the most hard-to-understand drawl I ever heard. I think that is why she doesn’t like the accent.

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  43. I liked the grumpy guys. Mr. Rogers was the only program I let my children watch without a second thought (other than above aborted deal with Stargazer). A child psychologist told me the show was good because Mr. R spoke slowly and directly to the camera. Kids thought he was talking to them and that was the point.

    He saved our lives during those years my husband was continually out to sea and the kids settled in with Mr. Rogers while I retrieved the newspaper and cooked dinner. Loved him.

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  44. We’ll hope BG got scared into better behavior in the future. I got stopped recently and argued with the police officer he NEEDED to give me a ticket. I think he was just going to warn me because I was polite and apologetic.

    It’s my first ticket.

    But I told him that while I wasn’t texting at the stop light I was reading my email and therefore I deserved a ticket. A college girl killed a mother and her child and I don’t ever want to be responsible for doing something horrific like that. (Even though I only looked during the red lights . . . ).

    I now listen to podcasts when I drive which keeps me entertained and the phone occupied in more important business.

    True confession time. (Don’t mention it, yet, on FB!) 🙂

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  45. My husband was on Romper Room one day when he was a child. No video exists, apparently. He was supposed to be on it for more than a day, but his sister got sick and they had to go back home. And thus a possible career was squelched. . . .

    Hey, anyone know what flower this is in my gravatar? There were a lot of them, apparently wild, in a field outside our hotel in Grand Rapids last week. Nearly all of them grew like this, flowers in a circle like a little girl’s flower crown. But I’ve googled it several different ways and see no hint of what it is.

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  49. Kim, I probably told you not to get a Lab, too, or else I just kept my mouth shut as I usually do when people talk about getting a Lab. But I never have figured out why they’re so popular. Yes, they have a short coat (unpettably short), but they aren’t low-maintenance dogs. They’re messy, obsessive, and they have a strong doggie odor, and their puppyhood chewing/destruction lasts about four years. And you don’t really want to pet them, which is half the point of owning a dog. And they look so “generic,” like the way a child draws a dog. To me they’re just kinda boring, but with several negatives, and that is before you even get into the health issues they can have from being overbred.

    But I don’t have good things to say about cocker spaniels either, and my childhood dog was a cocker and I loved her.

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  50. I hope I don’t sound too grumpy today. After a summer of hardly any work, I now have four projects (which is good and bad) including one I really should finish today. And my father-in-law is in the hospital and the girls’ other grandfather (their mother’s father) isn’t expected to survive past today. It’s a pretty high-stress day.

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  51. So sorry, Cheryl. That’s a lot.

    Meanwhile, my daughter and her friend, who went to Salzburg, Austria to take the Sound of Music tour through the countryside, met JULIE ANDREWS while on the tour!

    They’re filming a 50th anniversary special.

    The girls are beyond ecstatic.

    Friday they go to Dachau Concentration Camp outside of Munich–which should sober them up quite a bit. 😦

    Home on Saturday. They’ve had a fantastic trip. 🙂

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  52. Cheryl this Lab mix is a gen u wine ghetto lab. She has Lab, Pit, and Handsome Stranger in her. She was a rescue from the county animal shelter. She is high maintenance and Mr. P is her person. She is ill behaved and obnoxious. I was told that obedience school was not an acceptable Father’s Day nor Birthday present, but I do think it will make a nice Christmas present and is something they can do together.

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  54. I was going to save this for R&R, but I’ll likely forget by then:
    Everybody in the world wants me to send them $19.00/ month.
    I’m beginning to regret that I joined the U. S. Carolina and Purdue alumni associations.

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  55. I am now officially part of a football pool. Only because I was assured that I would win at least a quarter of a million dollars each week. I look forward to my first check, certain that a school teacher would never mislead somebody.

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  56. So…it’s been a little less than two months since I’ve been gone. 😉

    Missed you guys. Seriously. You do really mean a lot to me, and it feels like an important part of my life is missing when I’m not on here.

    And my piano doesn’t exactly interact with me in the same way that you do. 🙂

    Thank you for those prayers. My piano music doesn’t seem quite so scary to me now (I don’t know why it was, when I was the one who picked out the pieces I did), and I realize now, after a few days of practice, that I won’t need to spend very much time on it to accomplish what I want with it. (I’m not memorizing my music this time.)

    We’re slowly easing into the new part of our homeschool routine. I sort of overdid it the first day, and that didn’t go as well as it could have, so I’ve backed off some and am trying to keep things more in balance.

    Janice, I really appreciated your prayer today on that thread. Balance and harmony — so, so important. Thank you.

    Have a good Thursday today, Jo and Tychicus, and a good night to everyone else. 🙂

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  59. QoD: I never watched the Muppet Show, but 1st Arrow, a daycare kid for the first three years of his life, would watch Sesame Street when we’d be getting home in the afternoon after a day at work/daycare. (Yes, I regularly plunked him down in front of the TV while I was fixing supper after arriving home from a day of teaching school.)

    I found most of those muppets pretty annoying myself, but I could relate a little to Cookie Monster. 😉

    We gradually phased out Sesame Street after I quit teaching, and none of my younger children ever watched it much (or at all, for the later ones). That’s okay. They didn’t miss anything.

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  60. Um, Mumsee, I don’t know what football pool you joined, but this one has no monetary guarantees, unless AJ put some really small fine print that only people with young eyes can read.

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