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Our Daily Thread 10-3-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

On this day in 1901 the Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor. 

In 1944 during World War II, U.S. troops broke through the Siegfried Line. 

In 1945 Elvis Presley appeared in a talent show at the age of 10. It was his first public appearance. He won 2nd place and $5. 

And in 1990 the Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved.

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Quote of the Day

“Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.”

George Bancroft

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 Today is Lindsey Buckingham’s birthday.

And it’s Stevie Ray Vaughan’s too. With Paul Butterfield, as well as Albert and B.B. King, from American Blues Scene

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Anyone have a QoD?

53 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-3-14”

  1. Morning all. Our electricity keeps going off and on. PNG power plus there is a problem with our generators. So… if you don’t hear from me it won’t be because I’m not trying.

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  2. Morning! Time to smell the coffee, if only I had made it, but, alas, I have not yet.

    The tree picture was made in a restaurant parking lot near the Atlanta airport. I was surprised to see it had turned that much. I have noticed the leaves on the Birthday Tree have started turning yellow.

    We had photos made for my husbands church directory last night. I feel pleased with how they turned out. My hair is a good bit longer now than in that gravatar picture. I am suppose to get a haircut today. I may just get a trim. What do you think about bangs?

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  3. Morning, all. Good evening, Jo.

    Janice: Hubby makes the coffee faithfully every night before bed, then all I have to do is turn it on… Love that man…
    Regarding bangs: I think they can be very flattering, but can’t wear them myself as I can’t stand feeling them on my forehead. Also, you have to have them trimmed frequently to keep them the right length. About a week ago, I cut off about four inches and got more layers. Hubby commented that it didn’t really look very different, after two of my female neighbor friends had said what a big change it was. Perspective is a funny thing.

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  6. It’s FRIDAY!
    You know what that means?

    The trees aren’t turning in Hendersonville yet.
    I can’t understand how some women can have hair over their eyes.

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  8. I wore bangs all my life, from childhood, until four or five years ago. Mom always told me I needed bangs because I have such a high forehead. Burt I looked around and no one at church was wearing bangs and I thought it might just be time for a change anyway. (Both of my parents wore just about the exact same hairstyle all their adult lives, my mom a bob and my dad a big puff on top, and I didn’t want to do anything like that!) I’ve been wearing some sort of “side bangs” for several years now, and it may be time for another change except I don’t exactly go to a stylish hair salon these days, and I don’t trust them to tell me what might look good on me now! I am growing it out, since I haven’t had it past shoulder length since college, I personally love long hair, and it may well be “now or never” to grow it. But I don’t get haircuts very often, and the people who cut my hair seem to have a hard time with “you need to take quite a lot off the sides,” so the side hair seems to keep getting longer and longer. (I went to a nicer place in Nashville, but the one time I paid to go to a place one step up here, the haircut wasn’t any better, just more expensive. So I don’t really know where to go now for a better cut. . . .

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  9. Chas, I was surprised to see that tree turned that much here in Atlanta, on the southside, too. I think because it was alone in the parking lot and fully exposed to all the elements instead of in a group of trees, that may be why it has changed so much. As I drove in to the office this morning everything just looks green along the expressway. But our driveway already has leaves on it which have dropped off the Birthday Tree.

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  10. Morning! Coffee is in hand, the air is brisk outside with a thick layer of frost on the rooftops and my plants…31 degrees out there!
    Beautiful leaves on that tree….I’ll have to try to upload some photos of the mountain trees around here…Paul took some beautiful shots of Independence Pass.
    Bangs…for years I didn’t have them, but now I do wear bangs…and it is a pain to have them trimmed so often…but it is also a pain to grow them out again….women…never satisfied! 😛

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  12. A fellow elementary school mom is also an artist and hairdresser. Expensive. I bit the one hundred dollar bill a few years ago and went to her.

    Expensive–did I mention that?– but ministry opportunities and a terrific haircut. For me, four times a year I can do this.

    My husband, of course, wishes my hair was long again. (To my waist and board straight when we met). He should have married someone with styling skills, or at least curly hair, if that was his dream wife . . .

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  13. Good Morning all. Trying to get caught up at work. This morning I felt like I was having a little setback. I am still taking my antibiotics though.
    Yesterday I bought a shower curtain! I know for most people that is not a life altering even but for me it is. Before I had made my own, they went from just below the ceiling to the floor. Alas, I don’t have a sewing machine anymore.
    I step out of my traditional, sedate, decorating zone and bought one with lots of color – yellows, peaches, green, etc. I like it. So I bought a sunny yellow bath mat to match it.
    Now, what to do about BG’s room

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  14. From Yahoo news: This is so far out that it doesn’t belong on the political thread:

    Chelsea Clinton’s Baby Could Be the Next Secretary of State, According to Astrologist Susan Miller

    Am I reading this wrong? Or is the astrologist Susan Miller saying that the next president is a Democrat. (Hillary?) and will appoint a child as Sec. State.

    OH! Now I have it!
    Hillary is elected president and appoints her grandchild as Sec. State so she can have her close by and tell her what to do.
    Makes perfect sense.

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  15. Janice @ 9:19
    There was a lady on local TV yesterday talking about the leaves. (It’s a big thing here.)
    She mentioned some trees in a parking lot. They were turning. She said it was because of the stress on the nearby concrete. I had never thought of that before. Trees that don’t have complete soil freedom are stressed. I have often wondered about city trees beside sidewalks.

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  16. Warning–grandparent humor.

    One of my sons works as a machinist for a high tech tool maker. Every day he takes a photo on his smart phone of what he made. The adorable three-year old asks every night at dinner to see the picture.

    He shows it to her.

    Then, she smiles with her dimple and asks to see the better picture. He hands her the phone, she scrolls and then shows it to him:

    It’s her highness, the three-year-old herself, sitting on a purple tricycle!

    I think she may be on to something . . . 🙂

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  18. It’s Friday!!

    When hair gets in my eyes I just cut it myself. I’m OK with trimming up my own bangs (I went many years without bangs but kind of like them now, as long as they’re shaggy and can be swept to the side). The person I go to now charges $50, which I guess isn’t bad considering, but then with the tip that’s $60 … More than I used to pay, for sure.

    I remember as a teen when all of us girls were growing out our hair & bangs together — we all wound up with very long hair but the bangs were so awkward to get rid of — they typically hung in chunks of shorter, mid-length hair on the sides. We all looked alike.

    I guess there’s only so much you can do with hair, which is probably why people gravitate toward one particular style that’s easy and flattering and then they stick with it. But I’ve known/worked with a few women who are more daring — they’ll go from short-short “boy” cuts to long, long hair, and then somewhere in the middle with layers — and then back again.

    I remember one co-worker with long, thick hair who waltzed into the newsroom one day with a cute boy cut. She said later she’d had a big, blow-out argument with the boyfriend and chopped it all of for spite. He loved her long hair.

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  19. Bangs. They get to my eyes, I trim them. I could not believe, in the distant past, somebody talked me into going to get my hair done and it cost about twenty dollars. I have not been back since.

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  21. Mumsee, in Nashville I was paying about $35, two or three times a year, and it felt super extravagant. Noe I’m getting a bad cut for about a third that much. I have a lot of hair and no way I can cut it myself, but I do need to find someone who can do it better. (And I’m overdue for a trim.)

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  22. Regarding the arrival of fall, here’s the intro to our most recent ‘weather’ story:

    “While people in some other parts of the country are watching the leaves turn a kaleidoscope of fall colors as they contemplate unpacking winter clothes, California is roasting under an autumn heat wave. …”

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  23. For a while I used the cut-rate chains like Supercuts where simple cuts were very cheap — until I got a couple of really bad haircuts, then I decided it was time to find someone regular & reliable.

    But the prices do keep going up (and I’m guessing prices out here are considerably higher than you’d typically find in the Midwest). I’m just glad I don’t have to mess with paying for color or other “extras.”

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  27. I guess this means I have two correct so far. Somebody sure is dragging this out.

    What color are the seats in the Maserati? I am thinking of doing my nails, and I so want them to match.

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  28. I decided to go with a trim. Including a tip for the normal shorter cut and style, it costs about $40. Today I was told it would be $20. I still gave her $40. She was reluctant to take it, but she came home from Hawaii after having her baby and is visiting with her mom who works in our office…so I won’t see her again for six months. $80.00 a year for haircuts is less than $10/month which is reasonable. And I know it is expensive to live in Hawaii. I told her I want to donate my hair to Locks of Love so it should be about right to do that in May when she will hopefully be here to give me a short hairstyle. Those are our plans, but the Lord may have other plans.

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  33. Don’t say “Go Wildcats!
    South Carolina Gamecocks play the Kentucky Wildcats tomorrow.
    We have to win this.

    When I was a kid, I paid $0.25 for a haircut. In 1962 the price had gone up to $0.50. Inflation, you know. A haircut is $13.00 in Hendersonville. That’s mine. Elvera’s cost more.

    I almost passed over the comics, then I noticed who sent the “Friday at last”.

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  42. Beautiful header picture, Janice!

    So, if Elvis got 2nd place in the above-referenced talent show, who was 1st?

    Or, since there’s some baseball talk here today, who’s on first, Elvis was on second, and I don’t know was on third. 😉

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  43. Bangs — not anymore. I hardly ever get my hair cut — too expensive — so my hair just grows and grows until I decide to get a trim for the sides and back. That’s about once every year or two. Maybe. I don’t keep track.

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  44. The price remains the same here – free. One gal is a hairstylist and has set up a shop in a sorta shed in her backyard. I found someone else who really knows how to do my hair, again for free. We serve each other.
    I do know how to trim my bangs and do that around every three weeks or so. One snip is all it takes.

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  45. For those of you who are not on FB, here’s what happened to me this afternoon:

    So, I’m driving down the four lane highway near my house, at the speed limit, and suddenly the crosswalk light starts flashing.
    I hit the brakes, everything flies forward and I chew my lip.
    Until I see who pushed the button.
    A sevenish boy wearing a bulky backpack and glancing nervously both ways.
    A truck eased out across the intersection to make a left turn, and I thought, ah, we’re now all invested in getting this little boy across the street.
    Once the truck turned left, however, I saw another car pacing the little boy all the way across. I smiled.
    Until I saw the driver applauding.
    It wasn’t just a little boy crossing a road.
    It was a rite of passage.

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  50. I can certainly understand the rite of passage. Today, eight year old split his first round by himself. I told him he could take turns with his sister if he wanted, but when he started to hear the first cracks in the wood, he was determined. And when it split, so did his grin. It took him nearly twenty minutes, but he did it. And started the next.

    On the other hand, I let thirteen year old try crossing the street by herself a month or so ago and that was an abysmal failure. She forgot to look for cars until halfway across, then I reminded her that she was supposed to be in the crosswalk. She looked at me with a shocked look and said she had wondered what those lines were for. She started across again, saw a car a half mile away, speeding along at twenty five miles per hour, and leaped back to the curb. She made it eventually. We have discussed how to cross the street many many times.

    Today, she started across when eight year old grabbed her and dragged her back because he saw a car. Stopped. Waiting for us even though it was not even going our way. Lots of nice people out there.

    Isn’t it amazing how the annoyance dissipates once we grasp the situation. I often wish mine would never start rather than waiting for that moment.

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  52. Anonymous, I haven’t read your movie review link yet, but I’ll bet the LA Weekly review I just read was a lot more scathing. Of course that also included a horribly jumbled misunderstanding of basic theology. Still, sounds like the film didn’t help to convey the faith very well. Sigh.

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  53. Those of you who are my Facebook friends: I asked a question this evening, & no one has replied yet, which is kind of embarrassing, as I thought I’d get some replies. Would some of you mind going over & answering my question?

    Here’s what I posted:

    “A question primarily for my Christian friends, but I’d encourage non-believers to add their thoughts, if they’d like:

    “What do you think was Jesus’ primary message, “the spirit” of the New Testament?”

    It’s not that I don’t think I know the answer. It’s that I thought it would be interesting to see how others would answer.

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