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Our Daily Thread 10-7-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Linda. (Go O’s)

And a Happy Anniversary!!! to Kim and Mr. P, 🙂

And to make Peter and IBNO happy… Go Royals too, although I’m not sure how that can possibly work out for both teams. 🙂

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On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the second Battle of Saratoga began. 

In 1913 Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line for the first time when the chassis was added to the process. 

In 1956 a U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows. 

And in 2001 the U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.  

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Quote of the Day

“Don’t let your studies interfere with your education.”

Henry Rutgers

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 Today is Michael W. Smith’s birthday. From MichaelWSmithVEVO

And it’s John Micah Sumerall’s too.

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Anyone have a QoD?

60 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-7-14”

  6. Elvera’s a country girl and she doesn’t know. Except, “So they can find their cow.” Every other animal, they just look. And to know which is yours, it would have to be a different bell.
    It seems they are all the same.

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  9. I think it is because cows are so stupid that you have to put a bell on them so YOU can find them.

    On this date in 2012 I married Mr. P. We are going to dinner tonight and on a short trip in November that will be our anniversary/Christmas present.

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  14. When cows free range in the mountains, belling the lead cow makes it easier to find them and round them up in the Fall. When goats free range through the fields, same thing. It is also useful for knowing when they are agitated due to a predator. But a lot of them time it is just a musical touch and reminder of times gone by and alpine herds.

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  17. Thanks Mumsee. I figured that it had to be something like that.

    The story is told in Elvera’s family that Ted, her younger brother, once got into trouble about that. It seems that his stepmother told him to water the cow. So Ted, instead of taking the cow, took to cowbell and rang it as he was passing the kitchen.
    Of course, he was caught. It is easy to tell the rhythm of a cowbell when the cow is walking. It’s hard to imitate. Both the stepmother and Ted are gone now. I’m sure Ted got tired of hearing the story, but he laughed with everyone else.

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  18. I love cowbells and have one hanging on my patio — I had one on my front door for a while, not sure what happened to it though …

    Wonderful tree, glad to see it’s really fall somewhere. It feels like the endless summer out here, but at least today’s only topping off at 79 degrees.

    Happy anniversary Kim.

    At my insistence, Annie the cat wears a little jingle bell on her collar to help warn the birds and other innocent critters she stalks that she’s a-comin’. That way the smart & fast ones can escape.

    I posted a link to a story last night on FB — written by one of our other reporters — on a comment group page where people were wondering about the incident over the weekend (it was a late night stabbing on the beach that left 2 people in critical condition — our story reported via police that the whole thing started over an argument over firewood).

    Anyway, several people decided to become impromptu journalism critics and just started saying how the story should have been written, who shouldn’t or should have been quoted instead …. how “lazy” the reporter was. Honestly, I was biting my tongue (and fingers) not to fire off a snarky comment of my own (I didn’t).

    At least a few people kindly posted thank-yous to me for sharing the news about what happened, which was the point after all. I wasn’t asking for their nit-picky, unprofessional journalistic critiques of my colleague. Honestly, everyone’s now suddenly a journalist and knows how it ought to be done. Sheesh.

    Too bad newspapers were so stupid in the early days of the Internet. What people now get for free they certainly don’t appreciate, that’s for sure. Grrrr. What a bunch of ingrates people can be sometimes. 😦

    And that’s my early rant for the week.

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  22. Peter
    Just trying not to hurt Linda’s feelings. I am a Braves fan but have a very soft spot for the Royals from my several times living in Independence. Good fans, beautiful stadium…what’s not to like?

    Good memories of watching Bo in the left field bleacher seats…
    And bringing food from Papa Leones to the stadium…

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  23. Today’s breakfast for me: oats, fresh milk, cranraisins, microwaved beverage, then topped with chocolate chips and brown sugar. There is no way I am ever getting off of my blood pressure meds at this rate.

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  24. http://www.onesecondafter.com

    Just started reading it on kindle last night ($2.99 and it popped up on my recommended list from amazon, so decided to give it a whirl since I just finished a mystery and was looking for another). I’ll let you know … So far an intriguing premise (our electric, computer grid is completely wiped out and people are trying to survive without everything we take for granted, including cars which now run so often on computer components), but the writing is so-so. You’d probably enjoy it for all the local NC references.

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  26. Donna ,HVPL is a typo. It’s really HCPL for Henderson County Public Library.
    🙂

    I didn’t correct it when I noticed it on the post because I thought no one would notice.

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  27. Wait a minute…when you say Go O’s and Go Royals, I do not get the impression you mean the same thing as when I say Go Boise. You are actually cheering for them and hoping they win something? I am hoping they will secede and go become another state so we can go along with our lives in the independent parts of the state. Guess words mean something….

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  28. From an article in Newsmax “….he (Reagan) was supposedly was rejected from a lead role in “The Best Man” because a United Artist executive said, ‘Reagan doesn’t have that presidential look’”.

    If it weren’t for this blig, I could finis my magazine.

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  32. Cheryl, my room in Annandale was small, I only had room for a desk, file cabinet and bookcase. My computer was in “Chuck’s room”. I had to go there for a reason to log on.
    It may seem strange, but there was an advantage to that. I got much more done.
    Here, I swivel my chair 90 degrees from my desk. I can be reading something important and next thing, I’m on the computer, blogging or playing free cell.

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  33. Is “blig” the plural of “blog”? Or is it the feminine form? Or perhaps it’s the past tense verb form? Or the participle? I blog, I blig, I have blogged? English confuses me sometimes — that’s why I ask.

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  36. Donna, it would do your heart good to go to Dave Ramsey’s site and listen to the audio archive of his show from September 26. He goes on a rampage about every Tom, Dick, and Twerp who think they have a right to have an opinion about everything and think other people actually want to hear it. It is amusing (and comforting).

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  37. p.s. I cheated on the tree picture, as it is from last year. That tree is in front of the house where we used to live. We still own the house next door and hubby took the pic when we were down there last fall. It is a beautiful tree. I remember it was just a sapling when we first moved there (sob, sob).

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  38. I have another story on the cow bell. Once a family long, long ago have a dear milk cow who they loved ont only for the nourishment she gave in the forms of fresh milk, fresh butter, yogurt, cheese, and when the weather was right they could turn her cream into the best vanilla and chocolate frozen dessert. The cow was not only generous in that manner, but she was also charming in the way she batted her eyelashes over her big brown eyes. Therefore she earned the name Belle. They decided such a lovely and giving creature should have a special accessory so people would know when she was in the vicinity so they could be in her presence. That accessory was a bell. The fad caught on. It became a tradition to put bells on cows after that. So everyone who heard the cowbell ring would think always about the lovely gifts from a cow. And after that the marketers of icecream from trucks decided they would use bells to let people know the cow’s special treat was nearby. That is a true tall tale of why we have cow bells.

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  40. I just remembered, I bought a little cowbell once to put on a dog collar — it was for a doggie ‘halloween’ thing at the dog park years ago and a friend had a very cow-like looking dog so I gave it to them for their “cow” costume.

    Here’s a tweet I saw that may have some humorous meaning to people from NC? “If Ebola reaches NC, everyone just run to the UNC football stadium because nobody catches anything there.”

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  41. Things we can learn from history:http://thecripplegate.com/pastoral-contentment-and-the-plague-2/

    Vincent was pastoring a flock that was at the heart of the outbreak, and he was strongly urged by fellow ministers to flee the city. In one of the more remarkable cases of pastoral sacrifice, he refused. He said he would not allow any to “weaken his hands in this work.” He could not bring himself to leave his flock “in the time of their greatest need” and committed himself to the protection of his God.

    “Without fear he rushed into the scenes of contagion and entered the dwellings of disease and death” and “though upwards of sixty-eight thousand died in London including seven persons in the house in which Mr. Vincent resided, yet did he continue in perfect health during the whole season of the visitation.”

    It is worth noting that Vincent had no divine revelation that promised his safety through this plague. There was no guarantee that he would be immune to the disease as long as he was engaged in the Lord’s work. He understood that committing himself to the protection of God did not obligate the Lord to preserve him.

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  42. Roscuro, just a couple of days ago I was thinking about why Ebola sounds so foreign to most of us (not to those of you who have spent times in developing lands). These days, we just don’t hear of people dying of contagious illnesses. People used to die or be injured by scarlet fever, polio, and all number of other diseases. These days, we expect people to die of cancer or heart disease, or accident, or just wear out in old age. It’s shocking to hear that someone died of the flu or from malaria–that isn’t our experience in this time and this place.

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  44. linda, amazing how many experts are out there. I follow a blog where the writer is continually having to ask followers not to offer their unsolicited advice to him.

    I’m fine with people pointing out factual errors (though even then it would be nice if they were polite about it) or otherwise criticizing the substance of a story I post from our paper. But when they all start nit-picking and saying this quote shouldn’t have been used or a reporter was ‘lazy’ writing it in a certain way and the community doesn’t get the coverage it should and blah-blah-blah, whine-whine-whine, I get so frustrated I just want to whack someone on the head!

    Do I tell people how to do their jobs as engineers or teachers? No.

    Sheesh.

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  45. Our anniversary is tomorrow–37 years. When you have anniversaries, do you and your spouse do a review of the year? What we like to call a ‘State of the Marriage’ address? 🙂

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  46. Unless you have small children with asthma, in which case you pay more attention to entrovirus.

    Nope, Michelle, but it sounds interesting.

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  50. VA/Military Humor: So today is our second anniversary. He notified the VA (80% disability) when we married. They finally called him today with some questions. Good thing we weren’t depending on that extra $100 a month I will get him. 😉

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  51. Ebola humor.

    In today’s times-News
    It’s told that some North Carolinians have the solution to the epidemic problem:
    If it comes to NC, go to the Tarheels stadium. Nobody catches anything there.

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  57. K & P, sitting in a tree,
    Merrily, merrily, merrily
    Having their anniversary!

    If you look real close at the header photo you can barely glimpse their shoes in the foliage. His shoes are the bigger ones. 🙂

    Beautiful tree for an anniversary. Thanks for sharing, Linda. 🙂

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