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Our Daily Thread 10-9-14

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

On this day in 1701 the Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale. 

In 1776 a group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.

In 1812, during the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia. 

In 1858 mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began. 

And in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles. 

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Quote of the Day

“I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.”

Lord Hailsham

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 Today is  Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi’s birthday. This will wake you up.

And another….

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Anyone have a QoD?

59 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-9-14”

  2. Hi there, Jo! Good morning, all. Becca didn’t go to school yesterday; she went to the doctor instead. She has another stomach bug. Doctor’s theory is that L. had a different strain last week than Becca originally had and now Becca has L.’s version. She is running a fever of 101• this morning, but hasn’t vomited since last night. She’s tired of feeling bad.

    Today is College Day at L.’s school. Connie is coming to stay with Becca so I can attend. They strongly encourage parents to come, so I’m once again so grateful for Connie.

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  4. Morning! I’ve been awake since 4…the Lord does have purpose in it all…precious moments ❤
    That moon is bright but the clouds are moving in…we are to receive two days of heavy rains around here….
    Praying this time of illness leaves your home soon Anne….does it seem once school begins, everyone is getting sick….seems that way with my daughter's family…the kids are always catching something or another
    Nice photo Janice…I always wondered where those little pumpkin pods came from…I see them in potpourri around this time of year…but they are bright orange…

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  5. Good morning! I woke up around 4:00 a.m., too. Is it the moon pulling us out of sleep?

    The plant in the header photo is beauty rising up out of the gutters. It is a poke weed plant growing at the edge of our roof. I just now looked up poke weed and found a fascinating article. You don’t have to read it all. It has lots about the collecting and cooking of it. It is considered a “pot weed” because it must be cooked in a pot to be safely edible. When Polk ran for President one thing supporters did was to wear poke weed leaves on their lapels. Lots of trivia in this article.
    http://www.eattheweeds.com/can-be-deadly-but-oh-so-delicious-pokeweed-2/

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  6. When I was a kid, we had poke salad a couple of times, that I remember. It used to grow beside the railroad track. It was just like some other greens to me. I didn’t care for it, but I didn’t care for spinach and collards either.
    But I ate them.

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  8. During the Civil War or Wahr of No’ thin Agressshun the berries were crushed and used for ink.
    I may be the only one here who has actually COOKED and eaten poke salad. You must boil the leaves in water and pour the first water out. Supposedly it is poisonous unless you do that. From there you can either boil it again and season it or you can saute it in some bacon juice with some onions. It has a certain off sort of taste but isn’t bad. I could eat it if I didn’t have access to anything else to eat, but I won’t be harvesting it on the side of the road and preparing it for Sunday Dinner.

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  9. Well, I guess between the time I wrote that post and hit “post,” my question got answered. 🙂 (My stepdaughter was in here telling me about her shift at work; when she left I hit “post” without refreshing.)

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  10. I wonder how long the conversation was between Mr. Bell and Mr. Watson. Nothing like a phone conversation between two teenaged girls, I’d wager.

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  11. Cheryl, my guess is that because the plant sprouted and grew in the gutter, probably from a bird dropping, that the plant may be off schedule just because of the unique and less than optimal soil. I think it is poke.

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  12. Maybe they should have found some teenage girls to help them, Peter. Think of all the information they could have learned about both the telephone and the girls, if they’d put two on.

    The first “conversation”: “Mr. Watson–come here–I want to see you.” “

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  13. I’m turning up nothing with Google this morning and am trying to finish writing the first draft of my novella before I take off for a couple days. Can anybody hear give me the names of square dances. I’ve come up with the following:
    Virginia Reel
    Turkey in the Straw.

    I’m drawing a total blank on anything else. If you come up with the “winning” title, I’ll make you a character in the story . . .

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  14. I read some comments after the article and see a lot of people use the poke berries for treatment of arthritis. The plant has properties to help with AIDs and childhood leukemia, too.

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  15. Michelle, those are not square dances. Those are folk dances. There are acceptable forms of music for square dancing but you have a caller in a square dance who tells you what to do.
    The Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education still teaches this in their PE classes and a relative was a caller. I have never square danced. I did find you a link on some of the “calls”. Perhaps you can work the calls into the story rather than naming the dances.

    Click to access SquareDanceRG.pdf

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  18. Who was the person who discovered that you had to boil poke salad twice? Why would you try again, if you got sick the first time? I guess if you were starving… I would certainly avoid anything that made me sick.

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  19. Kathleen and some others have been advising me on FB. See how little I know? I thought it was all square dancing, but it’s also circle dancing and other types of country dancing. That may be why I turned up so little on Google!

    Thanks. I got what I need–I hope.

    Now, how to turn Kathleen into an 1870’s Nebraska name . . .

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  20. Today is the day. in approximately eleven hours, I get to shift all of this weight of responsibility back where it belongs. whew. It has been a tough seven months.

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  23. My husband and I had a ball at a barn dance a few years ago. It was held in conjunction with some fiddle workshops. There was a caller and a band with at least one fiddler. We did not do the square dancing, but enjoyed all the rest of the dance songs. Sadly, it was the last of an annual event. Good memories for us, though.

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  24. Wasn’t there a song called Poke Salad Annie? From the late 1960s?

    Dosey-Do? Or is that just a square dance move? I had a roommate who got into square dancing, she had the outfit and everything, when she was dating her husband-to-be. Cute. And we had square dancing in 6th grade, I think, but all the boys in the class hated it so it was somewhat unpleasant as you knew you were making your partner miserable (or so he’d have us believe).

    Hope Becca feels better, stomach bugs are the worst.

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  29. Just as some have already said, square dance doesn’t have a name. Just as waltz doesn’t have a name. Elvera and I once took several square dance lessons together, but didn’t get very far.

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  32. 🙂 Mumsee’s good news comment.
    🙂 Donna’s Poke Salad Annie

    🙂 in looking over this week’s Sunday school lesson, I see the name of the prophet, Amos, means “burden” or “burden bearer.” So which is it, Kim?

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  33. I am taking a few weeks off from teaching Sunday school to work in the church library where there has been water damage. I will be getting rid of water damaged things to start with as the first step in a renovation project.

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  34. Janice, your question about “Amos” makes me think of a childhood thing. My sister and I had looked through a name book, with the meanings of names, and we found some such name/meaning. We told our mom that she should have given that name to our little brother, and I think we even referred to him by that name occasionally for a while. . . .

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  36. I am mowing the grass, weeds, leaves and whatever else is hiding in the yard. I should have mowed when it was cooler. Somehow I feel like the mower and I are square dancing. Sometimes it turns into a line dance.

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  40. My husband and my child know and accept that Amos is the love of my life. I brought him home in October after my father died in June. 2008 was a horrible year for me emotionally and financially. He helped heal my broken heart. Just last night I was on the sofa and he was spread across me getting petted. At night he has to be touching me. In the morning he cuddles up in my chair as I read and have my coffee.

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  41. Got a sore throat – I’ve caught the cold my parents had. I had to call in sick for my job. That’s right, I think I forgot to mention that I have a tiny job – helping an elderly woman for few hours in the morning (due to a health condition, she needs close supervision during that time). It is the second small job that has come up unsolicited – I worked myself out of the last one, by suggesting my client’s confusion was due to an infection; it was and I wasn’t needed any more. I’m thankful for little jobs – not really physically ready for full-time work; but I need occupation and some income for necessities.

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  42. A challenge:http://www.dennyburk.com/do-you-have-a-confidence-in-christ-that-can-handle-ebola/

    Nor should we be afraid to ask ourselves now how we should respond if the worst were to become reality—if Ebola were to overtake our own body or that of a loved one. If the worst were to come to pass, do you have a confidence in Christ that can handle Ebola? Do you have a confidence in Christ to know that He can glorify himself by your life or by your death (Phil. 1:20)? Can you trust now that no matter what happens—even if you are alone in an isolation ward with a family who can’t bear the sight of your suffering—He will never leave you or forsake you (Heb. 13:5)?

    I often think about Habakkuk and how he asked God not to stand by while the culture in Israel descended into godlessness. When God answered the prophet’s complaint, Habakkuk was surprised to learn that God’s judgments would be more devastating to the land than Habakkuk really wanted. It took some convincing for Habakkuk to see the goodness of the Lord in this, but he finally did see it. And facing the prospect of great suffering to come among God’s people, Habakkuk prays and expresses two things: (1) a request for mercy for God’s people, and (2) confidence that God will be faithful to bring them through to the other side.

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  47. For unto us a grandchild is born; unto us a grandson is given. And his name shall be called … details coming later. D1 had her second manchild (4th child) 2 1/2 weeks early, but all are doing well.

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  52. Congratulations, Peter!

    I’m happy to report that Becca is feeling much better. She hasn’t vomited all day, but did spike a fever of 101.5• around 5:00pm, so she’ll have to stay home again tomorrow. But, when her fever is down, she’s perky and playful, so she’s obviously over the worst of it.

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  55. Congratulations Peter!

    We do Reformation Day, too, but I have to say I still like handing out Halloween candy to the little ones. 🙂 The teenagers who come to the door trying to pass, not so much.

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  58. You know, that is one of the interesting things about Halloween . . . there’s no official age at which one is “too old.” It seems to be just “when you’re old enough to feel embarrassed about doing it,” but that may well leave a year or two (or more!) when some of the people giving you candy aren’t too happy about doing so.

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  59. I think the cutoff for us was probably around 12-13?

    A few years later I went with a girlfriend down the street to take her little sister trick-or-treating (we were probably 15 by then). But we stood on the sidewalk as she went up to the doors, we didn’t collect candy for ourselves.

    I still find it strange when 16 year olds — and older — come to the door with sacks to collect candy. But I go ahead and toss some in.

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