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Our Daily Thread 10-21-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1797 “Old Ironsides,” the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston’s harbor. 

In 1917 the first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France. 

In 1918 Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.

And in 1945 women in France were allowed to vote for the first time. 

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Quote of the Day

“Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.”

Benjamin Netanyahu

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 Today is Rich Mullins’ birthday. From Ragamuffin Archive

And it’s Charlie Lowell’s too. From JarsOfClayVEVO

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Anyone have a QoD?

34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-21-14”

  1. Morning all, I thought that I would check in a little early as Aj said that he would be posting at different times.
    Walked for 45 minutes tonight at a brisk speed. now I just need some new shoes to keep up with myself.

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  7. Chas, I play it with our 3-year-old granddaughter. She crouches down under her play kitchen table, I have to count to ten and say, “Here I come, ready or not,” and then she comes out. Does that count.

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  8. It’s hard to imagine anyone typing 170 wpm on a manual typewriter! My mom had one of those, and I typed on it, but when I got to high school and had typing class, we got to use an electric typewriter (Selectric). So much easier.

    My youngest two still play hide and seek, but after counting, they call out what Linda and her granddaughter do, just reversing the two parts of her quote above, saying “Ready or not, here I come.”

    I never thought to ask them what they think “seek” means. I may just do that today.

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  10. When I was a kid, we used to play hide and seek. One person would hide and the others, three or four (or more) would look for him/her. Girls could play. We had things like coal bins and cellars in the community that made it a challenge. But we had rules like “no crossing the street or going inside (where we can’t go)..” It was more fun at night.

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  12. Where did you grow up, Chas?

    I remember playing hide n’ seek. I remember one game in particular, we were in Iowa that summer staying with the grandparents — I must have been around 6 — and we neighborhood kids all ran through fields of wildflowers ‘seeking’ the kid who hid. I don’t know if we even found him, I think we got distracted from the task, from what I recall. There were all kinds of places to hide out there and you could easily find new interests running barefoot in fields of wildflowers.

    I had to cover a late meeting last night that went until 9:30 p.m. But it was productive, gave me several stories to work on this week (most I’d known about but the meeting discussions provided the much needed quotes and context). The new LAPD harbor capt. was there also, he told the group they’re expecting to make an arrest in that post homecoming game shooting from last Friday night. Thankfully the 3 kids who were shot will all be OK.

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  13. Donna, I grew up in lots of places. The place I’m referring to was in Winnsboro Mills, S.C. The town doesn’t exist any more; likely Winnsboro absorbed it. It was a company development of very modest homes owned by U.S. Royal tire company. The homes had enclosed toilets accessible from the porch. No baths. Adults showered in the community building.. It wasn’t a bad place for a kid to live. Winnsboro Mills was a “Mill Village”. There were lots of them in the South in those days.

    Merle Travis wrote a song centered around the philosophy. “Sixteen Tons”.

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  14. We had those towns up here, too, Chas. My dad lived in one when he was a child. We also had several towns that sprang up at work sites and then were moved. One city near us was moved. It was a town of about 15,000, when it had to be moved for the mine to expand.

    There is a highway that must be moved within a couple of years. The mining company gave permission for it to be built on the proviso it would be moved when the company needed the land. That time has come. Businesses are the most upset, since their livelihood is at stake. It is interesting to hear those complain that the company should be the one to move it. They did not have to give permission all those years ago, yet they are the villains according to some.

    My grandchildren still play hide and seek. They hide places that we would have never dreamed of trespassing, however. That is MY closet and under MY bed. I still remember the thrill of hide and seek, especially in the dark.

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  16. I knew a man that could type 80 wpm on a manual using one index finger for the letters and the other for the shift and space bar.

    And AJ puts a cardinal up for today when the Cardinals aren’t playing tonight. GO ROYALS!!

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  17. It’s already the afternoon! Time flies when you are trying to take care of Smartphones at T-Mobile. My husband now has my old phone replacement and I have to mail in the defective one. I asked for a grace period for getting the old one mailed in. They say it must be returned in 7 days or I will be facing a fee. It can’t be returned to the store.

    Before going to the phone store I cut down a lot of the honeysuckle bushes with all those berries. I need to move them out before the berries drop and cover the whole yard with those plants.
    I mowed yesterday and my legs have been hurting ever since. 😦 I keep waiting to see if I am going to get sick from exposure to germs in two different emergency rooms.

    Husband goes to the doc tomorrow. We will see what they think about his slow recovery. At least he has not smoked any. That is a true miracle ❤

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  18. We have a Selectric at the office. We use it for typing envelopes. Clients enjoy seeing it.

    Hide and seek was a favorite when I was a child. Now all I hear children talk about are some techno gadget games, at least the boys are totally engaged with such things. It seems their world has been limited by such things. ;-(

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  19. I think we made a wise decision last night. We will be kicking off a $375K capital campaign to be paid over the next 36 months. When we have the first $125K we will pay off what we already owe. When that is done we will spend the next 125K to replace the admin building. The last thing will be expanding the sanctuary. We will be having two morning services starting soon. I guess I am going to have to become an 8 O’clocker again. I sure have enjoyed my reprieve at 10 am, but I think I will give up my space to a young family who wants to be there.

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  21. Interesting quote I came across just now, by Oswald Chambers.

    “Soak continually in the one great truth of which you have had a vision; take it to bed with you, sleep with it, rise up in the morning with it. Continually bring your imagination into captivity to it and slowly and surely as the months and years go by, God will make you one of His specialists in that particular truth.”

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  26. Linda – Forrest likes to play Hide & Seek. When he hides, I can hear him running, & then as I seek him, I hear him giggling. I pretend I don’t know where he is, & if I don’t find him quickly enough, he may just jump out & say “Here I am!”

    Sometimes he tells me where to hide. 🙂

    Mumsee – She’s one of those who are famous for being famous. Her late father was O.J. Simpson’s friend & lawyer. She had a super-expensive wedding to some guy, & then they broke up less than three months after the wedding. Then she had a baby with Kanye West (a rapper), & then married him. (They named their baby girl North. Her name is North West. For real.)

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  28. I asked seven year old if she likes to play hide and seek. She got her big grin and said yes. I asked her what hide and seek means. She said it is when you go and hide and then somebody comes and finds you. I asked her what seek means. She said it is find. Close enough for now. They play it a lot. Especially outside and night is good.

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  29. Forrest starts to get nervous if he can’t find me within a minute or two. Then I come out so he can see me.

    He is going through a phase of being scared a lot, which is common for this age. Hard to believe that this coming Saturday is his fourth birthday.

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  31. I would not like to go back to then. I absolutely love my current age and life. It is hard, but it is good. Just sent five wonderful people off to bed after a couple hours of pleasant talk.

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  33. I agree with Mumsee at 11:25. It was a good life. Almost over. There were lots of tough times, and some things I regret. But it worked out. I have been immensely blessed, but I didn’t realize it when I was 34. That was the first year we didn’t have to worry about making it through the next week.

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