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Our Daily Thread 11-8-14

Good Morning!

It’s Saturday!!!!

Cheryl sent the header photo for us today. Hitchcock could have used this one for his movie poster. 🙂

On this day in 1793 The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time. 

In 1887 Doc Holliday died at the age of 35.

In 1923 Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer-Hall Putsch.”  

And in 1965 the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” debuted on NBC-TV. 

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Quote of the Day

“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”

Richard Cecil

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Today is Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax’s birthday.

 Today is also Roy Wood’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

88 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-8-14”

  4. I just finished posting on yesterday’s thread while today’s is already up! You’re quite efficient this morning, Aj!

    Cheryl: I posted a comment to you on the end of yesterday’s thread just now.

    Good evening, Jo! Good Saturday morning, everyone! Becca has a birthday sleepover tonight. At 5:45am she asked to come downstairs. I sent her back to bed as she’ll never be able to stay up late tonight if she gets up now. She may not be able to anyway–she often hits a wall around nine and simply must go to bed. She’s definitely a morning person–not a night owl. The last sleepover she attended, she asked the mom if she could please go to sleep at ten, even though the other kids were going strong. But, when you awaken at five, it’s hard to stay up past ten! On Halloween, a friend of hers came over. They had returned from trick or treating and were playing happily. But, at the stroke of nine, she announced it was time for her to go to bed and said we needed to take her friend home right away because she was exhausted and needed to sleep. I’ve rarely known a kid who voluntarily goes to bed when there’s fun to be had.

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  5. On yesterday’s thread, Ann mentioned that she often doodled what her name would be if she married one of her dates.
    At Purdue, I had a used book for a psychology course I was taking. The previous owner was a girl named Nancy Smith (not real, I don’t remember their real names). I noticed that at the beginning of the book, she doodled her name. Later, I noticed a guy’s name, Then (for example) Nancy & John. Later on, she was doodling Nancy Jones I, of course, found that amusing. I never knew what happened.

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  6. But I did wonder what would have happened if John Jones had seen Nancy Smith’s book toward the end of the semester. He has an important decision to make. Much drama.

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  8. Ann, I read yesterday’s thread first, and “liked” your comments. I definitely don’t think that a man “has to” open the door for a woman. I think part of it is that my husband has some physical limitations, and doing such tasks reminds both of us that he is still my protector. Perhaps that is the case for the brother who continues to open the door for his wife years into marriage, as well. (My brother is quite a short man. His first wife was his same height but heavier; his second wife much shorter.)

    Regardless the reason, it matters to him, and it doesn’t matter either way to me, so I accept it as a gift of love. It’s like men sitting at the end of a pew–we women probably don’t care whether he does or not, most of the time, but it’s important to him to do so and thus important for us to recognize and respect that it matters to him. And the gentle protectiveness (with no hint of possessiveness) was part of what helped tip the balance to love the first visit when I met him in person. We went for a walk the first evening and he took my hand, and he noticed that I was a little nervous and told me to relax my arm. And then we crossed the street and he had to go around me to stay on “street side,” and he quickly did so. Those two actions told me that this man was very observant of his woman and her surroundings, and they mattered. (I figured it was gentlemanly and “expected” for a man to walk on street side, but it took an innate sense that it’s his responsibility to protect for him to instinctively readjust where he was once it was no longer street-side.) But he also has a well-developed sense of humor including an ability to laugh at himself easily, a trait definitely missing in the men in my family, so that too was and is attractive.

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  9. The bird in the header photo is a common grackle. The near side of the fence is my yard; the green side is my neighbor’s yard, and the less-green portion in the rear is the farmer’s field. The birds also filled the yard of the neighbor on my other side, front and rear. (We each own at least an acre, plus however many acres that farm field is, and I don’t know but that the birds may have stretched into yards beyond the three I could see.)

    And while I was writing this, a buck ran across that back field. First buck I’ve seen there (I’ve seen plenty of does and fawns), but a buck no hunter would want. A one-antlered three-pointer. But for all I know the other antler broke off and he’ll be back next year as an eight-pointer or better.

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  10. Good morning! I’ve been behind on here for a few days, but got caught up yesterday. Now I will likely get behind again, as there is SO much to do in the next few weeks, that I really can’t afford to spend much time in the online world…

    We are hosting Thanksgiving at our house for my extended family. And my sister and her family who live on the East Coast are able to be here for it!

    My mind is swirling with details on how to get our house, and especially our hearts, prepared for our celebration. Do any of you have traditions regarding the lead-up to and the celebration of Thanksgiving in your homes? How do you commemorate this time and make it meaningful?

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  11. Ann, I read your comments at the end of yesterday’s daily thread. Very moving. Thanks for sharing.

    Praying for you, too, as Thanksgiving approaches, and per your requests on the prayer thread.

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  12. It was snowing this morning (it has turned to rain). That is the fourth time since November 1. They said we were supposed to have less snow this year – doesn’t look like it so far. Not that I’m complaining, I like snow for the most part (I don’t like the old dirty snow that hangs around until early April).

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  13. I find the noise grackles make quite creepy. The first time I heard them was our first spring in Val Marie (in our exile, as we call it) I heard this loud noise like a very rusty, creaky swing set just going and going and going. I went outside to look and one of the trees was laden with grackles – it sent shivers down my spine. yuck. I don’t like them at all.

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  14. Now I want to watch The Birds again. Haven’t seen it in decades. Hmm, I wonder where I can get it that doesn’t involve waiting for it to download.

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  15. I love it when any man of any age or race opens a door for me and to encourage them to do it for the next woman the meet at a door I always make sure to thank them.

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  17. Note to kbells: You still need to post your pick for the Colorado-Arizona game. Since it doesn’t start until 8PM EST, you have 9 hours from now.

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  18. Peter, you might find a copy of the movie at your library. We have one county library that is particularly dedicated to audio-visual so we can request an item to be sent to our closest library.

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  19. Wow, that’s a lot of birds.

    I think “The Birds” was filmed in an area not far from where michelle now lives. I still remember the leading character frantically running (in high heels and a tight skirt, of course) as the birds pecked away at her fashionable, up-do hairstyle. Eeek. Someone open a door for her, quick!

    It should be easy to find the movie online and/or via a library or rental service like Amazon or Netflix?

    It felt so good to sleep in today. Despite having to work a long day yesterday, the birthday was good, received cards & a special call last night from a Colorado friend I’ve known for years from church before she and her husband moved. They give us our birthday as a ‘holiday,’ but one that you can take for a month+ in either direction, so I’m taking mine on Friday Dec. 5 to go with a friend to the Christmas arts fair in Pomona.

    It’s been so intense and busy at work for a few weeks now that I’m craving some time off.

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  20. Oh, talking about scary movies — I watched Alien last night (1979), I saw it when it was released in the theater and have seen parts of it since on TV. But I watched it all last night for the first time in ages (I’d forgotten parts of the story, but knew the heroine somehow survived since there were so many sequels spawned, so to speak, from the original).

    Now that was a scary movie.

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  24. I prefer comedies rather than scary movies. A co-worker likes scary movies, but her husband won’t watch them with her. Somehow that strikes me as amusing. But he is a vet and probably had his fill of scary in the war.

    Just think how we would be plagued by insects if there weren’t so many birds to clear them out. 🙂 God’s cycles in nature are awesome.

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  27. I saw a cartoon on Drudge that asks an important question:
    “Which is more dangerous, a grizzly bear on the prowl? A hungry lion, a mad wolverine? Or a lame duck with nothing to lose?”

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  29. My friend saw an infectious disease doctor yesterday. She is seeming to have improvement from one of the earlier antibiotics my husband received. Her problem was spreading from one arm to the other hand and down to toes. 😦 it seems breaks in skin from eczema may be the cause.

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  30. Anyone here with dry skin, eczema, or psoriasis needs to be careful to keep the skin well hydrated, clean, and covered to not catch these types of bugs. I wear gloves to put med creams on husband’s elbows.

    He still has not smoked so our short term suffering so far is worth the long term gain.

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  31. Yesterday, I told a story about going to a boxing match at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The way I told the story, I described the elderly black gentleman who sat beside me and taught me the finer points of boxing as a gentleman’s sport.
    My boss asked why I had to describe the man as black. Why wasn’t it enough to just say he was an elderly gentleman? As often happens, someone will ask a question or make a statement and I will obsess over it. Sometime around 3 am when the neighbor’s barking dog woke me, I realized why it mattered to me.
    The gentleman was old enough to be my grandfather. He was so excited to be there. He had been looking forward to seeing that particular boxer box. My husband kept nudging me, telling me to leave the poor man alone and let him enjoy the match. We had our heads together as I asked questions and he explained and told me what to look for next. He clearly loved the sport and I was at a sporting event that I couldn’t have cared less about. His enthusiasm at sharing something he clearly loved and his patience with me made it enjoyable for me too. (To this day I think it is the only boxing match I have ever watched) When he was my age he would have been in the segregated area at the back of the room; not seated closer to the ring explaining the sportsmanship of boxing to a white woman. That is why when I tell the story it matters to me that he was black.

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  32. Praying for your friend, Janice, there are so many strange infections out there that are tough to get rid of completely.

    Our community has a couple FB crime pages, basically folks who listen to scanners and post what’s going on in real time. This morning it was this: “Man with 2 guns in his waistband near (street intersection). Suspect is a Male Hispanic with a Pirates (school mascot) sweater. Suspect in custody.”

    I walked my dogs kind of late last night, probably around 9:30 p.m., and walked by a group of young guys speaking Spanish, ‘homeboy’ types, smoking, that I didn’t see until I was too close to cross the street. We’re in a quiet, generally safe residential area but this was a dark stretch of one block where there’s no sidewalk … And there was a high school home game last night at the field not far away so there are always more teens out and about on those nights.

    I don’t scare easily (and I wasn’t “afraid” walking by, they were probably just a group of kids hanging out after the game), but it was just a little unnerving as they all stopped talking as I approached and walked by. I kind of heard one of them saying something about the dogs as I got a ways away. My dogs are on the bigger side, but hardly look very threatening. Still, dogs will defend their owners so it makes me feel a tad safer when I’m with them.

    Anyway, I picked up my pace but acted casual, making the turn onto a better-lit block asap.

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  34. Peter, I’d lend you our copy of The Birds if you were close – for that matter, you could probably have it, I’ve no plans to watch it again 😀

    Donna, it might have looked like an actual location, but, like most of Hitchcock’s movies, it was filmed in a Hollywood sound stage. What you see, including that horrifying last shot of the birds covering the roofs and fields, is all done by glass, also called matte, paintings, with the live elements cleverly blended into them. I have a coffee table book filled with images of glass paintings from classic Hollywood films, and there are several from The Birds and other Hitchcock films. He didn’t like field shoots, as he couldn’t control elements as well – and he was quite obese – so he depended heavily on his artists. The scariest shot in the whole movies, where it shows the chicken farmer with his eyes pecked out, was entirely painted – no actors were harmed in the making of the scene 🙂 Other famous matte scenes are the final shot of the warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark and all of Kane’s mansion in Citizen Kane.

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  36. The fact that Tim Scott is elected Senator from South Carolina is not important in itself.
    The fact that Tim Scott is a black elected Senator from South Carolina is important.

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  37. No doubt true, roscuro — but I think it was “set” in that particular area, whether much of it was filmed on location or not …

    They film much of NCIS (supposedly in Washington, DC) from a sound stage in Hollywood (and on location near me), too.

    Everyone’s so hypersensitive about race right now. Ironically, electing our first black president has had the opposite effect many of us had hoped it would.

    Someone I work with said recently he was ‘proud’ to have voted for both a woman (hillary) and (then) an African-American (obama) for president. So interesting how focused we are on all of that.

    And I’m hearing so many disparaging remarks lately (more than usual) about “old, white, male” Republicans. As if being old, white and/or male automatically discounts you as a person. 😉

    Maybe someday we’ll move past all of this, but probably not any time soon.

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  38. Kind of creeped out right now, seeing posts on neighborhood FB pages that a cat was killed by a coyote on a front yard just about a block away from me. Maybe Annie will be spending more indoor time …

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  39. You know, God made skin colors. I appreciate the variety and do not take offense if someone notices me as a “white lady..” If they call me a ‘ white honky,” “white trash,” or “a cracker,” I might take a tad bit of offence. More than likely I would look around to see who they were talking about. Sometimes it is nice to be oblivious to insults.

    I just heard a man was robbed at gunpoint in the restroom where my son’s university group had their recent conference (Hotel Georgian Terrace).

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  42. Busy day on here today! I’m enjoying the discussion, but gotta run. 😉

    Interesting thing, though: I got the answer to my 10:55 questions in my email inbox. There was an offer for ten free ebooks/printables with a Thanksgiving theme, covering everything from lapbooks to projects, to meal planning and decorating, to read-aloud ideas, to copywork for the children. “It is not the happy people who are thankful; it is the thankful people who are happy.” And also 1 Thessalonians 5:18 — “Give thanks with a grateful heart.”

    And a whole lot more, too, that really gets to the heart of celebrating Thanksgiving. I’ve downloaded the materials, skimmed them all, printed some of them, and am finding much more that I want to read in depth. A real treasure trove of blessings, right there when I needed them!

    Aren’t God’s provision and timing wonderful?

    Well, I’m going to cut out of here for a few weeks as I prepare for Thanksgiving now, and for starting to teach piano again next week, and homeschool… and… well, you get the idea. 😉

    Enjoy your conversations, all!

    Blessings. 🙂

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  43. Roscuro, that was an interesting read that brought tears.

    I am reluctant to be at church while we still are dealing with the MRSA. It’s not that I think I carry it, but people’s perception. Especially when people may have lowered immunity because of chemo treatments for cancer, they don’t want to be around anyone who has been around MRSA.

    My brother in pharmaceutical sales even had a doctor shrink back when he mentioned being on the Emory campus when they had brought in the Ebola patient. My brother had picked up our son who visited in the hospital with my husband for about five minutes while my brother waited in his car.

    I remember that people were afraid like this when AIDS was the new kid disease on the block.

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  44. Janice, MRSA, as a bacterial illness, is much more communicable than Ebola, but not everybody will be infected by MRSA. Staphylococcus aureus is a natural colonizer of human skin, and sometimes those colonies will be antibiotic resistant (that is why antibacterial soaps backfire, because if you destroy the vulnerable bacteria, you leave the resistant to grow).

    However, since your husband has an community-acquired infection, meaning that he came into contact with MRSA outside the hospital, I wouldn’t worry about infecting others. I did a research paper on MRSA, and I remember reading that they discovered MRSA on meat sold in the grocery stores. Agriculture, both crop and animal, has often been genetically traced as the source of antibiotic resistant bacteria. This is thought to be because they use antibiotic or antibiotic-like sprays on the crops and, of course, to keep the animals healthy. Farming uses millions of tons of antibiotics, much more than antibiotics are used in medicine, so it is more likely to have caused development of resistance.

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  45. Mentioning someone’s skin tone doesn’t make you a racist anymore than mentioning that they have red hair and freckles. What you are saying about them makes a difference, of course. Your observation of the different attitudes and opportunities for black and white is what makes the story interesting.

    Woman tend to add way more details to any story. Is your boss a man? Just wondering. I can picture the scene in my head.

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  47. Thanks, Roscuro.
    It was after seeing the doc’s that I remembered husband had been with me to the rehab facility where he could have picked up the hospital related MRSA. I know I am probably safe, but it is rather the perception of other people that concerns me especially since my church has the meet and greet time. I think it would be good to discontinue that for this very reason.

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  48. doc’s=docs
    This phone continues to do acrobatics with my words. It turns them out every which way but right. Yesterday I was writing seatbelt but it continued to turn it into two words. It is like it has a spell check that works backwards.

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  49. Husband went to a memorial service today. The guy was one hundred one. He died on what would have been his seventieth wedding anniversary, had his wife lived two more years. He was a paratrooper in Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. After his wife died, he walked around the VFW hall, holding hands with our five year old, claiming she was his new girlfriend. Neat guy.

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  50. Parts of The Birds was filmed in Bodega Bay, about 30 beautiful miles west of where I live. You can see the schoolhouse, the bay and I’ve eaten lunch in the restaurant.

    It still gives me the creeps to see lots of birds “innocently’ hanging out somewhere.

    Shadow of a Doubt was also filmed in the county seat, Santa Rosa, though not the entire movie, of course. They still talk about “when Hitchcock came to town” around here.

    Ridiculously busy day, but I may get to sit and read for 1/2 hour before guests come–once I finish cooking and ironing and putting laundry away, not to mention vacuuming.

    Okay, never mind, they’re coming at 5:30!

    LOL

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  53. Janice I had MRSA in 2006. I almost ended up in the hospital. Have you husband soak in the hottest water he can stand with Epsom salts in it. Follow the directions on the box. Soak for no more than 20 minutes then shower.

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  54. Kim, nope, but your friend went with husband to the service. He is doing well. He has a neat video out on how God worked in him and through him in the war. I watched it the other day. He wrote a poem and an essay for the service today.

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  56. Kim – I’ve heard people question why someone “had to” mention that the person in their story was black. But I would guess (I don’t know for sure, though) that black people just may mention that the person in their story is white.

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  57. My college newspaper put notes from the police blotter for the neighborhood into about two issues . . . and stopped doing so because a couple of students complained it was racist (“black male about 6′, late thirties . . . teen or adult Hispanic male, 5’5″-5’10” . . . black male, 30s or early 40s . . . two black males, late teens to early twenties . . .”). They somehow failed to notice the list was sexist and age-ist, too. The reality is young black males commit a disproportionate percentage of the crimes in Chicago, followed by young Hispanic males, and the police records realistically are going to show that! But it doesn’t hurt to remind college students in a big city to be cautious, because sometimes students can be careless, and that was the stated (and good) reason for including the crime round-up.

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  58. I have had the experience of being a visible minority. Yes, I dealt with assumptions and prejudices (mostly that I had a lot of money to give away, or, for the children, that I would stick them with a needle – which was sometimes accurate). The children would follow me in the street, chanting “Tubaab” (white person) or calling “Give me mon-ey”. The little ones that came into the clinic, take one look at me and burst into tears – their mothers teasing them for being afraid of the tubaab. That was the first word people used to describe me – I remember the day I turned to some children crying after me and said, in the language, “My name is (my Gambian name).” That kept them quiet. But I really didn’t mind it – I was obviously a very different colour – and they weren’t really nasty about it, just curious.

    I understand exactly why Kim described the man as black. We often describe people by their ethnic appearance, like the discussion about the Jewish nose, and to say a man is black, although it is less specific than saying someone looked Italian as black is not a nationality, is speaking of them the way we speak of anyone. I was always amused by the way the different tribes described each other – one employee told me, after teasing a patient on their tribe (they said that tribe was short, dark and ugly) asked if white people tease each other like that – I said yes, we did, and gave the example of Scottish being called careful with money – he nodded and said he knew someone like that. So, by understanding what makes us different, we can understand what makes us the same.

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  59. I asked my brother if he remembered any Jewish students from his classes way back when we were young. He remembered a girl in his class who had brownish blonde hair. She had a red headed brother. We were two years apart in school therefore we did not know the same classmates.

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  60. You’ll be in the area by January, right, Jo. Come on down. We’ve got a guest room!

    Party was good. It’s done. Dishwasher is running (love these mechanical servants–particularly when they work!) and the best news is the house is clean and I can finally sit down and read a book. God is good. Always.

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  61. Kim- You are not a racist. And there will be racism and accusations of such until the Lord returns. Then, he will separate us by our relationship to Him, not by the color of our skin. Actually, there will be colors involved: white or red.“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.
    Isaiah 1:18 NASB

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  63. Michelle, I will visit you for sure. We are practically neighbors! The rest of you will take a little more work. I am thinking that Donna and I should take a road trip to Mumsee’s!

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  64. For those of you who were pulling for Alabama, I take full responsibility for what happened last night. We went to friends yesterday. First of all they have the cutest little boy. They also have two Nigerian pygmy goats, three miniature pot bellied pigs, and two dogs. If you are my FB friend you can see Mr. P and and Little Boy C ready for the game to start.
    Everyone, including me had put on football jerseys. I asked Mr. P if he was sure he wanted me to wear one. The last time I did, Auburn beat Alabama in the last few seconds of the game. With 5 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, I went and changed back into my sweater.

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  65. Looking forward to your arrival, Jo and Donna!
    I have two sons headed toward Los Angeles today. They will be stopping in Boise to help eldest son pack his things as he has sold his interest in the house to daughter and her husband. Then they will drive a UHaul down to LA, stay for a few days followed by a flight home. Should be fun for them.

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  66. Philo T Farnsworth was from Idaho. Well, not from Idaho, he was from Utah. But he spent his growing up time in Idaho and that is where he invented the image transfer deal that allowed for television.

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  68. kim. my brother told me that funerals are not held in AL on Saturdays because of people glued to their tvs or at the stadiums watching football games. Is that a fact? He said he was not joking. Are other states that way, too, or is it just AL?

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  69. Michelle, my dishwasher is broken and has been for years. I am the broken dishwasher. My Playtex Living gloves have died, my dry cycle doesn’t work, and the part where you put the detergent in is clogged. I never much liked the taste of that detergent. It reminded me too much of colas that are full of phospheric acid. The worst of it is that Bosley walked on the dish drainer trying to claim it as her own. I am so defeated as a broken dishwasher.
    🙂 😦

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  70. Hahaha, poor broken JaniceG.

    Hi mumsee!

    Hey, have you ever heard this story (from an article on coyotes linked by a friend on FB last night):

    “Near the dawn of time, the story goes, Coyote saved the creatures of Earth. According to the mythology of Idaho’s Nez Perce people, the monster Kamiah had stalked into the region and was gobbling up the animals one by one. The crafty Coyote evaded Kamiah but didn’t want to lose his friends, so he let himself be swallowed. From inside the beast, Coyote severed Kamiah’s heart and freed his fellow animals. Then he chopped up Kamiah and threw the pieces to the winds, where they gave birth to the peoples of the planet. …”

    http://www.nature.com/news/rise-of-the-coyote-the-new-top-dog-1.10635

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  71. Janice, only between the last week of August and the first week of December, but then you do have the bowl games in January.
    Just kidding. We do try to have you in the ground within 3 days…the heat you know.
    Having volunteered with the art center which makes a lovely reception hall, I do know that it is most important to know who is playing and what time on Saturdays…otherwise you will be setting up a big screen TV at your wedding reception.

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  72. On humming birds (with a Boise connection):

    http://www.dailybreeze.com/science/20141109/insights-on-hummingbird-travel-life-span-revealed

    BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hummingbirds are giving up some of their secrets.

    The perfecting of placing tiny numbered bands on their legs in the last decade has led researchers to discover hummingbirds can live longer than 10 years as opposed to the two or three once thought likely.

    And astonishing migrations have been found, with a Rufous hummingbird caught in Florida one winter showing up the following summer more than 3,500 miles away in southeast Alaska. Some birds have even been discovered wintering in areas where temperatures drop below zero degrees.

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  75. Arrgh. Posted on fb: “Every time a pro-lifer goes on about how we should respect the life of zygotes, I want to take them straight to the slums of Kolkata and place in their hands one of many unwanted children who spend their day begging to feed themselves, so they can take them back to their comfortable homes and put an end to their unreasonable and dangerous hypocrisy” – Hemley Gonzalez, Founder of Responsible Charity.

    Response?

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  76. My uncle was usually mistaken as the Native American (in PC speak) when people stopped by the apartment in which he lived. His roommate had started an organization for others of his tribe at the university they attended. He had dark hair and features, while his roommate had blond hair and blue eyes. There are lots of variations.

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  77. If we can kill them as zygotes, why can’t we do it at 2 yrs., 4 yrs. 21 yrs. etc? All in the name of charity, of course. This is as silly an argument as the one that says if only ‘wanted’ children were born, there would be no more child abuse. One has nothing to do with the other.

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  79. It’s such an aggravating (and false) stereotype of the pro-life people & groups I know, that I always just groan when I see it repeated — again and again (this time by a ‘liberal’ Christian, of course).

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  80. This is both amazing and scary to me.

    Shades of Dave in 2001 A Space Odyssey. What could possibly go wrong?

    http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo/ref_=ods_dp_ae

    “Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It’s always on—just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Echo begins working as soon as it hears you say the wake word, ‘Alexa.’ It’s also an expertly-tuned speaker that can fill any room with immersive sound. … When is Thanksgiving? Add gelato to my shopping list. How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon? Will it rain tomorrow (hahahaha, adds the Californian)? Play my ‘dinner party’ playlist (people have playlists for ‘dinner parties’??)? Set an alarm for 8 a.m. …”

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  83. Not the roadtrip!! Just whatever that computer program is, or phone program.
    This cross posting can be interesting!
    Though not sure that I would go on a trip with someone called ‘deleted’ !!! 🙂

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  84. Yes, Donna, that is the nimipuu creation story. We live near the heart of the monster, a sacred hill by Kamiah. It is a small hill on the flood plain, all by itself. They have built a nice meadow park around it with the story of coyote recorded by one of the elders and played in a pavilion.. The heart itself is fenced to keep people off of it. But then Christianity crept in with the help of several missionaries and people learned the Truth. Some hold on to it, others hold to the coyote story. In our search for God and the meaning of life…

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  86. So calling the criminals who bring illegal immigrants across the border “coyotes” is actually based on ancient myth? Or is it just a coincidence that the ones helping them cross the border to a new life are called coyotes?

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  87. The coyote, itse ye ye, of Nezperce tradition is a tricky but positive fellow. The coyote of border crossings is often the deliverer of death and horror, so I suspect it is more coincidence than intent.

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