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Our Daily Thread 11-10-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1775 the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps. 

In 1801 the state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling. 

In 1919 the American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis, MN. 

And in 1969 “Sesame Street” made its debut on PBS.  

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Quotes of the Day

“Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska’s great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.”

Hudson Stuck

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“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”

Martin Luther

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 Today is Francois Couperin’s birthday. From GalleryOfGuitar

And it’s Henri Rabaud’s too. From DuoAlfageme

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Anyone have a QoD?

44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-10-14”

  1. First? Good morning, everyone. Good evening, Jo.

    I’ve already had my coffee and started in in the mounds of laundry–our dryer was broken a few days last week.

    The rest of the house is quiet.

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  2. Quietly listening to the rain here.
    Morning all, see you after some sleep.
    Tomorrow, the 11th, is the Wycliffe International Day of prayer. No school and half the day will be A Morning in Prayer.

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  5. Good Morning Everyone. Tonight is the night that I lead the Bible study on Surprised by Hope. I worked on it a lot yesterday. I sent a link to an outline of the chapter for everyone to follow as they were preparing for tonight. I am showing a video of N T Wright speaking about the chapter and then I have discussion questions from the participants guide.

    In the Bible, heaven and earth are the two interlocking spheres of God’s good creation. Tell about a time you really felt heave and the presence of God was near you, overlapping into this world.

    What I would appreciate today is either your answer to this question or your thoughts on the subject (the question). I am looking for con as well as pro on this.

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  6. Three weeks of craziness are over and now I have a two week lull until Thanksgiving reunion events begin. In the meantime I get to rewrite Poppy’s beginning again.

    Some things never change.

    Yesterday I was so tired I did little except relax. I did go outside to dig in the yard–for the first time I might add–thinking I might put the naked lady bulbs in the ground and finally set up the iris rizomes that have been moldering beside the house for months.

    The soil was so dry, it flew up and looked unfertile. I checked several spots in our yard, discovering the lawn area is soggy–apparently with run off from the neighbors (we’re the lost spot in the neighborhood), while the non lawn is this bone-dry soil. Very odd and I need to dig some more to find out what is really out there.

    But I took a long walk with my husband instead.

    With my last novella sent it, I’m without a contract and once Poppy is done, nothing pressing for awhile. I hope to actually do some household work–like my yard–and stumble my way back to a more balanced, normal life.

    Is that a prayer?

    Meanwhile, in my husband’s Sunday School class on asking hard questions, he brought in three days worth of devotionals from My Utmost for His Highest to discuss. (Saturday, Sunday and todays).

    He said it was fascinating to watch these young people grapple with the concepts (you can read the devotionals yourself here: http://www.utmost.org); they simply didn’t get it at first. He talked them through the 500 words until they caught the meaning, and then their minds and souls exploded with excitement.

    My housekeeper/writing helper is in the class and I laughed, “It must have been so odd for Leah to read the writings of Oswald Chambers–a man she’s been reading about and discussing with me for the last two years!).

    R laughed in return. “She’s got the best handle on him!”

    It’s all good and I’m relieved to have a slower week–especially since it’s back to the war for me! LOL

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  7. Good morning!
    I planted something this week, too!
    The soil was easy to dig in since it had rained the day before. I had to move a bulb, probably a tiger lily, so I could plant the clematis vine there. I hope I did not plant too late, but it seemed now or never. This was the clematis vine I’ve had for a year and a half. 🙂

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  8. Miss Bosley, Queen B, is at the change of life. I noticed lately how agitated she becomes after indulging in her food. She reverts into her wild kitten mode. She is also putting on a little excess weight. It is time to take her off the kitten food and put her on regular cat food.
    What cat food is best for adult cats?

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  9. I have had that experience, Kim. Those types of things are difficult to explain to others. One example was when I was in church one Sunday and suddenly felt an amazing peace settle on me. There was nothing special about the service that would have caused this. A few minutes later, I had a difficult encounter with someone. Because of that peace, I was able to keep from responding in an inappropriate way. I am convinced it was the Lord protecting me. Why? I have no idea.

    I could give other examples, but most of the time these things are meant for us alone. They are not easily understood by others. Although, I think it is different when they are shared with those close to you who may have some understanding of you and/or the situation. Otherwise, they are often like throwing “pearls before swine.”

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  10. Kim, the article I am writing now for my course is on experiencing the joy of the Lord. Recently, with all the various troubles I have been going through, the verse the Holy Spirit brought to mind was, “The joy of the Lord is Your strength.” I began to consider that, first thinking, “How can that be under these circumstances?” As I began to think more deeply about all the reasons the words of that Scripture are true, I was finding myself infused with the joy of the Lord and innoculated against feeling overwhelmed by the problems.

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  11. I had a very sluggish weekend, I think my mind & body just needed the break. But it noticed this morning a couple of important texts I’d missed, including one from the main person in Friday’s news story I wrote on deadline to call him ‘immediately.’ Hmmm.

    Oh well.

    I’d forgotten my personal cell at home on Friday so I had only the work cell with me all day. Then somehow I guess I missed seeing the texts on my personal cell through the entire weekend until I got up this morning. Ugh.

    Well, whatever it was, it’s too late to fix now. 🙂

    So it’s back to finishing the Zamperini story today, then on to a cold case story — and whatever else I need to catch up on.

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  13. Oh, cat food. I stick to grain-free (dry and wet).

    My vet says wet food should be a cat’s main diet with dry food to be viewed like “potato chips” — a little is fine, but not a lot. But I leave the dry food out for Annie, so she is free to nibble at it. Since she’s indoor-outdoor, I think she does wear off her calories, but we’re due for an annual checkup so I’ll see what the vet says about her weight.

    Annie’s favorite wet food is Tiki Cat, which one pet store owner once told me was like “crack cocaine” for cats.

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  16. Well, I just did what a year ago I would not ever be imagining myself doing. I cleaned the litter box. To add insult to injury, as I was refilling it, Miss Bosley decided to see if the “new” litter worked the same as the old. You’d think she could be gracious and let the slave finish the chore, but she paid no attention to me. She went about her business of sampling the new litter. If only she would listen to human reasoning, she would know it is not a new and improved version of litter. As she was sampling, I was momentarily having thoughts of making her be an outdoor kitty. Then I considered the cold weather and had compassion for her highness, her high level of spoiledness, that has her totally unprepared to be an outdoor kitty. Oh, what horrid thing have I done? I have ruined her! Woe is me! Woe is her!

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  17. Donna, are you allowed to say what your cold case is about? Is it something that might be on a TV program?

    When I wrote “something” this phone turned it into “some rhino.”

    If I had not edited that, it would have looked crazy!!! What is with this phone? It is not logical whatsoever. 😦

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  18. Janice, the litter box is one reason I don’t want a cat. That and I’m allergic (to some cats more than others). And I can’t stand the idea of cats insisting they be allowed on furniture. And my husband feels even more strongly than I. (I can at least enjoy other people’s cats, but he dislikes them, or at least feels no affection for them.) But the litter box is the biggest insurmountable one, to me–cats aren’t worth it.

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  19. I just got an e-mail that had a picture and comment about Elvera’s late brother, Bob Collins. His BD is today. He was a WW II marine and fought on Qoi-Namuri, Siapan, tinian and Iwo Jime. I don’t know where Qoi-Namuri is. I’ll have to check it.
    He never talked about it, but he had a marine vets group at his funeral..

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  21. Donna, I was reading reviews on the cat food link and find it very helpful. Thanks!

    Cheryl, it has been about twenty-five years since I dealt with a litter box other than the occasional caring for a friend’s cats when they went on vacation. The thought of doing it is worse than the doing of it. Our last cats were outdoors after they turned one and our son was born. They were very easy to take care of, but they did not generate the laughs, warm cuddles, and joy that Bosley has brought into our home. She has brought my husband and me closer together. She loves both of us. It has been so sweet to have her since our son lives so far away and we see so little of him. I would like to not deal with a litter box, but it is about the same as those with dogs who take them for walks and have to carry a bag and a scoop. It’s truly a small price to pay for the joy they bring.

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  23. Janice,

    Mouse watches me clean her boxes, and then goes in when I’m done. She let’s me finish first, thankfully. 🙂

    Still, I find caring for the cats much easier than the dog was. He had to be leashed so I had to be there every time he had to go. It’s not fun. The cats don’t require I be there, probably prefer that I’m not, and I appreciate that. 🙂

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  26. Litter boxes aren’t bad — and Annie uses hers sparingly as she’s used to going outdoors except for overnight. I am trying to lengthen her indoor/overnight hours, however, after reading about the possible coyote attack in our neighborhood. This morning I had to grab her by the hind legs as she tried to exit the newly-opened doggie door at 5:30 a.m. (only the dogs can go out that early).

    Actually, picking up dog poop really is kind of worse than litter boxes.

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  27. I can’t imagine not having a fenced yard for dogs, and when you have a large fenced yard it doesn’t have to be done very often (before mowing and then on warm days in winter). Plus it isn’t in the house–the litter-box-in-the-house idea is one that doesn’t thrill me. But that’s OK, since I have lots of other reasons not to have a cat.

    Until eternity. Someday I want a snow leopard, if we can still have pets then. . . .

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  28. I don’t recommend changing litter if you already have something that works (it will sometimes cause them to “go” elsewhere). However, we’ve used the scoopable kind for years and like it a lot. I suspect it’s cheaper and it’s easy to scoop, bag, discard. We (meaning my husband) does it twice a day and there’s never a smell here.

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  32. Speaking of litter, one of the fast food places used to (maybe still does) have a line on it’s packaging that said “Put litter in its place” with a picture of a trash barrel. Well, it wouldn’t be litter if we put it in the trash barrel, so throw it on the ground. That would be putting litter in its place!

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  33. Litter box in my house is in the unused bathroom in the (mostly) unused spare room. Way far away. I use something called the “Best Litter in the World” or something like that, it’s corn based, and since the cat uses it so seldom I don’t think I’ve had to buy any in a year or more now — and I still have one full bag of it I haven’t opened.

    I’d like a snow leopard, too. 🙂

    Well, this week’s turning out to be almost as crazy as last with a bald eagle sighting, a long-awaited development report being released, a veterans day ceremony to cover tomorrow & two special sections still to work on.

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  35. I pulled out my snowboots today as we were having some flakes, though we have not had a snow fall yet. I shook out a dozen walnuts and some catfood and two peach pits. Time to set the traps.

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  36. Our litter box is in a mostly unused bathroom downstairs, too. It has very little smell, certainly not as much as cooking brocolli, cabbage, etc.

    My friends used that World’ Best Cat Litter. I saw it on the top shelf at Publix. I liked it a lot, but we had already started using Fresh Step. We are using the clumping kind now.

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  40. We lost a dog once, chico, and never did know what happened to him. I was still living at home at the time, a teenager, and it must have been a year before I quite scanning all the side streets every time I drove in and out of the neighborhood. Just hope someone picked him up and he got a good home.

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  44. Janice, it seems that Golden Gate had to leave. He said he was “leaving with many regrets but no doubts”. Seems they plan to maintain a satellite for a wile to let current students graduate.
    I think Southwestern was always welcome in Fort Worth.

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