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Our Daily Thread 11-19-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1794 Britain’s King George III signed the Jay Treaty. It resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War. 

In 1863 President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. 

In 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man’s second landing on the moon.  

And in 1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva. 

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Quote of the Day

“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.”

James A. Garfield

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 Today is Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov’s birthday. From Cathedral of St.Andrew Men’s Choir

And here’s another. From the lady on piano, Irina Grayfer

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Anyone have a QoD?

39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-19-14”

  3. We still don’t have Baby Girl H. She was due the 15th. The doctor will induce on Friday if she doesn’t come before then. Grandpa is hoping it won’t be today. This is the real grandmother’s birthday. Since she already has several other grandchildren he has gotten territorial over these two. They are his and his alone in his mind.
    I have only ever seen two men act this way over babies. My ex-father-in-law and Mr. P. They are exactly the same when it comes to babies. Pop was the only other person besides me that was allowed to touch my baby belly.
    I don’t know if I have told you how he got BG to take a pacifier. Pop had emphysema and regular tried to cough up a lung. When BG was 8 weeks old I had to go back into work for some training on a new database that was going live. Pop came to the house to keep the baby. After training a called to check on her and ask if I had time to go to lunch before coming home. He said, “Sure, she’s been asleep since a little after you left”. This was strange because I had been gone 4 hours at that point and she had never slept over two hours for me! I got home and he had her in the bassinet on she tummy, with a “pappy” in her mouth. When I asked him how he did it (besides the sleeping on the tummy thing) he told me no baby wanted an old dry pappy so he had sucked on it a minute and put in in her mouth. He thought EVERY baby deserved a pappy. She took to it, but she never slept as well for me as she did for him. 🙂

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  5. Good Morning…it’s kinda quiet around here this morning…32 degrees outside and cloudy over the Forest…but online I am seeing some pretty amazing photos of the morning sunrise in town!
    I would always let my babies suck on my pinky finger to pacify them…seemed to work quite nicely for most…and then there has always been the confusion as to whether you were supposed to put the baby on their tummy, side or back…I would lay them on their side and when I checked on them…they were always on the tummy! And Kim I don’t know why, but when I saw your “centerpiece” it brought tears to my eyes…so precious and adored ❤

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  6. Good cold morning in Atlanta again. I won’t be around very much for a few days. Lots to do like finding insurance coverage, car time, and seasonal things.

    Last year we were out to lunch around this time at Cracker Barrel and I saw they do Thanksgiving dinner. I was asking the waitress about it and feeling sorry for those doing Thanksgiving at C. B. instead of in a person’s home. Fast forward a year that brought Miss Bosley into our lives along with a broken who does not like cats in the house. Guess where husband , brother and I will have our Thanksgiving dinner. Right! Cracker Barrel. What a difference a beloved cat makes!

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  10. Good Morning, Y’all!

    Had a large family Thanksgiving Dinner at a large hotel restaurant just so no one had to cook. We had a wonderful time…its all about the family to me.

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  11. 58 again in my house this morning.

    This has been a strange week for me, working mostly on long-term assignments (and I need to figure out that Thanksgiving story today, it’s actually not due until … maybe early next week, I need to double check, but it’s so wide open I need to figure out a hook and a direction).

    I’m used to churning out dailies right and left so I feel like I haven’t accomplished much this week (but I really have, it just doesn’t show yet).

    So I flossed last night and will make a point of doing it daily again so I don’t have to endure another finger-wagging, “bad patient!” lecture from the new hygienist.

    I had a strange dream last night about finding a very large dead bird that had striped, furry raccoon legs and feet. Honestly, my mind at night …

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  12. Some servers like to work the holidays, because they can bring big tips. Some do not have anywhere else to be and don’t mind. Some are willing to work for others who need to be out of town to visit family.

    I remember working as a clerk on Thanksgiving. It was not a problem for me, since I still lived at home with my parents. My mom had a nice meal ready for me when I got home.

    My husband often had to work holidays. Many do.

    Having days without commercial endeavors is a blessing that we are losing, however. Too bad for us. We are losing many blessings we have had.

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  13. I’ve certainly worked my share of holidays, but only one Thanksgiving Day — and it was an early assignment, I did a feature on an extended family that had a tradition of caravanning north to a relative’s ranch, but before leaving town they’d all gather just before dawn at the local 24-hour dinner where all the staff expected them every year and set aside their large banquet room for everyone.

    Kind of a fun story, seeing everyone meet up, check out the new fiancees, the new babies, catch up on all the news from the year. I was out by probably 1 p.m., plenty of time to still get to Thanksgiving dinner. And the OT was nice. Hardest part was getting up so early!

    A lot of people make comments feeling bad for the store staffs having to work these days (and I agree that it’s too bad stores are now opening more and more on holidays) — but I usually point out that many of those people volunteer for the day because of the good pay. As Kathaleena pointed out, some may not have large families (or they can work dinner around the shift) or decide to let others take the day instead. One of our Jewish reporters typically volunteer to work Christmas day every year.

    And we always have a couple reporters who hope to be able to fly back home to be with family, so the rest of us “locals” plan to work through the Christmas/New Year’s time period.

    My friend from down the street is an RN and she always volunteers to work these big cultural holidays.

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  14. Wait, I think I worked another Thanksgiving day a while back — covering a couple who bring a home cooked Thanksgiving meal every year to the staff at the hospital where their baby was born prematurely.

    The baby had to stay in the hospital for a while, of course, and I think that’s when the tradition started, it happened to be over Thanksgiving so the parents decided to provide dinner for all the docs and nurses — and then they just kept doing it, year after year, with the “baby” now a boy and coming with them. Sweet story.

    Down side for us this year as that both Christmas and New Year’s land on Thursdays — meaning we’ll have to be back at work on the Fridays after. Ugh.

    And we’ve always had to work the day after Thanksgiving, one of the hardest days to come in, to be honest.

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  15. Janice, our daughter had to work Thanksgiving at Cracker Barrel one year. She didn’t work all day, so she worked and then came to the home where we were celebrating and had her dinner a little later than the rest of us, but I don’t think she minded. Interestingly, with her current job she had a choice of which “sets” of holidays she gets off (there are two different holiday groupings, each one including Christmas or Thanksgiving and two other holidays). She chose to get off on Thanksgiving but to work over Christmas . . . and the reason is that the grouping she chose is the way to get off on New Year’s! (Getting off Thanksgiving weekend also allows her to do Black Friday shopping, but it’s her dad who mentioned that one.) But who would have figured that New Year’s is “more important” in someone’s reckoning than Thanksgiving or Christmas? (Especially since we don’t generally have plans for new Year’s, and the other two holidays we do.)

    My husband just read a mailing from the post office that tells us that with some new kind of express mail they will even deliver on Sunday or on Christmas day. He rightfully said, “Poor postal employees!” I mean, most people who work at Cracker Barrel don’t do so as a career. But mailmen and anyone who works in delivery already has a horrid December, and add Sundays and Christmas day to that!?

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  16. My dad was an electrician at a steel plant in Charleston. They had to have someone there always. He got time and half time pay for the hours her was there on official holidays. I think he got double time for Christmas and New Year.

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  18. My husband only missed one Christmas in 21 years in the Navy, so we were blessed. I can’t recall a Thanksgiving in port when he missed us, but he was out to sea a couple Thanksgivings–so I hauled the kids across country to my big family gathering which is Thanksgiving at my brother’s house.

    One year we took Christmas Eve dinner to the shipyard and celebrated with him there, returning home to snow and an enormous UPS delivery on the front porch. Children were beyond excited. And my husband was home by the time Christmas morning arrived. He had a mostly sane life by military standards.

    Probably because God wanted him home teaching Sunday School! More on that later. It’s raining here, I’m off to work and life is good.

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  24. Great. Just me and some Anonymous stranger from the library. 😉

    Outside it’s cold and windy, with snow on the ground. My husband is at a meeting and one of the girls at work. Even Misten is asleep and boring.

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  26. Just got home from work. Thanks for posting the articles, Cheryl. Bad theology is starting to spread in previously orthodox denominations and educational institutions.

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  27. Anonymous stranger is home from the library with an armload of books. 😉 I like to check out a variety of non-fiction books before company comes to give them something to browse that is suited to their interests.

    Probably too late for a QoD, but which of these books would you pick up first?

    Ultimate Food Journeys: The World’s Best Dishes and Where to Eat Them
    Chicken Soup for the Volunteer’s Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Spirit of Courage, Caring and Community
    The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking: Decorating, Dining and the Gratifying Pleasures of Self-Sufficiency–On a Budget!
    How to Shoot Your Age in Golf: The Essential Improvement Guide for Retiree Golfers to Make More Pars, Birdies and Shoot Better Scores
    Flags of the Fifty States: Their Colorful Histories and Significance
    Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
    A 1,000-Mile Great Lakes Walk: One Woman’s Trek Along the Shorelines of All Five Great Lakes
    Mirrors: Reflections of Style
    Fermented Vegetables: Creative Recipes for Fermenting 64 Vegetables and Herbs in Krauts, Kimchis, Brined Pickles, Chutneys, Relishes & Pastes
    The Quilt Block Bible: 200+ Traditionally Inspired Quilt Blocks from Rosemary Youngs
    Dish: 813 Colorful, Wonderful Dinner Plates
    A View From the Buggy: True and Inspiring Stories of the Amish Life
    Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War

    Oh, and I got a Garfield book (Garfield Life in the Fat Lane) because there are certain arrows here who enjoy Garfield cartoons. 😉

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  28. I didn’t know if any family members watched Downton Abbey, but I saw a book, which I didn’t check out because I had almost more books than I could carry, that had the actual scripts from the show (not sure how many). Probably an interesting read for Downton Abbey fans.

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  29. The Hip Girl’s Guide – the decorating part and then the 1000 mile Great Lakes Walk. What a great idea, 6arrows. I’ll have to remember that for future guests.

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  30. I’d probably first pick up the flag book, and I’d look through the quilt book (since some of the cards I make are quilt-inspired and I think quilts are pretty), but the Amish one or the Neil Armstrong one is the one I’d sit down and read.

    We already have so many books in our own library that anyone who is a reader is bound to find something (from cartoons and coffee table books to adult and juvenile fiction, to heavy theology, and everything in between). But that’s a really cool idea!

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  31. It’s become a tradition I enjoy, to pick out library books for that purpose when we’re hosting a family gathering. I’ve gotten books from our relatively small local library, and also from the big city library on at least one occasion. This year I chose the library in the city between our town and the big city. It’s kind of fun browsing the new non-fiction stacks and seeing what I can find.

    I have also checked out books from our church library that I display, as well, and plan to do that again when I go to Bible study on Friday.

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  34. Come on over, Kare! Upper Midwest, November 27, 1:00 pm Central Standard Time. 🙂 And I don’t have to have the books back until December 10 — plenty of time for you to leaf through them all!

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  36. just catching up here. I was too tired last night, this morning there was no internet, and this afternoon I sorted out a 2000 AUD book order. I’m tired, but so fun to see new books and know how excited everyone will be with their new books.

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  39. It was fun seeing your picks for which books you would be most interested in from that list I posted. Looks like the trek around the Great Lakes got mentioned the most — I’ll have to see if that one is as popular among my family as it is on here. 😉

    I noticed this morning that in the upper left corner of the front cover of A 1,000-Mile Great Lakes Walk it says, “Book 2: The Adventure Continues…” So I wondered if there was a book one in our area library system, but there is not. I see Amazon has it, though, which is entitled, A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman’s Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan.

    Both books look like great reads.

    I happened to also think last night that I should set out a certain Log Cabin Christmas book from my personal collection, as Christmas is coming, and that is another enjoyable read. 😉

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