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Our Daily Thread 12-20-14

Good Morning!

5 Days!!!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Kare.

*It’s now Sunday the 21st, so I believe someone has a birthday today.

Happy Birthday Linda. 🙂

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On this day in 1790 the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.

In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union. 

In 1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ. 

And in 1968 author John Steinbeck died at the age of 66.

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Quote of the Day

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

Dale Evans

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 This one is a request.

And this one is because I like it. From King’s College Choir

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Anyone have a QoD?

7,368 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-20-14”

  6. The computer won’t let me type this → 🙂 all by itself, because I’ve already done that on this site. So this is for Cheryl’s 9:57:

    🙂

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  10. 2016 — next year.

    We just made it to the future, folks. 😉

    And tomorrow is my media fast day again. Y’all have a good one!

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  11. So, any prognostications for 2017 (including who we will have in the White house? I don’t even want to think about that!)?

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  15. Cheryl – Thinking of 2020, I was just thinking of it as way in the future, but then realized it’s only five years away. (Four & a half, actually.)

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  28. Good morning, all. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Just in from doing the chores with the entourage. I am currently milking two goats and that is going well. Plenty of goat yogurt. Maybe enough for ice cream!

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  32. Yes, it is. Though a couple of my children milked goats for a neighbor and when they tasted it, they became nongoatmilkdrinkers. I told them ahead of time that that was the kind of milk that turned people off permanently from goat milk.

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  42. Today is the third birthday of the quints. No big party like last year. It is amazing that they are all so healthy. The blog has such fun pictures. One of the photos had a heading something like with the quints there is always room for one more. Having followed the blog since they were born, it is amazing to see them flourish.

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  48. There were eight mice in the grain garbage can this morning. They could not get out. Evidently, the mom gave birth in there and they had been growing just fine. They will not be growing any more. I do not like killing things.

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  59. Forrest came downstairs earlier to urge me to come upstairs to see how well he cleaned up his room & their living room. He did a great job all by himself! (Takes after his Mimi there.)

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  62. We are used to burning fields around here, people want their blue grass lawns, after all. And we are used to burning forests, it is the federal management scheme. Just not used to burning towns.

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  63. Heard this week that some of the fires were deliberately set to harass us. Some are really suffering with the smoke. However God is in control and He will use it to bless us.
    Working hard getting school materials ready for 2 students leaving for a while and another new student coming to the orientation course with their family.

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  65. There is just something about work that you know how to do and that has value. That sense of doing something worthwhile. Also grateful that I was able to be a stay at home mom with my children for so many years.

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  68. spoke to friends tonight who may be leaving this year due to needs of their parents. I lost my parents more than 20 years ago. Sad as It was, it leaves me free to be here. And I appreciate each year of my age.

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  69. I understand the appreciation aspect. My mom died just over thirty years ago. I would not have been surprised to die at the age she died, and my grandmother, and my sister. Instead, it has all been icing on the cake.

    Taking care of parents is important. But I am certain it is a struggle to find a way through the parent’s desires to be left alone and the adult children’s desires to keep at their work.

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  71. My dad remarried while husband and I were in Germany (he asked if I was ok with it, first, though I had never met her), I met her for the first time when they came over to visit and she introduced herself as my evil stepmother. We kept that up for some time until she became a believer at eighty and I started calling her my no longer evil step mother. She has been a blessing to us and to my dad, who is still not a believer, but God can still do it.

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  72. First! Yes, I’m the first to post in the secret room on this date, 8/22. I never can beat Jo or Chas to the open thread, so at last, I got a first! And #57 on the 8/21 open thread, in the same day!

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  76. Well, if I wait about three minutes I can post on 8/24.

    Two.

    One.

    (Actually it was still three minutes when I wrote all that, but I figured that by the time I refilled my water glass and came back, it might be midnight. Now it’s 11:59, so I’m waiting to post and then head to bed.)

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  79. It sure did! He’ll be five in late October.

    When he & Emily moved in with us, almost four years ago (late September, 2011), he was still crawling. He would slap-slap-slap his hands along the floor, quite determinedly. We’ve seen him take his first steps, learn to talk (& talk & talk & talk 🙂 ), & grow into this little boy ready for kindergarten. (Well, I’m concerned he may not be as ready as he should be, but I’m hoping I’m wrong. We’ll find out soon.)

    I plan to be out at the bus stop to see him get on the bus on his first day, & to see him get off the bus later that day. Emily will be there, too, of course.

    It was 15 years ago that we moved into this house, & I went out to the bus stop (at the top of our lane) with my daughters. That doesn’t seem so long ago, & now I’ll be doing that with Forrest. Wow!

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  80. or, will the teacher be ready for Forrest?? This year’s class is stretching me and teaching me. Got to attend a class on rhythmic writing yester day. Good stuff and good for the children, however I did not enjoy the chalk dust.

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  82. At a little orientation-type thing, Forrest met his teacher today, & got to see his classroom & other rooms he’ll be in. He especially liked the library. 🙂

    Tomorrow’s the big day!

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  86. Nice conversations here. I don’t get to this room much anymore, and I won’t again for quite a long time.

    I have another likely piano performance the first weekend of December, and maybe one in October or November, as well, and am dropping blog-reading and such during the preparation time.

    Too hard to wear my wife/mother/teacher hats well when I have too many “extra-curriculars,” as I call them, at the same time. Blog reading/interacting and piano performing being some of those extras — things I enjoy, but can’t do too much of, so that life doesn’t get too out of balance.

    When my December performance is done, this thread will be almost a year old!

    Will it still be going? I’ll be eager to see. 😉

    Later, all.

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  87. Bye 6. Enjoy your other life.
    This is such a sweet place for me as I don’t have family here and most of my friends have gone finish. I am going to a western dinner to raise funds for the pony club tonight with my across the flats neighbor. She is a translator from New Zealand.

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  89. Yes, some do have saunas. It was funny when my Finnish student went finish a few years ago. But friends who go finish are gone for good. Actually I am expecting a student from Finland sometime in the next couple of months. I will probably never be able to pronounce the student’s last name though.

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  90. Oh. So they are finished being missionaries where you are?

    We had a friend from Finland while we were in Italy. She attended the same church with us. She memorized Ephesians so I thought that sounded like a good idea. I have never really been able to crack the code on memorizing except when the verse is in a song. Probably goes along with the not recognizing people or remembering the important things in their lives. Another term for it is selfishness. Now you know.

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  91. oh, no, I don’t agree. I also have trouble memorizing and can’t remember names, though I can remember all about a person, just not their name. My youngest memorized Ephesians, she did nine verses a day. So I tried and it was impossible. I agree that I love singing verses.
    I just don’t agree that selfishness has anything to do with you.

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  92. You are sweet, but only God knows the heart. Have the rains settled the smoke around there? We were fogged in this morning but that has lifted. It is nice to have fog rather than smoke. And cooler days have arrived. Fall is approaching, though I would not be surprised if you were looking toward Spring!

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  94. Yes, they are home and it went well. Though son did learn that his bio brother and bio dad are back in prison. Not sure how long dad was out but brother just got out about three weeks ago. We are wondering if he was trying to take our advice to get away from the bad influences and start a new life but was doing it without the knowledge of his parole officer as he is in prison quite close to us now.

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  98. Son has sent his brother two nice Bibles, at his brother’s request. He sent one to the other brother as well, but his girlfriend threw it out when she was mad at the brother. He tries to encourage both of them, but it is hard when you are the youngest and the one they lean on.

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  99. We’ve had a pretty dry summer here in Connecticut, too. Not as bad as other places, but not nearly as much rain as we usually get in the summer.

    Supposedly, according to the Farmer’s Almanac, we’re supposed to have a harsh, snowy winter. Again.

    Emily is excited about that, because she loves shoveling & snowblowing the snow, as well as playing in it.

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  110. My sink has been draining a little slowly lately, so I looked up a couple ways to unclog a drain without using Drano or Liquid Plumr (that’s how they spell it).

    One method is filling the sink part-way with water & then plunging it. I have a double sink. When I plunged, gunk came flying out the second drain right at me.

    Thankfully, I was in a good enough mood that I laughed rather than yelled or cried. 🙂

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  111. 2117- the last four digits of D2’s phone number. I’ll claim it.

    And I guess I’ll have to explain that my earlier post has a pun. “Bit by bit” could mean what you think it does, but a “bit” is a single piece of datum, whereas a byte is four bits.

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  116. So I downloaded a couple of World magazines in pdf. Now I need to drag them into iTunes and then sync them with my ipad. But, it is a new version of iTunes and I don’t know where to find the book library to put them in, or the place where you put pdf files. I guess I will just click on everything!!

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  128. Good morning, all. Glad to hear things are improving, Jo. It seemed I got ill every time I went to a different country. Something about airplanes and time change and germ change and and and….

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  129. Well here I am all ready to go to work on Tuesday morning and you all are still enjoying your long weekend.
    I have been frustrated with several books that will not download to my kindle, and one I even paid for. I deleted them and did it again 3 times, but no luck. Last night I got clever. I remembered that I had a kindle app on my ipad that I had never even opened. I now know my password and got in easily. and there was the book I purchased and I could begin reading. Such a feeling of simple accomplishment.

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  131. I was never able to download to my Kindle. Husband had to go through his computer and it was not worth the trouble. I stopped using it a few years ago, though I still see it here and there.

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  132. Did you know that you can search for and download books from your library? That is a nice way to do it for free. I search for favorite authors and see what they have. Also you can join other libraries. I joined the one in Boulder and told them that I live overseas and just wanted to borrow ebooks. I gave them my daughter’s address and they were fine with that.

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  133. I did not know that. It is a rare thing that I get a book from the library. Most of my reading is hit or miss. When the children finish their Christmas books, they tend to tell me it was a wonderful book and I should read it so I have a full library all year.

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  135. I think I have a Kindle app on my laptop. Don’t know how it got there. Maybe I should check it out sometime. But I have so many real books to read, it may be a long while before I do.

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  136. saw one of my students at market this morning wearing his pajamas with trucks on them. So cute and I think that Dad might be gone so Mom was wise to bring them in pajamas.
    Some fella had a megaphone and was preaching loudly while we shopped. Everyone was very respectful.

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  137. Fall hard to my knees on a concrete sidewalk today. Rather stunned me. It has been a while since I fell. I just sat there for a moment. I have to keep moving so the knees don’t stiffen up.

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  141. I wonder if Linda realizes that we are still celebrating her birthday over here?? Went to a Mexican dinner tonight with my fellowship group. The 12th grade class put it on as a fundraiser. Food was good and fun decorations. I saw one of my students there on a special date with daddy.

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  142. I have noticed myself being more clumsy in my old age. Bruising even easier, breaking body parts more often, I suspect it is partially vision loss and partially my mind on too many other things.

    The dinner sounds pleasant. Though I do not go out to eat if it can be helped. We had some folk over to dinner the other night and that was fun. Husband fixed a roast and a sausage blend, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole. A pleasant evening.

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  144. Since I am the only one to fix the meals and there is no where to buy anything other than the basics, I enjoy going out. This was very much home done. All the food made from scratch, even the chips to go with the salsa.
    And, it is a fund raiser for the youth, so benefits our community all around

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  147. This week is the last week of Term 1 and it will be a short one as Wednesday is a holiday for PNG Independence. And then on THursday we begin at 10:45 to have some time to go to the monthly morning in prayer.

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  149. I have never played Apples to Apples or Imaginiff either. Though one of them was given to us by our oldest daughter a few years ago. The children have played it but now that the girls are gone, we rarely if ever see board games out. With the bio children, it was the boys playing Risk or Stratego but now it is video games on their little devices. In their room of course because I don’t allow them in my sight. Of course, most every evening you would find us all out on the deck after the youngest go to bed, sitting around talking. So that is pretty good.

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  165. I went and got caught up on about 3 weeks of prayer requests that I’d missed, commented over there, and then thought I’d see what’s going on in our secret room. Good to see it’s still going, and with lots of humor, too. 🙂

    Term 1 just started on Monday for us. Our next break, in both the homeschool and piano lesson schedules, will be the week of Thanksgiving.

    Third Arrow and I will be playing a piano duet in the Thanksgiving Eve service at our church. We Gather Together.

    I’m involved in two concerts, as well — a piano duet at an earlier November date, and a piano solo and duet in December.

    So…back to my other life again. 🙂 Blessings to you all in your endeavors and your periods of rest, too.

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  168. No, we have mk’s and then employees children, and children from other missions, and then, if we have space, commercial students. I have some of each in this year’s class. One boy from Kiev, Ukraine, usually takes a pmv (public motor vehicle) over an hour to come to school each day. I also have a commercial student who comes from 20 minutes away. His folks own a business in the nearby town. I am amused by the fact that these students travel farther in a day than I do in six months. I have not gone out our front gate since returning on July 15th.

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  170. Yes, we do have homeschoolers. It is one of their choices. High school students usually do some of their courses on campus. In fact two home schooled boys came and took the MAP test with my class. Both did very well and one was the top student.

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  173. no rain just smoke and dust. I brushed off my rear window so that I could see out of it today. No paved roads and the gravel has all come up. The roads are terrible on centre. Rainy season is probably in January, but it usually rains year round. Just not this year.

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  178. Before he started kindergarten, he was already figuring out simple addition by himself. Maybe he’ll be a math whiz. Both his parents are good with math.

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  181. We have had some rain here, so it does not feel quite so much like a fire about to happen. But plenty of sunshine as well. Nice warm day to watch football yesterday.

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  199. Well, if you look around in here, the vase of sunflowers is freshly cut from my garden. I’ve loved them since I was a little girl, since they grew at my favorite campground and also near my favorite brother’s workplace, and I started planting them myself when I was in fourth grade.

    The framed photos are ones that I took myself, trees in the four seasons. And notice that alphabet poster? All those letters are taken from butterfly wings; I didn’t take the photos, of course, but I thought the poster was pretty cool.

    The scent in the air is baking chocolate chip cookies; they’ll be ready soon if you want any.

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