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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”

  1. Oh, that’s right. I forgot there was such a thing as a statute of limitations. Six Arrows’ recent seven in a row…well, that ended more than three hours ago, so fortunately for her, that statue just got knocked over, too.

    And so nice to hear that Cheryl doesn’t gossip.

    What a lovely place we have here: no gossip, only imaginary hit and runs…

    Hits and runs?

    Hit and run incidents?

    I’ll bet some editor type will come along soon and clear things up.

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  9. My internet bill went way up last month. I think that it must have been facetime as I spoke to my daughter. Facetime has such a clear picture that I think you are basically streaming video. Not a good idea at the price we pay per megabyte.

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  11. hmmm….. what will it take to get us back on that list??
    I will have a new student on Monday who just got back from furlough on Friday. The really good news is that his mom is one of our teachers! and the even better news is that she has tentatively agreed to sub in my class for the Monday and Tuesday before Christmas break. Since Monday was the only day left with any flights out of here.

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  14. Jo, I have never been to New Zealand, but a friend of mine went twice and absolutely fell in love. There are more sheep than people, and overall I hear it’s a really beautiful place.

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  17. Finally got a wisp of snow here. Hard to believe it is mid November, (second son’s birthday was yesterday. He turned….older. I think he must be thirty four) and still quite warm. Relatively. Not like the dog park.

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  21. We had torrential rain yesterday during the noon hour. Guess who was on yard duty?? We have covered walkways, but no way to stay dry. Then there were the boys on the covered basketball court who kept throwing their balls onto the grass so they could get wet, on of them even did a bellyflop. However soaked to the skin made for a cold afternoon. I had one of them after school for rhythmic writing and he was so cold.

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  24. We had rain the last couple days. Things are quite soggy around here, but the temperatures have been mild — 50s mostly.

    Tomorrow will also be relatively warm, but then temps will drop off, and there is snow predicted for Friday. So we need to do some buttoning-up yardwork soon, too.

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  26. Lee, with the help of the girls, has been getting the yard ready for winter. Pretty soon he will have a number of small bins (those plastic TidyCat litter containers) filled with sand or salt for when the snow comes, & shovels strategically placed on the porches. He always gets these things ready well before the first snow comes, to be ready for an early snowstorm.

    If I recall correctly, he was ready for the snowstorm that hit in late October four years ago.

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  30. We’re expecting heavy rain later this afternoon & tonight, so Emily & Lee are outside mulching the leaves. (We get a ton of leaves in our yard.)

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  33. Trying something else with my lowest, cutest little boy. I dug out the Letterland alphabet which has a character for each letter. K is kicking king with arm extended and foot kicking the shape. It is seeming to help. He can see the letters in the shape. I happened to also have him stand next to me while he read. Then he could move his body and kick his legs. Being able to move while reading frees him up.

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  36. Only got down to the high teens last night. It was supposed to get down around zero but we don’t have any snow cover, again. Same as last year. Hopefully, the plants will do okay.

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  39. He definitely was wiggling on it. We have moved him into yet another phonics one book and he is able to do the reading in it. We were delighted to have him read ‘off’ in a newspaper ad yesterday. The ad was offering ten dollars off and he read the off and wondered why it said that. That is good. He is starting to notice letters outside of schoolwork. He also was reading the clock. He does not count by fives though. He counts five, one with a zero, one with a five, two with a zero, two with a five, three with a zero, three with a five……

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  45. I remember when my three-years-younger brother was learning to count. For the longest time (or it seemed endless to me) he’d get it right up till 13, and then it would be 13-15-14-16 . . . it really got under my skin for some reason. I think it took him a long time to get past ten, and then that was the next hurdle

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  46. I am having my students write their numbers just to see how far they can go. I stand nearby and don’t let them look where they can see numbers. I just want to know what they can do. I always tell the they did a good job, I just want to know where they are.
    Is this torture???

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  59. Happy Black Friday. (This is a day I stay IN. The cold rain reinforces that as a good idea. Though we are invited to future son-in-law’s house tonight.)

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  60. Karen, I am reading all the comments on this thread, but definitely not in one sitting. I’ve made it through the first two rooms over a period of a week or two, off and on. Thanks for telling me about it.

    I learn so much from reading y’all’s insights. Like how the opposite of global warming is happening in LA. When I lived there it was a pretty warm place, but apparently it’s turned very cold in recent years. Especially at night in the dog parks.

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  63. Hey, wait a second. Kevin isn’t the only man in this room. Seems to me that, in addition to a woman, there’s a man, who is wearing a hat, on one of the ladies’ gravatars. He just hasn’t said anything yet. 😉

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  66. oh, I can’t believe that someone is reading all the comments on this thread. sorta thought that once we left a room we didn’t have to worry about anyone reading those comments.
    Just to say I might have shared a few things somewhere back there.
    Just be sure that you share things too, Kevin so we or I get to know you better as you read our comments.

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  71. I am sending the older ones out to do the chores. The youngers take two hours and that time would be better spent getting their baths before church.

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  72. dog park cold here this morning. I am actually sitting here wearing my jacket. It will warm up soon though. I love that it cools off at night and if it gets too hot during the day, just wait an hour.

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  73. Seemed rather chilly out this morning, here, as well. Daughter was off to school in her little lightweight skirt and thin socks. She looked like she could get cold. I remember when we had to wear skirts or dresses to school and opted to wear pants under them. Though those had to come off with our jackets when we went inside the school.

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  74. yup, I don’t know if it was required or just the style, but in high school the only day I wore pants was Sadie Hawkins day. I wear skirts here everyday, I love the comfort of skirts. It was those nylons we wore in high school that I hated.

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  75. My children used to tell me that nylons were for warmth until I showed them pics of women during World War ll, drawing lines on the back of their legs so they would look like nylons. Did not appear very warm to me.

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  76. My mom once or twice told me that my grandmother did that, Mumsee.

    I don’t like the currently popular look of women wearing skirts or dresses without nylons. Most women do not have the legs to pull that off. Nylons look so much nicer.

    I have to admit, I don’t miss dressing up in dresses for church. I did that until we moved to our current church, where the people dress very casually. Some do dress up a bit, though.

    My look is what I call “Dressy Casual” – black slacks with a nice top, casual-but-nice shoes (not sneakers), jewelry, & my fingernails polished.

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  90. I am glad I don’t have to diagram Jo’s 4:37. Is “six posts” an adjective followed by a noun, or a noun followed by a verb? Maybe six should post more often on the 4th. 🙂

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  95. Wait, I just missed 2500?

    No, looks like someone talked to herself for a while. What was that up-thread a ways about people who do that? 😉

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  101. I hope we have an agreeable crowd for the piano concert tomorrow.

    Just kidding — I know they’ll be; I don’t have to wonder about that. Our audiences have always been so nice, supportive, encouraging, exuberant, you name it. Fun and a blessing.

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  102. decided to stay home from church this morning. This year we are having a once a month combined service with the tok pisin (national trade language) lotu (church) which begins an hour and a half earlier. I decided to miss it this time. It is also the only service I can miss as I am in charge of the offering – putting out the baskets, collecting them, giving them to whomever the offering goes to. Today it goes to the other service so I could miss. After over 7 hours at school yesterday it was time for a break.

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  104. It is windy out this morning. But as much as I can see out into the dark, it does not appear to be foggy so getting to church should be easy. Still working through James in Sunday School. I think we have selected a pastor, but he can’t get here until Spring. Maybe May as his wife is still working as a teacher and wants to finish out the year.

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  107. Our third pastor left a month ago, and today we heard that the pastor to whom we extended the call to replace the one who left has returned the call. (He’ll be staying where he is, rather than coming to our congregation.) So there is another call meeting scheduled to determine who we will call next.

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  110. Well, I’m sure each church varies in how they do a search committee / pulpit committee, but in my experience with them members are nominated to serve on the committee, the church votes on the committee, and they do the work to choose one or more candidates. The committee listens to sermons and interviews anyone who looks good. In the “old” days before internet, if the potential candidate was already a pastor, the committee would receive tapes of his sermons, but they might also show up at his church some Sunday to watch and listen. Once the committee chooses a candidate, the candidate preaches, interacts with people, answers questions, and so forth, and at some point the church votes. The committee can’t make the final decision, only a recommendation.

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  113. I called my brother who just put a six in the first digit of his age, and he answered the phone . . . in Turkey. That seemed like it might be a pretty expensive phone call, so I gave him my love and got off the phone.

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  116. I actually found the top of my desk this afternoon. so amazing…

    When school was over they had a Christmas lunch for the teaches of both schools at the training centre. nice to see those folks from th other campus.
    Then I went back to school to meet with a parent and get ready for tomorrow.
    My sub for next week is spending the day with us tomorrow, so I wanted to be ready.

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  117. I located my desk a couple of days ago, as well! It was in the back of my mind that that large desk must be under all of those papers and books and might be more useful as a flat surface. Sure enough, it was and it is.

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  119. Well, with each of us posting one a day, we could shoot for 2,549, just for fun. But if those others drop by, it could shoot up to 2,600 over night.

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  121. I have been working at losing the weight I gained on furlough. This morning the scale said that I was just a smidgen from my goal so I will call it good.
    I have to be disciplined in my eating and in exercising. I am now down to where I was last Christmas, but my goal is to lose another 15 pounds. I have chosen a reasonable weight as my goal. Not what I weighed for 20 years while raising my children.

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  124. The new kids should have been fine out in their shelter. Unless the other goats booted them out and that is very unlikely. Goats are fairly nice except when they are downright mean.

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  125. I understand the children have a Christmas party their boss throws today. And tomorrow will be a potluck at the church. It is not a time for taking care of one’s weight but I have to be serious about it as I have nearly gained back all I had lost. But the blood pressure is still good. I want to keep it that way.

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  126. Mumsee – The statistics on losing & gaining back weight are depressing. Most people who lose weight will gain it back, plus some. (Been there, done that. More than once. 😦 ) It really takes a huge change in ones habits, thought patterns, & attitudes to keep it off. Some things I very much need to work on myself.

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  127. I have the opposite problem — trying to gain weight, and when I do, like earlier this year, then it all drops off again (as it has in the later part of this year).

    I think what we have in common is a natural set point that our weight tends to default to. Mine tends to go low when I’m not paying attention to diet (I have to eat a lot to maintain my weight, but get too busy and neglect eating in proper quantities), and most people’s tend to go higher.

    Maybe we should just throw away all the scales and the diets and just eat the best we know how and forget about the number games? Go more by how we feel. If we’re generally healthy, I don’t think it matters what the scale or the mirror tells us.

    My two cents (from someone who was sick yesterday). :-/

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  128. I don’t plan on restricting myself at Christmas too much, mostly on portion size. I was proud at the party they had this week that I was successful on things that I have not been eating to have very small amounts. I got seconds on broccoli.

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  129. I don’t restrict myself so much as I try to eat responsibly. I am not bothered very much by my weight or my shape, more by the blood pressure medicine experience. It showed me how important what I eat is if I want to be serving God as healthily as possible. I did not feel so good when I was taking that medicine and forcing my blood pressure down artificially rather than through diet and exercise. I know what I like to eat and see that I have it. Peanut butter fudge these days.

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  132. Most people don’t marry and marry off a daughter within a five-year period. For the record, the first is easier. We could use prayers for wisdom and discernment, and so could everyone involved.

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  138. Where’s Kim? She could organize it!

    Do we have to sign up to bring things? I can bring healthy (carrot-raisin salad) or unhealthy (brownies). Both are quite tasty. I can even add marshmallows to the carrot-raisin salad and put it teetering on the line between healthy and unhealthy.

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  148. I thought 2552 would be a good one to grab, too, but I showed much more restraint than someone up there, oh, about two posts above this one. 🙂

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  151. How’s the library in NZ, Jo? Do they keep things quiet around there?

    Used to be when I went to any library as a kid, it was quiet. Now libraries seem to be rather noisy, and sometimes the librarians are the loudest ones!

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  152. My birthdate is odd-odd-even.
    Hubby’s is even-odd-odd.
    1st Arrow: even-even-even
    2nd Arrow: odd-even-odd
    3rd Arrow: even-odd-odd
    4th Arrow: odd-even-odd (Same month and day as 2nd Arrow, eight years later.)
    5th Arrow: even-odd-even
    6th Arrow: odd-odd-odd

    I’ll have to go ask 6th Arrow if she likes odd numbers, too, Karen. 🙂

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  153. Emily’s is odd-odd-odd, but she prefers even numbers. (I told her the odd number of stevia drops I put in my pot of tea, that Forrest likes, & she “had” to put in one more to make it even. 🙂 )

    Chrissy’s is even-even-even. And yes, she likes even numbers.

    Man, my girls really are opposites in everything! (Well, except in their liking of even numbers, I guess.)

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  154. My boys were born in even-numbered years, and my girls in odd-numbered (just opposite of my husband and me). So if you want to know which arrows are the boys, and which the girls, see my above post. 🙂

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  155. I prefer even numbers or at least numbers that are easily divisible by other numbers. For example, 99 is odd, but it matches, and a bunch of different numbers can be divided into it, so it’s a fine number (and probably more interesting than 100, truth be told).

    When I was a child, my favorite number rotated between 3 and 88. Why 3, I have no idea. But I was one of the three “little ones” (the younger crowd in our family that had four boys, a seven-year gap, and then three more children). But 7 is the number of perfection, and though it’s an odd and indivisible (prime) number, I always thought a family with seven children was a nice one, with plenty of people in it.

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  157. 6 Arrows, I know someone who didn’t marry until she was almost 40, and she didn’t know if it was too late for her to have a child. She finally got pregnant with a child due near her 44th birthday, 10/10/10 . . . though the baby was born two or three days after that. But she thought that would be both an incredible birthday and an amazing 44th birthday gift.

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  164. And since I like 7, I’ll get us going into the 2570s. I also like 5, since I was born in the 5th month of 57. 24 is another I like, since it was the 24th day.

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  166. Today is my dad’s 86th birthday, and I started thinking about the evens & odds discussion we were having here regarding birthdates. My dad’s, of course, is even-odd-odd (born in 1929). My mom’s is interesting — not only is hers even-even-even, but all of the dates end in a zero! (Except not 10-10-10, like Cheryl’s example above, but close — 10-30-40.)

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  167. I think we’re going to have to open up a new room to celebrate this post’s first birthday! Wouldn’t that be fun?

    Going to celebrate my dad’s birthday today, so I might not be around to see the entrance into the next room, but I’ll be here tomorrow for this birthday right here. 🙂

    What will the party room look like? Can’t wait to find out!

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  168. I don’t think Cheryl’s posts were redundant, because the punctuation in each one changed the meaning.

    “Why, Jo?” Because opening a new room is fun!

    “Why Jo!” Were you surprised by her suggestion we go for a new room?

    “Why Jo?” If not, Jo, who else?

    🙂

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  169. Opening a new room, either today or tomorrow, would be quite appropriate to celebrate our anniversary. Can you believe we’ve kept this going for a whole year, with over 2500 posts?

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  170. Karen, it looks like you got post 2575. That isn’t one you can get just anywhere.

    I’m still trying to find a brownie recipe that won’t leave our monitors all sticky.

    Who’s bringing the drinks? Will the punch be spiked?

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  178. Less than four hours til the 20th in blog time. We’ll need about four to five posts per hour to open up the party room at midnight.

    2584!

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