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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. Unbelievable how people will just jump across a border to create mayhem without even a how do you do? I guess it is to be expected. You know what those northerners are like. Especially when they think it might be getting very cold.

    We don’t have tamarack this year. Just red fir and white fir, locust and apple and walnut and lilac. I like tamarack, especially when it is cold out. Not very cold of course, we have no ocean breezes. Or snow plows, at least, I was unable to pick one up.

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  7. Tamarack is such a warm wood with very little ash left over. You can feel the difference, especially when it’s so cold. I would imagine walnut would be a good heat as well as apple & lilac.

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  8. I don’t know where my comment went but,

    Tamarack gives off such a great amount of heat and leaves so little ash. I imagine walnut and apple and lilac would be good to burn as well. I’ve burned fir before, but not in this house and I don’t know what locust is. It’s good to have a hot burning wood when it’s so cold out.

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  9. I would not normally point this out but today is special so I will. Kare, it appears you are being a bit repetitive. Now, I agree, tamarack is an excellent source of heat and I prefer it but because I am not the one who goes and gets it, I am happy with what we have.

    Locust is another good wood for putting out some heat. Burns very hot and leaves little ash. We used to have a really nice cast iron wood stove that was a Stove That Jack Built but because it was not an approved heat source, we decided for insurance purposes to set it aside and put in a soap stone stove. Another nice stove and it holds the heat well, but not as good at keeping a fire through the night or at starting one up that was asleep. Yes, I like a wood stove. It is enough to heat the entire house though the backrooms are not exactly cosy.

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  10. A new goal: 600! Or maybe we should just let it go. Hey! Kare could sing that song from “Frozen” since she has such cold weather now.

    “Let it go! Let it go!”

    I don’t know the rest of the song.

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  11. I wouldn’t mind having a wood stove in my family room – it would warm up the place a lot quicker when the furnace has gone out while we weren’t home.

    Those are the only words I know, too, Peter.

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  14. Um, I’d watch that but our internet speed has been throttled until the end of the month. That’s what happens when you live in the middle of nowhere.

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  17. Well, when we got back from our walk with the dogs and the evening chores, I watched it for you. That was weird. I could not walk in snow in shoes like that.

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  19. Our internet is too slow for videos, unless we wait half-an-hour or something like that for one to load. If I want the words, I can either Bing them or borrow D3’s DVD.

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  25. I don’t know what husband is watching, maybe watching water freeze. I am annoying people on here and waiting for eight year old to fold his clothes after his breathing treatment.

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  26. I took a short break this afternoon from my big project today and checked here to see what number this thread was at.

    It was 391.

    Then I went upstairs to sit by our sliding glass door on the west side of the house to watch as the last bit of sunshine came over the tops of the trees on the hill behind our home and filter into the dining room.

    It wasn’t long — maybe 10 minutes — and the sun disappeared.

    Then I came back here.

    404 comments!

    My, my, my. Thirteen new comments, and almost all of them…

    Kare, Kare, Kare!!!

    The same one who told me in the previous secret room…what was it…let me check…

    Oh, yes. December 26 at 3:00 pm, after I made a few comments in a row: “Okay, 6 arrows, you need to do something else now.” 🙂

    Just sayin’. 🙂

    On to 600?

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  28. All right, here is the hot cocoa I promised you all a few minutes ago, or whenever it was. I’ve been busy, and other people in the house keep drinking the cocoa.

    O O O O O O O O O O
    O O O O O O O O O O

    Hopefully that’s enough mugs to last a while.

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  33. Oh, and thank you Cheryl, for thinking of all those cold people at the dag park in LA. But 6 arrows seems to have taken it all for herself. I hope she can get to sleep tonight, what with alkl that caffeine and sugar in her after drinking 11 hot cocoas.

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  36. oh, my, you never know what is happening in secret rooms.
    so wish this home had a wood stove. I do know how to build fires. If the power ever goes out, I will be visiting friends until it comes back on.

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  39. Jo? What are you doing up at this hour? I am up to check on the little feller. He is doing okay but not great. Might as well put a couple of logs on the stove.

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  44. 6 arrows- What’s a “dag” park?

    And mumsee- by “racist” to you mean “having a race”? Or should it be “specieist” since we are referring to dogs in a cold LA park.

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  46. 6 arrows- What’s a “dag” park?

    It’s a copy and paste from your December 29 at 11:32 pm, Peter. 😉

    I know, I’m a little mean. But hey, when people around here call me racist and wish me ill sleep, what do you expect?

    🙂

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  47. So the mistake was my doing. I guess I wasn’t wearing glasses, so I missed “dag”. And spell check doesn’t mark it, so I wonder what a dag is?

    I went to dictionary.com and found out this: a dag is “one of a series of decorative scallops or foliations along the edge of a garment, cloth, etc.” Sounds like something they would have in LA, doesn’t it? A dag park is a park just for people who are wearing garments with decorative dags.

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  54. I keep getting a youtube screen that says, “Sorry for the interruption. We have been receiving a large volume of requests from your network…” It goes on to ask me to log in to my account. Strange, as it pops up at any time and I cannot do anything else on the Internet.

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  56. Well, that was pretty cool — I didn’t realize I just got #456.

    Which means this is 457, and I am taking a “57” number away from Peter for the second time today.

    Sorry. I’ll let you take 462, though, if you want it. 😉

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  61. Yes, lots of practice.

    “If you don’t _________ by the count of ten, then _________.”

    Okay, kidding — I don’t parent that way. They aren’t given time to continue in disobedience until the “final number.”

    But I am off-topic, as usual. What were we talking about? 😉

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  63. Oops, I got 462 in my 6:44 comment, not my 6:45 comment.

    Sorry about the confusion. (I am saying that to myself.)

    Kare will come along any minute and tell me that’s enough, time to go do something else.

    That would be a good idea she would have. 🙂

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  65. Too bad I didn’t come down here earlier yesterday while you were racing to 400 in your boredom, Kare. I could have made things very interesting jumping into the secret room unannounced right before you opened the door to the second secret room.

    Bwahahahaha! 😛

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  66. You can see I’m not doing very well on Day 2 of my big 3-day project. I got a headache and quit.

    Day 1 went great yesterday; time to get back on it, despite not feeling as well or motivated today.

    Later, guys, girls.

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  70. I was relaxing for the first time since Christmas Eve yesterday. Company was finally all gone, supper was leftovers and it was too cold to do anything outside, so I had time to spend on the computer.

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  75. Oh look, I had to talk with somebody about taking thirteen year old bowling tomorrow and Six grabs seventy five. Why does that not surprise me?

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  90. Mumsee and Kare have taught me well. Thank you ladies, and I know your gracious selves are certainly not going to interrupt me or do anything ungracious like that. 😉

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  91. Sixth Arrow wants to read more of our ESV together, and then she will be going to bed.

    So for anyone who would like to take 500, go for it! I do have something more important to do. 🙂

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  95. I guess not. Perhaps some lurker will jump in soon. Oh, well. It’s just the first 500th post on a Wanderers thread, and the first of that number since a World Mag Blog thread had 2000+.

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  96. Since it seems Mumsee is doing something with the nest, and 6 arrows went off to do something important, I’ll just hog this for a few more posts.

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  104. In-credible! Wow, I go do something important, and now we’ve got another one to add to the list of people who just take over the joint, hurdling to some multiple of 100.

    But hey, I’ll get 505. I was born at 5:05 one time, and 505 has such nice symmetry. Well, not exact symmetry, but a nice balance of numbers.

    Much better than boring old five-zero-zero.

    Ah. Nice.

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  112. hurdling to some multiple of 100

    Sorry, 6, but I don’t hurdle very well. That involves jumping while running. But “hurtling” I can do, since one doesn’t have to jump, just be quick in order to hurtle.

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  115. Interesting definition of “dag” at 1:11 pm yesterday, Peter. I looked up the same word at merriam-webster.com, and there it is defined as (1) a hanging end or shred, or (2) matted or manure-coated wool.

    Too bad for those fancy jackets with dags on them. 😆

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  116. Oops, I think I left the rabbit waterers outside. Since we don’t have electric ones, we have to keep thawing them and that does not work if they are left outside. It barely works inside. I cannot imagine how it would work if it was very cold out like in Los Angeles in the dog park at night while people were wearing fancy dag jackets.

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  118. And I was just up in the schoolroom to check on things and it is fifty seven there as well. I will say I believe they are making those pellet bags heavier than they did last year. Or it seems that way carrying them upstairs. I never thought I would like a pellet stove and there are some things I don’t like, like the need for electricity for the feeder to work. But I like that it makes the place warm. Fifty seven is warm for up there, just ask Phos.

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  119. No comments in the 1:00 hour? Is everyone being shy?

    We won’t get to a new room to ring in the new year at this pace.

    Might have to resort to a bunch of one-word comments to get this thing going again.

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  139. This is very interesting. My last two comments have been at 4:32 and 2:34.

    4, 3, 2 and 2, 3, 4.

    And I didn’t plan it that way.

    Really. I’m just talented that way.

    😀

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  149. Newsletter is done and sent! Such a relief. It is almost all pictures and I finally sent the picture that I had taken months ago of me with students from all my ten years of teaching here.

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  152. I had a thing like that. It is on my nightstand. I liked wearing it when I was doing at least 10,000 steps but then things changed and I stopped walking the dogs so much as I was needed inside more. And I stopped getting so many steps and it got too depressing. But I also got one for husband and for two children. One of them was shocked to see how little she walked. The other learned to manipulate it so it counted nonsteps.

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  155. Ooh, Mumsee got 555.

    Y’all showed a lot of restraint — I thought there would have already been 600 comments by the time I got home from church. So I didn’t miss it.

    But I predict I will. Because we’re going to be having a New Year’s party, just our family, here, and I’m shutting the computer down for the night and tomorrow, when hubby will have the day off.

    So Happy New Year’s all, and happy trekking to 600 and beyond! I know you will. 😉

    See you in 2015!

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  159. maybe things will settle down around here with 6 arrows off. Sure to be a lot quieter.
    One daughter just called and we talked for an hour, but the other daughter where we usually gather hasn’t called so it will be a quiet evening.

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  160. I don’t usually talk with the bio children. Once in a while an email but they tend to do other faster things and I don’t. They also talk on the phone while driving so I won’t call them. But husband goes to visit them periodically and they come here periodically.

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  165. Karen, sorry to mislead, it is not a negative at all. They are all grown up and busy with their lives, as it should be. One lives in California with his girlfriend of less than a year so they are busy and he is busy with a job that travels a lot. But, he found time for three of the younger boys to visit him at different times during the past year for several weeks. Second son and his wife and three children moved to Kansas from Idaho where he is in the Air Force. We saw them more frequently here in idaho of course and I keep in touch with the grands which keeps us in touch. Daughter is a newly wed of one year so one wants to stay out of their business as they get to know each other but she has begun emailing more often and she too has the children down on occasion. Two of the girls are staying with her this week while husband and the boys stay with his sister. She is also offering a room to a seventeen year old girl to rent as she starts to spread her wings. And youngest, the one in touch the most, lives with his wife in Virginia where they are keeping busy with new jobs. He calls and emails the most. And we always pick up where we left off, exactly like with my brothers and dad. We do not need constant contact to keep up. But it is nice to hear from each other once in a while. Several of them get together at different times for visits. It is all good.

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  167. Actually I really enjoy the Amazing Race and found season 24 from last year online so have now watched three episodes.
    That will keep me going tonight.
    Love the cowboys and Dave and Connor, father/son, on this all-star team

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  168. Hi Jo, I’ll join you here for a little while.

    I’m watching Matlock right now as hubby is too engrossed in his Joe C. Rosenberg book, The Auschwitz Escape, to watch LoTR. May have to start that tomorrow when we take down the rest of the Christmas decorations.

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  169. Tomorrow is take down the tree day as well. Seems a shame to have a live tree for such a short time but the goats will enjoy it as we did. And it does not hurt to do a bit of thinning in the forest now and then.

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  171. My Christmas tradition, as the daughter of a logger, was we had a family outing to the mountains to get a tree and put it up Christmas eve. We would put the lights on and Santa would decorate. As we got older we decorated and Santa put on the icicles. Eventually, we did. But the tree came down New Year’s Day. Husband’s family appears to have put the tree up some time in August so we compromise and put the tree up early. We put the lights on early but don’t decorate it until Christmas Eve. Generally singing Christmas carols as we work. Then it comes down New Year’s Eve.

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  176. We had a tradition of decorating the tree the first Sunday in December, but it’s not as fun without the kids at home. I like the idea of just the lights and then putting the ornaments on when the kids are home.

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  177. The lights are pretty without being overwhelming and then the fun and joy and memories of decorating with the children is nice. But, especially with this many people every day, it is a bit crowded after a while.

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