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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aL9rKJPr4&feature=player_detailpage ______________________________________________

Anyone have a QoD?

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

  5. Except I see that now that the comments are in the four-digit range, there is a comma in the number. Which makes 1,001 lose its symmetry.

    I’m just going to pretend 1001 has no comma. 🙂

    1001
    1001
    1001

    😀

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  7. I am happy to report we are reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

    I will be even happier to report when we actually finish it.

    Not that I want it to be done, as in, say, “I wish this thing was over.”

    We are enjoying the book. I just need to make it an everyday thing, reading from it. So my happiness in finishing it will stem from the fact that I did keep on going with a good thing and get it finished.

    Then on to the next…and the next…and t…

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  11. Kare seems to have disappeared through the back of a wardrobe or something.

    I hereby conclude my talking to myself.

    Good night, wanderers. 🙂

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  13. We finished the Last Battle about a week ago, now we are back to the Borrowers. But we will be picking up the Lion again, and starting over soon. Thankful to have such enthusiastic readers and listeners. Good night all.

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  18. Peter – Emily is in LPN school, & they do have classes on Saturdays. Well, right now, & I guess until she graduates, they have “clinicals” on Saturday. That involves working in a nursing home, learning to use their skills on real patients.

    As it turns out, we are indeed getting enough snow that the clinicals were cancelled for today. So, she’s making chocolate chip pancakes.

    A certain little four year old boy is thrilled to have his mommy home, have chocolate chip pancakes, & see the large amount of snow we’re getting. 🙂

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  19. Kare – Congratulations also to your daughter!

    Emily is doing very, very well in LPN school, & we are so proud of her. Although she is surprised by how well she is doing, her dad & I are not surprised at all. She’s a smart cookie. (So is Chrissy.)

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  20. You all do realize that this thread is more than a month old, don’t you? You’d rather hang out here when all the “happening,” trendy people are somewhere else?

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  21. Well, Miss Nose-up-in-the-air…

    er, hi Cheryl! Glad you happened along to the trendy room we have here. With 40 times as many posts as that other daily thread, this is where it’s shakin’. 😉

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  22. I was going to say this on today’s daily thread, but since part of this thread’s beginnings was teasing a certain Californian about the weather, I’ll tell you this: It’s as cold here today as an LA dog park at night, 50°F.

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  24. I know that feeling, Jo. Spent a lot of time trying to comfort Forrest when he was a baby. A little while after they moved in with us, he came to feel secure, & would no longer cry when his mommy left.

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  26. My phone is also very simple.
    Hawaii should be interesting. I will probably share a bedroom with a 3 and 5 year old. They are very noisy and emotional. I will need to find a way to have my quiet space.

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  28. I’m so retro, I don’t have a cell phone at all.

    Since I don’t drive anymore, whenever I go out I am with someone who does have a cell phone.

    Hubby says he may get me one sometime this year, if we can afford it.

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  29. Hello, all. I don’t have a flip phone, or a smart phone, either. I do have a dumb phone on which I can call or text and probably do some other things that I don’t know how to do. Like take pictures. I know it does that; I just haven’t done it yet.

    That is my contribution for the day on this thread.

    Oh, except — have there been comments every day since 12-20-14 on this post? I suppose I could go back and look, but I don’t really have time. I imagine the answer is yes, with a possible exception around Christmas.

    Someday when I have nothing to do, I’ll check. 🙂

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  30. 6 Arrows – A while back (I think on this thread), you mentioned something about comment numbers. I forgot to ask you then – do you see comment numbers? I don’t.

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  31. Karen, I don’t see comment numbers like there used to be on WMB (for example, this comment would be 1,032 on this thread if no one sneaks in as I type this).

    However, if you hover your mouse over “January 26, 2015 at 2:32 pm” next to your name on your previous post, then look down in the bottom left corner of your computer screen, you will see this:

    wanderingviews.com/2014/12/20/our-daily-thread-12-20-14/comment-page-6/#comment-97739

    So it looks like your 2:32 comment was the 97,739th comment on the blog. That’s funny, though, because I just read today’s daily thread and see that AJ said Cheryl’s first comment was the 69,000th comment. I wonder if all comments, spam or not, are included in the higher count I see when I hover over the date of a comment?

    Did I answer your question or muddy the waters? 😉

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  32. I can see the comment total at the top of the comment section, though. For example, right now, while I’m typing, it says 1,032 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-20-14”, so I’m pretty sure when I post this, it will be the 1,033rd comment, but I won’t see that number next to the comment.

    Does that help? 😉

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  33. Oh, okay. I was aware of seeing the total number of comments for the blog by hovering over the date, but I mistook something you had written as seeing individual comments numbers. And I was thinking the same thing about AJ’s comment to Cheryl, & what I see below.

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  35. Alright, so in a little moment of boredom, I decided to go back and check whether there’s been at least one comment each day on this thread since 12-20-14.

    Yes, there has. 😉

    For those who love trivia, here are a few related statistics (and, no, I didn’t count how many comments there were each day). 🙂

    Page one (comments 1-200) filled up over the course of only two days, Dec. 20 & 21.

    Page two: Dec. 21-29

    Page three: Dec. 29 – Jan. 1

    Page four: Jan. 1-7

    Page five: Jan. 7-23

    Page six so far: Jan. 23, 24, 25 & 26.

    Just so you know, that will be on the test.

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  36. Will the test be open book? I mean, open blog?

    The snow is just getting going. The worst of it is supposed to come after midnight, through tomorrow.

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  39. This is comment 1040, and today’s prayer thread is at 10 comments, and today’s daily at 40.

    Speaking of these 1040s, have you done your taxes yet?

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  42. Come to think of it, last year he had them done by an accountant, because it was his first year owning the route. I don’t know if he’ll do them himself this year or not.

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  43. My husband and I had always had our taxes done by others until it got simpler after I was no longer self-employed (when I resigned from piano teaching twelve years ago). Then I did our own taxes until 2nd Arrow started her college education a few years ago, which made preparing our taxes more difficult again. She’s done with school now, but I am self-employed again since I started teaching piano last year. So we’ll continue with the preparer we have. She’s good, and was the preparer my husband was going to even before we got married 28 years ago!

    We’re still waiting for one thing to come in the mail that is needed for tax purposes, which should be coming in the next week or so, then we’ll go get our taxes done.

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  46. Nice to be in my quiet house. Had dinner last night with both my sons and their families. They had even shut up their dogs in the bedroom and thoroughly cleaned the house since they knew that I have allergies. So sweet. Got nice hugs from their two children, whom I haven’t seen in four years. God is good.

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  53. 🙂

    I didn’t hear anything about bonbons in the song. Maybe AJ can do a little magical editing of that video to make mention of a few of those. 😉

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  59. I hear that spam is popular in Hawaii. Probably not the internet kind, though.

    Haven’t had spam (the edible kind) in a number of years until I tasted a bit recently. Used to like it; don’t anymore.

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  62. Hey, I got 1062. My daughter said I should have gotten 962, because that is both my month and year of birth.

    I don’t remember who messed it up for me. 🙂

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  63. They still sell spam in PNG and it is quite popular, but not with me.
    Get to go to my next student led conference today as I listen to my granddaughter share what she is learning. blessed

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  67. this thread is slowing down. Should we have a goal of keeping it going for a year??
    So grateful for a quiet day. I got a haircut and my hairdresser would not accept any pay.
    Son texted me that there are 55 empty seats on tomorrows flight and only 25 on standby.

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  70. That does sound good, Peter. The recent taste I had of spam was straight out of the can, but I bet it would have been better fried. And mayo & cheese can make (almost) anything taste good. (I even put mayo on sandwiches which are “supposed” to go with mustard.)

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  71. I see this page isn’t listed under the “Top Posts & Pages” heading in the sidebar anymore. Good thing I bookmarked the page.

    I wonder if anyone will see this. Oh, I guess AJ will. 😉

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  72. I have it on an open tab. I have my settings so that my tabs come up again when I turn my laptop back on. I also keep each day’s separate threads open in different tabs, too. 🙂

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  73. Well, there’s still about a half hour left of the day (and month) where I am, but this comment will register as February 1 when I post it, so in the interest of keeping this thread going with at least one comment each day, here it is… 😉

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  74. Good morning, all. It has been a busy week this past week and appears to be continuing. We are off to Moscow again today, for the sixth time in the past eight days or so. It is a three and a half hour space of driving I have not scheduled into my routine. But well worth it for the time spent with my dad and stepmom.

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  96. I’m tempted to take this to 1100 myself, since it appears everyone has left.

    However, the number I really want is 1111, and it would take a lot of talking to myself to get there tonight.

    I will refrain from jabbering and see if I can get the magic number tomorrow. 🙂

    Good night, wanderers!

    And goodnight, moon.

    And goodnight, secret room. 😉

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  103. Well, well. Mumsee’s been going to Moscow a lot, and she drives there! I thought she lived in Idaho, not Russia.

    And my children were born in 84, 85, 87 and 94. First grandchild in 2009. Second one in ‘11. Then ‘12 and ‘14. I guess I should come back here and claim one of those.

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  112. Olga Korbut came to our town and we had a parade for her. She wanted to see another Moscow. Now that stepmom is out of the hospital and daughter is there to help them out, it looks like our travels to Moscow will slow down. We still hope to get up there. My dad still declines our offer of a place to live. You don’t suppose it is the eight children still living here…

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  117. My sisters and I would try to do what we called “The Olga Korbut thing”, where, when she was on the balance beam, she’d do a back bend, then bend her elbows, lowering her arms and then her chest so it rested on the beam. In that position she could look at her feet ahead of her on the beam.

    I’m sure that makes no sense, but if you saw her beam routines, you might know what I’m talking about. I’m trying to picture it in my mind. It would be easier if I could try to do it again myself, pausing after each move to come back and type on here exactly what I did, but, let’s face it, at age 52, I won’t be going there. 😉

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  122. I remember Nadia Comaneci got the first perfect 10 score. Not sure which event it was in, beams, bars, floor or vault. I mostly remember her on balance beam and floor exercise, so I’m guessing it was one of those.

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  124. A friend of mine has a daughter who LOVED gymnastics. She almost lived and breathed it, but it all got way too intense and involved, so they pulled her out of it.

    That daughter is married now, with children, and she named her firstborn Nadia. 🙂

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  128. I won’t be here tomorrow, so I hope someone will register a February 5 comment so we can keep the pattern going, with at least one comment each day since this thread began.

    But if not, oh well, we’ll survive. 😉

    Good night, secret roomers.

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  133. Hawaii was good, but stressful. The five year old gets sad over almost anything and is then whiny. The three year old can get wild. Not sure why we took them out to eat. Big mistake.
    Prayer would be that I didn’t ruin any relationships.
    It is such a relief to be here in a quiet place. Three weeks of traveling with only two days at home was too much.
    Dad got a cold, and then Mom and then I have it today.

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  138. Children can be exhausting. Other people’s children, more so. Even the grandchildren….
    Are you glad you went? Will you be glad you went in six months? It was a neat opportunity and I expect you will look back on it fondly, but get some good night’s rest before thinking about it too much.

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  139. I suspect that is part of why my dad is not terribly interested in moving here. Besides the thought of giving up his home of the past twenty six years and the town in which he has lived for the past fifty years to a home with a probably schizotypal thirteen year old and eight other children of varying needs. Might be a bit of a brake.

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  150. Sounds good. And from the looks of it, can be prepared at home with things on hand. But the licorice is a problem with the high blood pressure. Good to know it works. But I see it may have some impact on feminine aspects as well.

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  160. a new day here in the secret room.
    enjoying a quiet morning waiting for the next wave of rain as I watch folks come to church. I will go to the later service and try to hide to keep this cold to myself.
    one of my daughters may bring me some soup later

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  163. It was interesting in Hawaii on Saturday night last week hey were doing a series on Revelation. When the pastor prayed, he got down on the floor, flat on his face. I have never seen that before. Certainly removed him from being our focus. challenged me to consider doing the same.

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  164. Here in Idaho, we have not seen snow in months and I am getting ready to plant my gardens. It was shirt sleeve weather to church this morning.

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  172. Glad you’re home and healthy, Jo. And when you figure out what normal life looks like, let me know. 😉

    Oh, and a happy belated birthday! 🙂

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  175. Alright, I’ll tell you. It’s me, 6.

    Nobody ever told me who that Anon E Mouse was last week or whenever, however, and I’m wondering why not.

    Anyone have an explanation for that?

    Hmmm?

    Or maybe I should be asking on the current daily thread, since Anon E Mouse didn’t appear in the secret room. (Under that name, anyway.)

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  176. 6 Arrows – I guess Cheryl’s hints were going over your head. (I don’t mean that as an insult. Things go over my head sometimes, too. 🙂 ) It was her. Remember she said her husband told her to confess, but she said she wasn’t going to?

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  177. Yeah, I guess they did go over my head. I’ve been cutting back on my computer time, and was mostly scanning comments without paying close attention.

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  180. Morning Break for you, Media Break for me. We do our media fasts on Thursday, but like I said last week on one of the daily threads (Wednesday, I think), I’ve been considering adding Tuesday to our media-free days.

    So will the conversation in the secret room continue on February 10th? I guess I will find out on the 11th if it did.

    Until then…

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  181. Good morning. I would, but I don’t get in the kitchen much anymore. What is a Morning Break? I am off to walk the dogs, feed the goats, the chickens, the turkeys, etc in a few minutes. Is that a morning break?

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  183. We are getting close to the end of this room. Will we race to another room? So sweet to spend some time here with you all. We made shortbread cookies this morning. They gave each table a bowl of prepared dough and we rolled out our own cookies. Now I have a Valentine’s gift for my two grands here in town.
    Thinking of going to the dollar store to get them some stickers and perhaps some for my class next year.

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  185. Daughter has been so pleasant the past few days. I don’t know why but am certainly enjoying it. I asked her yesterday, why she decided not to go to public school. When she went to the speech therapist, she felt the therapist was treating her like a baby. The therapist gave her stickers and that was such a distraction for her, that she was unable to do the work. That got the therapist angry with her. She does like stickers, but not in that context. The younger ones love stickers.

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  186. No stickers at the store. I use them rarely at school. Sometimes just quietly give a sticker to the child that is on task without saying anything.
    I think we catch things on this blog. 🙂
    Woke up this morning with the room doing some spinning, Don’t remember that happening before.

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  189. I am prone to dizziness – sometimes serious, most times not. It may be related to the Moebius Syndrome, as dizziness seems quite common with others with Moebius as well.

    What is weird to me is when I feel that dizzy, spinning sensation while sitting or lying down. (It seems more understandable when I am standing.) When that happens, I grab the desk or arms of the chair, or grab onto the bed. Usually passes quickly, but I do have some days when I feel dizzy all day long.

    I told Lee he married a dizzy dame. 🙂

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  190. Hi Jo. 🙂 I’ll make it a relay race, as I have to race out of this room to go get ready for my piano student, who arrives in about 15 minutes.

    Anyone like to take the baton right now?

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