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Our Daily Thread 1-5-15

Good Morning!

 Today’s header photo is from Janice.

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On this day in 1781 Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold. 

In 1896 Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the type of radiation that became known as X-rays. 

In 1925 Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming. She was the first female governor in the U.S. 

And in 1961 “Mr. Ed” debuted.

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Quote of the Day

“I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”

Jack Benny

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 Today is Phil Joel’s birthday. This will help wake you up. 🙂

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Anyone have a QoD?

36 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-5-15”

  2. It’s 28 here in Austin. We got lots of baby love last night. Miss Em didn’t do a whole lot of sleeping. She is getting a little breakfast before her mommy has to leave her for a few hours. Them grandpa and I are on duty all alone.
    DIL was funny. She said she brought all the cute outfits because she knew I would want to dress the baby up.

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  4. Good morning! Ann, I read your hyphen before 28 as “minus 28”! I was thinking that must be a record low for Texas! 🙂

    We’re at a balmy -7°!

    Have fun with baby, Kim. 🙂

    New weekly schedule to start the calendar year begins today at our house. I would appreciate prayers that we can make this work. Thanks much!

    Have a blessed day, all.

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  6. We are almost on campus at the University of Texas and luckily at the hotel attached to the conference center. Mommy will be able to come back a couple of times a day to feed Miss Em. While it is the ideal situation is somewhat limits the range of exploration while she is gone. There are a couple of exhibits I saw on the way in yesterday that are within walking distance.
    I understand that while we are here we have to eat at Chuy’s Tex Mex so that may be dinner tonight.

    OK–now for Mimi gushing and aha time. They make these wonderful swaddling blankets. I had never seen them before. It has a pouch for the feet and legs two short wraps to hold down the arms and hands, a medium wrap for the next step and a long wrap to go all around the baby to keep her snuggly and secure to sleep. She is now down for morning nap and I shall use this time to actually get dressed and catch up on my bible reading I didn’t do yesterday and get today’s done.

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  7. Bad start to the day / week here. It seems my husband and I are both sick. He often gets sick, me rarely. Last time it was both at the same time was when we both got bronchitis on our honeymoon. 😦

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  8. Good Morning….it is 41 degrees here this morning…we will have a good start on melting the foot of snow on our property!
    Kim are you not just enjoying the sweet fragrance of a newborn…there is nothing like holding a newborn and taking in that sweet perfume of new life ❤
    Praying for you and your husband Cheryl…not a fun way to start the week…or anytime really!

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  9. ah, Kim, sounds like you’re having a wonderful visit.

    cheryl, feel better — a lot of stuff is going around right now. Hope it’s not that flu.

    Tess is still favoring that right paw, but sometimes she’s using it, so I’m thinking it’s just a strain/sprain. I’m going to to hold out for another day before taking her to the vet. I’m hoping it goes away on its own, I’ve had that happen with dogs before. They turn a foot funny and hop around for a while, but then everything’s fine. And since my vet is a fair distance away, getting there involves lots of work schedule juggling. We’ll see how she’s doing in 24 hours.

    We’re moving out of our cold snap out here, I think it’s (cough-cough) up into the low 60s this morning. Sorry everyone. 🙂

    I read half of the Bible reading this morning, will do the other half tonight.

    Did anyone watch Downton Abbey last night? Honestly, it came on rather late so I was tired & for the life of me I couldn’t remember who half the characters were! And they all look so much alike to me … A bunch of white people in hats. This is the same problem I had with the show when I first started watching it in Season 2.

    I gave up last night, will try to catch up with it again later though.

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  12. yes, I saw Downtown Abbey. Funny, but last week they showed a lot of it on public television, so I could figure out who folks were.
    Supposed to be like Spring here this week, but cold this morning. I am washing the flannel sheets because they were too warm last night, so will change to something lighter.

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  13. I guess I need another Downton Abbey primer.

    I completely forgot where the stories left off last year, it’s been so long …

    I can’t figure out who had a baby (babies?), in or out of wedlock; who all of Mary’s suitors were, whether anyone’s in jail right now or not, whether the estate is still going under financially … Oy.

    Lost.

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  15. Donna, it’s seven degrees here, with snow on the ground and wind. Even Misten is only staying outside for a few minutes at a time. So basically we don’t want to hear it, OK?

    😉

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  16. My observation in being “alone” with a newborn. Mothers who don’t nurse and have to give their babies a bottle miss out on so much. I couldn’t rub her cheek to get her to latch on to the bottle. I couldn’t hold her little hand or rub her back. I had to hold the bottle. There is just a certain kind of closeness in holding a baby to nurse. Holding a bottle you just can’t do that.
    It also probably doesn’t help that she hasn’t had but about 3 bottles in her little life. She doesn’t like them and I don’t blame her. I don’t like them either. I think all of us would prefer Mommy to be here with the good stuff! (Even in a bottle she is still getting breast milk, but it isn’t the same)
    Ssshhhh. She just went down for a nap so I let Mommy know she could eat lunch first then come nurse.

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  17. Good morning all. We are already in the 40’s here. It is a good thing, as I need to clean the chimney today. Snow forecast again for the end of the week.

    My son was so cute this morning. He was sitting in my lap while I read the posts here, listening to AJ’s morning music selection. As the song ended, he repeated the “do not fear”. I did not realize he was listening so closely.

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  21. Husband as I still have the crud. He is at the office. I have been dealing with figuring out insurance quotes from Aetna and thinking up questions to ask the sales representative.

    I still need to go get Miss Bosley. It is cold here so I have not wanted to leave the warm house when I am not so well. I hope son and Miss Bosley will not catch the illness or anyone at the office.

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  23. I saw Downton as well. For the previous two weeks our PBS affiliate was showing all the Season 4 episodes in the afternoon/evening. It was almost like renting the DVDs.

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  25. Barbour Publishing has some good Kindle books specials for the ladies. One free fiction and a women’s devotional, free also. Other books are deeply discounted.

    Miss Bosley is home and talking in some foreign cat language mixed with purrs. She found my suitcase and plopped down on it as if to say, “No more traveling!”

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  27. Leaves blowing, hair blowing.

    Another good review of Unbroken with this tidbit that I’d not heard before:

    http://www.worldmag.com/2015/01/unbroken_a_cure_for_cynicism

    “They were responsible young men who’d come through the Depression, who were fighting for their country, and who took pride in the way they held themselves and the way they spoke.” Jolie said in an interview.

    To preserve that self-respect, she instituted a no-cursing rule on the set so the actors and crew had to find more creative ways of expressing themselves than f-bombs. It was a small thing that contributed her depiction of believable characters—ordinary guys who behaved in extraordinary ways. America still produces heroes, though perhaps not in such numbers. Unbroken deserves respect for reminding us that cynicism is a dead end.

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  29. Good Afternoon, Y’all!
    Hope this finds all of you reasonably well…
    Had a nice Christmas break…except for the flu last week. Better now.

    Suddenly this site is blocked by the filter at work so no more checking in on breaks… 😦

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  30. Another excerpt (regarding the decision to leave out the conversion experience) from the Unbroken article I posted earlier:

    ” … Angelina Jolie, the film’s director, gave two reasons for leaving that part out: It would have made the movie too long and would have alienated a large portion of the audience. This was probably a personal decision based on a gut-level sense of audience reaction. But it was also an artistic decision, understandable on that level.

    “Art is a reflection of human experience, and conversion is the one deeply human experience that is not generally shared. Everyone, no matter their station, has known joy, sorrow, disappointment, loss, excitement, and fear to some degree and can respond to artistic depictions of all these. Coming to Christ is something else entirely, so alien to humanity that God has to do it. Those who have experienced conversion feel their hearts leap when they see it portrayed. To those who haven’t, it can feel like a door slamming in their faces.

    “So perhaps Jolie stopped where she, personally, had to stop. The result feels unfinished, even to some secular critics, but it is not cynical. . …”

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  32. ~~Spoiler alert~~

    I saw Unbroken Saturday. I kind of understand why the conversion was left out, but I think it would have made more of an impact if she had shown Zampini forgiving his captors rather than just putting it in a statement at the end. Most lost Americans have never seen real forgiveness, especially in this day of a revenge mindset as played out in Ferguson.

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  33. Peter, I thought they could have done better with the post-script section as well. It was abbreviated by necessity, I realize, but there was time/room for more to have been said and portrayed, I think.

    So — the Rams may be coming back to L.A.! And to the town I grew up in! Yay.

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  34. Peter says
    “Most lost Americans have never seen real forgiveness, especially in this day of a revenge mindset as played out in Ferguson.”

    The culture is not about forgiveness, it’s about “getting even”. That is part of the religion of Islam. retribution.

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  35. Has it really been nearly four hours since anyone has posted . . . or have you all just un-friended me?

    Heading to bed . . . I took a nap this afternoon, and didn’t dare try to go down too early. I feel better than I did this morning, but how I feel in the evening isn’t a good way to judge whether I’m getting sick. Tomorrow will give me a better idea, I think, but I chose to take it a bit easy today.

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  36. finally got my third car, a van, today. This one I get to keep for six months and it is so comfortable. Just fits me and I like sitting up higher. Nice to be able to learn to drive something and keep driving it.

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