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Our Daily Thread 1-12-15

Good Morning!

Today’s header photo is from Peter.

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On this day in 49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River signaling a war between Rome and Gaul. 

In 1773 the first public museum in America was established in Charleston, SC. 

In 1879 the British-Zulu War began when the British invaded Zululand. 

In 1908 a wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 

And in 1949 “Kukla, Fran and Ollie”, the Chicago-based children’s show, made its national debut on NBC-TV. 

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Quotes of the Day

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Edmund Burke

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 Today is Jeremy Camp’s birthday. From JeremyCampVEVO 

And it’s also Dan Haseltine’s. From JarsOfClayVEVO 

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Anyone have a QoD?

27 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-12-15”

  5. This morning I’m picking up a co-worker whose car is probably totaled after she hydroplaned & hit a guard rail. 😦 Another colleague’s 2-year-old dog goes in for cancer surgery tomorrow. 😦 And our cop reporter is off on vacation for a week.

    So it should be collectively for us a stressful week ahead.

    I slept 10 hours last night, it felt very, very good.

    And I still had to pry myself out of bed!

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  6. Re: the remote:
    I called the 2020 number, then pressed zero, that got me a live person in Bangladesh or some such. I talked with her for half an hour, she turned me over to her supervisor.
    We got my remote working, but another isn’t So, I’m getting two new remotes.
    It took a couple of hours on the phone. 😦
    but I did find a real person

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  8. Ask for a can of automotive starting fluid before you even try to start a small gas engine. I need to get one for my wife. We have a couple of engines here she can’t start, weed whip, roto-tiller…

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  13. Don’t turn your back on Miss Bosley! In the kitchen yesterday I heard her lapping up water from her bowl. Then I thought, No! Her water bowl is in the bath room.” I had cooked the leftover bacon from our vacation. She was on the stove lapping up bacon grease from where I had cooked it. I know, it is too gross! It does not seemed to have hurt her. Maybe it helped move some hairballs through. She is such a challenge. Just when I thought I had a solution to the dish drainer situation, now this. Like a child, she is always 4 feet ahead of me in her mischief. I read to keep cats off counters you need to totally clear them and put down plastic placemats to which you have stuck on double-sided tape because cats hate the stick surface. Sounds like a plan.

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  17. I wondered where all that sand in the picture came from. As a Californian who has never lived more than 20 miles from the ocean, I had to think a little before I recognized just what the picture showed.

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  22. Our cats & dogs sure do keep us on our toes, don’t they?

    Had an unexpected day off today, which is usually the extra-long babysitting day. Due to icy conditions, Lee told Emily not to come to work, & also Emily’s evening classes were closed because of the icy roads.

    So I gave the kitchen a real good cleaning. And Chrissy helped me give Heidi a bath. (Heidi did not appreciate that.)

    Tomorrow is also Peter’s son’s birthday, & someone else’s. 😉

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  23. Have a Happy Birthday tomorrow, Karen! (I’ll be offline again, so you get your b’day wishes early from me.) 😉

    Beautiful header photo today. I enjoyed seeing the pic from Ann and Kim’s meet-up this weekend, too.

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  24. Thanks, 6 Arrows. I took today to do the things I would have done tomorrow, except for the usual daily chores, so that I can enjoy the day being somewhat lazy. Lee is going to being home pizza – my favorite food – for dinner. 🙂

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  27. Lovely photo. I actually did know what the photo was. 🙂

    My husband and I had a very sweet date tonight. Last week I had to cook every day–one girl usually cooks weekly, one every other week . . . but it wasn’t the every-other-week girl’s week to cook, and the every-week girl had to work through supper every single day since she has co-workers who are out sick. I nearly always take Sunday off from cooking or make, at most, grilled sandwiches for supper, but I had thawed steak and it needed to be used, so I cooked last night, and told my husband I needed tonight off. (Then I ended up cooking for lunch, but that’s another story.) He had done some planning ahead of the date, and really made it a sweet, memorable evening.

    We have virtually no internet. At 10:30 tonight all my e-mails from 11:00 this morning and since then all came in at the same time. Meanwhile I need internet for my business and my husband needs it for church business and research, and all of us like the convenience of e-mailing friends, checking the weather, and so forth. We’ve had several weeks of this nonsense, and it’s worse than it was three weeks ago, and we are heartily tired of it. (We basically have service from something like 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., when people are in bed. But we like to sleep, too!) Our company has been promising more bandwidth any day now, and apparently the hold-up now is the weather. So it would be OK if you want to pray that we’d have whatever weather they need to put it in, and that they would do it.

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