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Our Daily Thread 1-16-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.

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On this day in 1866 Mr. Everett Barney patented the metal screw, clamp skate. 

In 1896 the first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA. 

In 1944 General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London. 

And in 1988 Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring. 

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Quote of the Day

“Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.”

Dizzy Dean

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 Today is Ronnie Milsap’s birthday.

And here’s an oldie for ya’. From NRRArchives

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Anyone have a QoD?

70 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-16-15”

  2. Header photo: Expert photographers will tell you that flash ruins photos. You need to take photos in natural light if at all possible, or expensive flash fixtures that mimic it well.

    My previous camera, the flash went on when you turned on the camera, unless you held your finger on the flash to hold it down when you turned on the camera. So it was easy to accidentally get a shot using flash. This was one of those, but I personally think the flash “makes” the photo.

    It was early morning last year, one of many snowy days last year but probably the prettiest one; I took many photos over the course of the day, but this is the first good one from that day. The sun hadn’t come up yet; the early morning light gave everything a blue glow. And the flash “caught” individual falling snowflakes at various distances from the camera, making it look like a painting of falling snow. The photo was taken standing on our front steps; this is looking across our front yard.

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  3. Good morning everyone.
    Cheryl was first at 8:07?
    It IS Friday? You know what that means?

    :I didn’t know Aj had had an accident. That occurred during the time he was likely on the WorldMag Blog with us. I had no idea about the pain issues. Mike’s, I gather, are new.

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  4. We went down to Rutherfordton last evening on the Mud Creek bus to hear the Southern Gospel concerts. There were 18 people on the bus. Five of us, including the driver and me, were men.

    I need to remember to wear my vest to the Lions today, or the Tail Twister will fine me a dollar. We try to avoid that. But the Tail Twister fines are the thing that finance the local pride. We, as I said before, pay our own way. All the fundraiser money goes back out to the community.

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  5. Good morning, Cheryl! I love your photo! Shared it with Becca-boo, who’s only seen snow in photographs… It’s beautiful!

    I can’t believe I’m second at 7:45… Becca is feeling better–she slept all night and is fever-free this morning. She can’t go to school though, as she still had fever last night at nine and they’re supposed to be fever-free for 24 hours. Fridays are half days, anyway, so she won’t miss much.

    We had a good meeting with Becca’s teacher and the principal yesterday. They said she is working above her IQ score (if it’s a valid number) and is a delight in class. The teacher said she’s made great progress since November, has made many friends and seems very happy while at school. They both praised her attitude and behavior, which was wonderful to hear. All in all, it was a reassuring meeting. We do plan on sending her to summer school, but it’s only an hour to an hour and a half Monday to Thursday. The teacher/student ratio is either 1:1 or 1:2 in summer school and they work on whatever the child needs. They also offer a summer camp, which has a fantastic reputation. If the child attends summer camp and summer school, they just quietly pull the kid out of camp activities for an hour at some point in the day. Becca wants to go to camp for a couple of weeks, so it should work out well.

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  7. I love the photo this morning. At first I wondered how AJ got the snow to fall just in the photo. After the Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad, No Good Day I had yesterday (thank you all for letting me whine) I woke up at 5:15–that’s 15 minutes before the alarm. I let the dogs out and got back in bed. Mr. P got up and let them in. Amos got back in bed and I got “morning loves” from him. I got up at 5:30 and the morning went as it usually does.
    This morning I will be working with some new agents teaching them how to research properties and track down information. I will also work on “scripts” with them.

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  8. Chas, last December, Mike was out pulling teasle by the cattails, trying to clean the place up in a messy corner. He came in just fine but the next day, his hands were swollen and hurt. That has continued since in addition to his knees and feet. The doctors here say it is rheumatoid arthritis. The doctors in Canada say it is definitely not or he would show more disintegration in the joints by now and prescribed prednisone though they don’t know what it is that is affecting him. The doctors here prescribed methatrexate which is common for rheumatoid arthritis. The prednisone works, the methatrexate does not. Both have serious side effects. So, he does not know for certain what he has, he takes meds for it, and he is basically chair bound

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  9. Mumsee, I have no proof of this but my dad had double knee replacement. He took a table spoon of Braggs apple cider vinegar with the mother every morning. I also attended college classes with a woman who said she cured her rheumatoid arthritis drinking pickle juice.

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  15. This is interesting. One of the “I went to heaven and lived to tell about it” people recants his story. (I’d never heard of this particular book, but am familiar with the genre.) http://pulpitandpen.org/2015/01/13/the-boy-who-came-back-from-heaven-recants-story-rebukes-christian-retailers/

    Here’s another link on more or less the same topic, and I would say a very important piece: http://www.gtycanada.org/blog/B121018/the-burpomalarkey-doctrine

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  16. I’ve heard of the apple cider cure. My mother tried it, but it made her rheumatoid arthritis worse. My aunt tried it for osteoarthritis and had the same results. There seems to be a family sensitivity to apples – one of my uncles had to stop drinking apple juice as it triggered arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats). I’m sorry to hear that the pain has gotten worse for Mike. My mother is still keeping on – she fusses at how the pain and loss of mobility is slowing her down, but she is doing surprisingly well for how inflamed her joints look. She is one tough woman. She has had chronic pain for about twenty years, and spent many near sleepless nights, but she seldom complains and she has never let the pain impact how she responds to people. I have met, in the course of my work, people who have become totally immobilized with rheumatoid arthritis. One person had sat so much, that their hip joints had fused into a permanent sitting position. I tell my mother that her secret is that she has kept moving, in spite of the pain. She was out shoveling snow the other day.

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  17. Mumsee, almost sounds like Mike had a severe allergic reaction.

    My daughter had a terrible time diagnosing what was essentially Mono, because she was taking prednisone for another issue. She went many weeks with terrible symptoms and through several doctors before landing in the emergency room and finally being correctly diagnosed.

    I sure hope he can be correctly diagnosed. It all seems quite iffy yet from what you have said.

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  18. I know I have mentioned it before, but I am sensitive to nightshade plants that give me arthritic symptoms. If I leave out white potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers and eggplant then my symptoms tend to go away. Even as a student while at Georgia Southern I was limping a little. You know what they serve a lot of in college cafeterias? Potatoes. I did not have a clue. If anyone is willing to go cold turkey without those foods for maybe 3 to 4 weeks, they can see if that makes a world of difference for them as it has for me. My personal observation is that the night shades act as a toxin and accumulate around a joint causing swelling and pain. This can be permanently damaging over time. I use to stop eating night shades until I felt better and then resume because I love them. But finding out it can cause permanent damage has made me very seldom indulge. I did eat some lasagne that was served at church when we had the Nativity drive through before Christmas. That was my last time to have tomato.

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  19. I was thinking that when you go over a certain number of books on Kindle that they go to The Cloud. You can also store on other devices. I have some on this phone and some on the computer at work, and even some on my husband’s phone. You just have to download the Kindle App to the other devices. I have not done it, but if you go to Amazon and look under “My Account” you can access “Manage My Kindle.” From there you can probably delete books. You can also move books from one device to another.

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  20. KI and Janice, that is what I am thinking. Phos, I try to encourage him to move but the docs that say it is rheumatoid tell him not to. I tend to think it is not but I am an uneducated by stander.

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  22. Mumsee, if it happened to be related to the nightshades, I think more movement on the inflamed joints would cause damage and more inflamation. I just have to wait and give my body time to release the toxins from my body.

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  23. Beautiful photo. I think it is really in Narnia somewhere, the place Annie was trying to find the other night behind the wardrobe …

    Guess I’ll know when she’s successful by the hoarfrost in her whiskers. Wednesday night all she came back/out with were some scraggly, stringy dust bunnies.

    But Narnia is back there somewhere …

    Friday at last. I have a news conference this morning at one of our local police stations where the spca is announcing a new training program for officers to help them navigate potential territorial family-dog problems at crime scenes. It stems from a case a couple years ago in that same city where officers shot and killed a man’s dog (all caught gruesomely on someone’s cell phone video). So the course teaches them such things as how to read dog body language, etc.

    And I’ve started working on a story I’m doing next week about a 90-something year old widow who will be receiving from the military some recently turned-up effects (flight school ring, an old photograph and dog tags) from her husband whose plane went down in WWII (1945) in the Philippines. There’s a presentation set to take place at her home, with her kids & other family members, that we’ll attend. She remarried but would have only been around 22 when her first husband was killed. 😦 Poignant.

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  24. Janice, my mother has noticed the same thing with nightshade vegetables. So far, she has only cut out fresh tomatoes, as that was a definite trigger. She is also going wheat free, as that seems to be another trigger for her. Every person is different. The relationship between metabolism of nutrients and repair of body tissues is an enormously complex one, and science as still to trace all the connections.

    Mumsee, as Kathleena mentioned, the teasle might have been a trigger point. Autoimmune conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, allergies, or asthma, tend to occur in the same person. I know from experience, that asthma gets worse under stress, but it often takes a trigger to make it flare up. For example, in West Africa, I was under intense stress in my last two months, but it wasn’t until the smoke from the fields being burnt off aggravated my lungs, which were already sensitized due to a cold, that my asthma became uncontrollable. It took a long time for my body to recover from the stress, and thus, restabilize my asthma (and I will probably never return to the point I was at before). Mike has had quite a bit of stress in his life, and it may be simply that his body cannot take it any more and is forcing him to quit by attacking itself.

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  25. And, my very good primary care doctor brushed off my mention of nightshades so you have to know your own body and what works for you. Each body’s chemistry is different. I think I have read the night shade problem more affects those with O positive blood. That is the oldest blood type and we were the original omnivores so in that sense perhaps it is logical.

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  28. Linda- I have a basic Kindle with keyboard (I think it is the Kindle 2). There is a way to both take books off and mark them as read. I create categories on the Kindle for fiction, non-fiction, etc. Then I made a category I call “Already read” and move books to there as I finish them. Remove them is as easy as clicking them and choosing “Remove from device”. Any book you have purchased stays in the online Kindle reader created for you when you registered your device, so you can always access old books from there.

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  29. Mumsee, about the doctors telling him not to move, that is bad advice – and very archaic too. In these days, when there are chronic pain specialists, we know that immobilizing painful joints, for an indefinite length of time, is the worst thing that can be done. I remember, as a nursing student, one of my fellow students had a patient who had knee surgery. It is essential, in order for the joint to heal properly, that it be moved the day after the operation. The patient flatly refused to do the exercises, even though he was on carefully controlled pain medication. Our teacher bluntly said, that if he didn’t do the exercises, his knee would freeze and the operation would be rendered useless. As I mentioned in my last post, Mike may well need the rest. But not the immobility. He should do what we call Range of Motion (ROM) exercises, moving all his joints as far as he can in the directions they should go. Not for very long, as it is one of those things that you have to work up – this document is for ALS patients, but the exercises are the same for any condition: http://www.alsworldwide.org/pdfs/rom_exercises.pdf

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  30. I have been reading a really good book for review, Breakthrough Faith, by Larry Sparks. It is giving me some insights on certain passages in the Bible that I have not heard much discussion on before.

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  32. Heading to Portland today. Finally will get to meet little Jude who is almost ten months old and see Maia who is five and Paxton, an energetic three year old. Flying standby. So funny because I am also going to Colorado next week and the expense will be longterm parking.

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  33. Forgot, on my kindle I just need to find a book on my list and then push the controller to the left and it asks if I want to delete the book. Push the center button and it is gone. It will still be on the cloud, so I can leave it there or also go there and delete it.
    Since I get free kindle books from amazon, some of them have been terrible or R rated, so I quit and delete.

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  34. Peter, I emailed you the other day. Did you receive it?
    I am not licensed in your state. If you do this yourself there are contracts you can purchase at Office Depot or places like that. In my area you can have a title company hold the earnest money. (are we talking earnest money or down payment?) Some states have escrow attorneys. Do you have an attorney you use for other legal matters? I could consult them.

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  35. Kim- I replied to your email, but we have been having trouble with that account the last couple of days.

    Our neighbor told us of an attorney we could use, but we haven’t contacted him yet. I think we would use her money as a down payment rather than earnest money.

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  36. Okay, I’m way behind on comments again (except for in the secret room), but I just wanted to pop in to tell you all that I’ve seen a new blog post from Random, after a hiatus of almost two years. (I get notices of new blog posts in my email.)

    Here’s the link, if anyone wants to check it out or say hi. I think this link will go to the comment I left, but you can scroll up for the post…

    Slow Extinction #1

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  38. In other news that made me happy: My friend from high school, Anne, who I mentioned a while back on the prayer thread (she seems quite bitter towards Christians & Christianity), on my birthday left a post on my Facebook page, writing, “Happy birthday dear Karen. You give me hope for Christianity.”

    As I commented back to her, that made me smile. 🙂

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  39. Ran home today to check on critters and house. All good. My son, 3 years old, was so happy to be home. He did not even come in the house for the 1st hour. Running and playing with dogs. So happy to help with outside chores. City living is not for him, even if they do have a big yard.

    The reaction from my granddaughters when meeting their new baby brother was so sweet. They were filled with awe at his perfection. Such a sweet and tender moment. So blessed to have been there and be a part of it

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  40. Phos, I printed off the list of exercises for husband. He is saying things like, “ow, I don’t like that one” and he is simply looking at the list. This could be painful in more ways than one.

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  44. Kim, prayers.

    I had a nice conversation with my friend this afternoon and asked her to ask her husband for any books that might help PTSD sufferers who won’t go for treatment. She will get back to me with his answers. She also said many are reluctant to go in for fear of being hospitalized. She said most do not require hospitalization. They are required to sign a contract upon their first visit that they will call the doc if they are a threat to themselves or anyone else. It seems to really work. They pay attention and do as the doc says. I do not know if it works that way for all, but that is how it is at the outpatient clinic here. Maybe it would help for your son-in-law to hear that at least.

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  45. My friend’s husband has been on staff for many years and has a lot of experience. She said he only has one of his WWII vet’s left as a patient and that makes him sad. ;-(

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  47. Mumsee, he doesn’t have to force himself to move the joint all the way, especially not at first. I have often read advice to exercise up to the point of pain, but not beyond. That is hard to apply when one’s joints always hurt, but if the movement sharply increases the intensity of pain, then caution should be observed. It is a fine line to walk.

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  53. You OK, Kim? I saw your prayer request about 10 minutes after you posted it and prayed.

    Chas, is that what your 😥 is — that we haven’t heard from Kim since then?

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  56. sent her a private message. I’m sure she’ll turn up. Everything’s probably fine … I remember being new at a newspaper when I was in my 20s when, on a late Friday, the office gal says “see you Monday!” right as the editor sauntered out of his office and asked me to step in for a moment. The office gal says, “Oh, or maybe not!”

    Anyway, turns out he was telling me I was getting a raise. I vaguely remember raises … 🙂 In a newspaper universe far, far away …

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  57. I will raise my hand to you in a high five if that’s any consolation. And you might just catch Miss Bosley raising a high twenty when she goes out for a pass to catch her c tumbled paper ball.
    🙂

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  59. Emily was telling me about a Facebook friend who is a single mom. Her four year old daughter desperately wants a father, & keeps pointing out men who she thinks look like they’d make good husbands & fathers.

    I asked Emily if the little girls’s own father is involved in her life at all. Her answer: The little girl’s father is now a “transwoman”. I wanted to cry for that little girl.

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  70. Morning Chas…it isn’t quite 5:30 here and I cannot sleep….fireplace is on and the coffee is ready….it is still dark outside, the wind is blowing and I am thankful for a warm home…not much going on today….

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