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Our Daily Thread 1-20-15

Good Morning!

Here’s a couple more of the hawk above.

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On this day in 1841 the island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997. 

In 1891 James Hogg took office as the first native-born governor of Texas.  

In 1952, in Juarez, Mexico, Patricia McCormick debuted as the first professional woman bullfighter from the United States. 

And in 1986 new footage of the 1931 “Frankenstein” was found. The footage was originally deleted because it was considered to be too shocking. 

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Quote of the Day

“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”

George Burns

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Today is Slim Whitman’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

42 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-20-15”

  1. Good morning! Well, that is one job I never considered doing…being a professional woman bullfighter. Maybe Michelle could work that character into one of her stories. I think the lady would have to be quite a character to be in that line of work.

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  3. It’s a good thing I don’t stay around to joust with the ladies late at night.
    I went back to yesterday to catch up and didn’t understand nothing that was going on.
    I think “nothing” was the big issue.
    But I could be wrong. I doubt it, but maybe.
    😆

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  7. Good morning. Last night was my last Vestry meeting. I have served 3 years and am rotating off. We discussed the 2015 budget and will have to get together again to approve it. I continue to be impressed with leadership. On the table last night was the proposal to pay about $3,500 in to a pension fun for both of the priests (that was total). They both declined it and asked that it be used in the mission of the church. One said that he is ok retirement wise and also asked not to receive an increase in his salary. Then they left for us to discuss finances. As I have told you before, two of the women on the vestry come from a non-profit background and another member is a quite successful business man. Between the three of them they keep the treasurer reined in on how much to spend. It is an interesting dynamic because the treasurer used to be an investment broker.
    In other news we started a capital campaign in November to add a new admin building (ours was washed away/damaged in April), We need to expand the sanctuary (which is multi-purpose, do something about the dreadful parking situation and something else. We agreed we needed $375000 to do all of this and as we had the funds pledged at each step we would go forward. We have almost $200K in hand and $425K pledged.
    This will allow for the growth we are seeing and the growth of other churches that we are sponsoring.

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  8. I was reading Luke this morning, and Chapter 17:1 Caught my attention:
    17:1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. 2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 3 So watch yourselves.

    I’m glad that I wasn’t one of the jurist who decided that a woman had the right to kill her baby because of a right to privacy, Or that two men could marry each other.

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  9. Janice, before you cut out salt, do the research. I read that the link between blood pressure and salt is a very, very weak one–only one study found the link, and doctors jumped on it, but it just hasn’t been backed up when other studies have been done. And since salt is in fact necessary to the body’s functioning–it’s essential to the heart–I’d be very, very careful to eliminate it. I’d recommend switching to sea salt for your table salt if you have a concern (it’s supposed to be a lot better for you), and you can cut down the amount of salty foods you eat if that makes you feel better, but I wouldn’t recommend even trying to eliminate it. (For the record, my mom did her best to eat no salt at all, and my sister thinks that is what killed her. I do know that low electrolytes–salt and/or potassium–is sometimes, I think often, what kills anorexics. Without electrolytes in the body, doctors can’t restart a person’s heart.)

    My father-in-law was in the emergency room several times last year before they finally got him a pacemaker. Each visit, they checked his sodium levels and were concerned they were too low. He too had been on a low-salt diet, but they actually recommended him getting salt pills (I think they settled on something else, but that was part of the suggestion they were discussing). He’s a heart patient, he has had heart surgery in the past and is on blood-pressure meds, and now he has a pacemaker. But the low-salt recommendations apparently have done people more harm than good, and based on faulty research. I’d look into it.

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  13. I woke to the sight of thirteen year old daughter standing in the middle of the house, shirtless and braless because she refused to wear the new ones purchased for her yesterday. She had outgrown the old ones by a lot. Last year she refused to wear those new ones. Actually, I was awake for an hour before then and had started my laundry etc.

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  14. Go for it, Michelle!

    I will look into that info, Cheryl, about the salt. My dad and his mother both died around age 74 from strokes. I just want to do what I can to get my blood pressure in the better range. Exercise is best. I have done 5 minutes on the stationary bike the past two days and my knee is a bit upset with even that little.
    😦 Since i don’t sweat much, i don’t lose much salt like some people do.

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  15. Mumsee, i can understand the discomfort of some of those conTRAPtions. My friend told me when she was living with her parents that her dad called them, “Flopperstoppers.” Never heard that before or since. Maybe you can tell that girl there is good reason to wear that thing!

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  16. Yes, we need salt — though most of us get way more than we need. But I wouldn’t try eliminating it either. I think I’ll look into sea salt also, sometimes I do like to add a touch of salt when I’m cooking and that might be a better option.

    I woke up to a fog bank outside my bedroom window — and an eerily quiet harbor. There’s a labor dispute going on and employers have locked out the longshoremen. Usually there are sounds in the distance of ships loading and unloading, 24/7. The last few days and nights, nothing. Kind of strange.

    Container ships, meanwhile, are all anchored & lined up outside the breakwater, waiting to unload.

    There’s a big labor union solidarity march planned for Thursday through town along the waterfront.

    The major contract sticking points usually revolve around automation which has eliminated jobs — and will eliminate more in the future in the quest for more efficiency and cost-savings.

    Longshoremen get paid more than many executives, though they keep denying they’re paid “all that much” — but with overtime — which all of them can and do take — their pay can reach about $200,000 a year; they also have one one of those gold-plated, everything-is-free health insurance plans. Everyone wants to get a union card, even for part-time work. I’ve known school teachers and other professionals who leave their careers if they get a chance to work the docks, which is so much more lucrative.

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  18. I have not totally eliminated salt. I am finishing up some extra sharp cheddar our son bought while on vacation. It tastes very salty. So when i can easily eliminate salt, I will to offset the overloads in some foods.
    Someone at work gave me a fancy bag of Himalayan salt that is suppose to have special properties. I will consider using it, too.

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  20. Michelle mentioned that she prepared for her death after dealing with the after effects of others’ deaths. My parents did the same thing. The problem is that it was many years ago that they did much of the planning. They did some things a couple of years ago that made those things far easier for us. However, for some reason, the papers were not where they should have been. I am sure this made sense to my dad at the time. Preparing is not a one time thing and most of us think we HAVE time. Ironically, my dad has told me his demise was imminent almost every time I saw him. My mom claimed he was dying since she married him. He was right this time. He would let me know he was right, too, if he could.

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  22. Kathaleena, my dad was worried about my mom’s “early grave.” She outlived him by 19 years and died at 78, older than most on either side of my family, though her younger brother is still going strong at several years past 80. (I think he’ll be 85 in June.)

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  24. So I take myself out to lunch. I sit alone at a table in the back, near the wait station. I notice that my waitress and another are looking a something and looking at me. Finally my waitress asked me if anyone had ever told me I looked like Susan Sarandon. I laughed, “Not in a long time. She has more money for maintenance and upkeep”.

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  25. I just wanna know, what makes people get old?

    Bosley just found two small rocks on my son’s windowsill that she is knocking around. I guess when the little rocks grow up they will be the size of Chas’ pet rock. Miss B thinks they are her pet rocks for the moment. I really did not realize my son had pet rocks. I wonder when he found those? When i once had to use his bathroom while on vacation i saw he had a small collection of shells he had picked up on his walks. Some things just make a mom smile and forget about being an older lady.

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  27. .It’s mostly years that make people get old
    No matter how well you eat and exercise, you eventually lose it.
    It was a nice day today. I went outside to do some work. A half hour of good work was all I could do. So, I just sat in the sun for another half hour.

    Elvera’s ophthalmologist was telling her about some problem (forgot what). He said “Everybody gets it.” She said, “Moses didn’t ”
    He was taken aback for a second, then it was funny.
    Leastwise that’s what she says.

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  28. It’s mostly the years that make people get old. No matter how you work at it, you eventually succumb to the years. I went out to do some work in the nice weather we had today.
    About half an hour was all I could dol. I sat in the sun for another half.
    I don’t know how it will be when grass cutting time returns.

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  31. Janice, it has nothing to do with comfort and everything to do with opposition. Because they were purchased for her, she will not wear them. She put the undergarment on and the shirt and promptly ripped the shirt up to the top of the undergarment so she could tie a knot in it. She then realized she had torn it too high so turned it around which was too high for me so we duct taped it for her and gave the other shirts purchased for her to other family members. They all thanked her and are happily wearing them.

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  39. Going well. Still it is a lot to go from place to place. Saturday I go back to Portland for two days and then home.
    Good to get to know my grandkids. They have grown so much. The kindergarten girl is reading chapter books!

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  41. 🙂 I see where some exotic Asian women wan to meet me.
    And I am a winner in the Walgreen survey.

    But I’m afraid of exotic Asian women and I didn’t enter a Walgreen survey.

    You’re all looking at a loser here. 😦

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