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Our Daily Thread 1-24-15

Good Morning!

Welcome to the Weekend!

Today’s weather forecast for us is…. snow. 🙂

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On this day in 1848 James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill, California, which led to the gold rush of ’49. 

In 1908 the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. 

In 1955 the rules committee of major league baseball announced a plan to strictly enforce the rule that required a pitcher to release the ball within 20 seconds after taking his position on the mound. They will re-examine that this year. The plan is to have a pitch clock in one of the minor leagues to try and speed up the game, then make a decision for all of baseball based on those results. Should be interesting.

And in 1978 a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering debris over parts of Canada’s Northwest Territory. 

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Quote of the Day

“If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.”

Mary Lou Retton

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 Today in 1957 Elvis recorded this song.

And today is Neil Diamond’s birthday. I’m sticking with Elvis, but Neil wrote the music and lyrics for this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7RiQK0h2VI&feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534

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Anyone have a QoD?

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-24-15”

  3. Good morning, snow in PA!

    Well, now, there’s one great excuse! Blame it all on the leotard! Next time I perform badly I will just say, “This time it wasn’t Bush’s fault. It was all because of the leotard!”

    Thanks, AJ, for your quote picks!

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  7. The storms have moved past us and up Aj’s way. All we got was rain. The temperature hovered around 36 all day. Messy, but no problem. The sun is bright this morning.

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  8. Good Morning all….oh Jo to to Hawaii….a friend of mine is there now and she is having such a wonderful time. As the kids she left behind in CO were shoveling snow , she was sending photos of herself enjoying time on the sunny warm beach! 🙂

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  9. Well that was supposed to be “go to”…not to to… 😛
    A friend posted a quote this morning on FB that brought to mind some here who are going through consternating times…. “Sometimes things fall apart so that other things can fall together “… something that just made me go “hmmmm”

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  10. I vote for Hawaii, too.

    The last time I wore anything near to a leotard was in a Disco dance exercise class. I had had my daughter just a month and a half earlier by C-section. She is in her thirties now. My older daughter was not happy I was going anywhere without the baby. All my children had colic and cried for close to the first three months. The evenings were worse and my class was in the evening. It was a good thing to do for me.

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  13. CA officially in its fourth year of drought. Highs today in the 70s. I feel guilty if I take a bath in 2 inches of water, though I suppose I could fill buckets and water plants. Sigh. Please pray for rain.

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  15. About some posts yesterday; Fort Bliss, Texas, 1966. The loudspeakers for Taps were on telephone poles spaced so that when the music started the next one was just far enough away that when the music got to you it sounded like an echo. I still have fond memories of the couple of months I was there.

    Spec 5, E-5 Robert T Buckles
    5th Surgical Hospital, Mobile Army

    Of course that was a long, long time ago!

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  17. I did, AJ, but that’s OK — you had a lot on your mind, I’m sure, with your parents’ health, and everything else there is to think about. How is your dad today? He had some procedure yesterday, right?

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  21. Quite a wet snow there.

    What we have half melted a week ago, and now it just sits there, no longer clean but just there. I like fresh, new snow, but I want it to melt within 48 hours. Weather in the South was kinder.

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  23. I have been having some of those night shade arthritis symptoms and went looking for unlikely suspects. The Lite Mayonnaise and my Cocoa Roast Emerald Almonds have potato starch in them. I must become more diligent to get the spuds out of my life! The spuds are very good at hiding out in foods. Just how many foods can be eliminated from a person’s diet?

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  25. Janice, I read and answered.

    Your issue with nightshades reminds me of my problems with milk a few years back. Milk of some sort or other is in just about everything. Fortunately I seem to have gotten past my milk allergy; though I avoid it in winter, I no longer read labels to make sure there isn’t any milk in a product.

    One problem I found? I would rejoice that some product was milk-free, and buy it again several times. And then one day I’d have milk-related symptoms and check labels, and some product that had always been milk-free now contained milk. I lost the ability to eat a favorite chocolate bar that way, and several canned items.

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  26. I noticed the wrong date yesterday, and noticed you changed it today.

    I love the look of fresh snow on the trees and ground. It’s the grey-brown mess on the side of the road after it’s plowed that I don’t like to see. But then, better to have it off the road than try and drive on it.

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  28. We had a heavy, wet snow today, but only several inches.

    A man in town who informally reports on the weather on Facebook is telling us that the current models show a possible blizzard coming Monday night through Wednesday, which could possibly be measured in feet, not inches. Hoping those models change their minds. 😉

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  30. Good Sunday morning.
    It’s cold in Hendersonville, but the stars are out.
    I was winding my watch during breakfast. Elvera says, “You’ve had that watch a long time.”
    I said, “Longer than I’ve had you. I’m attached to it.”
    I have a Whittnaur that I bought in the PX in Arabia for $45 in 1952. It keeps good time but the spring is like me. It’s lost it’s springiness and has to be kept wound. And takes a long time go get going.
    I have a battery watch I use during the week. I’m likely the only person in the world with a Sunday watch.
    I’m still winding as I re-read my post. But I put it down to enter this.

    🙂

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  31. Good Sunday Morning Everyone. Yesterday we had a hospitality tent at the Senior Bowl.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Bowl

    I got there about 9 am yesterday and left about 5pm. During that time we went through 600 BBQ sandwiches with baked beans and cole slaw, 150 hotdogs, 9 kegs of beer and 3 cases of wine, and four LARGE ice chests full of water, Coke, Sprite, and Diet Coke plus 50 pounds of peanuts and other snacks. Several people who had passes to multiple tents told me that ours was the best one. I think we were probably the only one with a children’s area set up. I worked food and beverage, although I am not very good at all pulling a beer from a tap unless you want lots of foam on top.

    One of the agents had a friend who came and helped. He volunteered to tend bar since he doesn’t drink and he and I worked together for quite a while. He is an older Black gentleman who coaches football in Selma, AL. I asked him if he had seen the movie yet. (You do know they have made a movie called Selma about the March on Selma, right?). He saw it. I asked him what he thought of it. He didn’t like it. He said there was no acting and he didn’t think it was historically accurate. He told me that Dr. King’s family is upset over the movie too. I haven’t heard that. I will have to look into it. I just thought it was interesting that he didn’t like it. I am pretty sure that if I see it I won’t like it. I had to watch news reels of King’s speeches when I was in college. He said a lot of good things, but over the years his words have been twisted into saying and meaning things he did not say. I have a thought that if he would see where we are today and all he fought for he would shake his head in disappointment.

    Beyond that, I helped set up, I worked, and I tore down yesterday. I don’t think there is a muscle in my body that doesn’t ache this morning.

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  32. Good morning, all. I haven’t been around much lately…too much going on…
    We went to my MIL’s yesterday for the afternoon and dinner. We had a nice time. I’m on antibiotics for a sinus infection. Becca and Scott did a little fishing, but didn’t catch anything. Time to get breakfast started!

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  33. Karen,

    Yep, here it comes…..

    We were supposed to get 2-4 yesterday followed by rain. What we got was nearly 8 of wet, heavy snow, and very little rain. 😦

    Now we’re getting a 1-2 combination. 2-4 tonight into tomorrow, followed by another Monday thru Tuesday, with 11-15 total as the call. 😦

    We’re stocked up and ready to go. 🙂

    So, as they say……

    let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…….. 🙂

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  34. Every Wednesday night, Pastor Steve has a Bible study. But he leads off with what he calls “Chasing Rabbits”. People send him a topic that they want discussed. It doesn’t have to be about the Bible, but the Biblical or Christian view of a pearticulat topic.
    They have established a website containing recordings of these discussions. Some of them are very interesting, and I’m sure some of them would interest you.
    The website is:
    http://www.rabbitchasing.org
    Click on “listen” at the tip, then click on “pastor Scoggins talks…..” He desls with such thngs an the necessity of baptism, predestination, is suicide the unpardinable sin, etc. Last Wednesday, he had tow topics that were interesting. The tipic is called “”What is the basis of the judgment”. It deals with the judgment of Chrisians and later the talks about homosexuality. Each segment is 30 minutes long.
    I will mention this again from time to time. I hope the link works for you. I can’t get it to open. But I’ve rechecked a couple of times and I have it right. And it works because I’ve been there.

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  36. Chas – In our former church, a friend of mine had a clunky, “manly” watch that I once teased her about. She tended to be a very casual dresser, & down-to-earth, so she took the teasing as good-natured humor.

    A few weeks later, she made sure to show off her new, prettier watch to me. 🙂

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  38. Large watches are very much in style now. 🙂

    We had our annual church business meeting today (Norma and I lasted 1 hour then snuck out as it was getting bogged down in all the budget line item issues). Yawn.

    The church regularly takes in more than is spent and has a very healthy savings account. That’s enough info for me. 😉

    We were trying to hold out to hear more discussion about a major remodeling plan that was introduced earlier in the meeting, but I’ll have to get the details from someone who went the distance and stayed long enough to hear that. It did look like we might get more comfortable chairs that have baskets underneath so we’re not forced to juggle everything on our laps or put it on the floor.

    We were hoping to find a church property to buy, but that’s looking more unlikely, unfortunately. The area we’re in is close to the beach and everything we’ve been interested in gets snatched up by developers who have way more money to outbid anyone else, especially a church.

    Stay safe in that blizzard, everyone. We’ll be braving 1/2 inch of rain out on the west coast tomorrow, according to our forecast.

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  40. Thanks for the link Chas, I liked how he addressed the issue of the young woman who decided to commit suicide rather than live out a terminal cancer diagnosis. “Active” euthanasia, as the pastor called it, is pretty widely embraced from what I can tell in our society. Like homosexuality and gay marriage, I suspect it’s an issue that will move quickly and become legal, probably sooner rather than later.

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  41. I think I have told you before that I took my dad’s Omega 30 year anniversary with his company watch and had it put on a bank to fit me. By the time and if I ever have a biological grandson he won’t know who Papa was so it won’t mean anything to him so I may as well wear it.
    The SeaMaster is in my jewelry box. I gave Mr. P one of my dad’s watches for Christmas this year. He proudly wears it, although I think I would prefer he have a different band put on it, he seems to like it as it is.

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  43. I find the Swiss Army watches — plain, strong, unisex — to be most workable for me. They’re large and easy to read, they last forever, take a beating, illuminate at night, and they’re waterproof so you can shower and wash a dog without taking it off. 🙂

    I have an all-black rubberized one (which needs a new battery) and another one that’s made of titanium I found on eBay, so while it’s large and easy to read, it’s extremely light weight.

    Of course, we’re all throwbacks here. I’m told watches are passé now that the younger set is used to relying on their cell phones for the time. NO one wears watches anymore …

    But to me it’s more of a hassle to pull a cell phone out than it is to glance at your wrist. 😉

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  45. Lee & I have been asked to serve on our church’s new Missions committee. With his schedule, & going to bed so early, we couldn’t be involved in much, but when this committee meets, it will be for a little while after Sunday service – perfect for us. We are so grateful to God for opening up this opportunity for service.

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  46. Stay safe in all that wet snow ya’ll are going to get…and be careful of puddles in CA 🙂
    I wear my Dad’s Gruen Precision Autowind watch….it is the one I remember Dad wearing when I was very little….it was the first gift my Mom ever gave to my Dad…it was either in ’49 or ’50 she told me….how I love that watch… ❤

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  47. My first watch was one that had been my mom’s. She had it cleaned and a new crystal and band put on, and she gave it to me when I was about 12. It needed to be wound. I wore it for several years, and then bought one that I loved (I put it on layaway at Kmart; it cost $40 when I was making minimum wage, $3.35 an hour, at McDonald’s, and only working a few hours a week). Alas that watch kept falling apart.

    When Mom died, I claimed her watch, but by that time I’d pretty much stopped wearing watches. My wrist is too thin and I don’t do well with bracelets, and so by the time I was working freelance, I figured I’m always fairly close to a clock and I don’t need to wear a watch. I find it freeing not to have to wear one.

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  48. We had our Westminster Confession of Faith class tonight, most of which I’ve missed since the class started before the end of the year.

    So tonight I get there and it’s “test” night, they passed out a quiz.

    It was just like that dream we all have from time to time — you know the one, when you walk into a college class you’ve somehow never been to before and panic because there’s a test.

    I kept trying to wake myself up.

    Very weird 🙂

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