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Our Daily Thread 2-12-15

Good Morning!

And Happy Birthday to Kare!

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On this day in 1870, in the Utah Territory, women gained the right to vote. 

In 1892 President Lincoln’s birthday was declared to be a national holiday. 

In 1907 a collision of the steamer Larchmont and a schooler resulted in the death of more than 300 people. The incident occurred off New England’s Block Island. 

And in 1940 Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the radio play “The Adventures of Superman.” 

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Quote of the Day

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln

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 Today is Michael McDonald’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

Did you finish shopping for your sweetie yet?

59 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-12-15”

  6. Don’t borrow troubles from tomorrow for today has enough of its own is advice given somewhere in the Bible.

    In cleaning out at my friend’s home, I got some books along with some other items to donate to charity. I brought the books inside to sort through. One was a Barney the Dinosaur sound book that makes about 8 different sounds as you press on pictures on a side bar. Miss B has discovered how to do that so she has a new toy. This morning she has pressed on the gurgling sound about six times. It is a challenge for her since it is meant to be pressed by small fingers and not cat paws.

    We are still doing battle over the tv screen. She has learned to get behind the sheet I draped over it. I pulled out the fly swatter last night as my secret weapon against tv destruction. Husband has now a new permanent arm extension. I told him this morning there is a reason it is called a Swat-HER and not a Swat-HIM.

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  9. Good morning! Happy Birthday, Kare! May you feel God’s love for you, His precious creation, today and every day. One of my favorite verses is Romans 8:38:
    “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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  11. In job related news, mine has been cut back to one morning a week. I’m thrilled, though I’ll be sad not to spend time with my boss. Book business is flat or less and it’s more important for all of us my colleague get the hours. For me, this means I get more time to write.

    Eleven years ago I gave up my hard earned writing time to work for a literary agent. I’ve learned a great deal from the experience, made a ton of friends and loved it. I still have all the above, I just don’t have to spend so many days away from my own writing.

    I can live a normal life after dinner now. I can write during the day and not feel pressured to return to the desk. I can watch the adorable grandchildren for an hour on Thursdays so my daughter-in-law can volunteer at school.

    Odd though, to have those free days again.

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  14. Good Morning. At my desk with coffee.
    Valentine shopping for your Sweetie? I am pretty sure that Mr. P has something for me for Valentine’s Day. I don’t have a clue what to give him.
    I gave him a gift certificate for a massage for Father’s Day and a fishing charter. He decide to use the fishing trip money to do something else and didn’t use the massage until January. Now he has decided that it really is helping the scar tissue in his back so he has gotten another this month. Over the past few years I have bought rods and reels and a fishing cart and various other sports fisherman type things. I wouldn’t begin to try to buy him clothing.
    I don’t know what to get him!
    I on the other hand have learned that he pays too much attention to what I say. If I comment on something in a store it will show up as a gift. Not everything I like, do I have the desire to own.

    Any suggestions?

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  15. Happy birthday, Kare! We have four different kinds of chocolate cake in our kitchen (five if you include the Hostess cupcakes) because of our daughter’s birthday this week . . . so I can send some your way if you want. 🙂 We made her favorite torte, her grandmother made cupcakes, a friend bought her a big cupcake, and she got cake at work and brought home the extra. We’re kinda swimming in chocolate cake at the moment! (I know, what a horrible problem we have.)

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  19. Kim, make his favorite meal and make him a card.

    For us, I figure we have everything we need and pretty much everything we want, so we celebrate Christmas and birthdays, we go out to dinner or out of town on our anniversary, we aren’t each other’s mother or father so we don’t worry about Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, and Valentine’s Day can be simple: a card, a meal, and/or some nice chocolate. I got my hubby a small book and I asked him to take me out for lunch tomorrow (since Saturday will probably be a crazy busy day to go out) and told him I don’t need anything else. He may choose to buy me chocolate, but it’s OK if he doesn’t, and he’s too busy this month for me to want him to even think about making me a card. (I’d be OK with him buying me one, but since I make all my own cards, and he doesn’t tend to like what’s written on store-bought cards, generally it’s either he makes one or I don’t get one.) And flowers cost too much this week; I’m Scottish enough that I just don’t want them at top dollar, and he knows that.

    But really, that simplifies it a lot, when Christmas and birthday are the only gift-giving holidays, and the others are “let’s do something together” (our anniversary), “this isn’t something we need to celebrate” (Mother’s Day / Father’s Day), or “a card or a meal at McDonald’s is enough” (Valentine’s Day). We’ve gotten each other nice chocolate for Valentine’s Day at least once, but he just finished what I got him for his early-December birthday and so I got him something different, and I’ll probably make him a card while he’s gone today. But truly, the only thing I “need” for Valentine’s Day is spending time with the man I waited for more than 40 years. When I was in college, it was at times hard to see flowers and chocolate everywhere, and it seemed like everyone but me had a sweetheart on that day. But I have the sweetheart, and I don’t need the other stuff.

    (And for many, many years I didn’t have the sweetheart either, and I know it can be hard to be single on that day, for some people. Some don’t care. I was actually content to be single, most of the time; there were just some times it was hard. But I have a friend whose son had a Valentine’s Day birthday, and he killed himself a few years ago, so there ain’t nothing special about Valentine’s Day to her these days. There are always “people who have it worse.”)

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  21. Kim, when I was at Hilton Head, I found a wooden frame with the name of my friend’s dog, Charlie, whittled as part of the frame. If you could locate frames with the grandchildren’s names and put their pictures in them, that would be nice ♡

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  22. Charlie must be a great dog. He has a great name.
    Elvera and I don’t give each other presents. There is nothing I want that I wouldn’t rather get myself. I need tires for the Merc. She can’t buy them. She has a pair or Ugs (boots) she has worn two or three times in the 15 years she’s had them. I told you abut the negligee I bought her early in our marriage.
    I let her buy her own stuff. And I buy mine.

    BTW Kim, Thanks. It’s the Christy Lane song I was thinking of (7:20). I don’t recall the others.

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  23. Kim (said gently), that’s not the point. If you have bills to pay, hopefully you can discuss it in light of FP and agree not to spend money on gifts (especially since you don’t need or want anything).

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  24. I have the type of husband who will stop at the grocery store on Christmas Eve and purchase flowers and chocolates for a Christmas present for me….he will do the same for Valentine’s Day….and my birthday….did I tell you he totally forgot our first anniversary? He is a very generous husband and he is a wonderful provider…he just gets all flummoxed when it comes to buying presents….bless his heart…. 🙂

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  25. I hear that song quite often by one local musician or another. Everyone can identify with the need to remember the need to not look too far ahead. God is sure wise!

    One nice thing about cake is that it freezes well. It can stay in a freezer for months and still taste great as long as it is in a good container. Cupcakes or slices can be removed individually for eating. It is nice to have on hand for surprise company or when the mood strikes.

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  26. My husband asked me what I wanted and I said, “how about a trip to LA for the weekend?”
    “Done!” he laughed. We already have tickets.

    We’ll be less than a mile from Donna on Saturday night, worshiping with our old–as in really old, it’s an 80th birthday party–fellow members and seeing the pastors who married us back in the dark ages.

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  28. I’ve been noticing that none my calendars have Ash Wednesday noted on them anymore. Mardi Gras, yes, but no Ash Wednesday. Didn’t that used to be a standard day that was noted on commercial wall and desk calendars? Odd. Not that I observe Ash Wednesday per se, but I see it as part of wiping the cultural slate clean of Christian calendar markers in our “evolving” culture.

    I have 3 stories to churn out today plus another one I really need to talk to my editor about as it’s more of an investigative piece someone texted me about last night. Too much going on all at once.

    One of the stories I’m doing today is of my friend’s rat terrier who’s competing this weekend (in agility) at the Westminster Dog Show. Her dog nearly went blind a little over a year ago due to a genetic disorder but the eyesight was saved (though now is somewhat impaired). She’s one of the top agility dogs and loves competing, though, so my friend carefully retrained her, figuring out how to compensate for the eyesight issues, and now they’re off to Westminster.

    The dog has her own little luggage — packed with a black-and-white doggie winter coat & pink ugg doggie boots. 🙂

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  29. Happy Birthday, Kare!

    And I need to reconnect with my 3rd cousin in Salinas, she’s in her 90s and I recently got a card from one of the women who helps care for her. Maybe I can send a Valentines — I should call her, too, but I tend to procrastinate on that because she talks for hours and I can never get off the phone in a reasonable amount of time. I don’t consider an hour overly long for an overdue conversation, but last time we talked it was 3 hours before I could finally say goodbye. 😦

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  33. Happy birthday, Kare. All the blessings and wishes of everyone else multiplied to you! 🙂

    Kim–Those are the times The Holy Spirit is waiting to show you what you can do only through Him. I recently did days of things that I did not think I could. Of course, I have in the past, too. I know I will again in the future. Each time strengthens my faith and trust in God and shows me more and more my own weakness. But God already knew that weakness and loved me. What a gift!

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  34. This Saturday, Donna. Maybe we should just swing by your house afterwards–you’re a night owl, right?–and I’ll introduce you briefly to my husband and daughter so they can see all my friends here are not imaginary! 🙂

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  38. Bonne Anniversaire Kare!

    Peter, I think you’re thinking of 6 Arrows, who technology-fasts on Thursdays.

    Remember how I was worried about all my papers for the application being got together on time? The saga continues, with knuckle-biting, hair-turning twists and turns. Sometime, it might make for a good story. Right now, I’m trying not too think about what I can’t control. The surreal part of it is, that nothing is apparently different about my life on the surface, so it doesn’t look like a crisis. But it is.

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  39. Because it has been warm lately, today’s windy blasts of cold air feel especially
    chilling. I imagine it is even getting close to “LA Dog Park cold.” The sunny day seems quite deceitful.

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  40. Kim, if it’s important to him, that matters. But still, what is important to him? That you buy him something expensive (you probably can’t afford it this year, right?)? Or that with all the care you give to other people, you take time to do something special for him? Or that you spend time with him?

    Every holiday can’t be “the best ever,” especially if you celebrate multiple special days a year. But you can make him steak and out-of-season strawberry shortcake, light candles, and sprinkle rose petals on the bed–or whatever is important to him–and he’ll be happy for the effort.

    For us, a fifty-dollar gift would be too extravagant and my husband wouldn’t like it. (For his birthday, sure.) But I used five dollars worth of ingredients to make him dark-chocolate raisins, I’m cleaning the house thoroughly, and I’m making him a card and giving him a book that cost seven bucks. And it will seem like a lot, because it was done with care and it’s doing things that matter to him.

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  42. You’re right, Roscuro. Sometimes I get people mixed up. But Kare hasn’t been here today yet.

    And here even the dogs would be too cold at the dog park. It was 9° when I left for work. It’s 16° now.

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  45. I took my rat terrier on a walk to the mailbox this morning. Jake did Barney’s agility training coach work. Neither had a coat other than natural, or boots. But then, this is Idaho, not California and we all know about California and its weather. I did not say it. Close, but nope, I did not.

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  46. My Stargazer just sent me a copy of his dissertation. About the only thing I understand is his name, but I’m thrilled. He defends it on Feb 24, but since my husband and I will be there to watch, I’m sure you’ll get the prayer request closer to the date! 🙂

    Dancing proud mama out here.

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  47. Kim, no sooner did I comment than the thorn in my side showed up, so to speak. Paul said to pray continually. The longer I walk with the Lord, the more I understand the NEED to do that.

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  48. My husband read the dissertation and was very pleased. Stargazer pretty much demonstrated there must have been a designer in the universe–not that he said that, but he research shows it.

    Meanwhile, I’m in tears. Here’s the dedication:

    DEDICATION
    To Chris and to Jon, my brothers. Ever have I lived in your shadows and
    ever have I trailed behind you. You were always bigger than me, stronger than
    me, and better than me. Without having to look up to you I never would have
    had the motivation or the determination to improve myself or to exceed what I
    would otherwise believe were my own limitations. I hope that this work will be
    only one of many successes wrought from your examples.

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  52. Wow, thank you all for your kind wishes! I really appreciate this group of people, whom I will get to meet someday!

    I had a good day despite the head cold. There was a bag of Hershey’s Hugs on my desk from the new director and his family when I got in this morning, everyone wished me a happy birthday and my co-worker’s wife baked gooey gooey cinnamon buns and brought them down with the rest of the families for a mini party! I love being a part of a camp family. Husband made me supper and I’m curled up on the couch with my heated throw.

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  53. Happy Birthday, Kare!

    Just in from doing yard work. Husband got me a little chipper so I could make some mulch out of some of our excess, so we have been working on that. Shirt sleeve weather, of course. After all, it is mid February in Idaho. Day lilies are up, bulbs are up, rhubarb is coming up…

    I thought of Chas today, as a honey bed came up to check us out. Seemed early to me. Does not bode well for the bees if they all freeze. But their hive should be fine. Maybe I will put out a bit of sugar water for them. I certainly don’t see any blooming flowers. Said in the positive not the other.

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