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Our Daily Thread 2-27-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

 Our header photo is another from Cheryl’s feeder. 🙂

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On this day in 1827 New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration. 

In 1867 Dr. William G. Bonwill invented the dental mallet. 😯

In 1896 The “Charlotte Observer” published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm. 

And in 1949 Chaim Weizmann became the first Israeli president. 

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Quote of the Day

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 Today is Marian Anderson’s birthday.

And it’s Neil Schon’s too. Instead of Journey, let’s have Neil and Carlos instead.

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Anyone have a QoD?

56 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-27-15”

  1. It’s Friday!
    You know what that means?
    No Y today because the roads are icy and everything is on a two hour delay. We went late Wednesday but can’t today because I have Lions.
    Otherwise, things are back to normal. 🙂

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  2. Still only one comment? There was one comment when I checked in here 90 minutes ago!

    The header photo shows more pine siskins, the never-ending activity. And there is no sound with this photo, but the bird on the left is making himself look as big as possible so no one else will claim his spot on the feeder. I think with sound on you’d probably hear him hissing like a snake or roaring like a lion or otherwise indicating, “I’m big, bad, and dangerous. Stay away from me and don’t try to claim this spot on MY feeder.”

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  4. Maybe in the new heavens and new earth all the birds will peacefully coexist and happily share & eat together? 🙂

    I’m glad it’s Friday, but I do need to haul the trash and recycles out, which I neglected to do last night. Trash trucks won’t start to roll by for another hour, though.

    I’m doing a story this morning on one of those “take a book, leave a book” neighborhood library stands set up by some Girl Scouts for their silver award. Do you have any of those street-corner “libraries” in your areas?

    Take a Book. Share a Book.

    Oh-oh, trash trucks are here early.

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  5. Well? Did you get the trash out?
    We don’t have a “take a book, leave a book”, but we have that for magazines at our library. j We leave magazines, but don’t take any. We have too much reading material already.

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  6. Got the actual trash bag out, which was the important thing. But it looks like I missed the recycle truck — which is usually the last one of the 3 to collect, not coming by usually until after I’ve left for work, but every so often they put it on an early-bird schedule. This was one of those weeks I guess.

    Luckily, our outdoor/wheeled recycling bins are huge so I just dumped everything in there, I’ll leave it in the driveway until next week. The stuff is out of the house, at least, and there’s still room for more recycles in the bin for next week.

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  7. 1703 Mobile, Alabama
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_in_Mobile,_Alabama

    Ours is a more family oriented with no showing of breasts for beads. I will, however flirt my way into the best “sugar beads” without giving you any “sugah” (kisses). I trained up a fine young protege’ 2 years ago in Pensacola. From the looks of things on Facebook this past month I trained her well. Of course she is still relying on young and cute (13 years old) whereas I have to rely on skill and experience.

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  10. We have a restaurant not too far from here that let’s customers take books. Of course, they accept donations, too. They have a lot of books there, like a small library. I took one once (Empire Falls).

    They have good food, too, which is good, considering it is a restaurant.

    I think maybe I’ll donate some books there soon.

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  11. We do not have one of the book exchange sites in my neighborhood, but I saw one in another neighborhood a few miles from where we live. I would consider the other neighborhood a bit more upscale than ours. When I saw it, I thought there are probably a lot of secular books being passed through there, and that I would probably not find a book I would like. I know, that is negative thinking. The exchange site could be used for Christian books, too, as an evangelistic opportunity. I wonder if they have rules about what type books can be left?

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  15. I live too far out in the country with houses too far between for a book exchange box. Our library system has the bookmobile, mail order books and branches in every little town. Many churches also have libraries. I consider those to be a good ministry. I have volunteered in the church libraries and donated to them. Too often, they are not as well used as they should be.

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  16. Is it an unusual thing that there is this stomach/intestinal virus (or maybe more than one) striking people all over the country? Through friends on Facebook, I’ve read of people getting this, or something like it, in California, Colorado, & Vermont, as well as here in Connecticut.

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  18. We have a “little library” two blocks from my house. We the adorable grandchildren up there one night with a book to trade, and they were charmed and puzzled.

    “How can this be a library if it doesn’t have a parking lot?” my grandson asked.

    I was thankful they had some picture books. They were happy to choose from only one of five. I keep meaning to put one of my own books up there with a note I live in the neighborhood, but haven’t done so thus far. Good idea with the Bible. 🙂

    I’ve also thought it would be fun to have one and suggested it to my husband for Christmas. He gave me a water heater instead.

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  19. Ah…now there is true romance. I water heater is good for about 15 years, sometimes 20.

    We came home from Financial Peace the other night and Mr. P said, “If you really want to do this we are only going to be able to take one trip to see the grandkids and maybe a weekend in New Orleans”. I smiled and told him that would be just fine.

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  21. Peter: record cold?

    As … in … LA dog park cold?

    Lots of dark clouds gathering out over the ocean cliffs this morning when i was on my assignment to see the share book stand.

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  22. Thanks for the link yesterday, Janice, to the movie about Mozart’s sister. I had not heard of that, but I enjoyed Amadeus, so I think I would like this movie, too.

    Chas, I picked up Stonewalled at the library today. Looking forward to reading it. What did you say again about Chapter 6? You didn’t mean to start there, did you (as it’s the last chapter other than the conclusion)? 🙂

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  24. Upcoming conference in April that aims to inspire Christians out of despair they may feel over the state of the culture:

    http://www.worldmag.com/2015/02/restoring_all_things

    “Be inspired by how God is using these people on the ground to restore all things to Himself, even in a culture in which we feel like we’re ‘losing.’”

    The three-city conference, called Restoring All Things, starts in April and will convene in Grand Rapids, Mich., Atlanta, and Dallas.

    restoringallthings.org

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  25. 6 arrows, I did, indeed, say to start at Chapter 6. Maybe read the Prologue and Chapter 1.
    Then skip to 6. The reason for this is that I think the things that happened to her are more relevant today than the discussions in the intervening chapters. i.e.
    Ch. 2 –Fast & Furious
    Ch 3 –Green Energy
    Ch 4– Benghazi etc.
    Ch. 5 –Health Care
    Ch 6 — I Spy. That is the one that continues to be relevant. The other things might come up in the campaign, but there’s nothing that we get other than the shenanigans of the Obamas.

    I think the book is important for a record of what happened. But some of that has lost relevance.

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  26. Thanks, Chas. I appreciate the guidance. I’m not sure I would be able to finish a book of that length in the three weeks I have to keep it (unless I can renew it, which oftentimes I can’t when it’s a new, and likely in-demand, book). So it’s good to know what parts you recommend doing first, if I don’t get time for it all.

    I’ll comment on it now and then as I read the book, and maybe bounce a few things off you, too, Chas. 🙂

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  30. I reported in the secret room that it was -12°F this morning as I drove to Bible study. Wind chill made it feel about 10-12 degrees lower than that.

    Just trying to top you all. 😉

    I predict Kare will come along soon, though, and put me in my place. 🙂

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  32. Interesting — in looking into this piece further, it is reported that that music above was not actually composed by Chopin. It did sound more contemporary than Chopin, and seemed funny that I’d never heard it before on public radio, or had the print music in any of my Chopin collections that I’m aware of.

    Have any of you other pianists here played the music in the above video? If it’s not by Chopin, who is it?

    I might have to file a retraction. 😉

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  33. Last night we watched the TinTin movie. It was well done with the animation, but I prefer real people in movies although the animation is so advanced that the characters looked almost real. We have three more movies to choose from. Because we watched that Jane Austen Book Club movie and one of the books being read and discussed for that was Persuasion, when I saw the BBC dvd of that, I put it in my pile to check out. Then, as mentioned before, we have Mozart’s Sister, and the other movie is a romantic comedy that involves a dog which is shown on the dvd cover sitting between a couple on a bench. It is a PG movie and looks to be good. Since our 30th anniversary is March 9th wouldn’t it be something to find thirty good movies that we’ve missed through the years? Not sure if I can find that many, but I may try. 🙂

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  34. Does anyone know how to delete a group of emails at the same time, rather than one by one? I’ve heard there’s a way to dump multiple emails simultaneously — but maybe only in certain programs?

    I want to clean out my inbox of old emails I’ll never look at, but the highlight and delete one-by-one routine is tediously slow. I hit delete, then the little bluish-green circle goes round and round for 5-10 seconds before the next email down the list gets highlighted and I can click delete again.

    Frustrating.

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  38. First Arrow to the rescue! I used to get a brief homeschool-related email every weekday for almost two years, and he just deleted all 471 of them at the same time!

    Now we’ll see if I can remember how to do it for some other categories of messages I don’t need anymore.

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  39. 6 arrows: On many email programs if you highlight the first email you want to delete, then hold the ‘Shift’ key and click the last one, it should highlight all the ones in between. Then you can press delete and get rid of them. I have done 100s of emails at once that way. At the end of every school year I purge my Inbox, or else I’d have 1000 or more emails.

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  41. Yep, Peter, that’s exactly what 1st Arrow told me to do, and it worked. And if he hadn’t been at home, your clear description above would have done the trick, too. 😉

    He also said that you can hold down Ctrl instead of Shift and selectively click (if you don’t want a whole block of consecutive emails deleted), and each one you click will remain highlighted until you hit delete.

    At this moment, I have 1,837 emails in my trash bin. 🙂

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  44. Alright, my inbox purging went pretty well — I’ve now got 3,743 emails in trash, and less than half that in my inbox. I probably don’t need 1800 emails still in my inbox, though, but I did get rid of large categories of things I know I don’t need anymore, and others that could be deleted will probably be a hunt-and-peck procedure, if I do it. Doesn’t seem like it would be worth my time, though, so I probably won’t. I’ll just try to delete new emails sooner if I know I probably won’t need to refer to them again.

    I’ve unsubscribed from a few emails lately, too, so I don’t have so many coming in.

    It feels good to have accomplished that today (along with other things).

    And tomorrow I’ll do some more purging of visual clutter around the house.

    And reading Stonewalled.

    And connecting with hubby and the arrows. 😉

    I might not be back ’til Monday. Have a great weekend, all!

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  45. I’d love to come visit all of you! One day Tim and I would love to do a circuit tour of the States. Our friends just moved from Arizona to Missouri and now they’re in Florida. I have cousins in Seattle and all of you scattered everywhere, not to mention all my husband’s Christian game warden connections. It would be an amazing trip!

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  49. OK, not quite done here — I had to take Michelle’s quiz. 😉

    I thought things were going pretty well after I got the first six correct.

    Then I got three of the last four wrong. 😉

    Kare, we’d love to have you tour the U.S.!

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  50. 6 Arrows, i have way too many emails stored that I need to purge. I have found a good way is to call up all that are for a certain site and then I can quickly see if any stand out as different from the usual that I might want to save. I press on check all for delete and then erase the check from the few if I find any I want to keep, and then i delete the whole batch at once. I hope I explained that so it made sense. That is one way to handle purging on Hotmail.

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  52. Janice, I remember when that movie came out — may have been around the time our community dog park opened (?); I never saw it, though, I recall the reviews weren’t exactly stellar.

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  53. Just checked, and yep, the movie was released in ’05 — our dog park opened in 2003, I think, after many years of effort by volunteers. I covered the opening day that featured the mayor of L.A., a local Catholic priest and port officials who seemed to take forever in the ribbon-cutting niceties.

    My lede went something like:

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    They whined during the Pledge of Allegiance, growled at the politicians’ speeches and whimpered as priest sprinkled holy water.

    And that was just the dogs.

    Enough already.

    When the gates finally opened, some three dozen dogs charged ahead in a cloud of dust, chasing balls and each other, as the XXXX XXX dog park, after years of effort, celebrated its opening day.

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