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Our Daily Thread 3-16-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives. 

In 1802 Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.

Go Army!

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In 1836 The Republic of Texas approved a constitution. 

In 1913 the 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania was launched at Newport News, VA.  

And in 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity. 

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Quotes of the Day

“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

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“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

James Madison

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 Today is Tommy Flanagan’s birthday.

And this song was released today in 1963.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC2tlNmz4ao&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-16-15”

  2. Good Morning All. I was sitting in the back yard yesterday when I saw a dandelion puff. You never see them anymore because everyone “weed n feeds” their lawns. I tried to take a photo of it to send in for the header photo contest we have around here, but Lulabelle ran over it. What do you suppose puppy dawgs wish for when they get to make a wish?
    I did take some other photos but will have to tweak them a little before I decide whether or not to submit them.
    It was kind of fun to sit in the sun and take a “prayerful” tour across the Unites States. I started in San Diego and zig zagged up and down until I ended in Connecticut. Nothing specific just general prayers. Somehow it seems easier with the warm sun, birds chirping, and an occasional dog splash from her pool.
    I hope you all have a great day,.

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  3. Some things you never know unless you go back and read yesterday’s posts.
    I went all day not knowing that Karen and Lee had a 29th anniversary.
    I didn’t know that Kare is a princess and that spring doesn’t come to Canada until May.
    That’s too long. In South Carolina, when I was a kid, we used to say about March. “In like a Lion, out like a Lamb.”

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  6. Funny thing about animals that share our lives. Mr P was out of town Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. He came home Saturday but we had a little boy birthday party to attend. Yesterday was a wash as he had to recover from his adventures.
    Yesterday Lulabelle ran in circles in the back yard. Amos never lets much bother him. This morning I left a note for them all with directions to go to the dog park. Lou needs to play with other dogs and be worn out. I can’t decide if she is also part greyhound or part race horse. Amos also likes to run and go to the dog park.
    Mo the Cat? She is declawed so that means that she stalks the doors looking to see if one is open so she can dart out–we have to be careful about that since she has no defenses. I left all four of them in bed this morning.

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  7. Kim, Chuck had that problem with Jennifer’s cat. He was declawed. He was territorial and would pick fights he couldn’t win. They had to keep him inside all the time.

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  8. Happy Belated Anniversary Karen and Lee!

    I’m sorry I didn’t know it was yesterday, or I would have informed everyone. But I noted it for next year. 🙂

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  11. Happy anniversary to Karen and Lee, too.

    We had so much fun with the grandchildren; no time to be on the computer. We visited a forest history center to which we all had season passes. The passes are for several places in the state. I was not even aware they were open during the winter months. My daughter had hoped to visit before our passes expired, so had checked into it. We ended up having the interpreter all to ourselves. My husband and I have been there before in the summer time when they have a skit worked out. Being the only ones there gave my grandchildren plenty of times to get all their questions answered and to do some fun things. They sawed off a branded piece of log to take home, for example. Discovering how difficult that job can be and learning about how hard the other tasks were is priceless for the grandchildren. Since we have lumber camp cooks and workers on both sides of our family, it is even more interesting for them and us.

    One of the new things I learned this time was about health insurance. There was a form that workers could buy for $5.00 that would give them hospital privileges and health care at the closest hospital. One older man actually had one of these and used it 10 or 15 years ago. He must have worked in the camps as a young man and had held onto the form. He remembered he had it and the hospital did honor it. They apparently have the form framed at the hospital.

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  13. Puff the Magic Dragon used to make me cry. 😦 Kind of like how Frosty the snowman always melts in the end.

    Well, we’re still waiting for winter out here which apparently we just decided to skip altogether this year. It’s supposed to cool down some today, but we’ve had exceptionally warm temperatures for months now, it seems to me. I tried turning the fan off a couple times last night in the bedroom, but always wound up turning it back on again, even with the window open.

    And with now years of drought, we’ve learned to embrace our dandelions — and most anything else — that manages to crop up in our cracked, hardscrabble yards.

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  15. Vet’s visit was much better. The morning dose was a little late in kicking in so she was wired at first but then settled and vet was able to just hold Miss Bosley in a towel. No trouble with cat carrier or ride either way. Thanks to any who may have prayed.

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  18. So, CA has global warming while the Bible Belt has global cooling. Probably some theological wisdom in that.

    Our son did the Forestry track in 4-H among other things. I loved learning about the trees alongside him. The toughest part was doing the measurement of lumber you could get from a tree. It involved pacing off in a straight line as part of the math problem. Math was no problem, but pacing a straight line was not as easy. And no, he was not drinking!

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  19. I can’t access the cursive article on this phone. But I think it is important partly because the point of teaching it, around third grade if I remember correctly, is a time when children need to be pushing forward in learning new skills and applications to challenge their brains and their physical abilities. I think cursive probably requires coordination between the various functions of the brain and hand and eye coordination. Why neglect full development of those faculties? Just another dumbing down to the lowest common denominator. Don’t challenge the majority because the few have problems. Sad, so sad, and progressively sadder, is the current state of general education in our nation.

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  21. One of the items, that is shown at the lumber camp site, is a long stick. It looks like a yard stick, but has a lot of numbers on it. It is a measuring stick to determine the number of board feet in each section of tree. They were cut into sixteen foot lengths. There was an eight foot stick, which was flipped to get the sixteen foot lengths. Then a man took the other measuring device to measure across the end of the log. For each measurement, there was a corresponding number. A zero was added to the end of that number and it gave the number of board feet in that log. It was important to both the loggers and lumber companies to have accurate measurements. A little mistake could mean a big loss of profit on each log.

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  23. My mother’s father was born in 1904. He was a lumber man. Just imagine they used to have to pour gasoline on the saws to get the pine sap off of them so they could keep cutting.

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  24. The lawn is turning green for St. Patrick’s Day, and it looks like I may have at least 2 flowers popping thru just in time for Spring on Friday. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    🙂 🙂 🙂

    Went to the doc this morning… same ol’, same ol’…… 😦

    The doc said my blood pressure was a little elevated. I told him that’s because I’ve been sitting here waiting for 40 minutes and I’m agitated. And do to the practice’s horrible choice in furniture, my back and knees hurt worse than when I came in. 🙂 Plus I was annoyed and puzzled as to how can you be 40 minutes behind an hour and a half after you open, with 3 docs on duty? The poor guy is never sure when I’m joking or being serious. I enjoy that. 🙂

    And we’re trying something new. Again…. 🙂

    So follow up in 3 weeks. Yay. 😦

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  25. Kathaleena, that was what son had to figure out as part of the Forestry competition between counties in our state. I was happy that son scored high enough to place our urban county among the top scorers which would be unexpected since other areas do a much greater business in timber sales.

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  26. Well I used to say that timber and paper supported me all of my life, but that is no longer true.

    AJ, I think more doctors ought to pay attention to the stress it does put on patients when they are overbooked and over scheduled. Because of the stress it put on me having run out of vacation and sick time I ended up in tears in the doctor’s office when I was expecting BG. To shut me up and eleviate the stress I was under I got the very first appointment after lunch for the rest of the time. Since she was born at 1:50 pm we kept the appointment.
    Now that I am back to hourly with no paid time off I am back under a lot of stress should I have to do anything during office hours. Not only would it cost for the appointment it will now cost me the time I am not a work.

    I hate being an hourly employee. Just pay me and let me get the work done. I think, at least for my personality type it is not the best way to pay me.

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  30. While rummaging through stuff in my files, I came upon something from a WorldMagBlog dated March 13, 2004. That means that Ii have been at this over ten years.

    I don’t recognize many of the names of our correspondents from those days.
    😦

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  33. Mama Ruth is in recovery. She will go to ICU. I am not going over tonight. Her two bio daughters will leave soon. They have been at the hospital since 2:30am and are exhausted. Where the hospital is isn’t a place to be too late at night. I will go over tomorrow and see her. I asked the younger sister to kiss her mother and tell her I love her.

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  34. It’s 80 degrees here now. The B/D Tree is finally putting forth some beginning blooms.♡

    Glad Miss Bosley will not need more shots until three years go by. After I pay the 25 dollars 3 year county rabies tag fee i will have spent over 200.00. Cherish your Pet Rock, Chas. Ole Jawbreaker won’t cost you a dime!

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  35. Phooey.

    Was all ready to interview our $1 million Lottery winner — but her family talked her out of going public.

    She sure sounded like one happy woman, though.

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  36. Well, it isn’t really spring here yet, but today was (in my husband’s words) the trailer for it. Nothing is blooming yet, and we have just a little bit of snow that was too stubborn to melt. But it was supposed to reach 70 (not sure whether it did, but we at least reached 64 and maybe higher–my husband is saying he thinks we got 66) and then it’s supposed to dip 25 degrees or so tomorrow, so it was “enjoy it while you can.” (We also had 50s all last week, so most of the snow did melt.)

    My husband and I went to our favorite local state park, a trail we’ve taken many times. A few bird species are certain sightings on that trail: red-headed woodpeckers, red-winged blackbirds, and bluebirds. We also see multitudes of chipmunks, and we usually see a bunch of other woodpeckers. Today we saw all of those (though fewer woodpeckers than usual), plus nuthatches, a song sparrow, singing cardinals, Canada geese, and several others. I also saw a snake that didn’t know it had been seen, so it froze where it was and I got several photos.

    But most notably, we saw several species that definitely are not guaranteed sightings: wild turkeys (we see them fairly frequently, but have never seen them in that park), sandhill cranes (only our second sighting), and mute swans (which my husband has seen several times, but this was my first sighting of wild ones). The sandhill cranes were extremely noisy, in courtship-related calling. The grass was so tall that at one spot my tall husband could see them and I could not, but both of us got excellent sightings of a pair when we were entering and that pair or a different pair when we were leaving, and the swans were impossible to photograph when we were entering, but very cooperative and perfectly located when we were leaving.

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  37. Mama Ruth is in micu. I am going over in the morning. I am scared. She stepped in and became my mother. I don’t want her to suffer but I am not ready to let her go.
    Emotionally exhausted.

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  38. Has it really been that long? I think I started at WMB in 2003, but don’t remember the date. It was the Wild West in those days.

    I still have several of the short stories from the contest WORLD had in October, 2004. I see some familiar commentators, like AJ.

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  39. 2008 for me, I came around here later than many of you (although I lurked for several months, maybe up to a year, before daring to pipe up). 🙂

    Has anyone ever sold things on either eBay or amazon?

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  41. I started reading regularly sometime in 2011, probably around mid-year. I was a very hit-and-miss reader (more miss than anything) before that. 2010 may have been the first time I found the blog.

    I started commenting May 31, 2012, and exactly three months after that, WMB went poof!

    Glad for Wandering Views, AJ.

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  43. Good, brisk walk with the dogs tonight — I think the heat is beginning to abate, at least along the coast where I live and work.

    Another sea lion story tomorrow for me.

    And the latest news about our newspaper sale is that the hedge fund that now owns Twinkies is the lead bidder at $400 million. So in lieu of raises (none of us expect those anymore), maybe we’ll get free Twinkies?

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  44. made it safely home from Colorado. Got one of the last seats or the last? on the 6:30 flight after staying later today to babysit while my daughter went to the dentist. Appreciate the prayers

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