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Our Daily Thread 3-20-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And it’s the first day of SPRING!!!!!! 🙂

But for some reason, it’s snowing again. 😦

Today’s header photo is from Cheryl. 🙂

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On this day in 1616 Walter Raleigh was released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana. 

In 1792 the Legislative Assembly in Paris approved the use of the guillotine. 😯

In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris after his escape from Elba and began his “Hundred Days” rule. 

And in 1897 the first intercollegiate basketball game that used five players per team was held. The contest was Yale versus Pennsylvania. Yale won 32-10. 

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Quote of the Day

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

Robert H. Schuller

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How could I not play this? 🙂

 And today is Ranger Doug’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

43 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3-20-15”

  2. Mumsee’s story about the younger children eating garbage at the ballpark reminded me of last Saturday when we attended the 4 year old’s birthday party.
    Oh I was once one of those mothers. You know the ones who won’t let their children get dirty and who keep wipes to wipe there hands every time they touch something? BG got her first pair of shoes when she was about 10 months old because I didn’t want her walking on a dirty floor where I was taking her. Until then I had felt she needed to let her feet develop and be strong.
    All the mothers last week were helicoptering. You know, where they are right there if their child so much as whimpers let alone stumble. One put something in his mouth and his mother freaked out. I, the oh so much older and wiser mother, (see how that works?) chuckled and said, “Don’t worry. It will build up his immune system. I have a friend who has a child who has eaten horse poop and he’s fine”. Is it any wonder that first children and only children are so neurotic?

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  3. Kim, I’d add “no wonder why last children are such brats,” because Mom is no longer watching what he does, and he can get away with murder. He can saw his sister’s leg off and go crying to Mom about the callouses he got from the saw, and Mom will kiss his hand all better and yell at his sister for hurting him. . . .

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  5. Yesterday I gave you a funny public service announcement. Today I am giving you a serious one.
    Last week’s Financial Peace University lesson was on the role of insurance. Dave talked about long term disability and nursing home insurance. He said either for yours or your parents 60th birthday the gift should be Long Term Nursing Care Insurance because without it, an estate could be eaten up in costs.
    It is costing $6000 a MONTH for Mama Ruth to be in the facility where she is. Currently they are paying for it with the life insurance left by her husband. Recently Mama Ruth wanted her younger daughter to take a thousand dollars out of her account to help with college tuition costs for grand daughter, but legally if they run out of money, sell the house, etc then the government will look into money that has come out of her bank accounts in the last 5 or so years. It is a mess.
    My advice? Buy the insurance!

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  7. Hmmm–Kim’s story reminds me of the time my grandson was at a wedding reception with his other grandparents. She thought it was cute that the grandson was selling Dixie cups of punch for a quarter each to the guests. That is until she noticed he was using the same cup over and over again. That put an end to that fledgling business. Mean grandma. 😉

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  9. Just to clarify – what Kim is referring to is if they run out of money and want to apply to have Medicaid pay for the nursing home. The government has a 5-year look-back period to make sure the person hasn’t been giving money away to qualify. That’s to keep people from giving all their money to someone like their child and then applying for Medicaid because they are out of money (although I doubt they would quibble over $100 :-)).

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  10. For the record, the apple trees aren’t even in leaf here yet, and definitely not in bloom. That photo was from two years ago I think, when we had really extravagant blossoms and an excellent crop. (My next-door neighbors have a small apple orchard and each year the neighborhood and their church friends are all invited to help them and their extended family make cider, and then we are all sent home with some of the cider.)

    We also woke up with a bit of snow on the ground this morning, but there wasn’t very much and it has all melted. But last year on the first day of spring, I used a yardstick to measure the snow at its deepest point, and it was something in the area of 14-18 inches. The last of it didn’t melt until April 1, after sitting on the ground since January 1. So I’m OK with a dusting so that winter can try to remind us it was boss for a while, if that’s all we get.

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  11. If you have a military pension, look long and hard at those long term policies. My husband has run the numbers several times and feels what we get through the Navy will be sufficient.

    If it was me, though, I’d buy.

    For those of you who don’t know, I’m writing about my trip on my Michelle Ule writer Facebook page. Today I learned how to add photos.

    Trip had its first hiccup today when workers went on strike and we couldn’t visit the Taormina amphitheater. Fortunately, we saw one yesterday at Syracuse.

    Driving is a nightmare. My husband has nerves of steel but we’ve narrowly missed two potentially bad accidents in the last 20 hours.

    I would be a basket case.

    Stargazer said today.”That’s it. When we get home, I’m selling my truck. I don’t like cars and traffic.”

    He’d prefer his bicycle in this mess?

    He also said, “driving will be better in the north, right?”

    I sure hope so. I’m allowed to drive there–if I dare!

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  12. Various states also have rules about the giving of assets to others and then needing social service help. I was told that there is a sliding scale here with the age of the person making a difference on the look back period. However, I have had different lawyers say different things. Such things can change at the whim or the legislatures involved.

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  13. The Perlman link won’t play 😦 See if this one will work:

    Here is the accompanying description Vivaldi wrote to his Spring concerto:
    1st movement – Spring has com and the cheerful birds welcome it with a happy song. And the streams, blown by soft winds, flow with a sweet murmur. Lightning and thunder, chosen to announce the spring, come covering the sky with a thick, black mantle. But when all is quiet, the birds take up their charming song once more.

    2nd movement – Then on the pleasant, flowery meadow, to the sweet murmuring of plants and leaves, the goatherd sleeps, his faithful dog beside him. [You can hear the barking dog in the cello line.]

    3rd movement – To the festive sound of the pastoral bagpipe, nymphs and shepherds dance beneath the beloved canopy of spring that so brilliantly now emerges.

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  16. Janice here, visiting from the county library computer. I just sent in my assignment. I wrote about introverts in the church.

    The photo of the apple tree blossoms is beautiful on this larger screen. That is the best thing about getting on these library computers. It is not usually busy here, but all except for this one computer was tied up and there are probably 14 just in this section with others in other places, such as an area for teens.

    I have been thinking of Mama Ruth and other mentioned needs.Those plans for the party sound great, Kim. I have also been thinking of the ladies from prayer group attending the funeral of the young man who was shot to death. Atlanta seems to have grown much more violent recently. Many troubled souls in our world. Greater need for sharing Jesus.

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  17. I think the party is going to be April 12. I just created an event on FB and send out the invitations….shhhh don’t don’t tell anyone I didn’t have them printed and mailed…LOL

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  18. Thanks, NancyJill (from the other night) — I did indeed have a peace-filled media fast yesterday.

    Happy Spring, everyone! Temperatures were in the mid-30s this morning when I went to Bible study, but, rebel that I am, I decided I was not going to wear a coat. It’s SPRING! I’m sick of winter, and a long-sleeved T with a cardigan over it will do.

    So there!

    (I would not have been as bold if it had been windy, though. Or if I had had to walk the eleven miles to church instead of drive in a toasty car.) 😉

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  21. Cheryl, we three elder siblings all thought Mom let our youngest sibling get away with too much. So, we would discipline her in our own way – something similar to the British sending to Coventry. Our mother pointed out that as we had already enacted our own discipline, there was no point in mother also disciplining youngest sibling. At the time, we thought that was awful and youngest sibling would be spoilt for life. However, she has turned out to be quite well adjusted in spite of our interference 😆

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  22. Difficult to believe, but the rain is falling again here. This is the least lovely spring we’ve had in a long time so far. I am sure we are being set up for a lively mosquito and flea plague later.
    😦

    I only have one more lesson/assignment before I finish my article writing course. Soon there eill be another book of stories published in the “Moments” series yo benefit Samaritan’s Purse. The book title is Spoken Moments and I have a story in it about what we went through with my husband having MRSA and how much the Bible verse, “The joy of the Lord is your strength,” help me through it.

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  28. I don’t know how to get my name on from here.

    After posting on yesterday’s thread, we left for Columbia and Elvera went to the mall for a couple of hours. Then we went to Maurices for lunch. During lunch I messed with the MAP app on my iPhone and did something. I still don’t know what. Anyhow, this woman got the idea that I wanted to go to Columbia. I listened to her for an hour and a half nagging me about making a u-turn. I tried to shut her off, but she came back on nagging insistently. I finally drove into a Myrtle Beach Welcome Center. There a couple of young people removed her. I still don’t know what they did. I won’t use the MAP app again until I get checked out. She really got on my nerves and there was no way to shut her off.

    We are ay Surfside Beach now. Just got here a couple of hours ago.
    It’s still Winter. Spring doesn’t arrive for another 25 minutes.

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  29. Chas, we have GPS, and we don’t use it on casual trips around town, but we do use it on the road. And often my husband knows a different way for part of the trip, which leaves the GPS saying “recalculating” every few seconds until she finally figures out the route we are taking.

    When my husband and I were running around Nashville getting paperwork shortly before our wedding, one day his GPS told him to go left and go up to a certain street. I said, “I have no idea why it’s suggesting that way. Go right–this street runs into that other street, and it’s a more direct route.” Well, usually within a mile or two of street driving, the GPS figures out what you are doing. (It can take longer with highway driving, but within the city it’s usually pretty quick.) But the stupid GPS said “recalculating” so many times, I began to second-guess myself and wonder if there really was a connection where I thought there was. (It wasn’t a place I usually drove.) I was quite relieved when she shut up, and half a mile later, there was the intersection we wanted, right where I was sure it was.

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  30. I don’t like map apps as they often are not accurate in rural areas. Or else they find the “shortest” route that involves back roads that look iffy on a paper map (or that I know are iffy from past experience). I would rather drive the extra 10 miles on a major road (at a higher speed limit) than take the back road at 45-55 mph. However, if I’m not in a hurry, back roads are interesting.

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  31. Chas, you’re ahead of me. I wouldn’t know how to get a picture of myself on here, or any gravatar other than the quilt block that shows up for my email without any effort on my part.

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  32. You can shut GPS off. It will get you there, but not always the best way. Except one time, going to Williamsburg, Va. It didn’t know a bridge was out and kept “recalculating” until I got there.

    6 Arrows I don’t know that I remember how I got the picture on. It always comes on and my
    desktop will arranger to correct my name. i can’t do it on this laptop., I can’t do much of anything on this.

    🙂 I may have done it.

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  33. did I tell you that when Elvera goes into a store, “Just a jiff”, “Back in a sec…” lose their meaning?
    Also, there’s a 95% probability she will come out with something she didn’t go there to buy?

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  36. You can close the map app — I remember being lost trying to find an assignment a couple months ago (trying to get to the warehouse where all the Rose Parade floats are put together).

    Poor lady in the phone kept saying “Make a U-turn.” “Make a U-turn” with every move I tried to make. So frustrated! But I guess *she* was frustrated, too. 🙂

    Once I know where I’m going (especially on return trips after I hit a familiar freeway), I just turn the app off as I know a better way to get there than the screen indicates.

    Yeah, Chas, Elvera sounds normal to me too. 🙂 It’s the shopping gene. Maybe it has something to do with women being gatherers. The man kills it, we buy it and wear it.

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  37. Re the gravatar photo: I can’t be sure this will work for someone who doesn’t already have a gravatar account, though I suspect that somewhere in here it will still prompt you to upload a photo. This is what it looks like for me, anyway, to change to a new photo. . . .

    On the top of this page there is a black bar. At the far right are two icons, a star and my gravatar (which currently is a woodpecker). I don’t know what the gravatar icon looks like if you don’t have a photo uploaded, but it’s likely to be in the same part of your screen, the left icon of those two on the far right. Click on it. You will find one of your options to be “Profile,” and you can choose “Account settings.” One of the options under that is “Profile Photo / Edit photo.” That choice gives the option to upload a new photo from your computer. If you do that, you can choose a folder from your folders of photos on your computer, and then choose a photo from within that folder, and then it will direct you how to crop that photo.

    The hardest part (for me) is always remembering where to go to upload the new photo, so as long as putting up a new photo is the same place as changing the photo, I think that will direct you to the right location, and the rest should be pretty straightforward. (Sometimes it takes a while to accept a new photo or it won’t accept it, but as far as I know that is an internet connection problem, and shouldn’t come up if your connection is good. I might be wrong.)

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  38. Whew…caught up with today’s goings on around here….I started a job today…well technically it is a “job”….my neighbor owns a Country/Primitives shop and one of her workers is taking off for medical reasons….I am filling in for her for an undetermined period of time…it may turn into permanent, but we are praying this gal comes back, healed! 🙂
    GPS…oh my…we have had “that lady” get irritated with us on trips….they closed down I70 on our trip to Utah a couple of years ago due to a rock slide….the state patrol rerouted us on a 2 hour detour through the mountains…the GPS lady kept saying “recalculating”….and her voice actually became “annoyed” after about the 3rd “recalculating”…we we quite amused by her! 🙂

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  39. Thanks, Cheryl, but I lost you right from the black bar — I don’t have anything like that. And I don’t have any folders of photos on my computer, that I know of, because I don’t know how to do that, either. 🙂 Maybe someday when I’m adventurous!

    In the meanwhile, I’m very OK with my pink quilt square (and blue when I’m anonymous). 🙂

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  41. I am home from serving the artists their dinner. They were quite impressed with an art show that didn’t run out of food. We had boiled shrimp, a tortalini salad, a couscous salad, a green salad, and potato salad. The artists enjoyed themselves and also had a good first day of the show.
    I am going to walk the show tomorrow. I have told Mr. P that I want a piece of pottery so we will have to look and see what I want.

    I have at the request of the other daughters again changed the date of Mama Ruth’s Party. It will now be April 25th. We are burning up April and it makes me nervous. Her younger daughter told her today that I loved her so much that I was planning a surprise for her. She wanted to know what it was. R wouldn’t tell her. Her argument was to tell her and she would forget and be surprised. She cracks us up

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