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Our Daily Thread 4+11=15

Good Morning!

The weekend has arrived. 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Janice.

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On this day in 1783, after receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.  

In 1898 President William McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war with Spain.

In 1899 the treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect. 

In 1945 American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.

And in 1947 Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history. He played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Quote of the Day

“I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That’s all I need.” 🙂

Mark Teixeira

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Today is Richard Berry’s birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

71 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4+11=15”

  2. I’ve been up since 5…..the owls were carrying on something awful this morning! It’s going to be a warm Spring day here….I spotted an iris popping through the soil yesterday….and some small sprigs of tansy…. 🙂

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  4. I love Spring with all the freshness and newness. I don’t know how people can experience Spring and not believe that Someone designed it all. This cannot just randomly happen.

    Mr P and I will be attending a fundraiser tonight. I just looked to see what the attire was online. It is a celebration of all things Southern so the main food will be shrimp and grits.
    That’s what we southerner’s do. We take what the po’ fokes used to survive on and make it haute cuisine. Fried green tomatoes? Probably so hawngry they couldn’t wait on the ‘maters to ripen and the green ones were bitter so they fried ’em up. Now we slap some remoulade . sauce on top and call it an hors d’oeuvres.

    We watch several shows on TV, mostly for background noise that are all about food. Anthony Bourdain was in Atlanta on one show the other night and the big catch phrase was farm to table. One of the yummy oh you must try this foods was the pig’s ear sliders. Really? You have got to be kidding me. Then on one show they were cooking up some chitterlings (pronounced chit’lins). I don’t know a soul who would admit to eating those. They waxed poetic on the “earthy delicacy” of the taste. Sorry that wasn’t earth you were tasting. I smelled them cooking once at a great aunts house and that was enough for me.

    Of course I can be all high and mighty because I have never had to scratch out enough to eat on a dirt poor farm.

    Time for another cup of coffee.

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  5. So, Kim, just what exactly would one be eating if one ate chit’lins? And I thought people fried green tomatoes because it was late in the season and the frost would kill them. Oh, well. What do I know? I’m just a Puerto Rican from a family of New Yorkers, raised on Mexican food in Arizona, and living in the Midwest for the past 35 years. What do I know of Southern cuisine?

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  6. Kim, I had some uncles who were in the sausage business. It was really the best sausage in Lexington county until someone bought them out and started selling off the best part and made the sausage out of the remainder, like most sausage makers do. They made “whole hog” sausage. Anyhow, what I was going to say that they used every part of the pig. I have never eaten “hog’s head cheese”. But they made it. Also, pickled pigs feet.
    I was too squeamish for that. Mother liked it. But they were my father’s brothers.

    I like sausage, and never think about it. But the fact is, when you eat sausage, you are eating the part of the pig you wouldn’t think of eating otherwise.

    I wish I had another cup of coffee. But it’s gone.,

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  8. My mother made hog’s head cheese. Another smell you can’t forget. I have never eaten it either.
    I just think it’s funny that all this poor peoples/soul food is now considered high falultin’ 😉
    People ate everything because they had too. Of course what I have learned from watching some of these shows is that the organ meat was given to the young, the elderly, and the sick. It is richer in nutrients. Most cultures developed some sort of fermented food as well. Something in the fermentation is good for us.
    It is interesting that certain food pair so well together-think tomato and basil- and something about that pairing makes you absorb the nutrients better.
    I am sure Peter can share some Puerta Rican foods with us that was considered common food but now is a specialty dish or other traditions.

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  9. Oh and Peter when you come through this summer I will take you to lunch and let you have some Southern Food. I know just the place and will attach the menu so your mouth can start watering now. You may want to look at the daily specials so you can plan what day you want to come through here.

    http://sugarkettlecafe.com/menus

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  12. On the school front, I got a note from the teacher saying daughter was confused about the one hundred million years number. I responded that daughter was not confused by it, just did not agree with it. I explained that we try to teach our children to think, not just take the written or spoken word as fact, to know what they believe, not be swayed by other people’s opinions and speculations. I suspect she now thinks we are some of the uneducated unwashed. That is okay.

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  13. Troublemakers.

    I watched a two-part Frank Sinatra documentary last night on HBO (I don’t subscribe but we’re getting a free weekend). He was a tough character, not altogether very admirable. But he sure could sing.

    And the clips of contemporary U.S. history were interesting. The narrator said that following WWII, the mood in the U.S. was somewhat anxious, as people weren’t sure if the peace would last or be sustainable. ?

    I guess that makes sense. But in retrospect, of course — to those of us looking back on that time before most of us were born — it seems that America would have been on top of the world as it headed into the prosperous & booming 1950s-60s.

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  14. Daughter remembered to turn the heat on under the frying pan. What she forgot was to let the pan heat up and to put butter in the pan. But she did remember to start the heat this time. Progress.

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  16. Donna, I was 15 when the war ended. It was not an anxious time, except that millions of returning soldiers required jobs. A neighbor of ours joined the 53/20 club. A veteran would get $20.00 a week for 52 weeks. He didn’t look for a job.
    There were debates in our high school about Universal Military Training. All the boys were for it. The girls against it, for some reason. I still think it’s a good idea.
    Later, Russia became a threat when the Iron Curtain fell. But no one really took it seriously. Most of us knew the Russians couldn’t come here, no matter what they said.
    Inflation was bad. For a couple of years after the war, there was more money than stuff to buy.
    But the market fixes that in short order.
    Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Andrews Sisters, Perry Coma, etc. There was music in those days. No drums.
    Country was Eddie Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, etc.

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  17. Interesting what all I miss out on by getting here late on a Saturday morning. I have been awake since around 4:30 a.m. and made coffee around 5:00 so I would not go back to sleep.

    I had to change what I am writing my article on since my original plan involved input from my liberal friend and she can’t help until she finishes working on their tax return. Can’t seem to get away from that word that I could scream about, “TAXES!” Enough already!

    I found some clothing on the floor of my closet that you know who obviously had pulled off of the hangers. So I may have a few more items to donate. It’s a real challenge for me since I never know exactly what I will be doing work wise.

    Sorry to hear about your dogs, Mumsee. I had to take our dog, Smokey, to have her put down when she was old, blind, and deaf. I’ll never forget the guilt of seeing her tail wag because she was going on a car ride. I knew it would be her last, but of course she did not know that. There is no good reason for that kind of guilt, but that does not keep it away.

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  18. FWIW I see Hillsdale College is giving the bio of Winston Churchill to anyone who wants it on an electronic device.

    Kim, your post reminded me and my dad’s disgust after he went to a gourmet restaurant. He could not believe the tiny portions with the big price tag. All ‘gourmetness’ was clearly wasted on him. He did have some good points, however. We are oh, so susceptible to what the ‘experts’ tell us–whether it be food, clothing or the arts. And today, we have lots and lots of ‘experts’.

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  19. When I updated my profile on Linkedin, I think it may have sent invitations out to connect to my whole address list. If any of you got an invitation, please ignore it unless you really want to connect. I hate that the system did that.

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  20. Mumsee, you mentioned that it wasn’t her science teacher which was trying to convince her of the millions of years. Perhaps you should ask what business these other teachers have to be teaching her science 🙂

    After my announcements on the other threads I need some calming down. So here is a lovely piano piece by the Spanish composer, Enrique Granados, played by the great Catalonian pianist, Alicia de Laroche – “The Maiden and the Nightingale” from the ‘Goyescas’ suite:

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  21. For the record, I have never had shrimp and grits together in all of my 60+ years of Southern life! My FIL liked pickled pigs feet, but I never had those, and my husband does not like anything with vinegar in it. It never occurred to me before that the reason he hates vinegar is because of pickled pig’s feet! I have never had chitlins, but believe they are thoroughly cleaned pig or hog intestines. We did not have fried green tomatoes, either. But I do like them, but can’t eat them now with my food sensitivities.

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  25. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/04/10/inside-the-evangelical-push-to-rally-around-animal-ethics/

    “A group of evangelicals is working on a statement on animal ethics that will be released later this year, leaders involved in the project said Thursday. The effort comes as some evangelical leaders are seeking to change attitudes about issues like factory farms and animal fighting that many see as liberal concerns.

    “In the past, some evangelicals have cited the biblical command in Genesis 1 that humans should have dominion over the earth, including animals, to argue against practices like vegetarianism. More recently, some leaders say, evangelicals have become concerned about issues surrounding the treatment of animals, as specific as food production and as general as care for God’s creation.

    “ ‘The attitude by some that the idea that humans and animals are equal in value makes evangelicals nervous,’ said Barrett Duke, vice president for The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. ‘But there’s a diminishing attitude that humans are free to do as they please with animals.’ ” ….

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  27. It’s like the environmental movement. I’ve been recycling since I was thirteen years old–45 years. I’ve been conscious of stewardship and water usage forever. I don’t have to become radicalized to be careful.

    One of my relatives is a young teenager who knows everything and is working hard to fight sex trafficking–she hopes to work with a group that fights it this summer as an intern.

    That’s great, but you know what, I’ve been against treating people contrary to the image of God since I was her age. This is not a new issue to me, but then, of course, almost everything would be new to her at her age! 🙂

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  28. Michelle, I think it’s more an issue of raising awareness of issues that haven’t been at the forefront of Christian circles in a while (although Wilberforce was the founder of the Humane Society). It’s exactly because it’s been hijacked by more radical voices that Christians perhaps don’t pay a lot of attention to it.

    Speaking of which, Annie just brought in a big, flopping moth to play with and kill. She makes the eeriest “mrrowwwwwwww” noise when she’s got live prey in her jaws. He was too far gone for me to try to save him.

    So there you go. Guilty.

    OK, off to see Carol who wants to at least get out of there to go for “a ride.” It’ll be a long afternoon. Meanwhile, I’ve sent off another email to her social worker (well, former social worker now that Carol’s been placed so far away and is now somehow in a different service “zone”) asking how we can get Carol placed back closer to her home-base, the geographical area where she’s lived for so many years and has whatever social ties she has.

    The farther they move her away from her church & the friends who do still visit and try to help her, the harder it’s going to be all the way around for everyone, including Carol, of course.

    I have no idea how this even happened, let alone how to “fix” it.

    Government.

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  29. Kim- Thanks for the lunch offer. Will Mr P be able to join us? I’ll look at the menu later. I am not sure if we’ll end up going that way, but I’ll keep you informed. My hope is to stay with friends in Baton Rouge Saturday and go to church with them, spend Sunday night there and then leave for Mobile. Not sure how far that distance is, so it might be a late lunch.

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  30. Michelle- We recycle too, even though it means loading up the minivan and taking it to the next town over. So we take it once a month. Our trash hauler provides a huge roll-away mini dumpster (I think it holds 100 gallons). I put one medium sized trash bag in it a week since we recycle so much.

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  31. Recycling or not recycling isn’t a “Christian” issue. Individual citizens are free to do it or not, speak about it or not, but I no more recycle (or don’t) as an evangelical than I eat corn as a Reformed Christian.

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  32. Baton Rouge is about 4 hours from here. Mr P is invited as well.
    I had also thought of taking you to the Blue Gill where you could sit in the same booth as Elvis.

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  37. Catching the first part of the Sinatra documentary I missed yesterday — amazing that all this footage from the ’40s and ’50s is still around.

    Part of it included this song, which I remember my mom singing to me as a way to convince me to go to (pre?) school when I was little. 🙂

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  42. Tess! Cute dog. 🙂

    I see today’s date works as another math sentence. It’ll be neat when we get to five ten fifteen next month.

    Roscuro, thanks for the Alicia de Larrocha clip. Did you see how high the piano bench was? I heard her height one time, I think they said she was 4 feet 9 inches. 😉

    You may have heard this story before, but someone who once had seen her play reported that when she sat down at the piano (a huge grand), the bench was too far away, so instead of moving the bench closer to the instrument, she grabbed the piano and pulled it to just the position she wanted it! 😀

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  43. So what, you may be asking were all things Southern last night? Windcreek Casino catered the event.
    Of course there were the shrimp and grits. They had a good flavor but you got a shallow ramekin size serving. Spinach and artichoke dip, pimento and cheese, pulled pork and cole slaw.
    You also got a fried banana and peanut butter sandwich a la The King–Elvis. P says it was good. I am standing on my record of never having tasted the stuff.
    There were silent auction items but with minimum bids starting at $100 there wasn’t anything I was willing to bid on and there weren’t enough items. If they are going to do that again next year I am going to have to get involved and do some professional begging.
    Later in the evening I guess the chief of the Poarch Creek Indians came out in full head dress only the effect was ruined but the t-shirt and printed pants he was wearing.
    It was a nice evening and our tickets were free so I can’t complain too much but if we had paid the $85 each, I would have been disappointed.
    The highlight of the evening was seeing Jack Edwards

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Edwards_(American_politician)

    He said people have asked him about returning to congress but he isn’t interested. Then he said if he did go back to Washington it would only take him 2 days to kick some @&& and come home. THEN he apologized for saying that last word in front of two ladies. When was the last time you heard a politician voluntarily apologize for anything. Maybe I will campaign for him.

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  44. Paul David Tripp on FB:

    Corporate worship is designed to renew our wonder, gratitude, and worship of God because our hearts forget, grow hard, and are prone to wander.

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  45. Kim- We’re not much of Elvis fans, but since you are treating us, you can decide. I guess I should say my wife pefers “organic natural” foods.

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  46. One of these days I will have to try shrimp and grits!

    I am doing an article on Family Biblical Literacy. Would anyone here be willing to share your background with that from when you were young or when you had children growing up? I would appreciate opinions of what worked and what did not work and any suggestions of resources. Thanks to any who take time and care to respond.

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  47. I don’t know if I would be of help Janice but I had 12 years of strict Christian education based on the Abeka System out of Pensacola Christian College. You have my email if you want to ask.
    I believe Mumsee has had a couple of children rotate through JCC and used Abeka. I was able to off hand say something about the ACE (Abeka) program that was helpful to her and a friend.

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  49. Thank you, Kim.

    I usually get fresh fish at Publix, and we do have an International Farmer’s Mkt. with very fresh everything. I just wish my husband liked grits, but he doesn’t. Does anyone do hash browns and shrimp? He use to not eat shrimp, but he will eat those now. At least he likes them in Sizzling Rice Soup.

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  53. I was not raised in a Christian family and did not attend church ever until I was fourteen. No biblical literacy at all. What is Family Biblical Literacy?

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  54. Mumsee, I am using Family Biblical Literacy to mean where the family as a whole stands on Biblical reading, understanding, and general facility (skill) in using the Bible. Are the parents teaching the children and helping them learn or relying on church programs? Are the parents able to quickly locate scriptures or are they basically on the same level as their children? What helps families advance together or individually in these areas?

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  58. chas, you clearly have no Italian-American blood in you. I don’t either (as far as I know) but I did go with an Italian-American boyfriend for several years in my 20s and learned to appreciate garlic and onions. 🙂

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  59. And speaking of powerful smells …

    I guess we have a dead whale on the beach near me, probably a ship strike … Hoping I don’t have to go down there since I’m the one who let the editors/photographers know about it …

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  60. Mr P and I met some friends for a late lunch/early dinner. He had the Shrimp and Grit. I had the Low Country Boil.
    I am home on my sofa all happily full and sleepy. 😉

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  63. Another reporter who lives nearby agreed to do the dead whale story, thankfully. 🙂 Sounds like they’re doing the necropsy right there on the beach. Nice.

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  64. I am at home too. I’m reading a 669 page book by Mark Greaney written under Tom Clancy’s name. Full Force and Effect is typical Clancy. But it’s especially interesting to me because it give some insight into what My old .employer, Defense Mapping Agency is doing now under the name0 of National Geospational Intelligence Agency. Impressive stuff.

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  68. Just posted this on the prayer thread, but thought it could go here, too…

    Two items to share about former WMB folks:

    1.) Rejoicing with EYG (Evelyn), who became a grandmother very recently. Her daughter & SIL had a baby girl they named Willow.

    2.) Please pray for Matt Yoder, who is in the hospital battling sepsis.

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