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Our Daily Thread 4-14-15

Good Morning!

And a Happy Anniversary! to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Buckles. 🙂

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On this day in 1828 the first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary was published.

In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

In 1912 the Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives.

And in 1981 America’s first space shuttle, Columbia, returned to Earth after a three-day test flight. 

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Quote of the Day

“A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.”

Anne Sullivan

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 Today is Loretta Lynn’s birthday. Both videos are from lorettafan1 

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Anyone have a QoD?

34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-14-15”

  1. WHAT IS THAT?
    Good morning everyone.
    It has been raining since yesterday morning.
    🙂 My grass is green.
    😦 My grass is tall.
    😦 It will be another couple of days .before I can cut it.
    🙂 I love Loretta and “If I Could Hear My Mother….”
    How did the study go last night Kim?
    Don’t ask no heavy theology questions today. OK?

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  4. After Anon told me it was a baby cardinal, I went back and looked, and looked and finally saw the cardinal. I worked back from what I knew was an eye.
    I posted above before I went back to review yesterday’s threads.
    I’m really sorry about Donna’s friend.
    I’m glad things went OK for Kim.
    No Cheryl. None of what is in Revelation is history to us.
    That’s what Historists (non-millenials) believe. But it is not history. I will deal with that later.
    Let me drink my coffee.
    OK?

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  5. Broken record.
    It’s raining and looking dark outside.
    Neighbor with plumbing problem said their chimney sprang a leak. She wants rain for newly sprouting grass and does not want rain for the leak.
    I have not seen husband since Sunday around 7 a.m. I just read Donna’s post and feel badly for all that she is going through. She said it was a stinkin’ day. I imagine my husband is smelling ripe about now…and he does not have the smell of cigarette smoke to disguise it. God is still in the mix and cats still purr. Focus, focus…♡keep mind on God and the good on life!

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  6. I hear a bird singing in the rain. It woke Bosley from her sleep. Bosley had to go check out the crazy bird. Must have wanted to see if it had an umbrella. Most birds don’t sing in the rain, do they, Cheryl?

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  8. Janice, some birds sing only a little bit, in the spring, to announce their territory, and for some birds singing seems to be something they can’t help. Let’s see . . .

    Mockingbirds and several other species not only sing a lot, they steal every other song they can, and imitate not only other birds, but car alarms or frogs or cell phones. (I’ve heard mockingbirds do the first and third.)

    Cardinals sing well into the summer, and I hear that females sing some too, but only in spring for them.

    Song sparrows not only sing anywhere and everywhere, but young birds can even start singing before they have left the nest!

    House wrens (and I assume other wrens) make up for what they lack in size by their persistence and volume in singing. We’ve had them nest under our tree in a small birdhouse the last year or two, and that tiny little fellow opens his beak as wide as I’ve seen a beak opened and spills out a song that can be heard inside the house, that is melodious and loud enough for a bird three times his size. He will bluster up to all the other birds at the feeders (most of them much larger than he is) and scold them for being too close to his nest. He’ll go to one branch and sing, then fly to another branch and sing. Last year, a song sparrow (which is a much bigger bird) chased the wren all around the tree. The wren would fly away, out of the song sparrow’s reach, quickly sing a few notes, and then just as quickly fly to another branch and sing a few more notes. It had to have been exhausting, but the song must come out.

    These are the most persistent songsters I know. But the reality is, in spring all the birds are warmed up, and I imagine it might be just about any species that is so keyed up it has to sing, even in a bit of rain.

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  9. Good Morning All. Yes, it is a wet, dreary day in the Sunny South, but” all sunshine and no rain makes a desert”. Into every life a little rain must fall….
    Who else has one?

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  16. Good Morning and happy anniversary Mr and Mrs B! Did someone mention how many years are being celebrated? 🙂
    I went back and saw the “eye” in the header photo….I kept thinking “what is that orange thing growing up out of the bushes??”

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  17. Happy Anniversary to BB & Mrs. B !

    I finally spotted the bird’s tail, I thought there’s gotta be something in there somewhere … 🙂 Now I see the eye as well.

    It’s warm and dry here in Southern California, story of our life.

    I was continuing in “Thriving in Babylon” last night and read this about Revelation (since Chas already brought it up! 🙂 ):

    “Admittedly much of it can be hard to decipher. But one thing is crystal clear. In the end, we win … I’m often asked by people in my congregation to preach (on Revelation). But most of them don’t really want me to teach through the Book of Revelation. They want me to tell them what the seven trumpets represent and if the moon will literally turn blood red.

    “And since I live on the coast, the surfers want to know if it’s true that the new earth won’t have an ocean. … In other words, everyone wants to know what the cryptic details mean.

    “They’re usually a bit disappointed when I tell them the main purpose of Revelation isn’t to satisfy our curiosity or give us detailed insider information about events far into the future. … there is one thing the book of Revelation makes clear. Jesus is coming back to set up his eternal kingdom. And when he does, he’ll vindicate his followers and annihilate Satan and the enemies of righteousness.

    “Knowing that should change everything about the way we interpret and respond to our current realities, no matter how puzzling they may be. … And that’s why I’m an optimist, no matter what the scoreboard says.”

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  18. So am I the only one who saw the cardinal immediately? 🙂

    My husband and I and our older daughter took a walk Sunday afternoon in our favorite state park, and I found myself zooming in through twigs to identify the bird on the other side. I’ve now had this camera a year (technically not “this camera,” I only got this one a month ago as an under-warranty replacement) and I can finally do pretty well at zooming in on birds that are hard to focus on. But depending on how I use it, it’s a camera, a pair of binoculars (zooming in to identify something distant), or even a microscope (taking a close-up shot and then zooming in on the photo, I can often see amazing detail on a flower or other small object).

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  20. “Thanks! I needed that!”
    (For the reminder of the Anniversary!)

    I can’t forget my anniversary- it is two days before my birthday.

    If April showers bring may flowers, what do May flowers bring? Pilgrims!

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  21. Bob,

    You’re welcome. 🙂

    Peter,

    Do you mind sharing those dates please, so I can note them when they happen?

    Thanks. 🙂

    Cheryl,

    I saw her right away too. 🙂 I have some really nice shots of the male who was following close behind.

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  23. AJ, since I’ve been taking photos of birds (only in the last four years have I had the sort of camera that allows me to do so), and especially with this really long zoom, I find myself often zooming in on something bird-shaped that is moving in the grass, only to find it is really a blowing leaf. It gives me just a hint of what amazing eyesight a hawk must have, that from a great height it can tell the difference between edible and inedible movement!

    Last summer I got a photo–maybe I’ll send it this summer–of a male goldfinch in our sycamore tree. He’s not hiding behind any leaves, and he is a bright, vivid yellow, but you can barely see him among the sun-dappled bright green leaves. The male cardinal never seems to have the luxury of camouflage, but nearly all other birds seem to.

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  26. This is Janice at the library. I finally get to see the header photo again! I think I see the little beady eye. It’s like looking for Waldo’s eye!

    I finished my article and just submitted it along with doing a book review revision because Amazon did not like the one I recently sent. I think I mentioned a business, but not the name, so I guess they did not appreciate that. I also took out the mention of another author who was quoted in the book in case that was the problem.

    I am getting the 10 minute warning here. I have been going through my junk mail to delete on this big screen where I can better see what is there so I don’t accidentally delete anything important.

    That was a very nice thank you from AJ and family. So glad it made you feel comforted by those who hold y’all dear

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  27. Happy Anniversary to the Buckles! I hope you have a wonderful time in celebration. And I hope you don’t have any interference from the tax deadline! Blessings! from Janice G

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  28. This isn’t our wedding anniversary, but it was four years ago today that a handsome man drove down to Nashville to meet me in person. How many of you have a photo of the look in your husband’s eyes when he saw you for the first time, when he thought he wasn’t going to meet you till the next morning? 🙂 It was nice to have a friend with a camera who could get all those nice “first” shots. (We’d been communicating for six weeks, first by e-mail and then by phone, and when he came the first time he already had something like three visits on his calendar. So it was our first time to meet in person, but it wasn’t anything like a first date of a blind date, since we’d already communicated more than many couples do in a year.)

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  29. It’s no longer raining and I would say our yard is shabby chic, but you can leave off the chic part. Not sure if I have ever waited this long to do the first mowing. I am getting some good weed/flower shots though, and the grass has gone to seed and just needs to drop those seeds to give me grass seed for free. I am not sure when I am suppose to mow the just sprouted grass. Do I need to wait a certain length of time?

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