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Our Daily Thread 4-24-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

The header and photos below are the flickers I mentioned yesterday. 

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On this day in 1800 The Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation.

In 1877 federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans. This was the end to the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.

In 1953 Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

And in 1990 the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.

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Quote of the Day

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”

Mark Twain

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 Random selection day. From sixstepsrecords

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Anyone have a QoD?

57 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-24-15”

  6. Great…now I have that song stuck in my head….Do..a deer…a female deer..ra…a drop of golden sun…..me…a name I call myself….fa…a long long way to run….I’ll let you all complete the song in your own heads 😛

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  7. Cool pics, AJ. Two males in territorial defense. I got two females last year, thought it was a mating dance until I pulled the pictures up on my computer and saw it was two females. Research showed that yes, either partner will defend the territory if a rival of their sex shows up, though sometimes the mate will stand and watch. (In my case, I don’t think the male was around.)

    A couple of your photos (including the header photo) captured something that I didn’t see till a week ago, and never realized: when excited, he can move the feathers on the back of his head to increase the size of the red patch. I don’t know if the female can do the same thing; it was the male I saw do it, and I didn’t notice it in the photos of the females engaging.

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  9. That song has been following me, Nancyjill, ever since I took the sound of music tour and jumped up and down the steps at Salzburg’s Mirabell Gardens.

    My good 28-year old son jumped with me but he didn’t sing!

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  12. Roscuro, we can’t relate to that. Almost everyone in the church at 4th and Washington believes they will not have tribulation. I say that most of the world is in it.

    Remember. When Jesus said this;
    “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

    He was on the way to be crucified.

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  16. Attaboy, Chas.

    I like Flickers, also, but they are very destructive to homes. They spend a lot of their time on the ground getting bugs, when they are not poking holes in homes, barns, outbuildings, etc. They are woodpeckers, so protected, but a lot of people don’t respect that. I prefer scaring them away to shooting them.

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  19. There’s this in the news today, too:

    LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Los Angeles are searching for a tagging suspect who sprayed graffiti on a police horse at Venice Beach.

    Police say Charly, a horse with the Metropolitan Division’s Mounted Platoon, was tagged while on patrol Tuesday.

    Charly’s hindquarters were sprayed with silver colored graffiti.

    Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect.

    The graffiti was removed from the horse later Tuesday evening.

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  20. But did you guys notice? One of those Christians was a former ISIS trainee – from that Lybian group who keeps killing Christians. “There is no depth He cannot reach.”

    Mumsee, are you trying to make The Real take down his photo of the flickers, the way he took down the photo of the cowbird?

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  21. Hello, all! I hope it’s a good day for folks. Flickers are interesting in their movements.
    Maybe 6 Arrows could do a piano composition to tie in with a Flicker video. 🙂
    I still have not gotten to watch the video 6 Arrows sent but hope to soon.

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  26. I just realized I’m a knucklehead.

    My camera has video, so I could have gotten the whole posturing episode on video. 😦

    Awwwww man! 😦

    One of these days I’m going to get it together, you’ll see. 🙂

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  28. Mumsee,

    The video 6 Arrows sent that Janice mentioned.

    Or we could talk further about the one I neglected to take. But we don’t really need to dwell on that one…. so we’ll stick to the 6 Arrows video.

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  29. Well, now we know of video capabilities so expectations have been elevated. You do have a lot that you are already doing, AJ, but if you want to get into film and let 6 Arrows score it…go for it! 🙂

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  30. Miss Bosley knows my routine in making coffee in the a.m. I put in the filter, measure out the coffee, and pour in a bottle of water. As usual, she wants to be in on the action. When she sees me engaged with the beginning of the process, she goes and gets into the package of water bottles to keep me from getting one. She takes claim. Something tells me she may be Muslim with the way she claims territories. Her claws can be like micro swords.

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  31. For what it’s worth, AJ, I did get a couple of short videos of my posturing flickers . . . but without a tripod, it definitely wasn’t National Geographic quality.

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  32. Our cat is hiding out, in the garage. Because our other cat is back. He has been gone for several months though we have seen him at a farm a mile or so away. He came home, sliced up the other cat, and is working on the mice. I locked the good cat in the garage with food, water, and….a…..kitty…..litter…….box………

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  35. Actually, he has always been litter box trained, since we got him. He used to live with a young girl who adored him but she and her mom moved to a no pets house and had to give up the cats. They came here. One ran to the neighbor’s barn and we saw him off and on for a couple of years, the other stayed and is very fond of children. He lets them carry him around and cuddle, but I do not let them torment him. I even grow catnip special for him. And I do let him in the garage when he wants to go in for whatever reason.

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  38. Good afternoon!

    Catching up… Looking forward to Chas’s speech. 😉

    Peter, congratulations on the teaching award!

    Ann, nice to see you back around here. Very sorry about the business at L’s school that you mentioned on yesterday’s prayer thread.

    Now for today…

    The video Janice mentioned is the one I’ve sent by email to those who requested it. (Of the piano I’ll be playing on in my performance Sunday.)

    Janice, what fun to think of composing a piece to go with a bird video! I love birds, and, of course, music. 😉 I might do some more composing after I can take off my performance hat in a few days.

    Duet practice at the performance hall yesterday went very well for the most part. We both feel good about where we’re at with the piece, and are excited to perform it on Sunday. Third Arrow is our page-turner, and she has done excellently in that role. Those lowly page-turners don’t get to take a bow after the performance, but, boy does a good one really enhance the performance.

    The show organizer was practicing on the piano when we got there yesterday. We sat down near the front, and, without missing a beat in the beautiful, lyrical piece she was playing, proclaimed rather vehemently (but jokingly), “You’re making me nervous!” 🙂

    So, there are 14 acts. Not knowing whether the organizer had determined the playing order yet, I asked my duet partner as we arrived there where about on the program she would like to be, if we had a choice. (The organizer has asked that of participants in the past.) She hoped we could play early in the program, but not first.

    Turns out, the organizer had already planned the order, and we are second! Perfect.

    My solo?

    Out of 14 performances, it is…

    Last!!!

    No pressure. 😀

    I’m OK with that, but, if you would, could you pray for me Sunday afternoon between about 3:00 and 5:00 Central time, that nerves won’t get the better of me? That would be much appreciated! 🙂

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  39. Oh good, mumsee is getting an indoor cat.

    Very nice in-house tribute (from columnist at our sister paper) to our immediate boss/editor and on the importance of grassroots, community journalism:

    http://www.dailynews.com/article/20150423/NEWS/150429739

    ” … Because nothing — not the Internet, TV, radio, or social media — burrows more deeply into the community to root out corruption and wrongdoing than your local newspaper.
    And that’s the takeaway on this story. After more than 40 years of loyalty to the same newspaper — pulling all the strings he could find to make it better — the guy guarding the henhouse for the public in the South Bay came out from behind the curtain this week to take a bow. …”

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  40. from roscuro’s earth day link above. Well said, as usual by Moore:

    ” … So should Christians care about Earth Day? Yes.The contemporary environmentalist movement has often been flawed and clumsy and sometimes evil, as any movement made up of fallen sinners tends to be. But, at the core of it, is a concept Christians ought to recognize. It is that of creatureliness, and dependence, and longing for the permanent things. And in the face of an earth often ravaged by human sin and rapaciousness, Christian creation-care can be a call to the kind of ultimate accountability that only makes sense in a Christian story of the universe.”

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  43. I saw something today I’d never seen before.

    I was sitting in the house, folding laundry, and the window that faced out to the bird feeder was open. I heard some sort of strange, rhythmic sound — hard to describe, kind of a low-pitched huh…huh…huh — that caught my attention.

    I looked out the window, and saw two gray squirrels in the feeder tray, a fairly narrow area about 6 inches by 18, maybe. One squirrel appeared to be a little smaller than the other, and the two were facing each other. I wondered if it was an adult with a younger one or something.

    Suddenly, the huh huh huh sound stopped, and before I knew it, the bigger squirrel lunged at the littler one and knocked it backwards out of the feeder and to the ground about six feet below!

    The squirrel that went down appeared stunned for a bit, and crawled under a platform (a wooden pallet) we stand on to fill the bird feeder. It stayed there for half a minute or so, then rather gingerly kind of walked/ran up the hill behind it a little ways.

    I don’t like that those squirrels keep getting into our bird feeders, but I kind of felt sorry for the one that got knocked to the ground. 😉

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  45. We snapped pictures of a black bear attacking an elk calf, (and then momma elk saved her baby) watching the whole thing unfold – totally could have been videoing it, but just so excited we forgot our camera did that as well!

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  46. I think my camera takes videos (someone who’s much smarter about those things than am I once told me that, I think), but I don’t know how. I don’t even know how to take pictures with it, and I know it does that.

    Sigh. There’s only so much time to learn new things. 😉

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  47. Alright, another busy weekend, starting right about now. I won’t be on here until Monday. Pray for me Sunday, if you think of it? (See my prayer request at the end of that very loooooooong post at 5:22 — I don’t blame you if you skipped it.) 😉

    Blessings.

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  48. A weekend full of babysitting ahead for me, as Emily has her LPN “clinical” on Saturday, & works all day Sunday. Forrest’s Gramma will be taking him for a bit Sunday morning, & his dad may or may not take him for some time each day. We’ll see.

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  54. Argh. Just got an email from a reader telling me my story on the homeless was “horrible” and asking if I’ve ever really talked to someone who’s homeless.

    (A) I have no idea what story she’s referring to as I’ve written numerous stories just in the past couple weeks on the homeless issue (with 2 more coming out this weekend)

    (B) I love how readers can judge you so quickly. But after lambasting me, she signed off with the typical passive-aggressive “Have a nice day!” Sheesh.

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