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Our Daily Thread 5-8-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And the header photo is from Donna. So are these. 

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On this day in 1794 the United States Post Office was established.

In 1847 the rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.

In 1914 Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

And in 1958 President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

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Quote of the Day

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

Abraham Lincoln

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 Today is Billy Burnette’s birthday. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YEi7GPkxfsE

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Anyone have a QoD?

50 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-8-15”

  4. Good morning late birds! I think the early birds ate the worms and the comments.

    No rain so far. When I mowed, I mowed part of the new grass to see how it does before I mow the rest. My neighbor mowed all her new grass and probably wonders why I did not mow it all on my side. I was not sure if the lawn mower was set high enough to not damage new grass. Testing, testing…

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  5. There is discussion of turning our unincorporated part of our county into a town. It would mean higher taxes and perhaps better services. I don’t think husband and I will want it, but we need to become more knowledgable about the possibility.

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  12. I’m distantly related to kit carson and (maybe, kinda) daniel boone.

    Thankful it is Friday but I’m empty handed for a story so it’ll be a hustle today.

    Oh, but we had some nice strong rain last night. Can’t wait to see if it was enough to clean the Jeep.

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  14. I have a question about one of my Bible readings for today. In Matthew 13:44 Jesus tells the parable of the man finding treasure in a field and burying it and selling all he owned to get money to buy the field. I understand the main point is giving all to get God’s treasure, but I question about ownership of the treasure when it was dug up and then hidden. Should the worker have given the treasure over to the original owner? Was he dishonest in hiding it? I know it would be considered a shrewd business deal. Is that part of the finders keepers idea? At least he did not take the treasure without paying for it as part of the land deal. Is this related to context based on customs of those times? I can research, but if someone knows, I thank you for your explanation.

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  15. Finally, I get the first comment and it is deleted? I am shocked! Shocked, I say.

    High of 56 with wind and possibility of rain today and my husband’s group is playing outside for a fishing opener. Not what either of us prefer. 😦 We do need the rain, however. Hopefully, it will stay away when the ceremony is taking place.

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  16. Peter, I am reading a wonderful little book, One Season of Hope, by Jim Stovall, for review. I have the advance reader copy so I don’t know if it is released yet. It is fictional but uses a lot of quotes from Truman throughout. It’s main character is a football coach at Harry S. Truman High School. The coach has “conversations” with the statue of Truman which are really refections on words Truman spoke in life. You may already know of this book. I am almost finished with it. I hope to post my review later today.

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  17. The photos were taken on the fly (iPhone) as I was going into and out of a meeting I had to cover earlier this week on city-owned property that once was an Army base. Tunnels and big gun pads are still visible from those WWII days and later when the area was an important coastal defense location for L.A.

    The smaller photos enlarge if clicked on, the bottom one shows a couple kites in the air — on a weekend afternoon there are dozens of kites in the air on that hilltop as the ocean winds are always so strong.

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  18. And it’s to the bank for me today, too, as I try to get a temporary debit card. Such a hassle, but I am glad these potential breaches get caught before they’re a problem.

    Annie the cat is curled up at my shoulder on the back of the sofa (lying so close that if I move she’ll slide down). I think she was a little irritated when she went out early this morning only to find all that rare, rainy wetness.

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  19. Mrs L had a scare this morning. Lightening struck near the house and a few minutes later she smelled smoke. It seems our computer got hit with a power surge. So much for having a surge protector.

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  20. Yes. Abraham Lincoln is my second cousin eight times removed. Agatha Dodson Hanks is believed to be his great-aunt, or maybe his actual aunt, I don’t have the book in front of me. Anyway, I found a prayer she prayed once for her family and was completely touched because it mirrored one I pray for my family and told me somewhere back in my line were praying people. Coming from an unchurched family, for the most part, that was precious.

    So keep praying. You have no idea who you might bless 200 years from now! Ha!

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  22. My wife thought the TV was fried, then discovered that the firemen had unplugged it. I guess they thought the outlet for the TV was on the same circuit as the computer, since they are on the same wall. But the computer outlet is the only one on its circuit.(Old house, you know.)

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  23. Good afternoon! I am enjoying all the humor on here regarding the invisible/deleted/eaten-by-early-birds comments. 🙂

    Jo, from yesterday, good for you with all the sorting, organizing and thrifting. 🙂 And you have motivated me to gird up my mind about tackling those file cabinets that are overflowing with stuff I haven’t used or needed in years.

    Donna, from yesterday’s prayer thread, thanks for the link to Paul Tripp’s “Every Ministry Morning.” That was a wonderful piece and a good shot in the arm for me.

    Yesterday, my media-fast day, I was super tired, and took a brief nap in the morning, then needed another, longer, one in the afternoon. They didn’t mess up my nighttime sleep, either, so I must have needed them.

    It’s been nice out lately, and I’ve been sleeping with the windows open, but the birdsong, lovely as it is, wakes me early in the morning. So I’ve gotten several nights of only 6-7 hours sleep, which is not enough when it’s multiple days in a row. Thus the needed catch-up sleep in the daytime yesterday.

    Time to get my video of the week chosen and emailed to my piano families. See you all later.

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  25. Janice, don’t nitpick a parable. Everyone who heard it figured the man was shrewd, he sold everything he had for the treasure he would obtain. That’s it. Nothing else to be considered.

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  28. For those who enjoy classical music, this is the video I just found and sent to my students. Charming piece, and of course I love it because it is for two of the instruments I majored on in college — viola and piano.

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  30. My husband and I went to the zoo this morning. One of my photos, I showed to the girls. The first one said, “Ahhhh,” and then I showed it to the second. She too said “Ahhhh” and then she laughed at herself, because she had just been about to tease the first one for her response, and then she responded the same way. 🙂 I won’t say what the photo was, but I’ll send it to AJ one of these days, and when it’s posted I’ll ask how many of you responded the same way. 🙂

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  31. I notice the cartoons give Tom Brady a hard time.
    I don’t follow pro ball, but Rush thinks Brady will have no fall-out from this.
    He says this is a sports media thing.

    I wouldn’t know.

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  32. Michelle said, Abraham Lincoln is my second cousin eight times removed.

    This might be a dumb question, but nobody here ever razzes anyone for anything, so I’m safe, right? 😉

    Ahem.

    Anyway, I know what a first cousin is — the offspring of your parents’ siblings. What I’ve never been clear on is what is a second cousin, or a first cousin once removed, or a ___th cousin X times removed, etc.

    Can I give an example, and someone fill in the blank for me?

    My children have a 20-something-year-old first cousin who is a mother. Her older child, interestingly, is five days younger than my youngest child. So my 7-year-old daughter is first cousin to the 20-something-year-old, and what (?) to her cousin’s 7-year-old child?

    And just to add a fun little twist, older 7-year-old gets hand-me-downs from super-tall younger 7-year-old. 😉

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  34. That child is your children’s first cousin once removed.
    First Generation – Frist Cousin
    Second Generation- Second Cousin.

    Any child of a first cousin is the other cousin’s First cousin once removed. The grandchild of a first cousin would be the other first cousin’s first cousin twice removed and on down.
    On Michelle’s situation one of her ancestors was a cousin to Abraham Lincoln through a great aunt who was a sister to one of Lincoln’s ancestors.
    FINALLY something I know about. Useless information really.

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  39. I remember when I was rather young, like seven years old or so, we had an 8 X 11 or so piece of paper in the top drawer of our dining room buffet. It had terms and definitions for family relationships printed on it. I loved to study that page. The usual were on it — father, mother, sister, brother, grandfather, grandmother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew, grandson, granddaughter, maybe great- relationships — but I don’t think cousin was defined in any other way than simply first cousin. Otherwise I probably would not have needed to ask my question above. 😉

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  40. Did y’all hear a small plane crashed into our busy I285 perimeter expressway? I think it really is a miracle that no drivers got hit. Four people are dead. A man and his two sons along with one son’s fiancee. They were going to Ole Miss for graduation of another son. Their dog was on the flight, too, and died. Very sad!!!

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  41. I heard about that, Janice, and that the four who died were on the plane. I didn’t know other details, but I was surprised, too, that no one on the ground was killed.

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  43. Yep. 6 Arrows, I was waiting to make sure it loaded. The girls didn’t just make my day; they made my year. 🙂 My husband and I went out to get a few groceries, and when we came home, the table bore a basket of flowers with a card wishing me a happy Mother’s Day with “we love you” and two signatures. Very happy mama here.

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  46. Speaking of relatives & their names…I find it odd that, to use an example, Forrest is grandnephew to my brother & SIL, but they are his great uncle & great aunt. I think they should be grand-uncle & grand-aunt.

    As for you all saying “Ahhhh”, shouldn’t that be “Awwww….”? I think of “Ah” as more related to “Aha!” or the sound we make instead of saying “Oh, I see.”

    One thing that bugs me that I see on Facebook is when people are saying “Awww…”, but they spell it “Awe…”.

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  47. Yeah, it probably should be awwww. But they didn’t spell it, they sighed it. 🙂 And so did I (though internally) when I saw the flowers. And then I hugged them both and told each girl I love her.

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