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Our Daily Thread 5-15-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And thank you all for the birthday wishes yesterday. 🙂

Today’s header pic is from Janice. 

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On this day in 1602 Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.

In 1862 Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In 1940 nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.

In 1948 Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.

And in 1957 Elvis Presley inhaled a cap on one of his teeth. He had to be taken to a Los Angeles hospital to have it removed from his lung. 😯

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Quote of the Day

“I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

L. Frank Baum

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Today is Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi’s birthday. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

37 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-15-15”

  4. It’s FRIDAY!
    You know what that means?

    The momma and daddy geese are teaching their three young one to ignore the truck that’s coming down their road. It will wait.

    Those look just like Georgia pines.
    I didn’t know Elvis had that event. I was just getting ready to graduate from Carolina and wasn’t paying much attention to anything else this time in 1957.
    And preparing to get married. That too.

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  7. Good morning, all. Hope you have a great day!

    36 hours until my next piano performance, and I’m looking forward to it — don’t feel like I’ll be nervous for it, as I had no problem with nerves when I played a few weeks ago — but my upper left arm is hurting quite a bit, the last couple days, especially, so prayers are appreciated that I can find some measure of relief. I haven’t figured out what’s helping and what’s hurting; when it seems like I’m getting better, then it gets worse.

    Wisdom for how to use the time leading up to it. And a pain-free performance would be wonderful. (It doesn’t usually hurt while I play, though — except yesterday — mainly only afterwards, but sometimes not until days later. Hard to tell if playing helps keep the arm from stiffening up — it often feels the best right after I finish playing — or if playing is causing things to be worse in the long run, and the effects aren’t apparent until much later.)

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  8. Some of you may have seen this on my FB page last night. I told all of you last year about Nicole, the young mother who was dying of cancer. I may have even shared some of her videos. I am going to post a video so that you will know who she is and then an article her husband wrote. The article will have some graphic details of what she went through. While she and I were not close friends we did attend a Women’s Bible Study together and she was just one of those women who glowed from the inside out.

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  10. That story hit me on quite a few levels since I read it last night. Despite 4 kids I guess I’m more squeamish than I thought. I can’t believe my daughter wants to be a doctor.

    And that verse about greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend.

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  11. I’m drinking a mug of hot coffee and enjoying the sounds of rain this morning … Glorious, thank you Lord.

    And I got the trash and recyclables (2 weeks worth) down to the curb just before it started raining again last night. Not sure how much rain we had yesterday, it was stop-and-go most of the day, but today was supposed to be the rainiest.

    Hi ann, I was wondering how (and where) you were. 🙂

    Glad 6 arrows isn’t nervous, I sure would be. Um, but I suppose that would be mostly because I don’t play the piano. Good reason to be nervous about a performance in 36 hours, right? hahaha

    I talked to my friend Carol last night, she said there was a little party and they were serving root beer floats where she stays one afternoon earlier in the week and that residents had to “dance” if they wanted a 2nd helping. She said the ice cream floats were very good and so she “danced” (she said) for the first time in her life. 🙂

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  13. Re: nylon stockings being sold for the first time in 1940.

    Back then, stockings had a seam up the back. My mother told me that her mom couldn’t afford stockings, so she would use an eyebrow pencil to draw a fake seam up the back of her leg. 🙂

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  14. Hope you won’t have any dreams about having to play the piano for someone, Donna. And if you do, let’s hope there won’t be an alligator or something at your feet while you play. 🙂

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  15. I remember those dark seams up the backs of nylons. My grandmother used to wear those. I never in my life saw her in a pair of pants, that I recall. Always dresses with nylons.

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  16. Happy belated birthday AJ!
    Stockings…ugh! I was so excited to be allowed to wear a pair of stockings to my 7th grade choir concert…oh that garter belt! I only wear tights now….I detest even panty hose 😛

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  17. I never saw my grandmother in pants, either, always dresses, nylons and clunky grandma shoes. 🙂

    I can still see her sitting at her sewing machine or walking heavily across the kitchen floor of her house next to the railroad tracks in northwest Iowa where we often stayed (after my maternal grandfather on the other side of the family died — we stayed mostly with him before that, when I was little, then with my paternal grandmother when I got older; they lived in the same small town — at least my grandmother’s house had indoor plumbing. 🙂 ).

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  20. Glad to see Annms back!

    My nose is having allergy issues lately. May have to get allergy med if it doesn’t lighten up. It is because the rain moved out to CA and now we have built up pollen! Thanks, Donna and Michelle!♡

    I can’t see the header, but based on comments, I think it must be tree and cloud picture outside our office. Little black things are probably pine cones!

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  22. My mother was not allowed to wear pants on Sundays. She certainly would not have worn them to many places. I was not allowed to wear them in school until I was in tenth grade, I believe. Although, we did wear them under our skirts in the winter.

    I always believed pants were far more sensible for girls on the playground, so my girls wore them or dresses/jumpers/skirts as they desired.

    Those were the days when teachers dressed like professionals.

    I wore those nylons with the seams. We were so happy for panty hose! A woman wouldn’t have been caught dead without her nylons.

    I like casual dress, but there is a place for more formal and business dress. Children need to be taught to dress properly.

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  23. I remember my grandmother in all dresses also. She got bad frost bite on her exposed leg when she was going after a cow in a field. I am glad we are not confined to only dresses anymore.

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  24. Oh, pine cones, of course.

    I’ve been trained to always look for birds on this blog. 🙂 “there’s got to be a bird in there somewhere … ” I often think when pictures don’t automatically display them. 🙂

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  25. Whew, just sent out five different emails to my piano families. Two emails to both families, two to the first family, and one to the second family. I like to keep separate matters separate, so my “Video of the Week” email that I send on Fridays was different than my “Here is your child’s summer piano schedule” was different than my “Here’s a new promotion for saving money off your lesson fee” etc.

    I decided to offer a program where any referral to my studio which results in a new student enrolling will earn the referring party one free month of lessons after the new student begins his/her second month of lessons.

    And since my second family came to me by way of referral by the first student’s parents, I decided to make the policy retroactive to last November when I reopened my studio. So I emailed my thanks to that first family and let them know they’re already in on the deal. 🙂

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  26. Did something new today — something involving technology, and it actually worked! 🙂

    I have a new student coming for an interview next week, and I need to make another copy of my piano lesson policy to give her family.

    Well, I’ve known for a while that our black printer ink cartridge needing replacing, but I didn’t know if we had any more at home, and even if we did, 1st Arrow is always the one who buys and changes ink cartridges as needed (or when I tell him to).

    Today I found some black printer ink here, and, since 1st Arrow was gone and I really wanted to get going on printing my policy so it was done, I decided to try replacing the old cartridge with the new myself.

    I got it snapped into place, pretty sure I’d done it right. Then I tried printing the title page of my policy and, wouldn’t you know, turns out we’re out of paper! 😛

    I put in an old scratch piece of paper on which 5th Arrow had drawn some dashboards (his favorite thing to do) to see whether the ink worked, pressed print, and, sure enough, the lovely blank ink typed right on top of his drawing. 😉

    So now it’s time to go shopping for some printer paper. When I get back from getting my groceries, you can ask me if I remembered to buy paper! 🙂

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  29. Three and a half hours without a comment? Looks like I cleared out the room.

    Well, lots to do this weekend, so see you all sometime after that.

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  32. Heavy reading, Kim. I worked home health and hospice for 15 years. I would say that most terminally ill patients are not very nice to their closest family. I have seen that again and again. A good reminder for us to pray for the caregivers.

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  34. Chas, 7:01, lol! That explains it. 😉

    Kim, I just read the link (9:06) now. Heart-wrenching. I lost two friends, one very close, to cancer four years ago. Such an awful disease. It leaves a profound mark on those left behind after claiming a loved one.

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  35. What reading that article reminded me to do was to be thankful cancer took my father as quickly as it did. I fed him a ::ouole of times through a feeding tube and went outside t I throw up. It has now been long enough that my stepmother and I can cry then laugh about having to draw straws to decide which one of us would have had to smother him with a pillow. Luckily we never experienced the unkindNess spoken of in this article.
    Some of the comments were not kind to Matt for telling the story from his perspective but for those who are experiencing it it has to help to know it is a common thing.

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  36. Sixth Arrow and I just paged through (and read) your spring walk book you posted yesterday, Cheryl. Very nice. A great nature lesson! Who says we can’t homeschool at nine on a Friday night? 😉

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