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Our Daily Thread 5-26-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1521 Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings.

In 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.

In 1865 arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.

And in 1959 the word “Frisbee” became a registered trademark of Wham-O.

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Quotes of the Day

“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.”

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” 🙂

John Wayne

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Today is Hank Williams Jr’s birthday. 

And it’s Stevie Nicks’ too. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UD0c58nNCQ&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-26-15”

  2. Good Morning Everyone. I trust you all had a great long weekend. We spent time with friends this weekend. They have an old bay house (built in 1900). They went down Friday and opened up the house so all weekend was a come and go as you please open house. Sunday night BG asked me if I would take her to lunch on Monday. She initiated it, I did not. Progress there. I read two books by one of my favorite authors. I wouldn’t classify her as “Christian Fiction” but her books lean that way and are wholesome. In one of the books I read this weekend, one of the characters is dying of cancer. In one of the passages, her husband is saying the blessing over dinner and concludes it with “in Jesus Name, Amen”.

    In other news, BG will have her bottom wisdom teeth removed today at Noon. She is scared. Part of it is Drama Queen and part of it is that in her life she has already had a lot done to her mouth. Her father and I will both be with her. We have secret plans to video her acting silly afterwards. She has had “laughing gas” once before and was hysterical. He missed that one.
    I will ask that you pray for her. I assured her yesterday that both her father and I had survived it and lived to tell the tale.
    She tells me all the time how her dad just needs to chill out. He over-reacts to this, that, and the other. I can barely contain my laughter. Unlike me, she continues to do whatever is sending him into fits and tells him to calm down I am a very good ex-wife and tell her if she knows she is going to cause him to have a hissy fit to stop doing whatever it is she is doing.
    Nana (ex mother in law) has a squirt bottle of water and sprays whichever one of them needs it at the time.

    Mr. P is seeing a pain management specialist. He is have to drive about 2 hours each way to see this doctor. They have changes up his medicines and he is having to adjust to them and find out which combinations and dosages are going to work. He was out in the heat Saturday and it really took a toll on him.. It is looking like there will be another surgery this summer. I am very apprehensive about it, but again, it isn’t in my control..

    Have a GREAT DAY

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  5. All right, re the photo . . . I’m often tempted to say, on seeing AJ’s bird photos, “Oh, I just got a wonderful shot of a downy woodpecker (or whatever species is up there) myself!” but who really cares? This one, though, is funny, because yesterday (at our church picnic at a member’s house), I got my first-ever photos of purple martins (some flying to their nests and one sitting on the clothesline), and I open the blog and there is a purple martin?! (That is what this one is, right, and not some other swallow-type bird? I’m not an expert on them, I pretty much just know barn swallows.)

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  6. Who knows the saying “like a martin to a gourd’?

    Chas, I just think it is funny. They have a lot of the same personality. She may look like me, but she acts like him.

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  7. I have a new app on my phone that lets me customize radio stations. I have created one for Hank Williams, LaVerne Baker, Johnny Cash, and Johnny Horton. This morning this song came up. I had never heard it before so I will share it with you today.

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  8. After Johnny’s song, you can go to the right and select “The Old Account” … “The old account was settled long ago.”
    It reminds me of a verse I have mentioned to you several times. Romans 2:5 “But in accord with your hardness and impenitent heart you are treasuruing up for yourself wrath in the day fo wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

    If I were a preacher, I would get a sermon on that, simillar to R.G. Lee’s “Payday Someday”, Different text.
    I’m reading Clinton Cash, and when I read about how, for example, Meles Zenawy,dictator of Ethiopia, and many others, used U.S. aid to enrich themselves, I think of this. They are adding wrath to their account. All of this has to be accounted for.
    Revelation 20:12 says, “And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things that were written in the books, according to their works.
    That means that those written in the Book of Life have settled the account. Those who are judged out of the BOOKS have an account that is not settled.
    These people don’t realize that in their corruption they are adding to their Wrath Account. Storing up some wrath for the day of judgment.
    The bill will be paid.

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  9. chas, it’s a good reminder for us to continue to pray for the lost, that God will bring particularly those around us into His kingdom. Nineveh.

    It feels like Monday to me. 🙂

    So far, I’ve had to clean up dog barf (good thing I keep my sofa heavily covered, though I sat in it before I saw it. Eww). I only allow Tess on the sofa at night, but maybe I’ll have to stop doing that … Not that she gets sick often, and it was a strange place for her to get sick (I assume it’s here, it’s where she usually sleeps). I spot cleaned it up but probably will have to toss the cover in the wash tonight when I get home.

    And this afternoon is my 6-mo. dental cleaning so I’ve been good about flossing … this weekend. 🙂 We’ll see if I get another lecture, though, I have not been as consistent as I promised I would be last time I was in. The hygienist I used to see has retired, she was so nice. This new one is tough as nails. I have to struggle not to roll my eyes when she starts in on me. 🙄 🙂

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  13. BG didn’t have her wisdom teeth out today. She had a reaction to one of the medicines they gave her and became combative and emotional. We will try again at the end of the summer/

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  14. Donna, i have empathy. I had to clean up cat barf last night. Every so often Bosley does that with her food. She is not sick, but maybe ate too much at one time.

    Nice to have son home for his short visit. We had food from The Varsity last night. Chili steaks, onion rings, frosted orange drinks, and fried peach pies. This is over by Georgia Tech.

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  16. Yes, Karen, they peck them to death, and it is gruesome. When my family had chickens, we had to keep an eye out for any hen that got some kind of open wound, and separate it from the rest until the wound healed. Otherwise, the other hens would peck at the wound until they killed the wounded hen.

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  19. I was talking to one daughter last week and remembering that when one of my children was a senior in high school, I would not get up until she left the house. Mornings did not work for her and I did not want to be a target. I left her on her own to work it out.

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  21. She did this once before. We just need to remember from now on that she reacts to halcynol. My father did the same thing. I had forgotten. Her father took her home and put her to bed sobbing. Once it wears off she will be fine.

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  22. Interesting, the Daily Mail picked up one of our local stories I’ve been covering (the term “post-apocalyptic” is from my stories although I may not have been the first to have used it either …). This area, the jumbled ruins of an old landslide, is about a mile from where I live along the cliffs in Southern California. Kind of a nice aerial “flyover” video at the end of the area as well.

    ” …the area has grown in cult status buoyed by the young, hip and delinquent looking to party in the graffiti-covered ruins of the cliffside town. Dozens of people can still be found there on sunny days or warm summer nights, despite a large NO TRESPASSING sign and an iron fence built by Los Angeles in 1987 after a string of deaths on the rocky coast. …”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3079007/Sunken-City-abandoned-Los-Angeles-community-exclusive-coastal-bungalows-slid-ocean-foot-foot-reopen-public-post-apocalyptic-site-teenage-party-spot-decades-long-closure.html

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  23. I just tell them that their stuff better not interfere with my peace. They see to it. Any bickering or whatever does not happen around me. It is good.

    Remembering what causes problems like that is important but not something I think of at the time, unfortunately. I tell them they need to remember what they are allergic to. I will try but my mind is not that good.

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  25. Our parent robins seem to have successfully fledged at least one of their young. It has been sitting on the fence for at least the last couple of hours, but it is now in the tree and thus past the just-out-of-the-nest-but-near-the-ground danger time. (Of course, if I were a cat I wouldn’t want to mess with a robin fledgling, not unless it was still near the ground after dark. They are very protective and very watchful. But a hawk at the right place at the right time might stand a chance.) I got some decent shots of baby on fence, baby being fed worm, and finally baby and parent in tree and then baby in tree.

    It’s rather cool when you can sit inside your own library on a misty, cloudy day and get decent wildlife shots. 🙂

    I don’t know where the nest it (except that it apparently was not in our yard this year–I saw parents flying with worms away from our yard multiple times), but they have been hunting in our yard with great diligence and success, gathering several caterpillars within a few minutes, and then flying away with a beakful. I’m glad to see evidence of success.

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  26. Donna- Most teens are not combative. It is a learned behavior. It all starts when they are much younger and parents don’t stop certain behaviors.

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  27. I’m preparing for my lecture about Oswald Chambers on Sunday night. I’ve got an outline, have put together a powerpoint and am pretty knowledgable on the subject. The theme of this Enlighten Up lecture series is “Christians talking about their work and their passions.”

    Given that, can any of you suggest how long I should spend talking about myself–or at least Poppy, the book that started it all?

    I’ve got 90 minutes to speak.

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  28. I went by to check on BG. She is in bed with a 102 temp. George had called the doctor’s and read them the riot act. It took both his mother and me to calm him back down. He eventually calmed down and accepted my suggestion that I call to reschedule and his mother said maybe she better go with me next time.
    I lived most of my life with highly string type a men. Thankfully I came home to calmness escape for the dogs but they were happy to see me

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  29. Kim, is it possible she was getting sick already and that’s part of the reason she reacted badly to the drug? Or is she allergic to it?

    Sorry you have to go through this. 😦

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  30. Probably a combination. She has reacted to something similar before and we forgot because it’s been about 4 years. My dad reacted badly to the same types of drugs aND always came out of anesthesia fighting. I don’t react well to pain meds so it is just something to be more aware of In the future.
    G has his phone alarm set to check on her every hour.

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  31. I will say that everyone in Wayward Pines was very calm acting.

    Chas, I was wondering about Ann, too.

    Dental visit over, no lecture this time — she said I was doing better 🙂 Not great. But better.

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  39. Donna- I got put in the West also. But I am an enigma- I was raised out West in a family of New Yorkers, but have lived in the Midwest most of my life. So I call some things (like garage/yard sale) by more than one name.

    Now, a good question or two would be these:
    -What you call blue pants made of denim? Levi’s, (blue)jeans, dungarees or something else?
    -What do you call a carbonated, sweet drink? Soda, pop, soda-pop, Coke, or something else?

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  40. Here in Connecticut, that would be a tag sale. Although born in Connecticut, most of my growing up was in the midwest (Ohio & Wisconsin, but also two earlier years in the southern state of Tennessee). So I grew up calling those sales a garage sale.

    Jeans. My dad, born & raised in Connecticut, & then away for a few years in the Air Force, called them dungarees.

    Soda. Where I grew up in the midwest, people called soft drinks pop, but they were wrong. 😉

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  42. We call them: garage/yard sales interchangeably; jeans (Levi’s are a brand, blue is redundant, and dungarees is that funny word for pants in Trixie Belden mysteries); and pop, though we know what soda means – it’s only Coke if it is Coke (Hey, think I could sell that slogan to the company?).

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  43. I got “west” as well, though I was born to parents “from all over” and I myself have lived in the Southwest (which is not really “the West,” sorry), the Midwest (which is not “west” at all), and the Southeast.

    The only gripe is that they didn’t have the right option for crayon: cran. And we said “ahnt” but got laughed at since none of our friends did. Most of my family has switched to “ant,” and I know go back and forth but prefer to say it the way it is spelled.

    And is it only southwesterners who pronounce “coyote” with just two syllables, not the way Wile E. Coyote’s name is pronounced? Even the dictionary seems to say three is the preferred pronunciation, but I grew up where the critters migrated from, and we said the word with just two. Or at least my family did, but as far as I remember everyone else did too.

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  44. Blue jeans (they do come in other colors), grew up saying “pop” but again, I don’t think others around us did.

    Freeway, highway, or something else? We grew up with freeways (meaning non-toll roads, I think).

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  45. jeans and pop. Apparently, I’m Mid-west, but they didn’t give an option for runners or running shoes. 😦 And I’ve only lived in Canada. 🙂

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