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Our Daily Thread 5-30-15

Good Morning!

Welcome to the weekend! 🙂

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On this day in 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

In 1783 the first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called “The Pennsylvania Evening Post”

In 1868 Memorial Day was observed widely for the first time in the U.S.

And in 1958 unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Quote of the Day

“That’s all folks!”

Mel Blanc

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 The genius of Mel Blanc, The Man of 1000 Voices.

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Anyone have a QoD?

60 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-30-15”

  1. For those of you who don’t remember Mel Blanc, his character was a stutter.
    He ended a Bugs Bunny cartoon with “th th th that’s all folks” But he was also a character in the cartoons. Maybe Porky Pig but I don’t rightly remember now.
    He appeared with Jack Benny on occasion.
    You don’t see people who stutter much anymore. It used to be fairly common.
    I had a friend in college who stuttered, but was healed of it when he became a Christian.
    It was not considered a miracle at the time, just that he got his mind straight, because his stutter was when he was upset or frustrated some way.
    I only saw him stutter once after that. And it was when he was angry.

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  2. But the one I really liked was the girl who ended the Hee Haw program. I forgot what she said, but I liked her.
    She was also an important part of the program. She didn’t sing, she didn’t dance. She never showed her bosom or legs. She was just there. Those of you who saw the program know what I mean.

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  4. Good morning! Son is flying back a little later. He and I had dinner at a Texas Road House last night. Son said he came all the way from Texas to Georgia to have dinner there! 🙂

    How does a week go by so fast? Miss Bosley loves Wesley. He has more energy to deal with her antics.
    But he thinks I let her get away with too much.

    The fans kept the house pleasant so I still have not turned on AC. Just saving money there to pay high health insurance cost.

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  6. Janice I don’t know how you are doing it living with just fans. Of course you probably have an older house that was built by different standards and cross ventilation. Newer construction is more “airtight”. They don’t consider where they place windows and all the insulation keeps the heat in rather than letting it escape. I don’t know that I could survive too long in this house with no A/C.
    Of course at work they fixed the A/C because our office was too hot. It’s on the front of the building and gets direct sunlight. Now that the fixed it the guys I work with are happy but I sit in my corner shivering. I go outside to talk on my phone so I can thaw out.

    I had another experience at Ruby Tuesday last night. Not the first time this has happened but they handled it much better last night than they did before. I ordered the petite sirloin medium rare. It took forever for our food to come out. The lady and gentleman at the next table even commented on it. The waitress apologized and told me that they had overcooked my steak and had had to grill another. In a few minutes she brought out our meals. I cut into my steak and it was well done. I called her over, showed it to her and she took it back. In a few minutes one of the managers brought my steak out and asked me to cut into it so she could make sure it was right. Again, it was done. She apologized and said she would take it back and have another cooked. I told her no, I am hungry and will just eat this one. She said she would take care of it and make it right. They comped my meal, then offered us a free dessert. The waitress came by to apologize again, and I told her it wasn’t her fault she wasn’t the one in the kitchen cooking it. We did not take the dessert and I tipped the waitress on what would have been the full amount. Things like that matter.

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  7. I’ll be home all day cleaning and wrestling with Oswald Chambers. Anything to keep Jo entertained tomorrow.

    Adorable granddaughter #3’s birthday last night–#3 birthday. Amazing what a Frozen bathing suit and book can do, but the real thrill was butterfly fairy wings.

    Tempting to go borrow them for the day–you know, flying about waving a wand . . .

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  8. We’re still under our May Gray/cool marine layer here, though it’s supposed to break for a few days of temps around 80, then the layer will probably come back again. I love the marine layer (hated it as a teen, though — it made those first weeks out of school frustrating as we were psychologically ready to hit the beach).

    I’m off to see Carol today, her birthday is Wednesday so I picked up a Kindle gift card and already had a BD card at home ready to go — we need to get her phone paid up for the next month today. She has to pay it in person at the store because she doesn’t really have bank accounts — she just operates on whatever cash she has left after her disability is cashed and rent is paid. I’m paying the phone bill this time as she won’t get her checks until Monday-Tuesday and I don’t want her being without a phone for a whole week until next Saturday, which would be the next time we could get there).

    We need to figure out a way to get the phone payment to be from maybe the 5th of the month each time (rather than the 1st) so she isn’t left with this down time before she can get to the phone store to pre-pay. I guess last month the 1st fell closer to a weekend so she was without the phone only for a couple days before I could take her in to get it paid. Or maybe she’ll figure out a way to get to the phone place on her own if they loosen up their regs where she lives and lets her “out” on her own. 😦

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  10. My brother, Unc, and I discussed tipping at Texas Road House. I told him as a Christian it is a good witness to give a good tip. He chooses to tip on the low end. Son tips high as does my husband. It is funny how siblings grow up in the same family and somehow have so many differences.

    Kim, sorry to hear of your problems at the restaurant. When they give you food as a way to make up for your loss, you can’t help but wonder if you are just giving them an additional opportunity to mess something up. Thanks, but no thanks!

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  11. A few weeks ago my husband received two birthday cards in the mail from our son. His birthday was in March. Then while son was here, I received a Mother’s Day letter in the mail explaining he could not find a card after the holiday. He gave a nice Baylor t-shirt and books to my husband for birthday presents and a nice coffee mug to me from a coffee shop he and I visited near the campus.

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  12. Thanks for all the prayers yesterday. The incubation period for Lyme’s is 2-30 days, so continued prayers would be wonderful! Although those of us in our family who’ve had Lyme’s got it within about 3-4 days after the tick bite (when we were aware of when the tick bite had occurred — we didn’t always know). If I get Lyme’s, I’ll probably know it by early next week.

    Roscuro, thanks for the music selections and your related comments on yesterday’s thread. I enjoyed your telling about Erich Korngold and his composing for both film and traditional classical forms. I have a new piano student starting this summer who is an aspiring film composer, and I am thoroughly enjoying developing a plan to work with her on piano composition as a springboard to further studies in orchestration, etc. (which subjects she will likely study with someone else, as I plan to focus only on piano composition [and piano study] with her). I know her high school band director — she teaches in the district in which I formerly taught elementary general/vocal music — and she has a great music program, including a Music Theory class she let my new student into a year early because of the girl’s strong interest in the subject.

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  13. I was a spoiled child who had the attitude that the servers were there to serve. I was about 17 or 18 when someone informed me it was very likely that the servers were spitting in my food. I got a lot nicer in a real hurry. I know that I wouldn’t be a good server and it looks tiring. I have worked with the public long enough to know that people are RUDE. I try never to send anything back to the kitchen. I am extremely nice to the servers. Who knows what the future holds and I may have to wait tables one day. I would hate people to be rude to me.

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  14. I’m continuing on with the KonMari method, systematically going through categories of items in my home that need keeping, tossing, or giving away. I’m all done with the first two major categories of things — clothes and books. With the exception of my husband’s and adult son’s clothing, which they can decide for themselves what to do with them and when, all the other clothes (including those belonging to my teenage daughters, which they sorted through themselves) have been processed and organized or passed along as needed.

    Books are done, too. And just a note that the one book I have of Michelle’s, A Log Cabin Christmas, was a definite KEEP — YOU’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE WITH THAT BOOK; IT’S STAYING HERE!! 😀

    Paper is the third large category, and that one is huge and overwhelming. I have admittedly lost steam on that. Last night I decided that I would put that part of the project on hold, and do toys and educational manipulatives instead, something that isn’t on the KonMari list, but needs doing at our house anyway.

    So…back to work, and I’ll try to catch up with you guys in a few days again. Have a great weekend!

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  15. Which brings up a good point: deal with servers how YOU would like to be treated. That includes the tip. We learned to tip much better after having a couple of daughters become servers. Neither did it for long. We also became better the longer we let our minds be renewed by the Word. We do tip people who make fairly good wages and then in states where their wages are ridiculous. The servers in those states really need the tips.

    My mother gets irritated with ‘having’ to tip. She feels the restaurants should pay better. The practice evolved, but it is not the server’s fault. They should be doing a good job, however. I worked with the public and do expect to be treated with the respect I gave others.

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  17. I love Mel Blanc! When we were children, the only place we got to watch television was at our grandparents. We usually visited them on Sunday afternoons, and that would be when ‘Looney Tunes’ reruns were played. Our cousins, who were accustomed to television, were too sophisticated to see the wit of those cartoons, and would be annoyed with us for watching them. When we grew up, one cousin admitted to me that we were right, they were very witty. Mel Blanc also played several characters on the Jack Benny show. If you watch the old shows, you’ll see Benny repeatedly break down in silent laughter at Blanc’s comic skill.

    6 Arrows, there are a lot of other classical/film composers – Philip Glass comes to mind – but Korngold was one of the most influential on the film music genre.

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  19. By the way, Chas – Mel Blanc did nearly all the voices in ‘Looney Tunes’: Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester…

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  20. Interesting how things turn out, or how opportunities pop up.

    Yesterday on Facebook, YF again shared an article about why Christian conservatives are wrong about what the Bible says about homosexuality. (It was written by Matthew Vines, an excerpt from his book God & the Gay Christian: The Biblical Support for Same Sex Relationships.) I had had it in my mind for a while to send YF a message or an email at some point, to explain to her that we traditional/conservative Christians have our reasons for believing the traditional view about those scriptures, & that we are not all hateful, bigoted, or ignorant of what scripture really means. I used the opportunity of that post to write what I’d had in mind. (I also waited before posting the comment, to re-examine what I had written, & to make sure I didn’t have a check in my spirit about it.)

    To avoid any fruitless debate, I did not get into the particular reasons, & edited out anything that could stir up debate about the issue itself, but pointed out that theologians have delved into these scriptures for many years, & only a relative few believe the “new” interpretations.

    I also said that I have done my own reading on this topic in the last few years, & am still convinced that the traditional interpretation of scripture is correct. It would actually make life easier if I changed my mind, I wrote, because these days Christians who stand for the traditional view are called haters & ignorant & worse, even by their liberal fellow believers (which must so grieve the heart of Jesus, Who told His followers to love each other & strive for unity).
    The point of my comment to her, I told her, & reiterated at the end of my comment, was not writing to change her mind on the issue, but to urge her to see her more conservative/traditional brothers & sisters in Christ with a more charitable eye.

    Now, I realize she may come back with a caustic reply, & may not accept my words at all. In fact, that’s what I am expecting, unless she is open to the Holy Spirit ministering to her. But at least I tried to reach her. (Again, my point was not about the issue itself, but about Christians of differing opinions having a charitable attitude towards each other.)

    To be continued…

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  21. So far, no reply from YF, but one from a friend of hers, which gave me an opportunity to “witness” a bit. That’s what I meant when I started my comment above with “Interesting how things turn out, or how opportunities pop up.”

    YF’s friend S, not a believer, took issue with a couple of my statements about God & the Bible, & I replied to her concerns in a gentle, courteous manner, sharing the gospel a bit as I did.

    I have no idea if YF will even bother to reply, but that’s okay. I felt I needed to say something, whether she accepts it or not. But I was happy to be able to share some of the gospel with her friend. 🙂

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  22. Roscuro, I’ll have to look into more of those composers you mention with a classical/film composer connection. I hear pieces from Korngold and Philip Glass from time to time when I listen to Minnesota Public Radio online, but I’m not very familiar with film composers, in general — who they are, which films they’ve done, etc. It’s been a lot of years since I’ve watched any film, so I haven’t kept up with the genre.

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  23. Phos @ 3:03
    I know that now but I didn’t then.
    I never really thought about it, I thought it was funny.
    It isn’t as funny now as it was then.

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  25. You can see I am not doing well with my “back to work” plan (1:50 pm). This is what’s called transparency, admitting it here.

    Someone wanna get real mean and ruthless and somehow boot me off of here…at least for the day? 🙂

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  28. Sounds like fun! Have a great meet-up, Jo and Michelle!

    Chas, 5:47, good old gentle Chas. 🙂

    Supper’s in the oven, and I’ve got my rhythm back. I’ll leave you with this…

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  32. 6 Arrows, the most popular composer of current film music, going by YouTube, would be Hans Zimmer (Driving Miss Daisy, Gladiator, The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Inception, and Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/The Dark Knight Rises among others). While he concentrates on film music, his music shows a great deal of influence by Philip Glass – playing his score for Inception next to Philip Glass’s score for The Hours will demonstrate the influence. It is funny, because I have only watched a few of those movies, but as I’ve said before, the first thing I notice about a film is its music. When I went to see the new Cinderella, I found it dazzling to the eye; but I noticed how a little folk song, ‘Lavender’s Blue’ kept reappearing, like a leitmotif, throughout the film score – which was composed by Patrick Doyle, a prominent British film score composer (Sense and Sensibility, Thor, Brave). Just more information for you to know where your student will probably be coming from – an aspiring film composer probably knows all the big names.

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  34. This is ‘Time’ from Zimmer’s Inception. It is a much bigger sound, but he has that minimalist (Glass was one of the leading minimalists) trick of holding the melody notes for a long time, while adding a throbbing harmony:

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  35. Our resident orchestra, Golden State Pops, specializes in performing film score music. Their concerts are lots of fun.

    My parents loved Jack Benny.

    And Judy Garland, as troubled as she was, had a great style & voice (as did her daughter, Liza, but she since also seems to have crashed and burned several times over, sadly).

    Fame, fortune & celebrity are land minds for many (most?) people. And the younger they are when they achieve it, the harder and sadder the fall. 😦

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  37. Roscuro, thank you so much for all the film music information you’ve provided me! Not to mention the videos themselves that you’ve posted. 🙂 It got my creative juices flowing, and I can’t wait to try out some new ideas! (I’ve taught piano composition before, but there will be a new dimension to my teaching this new student when she starts, as no one before her ever mentioned a desire to compose for film.)

    And I am definitely going to go hunting for sheet music to “The Hours.” Spine-tingling, that solo was. 🙂

    I guess it’s time to get creative cleaning up my kitchen now, though. 😉

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  39. 6 Arrows, I had a housemate in Nashville who had at least one degree in that field. She moved to Nashville since it was music city. She had a master’s degree, was gifted musically, and about as beautiful as a 25-year-old woman can be. She was tens of thousands of dollars in debt from her education, but she couldn’t make a dime in her field last I knew. She got an unpaid internship that lasted several months, where the people kept promising that once income was coming in they might be able to hire her for pay . . . and apparently she was one in a string of such “free help until they get fed up” interns those people had.

    In the meantime, she earned money every way she could, which meant walking dogs, babysitting, giving piano lessons and voice lessons.

    I’m guessing there is money in the field for a few people, but my experience would lead me to suggest a person be quite cautious trying this one out . . . kind of like going to college for acting and assuming you’ll make it in Hollywood. (My aspiring actress housemate–yes, I had one of those too–cleaned businesses overnight as her job, specifically so that she could be available for any and every audition. She’d be about 50 now, and she has managed one small “voice of a cartoon character” role and some small parts in Halloween Haunted Houses.)

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  40. Cheryl, very likely it is a tough field to break into, and I’m not really sure how serious she is about going that route. I’ve only met her once, and we didn’t talk too much about that at her interview. It was her mom that told me that over the phone before we met. It could be more of a “Boy, this would be a cool career”-type dream of a 15-year-old who hasn’t really thought out the rigors of preparing for such a thing, and the fact that, even with raw talent and hard work, one still might not (I dare say even “probably won’t”) get much more than a foot in the door, if even that.

    “Aspire to” may not have been the correct phrase to use. 😉

    However, I am encouraged by how excited she is to study composition, and if I can give her some basics in composing memorable melodies, catchy rhythms, harmonies suited to the style and mood she wants to evoke in her music, and the like — music that has direction and focus, i.e. doesn’t wander, etc. — she can hopefully come away with some basic ideas that will, at the very least, increase her enjoyment of music in all its beauty.

    But, yeah, they need to know the realities of life in the performing arts, or getting there.

    On a related topic, at the end of 9th grade (the last year of junior high at the Christian school I attended in my youth), a class booklet was put together where each of the graduating 9th graders would, among other things, name what they wanted to be when they grew up.

    Well, I wanted to be a concert pianist. 🙂

    My piano teacher’s son was in my class, so she saw what I wrote when he brought home his booklet. She quickly and in her very gentle but no-nonsense manner let me know that being a concert pianist required A LOT OF HOURS OF PRACTICE (definitely more than I was putting in) to even begin to get close to heading down that road. (She didn’t say it quite like that, but let’s just say I got the message and decided that idea of mine was a little unrealistic.) 😉

    So I’m going to pass along the wisdom of that particular teacher (she was my favorite of all the ones I’d studied with) and, while keeping positive and encouraging this new student of mine in her gifts, still keep a finger or ten on reality. 🙂

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  41. Question for any artsy people/ party experts, etc.

    My new gravatar (click to enlarge if the heart I posted is showing up) should show the card I’m making for my in-laws’ 60th anniversary, backed with a black background. (It didn’t really work as well as I’d hoped, which is understandable since it’s a tough one and I really didn’t know whether I had the skills to do it at all.)

    Problem: I need to finish it tomorrow or Monday, but I haven’t figured out what color card to mount it on. If it were 25 or 50 years, it would be an obvious “gold” or “silver,” and one of those still might be the best choice. The book from which I got the pattern had it on red, and that would be pretty . . . but I think that would work better if it were for Valentine’s Day or even one’s own anniversary than for a “big” anniversary for someone else.

    I have pretty much every color of paper or cardstock one can imagine, from gold and silver and copper (and several other metallic shades) to mutliple shades of red, green, blue, etc. My husband thought it might work well on a sort of beige, but that might be a little too subtle a contrast. Usually I try a few backgrounds and find one I like, but a 60th anniversary is a “bigger deal” than anything I’ve made before, and I’m really stumped about what to do to make it “just right.”

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  45. Chas, I know. He too will appreciate the effort (and I do make him homemade cards for Father’s Day), but not in the same way.

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  46. A quick google search led me to the 60th anniversary being the diamond anniversary. I happen to know that there is such thing as a canary diamond, so my suggestion would be to use a canary yellow paper.

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  47. Cheryl, maybe use a color that would be a good complement to the color of the room in which the couple would likely display the card? Just a thought.

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  48. Or the color of their attendants at the wedding? If you had pictures of their wedding and there were flowers that might also give you an idea.

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  50. Kathaleena, their wedding photos were black and white, but I asked my sister-in-law and she said the bridesmaids wore pastels. I may go with Kim’s suggestion of canary yellow, since I think that’s one of Mom’s favorite colors, and yellow is also one of the Swedish colors (which we are supposed to wear that day, blue or yellow, to get our photo taken). I’ll try it at least, see how it looks, and if it doesn’t work I’ll try something else. 6 Arrows, I’m not sure there is anything particular in terms of a color scheme with any dominant color.

    Thanks, ladies.

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  51. I just posted this over on Rants & Raves, and then thought I could have posted it here. So I’ll put it both places. 😉

    🙂 I just remembered that today is the 3rd anniversary of the day I joined the conversation at WMB. Exactly three months before the last day of the blog, though of course none of us knew that at the time.

    I am indebted to you, AJ, that you started Wandering Views before the curtain closed on WMB. It’s been a great three years associating with all of you who came along over here. Life-changing in a very good way.

    God bless.

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  52. 6 Arrows, is it really going on three years that we have been over here? I remember that last week at WMB. My husband and I were about to go away for a week, and I realized how close I was to missing all those sweet and sad goodbyes.

    I’ve been working on the card a good bit of the evening. Amazing how long it can take to do something detailed. I’m sewing tiny little beads on it as it is also sewn to a backing sheet. I tried several different colors behind it, and my husband and I both leaned toward a neutral one with just a little bit of shimmer, as one that won’t distract at all from the paper lace. But my back was getting sore from all that time on a kitchen chair, so I took a break to come over and say hi.

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  53. Hi Cheryl. 🙂

    I had to stop and think, too — has it really been three years? But, yeah, it has. I got internet at home in 2011, and lurked at WMB about a year before popping onto the scene. (And just to check whether my memory was accurate, I looked in the sidebar here, and I see AJ’s archives start at August 2012.) 🙂

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  57. I also got the first post of June. 6-1-15. This is number 57 for the thread. But 57 is no longer my age, as of last Sunday. Which a lot of people forgot. Including my son who still hasn’t mentioned it. Oh, well.

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