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Our Daily Thread 6-1-15

Good Morning!

Welcome to 🌷 June 🌷 🙂

Today’s photos are from Cheryl.

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On this day in 1774 the British government ordered the Port of Boston closed.

In 1861 the first skirmish of the U.S. Civil War took place at the Fairfax Court House, Virginia.

In 1869 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.

In 1938 baseball helmets were worn for the first time.

And in 1963 Governor George Wallace vowed to defy an injunction that ordered the integration of the University of Alabama.

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Quote of the Day

“I still play that guitar. It’s a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I’ve played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.”

Andy Griffith

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Since it’s Andy’s birthday, here he is with his Martin, and Don Knotts. 

And it’s Pat Boone’s too. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

30 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-1-15”

  2. The header photo is the one that made both my stepdaughters (independently) say “Ahhhh.” Admit it if you did the same thing. 🙂

    The little fellow was in his mom’s pocket when we first went into the kangaroo area. Someone said something about wondering when he would be old enough to get out of the pocket, and I said he’s big enough to now. I’d seen joeys in pockets before (the zoo had several mamas-with-babies two or three years ago, on our first visit), but I had never seen them out. On our visit the following summer, we asked about the absence of babies, and they said they had “retired” the boomer (meaning they’d had him neutered, since he is still present). So I’m guessing this mama and baby probably came from another zoo.

    Anyway, while we watched, he got out, wandered around, reached his head inside the pocket (presumably to nurse) several times, and got back in and then back out. His feet look nearly as long as mama’s, and I can’t imagine it’s at all comfortable for her to have him climb in and out. I’m not sure how close he is to the age at which she won’t let him get back in, but my hunch is that isn’t too far away.

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  3. Oh, I saw the Chesterton link in yesterday’s prayer thread. Chesterton is one of my favorites (he has three feet of shelf space in our library), and I got to copy-edit a couple of books about him a few years ago.

    One of his most famous quotes is as follows:

    “Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World’ I am. Yours truly.”

    The link attributed it to his book, What’s Wrong with the World, which is a misattribution; it is probably cited in a publisher’s preface or something of the sort in the compiler’s edition of that book, but it is not in the book text.

    In fact, the biographer I edited said he looked for that quote in the archives of the newspaper or journal it was supposed to be in, did a thorough search to be able to put an actual date on that famous quote, but it simply isn’t there. He determined it isn’t genuine Chesterton, but rather just sounds like Chesterton. Chesterton did indeed end up writing a book about the subject with that title, a very good book.

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  5. Good Morning Everyone. I am sick. I don’t do sick very well. I have had some sort of allergy attack with eyes, runny, a wet cough that has kept me up most of the night. Mr. P says I have the voice of a 40 year smoker. That is, when I have a voice. I have coughed to the point my throat is raw and itchy. Ugh. I sent a text that I wouldn’t be able to come in to the office today and would handle what I could from home. Did I mention I don’t like to be sick?

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  6. I don’t handle sick very well either Kim.
    Elvera took a long time to learn that when I am sick, I don’t want to be nursed. I don’t want to be cared for. I have this great desire to be left alone.
    “Leave me alone and let me die.” Just go away!.
    Elvera, OTOH, wants to be treated like a baby.
    She doesn’t understand me. but I understand her; my dad was the same way.

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  7. Good 1st of June morning to you all!

    Sorry to hear of your illness, Kim. You are starting June with a summer sounding cold.

    This day is loaded with things to do.
    Next week is VBS. I will be working with snacks this year. It will be a new area for me. I will be the young one in the group. That will be nice for a change from being the oldest! For several years we have been doing Marketplace 29 A.D. Does anyone else do that? I guess we don’t have the budget to do the other VBS programs I was use to in the past.

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  8. It’s not raining today…and I’m off from work! I get to get outside and tend to my “flower garden”! Cutting back the dead stuff so that the new shoots have a chance….the peonies are getting taller and the phlox is trying to stay alive. The hail, snow and cold has taken it’s toll on the plum tree….what a sorry mess…we just may have to put it out of it’s misery 😦
    Anyone have an idea how to keep woodpeckers off of one’s house? Every year they make a nest above the dining room window…pecking away…they are attempting to make a new hole in the stucco…I am so tired of the battle with these pesty things!

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  9. NancyJill, you can probably find a solution by googling “how to keep woodpeckers off your house” or something of that sort. We have sapsucker damage to a tree and in the fall I googled how to keep woodpeckers away and found all sorts of suggestions.

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  10. My husband “does” sick the same as Chas. I figured that out early on. He also has the crazy notion that he can “work it off” so instead of resting, pushes himself to exercise or do physical work. And they say women are hard to understand . . .

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  11. Chas, sickness in one we love brings out a woman’s nurturing spirit. I’ve said on here that I would make a horrible nurse since I get queasy even with conversations about medical stuff. (If I’m in a room where people start discussing what the doctor found in someone’s kidney when they went in to do surgery, or whatever, I quietly take that chance to visit the rest room or go to get a drink, anything to get away from the conversation for a few minutes.) I’ve cared for vomiting children a few times; I even had a child in the bunk above mine at camp wet her bed one time, and I woke up to “water” running over the end of the bed and onto my pillow; my hair was already damp. I can do it if I have to. The key is the relationship, not the illness. I couldn’t volunteer to do it for strangers. (Although in Nashville I did voluntarily drive strangers to the doctor, and over time some of them became friends. But I was only driving for them, not doing medical stuff.)

    When I was a college student, one year I did weekly babysitting for a group of students’ wives who met weekly while their husbands attended school. One little boy was about the cutest baby I’ve ever seen. He was a bit over a year old, and in constant motion, but as adorable as they come. One day I took care of the children when that child was a little “under the weather.” Usually it wasn’t possible to get the little guy in your lap, because he would never pause for anything, but that day I sat and held him, and it was sweet. Women are wired to revel in simple moments that we can offer care.

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  16. Have mercy…there is a man living in my house who feels the world must stop when he is sick….do this do that feel sorry for me you aren’t doing enough for me…and I’m not talking behind his back here…he knows he behaves like this….I love him dearly….and I pray for his continual good health 🙂
    I researched how to dissuade woodpeckers from nesting on my house….not certain I want my home to look like an amusement park fun house…really….hang banners, shiny ribbons from the eves, tin pie pans in the trees, wind chimes from the roof….I do have a fake owl and am thinking of hanging him on a different tree limb…hoping he scares them away!

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  19. Bird post. 🙂 The killdeer family has been hanging around in our yard quite a bit. I’m seeing one adult and two sub-adults. I don’t know if that means some chicks got caught or some chicks are hanging out with dad and some with mom . . . I don’t know that much about the species.

    At any rate, it is now quite hard to tell the adults from the young. The young have two stripes, though the space between them is tannish, different from the white in the adults, and their tails still don’t look like an adult’s tail, and I think they are still smaller. But all of that is the sort of thing where you really have to look pretty closely through a zoom lens. Well, this morning the adult flew next door to get a drink. As far as I know, I haven’t seen the young ones fly (I might have . . . I would have to know before it flew that it wasn’t an adult, and I don’t always know). So I wondered whether the young ones had flown, whether they ducked under the fence, or what, but I didn’t really worry about it, I just watched the mother get a drink and a quick bath in the rain puddle. Then she flew back into our yard.

    Thinking I might get some photos of her grooming herself, I turned the camera on her–only to discover that she had landed right next to two brown lumps in the grass and that those two lumps were her chicks, huddled and nearly invisible until she got a chance to return! For a few minutes, the three formed a very tight circle; it looked a bit like a little family reunion, like a mother bird landing back on the nest. One chick stayed hunkered down for quite some time before he finally came out of his crouch.

    Later, a flicker was moving across the yard. I watched, camera on, because I knew I might well get some good shots when he got too close to the chicks for mama’s comfort. Eventually she did go after him–I was beginning to think she wasn’t going to, since he was close to the family for a minute or so before she finally responded. They moved too fast and I got Mama’s response, but the flicker wasn’t in the lens by that time. But I felt a bit like I was watching a nature video out my back window.

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  20. Waved off Jo just a little while ago. That gadabout is off to Napa for lunch with more friends. Splendid time chatting with her and learning all about PNG–I had no idea. She and a friend of ours were supremely helpful in ensuring I was properly dressed for my talk last night! 🙂

    A pleasure to sit and chat with one of my WV friends!

    Here’s what I just posted on FB, just as pertinent to you all:

    THANK YOU so much to all who prayed for me. It went well. I spent all of last week prepping and still got to Saturday unsure about how I wanted to present my “work and passion” for Oswald Chambers and My Utmost for His Highest. So, I sat and prayed, asking for insight. The Lord suggested I include quotes from MUFHH as “party favors,” and punctuate the talk with folks standing and reading them. It went beautifully and really engaged the audience–and of course, so many of the quotes read were apt to whatever I was discussing at the time. Total blessing and so much fun.

    As a bonus, one of the men in attendance had a 1935 edition of My Utmost For His Highest–the first year it was released in the US. He asked me to autograph it! LOL. And another man had grown up in Zeitoun, Egypt–which is where OC died in 1917. The world is so very small and so many people love that devotional–12 million copies (ballpark) in sales so far.

    It was an honor to spend a couple hours with so many whose lives have been touched by, really, the hand of God.

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  21. Chas – I’m guessing Elvera understands you better than you think. We women just can’t help ourselves. 🙂

    Lee tends to want a little pampering when he’s sick, but not much. Usually, he’s working anyway. (It will be nice when he has a “regular job” where he can take a day off if he’s sick, but he probably wouldn’t take advantage of that option unless he’s very sick.)

    Emily is the big baby about being sick in our family. Chrissy was easy to take care of when she was sick as a child.

    I pretty much take care of myself when I’m sick.

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  22. I just finished reading the first collection of Summer Brides stories. All three were good, but I am prejudiced and like Michelle’s best. 😉 Especially since I got two winks in the story.

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  23. I know it isn’t the right day for rants and raves, but it has been that sort of day:

    😦 It was two years ago that my brother-in-law was taken to the hospital from work and was dead by the time my sister arrived at the hospital, leaving behind five children 14 and under.

    🙂 My father-in-law seems to be doing much better. My husband and I ran into his parents at Wal-Mart a few hours ago. (We parked in the space next to their car–without realizing it–as they were in the car ready to leave.)

    😦 I got a call this morning from Chicago, telling me that a dear friend had a leg amputated a month ago (diabetes complications) and she’s back in the hospital because apparently it isn’t healing as it should.

    🙂 How often does a middle-aged white woman get a call from an older black man telling her about the injury of an (unrelated) older black woman, both of them members of a church she hasn’t attended for 12 years?

    🙂 I got to call my friend in the hospital; though I kept the call brief, I think it was an encouragement to both of us to hear each other’s voice. (This same friend came to visit me in Nashville for the better part of a week, and I introduced her at church as “my Chicago mama.”)

    😦 I got an e-mail from another good friend that her daughter is in the hospital, and though she didn’t tell me very much, the situation doesn’t sound very good.

    🙂 I finally got a very good photo of a flicker in flight, which I’ve been trying to photograph for a couple of years now, previously with very mediocre results.

    😦 I’m editing a fiction book for older children and teens written by one of my brothers, in which a good part of the theme seems to be that if you follow Christ your life will be all peaches and roses. Having lost his first wife to cancer, and having several other hard trials he has faced, he of all people knows better.

    🙂 Before I could get around to starting supper, my younger daughter came into the kitchen and began preparations. I guess I’m off the hook for tonight!

    🙂 All things work together for good for them that love God, for them that are called according to His purposes.

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