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Our Daily Thread 6-5-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

The photos are from Janice.  

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On this day in 1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.

In 1794 Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.

In 1851 Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in “The National Era.”

In 1884 Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

And in 1981 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.

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Quote of the Day

“People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Just felt like hearing some Beethoven today. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

29 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-5-15”

  3. Good morning AJ and Linda. Hope all is well with the group. We had a fun time at White Sands yesterday. We saw several of the famous white lizards. We would have taken pictures of the little ones trying to catch said lizards, but we’re afraid we might end up in federal prison if they got posted to facebook. 🙂 🙂

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  4. Good morning AJ and Linda. Hope all is well with the group. We had a fun time at White Sands yesterday. We saw several of the famous white lizards. We would have taken pictures of the little ones trying to catch said lizards, but we’re afraid we might end up in federal prison if they got posted to facebook. 🙂 🙂

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  6. Usually, Rkessler, it says “You already said that”.
    It’s FRIDAY!
    You know what that means?
    We have an auction today, Lions Club fund raiser. I’ve told you 999,999 times that we have zero overhead in our fundraisers. This is how we raise our overhead money.
    Elvera made some brownies. They will bring about $12.00. I’ll pay something like that for some cake or cookies.

    If I go to fight for some foreign country, what happens?
    I know a special pardon of sorts for the Yanks who fought for Britain before we got into WW II.

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  9. So, what are you supposed to make of a day when you pray twice in the morning that you would follow God’s lead all day and just be thankful at the end of the day?

    You spend an entire day doing house chores, running errands, making silly mistakes and being short with half your adorable granddaughters because you feel like you’ve accomplished absolutely nothing. 😦

    Then, finally, when you sit down to work your husband returns from his full day of work–which included driving to San Jose and back. Yikes.

    Oh, and you have to make dinner and then, thank God, you remember you’re teaching the high school Sunday school class–scramble to remember on what!–and what about your own final Bible study that you’re topping off with a birthday party AT YOUR HOUSE on Tuesday?

    Work the lesson–which I haven’t done yet–arrange for lunch on Tuesday . . .

    No wonder I don’t fell like I have any time to write . . .

    I did, however, take 2 one-hour walks and go to the gym to dance, so I suppose not all was lost, particularly in the pound department.

    And it’s a fine day, when all I can hope for (after a walk around the lake with a friend), that I have to stay at work until 3 today so I can legitimately skip the 12:30 church board of education meeting.

    Attitude, attitude, mine is so bad!

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  12. Yes, beautiful flowers! We’re under a heavy marine layer with mist and gray skies and cool temperatures. I like it. 🙂

    There was news yesterday that our flagstaff sister paper in Denver is laying off 12% of its newsroom. At least they’re offering buyouts. The news in journalism seems to only go from bad to worse. And in the middle of it, you’ll have some big editor somewhere who’s been apparently asleep under a tree for the past decade writing a post about “HEY, I know! Online is the thing! Let’s do more digital stuff — more videos, more social media, more data bases! That’ll work!” Really?

    So funny — and sadly so 2005.

    One of them actually suggested that we simply need to quit writing “long” stories — we need to write stories that consist of a sentence, so they can be read on an Apple watch.

    It’s so hard to watch everyone pounding their heads against the wall trying to find “the answer.” I suspect there is no answer (right now) that will make journalism a stable business model again. We seemingly are in a very long (a decade and counting so far), tortuous transition period with no end — or magic bullet — in sight. But everyone keeps trying. And trying.

    And I guess that’s good, better than formally giving up.

    At least we have 2 interns this summer which helps make the newsroom look fuller (and someone got one of those life-sized cardboard cutouts of that bearded guy who does some kind of alcohol or beer commercial, so he’s been assembled and stands near one of our long-empty desks. Seriously, you glance that way and it actually does give the impression there’s a real body there again.

    Meanwhile, they’re cutting back on allowed overtime hours & holiday pay (making us take a comp day to cut down what they have to pay us for working a holiday). We’re still waiting to see if any new buyer appears wanting to purchase our L.A. group of papers out of the national chain.

    I complain too much. I still enjoy what I do and “retirement” simply doesn’t appeal to me in the least, never did — although I suspect it will be forced upon me at some point. 😦 Blech.

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  13. I have been awake since around 2. It was very hard to drag myself out of bed this morning at 6 and I am back down at the beach doing another open house at Seawind. I have had a lot on my mind—obviously. I have an event to attend at 7 tonight and am just not sure about staying functional quite that long.

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  14. Hang in there, Kim. We’re praying. God is doing something (ultimately good) in all of this. Lean on his grace.

    We had a busy night last night here at the port, a young man either jumped or fell to his death from the ocean cliffs (not sure yet if there was any connection to the high school grad ceremony that was held earlier int he evening, but apparently there were many teens out on the cliffs afterward last night).

    Then a suspect wanted in the murder of his girlfriend and baby in another local city Thursday was arrested in our community early this morning — which probably explains the endlessly circling police helicopter in the distance I saw & heard through my open bedroom window at around 2 a.m. …

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  15. I mowed the grass yesterday and my body is still feeling ill from it. The weather was super nice for the occasion. I mowed the area I had left unmowed since the new grass had been planted. It was so thick that the mower cut out once from a clog. I did not expect it would take so much time and effort in that section as it did. Thick grass rather than mowing over a large variety of weeds makes a difference. I had hoped son might do the yard while home, but that was never mentioned. His visit is really short when divided between here and Chattanooga.

    Our yard must have had 25 passion flower vines spfouted up. I mowed all down except for three near our house. I am sure the neighbors will be glad, but the Gulf Fritillary butterfly caterpillars will be starving. Those plants sell for maybe $6 at the store.

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  16. Janice, the link, that I thought I got from you, for Bethany house free ebooks is no longer working. Do they have a new address? It was in my favorites, so I know that I am not entering anything differently.

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  17. Donna & Kim – (from yesterday) – Most of YF’s posts are set to “friends”, but she has a very few set to “public”, such as the one with her “gauche friends”. 🙂

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  18. Jo, I don’t know about the link.I probably got it from an email they sent of free e-book listings. I suggest you do a search of their site and see if they have a fiction newsletter signup. I am on so many lists that I don’t really keep up with them on a favorites list. These days I am on Twitter a lot more and find books there for free or .99 cents I got off the daily bookshout and bookbub where I was finding the majority of free books. They probably at times offer Bethany on their sites. Also, I imagine that Bethany might like more reviewers so you could find out about that on their site. And, Goodreads often offers author’s books for free as in a giveaway of a number of books that are new. Just giving you some options to try.

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  19. I am at the office now. I have a book review to work on along with an article. Earlier I was on the phone with my friend, Karen. She was disturbed about the evil Republicans who lie and won’t let any bills get passed by the President. I don’t want to argue, especially since she is in bad shape physically, but it is so difficult. I just said it is about the same on both sides as for the lies. Specifically, she was upset with the North Carolina Governor who has reversed what he said about marriage.I did not remind her that Obama did the same thing to get elected. I clearly stated I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I won’t change my thinking on that and that I believe what the Bible says. She then wanted to discuss inaccuracies of translations of the Bible. That was probably going in the direction of where Karen O’s problems with young friend are traveling. My friend’s daughter and her partner are waiting for the laws to change so they can get “married.” This new-fangled “marriage” issue is driving wedges in so many relationships.

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  20. The flowers are butterfly weed by our mailbox. Many of my flowers have not bloomed this year. Neither the day lilies or the native azalea, so I don’t know if it was too much rain or what.

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  22. Beautiful flowers Janice…I can’t believe they are calle “weeds”!!
    We had more rain and hail last night….but we were spared the tornados some areas in CO saw yesterday….I do believe my plum tree has had it…it has been so ravaged by the hail and it looks like a sorry mess….

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  24. We are home. Knee surgery went very well. Everything else went very well except seventeen year old who lives down there, was riding a horse. It reared, which would have been fine, but then slipped backwards down a ditch and fell over backwards onto daughter. She is fine but we took her to the ER for a concussion. She was checked over for such things as a broken neck and was told to not do the placement testing at Boise State or anything else that would strain the brain for a couple of weeks. Including work as she was told at the follow up appt this morning. She was disappointed but will get over it. All about counting the cost.

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  25. I saw the Jeopardy! show on Monday and got two of the questions correct then (Montreal and Victoria). But at least I knew that the answer Edmonton was wrong, since it is not in Ontario.

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  27. Husband tried to follow me home from the office. We got separated on the big 285 perimeter because they were doing road work and traffic was horrible. Then as I neared home I decided I would pop into the grocery for a quick buy of bread, yogurt, coffee, and bananas. Husband got home before I did. He had left his phone charging at the office so he did not get my call from the grocery. He ended up going back out to 285 looking for me. Then I was at home worried about what had happened to him. What a weird evening it has been. Moral of this is never leave your smartphone at the office or at home.

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  28. It has been a little cooler than usual so I am still able to get by with using fans. Others have said they have not turned on their A/C. It’s got to be the global wsrming effect in the south. It’s all the hot air blowing our way from DC.

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