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Our Daily Thread 6-12-15

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

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On this day in 1812 Napoleon’s invasion of Russia began.

In 1839 Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend.

In 1897 Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.

In 1918 the first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I’s Western Front in France.

And in 1982 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City’s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, and all the other hippies were in attendance.

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Quote of the Day

“Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.”

Marvin Olasky

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Let’s do readers choice for the music today. What have ya’ got?

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Anyone have a QoD?

35 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-12-15”

  2. Who woulda thunk I would be first? Chas has gone to the YMCA. Not sure where the rest of you are.

    Here is my man Johnny Horton with a song that has a lot of history. It is open to interpretation. Is it about what happened to the South during Reconstruction or is it about the Underground Railroad?

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  5. Good morning everyone.
    It’s Friday, you know what that means?
    We get a report on the turnout yesterday. We were busier than usual yesterday.
    We had the vision van the same time FBC had the “love’s kitchen” luncheon. That helped.
    The only Johnny Horton I know is “North to Alaska”.
    I might find some Johnny and Anita later. Or maybe Hank Snow and Anita. (Notice a pattern here?)

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  7. Chas, I didn’t recognize some of the songs on this list.
    http://music.famousfix.com/tpx_18071/johnny-horton/songs

    My dad had Johnny Horton Albums. He served in the Navy with a guy from Shreveport, LA who introduced him to Johnny Horton. Some of my earliest memories are playing those records on an RCA turntable inside of a very ornate piece of French Provincial furniture. Miraculously the last time I was able to play one of them there were no scratches.

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  8. Good Morning….you guessed it…it is raining…still 🙂 The hummingbirds are at the feeders this morning and a lone squirrel is scurrying on the deck…that poor little thing has a bil ‘ol porcupine quill sticking out between his eyes….ouch!

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  10. Didn’t work. Johnny and Anita sing “A Traveling Song”
    You young folks don’t know how important trains were in the early years. There was nothing as awesome as that big monster hauling that load of stuff and people. About half of the country songs were about trains. If it wasn’t about a woman leaving her man, it was a train.
    Wabash Cannonball, among the first and likely the most famous. Jimmy Rodgers was “The singing brakeman”. “Moving on” got Hank Snow started. Lots of train stories.

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  13. It’s Friday, isn’t it? And I know what that means. “That” is a singular demonstrative pronoun. See, I know what “that” means. Oh, and the link takes you to the political cartoons, many of which point to a President who doesn’t know what “that” (in this case, ISIS) means.

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  14. I don’t know how Kim did it when I couldn’t.
    The younger generation is more computer savvy, I suspect.
    I caught it Kim.

    You all realize, of course, that it was the Carters that took country music out of the mountains.
    Jimmy Rodgers did the same for western.

    When the song finishes, you have a chance to hear Hank Snow and Anita sing “When My blue Moon Turns to Gold”

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  15. Some of those cartoons were really true. Especially the one about . always being on camera. They are everywhere now. I take one with me every time I go out.

    Someone should ask how many traffic tickets Hillary has.

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  16. I have a question for you, Chas, and any other party who may be interested in responding: how many new bridges have been built in the past thirty years. Not rebuilt or restored, but how many new ones?

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  17. Here’s a video which features Dick Van Dyke doing a little dancing. ((Yes, that’s his wife in the video. He’s 89, she’s 43.)

    “California-based bluegrass/swing band The Dustbowl Revival recently released its first single, ‘Never Had To Go.’ Through some serious luck, they were able to share that single with legendary entertainer Dick Van Dyke (possibly most famous for his role as Bert in ‘Mary Poppins’) and his wife Arlene. This would have been an amazing story already, but the Van Dykes enjoyed the song so much they invited the band over to shoot a music video, featuring the couple at their residence.

    “Despite being 89 years old, Dick certainly shows he hasn’t let a thing like aging slow him down, as he hams it up for the cameras in an (eventually successful) attempt to get his wife to dance with him. When asked what the source of his youthfulness is, he likes to say, ‘My young wife, she puts me in the fridge.’ “

    Notice the cross on the wall?

    http://www.wimp.com/van-dyke/

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  20. I grew up when trains were still more common than planes for most travel done by your average folks. Well, cars were the most common I suppose …

    But our family always had a special fondness for trains.

    We took the train to Iowa a couple times and my maternal grandfather relied on it whenever he came out from Iowa to stay with us in winter.

    We’d go meet him at Union Station (one of L.A.’s most beautiful and historic buildings). Met my mom and her sister there, too, in 1963 — the day Oswald was killed — when they returned from spending a couple months after my grandfather’s death. They were already back there fighting the local (and crooked) City Council which was trying to take my grandfather’s house in an eminent domain procedure. The whole deal was very underhanded (a local newspaper reporter took up the cause fighting it, my mom and my aunt loved that guy) — and then my grandfather passed away in the middle of it all which was devastating.

    My mom told us that all the porters on that train ride home to L.A. (most of whom were black) were close to tears the whole way because of Kennedy’s assassination just a few days earlier. She her sister (my aunt), meanwhile, were also in tears — but because of their father’s death. Sad trip home for everyone.

    Train tracks also ran right by my paternal grandmother’s house in Iowa (her house originally was built to use for railroad staff). My mom taught me always to wait and wave at the caboose guy at the end. And he always waved back. 🙂 The little house shook a little bit whenever the train went by.

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  23. Trains and a bridge was important to my childhood. We played many days under the overpass near our home and waved as the trains passed by. Sometimes we put pennies on the track to get them flattened. We were always very careful. It was one of our more exciting things to do. In the other direction from home was a small airport, but we never did go over there to find adventure.

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  25. Janice, I just had an interesting conversation with a lady from Atlanta who is videoing a lot of the functions you have spoken about. Rifra? The fight against Common Core? Eric Erichson?

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  26. Mumsee. I know of no new bridges that have been built in the last 30 years. The Cooper River Bridge in Charleston was torn down and replaced recently.

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  27. We have train tracks that run through town, & I love hearing the train whistles from time to time. I also love that we can hear the bells from the downtown Methodist church.

    Being a small town, “downtown” is pretty much just a strip of road with businesses on either side. It’s not even a long road. What’s pretty neat is that most of the buildings (one connected to another or very, very close to each other) have been there for over a hundred years or more. There are pictures from the mid-to-late 1800s with many of these buildings in them.

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  28. Our Lions club provided a hearing dog for a deaf lady in our community. So, today one of the ladies who trains hearing dogs came and spoke to our club. Very interesting. I had not even heard of a hearing dog until I joined the club.

    The dog is trained to alert the person in different ways to the situation that needs attention. It runs to the person and back to the door if some one knocks or rings the bell.
    It jumps on the person if a smoke alarm sounds, etc.
    If you are visiting a deaf person and the phone rings, or someone knocks on the door, it is best not to respond. Let the dog do it because you want him/her to always do its job. That is, don’t untrain the dog. The hearing dog needs to bond to it’s master more than a seeing eye dog.
    A hearing dog costs about $8000. That is less than a seeing eye dog. They obtain their dogs from animal shelters. It takes about a week, sometimes less, for them to adjust the dog to it’s new master.

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  29. 😦
    I was going to link Tom T. Hall’s “The Enginee3rs Don’t Wave From the Trains”. But I could tell the link wasn’t going to work.

    Yeah, we used to wave to the engineers driving those humongous monsters.

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  30. My dad showed me how to put a penny on the track when we were at Union Station once. I think my mom was upset, said we were probably going to derail the entire thing, so I hurried and took the penny off.

    Amazing what dogs can be trained to do.

    Weird interview with a city councilman today on the phone (about a proposed dog beach in our area).

    Councilman: “You have water dogs, don’t you, donna?”

    Me: “No, I have sheep dogs.”

    But his phone cuts out the word “dogs.”

    Councilman: “You have sheep!?”

    Loved the Scottish music & the still-dancing Dick Van Dyke. He’s amazing.

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  32. We have a new bridge near here. There is an old two lane bridge going into Quincy, IL and in the late 80s they built a brand new bridge, but did not replace the old one. The old one is East bound, the new one is West bound so that there are two lanes going in each direction. They also connect to different streets on the Quincy side, three blocks apart. Also, a new divided highway was built North of here ten years ago, and there is a new four lane bridge for it. The old two lane bridge is still in use.

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