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Our Daily Thread 6-24-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1314 Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.

In 1664 New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.

In 1861 Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.

In 1953 John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.

And in 1968 “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.

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Quote of the Day

“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”

Henry Ward Beecher

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Today is Jeff Beck’s birthday, so we’ll start with some Yardbirds.

And it’s Mick Fleetwood’s too. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=07NQZXMSNDk

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Anyone have a QoD?

35 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-24-15”

  1. Good Morning Everyone. Adjusting to our new morning routine. Our AC has stopped cooling so the HVAC guy will be here a little later in the morning. We also have some sort of animal scurrying around in the attic. We will be setting traps for it.
    Last night I sent BG a text. “It is 10:07. Where are you”. The reply was “In the house, ha ha ha”. While I was getting ready for bed she had come home and I hadn’t heard her. She has dinner last night with her nana, aunt, and girl cousin, and a friend of cousin’s from college.

    I am seriously considering firing a seller that I inherited. I just don’t have time to babysit the house. The woman who owns it is in a nursing home and son is trying to sell it from Dallas. The house is deteriorating because no one has lived in it in a couple of years. It is 7000SF and no one wants to heat and cool that kind of square footage in our climate. Plus, I think I found termites yesterday.

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  2. I just went in to wake her. I don’t know whether to be thrilled or terrified that she inherited her father’s OCD tendencies. I knew she was “rattling around” in her room last night, but it is all squared away this morning. Years from now when you read the next “organizing” book, look at the title. Chances are the author will be BG

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  4. Good morning! I was trying to get on here at 7 a.m. but had trouble accessing this site until now. I don’t know what was going on.

    Glad BG is at home with you, Kim. It’s good to be organized. I am still working on that after all these years.

    I may have a touch of a cold. The aloe juice mixed in water helps cut the symptoms to manageable.

    Kim, you said to watch out on soy milk because of its estrogen. I don’t know what that means. I am not on HRT (hormone replacement therapy).

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  6. I’m the guest poster today on my work blog, Books & Such Literary Agency, and I went out on a limb to write about “envy and the writer.” It’s drawn some interesting responses but what I find even more interesting is how the Scripture keeps coming out of me as I respond! Maybe I’m more of a Bible teacher than I thought I was?

    (That’s a good thing!)

    In other blessings news, I’ve been trying to get back to Connecticut all year. My favorite of all pastors is retiring and his last service is Sunday. I so wanted to worship with him one more time, but my life just wouldn’t fall into line.

    Last night he sent me a tweet, of all things, asking if I was coming east. I had to say, not until mid-July and then followed up with an email.

    I won’t get to worship with him and his terrific wife, but I will get to stop in for half an hour to visit while they’re packing up to move. I’m so thankful in so many ways.

    In other news, that same trip which has wreaked havoc in my life trying to get organized, is turning up some unexpected blessings and curiosity in my soul. I’m only in CT for 48 hours (sorry, Karen, I’m in Ledyard and I can’t get up to you), but I’m overlapping with a dear editor/writer friend at her parents’ home. (The reason I’m going is to see them. Parkinsons is robbing Liz of her speech at 85 years old).

    I’m then going on to Chicago for five days to comb through the entire Oswald Chambers papers. I’m doing a massive research project for a potential book I can’t talk about just yet. I bought all my airline tickets two days ago and then yesterday working through what I have was in despair that it’s going to be a wasted trip. (Sorry to be vague here, but I need to be right now).

    Then I remembered, I’ll be seeing Amanda–a writer/editor with whom I can discuss my dilemmas. And I’m having dinner with another editor/agent friend in Chicago.

    I would have cancelled the trip had known what I discovered yesterday. But I didn’t.

    And there’s a whisper beckoning to me about where this project needs to go.

    I’m sure it’s the Holy Spirit, but I haven’t locked into it all yet.

    My verse this year has been simple: “I walk by faith, not by sight.” I must repeat it five times a day at least. Poppy, in particular, now this project. What is God up to?

    I don’t know. But I want to be in the center of his will for my life.

    Must get ready for VBS. Ciao!

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  7. Is there something in that bird’s beak that has a face? Or is it just my imagination?

    Toured the WWII Merchant Marine ship yesterday. Up and down ladders.

    And I lost the cap to my pen somewhere in the bowels of the ship, probably the boiler room, which is what I always do on ships. When I toured the Iowa I lost my pen cap, too. Oh well. Someone, someday will find them. Or not.

    Will have to remember to take a different kind of pen next time I’m bouncing around a military ship.

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  8. Donna, that’s a female red-winged blackbird, and she has an insect in her beak, but I think the “face” part is an optical illusion.

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  13. From last night: Sorry to burst your bubble, Mumsee; but I wasn’t talking about some Viking named Olaf wrecking his dragon boat. All I said was, “I understand (Degga naa) Wolof (Olof) a little (tutti) only (rekk).” 😀 It is a phrase I learned to use very well. 😉

    That phrase also has an example of a word that looks exactly the same in two entirely different languages and means almost the opposite in those languages. ‘Tutti’ in Wolof means a small amount of something. I’ve never studied Italian, but I’ve learned a lot of Italian words because they are used in music notation. ‘Tutti’ is used on musical scores to indicate that all the instruments are to play at that point, so ‘tutti’ in Italian means all or everything.

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  14. Well, that is a relief. I was concerned for the poor guy. And I recognized the tutti from Italian but knew the rest was not so it must not be the same tutti.

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  18. Since this conversation seems to be sliding towards silliness, I’ll help it along. The speaker of the Quote of the Day reminded me of a limerick from the readers of my childhood:

    blockquote> The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
    Said the hen was an elegant creature.
    The hen, pleased with that,
    Laid an egg in his hat.
    Thus did the hen reward Beecher.

    Get it?

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  19. Listening to my little guy keep a running commentary of what he is doing with his Duplos (larger-sized Legos), & what his creations are doing & saying. “Do you wanna [whatever it was]? / No, I don’t!” 🙂 Had to laugh.

    Lee has been wonderful with him on Wednesdays. This is the day that Emily leaves a little before 9am, works all day, then goes straight from work to her LPN classes, getting home around 10:30pm. (Forrest is usually asleep around 8:00.) Although he has things he needs & wants to do on his day off, Lee has been taking time to do things with Forrest, even if that merely means taking him on errands. My friend Marilyn referred to this as their “man time”.

    That is nice for me to have a little break in the day, but even more important for Lee & Forrest to have that “man time” together. (They go to pick up Chrissy in the mid-afternoon.)

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  22. I had no idea that’s what it meant. I never had much to do with Little Richard.

    Thais may sound silly, but it’s a serious question.
    Has anyone ever seen green eggs?.
    I’m almost 85. Never in my entire life have I seen green eggs.
    TSWITW made some eggs (among other things) for dinner tonight. They were green.
    Not spoiled. I know what rotten eggs smell like.
    We didn’t eat them, but I tasted a small bit, and it didn’t taste strange. But we didn’t eat them.
    I refuse to eat green eggs.. (I[m not talking about colored eggs, such as Easter .eggs)

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  25. I’ve never heard of green eggs and ham. I’ve never heard of green eggs.
    I like everything Bobby Jindal said.

    We have some good men. I don’t think I’ll run this time.

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  26. Chas, I can’t like them either but since you said you didn’t know I challenge you to stay up half the night and all day tomorrow and then read this out loud 5 or 6 time around 4pm

    Green Eggs and Ham
    By Dr. Seuss

    I am Sam. Sam I am.

    That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like That Sam-I-am!

    Do you like
    Green eggs and ham?

    I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
    I do not like
    Green eggs and ham.

    Would you like them
    Here or there?

    I would not like them
    Here or there.
    I would not like them
    Anywhere.
    I do not like Green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

    Would you like them
    In a house? Would you like them With a mouse?

    I do not like them
    In a house.
    I do not like them
    With a mouse.
    I do not like them
    Here or there.
    I do not like them
    Anywhere.
    I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

    Would you eat them
    In a box? Would you eat them With a fox?

    Not in a box. Not with a fox. Not in a house. Not with a mouse.
    I would not eat them here or there. I would not eat them anywhere.
    I would not eat green eggs and ham.
    I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

    Would you? Could you?
    In a car?
    Eat them! Eat them!
    Here they are.

    I would not, could not, In a car.

    You may like them.
    You will see. You may like them In a tree!

    I would not, could not in a tree. Not in a car! You let me be.
    I do not like them in a box.
    I do not like them with a fox. I do not like them in a house.
    I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there.
    I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham.

    I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

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  28. I couldn’t say that without getting my tongue caught in my eye tooth so i couldn’t see what was saying.
    Seriously, I have never seen green eggs before. They came out of the shells green, so she said.
    We didn’t eat them.

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  29. Fox in Sox- My favorite Suess book.

    Chas- Some chickens lay eggs with green shells when they are first starting out laying. And I have seen an egg with green inside. I think it has to do with the kind of chicken.

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  30. I don’t believe I would eat green eggs if they came out of the shell that way. I have green shelled eggs but the inside is orange and clear.

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  33. Or if you saw the green when they were initially cracked, it could be this:

    black or green spots inside the egg are the result of bacterial or fungal contamination of the egg. The use by date is only an estimate, so if your eggs are moldy, I’d bin them.

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