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Our Daily Thread 7-2-15

Good Morning!

Today is Mumsee and Mike’s 36th Anniversary! 🙂 

💕 🎆 🎇 🎆 🎇 🎆 🎇 🎆 💕

And today’s header photo is from Peter. 

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On this day in 1776 Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States” was adopted by the Continental Congress.

In 1850 Benjamin Lane patented a gas mask with a breathing apparatus.

In 1937 American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.

And in 1962 Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store.

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Quotes of the Day

“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms. . . To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.”

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“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

Richard Henry Lee

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On this day in 1956 Elvis recorded these two songs. 

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From The Ed Sullivan Show

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Anyone have a QoD?

48 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-2-15”

  1. Happy anniversary Mumsee and Mike!

    I got a spam notice that my M&S voucher is about to expire.
    I deleted it, but wonder what I’ve missed.
    I get so many opportunities.

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  2. I had to check and see. Sure enough. Nothing from yesterday’s threads need my attention.
    However, I notice I’m the only man who liked (read agreed with) Kim’s comment that a girl needs her dad.
    That is a true statement. As much as a boy. Children need both a male and female parent to know what a family is.

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  3. Chas thank you. There is so much about myself that I wonder if it would have been different if I had had a functioning mother. Then I think I did have Mama Ruth so stop whining.
    While my heart is bursting with happiness to have my girl home, I never want to damage what she has with her dad. Even Nana says BG needs to be back with her Mama.

    I am not sure which direction I am headed this morning bUT I did leave my computer at the office yesterday so I guess I will start there

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  6. Kim, I used to sell boiled and parched peanuts for five cents a bag on the Battery (White Point Gardens) in Charleston. This was in 1941. I was just turning eleven..
    I really like boiled peanuts. They have to have lots of salt in the water for boiling.
    Sailors used to take their girls down there. It wasn’t lighted then like it is now. I would stick my head in the car window and say “Peanuts?” They often bought them.
    I made about $2.00 a night. That only lasted one summer. My attempts to sell peanuts at the ball games didn’t work out for some reason.

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  7. This California girl can’t fathom what a boiled peanut would be, much less taste like. Aren’t they supposed to be salty and crunchy?

    We’ve had high, drooping too hot for me, temperatures the last couple days with more humidity than normal. I got up to go to the gym and then decided the 8 o’clock walk in the park will be sufficient for me today. So, hoping to get some real chores done before the temperatures soar. I was able to get three loads of laundry washed and dried on the line in turn before 4 o’clock yesterday!

    I probably didn’t mention we do not have air conditioning–which is why we went out to dinner!

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  9. Don’t feel sad for Elvis. But it did eventually take it’s toll didn’t it.
    Boiled peanuts are salty, and easy to eat. Rather than crack them open like I do parched peanuts, I put the peanut, with shell, in my mouth and crunch the peanut out, then spit out the shell. You probably think that’s gross, but it’s the way to eat boiled peanuts.
    Out of curiosity, I went to the price deflator to see how much $2.00 is in year 2000 money. It comes to $22.00. I thought it would be more.

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  10. Chas, I am paying $10 for a 5lb bag. One bag regular and one bag “Cajun” which means they have some kick.
    Fiddler Farms grows them. I also love green peanuts. I hate the peanuts you buy in a can or jar whether they are dry roasted, boiled, or just processed. I like for them to have that earthy taste.
    Michelle, peanuts are not really nuts, they a legumes, so if you have every eaten beans you can imagine.

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  11. I had boiled peanuts once. That was enough for me. I would rather have them dry and salted. We happened to be in Tennessee and wanted to try them. I suppose it is all what you are used to. We have so many choices today it is mind-boggling. No wonder we tend to be overweight!

    I still remember the old 78 my folks had of Hound Dog. I was never a big fan of Elvis, however, and that is the only record of him they ever had.

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  13. And in four years we had three children…

    I just assumed it was a rhetorical statement. Of course children all need their dads and moms. That is how it was set up. They can do well without them, but something is missing.

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  14. Peanuts were a staple for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. They called them “goober peas”. Like Kim says, they aren’t really nuts. I understand they are very nutritious, but you don’t eat them with a meal. You eat them separately. You can still buy them at stands in South Carolina. I haven’t seen them in NC. We almost always had to have a bag of peanuts at a football game. As I said, you just drop the shells on the floor.
    Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer. Most peanuts are now made into peanut butter.
    That’s another subject.

    A guy in high school had the nickname of Goober. He was a basketball player and popular with everyone. He, obviously, liked peanuts. I think a guy on TV also had that nickname.

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  15. Happy anniversary Mike and Mumsee! !

    Kim, I am happy for you about BG. Will continue to pray.

    No, I have not had boiled peanuts.

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  16. Time to return this wonderful Toyota Sienna van I have been driving since January. Hope that I can figure out the new vehicle.
    Still trying to figure out what to do with all my luggage.

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  17. Seven and nine year old like to go under the bleaches to find sunflower shells people have spit out, so they can chew them and get the rest of the salt. I try to discourage that. They would do the same with peanut shells.

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  19. Haha, there goes chas in 10:43 sayin’ banned stuff again. You can’t say Confederate!

    Serious question about a post one of my liberal Christian friends put up today (with the comment that this guy is one of the ‘few’ pastors walking around with a brain in his head, but that’s another topic … 🙂 — I often wonder about the Christians she knows or generally is seeing in the media???

    I did comment on the link saying that while there were some valid points, I wished he’d included some examples because, to be honest, I just didn’t see a lot of “crazy” reactions to the gay marriage decision on the part of Christians.

    Oh, I’m sure there were some to be had out there — there are always your reliable hotheads who will fit the secular society’s idea of what Christians “really” are like. (Emotional, angry, unthinking, I could go on …) I have a few liberal FB friends who just love to follow and post everything Pat Roberts happens to say in a random, on-air rambling discourse. But seriously, do most in the church watch that kind of thing? Not in my experience, I guess. 🙂

    But for the most part (and maybe it’s just because of the sources I rely on and go to) the responses I saw last week were tempered, filled with grace (albeit also with disappointment) and very thoughtful and biblical.

    Anyway, thoughts?

    http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/07/01/6-ways-christians-lost-this-week/

    His first example:

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    “We lost the chance to be loving”

    So many professed followers of Jesus spent the last week on the attack, desperately fighting a battle long after it had already been decided. Instead of simply looking for ways to personally affirm our faith in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, too many of us frankly just lost it. We spit out vitriol and we cursed strangers and we lamented America’s demise and we threatened with Bible verses and we treated others with contempt. Our response to the LGBT community and those who support them wasn’t compassion and decency and peacemaking, it was sour grapes, damnation, and middle fingers.

    By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35
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    I just didn’t hear a lot of “cursing of strangers” or any the rest of it (well, OK, there was some lamenting of America’s demise, but in sadness not anger). Maybe I’m too cocooned. 🙂

    Without any specific (real) examples, my sense is that he’s writing about a stereotype that’s in his head. And if he did actually hear all of this from Christians around him, it may be time for him to find a new church.

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  21. I only know of one fb friend who responded with some immature comments. He had three people unfriend him and then acted as if it proved he were a wonderful Christian. I seldom respond to anything he says, because he is usually immature. So are the people who respond, generally speaking. He usually does more harm than good.

    I thought of David who fasted and prayed for his son while the boy was still living. The people around him didn’t even want to tell him the son had died. David realized it, though, and washed his face, quit the fasting and prayer and settled down. They were all puzzled, but it made sense when he explained that it was now too late to do anything about it.

    I felt the same way. I posted often about not changing the definition of marriage. It is a huge mistake, but the battle has shifted. I think many felt the same way and went on with other things. I did not see any need to try to change anyone’s mind on the day it was announced or in recent days. Still, my purpose remains the same and advancing the kingdom continues.

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  23. I had boiled peanuts once, wasn’t at all impressed. Then I heard you have to eat them hot and they’re excellent that way. Well, if anyone ever gives me hot ones, I’m willing to try them, but have no plans to seek them out.

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  25. They weren’t hot when I sold them.

    🙂 We’re going to the Lion’s annual awards dinner tonight. Prime rib and vegetables. Same as always. This starts a new year for us. The best one I had was the one I lead in 2007. That was my last meeting as Lions President. The guy coming on tonight has already been president twice before. I didn’t like being president and wouldn’t take it again.
    It will be a nice get-together and some people will receive awards.
    Elvera has already come around asking “Is this all right to wear?”
    Of course it is. But we don’t leave for another hour and half yet.

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  27. Husband’s new hobby is decluttering. His old hobby was buying cd’s and dvd’s. He is putting them on the computer. Today he gave me an Ipod for our anniversary. Not something I ever thought I would have. But it has all of our music from the past thirty six years. That little thing sure holds a lot and now our house is much bigger, or so it seems.

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  28. For those of us seeking some hope, here’s a good article from World:

    http://www.worldmag.com/2015/06/our_exile_in_babylon
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    Even though we saw it coming, the speed and vehemence of the “new normal” takes our breath away. We’re scrambling to find a place to stand, reassembling our ranks. If the noise temporarily settles, tempers are still frayed and feelings are on edge, just waiting to be set off again. …

    All new? Jeremiah might have something to say to us from way back in sixth-century B.C. There was a roller coaster of a life: called against his inclination to prophesy, scorned in the marketplace, mocked by other prophets, thrown in a cistern, kidnapped and dragged off to Egypt, finally released to end his days in a demoralized Jerusalem, shadowed by the ruins of Solomon’s once-glorious temple. …. Jeremiah had it on good authority that destruction and exile were God’s will until judgment ran its course.

    Today, Babylon has come to us. “Our country,” as we fondly imagined it, has been hijacked by foreigners—or at least, their way of thinking is foreign and makes no sense to us. But it was always inevitable that “we the people” would evolve into something other than our 18th-century forefathers. The last 20 years—actually much longer—have been a tug-of-war between progressive and traditional worldviews, and the balance may well have tipped. We (meaning the American evangelicals who form the bulk of this magazine’s readership) are facing exile from the public square.

    Jeremiah warns us against despair. In time God will restore all things, in our weary world or the world to come. Today’s Babylon will go the way of ancient Babylon, but Jerusalem remains forever. Meanwhile, we have the days allotted to us in a city called America. Pollyanna-types say, Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. God says, This is my world, and I’m in control. Seek the welfare of the city where I placed you. ….
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  29. Chas,
    My last post int he US Army was Fort Rucker, in Dothan Alabama, “The Peanut Capital of the World.” Yes I had boiled peanuts in Dothan, one time. I liked them, and Yes, Kim, they had an earthy taste. I still remember the taste of them 47 years later.

    The First Baptist Church in Dothan was also the only church i ever heard a sermon against make-up

    J. Vernon McGee (“Through the Bible” radio show), preacher at “Church of the Open Door” in downtown Los Angeles, said, “If a barn needs paint, paint it.”

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  30. Bob I didn’t know you had been in Alabama. Of course I wasn’t here then… 😉

    My grandmother attended an Assembly of God church that preached that wearing make-up was a sin. I agree more with your LA radio show. If a barn needs paint, paint it. I think anyone can benefit from a little enhancement.

    I now have 10lbs of boil peanuts in my refrigerator. I may have to sample them in a a little while.

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  31. I was in Alabama in 1968, May through August. Weren’t you a baby then?

    I remember one day it didn’t rain in the afternoon; the eves just dripped.

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  33. I have mentioned him before and some of you shared what your objections to him were and I respect that. I also respect him and like his credentials. He has more experience than anyone else running in any party. I also like his military background and in my opinion belongs to that last really responsible age group who acted like REAL adults. Of course we are a year away from the election and I have to do more research. No one has earned my vote yet.

    http://www.webb2016.com/

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  34. Mumsee and Mike: ¡Feliz aniversario de boda!

    The flowers in the picture are hostas. There also several ferns in the background you can’t see in the picture.

    I have never had boiled peanuts, but might try some if we go South next month. Our travel plans are not looking good, as I haven’t been getting as many hours at the cave as I hoped. 😦

    Chas said: I think a guy on TV also had that nickname. One of the characters on the Andy Griffith show had that name. He was the mechanic who came on the show after Jim Neighbors left to do the spin-off show called “Gomer Pyle, USMC”.

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  37. I mentioned earlier that I had never seen boiled peanuts in NC.
    As we were traveling to the banquet, I noticed a vegetable stand on Greenville Hwy. It had a big yellow sign printed in red: Boiled Peanuts

    🙂

    We had a nice time. Elvera was bored by the proceedings but the prime rib was good.

    I will not vote for Jim Webb. But he is the best Democrat. I was familiar with him when he was in Virginia politics.

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  40. Happy anniversary mumsee and Mike!
    The hostas are beautiful…..the deer don’t eat them?
    I have had boiled peanuts when we lived in SC…..oh so yummy and you can’t eat just one!!

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  42. Nancy- We don’t get too many (if any) deer in town. Now if we lived in the country…

    I even saw a hummingbird at the hostas the other day. It’s the first hummingbird I’ve ever seen at this house.

    I noticed today that the Sears store is closing, so I went to see what they had on sale. I got an electric Craftsman weed whacker for 30% off. It works well and has automatic string feed. I like that. I could never get the bump-the-ground kind to work for me.

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  45. Oh I want to get an electric weed whacker….I cannot for the life of me start the gas one…maybe I should head on over to Sears!
    We are going to grill steaks,,,,green beans and fruit salad….easypeasy….and a bit boring.
    We love Burl Ives …..our favorite movie was So Dear To My Heart…we still have the VHS! 🙂

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  46. My Echos are wonderful. They nearly always start with just a couple of pulls. I have had other big name ones that were not so dependable. I have low tolerance for the frustration of tools that don’t work when I need them, so I was happy when husband first introduced me to echos. The electric ones don’t seem to have the power for going through teasel.

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  48. I have had the same problem with electric tools.
    The power driven tools require a long line and the battery powered tools don’t seem to have the power to do the job.

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