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Our Daily Thread 7-21-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1861 the first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. and the Confederates won the battle.

In 1949 the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.

In 1961 Captain Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the Liberty Bell 7.

And in 1980 draft registration began in the United States for 19 and 20-year-old men.

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Quote of the Day

“Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they’re thinking, if they’re happy or sad. That’s what I tried to do with Barney.”

Don Knotts

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Today is Isaac Stern’s birthday. 

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Anyone have a QoD?

30 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-21-15”

  3. Two of Elvera’s ancestors were in the First Bull run battle. One wrote a letter home about it.
    One of them was not an ancestor, he “died of wounds”: he received at Antietam. If you visit that battlefield, you see that most of the deaths were “died of wounds”. You think how modern medicine would have saved at least half of those.

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  6. I checked YouTube for “Sweet Dreams” and neither Beyoncé nor Patsy Cline are the one’s I’m thinking of. This is a very old song that goes something like.
    “Sweet dream, sweetheart,
    ’till we meet tomorrow,
    Good night sweetheart’
    Sleep will banish sorrow
    etc.

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  7. I just caught up on yesterday’s thread.
    My comments?

    Poor Cheryl 😥
    Nobody, but nobody, defends Cheryl.

    Mumsee, you’re supposed to change batteries when you change the time.

    I don’t have time for this.

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  8. Good morning! I haven’t had coffee yet so not much to say except when I read the quote about Barney and kids I immediately thought Barney, the purple and green dinosaur, and then realized Don Knots was talking about Barney Fife. LOL!

    Also wondering if I had a nightmare about that big cheese ball that AJ mentioned yesterday. 🙂

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  9. I sang Chla, chla, Chloe you are the girl that I adore and Oh my darlin’ Chloe Catherine. I can’t remember all the words I made up to that tune but I think they mostly had to do with going back to sleep. I don’t sing in public or where anyone but a very small child can hear me. I have been told I cannot carry a tune.

    This was the song that was playing on my personal Milk (some app on my phone) radio station this morning. I don’t particularly care for the the backup singers to this version, but you have to love the clearness of Patsy Cline’s voice.

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  10. I check in on yesterday’s thread. Our smoke detector went off about 3 this morning. They are the kind that are hard wired into the house with battery backup. They start chirping when a battery goes dead. You can’t just remove that one battery and go back to sleep because all the others will chirp as well. I say Mumsee’s went off at 4 am. At three something this morning I made the comment that the batteries never die in the middle of the day or early evening when you have your wits about you and can rationally deal with it. Nope– I have always had them go off in the wee wee hours. And because they all chirp when a battery is removed you have to replace ALL the batteries to know that it is taken care of. That would be about 7 or 8 in my house.

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  11. Good morning. I first thought of the same Barney you did, too, Janice. 🙂

    Cheryl, I sure do enjoy you and your sense of humor around here. 🙂 Laughter and joking is a good pick-me-up for me. Thanks for the lightheartedness.

    Piano lesson in two hours, and another one this evening, with lots to do in between. On little sleep. (Rough night around here, if you read the end of yesterday’s daily and prayer threads, and I only got about 4 1/2 hours of sleep — not nearly enough for me.)

    New day. New opportunities to serve the Lord. Onward.

    Blessings on your day, everyone.

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  12. Kim, I have the CD of Patsy Clines version of “Life’s Railway to Heaven” Except this one has Willie overdubbed. Same recording otherwise. The backup is the Jordanares. I like them.

    When I go on-line, the opening page is Yahoo. On it this morning is a picture of a camouflaged snow leopard. I stare at that picture and haven’t seen him yet. He has to be there, but I can’t see him.

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  15. Smoke detectors: ours did not just chirp, they went off for about three rounds, turned themselves off, and did it again in about five or ten minutes. They must have chirped in the past when nobody was around to hear them. Six of them are hardwired and interconnected so when I took the batteries out, I woke up sixteen year old to unclip them from the wiring. Interestingly, they continued to chirp, without wiring or battery. Evidently, some sort of mechanism that keeps enough energy in them to continue chirping for a time. We finally put them outside but I could still hear them. And husband remembered that we have the smoke detectors on a fuse together so he flipped the switch so they did not all continue to complain. Unfortunately, that included our bathroom…. The other five are battery only so those got replaced but did not contribute to the problem.

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  16. They’re saying we have a big El Nino coming to California … From one extreme to the other.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/07/09/el-nino-california/29921633/

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    SACRAMENTO — There is growing evidence California could see an even stronger El Niño event this winter than the 1997 one that caused massive flooding across Northern California.

    Stunning images from Japan’s Himawari 8 Weather Satellite, just activated Tuesday, show what could become a historic El Niño in full bloom.
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  18. Worried about mine, too. 😦

    OK, I found my exact bookcase (today is bookcase prep day, with cleaning polishing, then clearing out the space where I would like it to go).

    It has this exact stamp on the inside (which I didn’t notice until we were moving it up the stairs and into the house):

    DANNER’S REVOLVING BOOK CASE, PATENTED MAY 16, 1876 FEB. 20TH & DEC. 11, 1877, MANUFACTURED BY JOHN DANNER MFG. CO., CANTON, OHIO.

    According to a column I found in Country Living via Google (I *think* mine is probably walnut):

    Made for law offices and student and home use, revolving book or cabinet cases, either floor or table models, were popular at the end of the 19th century through the early part of the 20th century. This example is walnut, but others came in cherry or ash. Originally retailing for $12 to $20, these cases were sold for use in parlors or private rooms.

    http://www.countryliving.com/shopping/antiques/a606/revolving-book-case-1205/

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  22. Just did (though I’d never sell it 🙂 )

    Also found a bit about the inventor as well. Fun stuff.

    In the latter 19th century, the tastes of the American public were moving away from the constraints of the fussy fragility of Victorian furnishings. There was an emphasis on strong, functional, unbreakable furniture. The industrial revolution instigated new lines of furniture every six months, which was something never before seen in furniture production. The designs were based in strength and ingenuity, a combination people were ready to appreciate and use in daily life. One of the men at the forefront of this movement was John Danner. … John Danner’s bookcase appeared in the 1894 Montgomery Ward’s catalog, which boosted an already flourishing business. His growing production needs demanded that he build a larger, more accommodating factory on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad line.
    In 1878 John exhibited his bookcases at the Paris International Exhibition and won a gold medal. This testimony to the integrity and beauty of his design was further underlined when he kept his company afloat in the panic of 1893 with orders from Czarist Russia.

    http://gordon-taylor.com/history.htm

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  23. “A large number of books are easily accessible within an arm’s reach. Subjects file neatly into compartments that allow quick perusal as the case turns. It creates the possibility to have a bookcase anywhere in the room. This bookcase is in harmony with every homeowner’s personal design aesthetic. From the very urban to an Arts and Crafts style, it perfectly compliments any scheme.”

    http://gordon-taylor.com/operation.htm

    I remember marveling at it when I first went into Norma’s house years ago, it was so unusual — and so practical. Then she told me the story of how her dad found it pretty beat up & discarded on the street, brought it home and back to life where it stayed in their family ever since.

    Not sure what the wood is, it’s dark but not real dark — I’m thinking it could either be walnut or oak. I used to know my wood grains better … Probably walnut, I’m thinking.

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  24. Donna, I don’t know if you posted pictures of it before or if I’ve seen one before elsewhere (maybe in a Sherlock Holmes episode, for all I know), but it seems like a very practical and attractive little unit. I’m glad you got it!

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  25. I know a couple of guys who do roofs. They are working on their second one this summer. The first was the Methodist Church in town, the second is a neighbor of ours in a hundred plus year old farmhouse.

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  27. Greetings to all. I have been quite productive today so am rewarding myself by reading a couple of days worth of blogs.

    I happy to see Jo made it back safely. I am thankful that i have not had ants in the house. I have used 4 bottles of Amdro on the red ants in the pasture this summer.

    Rejoicing with you Kim about boy. Also so glad to see Mikewas able to take ltitle ones swimming. Praying for AJ and all the others whether I log on or not.

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  28. Hi, RKessler. 🙂 I thought of you this past weekend when I went to a clarinet/piano concert put on by a former piano student of mine and a friend of hers. They are enrolled in music master’s degree programs at Albuquerque, and traveled back to our area in the Midwest. The clarinetist was having a little difficulty with her reed drying out, and at one point, between numbers, she took the reed out of the ligature to moisten it, telling the audience something like, “My reed wants to keep drying out here, but not as bad as in New Mexico!” 🙂

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  30. Bookcase is cleaned, polished, in place — so I started filling it with books tonight. 🙂 Fun.

    And it’s finally cooling off here, the marine layer rolled in from the ocean tonight and it’s down to 79 degrees — below 80 degrees, yay! — in my house tonight. It was 81 in the house when I went to bed last night at 11:30 p.m. 😦 Booo.

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