46 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-4-15”

  1. I believe I have seen that cat before.!!
    Jo says when it is 7 p.m. in California, it is noon the next day in PNG. that is 17 hours. (5 hrs till midnight + 12 till noon??)
    If it’s 7 p.m. in California, it is five hours until midnight somewhere. That means five time zones. This would be just west of Midway Island. Midway is four time zones east of Tokyo, which is the same longitude, approximately, as PNG. I know the international date line comes in there somewhere, but it doesn’t change the position of the sun.

    I hate it when something that should be so simple is so confusing.
    Jo, to enlighten us, just put a time stamp on your posts. Real simple. I just look down at the right corner of my computer. it says 7:42 am. 8/4/15

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  3. The 17 hours between PNG and California is going backward. e.e. 1 p.m in Cal. 10 p.m. in Hendersonville. Midnight in Rio de Janerio,,. Three a.m. in London etc. If you figure east rather than west, it begins to make sense. The sun travels east to west. That means you add hours going east.
    Does that make sense?

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  7. It’s 9:30am here on the West Coast (of Florida).

    We did have a pleasant visit with Kim. Thanks for lunch! We were going to take the scenic US98 route, but when I looked at the map, we decided to go the fast route. But all we’ve seen of Florida so far are the trees along the Interstate, and a heavy thunderstorm near Gainesville, which we drove through for an hour! We eventually got to our hotel around 11:30EDT.

    Oh, mumsee, dinner at your place would be a treat, but we are in the opposite end of the country!

    And today is Mrs L’s birthday. It is also the birthday of someone famous, but she would not want you to remind her of it.

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  8. Happy BD, Mrs L..
    You reminded me, by brother would be 76 today. He was killed at 13 back in 1952.
    I see where Reba Macintyre has separated from her husband. They were married 26 years.
    I’m beginning to worry.

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  9. I was listening to “my station” on my phone on the way in to work this morning. A lot of the songs they play are from old recordings of The Louisiana Hayride. Hank Williams and his band were playing an instrument only version of Orange Blossom Special. Amazing how they made the sound of the whistle and the engine, etc. What stood out most was that he called one of the musicians “Ol’ Burr Head”. I haven’t heard that term in a really long time and it wasn’t a compliment the last time I heard it. It was a racial slur when I heard it.

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  10. You young people have never heard a real train whistle. The warning the engineer gave before a major crossing. Railroad crossing signs used to read “Stop. Look, Listen”.
    A preacher boy (seminary student) and his family were killed at a railroad crossing in West Texas back in the early sixties. I never understood that. In West Texas, you can see the train leave the station. (Well? Almost)
    I was eleven years old, living in Charleston, before I lived somewhere that I couldn’t hear a train whistle. The sound carries for miles.
    This generation has advanced a lot. But they’ve missed a lot.
    People used to dress up for church.
    Flying in a plane used to be special.
    People respected police officers.
    You could send your child to a movie with no concern.
    You could tell the time by hearing a train whistle, if you cared. It was always the same time, usually at night that you noticed.

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  13. I have enough trouble keeping up with what is happening in my own time zone. I just know Jo lives in another time and another place 🙂

    Yesterday I had sadness from getting a response from a really good friend to whom I had forwarded an email about something Tony Evans, Pastor, had written about how God looks at how we treat others and that may effect how He treats us. My friend said she has never attended a church that focuses on salvation like Evan’s church and she can’t relate to that. How we treat others relates to social justice, poverty help, etc. That is following Jesus as she has been taught. So I plan to approach, again, the salvation topic. I guess I thought she had changed her stance since we discussed this a number of years ago. You just can’t take some things for granted. I was surprised. Prayers would be appreciated. I did respond back to her that Jesus was all about forgiveness and how much his words from the cross have helped me, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” I said I try to forgive as my way of following Jesus, and that God won’t forgive us unless we forgive.

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  14. Karen O, I am reading a book for review that I think you would like, River Dwellers, by Dr. Rob Reimer. Let me know if you”d have time to read it and maybe I can mail it to you when I’ve finished with it.

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  15. Chas, this morning my husband and I were on the tracks when we heard the train whistle, and that meant the train was half a mile away and the crossing arms would be going down in three seconds (or something to that effect). In other words, we barely made it across. At night, though, we can sometimes hear the whistle from inside our house, and that’s about four miles away.

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  16. All Misten can say about that photo is poor Tess and Cowboy. (And also, why can’t we see photos of the good guys instead of the villain? That was what I interpreted her to be saying, though the words were a little stronger than that.)

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  17. Annie. 🙂 A border collie FB page recently asked people to post pics of the famous border collie stare. I posted the one of Annie that ran here maybe a week or two ago, labeling it “border kitty.” The understudy. It was the only cat on the thread. 🙂

    We have an original L.A. electric Red Car trolley that carries tourists along the tracks up and down the waterfront, it took $10 million and years to put it in — now they may take it out (and there’s a petition going around and a rally planned to keep it). But it has the original whistle (a D flat?) — some people complain because they use it so often, but it’s part of the state’s safety regulations. I think it sounds very nice.

    Today we have 3 active-duty Navy ships coming into port for Navy Days LA. The USS Iowa will be firing its guns (blanks, of course) in salute. Someone will complain. 🙂

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  18. Now I liken flying to being herded on to a greyhound bus without a bathroom. Or maybe even being herded into a cattle car. The first time I flew my parents made sure I was quite dressed up. Now people show up in their pajamas and flip flops and have a dozen “carry on” bags because they charge to check luggage.
    I have only ridden in a passenger train once. It was a field trip in elementary school because the teacher realized trains were on the way out. We rode from Mobile to Citronelle or Mount Vernon then rode a school bus back. Just googled it. It is 31 miles.

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  22. You can hear the whistle throughout, starting at about 55 seconds … and the road in the beginning is the one I take to get to the dog park, passengers sometimes point and smile at my dogs hanging out the Jeep’s rear window as we travel alongside 🙂

    The musical fountains in the second half terrify my dogs, however, whenever we drive or walk by them.

    The Red Cars used to crisscross all over L.A. but had mostly vanished by the 1960s as cars and buses took over completely and the tracks were ripped out. We’ve regretted it ever since, of course.

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  23. That is not a train whistle.
    There’s nothing more awesome that a steam locomotive with wheels taller than you are, pulling up and letting off steam. Not a jet engine, not a rocket. nothing. like a steam locomotive. And the engineers would wave at the kids.

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  25. We have a train near here. When we first arrived and lived in the RV park for a couple of months, the children would swim in the river and wave at the engineer as the train went by. They always got waves and toots. We can still hear the train, though we are now twenty miles away, not so far as the crow flies. Once a week it goes by and we can hear the whistle if we are outside and the weather is right. We also hear the noon whistle from town five miles away. We hear it about midday each day. In case you wondered.

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  26. Even the whistle of a diesel has its own music. I didn’t grow up near train tracks, but I enjoy hearing the whistle when I visit those who do live near them. It rarely even wakes me up at night.

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  28. Janice – What is the book about? (My dad would have answered that with “Oh, about 300 pages.” 🙂 )

    Yes, go ahead & email it to me, & I’ll take a look at it. (I’m assuming I can read it on my laptop?)

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  29. Karen O, it is about the Holy Spirit, and you can look it up on Amazon for details (and see reviews). It is the larger type paperback that I have so I can mail it to you after I finish it. If you don’t want it, I will put it in the church library. I do not mind paying postage to send it to you. I got it free for doing the review.

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  31. Janice – I must have misread your other comment, as I thought you said you’d send it to my email. 🙂

    Yes, that sounds like something helpful to read. Do you want to tell me your email address, so I can send you my snail mail address? If you don’t want to put it on here, I’ll give you my email address.

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  35. spent the afternoon on the waterfront, waiting for 3 Navy ships to arrive in port for Navy Days LA (free ship tours for the public, and sailors get a landslide break from duty). Beautiful day out there, cool breeze, blue sky — While waiting, I sent some photos of seabirds and seaweed to AJ, very exciting. 🙂

    Our photographer’s photos/video are on the website (dailybreeze dot com). Just filed my story, it should be up later tonight. Got to work/write from home, which is always sweet.

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  37. Something more along these lines Chas? I didn’t have a whole lot of time for research. Mr P didn’t understand why I was watching train videos listening for a certain sound. 😉 It’s hard to find video of a coal fired steam engine, although I did find a railway educational film on how to shovel on the coal.

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  42. Re trains: the places I lived in Arizona, towns tended to be flat (no hilly roads) but with mountains all around, including within the city limits in Phoenix. Well, you could see a train miles in the distance, and watch 100 or more cars go by. And if we had to stop for a train anywhere we traveled (in other words, we never had a train through Phoenix itself), we would try to count the cars.

    When my mom died, my sister was back in Phoenix for the first time in many years, and she commented that she realized now why she liked trains so well, since a region that is flat, and where you can see for miles, trains are so visible. And we remarked the two years we lived as teenagers in an undeveloped area with few houses (nearly all mobile homes, but very few of those, either), and from our yard we could see miles in all directions, miles broken up only by an occasional home and by desert brush, no tall cactus and few trees. So far away we couldn’t tell the color of any of the cars, we’d watch a train inch along, but we could see the whole length of it.

    We could also see every sunset over the mountains, and rainbows that were many miles away. I had no idea how rare it would be to see a rainbow in most parts of the country–14 years in Chicago and I never saw one, eight years in Nashville and I think I saw one, and four years in Indiana and I saw some beautiful ones on one day. My husband was with me that one day, already in his fifties, before he saw his first double rainbow, and I was astonished. He was also thrilled to see the full arc of one. I grew up seeing rainbows, full arcs, often double rainbows; it was normal, common. One day we looked out the window repeatedly over the course of an afternoon, each time looking for–and finding–the rainbow. It was moving right slowly over several hours, sometimes double and sometimes single, but it was present for many hours. It’s astonishing to me that now I can go ten years without seeing a rainbow, even if I go out looking for one on a day that has both sun and rain. I loved them growing up, but I also assumed that everyone saw as many as I did, maybe even more since rain itself was so rare!

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  43. I’m watching ET tonight, I haven’t seen it since it was in the theaters in ’82 and my boyfriend at the time and I went.

    I recall the story in general, but it’s mostly new to me, lots of fun.

    I’d forgotten the scene where ET and the family dog were home alone and ET opens the fridge and starts consuming all the beer while throwing the food out to the dog. Good times. 🙂

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  44. Donna, I didn’t see in the theater, but I saw it once on video. I didn’t expect to like it, but I did. That would have been in the 80s, but who I saw it with or where, I haven’t the slightest idea, just that I saw my first movie in a theater in 1986 and ET is one I saw on video.

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  46. Good evening Jo. I hope you had a nice day.
    Jo is the only person I can talk to while I’m waiting for TSWITW to get ready for the Y.
    The coal burner is what I was talking about.. But my comments have to wait till I get back.

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