54 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-5-15”

  4. Hello, Jo!
    One day ends and another begins.
    God keeps the earth spinning.
    A lot to give Him thanks for…
    Enter His courts with Thanksgiving!
    Give Him praise!

    We start back into our yearly church schedule today. I hope more people will choose to attend the prayer group.

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  7. What I can tell you about the above video is that it was a cold, cold morning. You can just look at the sky and tell. We only have skies like that in the coldest part of winter. A warm day has a sky so blue it makes your eye hurt.

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  10. Here is a link to to quite a few train songs. You can listen to as many as you like without me posting them all. I am quite fond of train songs. There was a certain romance to a train and can you just imagine what they were like crossing the prairies? You could see them forever and the sound?

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  11. I see the train of communication is transportation.

    We hear trains a lot where we live, as the river line runs on our side. When we are on the river front and a train goes by, most of the engineers will wave or toot the horn. We sometimes can get the river tug boats to toot the horn. Now that is loud!

    Today is day two in Florida. Met a cousin on my dad’s side for the first time last night, along with her two children. Today we’ll see a cousin on my mom’s side I have not seen in 30 years. The L family is spread out all over the US. There are cousins here, some in New York, one in Wisconsin and a few in Arizona. Then all my siblings are in Missouri.

    An interesting tidbit of family history came out yesterday. The aunt we are visiting is my dad’s sister, and she dated my mom’s brother for a while.

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  12. When my oldest wanted to visit colleges, we took the train. It was oldest, youngest sister and a friend between their ages. Went from near Sacramento to Seattle, to Spokane (they put us on a bus for that leg) to Chicago, and back through Denver. Very comfortable even in just the regular car, but the babies woke up early. Loved the early morning ride where we were on the southern boundary of Glacier national Park.

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  13. Michelle, sorry about the photos. But I’ve heard that at least 50% of a deer’s diet is “browse” (tree leaves and twigs), and they rely on it in winter if the ground is covered with snow. But I’d never actually seen them eating it, and I thought this yearling with velvet-covered antlers was a handsome fellow. He’s at the edge of the treeline from which the deer enter and/or leave (depending which direction they’re traveling) the field behind our house.

    AJ, it looks like #1 and #3 are the same photo. I also sent one with his head thrown back as he eats the leaves above him.

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  14. Kim’s 7:10 gives the essence of the old trains. A certain romance. A diesel was more powerful than even the twelve wheeler shown, but they don’t have the steam, noise and awesomeness of the big coal burners.
    And, there were many railroad songs. No one writes songs abut trains anymore. But they made Hank Snow famous. He was nobody until he came out with:
    “That big eight wheeler moving down the track,
    Says your true lovin’ daddy ain’t comin’ back,
    I’m moving on.”
    Followed by “Gooden rocket”, “Hobo Bill’s Last Ride” and others.

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  15. We lived beside the railroad track in Spartanburg. Mother would run out and take the clothes off the line when she heard a train coming. That was to keep them from turning black.

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  17. I live near a railroad and the train is passing by right now. It is behind the houses across the street. It runs by some apartments near here that my friend Karen use to live in. There were stories of some really bad guy getting around on the trains and my friend was always worried about that. One day my family was out hiking in this area and we were over by those apartments and saw where someone had cut out part of the fence that surrounded the gated apartment community. That seemed rather scary to me. I told my friend so she could alert the apt. management. That was a long time back. We have some surprisingly nice hiking areas for inside the perimeter of Atlanta.

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  18. Re the wreck of the ol’ 97, the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga (which I toured during my visit) has a painting based on it, though they moved the setting to the Midwest. It’s really an amazing painting. I didn’t find any links that showed just the painting and showed it well, so here’s a link that has a lot of pretty views of the museum, its grounds, and its art, and several in you can see the train-wreck painting: http://ohtheplaceswesee.com/2012/07/19/old-meets-new-hunter-museum-of-american-art/

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  19. This is in our town:
    The Stewartstown Railroad is a heritage railroad that operated in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1884 by local interests in the Stewartstown area, and opened in 1885, the Stewartstown Railroad survives today in very much original condition, and retains its original corporate charter. Back in service since 2015, the railroad has a crew of volunteers working on operations. Currently, passenger and tourist trains operate out of the Stewartstown Railroad Station, for either Caboose rides or motorcar rides, approximately a mile down the line and back. Former Reading Railroad coach 1341 is expected to be back in service in October of 2015.
    The Shrewsbury Railroad Station, Stewartstown Railroad Station, and Stewartstown Engine House at Stewartstown are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in York County.

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  20. This is what I meant to post. We have no train tracks where I live. There are some in the north end of the county and some over on the east side of the county, but there was never a reason to run tracks to my area. Most of the industry has always been in Mobile. My area was always agricultural.
    We had a ferry boat from Mobile to the Eastern Shore. The WPA put in a tunnel and a causeway. At one time our causeway was one of the most traveled stretches of road in the United State, then they built the I-10 Bayway. We just never needed a train.

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  21. Cheryl,

    I think you’re losing it. That’s clearly 3 different pics……

    At least they are now that I changed it. 🙂

    —————————————

    Cheryl is still in a lot of pain and discomfort, and I’m a bit overwhelmed. 😦

    My physical limitations are making this even more difficult. So yeah, we could definitely use prayer please. Thanks.

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  22. :-(. Thanks for telling us.

    I looked at those photos and thought, “Danger! Danger! Ticks love tall grass!”

    Sorry, but when you live in Lyme’s country, even the most benign takes requires caution.” 😦

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  24. Michelle, that tall grass is not in my yard, and ours isn’t that tall. (I don’t know whether the next-door neighbor mows that far over; he does mow some of that area, but I’m guessing that area is just allowed to be wild.) We have a fairly big yard (an acre) and hardly ever see a tick, probably because they’d rather stay out in the longer grass where the deer and other critters hang out. One year Misten went with us one day on a walk and when we came home I saw ticks crawling on her, and called to my husband to bring the tweezers, quick. None had attached, but I plucked a full dozen off her that day, and that was her last walk with us. She got two or three more ticks that summer, staying at home. I haven’t seen any ticks last summer or this, and that’s with a long-haired dog living with us.

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  25. 🙂 Cheryl remembered that I have an issue about bees. Sure enough. I had lots of blooms on my blackberry bushes, but no blackberries to pick.

    I didn’t know that transporting bees to different farms harmed them. But my bees were local bees that never went anywhere. They just didn’t show up this year.

    😦 Kim’s 9:16 “does not exist”.

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  27. I hate ticks. Shudder.

    But cool pictures.

    AJ, we’re praying, you guys have been slammed with life’s big and very real complications and challenges.

    We have a lot of trains coming and going from the harbor, carrying big shipping containers (full of “stuff” going out of the harbor, empty containers — because we no longer make much of anything here to export 😦 — heading back to the port to ship back to other countries for refills of the cheap electronic and other goodies we all love to buy in the U.S.).

    The Christmas surge will start soon as our stores stock up with products for what they hope will be a big shopping season. The trains haul the full containers out to distribution centers, mostly inland from L.A., and from there they head out across the country by train or truck.

    Locally speaking, the worst is getting stuck behind a long port train on my way to (or home from) work (and sometimes going to church as well, which means a bunch of us usually get ‘caught’ and are late — the train doesn’t really follow set schedules). When that happens, people usually just turn off their car engines and sit for the duration as traffic backs up behind them.

    We can hear the train pass by sometimes in church, the tracks pass right behind our regular meeting place.

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  28. One of my former dogs wound up with a tick after a walk along one of the horse trails on the peninsula. Nasty things.

    And I’ve heard horror stories about people who find an entire wall inside their houses covered suddenly with ticks. I’m scratching just thinking about that.

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  29. Kim v. Ants is not going well either. The other night Mr. P left a package of hamburger buns on the counter. I don’t know how they got in a sealed bag–it was fresh from the store—but they did.
    Everyone in the area is complaining about the ants this year. I wonder what is making this such a bad year for them.

    My town is passing a regulation to allow for honey bees within city limits to help with the pollination problem everyone seems to be having. Spraying for mosquitoes is also causing us to lose our Spanish Moss
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_moss

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  30. Roscuro, I e-mailed you a question re Gothard’s teaching. Could you check to see if it came through, and get back to me (or e-mail me if it didn’t, so I can make sure I have your current e-mail address)? Thanks.

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  31. I love Spanish moss! It can’t disappear. We could no longer vacation at Hilton Head if the moss wasn’t there. It would not be the ssme place.

    Mowers and blowers next door are disrupting the peace. Surely someone could invent silencers for those things.

    Now I hear another train. Noisy day in the neighborhood. Actually I have been over at the church this morning. Our pastor did a good leeon on young Samuel and listening to God. He asked how does God speak in the Bible and after other answerd I reminded that he once told me that if God could speak through a donkey that He could surely speak through a woman. The lsdies all laughed and the pastor said he only meant it tongue and cheek. We had been discussing lady pastors when he made that comment.

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  32. This is Janice’s fault. I am working at the Stormy Beach and I heard this on the way down. I wasn’t going to share it with you but….like I said, Janie mentioned a donkey,

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  33. And because I just stumbled across this one and it combines my love of Johnny Horton AND our train theme…well I just had to share it with you. I had never heard this one before now.

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  34. Johnny Horton???
    😦 Some rascal is always breaking in and putting my glasses where I can’t find them.
    Seriously. How my glasses got over by the coffee pot, I’ll never know. I haven’t been there since breakfast.
    WW II fighter pilots blamed troubles like that on gremlins.

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  36. So, this morning we went out to do the chores. Me with my entourage. We came across a snake caught in the bird netting by the turkey run. It was a grey racer. Grey racers are good. So I tried to get the bird netting off of it but was not successful. I carefully got a hold of its neck so I could carry it in safely and had husband cut off the net material as I held it. Poor long suffering husband, he does so many strange things at my request. But he did it and other than a few lacerations which should heal if they don’t get infected, the little guy (maybe not so little as he was close to two feet long) is back to work. He probably does a better job than those cats. As you know, when a snake gets caught in bird netting, it is because his head fits through but not his body and snakes can’t back up due to the scales. So as I was working from the back forward, he kept pushing forward and getting more stuck. I knew better.

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  39. Mumsee, I don’t understand why his head would fit through but not his body. Unless he’d recently eaten, I would think that if his head could fit through, so could the rest of him.

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  40. We live near a train track, also. There was one fatality near us many years ago. There were several others in the vehicle hit, but they lived. We did not even hear all the noise. I heard about it because I knew the family of one of the young men who lived. A cross-arm was finally put up. There is still not one just down the road where another young man died. I know his family, too. Another family friend hit a train and lived, while another one died before she reached her teens. Watch out for those RR crossings!

    I went to school in a railroad town. The athletic team was called the Rails. Train themes abounded. It has an old locomotive display. I was near the tracks when it traveled for its last time down the tracks to its new home. It was memorable since it was so different from the modern locomotives. It was run by steam and very noisy with lots of smoke.

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  46. Got some beautiful shots this evening of geese flying against the sunset. Would have gotten some lovely shots of the same geese flying toward me (I did get one) except that when I saw they were turning and would pass right over our yard, I had to make the collie lie down lest she make a fool of herself trying to herd large flying animals. (She’s much calmer and happier when she is obediently under my control than when she is barking in panic! It took two or three commands before she lay down, but once she did, she didn’t make a peep even when a dozen large birds passed within yards of us. Well, 11 large birds anyway.)

    Anyway, I have always thought that silhouettes against sunset skies are way cool, whether they are saguaro cactus or elk or something else, and a flock of geese flying against the sunset was a lovely sight. (Loud, though!) Canada geese molt at the same time as they’re raising their young; like some other waterbirds, they cannot fly while they’re molting, so adult and young are “grounded” together. So I’m guessing that now the young are strong enough flyers that families are learning to navigate the skies as a unit, and circling in unison as they look for a place to sleep for the night is part of that flight training.

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  52. I got to work from home for the first half the day today and will get to do that again tomorrow with an early morning meeting to cover in town (but also one I can cover via online streaming from home — wearing my sweats, my hair still wet from the morning shower).

    And the other day I found a reminder of why I’m glad I decided years ago to write notes in one my Bibles:

    In the margin at Jer. 29:11, I wrote:

    3/29/94 NY

    Seeing that, I remembered it well — I was attending a retreat back east at the invitation of friends and was confessing to someone my shakiness and worry about my future when she quoted & pointed me to that verse. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not calamity to give you a future and a hope.”

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