78 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-18-15”

  3. We had a pretty sunrise this morning….the pinks in the sky shined so pretty through the snow covered pines. We are stuck at home today so far…the plows have not been through yet and not even our truck could make it out without getting high centered….this part of the county seems to have been forgotten by the road crews…..now I must reschedule Lulah’s 9wk appt….Paul will work from home and Hannah will miss her classes today….the busyness of our lives must stop for yet another day 🙂

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  4. I made a large breakfast this morning. BG ate half a biscuit. Mr P and I had “breakfast bowls”. A long time ago when we had a Krystal nearby I would get them occasionally. You know grits on the bottom, egg, sausage, and cheese melted on top? Yum. I like my egg yolk to still be runny so I can mix it all in with the grits. Mr. P likes his eggs scrambled.
    This weekend the Grand Hotel is offering a culinary weekend. On Friday night they will teach you to make a punch for any occasion and Saturday will be cooking a Thanksgiving meal. I may go. Since I am working from home now, I need to find reasons to get out of the house.

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  5. Kim, I chuckled at your last sentence. I work from home and dread the times I have to get out of the house. Hubby and I are the original “home bodies” (and isn’t it a good thing that we’re both alike in that respect!)

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  6. Oh Linda, don’t mistake me. I would never leave the house if given a choice. That is why I feel like I have to get out. If I let myself I will get quite comfortable. I loved being around coworkers, making conversation, having lunch, discussing things, “being in the know”. But it appears that I can’t do that so I am back at home. I left the house Monday to run to UPS. Of course guy called then. He wanted to know if I was in front of a computer. No, at UPS so of course he thinks I am goofing off and he isn’t getting his money’s worth out of me. Yesterday I went to take photos of properties and measure a boat slip. The window was stuck down on my truck so of course he called when I was at a repair shop asking them to please get it up until I could get it fixed. Who knows what today will hold. I’m just lucky that way.

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  8. Lee & I are homebodies, too, me especially. He does like to go out & about at times, if he’s been home “too long” in his estimation, but with the schedule he’s been working for the last few years, it’s rare that he feels that way.

    Our dates consist of watching our TV shows together while having something to eat. To some people that would sound horribly boring, but we enjoy it. And of course, we converse as well. (Maybe other people “just watch TV” together & don’t think of it as anything special, but it is more than that for us, since it’s a not an every night activity.)

    Every now & then, he likes to take me out for a meal. We don’t eat out very often, so it’s always a special treat. Sometimes we just drive around, talking. When we do that, we usually stop somewhere to pick up coffee & a snack.

    I’m a “low-maintenance wife”. 🙂

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  9. Peter, it will probably last that long for me as well. Sometimes thought it is what I want. I wanted it Sunday morning when we got home, but there were no eggs and no grits in the house and rather than go out to get them I did without. Yesterday I went by the store to pick up an onion for last night’s dinner–you can imagine how that turned out, so this morning I had a “working man’s breakfast”. Certainly not something to be done every day. Usually I have a protein bar.
    I have decided I am not so much of a homebody as I am a back yard body. A chair in the sun and a good book and I am happy as I can be. We are experiencing bad weather here today, so I can’t sneak out for any sunshine. When I went into the office every time I need to talk on my cell phone I walked outside.

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  10. Art is in surgery now. Thanks for prayers. We allowed 45 minutes to drive in rush hour to Emory and get parked, 3 miles away. That’s Atlanta traffic on a good day. Someone wheeled in front of me at the parking deck and they got in the other gate lane which shut down. We got right in to a space right after we entered about six spaces from the gate. I told Art that was our divine humor for the morning. There are six floors of parking spaces in that deck.

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  12. Karen, part of my dating-website profile that appealed to my husband was my saying I was pretty much a homebody. Also, interestingly, he pointed out that he was happy that I didn’t say that my interests were hang-gliding or anything particularly exotic, but taking walks, writing, photography.

    However, I’m used to doing grocery shopping every week or two and he can go to the store to get just bananas, and can go into town to go to the store twice in the same day. So I try extra-hard to put things on the list proactively. If we’ll need bread in two days, it’s on the list now. If we can at least limit shopping trips to about three times a week, that’s good.

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  14. The plows are here! Now I can take Lulah in for her check up…Paul can get to work and Hannah to school….thankful
    Karen, Paul and I like to take drives together and just enjoy the scenery and talk…we,too, will stop off for coffee or a milkshake…depending of the temperature at the time….simple days are the best for me….I love being home 🙂
    Praying with you Janice…trusting in our Lord’s divine wisdom/guidance for the docs and His comfort to be extended to you and Art….. ❤

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  16. My husband likes to drive and stop for coffee, too. I enjoy doing that, but there are things that take more time and I need to be able to plan my days for that. He likes to just take off. That was an issue when he retired. We worked it out. 🙂

    We could have over three feet of snow if it had been colder. We don’t need that much at a time, IMO. Not that my opinion will make any difference, whatsoever.

    mumsee–my brother once melted a cast iron pot in an outdoor fire. He was doing a project for Boy Scouts. My uncle, the leader, said he never saw that happen before. My mom kept a twisted clump of the melted pot for quite awhile. That must have been one hot little campfire!

    Chas–my husband would agree with you about how women should treat their husbands. I (as I am sure Elvera is as well) am perfect in every regard according to your list. 😉

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  17. Praying, Janice. Glad it’s finally going to be behind you both. 🙂 Then onward. Life’s sometimes just a blast, eh?

    I’m definitely a homebody, loved when I (briefly, for about a year) worked close enough to home to come home for lunch. But then the paper shut down and I got moved to the sister paper to the north — which, ironically, is where I first lived in an apartment with a series of roommates back in the day but had to commute to the paper. So then I wound up living near that paper, but when that shut down had to drive back to my old hometown to get to work, same commute but in reverse. Oh well.

    So I was curious about Revere Ware and whatever happened to it — turns out it is still being made but is not considered good anymore. The company that once made it (in Ohio?) sold or went out of business so the pots-and-pans line was taken over (in 1998) by a company in … wait for it … Indonesia. Of course.

    So judging by the reviews I saw online, the newer version (now called just “Revere”) is not very commendable in quality, lightweight & nothing like our mothers’ cherished but tough Revere Ware. Oh well.

    It’s back to work for me today after a long weekend, but I will get some more time off later.

    There’s a meeting tonight I was considering covering, but don’t think I will.

    Karen, there are some twists in this week’s NCIS when you guys watch it.

    I still like the NO version, I especially like the new female character who was added this year. Adds some life to it.

    Oatmeal for breakfast for me but I went out to lunch with a friend yesterday and had a veggie omelette which was delicious. She had the pumpkin pancakes. She’s skinny and can do that. 🙂

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  18. Good morning/afternoon/evening/night, fellow wanderers around the globe!

    Janice, praying for you and Art.

    I’m a homebody, too. Surprise, surprise. 😉

    One little carryover from yesterday’s thread, then I promise I’ll not bring up the “s” word — the 10-letter “s” word 😉 — again today.

    I want to clarify my 10:03 post last night where I talked about recently being “not so submissive” to my husband as I usually am.

    I reported that, since that discussion where I was not submissive, our relationship has been much improved.

    The clarification is that I did not mean to imply that the end justifies (sinful) means, if that’s the impression I gave.

    I’ll skip the backstory, but, long story short, my husband commanded me to do something (as he has before, and I always submitted for a time), but the most recent time, I flat out told him, no, I would not submit to that any longer.

    I know. That probably sounds shocking. (He was pretty surprised by it, too.)

    (I should add that he was not asking me to do something immoral or anything like that.)

    Anyway, my use of the phrase “not so submissive” in my post is because I said “no” to my husband, regarding a command that I had come to see as an element that was pulling us further apart as a couple. My previous submission was enabling that, as his command and my obedience to it violated a fundamental tenet of a healthy husband-wife relationship.

    It took a long time for me to see my enabling responses for what they were — elements that facilitated some of the unraveling in our relationship. Thus, my “no” was an effort to restore a semblance of what I believed to be a normal marital relationship. I did not believe (and still don’t) that I was in sin to say “no” in this circumstance.

    I take no credit for what happened next, but it is clear that the Spirit was working in both of us when I laid out the why behind my “no.” We both see things differently now, and that discussion opened the door to much peace and healing. We are getting along better than we have in years now, and our relationship with each other is noticeably deeper and more tender now.

    This is a blessing that God has wrought, and I am thankful for the Spirit’s leading in both of our lives, and for a husband, whom I love very much, and who I know without a doubt loves me, who listens to and responds to the Spirit.

    So, if I would conclude my thoughts on submission, I’d say that I agree with whomever said yesterday (sorry, I don’t remember, but I’m thankful for the many great thoughts shared), something like “submission isn’t a one-size-fits-all thing.” We Christians have the gift of the Holy Spirit, and He is trustworthy. He will lead us in how we are to relate to one another.

    Praise God for His many good gifts!

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  19. Often we hear the phrase “Oh we know who wears the pants in that family”. I think the goal should be for no one to ever say that about a husband and wife. I would like the phrase “They compliment each other so well” better. I need to do some research and get back with you on something.

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  20. Janice,
    One part of me thinks how lovely to have soothing music being played in emotionally stressful areas of the hospital and how commendable it is to support the arts in such a way.

    Then the cynic on my shoulder wonders how much that is costing you and/or your insurance company.

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  21. Quick cut and paste from text I am sending out: Art is out of surgery. No need for biopsy, the spot disappeared! PTL!!!
    Kidney stone blasting was rough. Will be sore and go home with catheter, also stent in kidney to help pass stone fragments.
    Thanks for praying.

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  26. I’m listening to Performance Today online, and just now they started playing the piece I performed last spring, Bartok’s Roumanian Folk Dances. Fifth Arrow is sitting down here with me, and when the music began, I turned and looked at him, and he glanced sideways and grinned. He’s heard that piece many times in this house. 😉

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  27. Donna, that is interesting about the Revere Wear, and it answers my own questions. See, my mom had some that was a wedding present, and other than some discoloration of the handles, it lasted her 50 years. (I think she still had it when she died.) So when it was time for me to buy pans, I bought two sets of Revere Wear. (That would have been 1993-94, so apparently “just in time”!) My husband also had some, so I only kept a few of my pans, putting the rest of them aside in boxes in the garage for when our kids move out. Mine were copper-bottomed; his were not.

    But a decade or so ago I happened to see an issue of Consumer Reports in which pans were rated, and Revere was graded as much worse than average overall (heat distribution, for example). Some other pans were rated far better, and I thought, I’ve always been happy with my Revere Wear. Is that other company really that much better? Now, one of the sets I got came with a “free bonus” of a couple nonstick pans, and that seemed silly and non-Revere like. And only one of the sets came with double boiler inserts, which are a cooking basic, so I had to buy a second one at an outlet mall later. (And my husband’s set has a steam insert I’d never had.)

    When I bought my pans, I was fairly fresh out of college, no car, living with a couple who had plenty of pans, but I knew I wanted Revere someday and it was in a Target ad, so I took a CTA bus to Target to buy my pans, and then a year or so later I bought another set with a different grouping. When I moved into my next apartment, they had some pans but not as many, so I unboxed my precious Revere. The handles on Mom’s pans had grayed a bit after she started using a dishwasher (maybe there was a connection and maybe there wasn’t, but she’d had them for 30 years at that point so it seemed likely there was), so I told the girls I was living with, “You can use these, but handwash them, please. Don’t put them in the dishwasher.” They simply ignored my request, and the pans went through the dishwasher a couple of times, so back they went into their boxes until I moved again. But I’ve used for them close to 20 years now. I’m not sure they’re as good as Mom’s–they seem more subject to damage than hers did–but I’m content with them.

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  28. I used my Farberware for 38 years of marriage with little problem, though several folks pretty much destroyed them with popcorn making. I’ve got some cephalon pots from a friend which seem to be working fine–I’ve had them four months–but I miss my Farberware (some of which are still in the garage, hmmm). Because of my hand issues, I now need a fairly lightweight pot. These seem to be doing well.

    If only we no longer lived in a throwaway society. Our HP printed lasted nearly 20 years; I’m not sure how many we’ve gone through now. 😦

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  29. I have had mine for thirty five years. No problems. Until this year when one of the larger saucepans developed what appears to be a knife stab in the center inside. Had to be deliberate. These things happen around here. It is not all of the way through. I still use the pan.

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  30. Yay janice and art!! Now you’ll have to start getting ready to run a marathon to celebrate your good health. 🙂

    Interesting tale on the Revere Ware Cheryl — I had a couple of pieces from my mom’s (I don’t think she had a full set) and then bought mine in the early 1990s at a sale at Montgomery Ward.

    Some of my handles have grayed, too — and I’ve (slap my knuckles) but them in the dishwasher on occasion, but try to hand wash mostly.

    As far as current ratings, it seems to me that cooking technology changes — the gold standard now looks like all-clad cookware, which features several layers of stainless with an aluminum core to help keep heat even. It sounds much heavier than the plain stainless that I have.

    So that might explain part of Revere’s fall in the comparison ratings, if they’re still just being made with a single layer of stainless, albeit with copper bottoms.

    But yeah, Revere Ware was considered the thing to have back in the day. And it’s still good (the pre-’98 stuff anyway, I guess!).

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  31. Although I do have issues with getting burn marks on the insides if I’m not really watchful of the heat levels (I cook on a gas flame stove top).

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  32. My brother still uses my mother’s Revere Ware. The tea kettle was not doing it’s song anymore so I gave him my Revere Ware tea kettle that was much newer. When he wanted to replace the old one he discovered the difference in the new Revere. I have the steamer and double boiler inserts, and the omelette pan which I bought at one of their outlets some years ago to fill in my set.

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  37. Addendum to my 12:15 (even though I said I was done with that topic). Ahem.

    A better way when talking with my husband would have been for me to state the “why” aspects of my “no” first, instead of launching in with “No, I won’t submit to that” first.

    If any of you thinks I’m perfect, well, I just debunked that notion. 😛

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  42. What other classic, great movie themes do you like?

    I’m thinking of:

    Mission Impossible
    Great Escape
    James Bond
    Star Wars
    Jurassic Park

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  48. My best girlfriend in high school and I saw Great Escape in the theater on one of it’s re-release rounds.

    I think we sat through 3 showings one afternoon. So many cute actors in one movie. 🙂

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  50. there are really some great pieces composed for film — we have a local pops orchestra that specializes in playing film score music, lots of fun.

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  59. The one scene I think about during a part of the Jurassic Park music is when the lead characters/survivors are all flying away from the prehistoric island

    There’s just a whole time machine yearning that’s part of the film — but obviously a cautionary tale, as they say, about our scientific abilities getting ahead of our common sense. 🙂

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  60. I’ve seen Hunt for Red October, but the opening scene seemed new to me, I’ll have to watch it again.

    That scene looked as cold as it is at the dog park.

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  64. Guess Who (Donna?); Though the theme for Mission: Impossible is great music, the movie is not “classic”. But it is based on a classic TV show.

    M:I is one of many great TV themes that include Bonanza, JAG, The Green Hornet (which was basically “The Flight of the Bumble Bee”), Rawhide. Can anyone think of others?

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  67. Not caught up on these comments today, but jumping in here so I don’t forget what I was gonna say. 🙂

    Kim – I don’t know if anyone has said or thought that Lee & I complement each other well, but we do! We have learned to blend our different strengths & abilities, & to be gentle with each other’s weaknesses.

    In the past couple of years, while Lee has been going through such a trial, & has grown so much closer to God, he has also come to appreciate me more than he ever has. He says he feels bad that he didn’t appreciate me very much for so many years. I am just very thankful that now he does. 🙂

    When we were approaching our 25th anniversary back in 2011, we were going through an especially rough spot, & I felt, “What is there to celebrate?” We are now headed towards our 30th next March, & I know we have a lot to celebrate.

    So very grateful to God.

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  68. Janice – When I read that the spot had disappeared, & didn’t need a biopsy, I thrust my arms into the air & whispered (because Forrest is sleeping next to me on my couch) “Thank You, Jesus! Thank You, Jesus!”

    I had prayed that He would heal that spot so that no biopsy would be necessary. 🙂

    I hope you can get some peaceful rest tonight.

    6 Arrows – So glad to hear how God is blessing your marriage. Sounds similar to my story (about not wanting to enable my husband any longer in an attitude).

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  69. Thanks, Karen. I’m glad for you, too. (And our 30th anniversary is next year, too.) 🙂

    Media fast tomorrow. No place we have to go. No piano students tomorrow. I’m hoping to get a lot accomplished with home and family responsibilities.

    Thanks for all the good music tonight, Donna. Fifth and Sixth Arrows enjoyed listening and watching along with me, too.

    Have a good night, everyone.

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  71. Mumsee (re music), some are perhaps, but music scores are an art in and of themselves and there have been some talented composers who have created beautiful & lively themes. John Williams wrote the Jurassic Park theme.

    And if you’ve seen the movies, and they were good, they evoke very fond & familiar memories. 🙂

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  77. May I add Gone With the Wind? And the music from the Civil War series by Ken Burns on PBS.

    We are thankful for good results today, but figuring out the catheter bags is such a challenge. Art is in a good deal of pain, too. But I remind him how much worse it could have been. Still recuperation time is not fun. And he will have to soon repeat this since he has stones on the other side, too.

    Thanks, again, for the prayers. God hears each one.♡

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