by

Our Daily Thread 12-2-15

Good Morning!

This morning we have The Piano Guys and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir setting the World Record for the Largest Live Nativity: 1039 people. 🙂

Go big or stay home, right? 🙂

And stay with it thru the end to hear from one of The Guys why they did it. Pretty cool. 🙂

From The Piano Guys

—————————————

Anyone have a QoD?

 

62 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-2-15”

  1. OK, here’s a QOD – maybe the strangest we’ve ever had. Number-One-Son, who is a residential plumber, asked, “Do you know why old ladies (and he kindly added “older than you”) wash their hair in their laundry tub?” He encounters it frequently, so said it’s a “thing.” I had no idea, and have no clue. Can anyone answer this?

    FROM YESTERDAY:

    Kim, yes, I did see your “egg carton” post on FB – did you see my answer (that I always use the eggs out of the carton so that it remains symmetrical and balanced)?

    Donna, I’m not sure why you said “Dave Ramsey, you can put your hands over your ears now.” He has no objection to online banking and when people call and ask about it, says he does so himself and has several of his monthly bills auto-drafted from his account.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  4. Good morning!

    Linda, when I was young, many, many years ago, I remember my mama, who I now refer to as mother, would fill up the kitchen sink basin and I would have to get up on the counter and she would wash my hair there. I know it is not a laundry tub, but perhaps it gives a clue?

    I left a prayer in the evening for Kare ‘ s late request and for BG.

    Like

    Reply

  5. Or, Linda, perhaps older ladies use the laundry tub in the process of dying their hair? I don’t dye my hair, so I don’t know the process, but the thought came to mind, as a possibility.

    Like

    Reply

  8. Laundry tub: my guess is because it is big enough to put one’s head in comfortably, the faucet is high enough to not bang one’s head, it is at a comfortable height, it is not in the kitchen where the food is prepared, many older women don’t shower but bathe, and prefer washing hair separately.

    Liked by 4 people

    Reply

  9. Linda – I guess I need to ask what you mean by a laundry tub. At first, I thought you meant a clothes washer, but I couldn’t figure out how one would get ones head in there to do that. 🙂

    Like

    Reply

  10. Has any of my Facebook friends on here seen the discussion on the article I posted by the rape survivor who is concerned about letting “transgender women” use the ladies’ room?

    YF accused one of my other friends of being condescending, & talking down to her. I had to laugh, because YF is often condescending herself.

    I also had to laugh that the main “debaters” on that thread, on either side of the issue, are also my most strongly-opinionated friends. I tried to bring a little peace to the conversation towards the end.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  11. Oh good, so online banking to keep track of balances is OK? Somehow I thought I read once from one of those financial gurus that it wasn’t, but glad to hear! 🙂 Seriously, it’s much more efficient and accurate for someone like me (who is horribly math-deficient and never had much patience or success doing it by head-and-hand, as it were).

    Good answers about the laundry sink. I think my aunt & mom mostly used sinks to wash their hair and I was taught how to do that (and yes, there was one of those rubber spray nozzles that helped — I remember now my mom washing my hair over the sink as a kid).

    But showers are more the norm for everyone now and they come with all the attachments so I always wash my hair in the shower.

    High laundry sinks (which I don’t have) are good for washing small dogs, though. 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  13. Hi Donna. You & I both posted at the same time. 🙂

    ****************

    So you all are talking about separate laundry sinks? I’ve never lived in a house with one of those.

    I often wash my hair in the bathroom sink (the faucet is high enough to get my head under) if I’d taken a shower the night before. Before getting the higher faucet in the bathroom, I would use the kitchen sink. And yes, I did that even when I was younger.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  14. Musical Advent Calendar – Day 2: It just wouldn’t be Christmas without Handel’s Messiah:) The first part of the oratorio speaks of Advent, the Nativity and the Life of Christ. The final aria of this section is in two parts. First, the alto soloist sings “He shall feed his flock”, with the text from Isaiah 40:11. Then the soprano soloist takes up the melody, singing from Matthew 11:28-29:
    “Come unto Him, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and He shall give you rest. Take His yoke upon you, and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  19. My daughter used to take baths in the laundry tub. It has two sides, so they each had their own little ‘tub’, but could play together. We had no tub for awhile, while building.

    I don’t rearrange eggs in the carton. I see no need. I take them out in order from what ever side I start on.

    Prayers, Janice. So sorry for all you are going through.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  21. Thanks to all who listen and care about our woes.

    I found a new Bible I may try to read through for next year. It is the Jesus Centered Bible in the NLT. It has blue letters in the Old Testament verses that relate to Jesus. It retains red letters for Jesus’ spoken words in the New Testament.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  23. “Produced out of the conviction that the Bible is a unified message of God’s grace culminating in Jesus, it is a significant new tool to help readers see Christ in all of Scripture, and grace for all of life.”

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  24. So Chas says: Good morning everyone but Jo and Tychicus.

    It makes me think he isn’t being nice to them. At least I know why he put it that way, and I suppose they do too.

    Liked by 4 people

    Reply

  25. Oh no, I’m out of coffee.

    So I’m drinking hot chocolate from a cute blue-and-white cow cup I couldn’t resist & bought a while back at Tuesday Morning for pennies (well, for $1 + some change 🙂 ). I like cute & cheap. And it says on the bottom that it was made in England. My fancy English china.

    Today may be Claire’s day.

    Liked by 3 people

    Reply

  26. And yes, to Jo who asked (I think it was her), I am off work this week. 🙂

    When I go back, I need to find a story about a local foster family, part of an assignment for a holiday project all the papers are running with a local focus for each.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  30. Donna, I did get that Bible, too, and it may be in the church media center. I put a number of newer study Bibles in there for anyone who wanted to see what all is available to help in their studies. I need to compare the two.

    I am cooking biscuits now. Art always loves my biscuits and they might be considered like eating soft saltiness with the unsalted tops. I will later make orange jello with bananas.

    Liked by 3 people

    Reply

  31. My washing machine is in the kitchen running away with the refrigerator 🙂

    My dryer is in the utility room outside. I think this was the original energy efficient home. A clothes line served for the dryer and the mom could easily do the washing of the clothes while preparing meals and washing dishes and watching children. A true model of a step saver home. The kitchen doors could be closed to the rest of the home so the dad could read the paper and watch TV in peace.
    🙂

    Like

    Reply

  33. Has anyone here been to or heard of a baby shower where men attended and one of the games was to put beer in baby bottles and see which man could finish the bottle first? Any thoughts on such a game?

    Like

    Reply

  34. I am still trying to catch up from putting things aside while we had no hot water compounded by the backed up kitchen sink drain. Some things just can’t be fixed by Duck Tape when the ducks just want to float.

    Like

    Reply

  35. While I have given and attended baby showers where men and alcohol were present I don’t think I would ever allow such a game as putting beer in baby bottles and having a drinking contest. That sounds more like a fraternity party than a baby shower to me.

    Liked by 4 people

    Reply

  36. The Biddy bio proposal is done and in cyberspace to my agent. The timing is perfect–my Ancestry.com membership ends today. I’ve spent a lot of time there and now am expert on her genealogy . . .

    I’m eating lunch, taking a walk in the sunshine and then will return to whatever is next on the list. Rain is expected tomorrow! What a great day! 🙂

    Liked by 4 people

    Reply

  39. I’ve never heard of that game, Janice — but I have been to baby showers where men were present. They seemed bored, huddled awkwardly together in another room for the most part. 🙂

    Like

    Reply

  40. Donna, Dave Ramsey’s program calls for doing a specific monthly budget at the beginning of each month in which you designate where every dollar that comes in that month will go (he even has a very popular, free, budget program called “Every Dollar”). He recommends spending, such as for groceries, be done via cash out of the “grocery” envelop where that month’s allotment has been placed. But as for bills that we used to pay for by check, he’s all about doing so via online banking.

    Like

    Reply

  41. Apropos to a discussion elsewhere:
    When Chuck graduated from HS, he wanted to “be on his own”. He and his buddy Paul were working as cooks at Three Chefs. A restaurant in Falls Church where they started out as buss boy a couple of years before. So he had some money to “be on his own”. I offered to opportunity to go to college, but he didn’t see the need. Besides, his HS grades were poor.
    Also, they both were good guitarists. They moved in with three other guys and had a band. They were going to be multimillionaire rock stars before they were 21.
    They lived there over a year. They had some gigs but never made it big. After a while, when he was over (for dinner) and visiting. I asked, “Where do you want to be ten years from now?” He began to consider that. Also, he talked about his financial situation. It was always a struggle. We decided at the beginning not to subsidize his adventure of “being on his own”. He had to handle it. He later said, that he could handle the regular expenses. But, “It’s the miscellaneous that gets you”.
    One of the most difficult parts for Elvera and me, especially her, was to not subsidize his venture. That was the key. If he was on his own he had to make it alone.
    After a while, he decided to accept my offer. He moved back home and took courses at Northern Virginia Community College to pull his grades up for college. He got an associate degree in engineering and enrolled in the U. of S. Carolina chemical engineering program.

    You know the rest. The points I want to make are:
    You have to decide where you want to be in ten years. If I keep going this way, where will I be?
    If you strike out on your own., you have to be able to handle it yourself..
    There is always miscellaneous.. Always.

    Liked by 6 people

    Reply

  42. Well, I need to wash my hair, but we don’t have a laundry sink to do it in (if we wash anything by hand, we use the kitchen sink). I had about eight wires attached just to my scalp, never mind those attached to my forehead, face, neck, and legs for the sleep test. I did sleep, but not well at all. I’ve been helping put up the Christmas tree since I got home, so have had a chance to wash the rest of the adhesive out of my hair.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  44. Roscuro – I once read someone’s remark (I think it was tongue-in-cheek, but not sure) that the reason so many people these days are diagnosed with sleep apnea (sp?) is because no one can actually sleep well during a sleep test. 🙂

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  45. When my mom was married to her second husband, I visited her twice in his home. Well, the first time was for her wedding, but he graciously moved in with his children for a few days to let her and us use the house before the wedding, and the second time was for his funeral.

    But the home was old and not updated. For example, only the living room was heated. It had a clawfoot bathtub, and the faucet was so close to the tub that it was impossible to get one’s head underneath it. (It jutted out maybe an inch and a half–believe me, I tried to get under it, and just could not.) Mom eventually got a hose attachment put on it, but until that time, washing one’s hair in the sink was the only possible option. Only I had washed my hair in the sink a few times when I was young, and I know I have too much hair and cannot do that. So if that is my only option, I’ll wait on washing my hair. Laundry tub, maybe, but a shower works much better than any other option I’ve tried.

    Misten has her bed, and she is a happy dog. It might have been two hours since it got delivered, and she has not moved except to shift positions on it. She’s trying to make up for all those years of pretending a bath mat was a bed. (She had a bed as a puppy, but she got bigger than I expected–she’s long for a collie–and anyway she chewed it up.) I wanted to get her one year ago, but couldn’t find anything that looked well made without being extravagantly expensive, and finally Donna pointed me in the right direction. She may well be demanding not only breakfast in bed, but supper too.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  46. The problem now (I don’t know about then) is there are soooo many people willing to help out. When our nearly nineteen year old was nearly eighteen and it looked like she might be hitting the road due to lying and not following other rules, she had several adults in the area tell her she was welcome there if we were going to kick her out. That is not being on your own. Though it can be a stepping stone.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  49. Karen: Ha! Though, I think that actually not sleeping well would interfere with the sleep test. You see, people do wake up during sleep apnea, but they wake up (usually so briefly that they don’t remember it) because they temporarily stopped breathing. Just waking up due to discomfort wouldn’t produce the same results on the sensors (they had a sensor on my nose to detect air flow); but it could mask the number of times the person usually wakes up due to stopping breathing.

    My sleep test was originally scheduled for the 21st of this month, but I got a call yesterday afternoon that there had been a cancellation and there was a spot available. It was short notice, but I was glad to get it over with. I’ll get the results in a couple of weeks.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  52. Re: subsidizing a grown child – We are subsidizing Emily (mostly by not charging her rent, & sometimes giving her a little money to go towards an expensive, but necessary purchase) but we don’t look at it as enabling her in bad or irresponsible behavior. On the contrary, she has become a very responsible young woman. She has her sights on being a nurse, & is working steadily towards that, while also working a couple part-time jobs (although the two together only equal usually about 20 hours), & being a mother to her son. She helps out tremendously with the outside work, & some other things, which is a huge help to us.

    But if she were being irresponsible, we would have to institute some tough love. I am so glad we don’t have to do that. She went through a rebellious stage in her late teens, left home, had a baby, & came back home, but she has matured greatly, & like Chas mentioned, she does look ahead ten years, & works towards making a better life for her son & herself.

    We are proud of her. Now may she recognize her need for Jesus.

    Liked by 4 people

    Reply

  53. I do think there is a difference between girls and boys, too, in how much you do. It is a balancing act. On the one hand you want to keep the communication/door open. OTOH, you want to not enable poor choices. We had to ‘rescue’ from some poor choices. Sometimes, the point is made and grace prevails. Parenting is not for sissies, as the saying goes.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  54. Flexibility and knowing your child all come in. But you have to look with open eyes at where your child really is and what the goals are for the child, both yours and hers. I have had children whose goal was to be dead at twenty five as it was all down hill from there. I would try to steer them away from that goal.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  60. Not sure if I will survive the excitement level in kinder this week and next. Yesterday I was calling them to come do a project and I looked over and it seemed that half the class was wrestling on the mat.
    and then a little girl was crying today and as she left I finally figured out that I was my fault for not understanding her. so sad. But God did hear my prayer as her father was on campus to do a job and I was able to explain it to him. and I realized the problem just as she was leaving so apologized.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

Leave a reply to 6 arrows Cancel reply