57 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-8-15”

  2. Good morning, day, afternoon, dusk, and evening for next 24 hours! That covers everyone wherever in the world you may be! It’s a great time to praise God no matter if it is day, night, or in between!

    Kim, do you have that recipe for chicken thighs and beans in the foil packet? I found similar recipes on line, but they are not quite like what you said. I also found a one sheet pan recipe where chicken, green beans, and new potatoes all go in the oven on top of the foil lined sheet pan to all cook together for an easy cleanup. That sounded good, too.

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  5. Morning all. Aj, you made me laugh. We need to keep Kim on her toes over there.
    Prayer time went long tonight, so I am able to greet you all.
    Still waiting to find out about my ticket. Report cards are done, but I will look them over online tomorrow.
    Got my passport out of the safe in the Director’s office today, almost forgot.

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  13. I like the way my front door looks with the snow falling in front of it. 😉
    I put the two poinsettias to the side because I wanted them to look fuller and we use the right side door. I need some sort of container too put them in. Shhhh, Dont tell anyone this but the one in the back is propped up on two bricks and the one in front is to hide the bricks. It’s our little secret…OK?

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  14. Today is December 8th. It is BG’s court date. I did not hire a lawyer. I am nervous (as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs) that I have made a mistake but G and Mr. P were in agreement and I couldn’t fight them over it. I pray all goes well and as it should.

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  15. Janice, I am going to have to dig a little more in order to find that recipe, but I did remember this one that is also delicious. Save yourself a step and some time and use canned chickpeas. Don’t skip the cinnamon. You will be surprised at how good it tastes in this recipe. My friend M makes it all the time. It came from the book Under the Tuscan Sun.

    http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/1836029-Chicken-with-Chickpeas-Garlic-Tomatoes-and-Thyme

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  16. Musical Advent Calendar – Day 8: “In Dulci Jubilo” is thought to have been written by Heinrich Susse in about 1328. It is a macaronic text, alternating between German and Latin. This lovely arrangement of the well-known tune is by Johann Walther, a German composer who was a friend of Martin Luther. The most common English version is “Good Christian Men Rejoice”, although the original words are quite different:

    In dulci jubilo (In sweet rejoicing),
    Let us our homage show!
    Our heart’s joy reclineth
    In praesepio (in the manger);
    And like a bright star shineth
    Matris in gremio (in his mother’s lap).
    Alpha es et O (Alpha is and O)!

    O Jesu parvule (O little Jesus),
    My heart is sore for Thee!
    Hear me, I beseech Thee,
    O puer optime (O perfect child);
    My praying let it reach Thee,
    O princeps gloriae (O glorious prince),
    Trahe me post te (draw me after you).

    O patris caritas (O loving Father)!
    O Nati lenitas (O gently Born)!
    Deeply were we stained.
    Per nostra crimina (by our sins):
    But Thou for us hast gained
    Coelorum gaudia (Heaven’s joy).
    O that we were there!

    Ubi sunt gaudia (Where is there joy)
    In any place but there?
    There are angels singing
    Nova cantica (a new song);
    And there the bells are ringing
    In Regis curia (In the King’s court).
    O that we were there!

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  18. Cheryl, you must become like that famous bird (before Big Bird took #1), you know the one of which I speak? The early bird that catches the thread (oops, I mean worm) first!♡ 🙂

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  19. I looked three times before I noticed what Aj was talking about.

    Then, Linda says that Kim is unbalanced and disappears.
    We got two sausage and egg biscuits & 2 coffees at McDonalds for little over $7.00

    Elvera Goes into Piggly Wiggly to buy some clear plastic bags. It only takes 20 minutes.
    This i s starting Out to be a great day.

    🙂

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  21. I tend to like things balanced & symmetrical myself. But according to our old friend, Designer Girl (Kathaleena’s daughter), & other interior designers, symmetry is not necessarily artistic.

    So I have been learning to allow some asymmetry in my home. (Horrors!) Just a little bit, though. 🙂

    Emily has an artistic bent to her, & she has sometimes suggested a tweak here or there, & can make asymmetry look nice.

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  23. Karen, I’m like you in preferring symmetry as a rule. Years ago my brother and sister bought me a top that was assymetrical. As I recall, one sleeve was one color and the other a different one. There were at least three colors altogether (maybe red, green, and blue). It was a Christmas gift a few months before I went to college, and so I took it with me and wore it a couple of times. When my roommate admired it, I gave it to her, and was rid of it with a good conscience. 🙂

    But compositionally, balance matters more than symmetry, and so I try to find ways to have both if possible. Three flowers is usually better than two, for example. One large and two small can work well, in my opinion, depending on how they sit in the frame. But what’s funny is that I often take a photo of a bird or some animal, and I can’t help bout take it through some tree branches because of where it’s sitting. Sometimes I frame it with tree branches on purpose, but sometimes they’re just there. And those tend to be the photos my husband likes the best. (And he had some photography class and is an amateur artist, so he knows something about design.) Sometimes I pull up the photo of a bluebird on my screen, and I’m thinking, “Now, I just need to crop it a bit to zoom in and get rid of those out-of-focus branches in the front,” and my husband will look at the photo and say, “Oh, that’s the best one you took. And you know what really ‘makes’ the photo is those branches in the foreground that frame it and add perspective.”

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  24. My front door will never ever look like that but it is beautiful and I have wished mine would. It is especially nice with the snow drifting across. And it would be very strange to ask your guests to move the plant before they come in and then try to set it back in place so they belong together. Asymmetry is a good look. OCD begone.

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  26. Thank you all. Doing things like this makes me happy. Mr. P doesn’t know what to think about the whirlwind that has hit his house. He has only known me in rental property where everything was up in the air as to whether I would be in that house next year or not. He did ask me if I was finished…probably not. I have 4 smaller wreaths that I plan to beribbon and put on the 4 windows across the front of the house. Hmmmm. I have noticed that none of my neighbors have decorated yet…should I offer to help?

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  29. Come on over. Our only hope at this point is nineteen year old, well nineteen in a few days. She plans to come by today and will, no doubt, get the decorations out and up. And we will be festive at last. Though husband and the three older boys plan to be gone from before Christmas to after New Years so it will be only the little folk and I to enjoy it.

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  30. A funny thing happened the other day.

    And I just had the silly thought to just leave that one sentence. But here’s the story. . .

    My left hearing aid has not been working so I am only using my right hearing aid. (I do have an appointment to have the left one checked.) Saturday morning, as Chrissy was taking a shower, & I was sitting on the couch reading, I kept hearing an intermittent buzzing behind me, to the right. I could not figure out what it was, & once I even looked behind the couch to see what it could be.

    Turns out that it was Chrissy’s cellphone, buzzing because it was set on vibrate, diagonally off to the left of me. But it was being picked up by my right hearing aid, & so sounded as if it was behind me to the right.

    Well, maybe that’s not so funny, but I thought that was funny. 🙂

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  32. I also have an excellent recipe for turkey chili if I can find it too. I may make copies when I find the notebook all of it is in and mail them to you. (The thought of turkey chili turns my stomach but if I don’t think too hard about it, it really is good.

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  34. Speaking of symmetry, when I bought my house in Nashville one thing I liked was four maples in the front yard forming sort of an imperfect square. Soon after moving in, I heard the sound of running water, and my first water bill was over $700. We finally tracked it to a broken water pipe under the lawn. (And the water company didn’t make me pay except for $25 or so.)

    When the company came out to replace the pipe, they casually told me that their work might kill one of the trees, and I asked them please try not to, and they decided to move their digging over a foot or so, and they thought they’d be OK, and they were. But years later half of that tree did die, and another of the four was looking unhealthy and the electric company (which was basically just tolerating a lot of trees that had been planted decades before and were now too close to their power lines) knocked on my door and offered to take it down . . . and as much as I hated to lose the tree, I knew they would save me several hundred dollars by removing it, so I said yes.

    But really, more important than that I was down from four trees to two-and-a-half was being disabused of my assumption that all maples turn red in fall and I would have a glorious front yard with four maples in it. Instead I only had a yardful of yellow leaves each fall. But I’d still rather have trees than not.

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  35. Kim, your doorway is extra beautiful. Did you do those gorgeous bows yourself? I already know the answer is yes. ❤

    You might be able to find a little tree, one that can be planted in the yard, at a plant nursery to put on the other side and decorate. Then you could plant the tiny tree in your yard as a reminder of your first Christmas together in your new home. Sort of like our Birthday Tree. Maybe a tiny camellia with red blooms?

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  36. Beware of planting live Christmas trees.

    That’s what the former owners of my house did and it’s now a gigantic pine tree in the backyard that costs $$ to trim and hack down every few years — and seeps pine sap all over my dogs’ fur. 🙂 They like to lie under that tree a lot.

    But it does make the dogs smell awfully nice — and Christmasy. 🙂

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  37. I made my chili using ground turkey seasoned with oregano, basil, garlic, and a little Nature’s Seasons. After that cooked, I drained off all the fat by putting it in a colander and pressing on the meat until all the drippings were gone. Then I put it back in the pan and poured in a jar of organic spaghetti sauce with a little extra water I used to swish through the jar to get out all the sauce. Then I put in some chili powder and a can of well drained kidney beans and a can of corn. It is an easy one pot meal. I was going to reserve some of it for spaghetti sauce, but I ended up using it all for chili.

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  39. The truth Janice, is that I did not make those bows. A friend of mine made them. She did show me how to make them so I am practicing on some old ribbon so I won’t have to ask her next year.

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  42. Oh, I have been meaning to share this with you. Mobile, AL had their second annual lighting of the Menorah in Bienville Square last night. As I was headed into a dinner party I could hear the children in the park singing “This Little Light of Mine”. Props to Mobile for honoring the Jewish heritage of the city, but I really never have thought of that song in relation to Chanukah

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  46. Kim, leave it asymmetrical – your porch/door is actually that way and it looks so very nice. You would have a ball in my dining room right now – Christmas decor everywhere – it just needs to be placed just so.

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  47. Kim, I’ve thought about you and prayed for you, her, and the situation many times these last few hours. I don’t know if you’ll even be back on here this evening, but do know that I care, and I know I speak for all of us.

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  51. Weird schedule for me today, I had a dental cleaning at 3 p.m. which gave me time afterward to come home and take the dogs to the park — but now I’m off to cover a 6:30 p.m. meeting (and with another night meeting tomorrow night).

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  52. Donna, your weird schedule reminds me of how my days end up frequently. Once upon a time in my life I had a regular schedule but it’s not been regular for quite sometime now. We had planned to go in early today, but then the dealership called to say our other car was ready for pickup. A transmission switch had gone bad and the D for drive was blinking to tell us something was wrong. Also got the brakes done. I suppose that along with medical procedures will be our Christmas gift bundles that won’t require wrapping, ribbons, and bows this year. 🙂
    Anyway, dealing with this car and the other car last week added to the routine off schedule “routine.”
    Duh, did that make sense?

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