60 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-13-16”

  4. God Morning. I slept in for a bit. Grandpa had everything under control. I was really tired and able to go back to sleep. If I ever get out of bed it is very rare for me to be able to lie back down and nap. I think we may be on our second viewing of Toy Story for the morning.

    Happy Birthday Karen.

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  5. Good day, night, and all times in all places!

    I did not watch the State of the Union. Husband preferred watching Criminal Minds. Hmmm….
    I think we saw the lesser of two evils.

    The remote stopped working last night and Art was so disturbed that I ran out for batteries at Publix. I was in such a huff over his huff about the remote that I did not notice until I went out the door that I had on my new pink velour Danske lounging pants that I think of as PJ pants. I decided anyone who had a problem with it could suffer along with me.

    Yes, Art is feeling much better!

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  9. 🙂 HAPPY 🙂
    •BIRTHDAY•
    ♡KAREN♡
    ☆☆☆☆☆

    ^^^^^^^^^^
    Mountain of
    ~Meringue~
    ~~~~~~~~~~
    ~Layers of~
    Vanilla Cake
    ~~~~~~~~~~~Chocolate~
    ~Ice Cream~
    ~~~~~~~~~~
    ~~Vanilla~~
    ~Ice Cream~
    ~~~~~~~~~~
    •Raspberry•
    ••Sherbet•••
    ~~~~~~~~~~
    @@@@@@

    If someone will sprinkle on a little something so the Baked Alaska can be ignited because Forrest will be so impressed!
    Happy Birthday,
    Grand Karen!!!
    This way there are no candles to count. 😉

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  10. Oh. I have been meaning to tell you this so that those of you who live in colder climates can laugh at me.
    When we got here the other night, DIL had bought Coke Zero for Mr. P. When he asked where they were she told him she put them on the table (OUTSIDE!!!!) by the back door! What a concept! Definitely something this Southern Girl would have never thought of doing. Then Mr. P explained that you had to be careful especially with bottled drinks that they didn’t freeze and crack the glass all over the place. I think I will go outside and get one of my V-8’s

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  15. Last Fall, when husband and boys were out hunting, they met some other hunters. Young guys, very pleasant. My guys ended up offering space in their big canvas tent to the two young men who had planned to just sleep in their car. They all had a nice time. The young men showed up here one day (they live about two and a half hours away), just as the boys were beginning to process their deer and the young men gave them a hand. The young men are hunting guides. Anyway, one of them called one of the eighteen year olds a couple of days ago to tell him his boss was looking for help and young man had put in eighteen year olds name so the boss would be calling. He did and son ended up with an interview today. The young man offered him a place to stay in his parents’ house until son gets set up and a car and a phone. The boss is a furniture maker and is overloaded with work right now. Sounds like an excellent fit for son. But he is the son we did not know if he would make it on his own, so this might just be the provision he needs to get started.

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  18. Happy birthday Karen!!

    We lucked out yesterday, the live news conference on the Rams story — which we’ve been covering closely as both of the communities being discussed for the new stadium are in our readership area — took place right at the same time as the SOTU address. So we had the Rams on the newsroom TV instead of the speech (which I heard a bit of on the drive home).

    Criminal Minds definitely would have been the better option last night for the rest of you in the east. 🙂

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  20. Bonne Anniversaire, Karen!

    I don’t know if any of you saw yesterday’s google doodle on Google’s search engine. It was in commemoration of Charles Perrault’s (1628-1703) birthday, the earliest compiler of fairy tales. Nearly two hundred years before the Grimm brothers, he collected stories like Cinderella, Puss in Boots, and Sleeping Beauty. He didn’t write Beauty and the Beast, which was written by a slightly later French author, Madame de Villeneuve (1695-1755); but the later tale was very much in the tradition he began. I’ve been fighting the flu/cold which has been going around, and the other day, I felt so miserable that I curled up in front of our television and put on Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’, which I have not seen for at least a decade.
    To my surprise, my mother, who has never seen the film, was fascinated by it and ended up watching the whole thing with me. She said she used to love Disney’s ‘Snow White’ when she was young, when it would play on the television. My father also remembers ‘Snow White’ with affection, since it was the first film he ever saw (in a rerun in a local theatre). My nephews watched ‘Snow White’ for the first time when they were here at Christmas (someone gave us some old Disney videocassettes) and I was astounded to discover that these children, who watch computer generated special effects in action films like Star Wars, were mesmerized by the handpainted art of an old fashioned cartoon.
    When I was doing my writing course, I studied about the different types of old literature: parables, fables, myths, legends, and of course, fairy tales. They all have indelibly left their mark on modern culture, so much that most stories told today imitate their features: Star Wars, the Avengers and other Marvel films are obvious examples. Charles Perrault wrote ‘Cinderella’ about 350 years ago, and yet it was the subject of one of last years hit films. Perhaps modern society isn’t so out of touch with the past as we think.

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  23. A shelf in our garage is lined with 2-liter soda bottles. I was distressed after Christmas dinner this year that it wasn’t cold enough for me to put the pot of turkey bones out there to keep overnight until I could make soup with them the next day. Outdoors is definitely a spare ‘fridge.

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  24. A couple of years ago I paid Mr. Mitchell $100 + a broken dryer for a refrigerator. When we moved into the new house it had a nice, new French door stainless fridge in the kitchen. The spare is in the garage. It is really convenient to have a second one. In the South we would NEVER think of putting food or drink outside to store it.

    We are going to Solomon’s Island in a little while. Anyone have any suggestions. I don’t know what is there and Google isn’t much help. Every thing I can find is several years old and meant for people who don’t have two toddlers in tow in the Winter.

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  25. I watched the replay of Sherlock from Sunday night. I recorded it then since it came on too late for me to stay awake. From what I’ve heard, there were some great one liners in the SOTU, but I don’t think the President intended them to be funny. One like the line about our economy being strong. Maybe it has slightly improved since 2009, but not much.

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  27. Speaking of the joys of children discovering the worth of that which is old, I’ve been introducing my niece and nephews to the delights of silent film comedy. I started last summer with Buster Keaton’s ‘Our Hospitality’, because it involved a replica of the first steam locomotive in America, which I thought would interest Eldest Nephew, who is, like his grandfather, going in for model trains. They loved it. As much as they enjoy watching modern films, I had never seen them interact so much with a film story. At one sticky point in the series of mishaps, they were shrieking at the main character to help his girl, who was in imminent peril. So this time I showed them Keaton’s great Civil War comedy, also involving trains, ‘The General’. I remembered ‘The General’ fondly from my childhood, when we watched on the borrowed reel-to-reel projector. They loved it just as much, and talked about it for days, saying, “We need to watch the train movie again.” They did and enjoyed it just as much the second time round. Not even seeing the newest Star Wars in theatre produced such an enthusiastic response. I showed Eldest Niece a third Keaton comedy ‘Seven Chances’. She is fascinated with the storytelling aspect of films, and she kept marveling at how such absorbing tales could be portrayed with almost no dialogue. So, if you are wondering how to entertain children, from about the age of four to the age of thirteen, silent film comedies are an excellent option – and there is no swearing.

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  29. In Chicago for a couple of the years I worked on yearbook in college, we had a basement office. For security, the windows had bars over them, but they were bars that formed a little cage, not directly over the window. The windows were at ground level, with shrubbery growing over them, so no one could see in, but we could open them to let in some air without risk of anyone coming into the building through them.

    Anyway, we discovered early on that that little cage was an excellent fridge in winter. We had to watch pretty closely if we wanted to store milk (I think we actually did that for a few hours one or two times when the temperature was in the upper 30s), but bottles of soda, leftover pizza, and chunks of cheese had a bit of leeway in temperature. Someone would ask, “Do we have anything to drink?” and we’d say, “Yeah, there’s Coke, root beer, and orange juice in the fridge.” If it was slightly slushy, they’d drink it or let it warm up a bit inside; if it was frozen, we’d let it thaw.

    Here we have a more reliable unit, a freezer in the garage.

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  30. This lengthy comment seems to fit all three of our categories, so I’m just going to write it here.

    In early November, I looked at the calendar and realized if I didn’t send Hill her Christmas gifts, they’d never get to Sicily in time. I filled two boxes with a variety of things and sent it off.

    The box arrived today.

    She caught me on FB and showed a photos when I said I didn’t remember what was in the boxes. I laughed and suggested we meet on Facetime and I watch her open the gifts!

    So, that’s what we did just now! 🙂

    She laughed when she opened the personal gifts–loved the infinity scarf (she lives in a three story townhouse with tile floors, I remember thinking I needed to get her warm indoor clothing), and the thick socks.

    But she shrieked with glee when she opened the soft blue cardigan, “with pockets even!” that I had forgotten about, and babbled about how she’d wanted one and so forth.

    “How did you do that again? Buy exactly what I had asked the Lord for?”

    I have no answer beyond from her lip to God’s ears to my pocket book . . .

    So rejoice with us for a young woman far from home who got exactly what she wanted for a week after Epiphany!

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  31. We spoke for 45 minutes and the really interested thing she told me was Christian Associates, the missionary association with which she’s involved, has made refugee ministry a focus this year.

    In Glasgow, the church plant spun off another church plant made up of Iranian and Syrian refugees who became Christians once they got to Scotland. That group of 70 is spinning off another church plant to refugees.

    CA has church plants in a lot of the places refugees are turning up and Hill has friends with a church plant in a neighboring town who are awakening to maybe they should be reaching out to the many, many refugees they see on the streets.

    The prayers are several fold: that these ministries would continue to preach the gospel and plant churches for those fleeing and finding faith in Christ. That CA would have enough workers to meet those needs–the fields are ripe to harvest.

    And for Hill, herself, as she looks for more teammates in her community to help with that same ripe field.

    It was exciting, as always, to talk with her and to be a small part of encouragement and help to a woman trying hard to follow when God indicates she should go.

    I still don’t know the answer to the refugee situation, but if God brings them to us, can we do any less than share the gospel–even if it includes using our hands?

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  37. I just carried clothes for donation to the Wellspring store. I told myself I would not buy anything unless I found a pair of jeans in my size in gray. They had a pair of gray corduroy jeans in my size. Even better than plain! 🙂
    I found an unopened 1,000 piece jigsaw by White Mt. that is a whole puzzle of pencils. It will be a real challenge. And I got the new book by the founder of the Wellspring ministry that helps young ladies start new lives after being in the s*x industry.

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  38. Happy Birthday Karen O!!

    We too have the back porch fridge. Today is the first day that it has tried to melt at all since the Christmas storm. Would love to spend the day outside, but should try to sleep as I work tonight.

    Congrats to the son who went to work for the outfitter. I worked for an outfitter, in a different venue, for 7 years. I still reap benefits from that employment. Currently, we have a deer hanging, and am expecting one more. Paid hunters often only want the horns. It keeps us in fresh meat we share with our grown children.

    Hubby has been having a problem with a varicose vein bleeding. We went to the vein Dr yesterday. We have a temporary fix and an appointment in February to fix the root of the problem. I feel very relieved to know that he will not bleed to death in his sleep.

    I have an interview for a job with a schedule that fits my family better. It is at 2 pm tomorrow. I have all of the qualifications, but live outside the usual radius for employment. Praying for God’s will to be done.

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  41. Change of plans: they want him to start tomorrow, so they are coming to get him today. We will be down to six as of later this afternoon. He is excited and I am crying for him. So proud of what he is becoming.

    Rkessler, they are not working as outfitters, they are making furniture.

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  44. Mumsee, looking at the puzzle on the computer screen is not the same as looking at the box. So, if you get the Pencil puzzle, and if you do not look at the box, you may save many dollars because you would never need to buy another puzzle for the rest of your life.

    Art told me that puzzle would be too frustrating for him to work on at this point in time. I have no intention of letting him get involved with it. Tax season has enough puzzles without adding to the mix.

    We are at the office and I can see that beautiful header, and I love the blue border to the blog. Very peaceful and calming. Thanks, AJ, for keeping things fresh.

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  45. Linda, good question! I was really referring to not buying any clothes which is what I usually find in there.

    The puzzle can be put away to have as an inexpensive Christmas gift for our family next year since our only time to do puzzles is on vacation in December. And the book is one that I had already considered buying to support the ministry but had not gotten around to buying yet. I had a punch card to get 25% off an item and the jeans were color coded to have 25% off. I can share the book in the church media center. The ministry is a Southern Baptist group so it always feels like a worthwhile donation when I give and buy at their store. They do a spectacular job with the young ladies they help.

    I also went in to look for lamps but did not find any there, but around the corner at Office Depot I found two on clearance. Now I have decent light to read and write by. 🙂 A lot of things are on sale right now at Office Depot in case anyone is looking for things of that nature.

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  46. Hmm, it would be nice to have a spare freezer right outside the door… except for that whole cold weather thing! Guess I’ll just keep walking across the compound and unlocking two locks to get to my ‘spare’ freezer. Nope, freezer guy hasn’t come yet and I can’t bug him to come yet. I have the bookkeeper here so I have to be over in the office with them. I couldn’t be available to them and supervising the repair man in my house at the same time.

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  51. So, Janice, your phone is such a censor it won’t let you type sex? 🙂

    We like to work puzzles during down family times, too. Looks like a challenge. Our hardest one recently was VanGogh’s Starry Night. That took a lot of work!

    Speaking of work, I’m calling it a night. 8 hours at the computer is more than enough!

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  52. I’m home a little bit early today, had a late afternoon dentist appointment (small filling needed). While I was waiting for the dentist, my phone *pinged* and it was my editor, guess there’s a State of the Port speech tomorrow that he (I think) wants me to cover. Ugh. Sounds dry.

    My newish (2-3 years old now?) refrigerator — a white french-door model, very cute and I’ve been generally happy with it — has a freezer compartment at the bottom that’s really too small, but I was boxed in on choosing a small refrigerator size due to my kitchen cabinet placement.

    Appliances are much bigger now than they used to be.

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  54. Donna – We had to take out a couple cabinets to fit our fridge in (width wise). I miss them.

    When we lived in Wisconsin (“we” being my parents & me), the upstairs was part living area, part attic. Mom would bake Christmas cookies ahead of time, & store them in the cold attic space. The rest of the upstairs was storage closets, & my room.

    It was quite convenient for me to take out some of my favorite cookies when I wanted. 🙂

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  56. Roscuro – re: Charles Perrault – Did he actually write Cinderella, or was it that he put down in writing an older tale passed down by word of mouth?

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  57. My dad had his insurance canceled as they ended that policy. He was getting very good coverage for about one hundred fifty each. He finally found another for them which is three hundred fifty for him and four hundred fifty for her. Per month. She is ninety four, I believe. He is eighty six. That is annoying.
    Our eye doctor commented that his is going up from four hundred to about eight hundred per month. Not sure what he is going to do.

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