47 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-24-16”

  8. Lovely, peaceful photo.
    Once again the weather people blew our weather system yesterday all out of proportion. They let school out at 1pm. Many events were cancelled. There was some rain and a little wind. They continually broke in to tell people how to take shelter. I truly fear they are going to continue to cry wolf and condition us not to pay attention to them. One day we WILL get a bad storm and I and people like me will ignore them and be seriously injured or killed.

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  10. We had lots and lots of rain and some wind. The sun is shining brightly now. But last night they said we could have bad weather until 6 p.m. I’LL take the sun we have right now, please!

    Question for our dog loving writers/editor peeps…is it Border Collie, border collie, or Border collie? I am comparing Miss Bosley to a border collie and labeling her as a border cat instead of a Kitler. Same question for Border Cat…

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  11. Kim. They can’t forecast the weather. they just tell what the conditions are.
    They will tell you that.
    Add the schools have to act on the information they receive.
    It creates lots of inconvenience.
    it could prevent lots of disaster.

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  12. In the Air Force, we had to learn about parachutes, and emergency radios, etc.
    I never had to use them.
    It was a nuisance, in hindsight, time wasted. But it had to be done.

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  15. It would be border collie, lower case. For dog breed names.

    From Grammar Girl (one of our favorite and Twitter accounts to follow):

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    In general, the rule for dog (and cat) breeds is to capitalize the part of the name derived from a proper noun and lowercase the part of the name derived from a common noun.

    In the following examples, “English” and “Yorkshire” are derived from proper nouns—the names of places—and thus should be capitalized. On the other hand, “mastiff” is derived from the Latin “mansuétus” for “tame or mild,” and “terrier” is derived from Old French “chien terrier” for “dog of the earth, land, or ground”—both common nouns, which means those parts should not be capitalized.

    English mastiff

    Yorkshire terrier

    When in doubt, consult a dictionary.

    http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/capitalizing-dog-breeds
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    The border collie was bred along the English/Scottish border region, thus the name.

    Annie’s nickname has always been Border Kitty (capitalized in her case). I still refer to her as that sometimes — along with The Understudy (to Tess).

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  16. Pics taken last Saturday when I took the dogs and ran away from home for a couple hours. There were a lot of surfers out that day — and a few folks fishing from the rock jetty as well.

    You can’t tell it from these photos, but there was quite a large surf (breaking far out) continually crashing — but it was still very peaceful and fresh. A former co-worker was married there some years ago.

    Here’s some history of the area which is just down the street (literally, a 5-minute drive) from where I live.

    http://historylosangeles.blogspot.com/2014/03/white-point-and-royal-palms_1.html?m=1

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  17. Janice, unfortunately dog books (and nature books) make it hard to know, since they are likely to have things like: “The Collie is the best friend a child can have” or “the Blue Jay is often considered a pest.” So then you see “Monarch butterfly,” and you ask “Is ‘Monarch’ supposed to be capitalized for some reason, or are they just doing that?”

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  18. Thanks, Donna, and Cheryl, for your help. Last night I used Border collie because I was thinking of border as a place name, but I knew it did not look right. Then I thought Border Collie is the title of a breed and for that reason could be capitalized. And since I capitalized Kitler it seemed more balanced to capitalize Border Cat, but that is not a name we use, only a description. Now everyone can see the gyrations writing can take so that writing a short 1,300 word article can consume lots of time.

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  20. I find this humorous so I though I would share it with you…
    As you may have guessed, for the most part I gave up grocery shopping when I married Mr. P. I never liked it anyway and he apparently loves it. I tell him we are out of something or I want something and it appears. Sometimes I do have to go to pick up small items but never the full scale stuff.
    I get up before he does most mornings and make the coffee. I put the canister back in the cupboard and go about the day, EXCEPT when we get near the bottom of the container. Then, I leave the container on on the counter next to the coffee maker. I never say anything but coffee magically appears that day or soon after. This morning I left the container on the counter. He just sent a text asking, “Besides coffee, what else do we need?” Makes me smile.

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  23. Well, Kim, those weather reporters need to have some drama in their jobs. One of the essays I read for my writing course pointed out that even weather forecasters use the literary constructions of conflict and resolution to hold the viewer/listener’s attention 😉

    Jo, the trouble with sitting on the rocks, which I would love to do, is that the gulls have already been there.

    I’d say that Border, in the case of the dog breed, does refer to a specific region, since typically such names refer to the region where the breed came from. In fact, as I type that, it comes to mind that there is a specific region that used to be called the Border (capitalized), and that is the area between Scotland and England, which was the scene of many raids of the wild Border clans against Northern England.

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  24. One style issue (Chicago style) is that regions are capitalized, for example “Southwest.” And we’d say “South Chicago” (being a recognized Chicago region) but not “northern Chicago” (because “North Chicago” doesn’t have its own designated region). So sometimes we end up having to look it up: Is West Philadelphia a thing? Should I just say western Philadelphia?

    Then, last I knew all of these are correct:

    backseat but front seat
    backyard but front yard

    In college I read a book about worldviews that in the course of the book spelled it as world view, world-view, and worldview! For those who don’t know, most compound words start out “open,” that is written as two words. But as they become used frequently as a unit, they get hyphenated, and eventually the hyphen gets dropped. I’ve been watching for years for “mindset” to become acceptable, because it’s used so commonly, but it has stayed “mind-set.” I think it’s finally becoming “mindset,” but only in the last couple years I think.

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  26. Interesting how things like our once-religious use of the AP style guide at the paper is slowly, here and there, breaking down in journalism, however, due to the rise of the Internet and posting — and, in general, a more causal form of writing taking over.

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  27. I still remember when the new style guides would come out and we all got our copies — how we’d go through them to see what had changed … 🙂

    I don’t know where my copy is anymore (haven’t gotten a new one handed out to us in YEARS. But you can find it online now, anyway. 🙂

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  28. I will be taking my zero gravity chair. Can you hear the seagulls? I can…and feel the sunshine…and smell the sea. Well, I always thought it was the sea while I was visiting and loved it, but a few years ago, my aunt told me it was actually smog.

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  29. Yes, the Border Collie does come from the Border region: http://bordercollieadvice.com/history/

    Sir Walter Scott, the author of Ivanhoe and many other romantic adventures tales made the Border region come alive in many of his stories, including <Guy Mannering and Old Mortality. John Buchan set the thrilling chase scenes of his Thirty-Nine Steps in the Border country. The Border clans were if anything, wilder than the Highlanders. My family name comes from the Border region via the Ulster settlement in Northern Ireland, and the saying is, as it is for other family names from the same regions, “We were kicked out of Scotland for stealing sheep, so we went to Northern Ireland. We were kicked out of Northern Ireland for stealing sheep, so we came to Nova Scotia. There wasn’t any sheep to steal there, so we stayed.” The Border is definitely very beautiful country: https://www.visitscotland.com/destinations-maps/scottish-borders/

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  31. I did look at the various sites last night trying to decide. I just wanted to say that Miss Bosley is more like a border (Border) collie than like Hitler (Kitler). Can you iimagine Hitler fetching paper balls and bringing them to their master?

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  34. Did anybody hear about Elk City, outside of Grangeville? They had a rockslide a few weeks back and it closed the road. There are rocks bigger than a house ready to come down on it. They have to figure out how to get them down before they even consider opening the road. Oh, and it is blocking three fourths of the river. There are two hundred people living in Elk City and another twenty in Dixie. I don’t know how many others live out in the woods out there. Anyway, the postman delivers their mail and medications every day by snowmobile. The Forest Service had a forest road (generally closed all winter and usually dirt or gravel) plowed special for them. Only high clearance vehicles allowed and if anybody gets stuck they will close it again. But the people are used to it so they just carry on with their lives. How come they don’t make the news like the East Coast with its snowstorms?

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  35. Mumsee, the same thing happens to I-40 around the Tennessee/ NC border. boulders as big as houses. Sometimes the road stays closed for weeks.
    A real bummer for the trucks.
    They have big screens, but that won’t stop a big boulder. The screens keep small rocks from falling onto the cars.
    If the river is blocked, the people in the flood plain need to leave.
    Now.

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  38. Lovely photos Donna….we are home from the vet…my Australian Shepherd was spayed today…or is it my Australian shepherd…second one I’d wager 🙂
    Lulah is pitifully whining and making me feel guilty…see, it’s not only our human kiddos who do that…our dogs do it as well…..

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  39. OK, is it mustache or moustache? The dictionary says the first is the American spelling and the second is British. My spell check is saying the first, but I like the British better. Does it matter? The story about Bosley may get published in the USA.

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  42. Janice, your dictionary is correct. When I saw the question, that same answer was mine. If you spell it with the British spelling, an editor or proofreader should notice and correct it, so I’d be inclined just to spell it our way. I like “behaviour” and “Saviour” better, myself, and my husband (an artist) prefers “watercolour.” I started spelling words our way when I became an editor, though on a few I had resisted until then.

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  43. Argh. Had to turn off one of my favorite tv shows, ‘Code Black,’ tonight when it became clear that the story line was going to be (we’re shocked) ‘bad’ conservative candidate vs wonderful, altruistic liberal candidate brought into the hospital … Honestly, can’t they at least mix it up sometimes? So predictable 😦

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  45. It is the end of your day, you are all asleep, so no one will read this, but I will get it out.
    The security light over my front door is out, so I went to buy another. One department said they were out, but they had them at the building dept. I went to the hardware counter and they said that they had them, but could only sell to departments. I said I am a single woman living alone and this is for the security light over my front door to keep me safe and you cannot sell me one. Finally they charged it to my department and I had to got tell the principal that I charged a light to the school and please charge me.

    I can tell that I am on the edge. I mentioned at lunch that I had checked to make sure the flight that I was leaving on in June is a go and the principal told me to be sure and check with her before I make my final plans. I felt that she was going to tell me that I had taken too much vacation and that I couldn’t go. I was on the verge of a meltdown. I just can’t stay here over the five week break all alone with no way to even get off centre for five weeks. My friends have gone and no one here to fellowship with. oh, no.

    I actually got up the nerve to mention it to her when I told her about the light bulb. She did not want me to leave early and I am not and wondered if I left that soon would I have time to get everything done. Valid points, but I will arrange it all for my aide to do.

    This whole incident showed me how on the edge I am.

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  46. Oh, Jo, I am so sorry to hear all that you are going through. You have good reason to feel stressed.

    I am up early with Miss Bosley who has been her other self during the evening, Bad Betty. I just gave her some fresh food hoping that might help.

    When I get up in the night lately have have been going right back to sleep instead of getting on the screen so my sleep will be more effective rest. I probably need to just stay up now since it is almost time to get up and make Art’s lunch.

    I wish people would give more thought to the singles in community. I know several who feel uncared for by the larger community. I do not know what the answer is, but it is a failure on the part of leadership. I think larger churches have some good programs for singles, but smaller churches often don’t do much for them.

    Have you ever read the Just Between Us magazine? It is geared to women in ministry and is especially good for women who are in remote areas. There is a related website and I think here may be an online community such as this one. The founder of the JBU magazine is Jill Briscoe. You probably already know about it.

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