34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-20-16”

  4. Fun header! Of all the bird photos we’ve seen, I don’t remember seeing one of nest building. Sweet!

    Jo, my son uses the ESV study Bible. I believe it won an award when it was first published.

    61 degrees and foggy here. So not like May, and too wet to now here, too.

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  8. Grey day here. Getting ready to go and arrange a church for D2’s wedding tomorrow. My 90 year old father flew in on a puddle jumper last night. He’s at my sister’s house.

    But before I forget, here are the Friday funnies. I hope the link works since this is my first attempt posting it on a Kindle.

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  9. Female red-winged blackbird! (Right? Unless you have different blackbird species.)

    After yesterday’s photos, I got a catch this morning. We have lots of barn swallows on our street, but we seem to have other species too, but I wasn’t sure what species (they fly so quickly) and we have quite a few swallows in Indiana. Well, this morning I was up early, and decided to take advantage of the best time of day for photos and go out and see what I could see. On my way home, a male tree swallow flew within a foot or two of my face and landed on a sign across the street. He was only a few yards away, at about eye level, but he didn’t fly even when cars drove by on his side of the road. I got quite a few photos. But then his mate flew by and he chased her, and I realized he had a nest nearby and didn’t want to go to it with me there (and he didn’t want her to, either), so I backed off a few yards and then they went to the nest (which was a nest box on the rear side of the telephone pole). Other swallows were flying around, too, so I think most of their young have fledged but maybe one was still in the nest. I don’t know much about swallows. Anyway, it was only my second time to photograph the species, and I got a few shots of the female this time, too (though more and better shots of the male).

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  13. There are tiny letters on the graduation cap’s cord saying “Debt”, and on the end is a snake’s head instead of a tassel. I think the point is that the little student is entangled in the huge debt from his college education instead of wearing the cap proudly.

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  14. Friday!

    I love the ESV study Bible and will have to get it out again. Great resource, but big & heavy. 🙂

    Yesterday was busy, I had a morning interview with a Pearl Harbor survivor at a local sound studio where he’s been recording an app that will be used at the Arizona / Pearl Harbor Memorial in Hawaii (he was on the Arizona, he’s 95 now).

    Before leaving the house, though, I got a call from the city council aide telling me a big item we’d been following was coming up at harbor commission as we speak … Argh!

    So when I got the Pearl Harbor interview, my mind was racing about missing all of that (and plotting how I’d play catch up). And when I walked into the studio, there were 5 other people there, including the script writer and others involved not only on the app but on the Pearl Harbor survivor’s book, etc., so it was a little overwhelming — and I’m just not very with it in the mornings anyway!

    But it was a good interview (more than 2 hours) and will be a good story (which I’ll have to try to write today).

    And I managed to catch up on the other thing, though we didn’t post it until late in the day — after everyone else already had. Oh well.

    Tomorrow a friend from Colo. is coming over so tonight is house pickup duty. 🙂

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  17. I thought of saving this for R&R tomorrow. But decided not to: So here.

    You never know how it comes back to you.
    Someone must have done something for a lady years ago, or she had some relationship with the Hendersonville Lions club.

    The president received a letter about a year ago saying that a lady had died and that her will specify that the H’ville Lions receive 1/6 of her estate.
    OK Nobody thought about it again.
    Until today.
    The president stopped by for the mail. He received a certified letter.
    The attorneys sent the portion of the estate settlement that goes to the Lions. .
    $150,000
    It will go into our foundation to help wherever.

    The thing I liked was that during the meeting, they were planning money raising projects to make something like $700 and a golf tournament to raise about .$2000.
    That’s what Lions do.

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  20. Well, as I tell my children, one bite at a time. So, when there is a task to be done that looks overwhelming, one step at a time. When Chas talks about the Lions doing their fund raisers, I thought about how they do small fund raisers but they do lots of good things. One bite at a time.

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  23. I could tell it was getting near rush hour because of the constant sound of cars out on the street. We are on a cut through for avoiding higher traffic roads. It is never a good time to try and back out of the driveway. It can take quite a long time to get in that rat race.

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  24. I finished planting all my vegetable starts in the garden today. Pumpkins, roma tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, bell peppers, pickling cucumbers, slicing cucumbers, spaghetti squash, corn, cabbage, celery, zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe… I think that’s all. Tomorrow I will get the rest of the seeds sown – carrots, beets, purple beans, lettuce, dill, summer savoury and kohlrabi. Husband will have to do the sunflowers as I don’t think I can dig another small hole.

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  27. I have never started sunflowers in the house, did not even think of it. I need to get some seeds out though if we are going to have any. Been otherwise occupied too much, I guess. Eight year old needs to get her cukes started. And peas. And beets. She does not mind gardening and loves eating the produce fresh off the plants.

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  28. We’ve managed to get some really large sunflower heads by starting early. Over a foot across. We take the seeds out, soak them in brine overnight and then roast in the oven – so yummy and you can use less salt so they’re healthier than purchased sunflower seeds.

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  29. Last time we had a good sunflower crop we had a serious stink bug infestation on them. The year before was wasps. Do you have that problem? If so, how do you solve it? I have just left the seeds for the birds because of it.

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  31. Three weeks left and I am sitting here thinking of new ways to help the struggling child. Admin said its the end of the year, leave it for next years teacher. God is still working.

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  34. Father of the bride part two- I don’t remember our rehearsal taking an hour and a half. I told my two remaining unmarried children to keep their weddings simple. The youngest told me this is a simple wedding. You could have fooled me. Five attendants, three flower girls, two ring bearers. A wedding coordinator. I think my motheer-in-law did that for us.

    Oh, well. I guess it could be worse. She could have wanted a live band at the reception.

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