44 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-4-16”

  2. I just posted this on yesterday’s thread. This wasn’t on my computer a few minutes ago.
    Though I notice Jo’s post is at 7:28. Strange.

    Lost: As in a comment last night:

    You know where you are, and you know where you’re going, but you don’t know how to get there.
    You know where you are, but you don’t know where you’re going. You know it isn’t here.
    You know where you’re going, but the place you are in isn’t the place you’re supposed to be. And you don’t know what that is.
    You don’t know where you are. You don’t know how you got here. And you don’t know where you want to be. You know it isn’t here.

    That’s the state of our nation right now. We need a leader who knows what the destination is and is good at celestial navigation.

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  3. To me, “lost” means you don’t know where you are, regardless of knowing where you want to be. But not knowing how to get where you want to be.

    If Chas’s description above were a multiple choice question, I would answer C and D.

    And yes, we as a nation have lost our way and no one running for high office seems to know how to get us back. Though Ted Cruz knows the way, I doubt in this current media culture he would have been able to get us back to where we need to be. I fear a revolution is coming.

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  4. I know this belongs on the “Politics” thread, but it’s pertinent to the subject above.
    From NewsMax:

    Franklin Graham took to his Facebook page to condemn as “sickening” Fort Riley’s decision to postpone a prayer breakfast that would have featured retired Lt. General William “Jerry” Boykin, an original member of Delta Force.

    Boykin, an executive with the Family Research Council, accepted an invitation to deliver remarks at the June 6 prayer breakfast back in March. But earlier this week, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation filed a protest with the military base in Kansas, calling Boykin “homophobic, Islamaphobic, fundamental Christian extremist,” Fox News reports.

    Within 24 hours, Fort Riley said the prayer breakfast would be rescheduled without Boykin.
    Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/US/franklin-graham-fort-riley-cancels-prayer-breakfast/2016/06/03/id/732211/#ixzz4Ac8fbckj
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  5. To me, lost means you aren’t known by Christ. But in the earthly sense, it is difficult to get lost on five acres, I have no where else I want to be, life is good. Though it will be gooder in time when husband gets home. We ran out of fruit last week and will run out of milk today and probably bread in a couple more days. I could go milk a goat but the family dynamics have not allowed for that as successfully as I had hoped. Fortunately, we will continue to eat quite well until husband is around to restock. Spinach and kale are good, throw in some lamb’s quarters (that is a plant, silly) and chickweed, hollyhocks, and this and that.

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  7. Catching up from last night:

    Kare: Thanks for the additional bear, etc. information. And I found it interesting, your mention of moose running heavily. I’ve never seen a moose, and didn’t realize any U. S. states had them besides Alaska, until I looked up more about them. Apparently there are some in my state, but the population is seriously dwindling in the Upper Midwest as a whole, so I’m not surprised I’ve never seen one.

    The only one I remember was the moose in the opening credits of a TV show I watched years ago 😉 : Northern Exposure, which was set in Alaska.

    Kevin: Chipmunks, coyotes, and bears, oh my! LOL! Creative (and relevant to this blog) twist on the very movie line that was running through my head after reading some of the comments made yesterday. 😉

    Peter: And speaking of bears, we sometimes have one at our house in the morning, but I have a cup of coffee and he goes away. That reminds me of a book title I’ve heard of: Sometimes I Wake Up Grumpy, and Sometimes I Let Him Sleep 😀 (Sorry.) 😉

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  8. We have had moose sightings fairly close to us, but not seen them ourselves near here.

    I did see a black bear cross the road just up from where I was walking alone. I continued on with the assumption (foolishly, I now realize) that the bear was long gone into the woods. It was, fortunately, but I could see wet foot prints where it crossed. Our neighbors have had them, but so far we have been ok.

    Thursday we saw one cross a four lane highway just outside of Duluth. I would have loved to have gotten a picture, but there was too much traffic.

    We have watched deer knock the bird feeder’s roof off, so that they can just lick the seeds out.

    Our neighbor was visiting another neighbor. He was watching out a patio door in the darkness to see if a bear would come by, since the neighbor had been having problems with one. He suddenly noticed the light was out on the garage, which had been illuminating the feeder. He went to the patio door and shielded his eyes to try to see out. He thought the bear must have smashed the light. Suddenly, he noticed a black bear nose pushing against the other side of the window! He screamed to alert the others and ran to grab a gun. The bear was gone by the time he got back. The light was clearly not out at all—just blocked by the bear’s body temporarily.

    Moose are a big issue here. Many a found slaughtered by wolves. There have been many studies as to why they are declining, but that is never cited as an issue, much to the dismay of many.

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  9. Moose are here. I believe the limit on hunting them is one per lifetime. I don’t know if they are declining or not. We have seen them a few times near our place. We hope the deer fence keeps them out. We have elk and several types of smaller deer. Mountain lions, bears, porcupines, raccoons (though I have seen fewer of them than of moose). Snakes. Lots of snakes. And mice. And gophers. Coyotes are probably the most common this year. The deer are way down. Interesting to me is that I have never seen a squirrel on this property. There are many in Idaho, they just don’t seem to come to our property. I am not complaining.

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  11. It’s the big coyote comeback, I’m telling you, the coyote apocalypse is right around the corner.

    this: “homophobic, Islamaphobic, fundamental Christian extremist,” almost sounds comical to me, like throwing in every “obia” one can name in one sentence. It actually does make you want to cry a little bit. 🙂

    Forget the media, I’m afraid the people of this nation wouldn’t recognize or appreciate a sound and good leader if they saw one (which they’re not seeing in 2016, of course). I tend to agree it all feels like we’re on the verge of the crash-and-burn era for the good old U.S. Sigh.

    I really slept late and now I need to hustle to get up to see Carol. It’s been a while and yesterday was her birthday so … Pray that I will loose my grumpiness (yes, I woke up both grumpy and sleepy today).

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  14. Well, that was fun. I am in from mowing the orchard and the rose garden. After the seemingly interminable disagreement with the e rings, my rotary mowers are sharpened, oiled, and up and running. Now that it is no longer the fastest growing season, I am able to slow down and listen to the birds sing and the children play. Life keeps getting better. And the culmination? Stepping into Glory to live with my King. By the way, the rotary took just about the same amount of time as the gas mower, just a lot quieter and I did not have to keep emptying the bag, which has to be done when the grass is growing too fast for me to keep up. And it got done a lot more thoroughly than the riding mower which leaves me with the thought, “where were those weeds I was going to go back and trim??”

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  15. I finally made it back to my Word Weavers critique group this a.m. It is almost an hour drive one way. We have a really good group of ladies. Got to meet some new ones. Not all the former members were there. It’s nice to go to something outside the perimeter so I get to converse with a more conservative crowd.

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  16. Last night, Art and I watched the movie, Beyond the Sea about the life of Bobby Darin who married Sandra Dee. I loved most of the movie, except I would have deleted some of the language although it was probably tealistically. The film contains the songs “Mack the Knife”, “Splish Splash”, “Dream Lover” , “Beyond the Sea” and more with great dance scenes that reminded me of West Side Story dance scenes. I loved the Big Band type music that reminded me of when our son was in jazz band. I think I want to own this film. I never heard of it before getting it from the library yesterday. Darin had a less than desirable name that he needed to change for show biz purposes. He looked up one evening at a Mandarin restaurant where the lights had gone dim on the first three letters leaving Darin so that is where he got his stage name. Has anyone else seen the movie? It is from 2004. I also found a movie about Transformers that is suppose to have great special effects. Not my typical interest, but finding something PG gets to be a challenge.

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  19. Sitting at the Hollywood Library as Carol tries to use their wifi to use the Amazon gift card her brother sent her. My view out the window is a giant billboard advertising a new movie, a giant old sign atop the Hollywood Broadway on Hollywood Boulevard half a block up from us and some kind of towering construction crane

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  23. Mack the Knife & Beyond the Sea are a couple of my favorite songs. I haven’t seen the movie, but should, as we are Kevin Spacey fans. I remember hearing that some of Bobby Darin’s family did not think the movie was accurate about some things, but I take those movies with a grain of salt anyway.

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  24. I have both of those songs on a CD collection that I inherited. For Dad’s last Christmas, Mom gave him a collection (one of those Time-Life collections, I think) of romantic songs from the 50s into the 70s. The closest thing to a “rock song” on them is Tie a Yellow Ribbon, so these songs would fall in the easy listening category of music. Although, I don’t know what is so romantic about Mack the Knife, I am glad it was included. 🙂

    Dad loved those kinds of songs, as well as songs from musicals, & I picked up an enjoyment of those kinds of music, as well as others – pretty much anything except rap & jazz, although I do enjoy some light jazz.

    Unfortunately, Dad died three days after that Christmas, & never got to listen to the CDs. Mom knew I would appreciate them, so she gave them to me. When I listen to them, I feel like I am listened to them for him, & feel some connection with him. (Not that I believe he is hovering around or anything like that.)

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  25. I remember my dad whistling and singing Mac the Knife sitting at the dining table one morning.

    I’ll have to try to watch the movie again.

    Back from Hollywoodland, we took a drive up into the hills — I love the ambiance up there, the narrow winding roads, all the old-style Spanish homes from early years. Slowed down for a tourist couple who were in the street (lots of people on foot heading up there, too, as you can get to the Hollywood sign eventually by trail). She was taking a photo of him with his arms outstretched, the Hollywood sign right above him in the fairly near distance. They smiled and waved thanks when we went by.

    Bought Carol a hot dog meal for her birthday at a place, Dog Haus, in Burbank that we’d driven past before and she wanted to go back there to eat.

    Unfortunately, it was a hole in the wall place and not set up for handicapped accessibility (tall tables and stools, only a couple regular sized tables but they were being used). So we had to do take out for her (I passed on getting anything). The cashier made the mistake of asking her “anything else?” each time she ordered something. Of course, there always was something else … On about the third time she asked the question I kind of shook my head and the cashier smiled. Anyway, Carol walked away with a bacon-cheese dog, onion rings, a shake and a chocolate chip cookie, costing more than $17 altogether. She’s just not a cheap date.

    But it was her birthday and i’ve already suggested to her that in the future I’d like to make any food stops “dutch.” I don’t mind not eating so if she doesn’t have any money that’s fine with me, we can skip that part of our outings. She doesn’t mean to take advantage of me financially, but she winds up doing it I’m afraid.

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  26. I love the ambiance up there, the narrow winding roads, all the old-style Spanish homes from early years.

    Yes, there are neighborhoods like that in most of the older cities in the Southwest: Tucson, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, El Paso, San Diego. Those are beautiful places. I don’t remember such in Phoenix, as I don’t think it was a Spanish town. I think it was founded later on as a stage coach/railroad stop. Cheryl grew up there, so she would know.

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  27. I loved NM when I visited — especially Taos & Santa Fe … I got lost there, btw.

    A newspaper colleague (in his 50s) and I were talking the other day about where we’d move *someday* if our j-jobs (journalism is ‘j’ referred to as ‘j’ often times, such as j-school) ever dried up completely.

    He likes NM (though he’s never been there) because it’s so strongly “blue” (he’s a true-blue Dem).

    I like Idaho, very red.

    But I did love the wonderful mix of cultures found in NM, so rich. And I’ve always loved Mexico, so it’s probably the closest thing we have to ‘old’ Mexico in the U.S.

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  28. Not Spanish style, but I love this place that’s just a couple blocks from where Caro’s residence is:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Tower

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    The V-shaped building, designed by architects Cramer & Wise in a faux French Normandy style, was built in 1929. At the time, it was a Class A building with more than 50 apartments, with three penthouse units, a subterranean garage, and private and public roof gardens. Located in the heart of Hollywood, the tower became a favorite place of residence for entertainment industry employees.[2] A plaque by the front door reads: “Hollywood Tower. 1929. Sophisticated living for film luminaries during the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood.”
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  29. It also was a location featured in a Connelly novel I read recently — author started out as a newspaper crime, cop reporte (last stint w/LA Times) and all of his novels are centered in LA, Hollywood, so kind of fun for us locals to read

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  30. We watched the Transformers movie which was pretty entertaining with the amazing special effects. It had a good amount of humor. Our son had some of those type toys when young so I could not help but be fascinated by them myself. I sometimes think I could have been an engineer if I had been guided in that direction. Even accounting was stepping out of the typical woman’s work way back then. I remember what a big deal it was when a woman or two enrolled at Georgia Tech.

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  34. Such a relaxing Sunday. I stayed home from church. But I listened to the service live on my computer. The worship was beautiful and I could hear the voices better than in the Meeting House. I must admit I did some cooking during church. Got all my cooking done, did my report card comments, so they are done, took a walk and had a nap. On my walk I ended up at a farewell for someone, but it had started to rain hard so my feet were rather muddy.

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  36. And the weather in Colorado is picture perfect for his visit Mumsee…..
    We are going to be listening to a service online as well…husband is in the mountains, daughter has to work and there is this pesky annual bike ride happening this morning between my road and Castle Rock, which makes for a very stress filled drive north to church…I’m stayin’ put….

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  37. We may be coming out your way in the Fall, Nancy Jill. Eldest son is getting married in Denver in October. And in the sibling rivalry department, eldest daughter will be having her first born in October in Boise. We will see where we end up. Perhaps I will go to daughter and husband will go with children to Denver. Perhaps daughter will be done early and we will all go. Since son has been living with girl for two or three years and they bought a house together in Denver, I don’t feel it is quite so meaningful….

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  38. My best friend is gearing up for a big year next year. She is the mother of five children, and in 2017:

    5th-born graduates high school;
    4th-born graduates college;
    3rd-born marries his fiancee; and,
    2nd-born marries her fiancee.

    It will also be her and her husband’s 30th wedding anniversary next year. She’s just full of smiles about all of it. 🙂

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  39. When we were babysitting the other evening, & Forrest had asked for dessert, I was pretending that he was dessert. I pretended to put whipped cream on his head, then asked if I should use a spoon or a fork to eat him.

    He replied, with a smile, “You’re my Mimi! You know much better than that!”

    It was so cute. 🙂

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  40. This is Forrest’s last week of school. Yikes!

    I have to admit that it’s been nice not having to babysit when Emily worked during school hours. This summer she may be juggling three part-time jobs, which will mean plenty of babysitting for Chrissy & me.

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  43. Yes, he will be repeating kindergarten. He is a bright little guy, but wasn’t quite ready for school yet. (He was still only four when the school year started.) He doesn’t know about that yet, though.

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