Our Daily Thread 3-22-13

Good Morning!

It’s Finally Friday! 🙂

We’re taking our annual trip to the Reading Pet Expo today.  🙂

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On this day in 1457  The Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.

In 1903 Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.

And in 1954 the first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.

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Quote of the Day

“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.”

Louis  L’Amour

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Our Daily Thread 3-21-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1788 almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire.

In 1851 the Yosemite Valley was discovered in California.

In 1965 more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.

And in 1980, on the TV show “Dallas”, J.R. Ewing was shot.

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Quote of the Day

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”

C. S. Lewis

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Our Daily Thread 3-20-13

Good Morning!

It’s SPRING!!!!!!!  🙂 🙂 🙂

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Quote of the Day

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24  hours.”

Mark  Twain

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Mozart’s Spring Song

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What’s your favorite thing about Spring?

Our Daily Thread 3-19-13

Good Morning!

Snow today. 😦 

Spring tomorrow! 🙂

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Quote of the Day

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”

Wyatt  Earp

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This one is old, from 1951. Look how young he looks!

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Who’s your favorite cowboy? Or favorite Western if you prefer.

Our Daily Thread 3-18-13

Good Morning!

It’s Monday. So stop hitting the snooze and get out of bed. 😦

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Today is Pres. Grover Cleveland’s birthday.

Fun Fact

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Wikipedia

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Quote of the Day

“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.”

Grover  Cleveland

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Our Daily Thread 3-16-13

Good Morning!

♣ Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ♣

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Quote of the Day

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with  arms.”

James  Madison

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Our Daily Thread 3-15-13

Good Morning!

It’s Finally Friday! 🙂

It’s also the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44BC, as well as the birthday of the 7th US President, Andrew Jackson.

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Quote of the Day

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of  God.”

George Washington Carver

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Let’s have some music. 🙂

How about them clothes? 🙂

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Question? Anybody?

Our Daily Thread 3-14-13

Good Morning!

1 week until SPRING!!!

🙂 🙂 🙂

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Quote of the Day

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert  Einstein

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Well, I promised some Charlie Pride, so here ya’ go.

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Our Daily Thread 3-13-13

Good Morning!

A lot of big events in history happened today.

In 1639 – Harvard University was named for clergyman John Harvard.

In 1868 – The U.S. Senate began the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson.

1935 – Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.

And in 1941 – Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R.

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Quote of the Day

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most  virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that  America has lost trust in its politicians.”

Charles  Krauthammer

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Now, some music!

And you can save the jokes, thank you very much. 🙂

Trust me, I’ve heard them all. Several times in fact.  😕

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Our Daily Thread 3-12-13

Good Morning!

What should we talk about today?

Quote of the Day

“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

Thomas  Sowell

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How about some Marty Robbins  for music today?

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