Good Morning!
Happy Saturday!
Quote of the Day
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
Dr. Seuss
My daughter and I love this song from Phineas and Ferb. Just stick with it, it’s amusing.
Plus I could play the part of Dr. Doofenshmirtz in this one. You’ll see what I mean. 🙂
____________________________________________________
Who has a QoD?
Wandering Views 
First?
LikeLike
What soothing sounds send you to sleep at night?
As a child, my father was still building our house, so we learned to like the sound of drills and hammers at night. Later on, it would be the sound of the vacumn, cleaning for guests.
Last night I went to sleep with the sound of drums and singing. The traditional drums here are of talking-drums fame in missionary stories, although they are no longer needed for distance communication. But their technical complexities would put to shame the greatest rock drummer – and they use their hands to play. No drumsticks, only a little whiplike stick that they flick every once in a while, but most of the rhythm comes from their fingers. The drums are made so acoustically perfect that the smallest finger tap can be heard clearly.
LikeLike
I don’t have any soothing sounds at night.
When we lived in a house trailer, I liked the sound of rain.
Same as when I was a kid and we lived in a tent house for a while.
LikeLike
11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
LikeLike
Why have I been awake since 2:30? 😦
Soothing sounds? I like the sound of the rain when my family is all tucked away safe and sound for the night.
No matter where they live. 🙂
LikeLike
Good Morning! Roy…thank you so much for posting that scripture…you could not possibly know how much it has spoken to me this morning. Yesterday was a bit difficult in “fighting the flesh” when I met with my neighbors over the conflict with their dogs. I knew what our Lord had directed me to do and I was obedient, but, this fighting the flesh stuff is hard sometimes! I need these reminders…thank you my friend.
You are in my prayers as well….you know how to reach me if there be any need for you or the family.
Qod…the sound of rain…it is so soothing to me. We don’t get it nearly enough in Colorado, but when we do….I sleep like a baby!
LikeLike
Good Saturday morning everyone!
QOD: Wind chimes on the deck beneath my bedroom window.
LikeLike
Nancyjill- I was praying for you and the dog situation yesterday from the prayer thread. Was the matter resolved?
LikeLike
Wind chimes would annoy me. But when we lived in Fairfax, the auto business next to our trailer park (Where Red Lobster is now, KLasko) kept the lights on all night and the birds would sing all night.
LikeLike
There was a trailer park on what is now Prince William Parkway? Wow.
LikeLike
Oh thank you klasko..I do so appreciate your prayers. Our mediator was stunned at the attitude of this young woman and he felt there would be no resolution other than court. The mediator and my neighbor argued quite a bit as I sat and observed.
Paul and I were fully convinced that going to court be displeasing to our Lord. I told the mediator that we would not testify against our neighbor and we wanted to try to get to know their dogs and even perhaps check on them during the day while our neighbors were at work. Amazingly, she was agreeable to that. She was shown grace and mercy…but, I don’t believe she realizes that….I do know the mediator witnessed it. Later during the day I had to “fight the flesh” over statements she made about her “rights”…but, I ask the Lord to allow me to see her through His eyes…she dwells in darkness and we are to be a light in the lives of those around us…sometimes that is so difficult. I am thankful the Lord is walking with me through this life…
LikeLike
Klasko, On Rt. 50, just across from Fairfax Shopping Center and up from University Blvd. there was a General Motors Training Center. That’s the business I was talking about. I think there is a Red Lobster either there or near there. The trailer park was where the restaurant parking lot is now. Right at the intersection of Rt. 50 and 123.
We used to call them Arlington Boulevard and Chain Bridge Road. I don’t know what they are now. That was in 1963, I doubt that you remember that.
LikeLike
Soothing sounds to put you to sleep? Hmmm. At various times it has been the intro to Law & Order, the sounds of traffic, the soft snoring of my child. or the night sounds of the deep woods. It is all in what you get used to. I live a block from the hospital now. Actually there is a two lane street and 1 house between my back yard and the emergency room entrance. When I first moved here I heard the sirens all night. Now I don’t.
I am just glad when I can get a full night of sleep!
Today is opening day of soft-ball. BG needs to be there at 9:30. She has a game at 11am and 1 pm. I tell everyone she is surprisingly good considering who her parents are! George was in the band and I wasn’t even that. Have I ever told you guys about my “Charlie Brown Softball Story”? I was so bad that in 9th or 10th grade I prayed “Dear God, just let me hit the ball this once.” I CLOSED my eyes and hit the ball. It was a home run! That was it. BG”s Pop and Papa were fairly good athletes, so that may be where she gets it.
After that I am going to meet with Mr. Brown’s son (You remember my own personal WWII Veteran). He had a section of his bowel removed but is now on a “four wheeler” rocker zooming from room to room and teasing his son about the sponge baths the home health worker gives him each night. Mrs. Brown isn’t doing as well and may have to be moved into Memory Care. It still remember those two dancing at a hotel ballroom in Virginia at a convention of the Fleet Reserve. They were are beautiful and graceful as anything you have ever seen on Dancing with the Stars. He still adores her but she has turned mean and selfish. They are a link to my past.
I had a hard week last week and found myself driving home, crying. Sometimes I still miss my father so much it hurts. I wonder if it would be easier if I had a brother or sister to lean on or talk to but I don’t. I know it has almost been five years and I should be better able to deal with it but sometimes it just comes in waves and I can’t fight it.
I am hoping next week will be better.
LikeLike
Noise bothers me when I’m trying to sleep. I’m a light sleeper and wake at the slightest sound.
So I guess I like the sound of silence, as some hippie once said. 🙂
LikeLike
I wrote this early this morning.
3-2-12
5 AM I have been up since 2 AM, Sleep escapes me, I lay in bed an all I think about is I am 47 years old and now with out of job with bills. How do I pay them, How do I provide for my family, how do I go forward. I know in my spirit that God is in control but it is my mind that is the battle grown. Here is my strength for the day “But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.” Job 23:10-11
Lord help me to go forward. Help me to keep my feet to keep step with You. You know the problems, You know the funds need, help me to be the Stewart of the house. Amen.
LikeLike
Soothing sounds? Anything but the tinnitus. Usually I have the radio on, listening to some talk show. Or I put on some music. I sleep better with the talk show, since when I hear music I want to enjoy every note!
Re: Quote of the day- Was Dr. Seuss making a political statement, similar to a preacher I know? He said, “Left Wing, Right Wing, they are both part of the same bird.”
LikeLike
Roy,
I wish I could help you with answers, but I cannot. But thankfully God can! He knows my friend, and He will provide. I’ve been/ am in a similar situation for some time, do to disabilities. While I can’t help with answers, I can help by praying for you. Myself and others will, I promise you that. And remember, Matthew 25-27.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Don’t spend too much time dwelling on it. It isn’t good, and does nothing good for you. You don’t want to stress yourself too badly, or you may end up like me. I know the right thing is to turn it over to the Lord and leave it. But I’ve struggled mightily to do so, and my health has suffered because of it. Please don’t follow my path in that regard. Turning things over to Him and then leaving it is probably the greatest struggle I have in many areas. Take it to the Lord, and do you’re best to leave it with him. He knows, and He cares, and He will provide. I often let doubt about this creep into my mind during late nights, I’ve stressed and worried and let it get the better of me. But in the end, as always, I found God’s promises to be true. He can, has, and will continue to get us thru this. I worry myself for nothing, and I pay a price for that. And it’s not necessary, for as always in the end I realize God has provided, and He kept His word.
Prayers for you and your family.
Allen
LikeLike
Thank you, AJ. Your message to Roy just now was one I needed to hear, as well.
LikeLike
One of the VFW guys has invited the children, a couple at a time, to go fishing with him. They are learning the art of Steelhead fishing. This morning, Husband and the older four boys are off to the men’s prayer breakfast. Since they make the breakfast, they got to leave bright and early. Then they will go fishing.
It is also house cleaning day so when they get back, they can get on that. The girls are doing the chores this morning. It is time to start thinking of getting some stuff in the ground. Brush the snow away and start planting.
LikeLike
And Roy, take advantage of the opportunity to spend even more time with your son. He can use all you can give.
LikeLike
QoD; Mumsee will disapprove of this but a cat purring is a soothing sounds at night.
LikeLike
Speaking of Phineas and Ferb, Kim did you know that one of the producers of the show is from Mobile and when they talk about the Tri -State area they may be talking about Alabama/Mississippi/Florida.
LikeLike
Somehow, I cannot imagine anybody considers the sound of a mountain lion in their home, soothing. Think of what could be happening to your house pets.
Soothing sounds: turns out the high decibal snoring of my husband is soothing. When he got the machine to help his sleep apnea, I could not sleep as it was so quiet. Otherwise, rain is nice, coyotes are nice, owls are soothing, but they all tend to wake me up initially.
LikeLike
Waves crashing on the shore — but you have to live very, very close to the ocean to hear that (I’ve stayed that close on vacations at time, though). I tried playing a “sleepmaker” app with waves for a while, but it wasn’t the same. 🙂
I think I’d like the drums, though. Sometimes we hear the sea lions barking in the harbor, the sound travels up the hill to our neighborhood.
AJ, I was reading that portion of Matthew the other night, very soothing. Roy, hang in there. Thankfully you have 8 weeks of pay tucked away so you’re good for today.
Nancy, how stressful with the neighbor and the dogs! Praying that the emotions calm down and your visiting the dogs during the day may yield to a new and better relationship and more cooperation. Keep us posted.
LikeLike
They are not mountain lions though one seems to think she is some kind of leopard.
LikeLike
Kim, I feel for your sense of loss of your dad that keeps coming up. I think it’s perfectly normal, 5 years isn’t a long time. 😦
And weirdly (since you mentioned the Law & Order show), I sometimes also find the sound of a tv in another room somewhat soothing when trying to sleep. I remember finding it soothing as a kid when I’d go to bed and my parents stayed up watching those later shows on TV.
Good luck to BG at softball today!
LikeLike
At Newport, RI, there’s a bridge across Narragansett Bay. When it was foggy, the bridge would let out a loud klaxon sound every few seconds. I never got used to that.
It probably still does.
😉
LikeLike
Good morning! I like it to be quiet when I go to sleep, and it usually is. Our neighborhood is filled with families with young children, so by 9:00 there is very little activity. I’m sure that will change in about ten years when all of those young children become teenagers!
Roy: Praying for your situation. As others have said, try to rest in God’s promises.
I know this isn’t the prayer thread, but I really need prayer this afternoon. Becca’s birthday party is from 2:00 to 4:00 today. I awoke feeling like I’d already ingested a pot of coffee. Please pray I wouldn’t feel so anxious by the time of the party and that I’d be patient with a house full of 7 year olds. And pray the kids are nice to each other and enjoy their time at the party. Becca’s had a hard year making friends, and I’m hoping this afternoon will help with that, as we invited her entire class. 17 out of 33 invitees responded. I’m planning on about 20. Hopefully kids whose parents didn’t RSVP don’t just show up. I have gift bags for 25, so I should be safe. On a positive note, I’ve been having a lot of migraines this past week and awoke migraine-free this morning. Hallelujah!!!
LikeLike
Oh, Chas reminded me. Fog horns from the harbor. I love that sound, although it’s mostly an early-morning, predawn sound around here.
Annms, you’ll have quite a day. Can’t wait to hear all the, uh, stories, out of that one. 😉 Praying for you and Becca.
LikeLike
Mumsee: when my sister-in-law was about 6 or 7 she had to stay at a friend’s home for several weeks while the family home was re-built after a fire. They had 2 mountain lions as pets! She was told to not leave her room after she went to bed, but one night she really needed to use the bathroom and she cracked her door open, but saw 2 yellow glowing eyes and promptly shut it again and was awake for most of the night!!!!
LikeLike
Annms, Praying for you. I still find birthday parties one of the most stressful things about parenting.
LikeLike
Kare, fairly certain I would still be in that room.
KBells and Annms, we never have birthday parties and I am glad. I do give each child a book on his birthday and the child may select the menu and cake and ice cream choices.
LikeLike
Kare, that reminds me of this funny commercial.
LikeLike
kBells: 🙂
LikeLike
I could see that. You people and your indoor cats…..
LikeLike
Kim, I’m not a dependable athlete in any sport, though I’m halfway decent at defense in soccer (as long as the people I’m playing with aren’t that great), and if I get into the rhythm I can be OK at volleyball (until my wrist starts hurting). Twice in my life I’ve surprised people by playing really well, and one of those times they thought I was falsely modest when I told them in advance that I wasn’t good.
On the way to a casual softball game when I was in my late teens or early twenties, I said I’d watch but not play since I can’t hit the ball. They encouraged me that I didn’t have to be good, but play anyway. When it was my turn at bat, they encouraged me and I said I never had any idea when to swing. I think they probably told me how to stand and hold the bat, but I don’t remember. All I remember is that someone told me “Swing!” and I did, and hit a resounding whack; I think it got me to third base. And when I got to home, all my teammates were rolling their eyes and saying things like, “You said you couldn’t hit the ball!” Well, I can’t. If someone hadn’t yelled “Swing!” or I hadn’t done it, I would nevewr have made that hit, and it may be the only time a bat I held ever connected with a ball, or at least that I made any connection that wasn’t a foul.
LikeLike
Kids’ parties: We had one when 1st Arrow turned five. We invited the four boys that were in my son’s preschool class, and they all came. The five boys (and the birthday boy’s almost 2-year-old sister) all had a good time. Cake and ice cream and gift opening was inside, but everything else was outside; riding around on bikes and other little vehicles, digging in a pile of gravel, and various other things on which little boys can burn off energy. One boy liked to raise his shovel way above his head and bring it down without checking to see if anyone was near who could get hit. No one did, thankfully, and we managed to redirect him and everyone was safe. 😉 All in all, it was a good day; a manageable number of good kids from good homes.
When 2nd Arrow had her golden birthday (turning 14) and 4th Arrow turned six the same day, they each had over their best friend for the day. We didn’t have any pre-arranged activities; it was just an informal get-together where each girl could spend some special time with her pal at our house.
Other than those times, we haven’t hosted any kid parties/get-togethers for birthdays.
LikeLike
My siblings and our neighborhood friends used to play a lot of sports at home; tackle football in our front yard; volleyball on occasion; softball in one of the fields on our farm. I was pretty inconsistent in my ability, sometimes not too bad, sometimes not too good. 😉
My brother told me one of his friends said to him about my softball playing, “Your sister is pretty good, for a girl.” I wasn’t too saturated in feministic thinking at that time or I might have whacked him one at that remark. 😉
LikeLike
Love the Geiko ad. 🙂
Taking a break from loading what turns out to be a huge pile of cut branches from the bougainvillea. Boy, it sure was a lot more than I thought there was. I’ve filled 2 full-sized cans and 3 large lawn bags. And it looks like it’s barely been touched.
My back is aching so I came in to stop for a while; I won’t finish it before having to pick up my friend, but I figure I can maybe get one or 2 more bags loaded. And the branches all have very sharp thorns, but I have heavy work gloves — still they get snagged on the bags and on my clothes and in my hair.
I’ve realized that trimming these trees is the easy part. They clip and go. Then you’re left with the piles of cuttings. Arrg.
LikeLike
You paid somebody to do that to your yard?
LikeLike
I mentioned that our atheist group had a “troll” posting comments that irritated our members (“conspiracy theories” about 9/11 and similar events). The group did not want to censor or suppress someone — especially as we now call ourselves “Free Thinkers.” I am striving to retire myself as leader, although I am still “superuser” because the account is still on my credit card.
Sneaking around the other members of the “flock,” I made an appointment for a lunch date with the “troll.” I will probably go to Hell because I got him to buy me lunch, convinced him it was his own idea to ask me to delete all his comments, (which I did late last night without telling anyone). Probably no one will notice that all his comments (which they complained about last meeting) are now gone.
If Big Brother deleted all your comments from “wanderer’s views,” would anyone notice? Not that I am implying that TJ is “Big Brother,” or that he would do any such thing. Next week I will attend to the POTUS, and his questionable status as a false messiah and the possibility that he is an alien being in disguise. If next week you see him announcing on network television, “I am a false messiah, and I am resigning as President because of that,” the announcement has nothing to do with me.
LikeLike
I de-hired him, mumsee, told him not to come back today after he did just this one large bush in the front of my house.
I realized if he did this to all my (much bigger) trees in the backyard, I’d be neck deep in branches for years. 😉
No wonder he offered such a good price. You get what you pay for I guess. Now I need to find someone else, probably have to pay more but at least everything will be hauled away when they’re done.
LikeLike
6 arrows, the good thing about boy parties is that they don’t need to be entertained. They just need a wide open space and something safe to throw at each other.
LikeLike
Yes, indeed, KBells. And I’m glad we have some acreage, and had good weather that day.
LikeLike
My niece ended up blocking me from her Facebook posts because I had expressed disagreement. The almost-funny thing is, my disagreement had to do with her particular argument (pointing out a flaw in it), but I never said anything good nor bad about the main issue (which was same-sex marriage). Oh well.
Today is my brother’s 60th birthday. (He is 8 years older than I am.) I have no idea if they are planning a big party, but I’m guessing that if they do, we won’t be invited. I don’t think my brother wants anything to do with me & mine anymore, but I’m not sure why. A guess is that, with our mother’s death almost three years ago, he wants to make a complete break with his/our past.
I have at least two items in my home that Mom wanted him to have, but he didn’t want, & one important thing of our dad’s that he wasn’t interested in.
I could be wrong, but that’s what I’m thinking. Neither one of us had a great childhood, but for different reasons.
We didn’t get together at all during last year’s Thanksgiving-through-Christmas holidays. 😦
LikeLike
6 Arrows, I was counseling at camp one year and noticed some of the male counselors were teasing each other on games with “You hit / kick /play like a girl,” and I asked one why acting like a girl was such an insult. A day or so later I was playing kickball, and that young man started in on me: “You kick like a boy” and “You run like a boy.”
LikeLike
Donna, a few years ago a large tree fell in my backyard, filling up most of my small backyard. Since it knocked down part of the fence, one of my biggest issues was blocking off any possible egress from the yard, since Misten could have wiggled out underneath the tree. I had a doghouse (she never used it), a trash can, and anything else large shoved into various openings in the branches to make sure she never got any ideas or any good chances.
A friend’s husband liked going to houses with downed trees and cutting the wood into firewood, so I didn’t have to pay anyone, but just had to wait until he had a couple of free Saturdays. But after he got two or three pickup loads of wood, his wife and I hauled the smaller branches (non-firewood) to the spot next to the street, where the city picks it up. Now, they only picked it up about three times a year, and I never knew when the next time would be, so I considered the possibility that I could be squinting through seven-foot-high piles of branches for weeks, while all the grass underneath died. But a day or two later they picked it up. And better yet, I pulled all the branches that couldn’t fit to the street after they’d picked up the huge pile . . . and the next day, since they were still in the neighborhood cleaning up other people’s yards, they got mine again. That was really unexpected and a real blessing. (The second stack wasn’t anywhere close to as big as the first, but it was still several feet wide and several feet tall.)
LikeLike
LOL Cheryl (15:56:11)!
I remember my brother and his friends also teasing each other with things like, “You throw like a girl.” 🙂
I miss the old days of kids just getting together with other kids and organizing their own sports and games and such. There is so much adult-directed activity in the after-school hours these days, of necessity, as a lot of parents aren’t available right away at the end of the school day. The times they have a-changed.
I sound old. 😉
LikeLike
NancyJill,
Why are you concerned with taking an unbeliever to court? Doesn’t the Bible make it clear that we are free to do that?
LikeLike
I have a niece who could throw a soft ball through a brick wall. Whenever I hear someone say, “you throw like a girl.” I want to call her up and get her to really show them how to throw like a girl.
LikeLike
😀 That’ll learn ’em 😉
LikeLike
Back in the “old days” before I learned better, I ran a few elaborate birthday parties for my oldest. I had as many as 20 boys at one party, and had to have multiple adult helpers and move the boys around in small groups to activities — like centers in a classroom (as a former public school teacher, that format was familiar to me in handling large groups). As my son is an introvert, these large parties really weren’t his cup of tea, and I found it very stressful. 🙂
I finally learned that smaller is better for us. My other kids, when young, were not allowed to invite more than their numerical age to come to a party. So, turning seven? You could invite seven friends.
This required them to carefully pare down their lists to those friends that most connected with them. It kept our parties small and intimate, and the kids became closer to those kids who attended.
Now that they are in their teens, I no longer go by the age thing, but have capped most parties to 10. 🙂 My oldest, long since, chose to limit his parties. On his eighth birthday, he simply asked to do a camping trip with another family and their son (his age). And, he has never had a large kid party since. 😉
Naturally, when we started limiting the invitees, I not only sent invitations, but called each family to make sure that their child would attend. I even rearranged some party dates in order to make sure that all the invitees could make it (I don’t work so hard at that now-a-days. If one of 9 can’t come … well, that’s okay!)
We celebrated my daughter’s 13th birthday last week with 8 of her friends, a sleep-over. They played Nerf guns all evening (yes, even these girly girls love turning off the lights and shooting each other with Nerf guns), and then they watched movies (pre-approved) until they fell asleep. So, I no longer have to plan the parties. I buy the food, make sure I’m around to chaperone, and step aside. 🙂
LikeLike
I agree, 6Arrows. When I was young, we went outside and played all day with all sorts of imaginative games.
My kids don’t do that. And, their friends don’t either. 😦
Everything now-a-days is adult planned, organized, and run. 😦
I’m finally (with kids at almost 21, 16, and 13) learning to let my kids take the lead in planning and executing many things. It’s hard for me. I tend to want to control all the parameters, because I want to ensure success. That can be a positive trait, but it can also be very bad and keep others from learning to take responsibility and step up.
LikeLike
Ok..I remember one more sound that makes it soothing to sleep…the sound of a train..oh I love the sound of a train!
Tammy…we weren’t so concerned about being forbidden scripturally in proceeding with using the courts to handle issues, however, Paul and I both felt strongly as we spent time in prayer that the Lord did not desire for us to go that direction. We both felt strongly we were to show our neighbors grace. The thing that makes it so hard on my flesh was the young woman’s attitude and false statements…she left that meeting feeling as though she “won”…but, I know that it was we who won…because we were obedient to the conviction the Lord placed deep within our soul. My neighbors are “young professionals” in their late 20’s…they have no children…they are very haughty…they are not believers…they are Jewish. I don’t know fully what our Lord’s purposes are for having us take this direction, but, I trust Him. He keeps bringing to my mind to “act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God”. This is very humbling to me, because I could have gotten “justice” and they would have paid huge fines and even had their dogs taken from them. The Mediator even pointed that out to her. I am believing the Lord has a greater purpose….and I’m hanging on to that hope.
LikeLike
Softball: When my sister was young, the boys wanted her on their sandlot softball team since she was the only lefty in the neighborhood.
LikeLike
Thanks to all who prayed for me today. The party was a success! Only one mom stayed and she was a lot of help. We had fifteen kids, all of whom were pretty well-behaved. Becca had a ball and all the other kids seemed to have fun, too. My nerves calmed down enough for me to enjoy the party as well. So, thank you!
LikeLike
Great, ANMS! I’m glad everyonre enjoyed it, including you.
LikeLike
So glad the party went well! Yay.
Cheryl, wish I could find someone who wanted firewood — but L.A.’s on the brink of outlawing wood fireplaces. It pollutes the atmosphere.
So after spending a couple hours this morning and a couple more hours this afternoon on the pile of cuttings, it’s down by more than half, maybe by 2/3, but there’s still a LOT left. I’ve filled two tall trash bins and 12 big lawn bags. Sheesh.
In between I took my friend from the assisted living place to the library where we spent a couple hours (I brought my Bible & notebook as I had 3 days of catch-up to do on my reading plan).
My friend checked out more than 50 books. (!) Apparently the lending rules have been, well, relaxed since my days when you could only check out 4 books at a time. Now they’re allowed 150, my friend says. She already has nearly 100 at home, so this just added to them. Unbelievable.
But I really did enjoy the time reading in the library, it was peaceful and I’m now caught up (again) on my read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plan. 🙂
LikeLike
Tammy, I’ve heard it recommended before about limiting kid birthday party attendees to the child’s numerical age. Seemed to work out well when my son turned five, having four friends over.
AnnMS, glad your day went well…sounds like a great time!
Today I mentioned on Rants & Raves that hubby went to his brother’s to help cut wood. Hubby’s brother owns a small dump truck, and in three hours time, they had cut and hauled away three truckloads of wood, and spent another half hour cleaning up at the site.
Hubby was home in time for supper and remarked at the table, “Ohhh, I’m so glad I didn’t have to work today!” 😀
Cutting wood is pure pleasure and not at all work to him. 😉
LikeLike
6 arrows…perhaps you could send hubby over to help out Donna with her bougainvilleas? 🙂
LikeLike
😀
LikeLike
We have bougainvilleas here but they are mostly “viney” not like trees.
Kids birthday parties. I am a pro but I fizzeled when BG was about 6 or 7.
I have a whole photo album of #1
We had Tea for Two
#3 we had at a play center
#4 led to me re-landscaping the back yard (this included me, myself, and I spreading a couple hundred pounds of manure and my dad “showing” me how to lay sod -two pallets) for a pool party. We didn’t have a real pool, I set up kiddie pools in the back yard
After that my memory gets fuzzy. A few have involved restaurants and some have involved pizza, movies, and sleepovers
LikeLike
While on the one hand this is really sad on the other it is kind of funny.
Mr. Brown’s son called me yesterday to go walk through their house and tell him anything else I thought he needed to do before they put it on the market.
He asked me if when he is 75 I will just kill him. He said he will make sure I receive and inheritance to take care of any legal fees I might have. 😉
He has called his older sister to come get their mother. I asked if he was going to put his mother on a plane and send her or wait for his sister to get here. He threatened to put her on a bus and stuff a sock in her mouth. She is suffering from dementia and is quite selfish and mean. Yesterday she was refusing to eat and had decided that after 67 years of marriage she wanted a DIVORCE!
He is looking into moving them again and putting them in an assisted living facility that has a memory care center. We laughed and talked about how beautifully his parents danced together. He admitted he couldn’t dance but said his father always told him “If you want to be popular with the ladies, you have to know how to dance”. What a different era.
LikeLike
I love bougainvilleas, they are so bright and beautiful in bloom. But they can burgeon out of control.
The ones out here are “vine-y,” too, but the specimen in front of my house is more like a huge bush that recently began encroaching onto the rest of the yard (and out over my driveway, creating problems coming and going as my tallish Jeep would often get scraped).
So at least the driveway portion has been completely cut back; I still need to get the front of it whacked back, though.
LikeLike
Pastor Ray, I am sorry to hear about your problems. Probably all that I can afford to send you is $1, but that would not help much. I will probably donate it to my atheist group instead.
I used to sleep very poorly. I sleep better now. Today I woke up early, though, which I do once in a while. I think there is no God. I feel pretty well today, but I know I will die one of these days. I won’t go to Heaven. I won’t go to Hell. I will simply cease to exist. I was able to get the atheist troll to stop posting to our atheist web site. I am a hypocrite as I am an atheist troll posting to a God-fearing Christian web site. Not only that, my daughter married her female lover of 20 years. Should I go away from here?
LikeLike
NancyJill — 🙂
Maybe I could talk hubby into a long-overdue vacation! I haven’t been to California since 1977, and I don’t think hubby’s ever been there. We could head out to LA, meet Donna, clean up the bougainvilleas, and she could show us around the town. 🙂
LikeLike
Bad dog. Mad cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreGaYcqIlE&feature=player_embedded
LikeLike
On choosing a new pope 🙂
LikeLike
Pastor is still preaching the series on “The Walk”. Today, it was “Walk Wisely” or “Watch your step”. From Ephesians 5:12-21.
Some things you walk toward
Some things you walk around
Some thangs you walk from.
LikeLike
In an article titled “Moderate Muslims Turning Radical?” William Federer “highlights the unintended consequences of the extraordinary level of tolerance the West has shown toward Islam. What many don’t realize is that such tolerance binds the West into a no-win dilemma:
If the West naively promotes tolerance of a belief system that does not promote tolerance, it is effectively promoting intolerance.
If the West refuses to promote an intolerant belief system, it is accused of being intolerant.
The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent, p. 75.
LikeLike
Am I talking to myself here?
LikeLike
No. I am reading it.
LikeLike
No sermon for me today. I was needed in the church nursery. It’s nice to be needed and to be able to serve others.
We had a detour on the way to church this morning. A man was killed on the highway when he was run over early this morning. Apparently he was lying in the roadway. One of my biggest fears when driving on that road after dark is that I will hit a hitchhiker wearing dark clothing or something like what happened today. There are so very many people trying to get back home from the city to their reserve.
LikeLike
Kare, how sad. I had to write up a story this week on a man who was killed in the morning when his motorcycle hit a car that had inched out in a bad intersection trying to see if the way was clear. All not far from my neighborhood and I knew a number of people who knew the parties involved.
The driver of the car was taking some children to school, and the motorcyclist had a wife and child; it was traumatic for everyone. 😦
We’re still in Romans, up to Romans 4 now. Excellent sermon(s), the bedrock basics of the faith.
Well, it’s back out to the bougainvillea cleanup work for me again now. 😦 Let’s see if I can finish it off today.
LikeLike
Chas, I read what you wrote. But having me read what you write is not much better than talking to yourself, is it?
LikeLike
Donna, that is a very sad story you had to do. Be thankful that you can grow a bougainvillea – they’re very pretty, but would not survive up here 🙂
LikeLike
This noon at our church dinner, a doctor who is a member of our church had an interesting observation about whether those who believe in evolution or creation are more pro-science: Evolutionists believe that some of our parts are useless, left over from the past. So they write off some of our organs as “vestigial parts” and decided some DNA is “junk DNA.” Meanwhile, scientists who are believers know that God must have made those things for a reason, and they’re willing to keep exploring what those reasons are. And they’re finding reasons for the appendix and reasons for the “junk” DNA.
LikeLike
Done.
And my neighbors came over to help which was wonderful since they had some extra green containers and lots of clippers that came in hand with the larger branches.
Meanwhile, I met the (probable, depending on escrow closing) new neighbors on the other side but my other neighbors (who were out helping me) know them and say they’re bad news. 😦
LikeLike
Our service at church this morning was wonderful. One dear friend, during the worship/singing portion, made a beeline for me from across the room, threw her arms around me, & prayed fervently in the Spirit.
We’ve gone to two services as of today. Both were fairly full. We have quadrupled in size in the last four or five years. And this is New England, folks. People around here don’t just pop into a church for no reason. God is moving by His Spirit!
LikeLike
Then we watched The Avengers this afternoon at home. This was not based on the ’60s TV show. Who knew? 😉
LikeLike
But you have to admit,
The Hulk and special effects were cool huh? 🙂
Especially the scene with Hulk and Loki.
LikeLike
If you haven’t seen any of these, The Avengers “trailer” is a good place to start. Pretty funny:
LikeLike
Hmm, I’m certain I was on The Avengers page when I copied the URL. Let me try this:
LikeLike
Oh well, whatever. The Avengers version is playing in the other tab and I copied directly from that page. I never saw this Notebook Honest Trailer…
LikeLike
Lots of Avenger videos! 🙂
Karen, exciting about your church. We had a full house today, we’ve been growing at a pretty steady pace for several years now.
God at work in the most unlikely geographical places, eh?
LikeLike
Anyone watching “The Bible” on the history channel tonight?
LikeLike
Karen O- I loved the old Avengers TV show. Wish I could find it on DVD cheap.
Donna- We don’t get cable. But now that Downton Abbey is over, we can watch The Mentalist. That show must have been on the chopping block if CBS put it on Sunday night. It seems any show put on Sunday night doesn’t last very long.
LikeLike
About the Mentalist – too many people have theories aboutu the identity of Red John that are probably spot on. Sunday night is the kill spot for any TV show. You can’t DVR it because the sports always run over time and you miss a significan portion of the show. That tand they were not showing it on demand this season.
LikeLike