It’s Saturday, so time for…
Rants! 😦
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Part of it was taken up by the women here making fun of me while I was away.
But I did learn that 6 Arrows lives on Baffin Island.
Where else would it snow in May?
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🙂 Pictures of new nephew (with other family members as a bonus)
😦 Got news that the pastor of my family church is resigning. He is well past retirement age, so I understand the need, but there are less than twenty members in the church. It may have to close, as we can’t pay any one who comes enough to live on.
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🙂 Finally the rain is done and the roads might be able to dry up some?
🙂 Beautiful sunshine
🙂 Our siding and other supplies were delivered yesterday.
😦 Now for the daunting task – where to start…
🙂 Fun on last night’s Daily Thread – thanks ladies!
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🙂 Baffin Island 🙂
🙂 Yes, that was quite the thread last night, Kare! Still smiling today. 🙂
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🙂 D2 and family coming for a visit. That means 🙂 Grandchildren to spoil! 🙂
🙂 Weather is taking a turn towards cooler. 70s for highs instead of lows. I love it!
😦 SCOTUS decision. But 🙂 God is in control! 🙂
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🙂 A perfect week with my family!
🙂 Watching my girls interact with the sting-rays and dolphins with huge smiles on their faces.
🙂 Beautiful weather the entire week.
🙂 My sister and her family will be home in less than a month! Sister and I have planned to spend a couple of days alone together at a hotel for some much needed sister-time. I’m really looking forward to this. It’s been much too long since we’ve spent time together in this way (almost twenty years to be exact!).
🙂 Spouse’s family are coming to town for July 4th. Looking forward to spending a couple of days with them this week.
🙂 My dad turns 80 July 3rd. So grateful he is still alive and in remarkably good health. My mother has planned a rather large party for him on August 3rd. She made it for then so that my sister could be there. My entire family will be together for a long weekend. There are thirteen grandchildren and the cousins are all quite close to each other. It should be a lot of fun!
🙂 After the week I’ve had the good fortune to experience, I have zero rants!!!
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🙂 A.J. and the people on this blog. I’m not the best at making friends in the real world and sometimes am lonely. It’s such a blessing to interact with all of you. I so enjoy reading everyone’s posts and have been both challenged and blessed by them.
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We’ve had snowflakes come down on the Fourth of July. 😦
🙂 60th wedding anniversary party today for a relative. They have had some stormy times in their lives, but held on through thick and thin. I remember once when a church counselor (not of their denomination, however) encouraged them to just get a divorce. They were horrified. They had more sense than the counselor.
🙂 Good friends, who are snowbirds, being back home.
😦 Miley Cyrus’ performance on GMA and her interview extolling and laughing about drugs. So sad. I feel so bad for the young people who will be led down a wrong, hurtful road by her and others like her. I feel sad that she was led this way, too.
🙂 Good films, such as “Temple Grandin,” which can uplift and build up. I love the saying, “Different, not less,” that was used in the film. Praying for more films that would do this, rather than those that tear down and lead people astray.
🙂 Summer, with all its green, flowers, activities and fun.
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😦 The whole Paula Deen fiasco. While racial slurs are terrible, I cannot believe the self-righteousness being spewed by so many. I would like to know who these people are who have never, ever called a name. If it were something she had just said, it would at least make some sense. I would also like to know if those who are on their soapbox have ever, in their lifetimes, spoken words that are slurs against white people. The double standard has gone on way too long.
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🙂 Saturday!
😦 Political correctness running amok in our society. Is there any hope? Sigh. Only in God. May he collectively awaken us. Soon.
😦 The media’s entirely one-sided coverage (for years now) of the gay marriage issue. Credibility = next to zero. Next up will be story after sentimental story about all the gay weddings.
😦 Our temperatures are climbing out here in the west. I’m grateful I don’t live in Arizona. We’re warmer than I’d like — 80s on the coast — but so far it’s still cooling off at night enough for me to sleep OK, with some harbor and ocean fog helping out. With an open window & a fan, the bedroom is still staying quite cool. But was hot enough in my house overall in the past 48 hours to completely liquify the jar of coconut oil I put in my dogs’ food. I stuck it in the refrigerator this morning.
😦 A preview fireworks program last night at the port had both my dogs huddled under my feet in the living room. The main event, Thursday, will probably require those doggie downers to be brought out of the cabinet again.
The 15-minute shows are survivable for the dogs. But for hours on end our neighborhood & town also explodes with all the illegal (under a city law seemingly never seriously enforced) fireworks people seem to love to blow up — and at very close range to us. 😦 Arrrg.
Crazy Californians. (Did I just say that??) 😮
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😦 I’m hearing occasional noises on the floor in my bedroom in the middle of the night — and they seem not to be from the dogs or cat. Like something’s alive in there … I hate that.
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Donna, is it real, or are you dreaming it?
Is there a floor below you?
If it’s a real noise, you need to find out what it is. You don’t want some critters to climb into a crawl space and die.
Like a squirrel. You don’t even want live critters there.
Why in the middle of the night?
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Why in the middle of the night? Because that’s when things go “bump!” in the night. 🙂
I suspect I do have some critters under the house, but it’s a soft dirt bottom. I noticed one of the grates askew the other day, same thing happened last summer; it’s the time of year. (But the Uverse guy had to go under my house to hook up their service a couple weeks ago and he said everything looked relatively pristine down there, so I don’t think there’s a growing colony of anything).
The cat in the past has brought in a live mouse to play with but they don’t stay alive long (unless I can get them put outside). But she’s a sharp huntress & I think she’d be obsessed if she knew something like that was in the house; I keep her in all night and she seems oblivious.
Hmmm.
A mystery for now I guess. … Maybe I am just dreaming it.
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A couple years ago I had either an opossum or raccoon above my ceiling in the rafters. He’d scramble around right over my bedroom at night, made me crazy for a few weeks until he was thankfully chased away and I got the crawl space up there better secured.
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🙂 Becky says 10 kids made decisions for Christ in VBS this week.
🙂 Mary and Tom are on the way home.
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🙂 flying to Cairns Australia in the morning for 12 days – Yippee
😦 not so fond of 6am pickup
🙂 weather is cool and cloudy, sorry can’t relate to heat and Australia will be winter
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Happy winter, Jo!
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oh, but this is more like a warm Florida winter. Still close to the equator so can enjoy it. Looks like 70’s and 80’s
Thanks, I can’t wait.
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Summer and Winter don’t really mean much to Jo and Phos and Ajisuun.
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I followed Mary and Tom in from Frankfurt to Charlotte on this website.
http://www.flightradar24.com/%C3%82
It’s really neat. If you know what flight Jo is taking, you can follow her plane.
We could follow Kare in from the Caribbean. Interesting, but useful too if you’re suppose to pick someone up at the airport.
I didn’t really follow them from Frankfurt, I picked US 707 up in the Atlantic and followed it across from Va. Into Charlotte.
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😦 The Paula Deen thing is so over-the-top that it is weird and scary. Scary that someone can be ruined for something said decades ago, in a private conversation, after a life threatening incident. This shows the media can get can control who succeeds and who doesn’t. The weird part is that Deen is a Democrat and Obama supporter. She must have strayed from the script somewhere else.
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I’ll admit I’m not familiar with Paula Deen — I knew who she was, but had never watched her show. I haven’t followed the story about the mess she’s in very closely.
But it does seem that she’s bearing the brunt of an over-the-top lashing for things said 30 years ago that she’s apologized for.
Part of it is the politically correct, self-righteous outrage that can verge on hysteria on our social media outlets. Everyone now has a bullhorn and has become a critic.
But I found this article I posted in fb yesterday to be one of the best in terms of a Christian viewpoint to all of this.
http://theaquilareport.com/for-whom-will-tomorrows-bell-toll-thoughts-on-paula-deen/
From the piece:
“… The deeper problem with Ms. Deen’s story is that the court of public opinion doesn’t exact justice. It cries for vengeance. I wondered, along with several friends, what would happen if people demanded that we be held responsible for the careless words we’ve spoken in the past?
“We’re all guilty of this crime. …
“We all need to be reminded that we will be judged by our words, and that our own mouths will condemn us. To put it another way, we all violate our own moral judgments, and while justice may be appropriate, we all also stand in need of mercy.”
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Thanks for posting that on fb, too, Donna. I was waiting to find an article that wasn’t full of peripheral remarks and/or politics to share with others. That was a good one.
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😦 Very flippant comment, which I won’t repeat, made about the blessing of children, from the pulpit by a guest preacher today. And a lot of the congregation laughed (at both services — 1st Arrow went to the earlier service, and the rest of us to the later one). I would expect that sort of remark from the world, but it’s very unfortunate coming from a Christian, and one preaching about being salt and light to the world, at that. 😦
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i heard one of those at church after it was announced that our second adoption was completed. Some woman yelled out that surely our quiver was full now. She was wrong.
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