It’s Saturday, so time for….
Rants! 😦
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🙂 Going to a wedding today and seeing family.
🙂 Seeing our away-from-home children.
🙂 🙂 Seeing grandchildren!
🙂 Someone wants to see our house tomorrow! Hopefully someone will come along and want to buy it.
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😦 President Obama and his ignorant race baiting comments yesterday. That man is doing nothing to unite the country.
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🙂 Another beautiful day
🙂 Slow but steady progress on the siding
🙂 Daughter is here again for the weekend
🙂 She will be helping us speed up the work on the siding
🙂 Dad and stepmom arrive tomorrow sometime
🙂 They will also be helping us out
😦 Traded the wrong size staples for different wrong size staples yesterday – that will slow our progress today as we can’t get the trim up without the right size staples
😦 Mosquitoes are HORRENDOUS! Even during the hottest part of the day, they are out and biting. We put Deet on in the morning, at noon and again later in the day, use mosquito coils and we still get bitten. Ugh. And now the West Nile species is out at night, too.
🙂 The puddles and ponds are starting to dry up – hopefully that means fewer mosquitoes in the future.
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😦 We attended our third funeral in six weeks.
😦 The situation at the Nest.
🙂 Kim’s ability and willingness to go and be a friend.
🙂 The Christian family.
🙂 The e-mail love letters betwen me and my husband that I’m re-reading (considering getting some of them printed in book form for our second anniversary).
🙂 The wonderful way the girls have “stepped up” this summer in cooking (one meal a week each) and washing dishes, and overall the way we feel like a close family.
🙂 Have I mentioned I have an excellent husband, whose price is far above emeralds?
🙂 The cone flowers blooming right behind the deck that is by this window . . . and the wonderful butterfly photos they have been allowing me to take this week. (This morning a giant swallowtail went from blossom to blossom long enough for me to get multiple photos of him, in every imaginable angle, including several in flight.)
🙂 I finished project 10 out of (so far) 11 projects without a break.
🙂 Consistent periodic rains all summer–after last year’s drought, it’s nice to see tall corn.
😦 Overnight thunder and lightning keeping the dog awake, and her sharing the joy.
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😦 Thursday my battery died in the parking lot of Wal Mart with a truck full of grocery. By the time I had called Hubby, decided it was the battery, drug the thing back into Wal Mart, had it tested, bought another battery, put it back in the car with the help of a 10 year old and a kind stranger and got home some, of my frozen foods were kind of soft. I trying to decided what I need to throw away.
😦 I also found out my mom will have to give herself a shot everyday for the next few moths. So far I have been going over there each day and doing it for her. I don’t know how long, if ever, I will feel comfortable enough to let her do it herself. She is 82.
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I just put the photos onto my computer. It looks like one really does take more photos with a digital camera–I had about 130 photos of that butterfly! I deleted about 20 of them, but there were a lot of very good to decent shots. I’ll try to put one on here that I really liked, because I’ve never seen a photo quite like it in any of my butterfly books (yes, I own several)–you can see all four separate wings separately, like a pinwheel. In a few others, the forewing and hindwing were slighly separated, but only slightly, so I don’t know if a breeze caught him in this one, or what.
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If you were at mumsee’s you could microwave it all for lunch. Or a snack. Depending on how much you bought. 😉
🙂 Saturday.
🙂 Kim and what she did.
😦 The Nest. Praying for a speedy, complete and clear exoneration that will allow the ministry to pick up and carry on, in full swing.
😦 The state of the nation.
🙂 And yet … God is ours and we are God’s. And everything — including the nations and their ‘kings’ — is under His sovereignty. His purposes will be fulfilled. And the end result will be good. Very good. 🙂
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🙂 Digital cameras.
Cheryl, yes, you do start snapping away a lightning speeds … so quick, so easy; the results so stunning. 🙂
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I meant microwave kebells’ thawing frozen foods, of course. Not Cheryl’s butterfly.
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😦 Lost out on a house bid.
🙂 It went to a family which is perfectly appropriate.
😦 Nothing for sale. Almost. One house in the paper today.
🙂 Chance to house sit for 10 days in August.
🙂 That may save my sanity. 🙂
🙂 Wonderful contact with the Oswald Chambers biographer who offered excellent suggestions.
🙂 Found the 1938 second edition of a book he suggested at a relatively local seminary.
🙂 FULL of glorious perfect personal insight I need for my book.
😦 Little time to write.
🙂 Maybe today!
🙂 The joy of being silly with grandchildren
😦 Screaming. Me, as well as them! 🙂
😦 🙂 Even though I have not slept a full night since Kim left on her trip, I awake in the morning able to function. I am grateful.
😦 🙂 Wonderful if I just have a middle-of-the night prayer ministry because that is the only time my life slows down enough that God can get my attention.
Can’t decide if that is a good thing or a poor commentary on me!
🙂 Laughter, because an absurd life is full of joy! 🙂
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😦 Tossed the fries, the pizza and the fish. Broke my cheap Scottish heart.
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KBells, even if thay had thawed, you could have cooked them. No harm done. I don’t know about the fries, they are never good unless eaten imediately.
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Michelle, I sold my large home and bought another one right before coming here. It finally boiled down to there was only one available in my price range, etc. I have perfect peace that that was the Lord’s way of showing me His home for me.
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😦 10-year-old girl went off the cliffs, but will survive. I was heading out of town to buy dog food at the cheap pet food outlet when police cars and fire trucks, one after another, whizzed by me — a lot of them. Checked online, saw the alert, and just turned around to cover it.
🙂 They got her up via airlift helicopter and she was flown to the hospital — had a “significant injury” to her had, the cop told me. I took lots of videos & convinced him to talk on one of them. Editors will be happy with that. Filed the story from home. So now I guess I’ll go get dog food.
🙂 Oh, and in the small world category, met a guy out there who turned out to be a retired lapd officer (walking his dogs in the park) and he and I went to the same high school, grew up in the same town.
😦 Area where the girl fell is a fenced off section with warning signs posted everywhere (it was part of a landslide that occurred in the 1930s). But people still trespass to walk out there. In this case, the girl was walking down the steep cliff with her mom (!) when about half way down she slipped and landed at the bottom, about 50 feet below. Could have been a lot worse. But what are parents thinking when they do that with their kids (& posted warning signs all around them)?
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RIP, Helen Thomas. 😦
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😦 People making decisions that will affect me, without consulting me. (And going ahead with said decision even after I’ve given my reasons for disagreeing.)
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🙂 Sermon today was from Jonah, the surprising story of God’s call & mercy — and an entire city that remarkably repents.
🙂 I always smile at God’s mention of the animals in the final verse about His mercy and compassion: “And should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”
🙂 It’s suddenly fall out here, cloudy, rain drops and temps in the 60s. It’s all fine by me.
🙂 Videos I made yesterday at the cliffs got picked up here and there by other news sources. Pray for that 10-year-old who fell, the last we heard was that she was in critical condition. Psychologically, this will no doubt leave her with a pretty healthy fear of heights. What a frightening experience.
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Awesome, awesome sermon today. As many times as I’ve heard the story if Abraham (not) sacrificing Isaac, I never knew much of what was taught today.
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Our apartment is coming along by leaps and bounds now. The shower is in, the bathroom closet is done (with shoe racks!), and I was able to finish painting all of rooms today. The shower is really neat – a rectangle the size of a bathtub; two of its walls are the room walls, for which we selected solid black tiles, and the two shower walls are clear glass. It really looks great.
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That’s exciting, Linda! Happy for you!
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