No rants.
And I’ve already told you all my raves:
Young Caden Muller was baptised Sunday.
We made a trip to Pigeon Forge
I lost and found my cell phone.
I didn’t mention that we are starting to get the house ready for an influx of kin. We have our annual Christmas dinner the Saturday after Thanksgiveing at our house. Elvera won’t be satisfied until the house is spotless. It is already cleaner than most of theirs, but that’s the way she is. She is not a relaxed hostess.
Fortunately, the Carolina/Clemson game is at 7:00 that evening, she will have crashed in her LazyBoy and I will watch the game. Sunday afternoon we will start putting things away.
🙂 Long, jam-packed week at work but very productive. Glad it’s behind me. 🙂
🙂 Got to quote michelle in a story. 🙂 Fun.
🙂 We’re getting some much needed rain this morning — not much, and it may be over with now, but at least it’s something.
🙂 Our stretch of almost 80-degree temperatures has been broken at last. We should be be back down in the 60s for the days ahead.
🙂 Christmas is coming.
😦 My house really needs picking up. It looks like there was an explosion in the living room. Too busy, too crazy lately — and I’m “done” by the time I get home from work (which this week typically ran in the 7-8 p.m. range).
😦 Forgot — I found out I “capped out” on my vacation time way back in September, meaning I haven’t been able to earn any more days of vacation since then. I think they try to make it up to you, but that means I now have something like 7 weeks of vacation sitting on the books that I somehow need to take. Not easy since we’re so short-handed (and 2 other staffers also are in the same boat).
😦 We have too few people with too much pressure (the latest being an emailed reminder from top management to chop-chop and not let our production sag through the holidays). It all reminded me of a certain little Christmas tale by Charles Dickens …
So, THAT is where Scrooge’s progeny ended up, donna. 😉
🙂 My brother was finally able to message that he and his wife’s family is ok. They all live in the Philippines. I am sure they will be able to help others in some way.
Kathaleena, yep, I’ll be sure to collect some firewood and be right on time when I go in to work on the day after Christmas. 🙂
Good to hear all’s well with your brother and family — it’s hard to imagine such devastation. (But I had to also shake my head at this quote in a CNN story from a Catholic priest who was being asks by the people there how God could let such a calamity befall the predominantly Catholic city:
His response, he said, was to tell them that “God is not the cause of the suffering. God cannot prevent this. This is the work of nature.”
Chas, and later in the article it mentioned how people were praying that no further disaster would befall them — which theologically, of course, poses a major theological contradiction if their priest is telling them that God could do nothing about nature.
Not that these answers are easy — and they should always be approached with much tenderness and humility when people are hurting, having lost so many loved ones. But better to sit with them in the ashes in silence and pray with them than to give them answers that simply don’t reflect who God really is and will only confuse or disillusion them in their faith later.
Mary Anne and I are in Tulsa, OK attending the National Cage Bird Show where she showed Hartz, Irish Fancy and Raza Hispaniola canaries. We are getting ready to go to the awards dinner where she will get the award for the Hartz canary. Best Hartz in the USA!
😦 My dad is back in the ER. Just saw him yesterday. He said they cannot find what is troubling him now, but he knows there is something not right. Prayers appreciated.
A women at our church prayed aloud during the time allowed for that. She broke down crying and calling out for God to help her daughter, Sara, who she says has strayed from God. Please pray for Sara and her mom.
Wandering Views 
No rants.
And I’ve already told you all my raves:
Young Caden Muller was baptised Sunday.
We made a trip to Pigeon Forge
I lost and found my cell phone.
I didn’t mention that we are starting to get the house ready for an influx of kin. We have our annual Christmas dinner the Saturday after Thanksgiveing at our house. Elvera won’t be satisfied until the house is spotless. It is already cleaner than most of theirs, but that’s the way she is. She is not a relaxed hostess.
Fortunately, the Carolina/Clemson game is at 7:00 that evening, she will have crashed in her LazyBoy and I will watch the game. Sunday afternoon we will start putting things away.
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🙂 Saturday!
🙂 Not much to do but read and watch football.
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🙂 Saturday!
🙂 Long, jam-packed week at work but very productive. Glad it’s behind me. 🙂
🙂 Got to quote michelle in a story. 🙂 Fun.
🙂 We’re getting some much needed rain this morning — not much, and it may be over with now, but at least it’s something.
🙂 Our stretch of almost 80-degree temperatures has been broken at last. We should be be back down in the 60s for the days ahead.
🙂 Christmas is coming.
😦 My house really needs picking up. It looks like there was an explosion in the living room. Too busy, too crazy lately — and I’m “done” by the time I get home from work (which this week typically ran in the 7-8 p.m. range).
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😦 Forgot — I found out I “capped out” on my vacation time way back in September, meaning I haven’t been able to earn any more days of vacation since then. I think they try to make it up to you, but that means I now have something like 7 weeks of vacation sitting on the books that I somehow need to take. Not easy since we’re so short-handed (and 2 other staffers also are in the same boat).
😦 We have too few people with too much pressure (the latest being an emailed reminder from top management to chop-chop and not let our production sag through the holidays). It all reminded me of a certain little Christmas tale by Charles Dickens …
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So, THAT is where Scrooge’s progeny ended up, donna. 😉
🙂 My brother was finally able to message that he and his wife’s family is ok. They all live in the Philippines. I am sure they will be able to help others in some way.
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Kathaleena, yep, I’ll be sure to collect some firewood and be right on time when I go in to work on the day after Christmas. 🙂
Good to hear all’s well with your brother and family — it’s hard to imagine such devastation. (But I had to also shake my head at this quote in a CNN story from a Catholic priest who was being asks by the people there how God could let such a calamity befall the predominantly Catholic city:
His response, he said, was to tell them that “God is not the cause of the suffering. God cannot prevent this. This is the work of nature.”
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The answer to “WHY?” is always difficult.
But a priest should never tell people that God can’t prevent something.
God never relenquishes control.
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Chas, and later in the article it mentioned how people were praying that no further disaster would befall them — which theologically, of course, poses a major theological contradiction if their priest is telling them that God could do nothing about nature.
Not that these answers are easy — and they should always be approached with much tenderness and humility when people are hurting, having lost so many loved ones. But better to sit with them in the ashes in silence and pray with them than to give them answers that simply don’t reflect who God really is and will only confuse or disillusion them in their faith later.
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Mary Anne and I are in Tulsa, OK attending the National Cage Bird Show where she showed Hartz, Irish Fancy and Raza Hispaniola canaries. We are getting ready to go to the awards dinner where she will get the award for the Hartz canary. Best Hartz in the USA!
Yeah!!!
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Wow, congratulations Bob! Tweet.
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Pretty cool, Bob and Mary Anne!
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I think we need a picture of that. Meaning the bird of course
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S-tweet.
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And do you know what the inside of the birdhouse really looks like?
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Am I the only one who only sees a large empty space after Donna’s question? I assume I’m supposed to see a video.
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Oh. After I signed in & posted my comment, the video appeared.
Carry on.
🙂
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😦 My dad is back in the ER. Just saw him yesterday. He said they cannot find what is troubling him now, but he knows there is something not right. Prayers appreciated.
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A women at our church prayed aloud during the time allowed for that. She broke down crying and calling out for God to help her daughter, Sara, who she says has strayed from God. Please pray for Sara and her mom.
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I feel her pain, Kathaleena. And I prayed.
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I prayed for your dad, too.
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Thanks, Karen.
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