We are at Myrtle Beach. (Actually Surfside). Last night we went to “Nights of a Thousand Candles” at Brookgreen Gardens. .They had about a thousand candles to mark the pathways, but the entire gardens were decorated with lights. The place was crowded. But it was a convivial crowd and people talked with each other –stranger to stranger, more than usual. A nice tme. Traffic moved well.
Sleeping together in a queen size bed is equivalent to sleeping alone. I don’t like it.
Why do they make the beds so big?
Chas, that’s how I feel about King size beds 🙂 I would love to see the “Nights of a Thousand Candles” Maybe we will get to go to Zoolights when we’re in Calgary.
🙂 Christmas decorating is almost finished
😦 It’s freezing cold outside
🙂 No Christmas shopping done yet (except one small gift)
🙂 Roadkill Christmas tree looks pretty nice
🙂 Son played his first concert last night. 😦 Metal music, sigh… 🙂 If you’re on Facebook, you can see some posts I liked – he’s the one who looks most like our pictures of Jesus :S
🙂 Small group potluck coming up this week – still some planning to do for that one.
Chas, if a man is tall enough, a queen or larger is necessary. My husband is 6’3″ and if he has to sleep in a full-size bed (by himself), he sleeps diagonally across it. So when we sleep (together) in one, there isn’t enough room for him, and he doesn’t sleep well.
😦 Medical issues in my family (in-laws). My father-in-law was in the hospital overnight night before last, and came home yesterday afternoon. The brother-in-law who drove him home is now in the hospital himself.
🙂 The company that made one of my photo books, a 100-page one with fancy touches, messed up on it, and I ended up getting three copies of it (two imperfect–it was supposed to have page numbers and didn’t), so I have two to give away. (Even with good coupons, it cost a lot of money. So if page numbers show up on preview, and I have included a table of contents in my book based on it having page numbers, then it needs to have page numbers in the printed book!)
🙂 I have finished my Christmas shopping and now mostly finished writing my Christmas letter–though I still have to print it out and mail it.
🙂 I’m making progress on several tasks that have been on my “procrastination” list for quite a while.
🙂 Chilly morning in the Sunny South
🙂 Lulabelle is acting like a spoiled toddler. No attention on her she misbehaves. She is driving Amos crazy.
🙂 Making Pumpkin Crumble for Black Family Christmas today. My house smells good.
😦 My aunt always assigns me a dessert to make. I am not a baker because I like to improvise like the recipe calls for a 15oz can of pumpkin but I had a 32 oz can of pumpkin on the shelf from last year. I doubled the recipe but only had 1 cup of pecans and 1 boxed butter cake. We shall see how it turns out.
🙂 She also assigned me a diip and chip too. I can handle that with my eyes closed.
😦 A neighbor throws his leftover food out in the yard for the animals. I use to be able to let Chasey my dog, out to do her business and watch her from the porch. Now she makes a bee-line for the neighbor’s yard where she stuffs herself, comes home and throw up in the house. Now I have to put her on a leash and take her out myself no matter how late or cold. The back yard fence is broken, plus she has always been able to figure out how break out of it anyway. Now yesterday, I caught Katie, my cat, in it ,too. There is no way I could keep her confided in the house. Besides the throwing up, I’m really afraid they are going to poison themselves.
🙂 Fun day “out” yesterday with an old friend. We drove out to the county fairgrounds for the annual craft fair where I found 2 gifts that I was happy with (rare, I so often find very little out there! But the browsing is always enjoyable).
🙂 Friend has a baby kitten she’s bottle feeding — she had to take her to the neighbor’s before we left so they could tend to her through the day. Eeeee. Nothing cuter than a fuzzy 3-week old kitten.
🙂 Rain this morning. We need it.
🙂 My heater feels wonderful this morning.
😦 The gas bill will be high.
🙂 I’m finally getting in for a much needed haircut/trim this morning.
🙂 Tonight is the Tuba Christmas concert on the docks, followed by the lighted boat parade. I may go over there from the dog park.
🙂 Tomorrow our church will be checking out property that’s for sale. But I’ll have to miss the afternoon walk-though as I’m going to a Christmas concert at a friend’s church around that time.
😦 Still need to decorate my house. But that’s a fun job. 🙂 It’s taking it down a month from now that’s a chore. 😦
Wait a minute…you let your dog go into the neighbor’s yard? I would be bothered if my neighbor’s dogs were in my yard. I might catch it and fence it until the neighbor came for it but I would not appreciate a visiting dog in my yard. Now, the fact that he could be bringing rats into the neighborhood could be problematic. Fortunately, you have that nice young man in desperate need of exercise to straighten out his attitude so he should be taking that dog on a mile walk in the morning and again in the late afternoon. Problem(s) solved. You are welcome.
Flags are at half staff today. I notice that the Yachtsman condo and hotel system have their Canadian flag also at half staff. I doubt that Canada wants its flag at half staff.
Obama did not have the flags lowered when Lady Thatcher died
🙂 Report cards are done. Spent six hours at school and everything is done. I will probably reread the comments on Monday.
🙂 I was very concerned about something being done wrong and was able to share my concerns with the right person. Now I can rest and let them decide what is right to do.
🙂 Now on to getting ready to go home in a week!! Oh, better figure out what I am teaching this week!
Chas, I noticed the difference in the way Lady Thacher’s death was handled. She had the misfortune to die when her accompaniments were less politically correct.
Chas, it seems like people are always lowering the Canada flag – never following the correct procedures, especially here in Canada. It sort of annoys me that everyone thinks the flag should be lowered for every trivial reason.
🙂 Report cards are done – yay, Jo!
I also find a doublel/full size bed too short, therefore we have a queen, but when the dog joins us, it too seems rather small.
kBells – If you don’t want to use Mumsee’s advice, you could do what we do. We don’t have a fence, but we have a long, leash-like cord (not sure what it’s actually called) attached to the bottom of the porch. I think ours is 30 or 40 feet long, but I could be mistaken.
I am also annoyed at lowering the flags for every trivial little matter. I used to be concerned or know why the flags were lowered. Now it seems like every other week or so they are lowered and I don’t know why.
🙂 One of my daughter’s was the narrator at her daycare program. She works there one day a week. Two of my grandchildren were in the program, although the two year old only had to look cute in her Christmas finery. Her four year old brother was a shepherd who had way too much fun with his very, very long staff. One of the joys of the holidays.
😦 The two older brothers will have no Christmas program to be in; neither their church or public school do one. I believe these programs can be like VBS, much more memorable to those children involved than weekly Sunday School. That assumes they are kept in perspective and not done for anyone’s ego, of course. I think it is sad that children in that public school will not realize what the NATIONAL holiday of Christmas is really about, unless they happened to be Christian or their parents make the effort. This is a big part of our national history.
🙂 I love my haircut — it’s shorter than usual. 🙂 Almost bob-like, very swingy. 🙂 Feels good, it was getting too long.
🙂 I had lunch out with a friend after that, then some shopping … In a few minutes we’re off to TubaChristmas on the docks. It’ll be cold. The ocean was beautiful today, dark and choppy, lots of whitecaps. It’s been raining off and on all day.
Speaking of Misten, a funny from yesterday (not something Misten did, so this isn’t technically a pet post): My husband often “narrates” what Misten is thinking, and he makes sure to tell me her thoughts when I groom her (which is far from her favorite activity). Anyway, yesterday he had a ladybug on the blinds next to his desk chair, and he commented that it had some fuzz on its wings. So I went over and very gently pulled the fuzz off. My husband started speaking for Misten: “She’s out of control! She’s even grooming ladybugs now?!” Misten’s nose tends to run when she is stressed, so the floor will have drops on it at times under her face. So my husband held up a magnifying glass to the ladybug and informed me its nose was dripping. 🙂
🙂 Loved the TubaChristmas — some of it participatory sing-along, with Silent Night, Joy to the Word, Go Tell it on a Mountain, Deck the Halls, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen … A little chilly out there tonight by the water, but fun.
🙂 Got the dogs walked when I got home, they were happy.
🙂 And we still have ‘snow.’ 🙂 They created a snow slide on Friday using man-made snow and I noticed tonight that the ‘remains’ of it, now in a big pile in the street, is still with us it’s been that cold.
Re: Flags lowered yesterday- It may have been because of Pearl Harbor Day. The President only ordered government buildings to lower the flags.
🙂 Odd today. Our normally 15 attendees house church has sickness, out of town and have to work members, so it will only be the pastor, his wife, Mrs L and I. D3 went to visit cousins. Not only that, I don’t have to go far today since pastor and wife are coming over here. (It’s a 45 minute drive. They volunteered to make the drive this week.)
It’s 48 and raining at MB. Not much to do at the beach in this kind of weather.
But it is December. And the light show at Brookgreen Gardens was the reason we came. The weather was great for that.
Yes, Chas, my term of service is coming to an end. I was supposed to stay a year, from October 2012 to October 2013, but I extended my stay for two months and those two months are nearly up.
It’s minus 2 and snowing at the Nest. Lots to do: Six year old and I fed the goats and the guineas and one dog and walked her. Then did some other stuff.
Mumsee, I didn’t let her in the neighbor’s yard. I let her out to tinkle and she runs for the neighbor’s yard because she know he dumps food there. The fence is broken and she doesn’t come when I call her. Before this guy. I could watch her from the porch or let her into the fenced back yard. He’s also the reason she keeps breaking the fence.
Mumsee, Misten would gladly eat ice off your windows. She seems to enjoy licking frost or rain off the side of the house (a weird sound from inside the house). Ordinary dogs eat and drink from dishes, but she disdains the ordinary.
🙂 It’s bright, sunny and 55 degrees just after 1 p.m. here in SoCal. It’s a gorgeous day.
🙂 I’m off to a 4:30 p.m. Christmas concert in a couple hours. So I’ll be missing the scheduled congregational ‘walk-through’ around that same time this afternoon to look at the church property we’re maybe interested in buying. I’ll be curious to hear the feedback.
Karen- Usually in the same house, but when it is only going to be the pastor, his wife and one family, he likes to go to their house to them them the trouble of traveling (some come from an hour away with small children).
We had a good meeting. Strange to sit in my own living room and hear a preacher in person.
Pansies planted! Always enjoy seeing them in the winter. So different from where I live. They would be under a couple of feet of snow, which would make them rather difficult to see. 🙂
70’s here again. Just came home through a very hard rain. But… I walked to school today and then walked home when it was dry to get my van to pick up the last box of my Scholastic order from the post office. Then when it rained I was able to give several teachers a ride home. God is good!
Azaleas are blooming in my yard and some daisies. And there are several stalks of bananas on the banana trees. Oh, and I see papayas, but I don’t think we get them. Maybe someone else likes our tree.
Oh, and I believe this may be 49!!!! 🙂
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We are at Myrtle Beach. (Actually Surfside). Last night we went to “Nights of a Thousand Candles” at Brookgreen Gardens. .They had about a thousand candles to mark the pathways, but the entire gardens were decorated with lights. The place was crowded. But it was a convivial crowd and people talked with each other –stranger to stranger, more than usual. A nice tme. Traffic moved well.
Sleeping together in a queen size bed is equivalent to sleeping alone. I don’t like it.
Why do they make the beds so big?
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Chas, that’s how I feel about King size beds 🙂 I would love to see the “Nights of a Thousand Candles” Maybe we will get to go to Zoolights when we’re in Calgary.
🙂 Christmas decorating is almost finished
😦 It’s freezing cold outside
🙂 No Christmas shopping done yet (except one small gift)
🙂 Roadkill Christmas tree looks pretty nice
🙂 Son played his first concert last night. 😦 Metal music, sigh… 🙂 If you’re on Facebook, you can see some posts I liked – he’s the one who looks most like our pictures of Jesus :S
🙂 Small group potluck coming up this week – still some planning to do for that one.
🙂 A good week at work.
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Chas, if a man is tall enough, a queen or larger is necessary. My husband is 6’3″ and if he has to sleep in a full-size bed (by himself), he sleeps diagonally across it. So when we sleep (together) in one, there isn’t enough room for him, and he doesn’t sleep well.
😦 Medical issues in my family (in-laws). My father-in-law was in the hospital overnight night before last, and came home yesterday afternoon. The brother-in-law who drove him home is now in the hospital himself.
🙂 The company that made one of my photo books, a 100-page one with fancy touches, messed up on it, and I ended up getting three copies of it (two imperfect–it was supposed to have page numbers and didn’t), so I have two to give away. (Even with good coupons, it cost a lot of money. So if page numbers show up on preview, and I have included a table of contents in my book based on it having page numbers, then it needs to have page numbers in the printed book!)
🙂 I have finished my Christmas shopping and now mostly finished writing my Christmas letter–though I still have to print it out and mail it.
🙂 I’m making progress on several tasks that have been on my “procrastination” list for quite a while.
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🙂 Chilly morning in the Sunny South
🙂 Lulabelle is acting like a spoiled toddler. No attention on her she misbehaves. She is driving Amos crazy.
🙂 Making Pumpkin Crumble for Black Family Christmas today. My house smells good.
😦 My aunt always assigns me a dessert to make. I am not a baker because I like to improvise like the recipe calls for a 15oz can of pumpkin but I had a 32 oz can of pumpkin on the shelf from last year. I doubled the recipe but only had 1 cup of pecans and 1 boxed butter cake. We shall see how it turns out.
🙂 She also assigned me a diip and chip too. I can handle that with my eyes closed.
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😦 A neighbor throws his leftover food out in the yard for the animals. I use to be able to let Chasey my dog, out to do her business and watch her from the porch. Now she makes a bee-line for the neighbor’s yard where she stuffs herself, comes home and throw up in the house. Now I have to put her on a leash and take her out myself no matter how late or cold. The back yard fence is broken, plus she has always been able to figure out how break out of it anyway. Now yesterday, I caught Katie, my cat, in it ,too. There is no way I could keep her confided in the house. Besides the throwing up, I’m really afraid they are going to poison themselves.
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You should talk to the neighbor.
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I don’t him. I think he is a younger single man. Maybe the neighbor between us knows him.
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sympathies, kbells, that’s really annoying. 😦
🙂 Fun day “out” yesterday with an old friend. We drove out to the county fairgrounds for the annual craft fair where I found 2 gifts that I was happy with (rare, I so often find very little out there! But the browsing is always enjoyable).
🙂 Friend has a baby kitten she’s bottle feeding — she had to take her to the neighbor’s before we left so they could tend to her through the day. Eeeee. Nothing cuter than a fuzzy 3-week old kitten.
🙂 Rain this morning. We need it.
🙂 My heater feels wonderful this morning.
😦 The gas bill will be high.
🙂 I’m finally getting in for a much needed haircut/trim this morning.
🙂 Tonight is the Tuba Christmas concert on the docks, followed by the lighted boat parade. I may go over there from the dog park.
🙂 Tomorrow our church will be checking out property that’s for sale. But I’ll have to miss the afternoon walk-though as I’m going to a Christmas concert at a friend’s church around that time.
😦 Still need to decorate my house. But that’s a fun job. 🙂 It’s taking it down a month from now that’s a chore. 😦
😦 Where did this year go??
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Wait a minute…you let your dog go into the neighbor’s yard? I would be bothered if my neighbor’s dogs were in my yard. I might catch it and fence it until the neighbor came for it but I would not appreciate a visiting dog in my yard. Now, the fact that he could be bringing rats into the neighborhood could be problematic. Fortunately, you have that nice young man in desperate need of exercise to straighten out his attitude so he should be taking that dog on a mile walk in the morning and again in the late afternoon. Problem(s) solved. You are welcome.
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Flags are at half staff today. I notice that the Yachtsman condo and hotel system have their Canadian flag also at half staff. I doubt that Canada wants its flag at half staff.
Obama did not have the flags lowered when Lady Thatcher died
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Chas, three cats made a queen somewhat imperative for us. Try bringing your pet rock to bed with you one night and you’ll see what I mean.
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🙂 Report cards are done. Spent six hours at school and everything is done. I will probably reread the comments on Monday.
🙂 I was very concerned about something being done wrong and was able to share my concerns with the right person. Now I can rest and let them decide what is right to do.
🙂 Now on to getting ready to go home in a week!! Oh, better figure out what I am teaching this week!
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Chas, I noticed the difference in the way Lady Thacher’s death was handled. She had the misfortune to die when her accompaniments were less politically correct.
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Chas, it seems like people are always lowering the Canada flag – never following the correct procedures, especially here in Canada. It sort of annoys me that everyone thinks the flag should be lowered for every trivial reason.
🙂 Report cards are done – yay, Jo!
I also find a doublel/full size bed too short, therefore we have a queen, but when the dog joins us, it too seems rather small.
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kBells – If you don’t want to use Mumsee’s advice, you could do what we do. We don’t have a fence, but we have a long, leash-like cord (not sure what it’s actually called) attached to the bottom of the porch. I think ours is 30 or 40 feet long, but I could be mistaken.
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I am also annoyed at lowering the flags for every trivial little matter. I used to be concerned or know why the flags were lowered. Now it seems like every other week or so they are lowered and I don’t know why.
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🙂 One of my daughter’s was the narrator at her daycare program. She works there one day a week. Two of my grandchildren were in the program, although the two year old only had to look cute in her Christmas finery. Her four year old brother was a shepherd who had way too much fun with his very, very long staff. One of the joys of the holidays.
😦 The two older brothers will have no Christmas program to be in; neither their church or public school do one. I believe these programs can be like VBS, much more memorable to those children involved than weekly Sunday School. That assumes they are kept in perspective and not done for anyone’s ego, of course. I think it is sad that children in that public school will not realize what the NATIONAL holiday of Christmas is really about, unless they happened to be Christian or their parents make the effort. This is a big part of our national history.
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🙂 I love my haircut — it’s shorter than usual. 🙂 Almost bob-like, very swingy. 🙂 Feels good, it was getting too long.
🙂 I had lunch out with a friend after that, then some shopping … In a few minutes we’re off to TubaChristmas on the docks. It’ll be cold. The ocean was beautiful today, dark and choppy, lots of whitecaps. It’s been raining off and on all day.
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Wow, I sounded a bit harsh, even direct. Sorry KBells. Not how I meant it. I could say “rough day” but there is no excuse.
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Donna – Post a “selfie” on Facebook. 🙂
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No, Donna, post a selfie on here, and kick Tess off. 🙂
(I can just hear Misten now: “Objection!”)
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Speaking of Misten, a funny from yesterday (not something Misten did, so this isn’t technically a pet post): My husband often “narrates” what Misten is thinking, and he makes sure to tell me her thoughts when I groom her (which is far from her favorite activity). Anyway, yesterday he had a ladybug on the blinds next to his desk chair, and he commented that it had some fuzz on its wings. So I went over and very gently pulled the fuzz off. My husband started speaking for Misten: “She’s out of control! She’s even grooming ladybugs now?!” Misten’s nose tends to run when she is stressed, so the floor will have drops on it at times under her face. So my husband held up a magnifying glass to the ladybug and informed me its nose was dripping. 🙂
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🙂 Loved the TubaChristmas — some of it participatory sing-along, with Silent Night, Joy to the Word, Go Tell it on a Mountain, Deck the Halls, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen … A little chilly out there tonight by the water, but fun.
🙂 Got the dogs walked when I got home, they were happy.
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🙂 And we still have ‘snow.’ 🙂 They created a snow slide on Friday using man-made snow and I noticed tonight that the ‘remains’ of it, now in a big pile in the street, is still with us it’s been that cold.
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I mean since Thursday — so it’s lasted 2 full days, even with a lot of rain today.
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For those of you who miss my oh-so-compelling FB posts, here are my videos (mostly bad) of the snow slide & TubaChristmas. 🙂
http://www.tout.com/u/donnalittlejohn
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Re: Flags lowered yesterday- It may have been because of Pearl Harbor Day. The President only ordered government buildings to lower the flags.
🙂 Odd today. Our normally 15 attendees house church has sickness, out of town and have to work members, so it will only be the pastor, his wife, Mrs L and I. D3 went to visit cousins. Not only that, I don’t have to go far today since pastor and wife are coming over here. (It’s a 45 minute drive. They volunteered to make the drive this week.)
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🙂 I will see my family in two weeks
😦 Saying goodbye to everyone here
😦 Internet – we got notification that we will have no service from Tuesday to Sunday for maintenance
😦 I’ve been sick all week – breathing problems.
🙂 Slowly getting better
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Peter, I thought the lowered flags (since Friday actually) were for Mandela. ?
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2013/1206/US-flags-lowered-for-Mandela-rare-honor-for-a-foreign-leader
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It’s 48 and raining at MB. Not much to do at the beach in this kind of weather.
But it is December. And the light show at Brookgreen Gardens was the reason we came. The weather was great for that.
Phos. Does this mean that you are going home?
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Yes, Chas, my term of service is coming to an end. I was supposed to stay a year, from October 2012 to October 2013, but I extended my stay for two months and those two months are nearly up.
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It’s minus 2 and snowing at the Nest. Lots to do: Six year old and I fed the goats and the guineas and one dog and walked her. Then did some other stuff.
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Children were eating the ice off of the inside of the dining room window this morning.
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We have ice on our windows too (the older ones) but no one to eat it 🙂
😦 Dryer vent pipe is now dripping onto the floor as it was frozen too!
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These are the new fangled extra insulated windows. Hmmm. …
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Peter – Do you usually always meet at the same house, or do you & the others take turns having the service in your homes?
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Mumsee, I didn’t let her in the neighbor’s yard. I let her out to tinkle and she runs for the neighbor’s yard because she know he dumps food there. The fence is broken and she doesn’t come when I call her. Before this guy. I could watch her from the porch or let her into the fenced back yard. He’s also the reason she keeps breaking the fence.
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Mumsee, Misten would gladly eat ice off your windows. She seems to enjoy licking frost or rain off the side of the house (a weird sound from inside the house). Ordinary dogs eat and drink from dishes, but she disdains the ordinary.
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Hmmm. I planted pansies today.
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KBells, I have noticed that dogs seem drawn by anything that fits their vision of food. Makes it tough.
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🙂 It’s bright, sunny and 55 degrees just after 1 p.m. here in SoCal. It’s a gorgeous day.
🙂 I’m off to a 4:30 p.m. Christmas concert in a couple hours. So I’ll be missing the scheduled congregational ‘walk-through’ around that same time this afternoon to look at the church property we’re maybe interested in buying. I’ll be curious to hear the feedback.
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I guess I had a 3rd rave up there, but then forgot what it was. 😉
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Karen- Usually in the same house, but when it is only going to be the pastor, his wife and one family, he likes to go to their house to them them the trouble of traveling (some come from an hour away with small children).
We had a good meeting. Strange to sit in my own living room and hear a preacher in person.
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Peter, is this a church start-up that’s currently meeting in homes or a deliberate “home church” that will stay in homes?
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Pansies planted! Always enjoy seeing them in the winter. So different from where I live. They would be under a couple of feet of snow, which would make them rather difficult to see. 🙂
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🙂 Kathaleena’s shepherd boy grandson “who had way too much fun with his very, very long staff.” Got a good chuckle out of that. 😉
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70’s here again. Just came home through a very hard rain. But… I walked to school today and then walked home when it was dry to get my van to pick up the last box of my Scholastic order from the post office. Then when it rained I was able to give several teachers a ride home. God is good!
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Azaleas are blooming in my yard and some daisies. And there are several stalks of bananas on the banana trees. Oh, and I see papayas, but I don’t think we get them. Maybe someone else likes our tree.
Oh, and I believe this may be 49!!!! 🙂
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