Good morning!
Today’s header photo is from Janice.
On this day in 1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1824 Russia abandoned all North American claims south of 54′ 40′.
In 1861 Virginia became the eighth state to secede from the Union.
In 1947 Jackie Robinson (Brooklyn Dodgers) performed a bunt for his first major league hit.
And in 1993 a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King. Two other officers were acquitted.
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Quote of the Day
“To understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.”
Marvin Olasky
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Today is Johann Gottlieb Naumann’s birthday.
Today is also Andy Chrisman’s birthday.
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Wandering Views 
I’m ready for a restful Easter weekend. My class enjoyed hearing the Easter story all week and then today we made simple bracelets out of pipe cleaners and beads to illustrate the wordless book.
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You didn’t have to tell me, I knew right away who was peeping behind those shirts.
She is a cute kitty.
Kittens always become cats. It’s desting.
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Good evening Jo. A few hours and you will be in Friday.
It only got down to 31.3 degrees, and all the plants survived. Maybe it’s over for now. Some damage, but not much. My grass didn’t stop growing during this cold spell.
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Just Jo & me. Together alone.
Don’t start any rumors now.
I see on Fox News that this is the fiftieth birthday of the Ford Mustang. It came out in 1964 on this day.
Elvera has a friend who has a ’64 Mustang. I tell her that she could trade it in for a new Ford and get money back, but she wants to keep her car. I understand, at a certain age, it doesn’t mean that much. She not an antique car person. She just wants to keep her car.
We had an ’84 Mustang, six cylinder. Elvera’s car. She liked it..
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I wonder if Elvera knows.
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Maybe somebody should tell her.
I had an ’86 Mustang, but I wanted a deck for the children to play on when it is really muddy and cold. Our deck, the one on the south side of the house, gets nice and warm. If the snow is shoveled in the winter, it quickly dries and the children can ride their big wheels or play cars or run round like maniacs using up energy outdoors. Even when they don’t want to dress for winter, they can be out in shirt sleeves and bare foot and still be quite comfortable. They could not do all of that in my Mustang. But it was fun to drive.
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No kidding Mumsee, I could get away with anything on-line. If there’s an e-mail she should read, I open it for her. She does know how to close out when she’s finished.
She has no interest in computers at all. Except what I can get for her.
There’s a long letter to the editor in today’s Times-News. The bottom line in it was the closing statement, “….because of this I am certain – it’s no sin to lie to a politician”. That’s a terrible attitude. If that attitude gets around it won’t be long before politicians start lying to us.
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Now, it’s just me and Mumsee. If you tell her, do it on-line. 😉
I also see in the Times-News that a man who was convicted of armed robbery in 2000 and sentenced to 13 years in prison never served his time. He never received his order to report to prison. In the meantime, he lived a productive live, married and has three children.
They found him and while “He was getting his three year old daughter’s breakfast these men with automatic weapons banged on his door”. They took him away.
Ordinarily, I want a convicted person to serve time for a crime. But sometimes a probationary period is lived out successfully. The justice system is for correction, not retribution. There is no sensible reason to take a productive member of society and put him away for a mistake the state made thirteen years ago.
Let the man go back home.
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Sounds like a good use of a mustang, to turn it into a deck where children can play. I actually was almost asleep, but since tomorrow is a holiday decided to get up and check on you all. Good thing I did, Mumsee and Chas, you never know what may happen.
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So, the dress is finished at last. Just in time, for guests are beginning to arrive. My father has invited a special guest, all the way from Idaho.
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A guest from Idaho!
Hummmmmmmmmmmm?? Let me guess.
Jo awakens to find herself involved in a scandal. At least, Mumsee trying to stir up one. 😯
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I agree on letting the guy go home. On the other hand, a man was convicted out this way of killing his step daughter and given something like eleven years of prison. He was in less than six months when he got out for going to classes. Now they cannot find him. He has not been reporting to his probation officer.
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That is very biblical. I read a story in the Bible about some king who went out to the streets to invite people to a wedding. He brought in all manner of riffraff.
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Riffraff… Well, as long as he is wearing the right clothes, it will be fine.
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EEEEeeeeeee! Bosley! 😀 😀 What a little cutie-pie she is.
I have so much to do in the next couple days — I still hope I can get to a Good Friday service tomorrow, but that may be doubtful. 😦
mumsee’s (dormant) FB page picture shows her sitting in a gigantic car. Convertible, I think it was. Maybe that’s part of the deck now, too.
Lots of fog this week on the coast, love these cool, misty mornings.
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That would be the car. It was fun. But I get more use out of the deck.
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Oh no, another scandal for Chas! So much for his 2016 presidential run. 😉
Re: Jackie Robinson- I have seen two biopics of him: one with Jackie as himself and the more recent one called “42”. They were both good movies, so I cannot say which I liked better. I imagine the more recent one had more of the dirty details since in 1950 such things weren’t put in movies. They both showed the bigotry in a way that got the message across. I was surprised at how well Jackie did acting. But since he knew the character better than anyone, he didn’t have to “act” any differently.
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Peter, I’m hoping we can get some qualified people to run in 2016.
But that doesn’t mean they will be elected.
😦
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Good early afternoon. I went with husband to see my doctor since his doctor left the practice. Husband was out of his meds since January. Not good at all. He did tell me he felt this tax season was the absolute worst ever in so many ways. Just so thankful it is mostly over, but the 20th is Sales Tax reporting deadline for some clients so that is the next crunch. No good rest for the weakened weary
I went to a Seder at my church last night. It was a nice gathering. The horseradish really burned. Some really nice people sat at my table.
Bosley is really growing up fast now. Next week she is suppose to go in for spaying. She will be boarded for almost a week so she can be kept still. Or maybe as an alternative I could just keep her in a dresser drawer. 🙂
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A week? I brought my cat home that afternoon. But that was nearly 18 years ago.
I have to rewrite my WWI novel. (Sorry, Jo.). I was pretty taken aback when that was pointed out to me and in a little bit of despair.
But, I had the Christmas novella to write, so I set aside WWI and wrote the draft of that story and will let it marinade for a week before I finish it off. It’s due May 1.
Meanwhile, today I need to ponder how to change my WWI novel. Fortunately, someone I know is a book doctor looking for clients. I contacted her, sent her the short synopsis and she wrote back in delight: Three weeks ago, she felt convicted to use My Utmost for His Highest again and has been using it as a devotional ever since.
Nothing about this project surprises me.
I’m spending today thinking about the novel and will Skype with her on Saturday. I’m thinking/hoping it’s just a big tweak, but we’ll see . . .
Humility is good for the soul, you know. 🙂
In the meantime, the heavy burden of responsibility I felt while writing the book is gone. Even with what could have been devastating news, nothing.
I’ve caught up doctor appointments, done some imperative shopping and even am cooking Easter dinner. I feel like a “real” person again–can read novels, watch movies (any suggestions?) and take a walk without worrying I need to be researching and working on the WWI novel.
Shocking how freeing this is.
I’m looking forward to what will come of this second round. The good news is the Chambers sections are great.
Which has always been the most important part!
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It appears Mouse is nearing that age as well. 🙂
She’s been cooing and chirping more than usual, and is especially affectionate. Plus she’s 41/2-5 months, so that’s about right. She’s tiny, so I forget she’s getting older. 🙂
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Michelle, I wanted to schedule the spaying to coincide with a little trip I am taking. I found out our wonderful vet only does surgery once a week. To coordinate the surgery with the trip meant extra noarding days. Since Bosley has always been highly energetic, I thought the longer stay would be advantageous to her healing. It is adding more expense of course. However, the expense might be less than if she was overactive and had to have a repair of broken sutures, etc.
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Michelle, your book will be even better with the second refinement. I hope your curiosity to find out how God will help you with it will make it pure pleasure to work on. He has already given you a smile to start working with this helpful person. You are blessed!
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oh, Michelle, that is hard. Sounds like God has given you peace though. So glad that the Chamber’s parts are okay. I was worried that you would be changing that and it is so alive.
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That’s the one I’m reading? (Not super far along, but read a few chapters last night and have been enjoying it!)
I’m doing several interviews on the Easter story, just wondering how in the world it will all connect and hang together …
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