I don’t use my password to post here often enough to remember it.
So, when I need it, I have to go look it up.
I remember a couple of years ago, I was in Charleston and couldn’t comment the entire time because I forgot my password.
It’s a simple one for me, but almost impossible for someone who doesn’t know my life story.
I told you about this years ago. But all this talk about the NFL and Obama’s speech on TV reminded me of it again:
In May of 2001, we moved to Hendersonville. We had lots of ties in N. Va. and reason to return. After the 9-11 attack, everything on the news was about that the attack, and I listened/watched everything all the time.
Then, sometime around October, we made a trip back to N. Va. While there, we went to Skyline Drive to see the foliage and were out of contact with the world for something over three days. (You can pick WMAL on the east side of the mountains if you try during the day. But I didn’t listen to anything.) At the end of the time, we came back down and I turned on the radio to catch up. I hadn’t missed a thing. Nothing at all.
That event gave me perspective when I hear all this ranting. There’s only so much to be said, and most of it is said the first day.
Chas, that’s basically why I make very little effort to keep on top of the news these days. If it’s important enough, I will hear about it. But what’s the practical importance to my life whether I hear about a specific police officer shooting someone and the controversy that ensues, if it’s in another state? If I were still living in Chicago and needed to be prepared for riots, that would be one thing. But out in the country in Indiana? If the news story is significant enough, I can call family in the affected area to make sure they’re OK, I can donate money, and I can pray. It’s even barely possible that someday the event will show up in a book I edit. But whether I know what happened or hold an opinion about what happened is usually irrelevant to everyone. So I’m just not going to spend an hour a day keeping track of it all.
Local news is more important. It might affect people I know, and it might even affect me. National/international, I can pray about it, but that’s usually all.
🙂 There there are those of us who were born news hounds …
🙂 God is faithful. Just meditating on that truth had me smiling all the way home yesterday.
🙂 Saturday. My friend who’s still in the post-surgery rehab wanted me to come see her again today and take her shopping at Target, but I declined. I’ve been up to see her almost every Saturday since she’s been there (I think I’ve missed one Saturday in 5 weeks). But with the heat wave today (and it’s going to be especially hot where she is), I told I didn’t think it would be a good day to be running around anyway, especially as she needs to take her very heavy walker and other items with her. She called me later yesterday and said she asked her roommate’s daughter if she’d take her out today and she said she would.
😦 Above friend will be going back into the hospital on Monday as her wound from the abdominal surgery isn’t healing right and there are some resistant bacteria they’re trying to get rid of but can’t. Pray for her full recovery, she is a believer.
😦 In a couple hours today I’ll be attending a memorial at church for a woman (in her early 70s) who died of a heart attack pretty much out of the blue several weeks ago. Everyone was shocked, it was so sudden and unexpected. Her kids aren’t believers and that always had weighed heavily on her, so pray for them — that through their contacts with their mom’s church family they will hear and respond to the gospel.
😦 🙂 In contrast to Donna’s heat wave, we had in the forties last night when my husband’s group was playing music on an outdoor patio. We dressed in layers and I also took a quilt out of my car for me. It was not as bad as I thought it might be. It is supposed to be a bit warmer tonight and I hope so, since they will play again.
😦 I decided today that September is way up there in “least favorite months.” None of the pretty aspects of fall, but the kind of chill that makes me feel like I’ll never be warm again . . . and it’s SO long until spring and summer.
🙂 Last night I stepped into our bedroom and commented it was chilly. I saw my husband go right to the thermostat–no way I’d ask him to adjust it in September, never even occurred to me. But I felt loved when I saw him do so. (We have separate thermostats for each room for heat, something I’ve never seen before.)
🙂 I got to go out for lunch with a friend yesterday.
🙂 One daughter had talked about making supper last night, but when she admitted she forgot, my husband started making it himself. (He has two meals he makes, and a few times a year he decides to give me a break and make one of them.)
🙂 And we have enough leftovers in the fridge that I don’t have to cook tonight, either. But the leftovers are all stuff we like.
🙂 cheryl and I need to switch states in September.
🙂 Good memorial today for a church member who died unexpectedly last month (in her early 70s — her husband died about 5 years ago). As she would have wanted, the gospel was preached with clarity and gentleness. But prayers for her adult children, her daughter was among the speakers and the contrast between a Christian view and non-Christian view of death was vivid. 😦 😦
Our Septembers can vary widely. We choose a late Sept date to redo our roof one year and ended up with temperatures in the 90’s. You just never know.
I got up a couple of times last night and did try to see the northern lights. Alas! Our trees have grown up so much that I could not see them without going outside. It was too cold for that and I didn’t want to wake my husband up, so decided to just go back to bed. I have seen them many times. Once they were just amazing swaths of bright red, green and white dancing in the sky. It took my breath away
🙂 The last time we had really amazing northern lights, I grabbed a blanket and went outside and the wolves were howling – very, very beautiful
🙂 Toddler room tomorrow
🙂 Three more batches of pickles today – and the cucumbers are finally finished
😦 Lots of tomatoes left – probably make 1 more batch of salsa and then use the Roma’s for ketchup. So much work. I’m exhausted, but the end result is so tasty 🙂
🙂 Husband is digging the carrots today as we got frost this week – they should be nice and sweet. We also got 19 spaghetti squash along with pumpkins and buttercup squash.
We’ve had the heat on the last couple days. It’s getting cool tonight, too. I just came in from sitting outside on the deck for 15 minutes, reading, and my glasses fogged up a little. 😉
September weather for us does tend to go back & forth between summer-like & fall-like. Although we’ve had a couple of lovely crisp days, I fully expect some hotter days to come along. I shook my head when I saw a Facebook post that they were taking the air conditioners out of the windows at church yesterday.
Karen, in my job at Chicago it was a big deal to turn from air to heat or vice versa. In my opinion, they always turned the heat off too quickly. First warm day of spring, quick let’s turn on the air. But we might need it for two days and then we’d have some days with frost in the morning . . . sorry, no ability to turn on heat. So coats covered legs for a few days, and I wished they would remember this from last winter and wait a little longer!
🙂 Getting ready for the work week. This week will be just right as I get older and appreciate time to rest as well as work. 🙂
School on Monday
Tuesday is a holiday – PNG Independence Day, I believe the nation began in 1975
Wednesday we have school
Thursday is A Morning in Prayer here in Ukarumpa and a teacher workday.
Friday is school.
One of my sweet students said, “It’s a pattern”
Michelle, did you have to sit on the beach and read a book? I thought I just asked that but it disappeared. Maybe my comments are not good enough for the real.
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I don’t use my password to post here often enough to remember it.
So, when I need it, I have to go look it up.
I remember a couple of years ago, I was in Charleston and couldn’t comment the entire time because I forgot my password.
It’s a simple one for me, but almost impossible for someone who doesn’t know my life story.
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I told you about this years ago. But all this talk about the NFL and Obama’s speech on TV reminded me of it again:
In May of 2001, we moved to Hendersonville. We had lots of ties in N. Va. and reason to return. After the 9-11 attack, everything on the news was about that the attack, and I listened/watched everything all the time.
Then, sometime around October, we made a trip back to N. Va. While there, we went to Skyline Drive to see the foliage and were out of contact with the world for something over three days. (You can pick WMAL on the east side of the mountains if you try during the day. But I didn’t listen to anything.) At the end of the time, we came back down and I turned on the radio to catch up. I hadn’t missed a thing. Nothing at all.
That event gave me perspective when I hear all this ranting. There’s only so much to be said, and most of it is said the first day.
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Chas, that’s basically why I make very little effort to keep on top of the news these days. If it’s important enough, I will hear about it. But what’s the practical importance to my life whether I hear about a specific police officer shooting someone and the controversy that ensues, if it’s in another state? If I were still living in Chicago and needed to be prepared for riots, that would be one thing. But out in the country in Indiana? If the news story is significant enough, I can call family in the affected area to make sure they’re OK, I can donate money, and I can pray. It’s even barely possible that someday the event will show up in a book I edit. But whether I know what happened or hold an opinion about what happened is usually irrelevant to everyone. So I’m just not going to spend an hour a day keeping track of it all.
Local news is more important. It might affect people I know, and it might even affect me. National/international, I can pray about it, but that’s usually all.
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🙂 There there are those of us who were born news hounds …
🙂 God is faithful. Just meditating on that truth had me smiling all the way home yesterday.
🙂 Saturday. My friend who’s still in the post-surgery rehab wanted me to come see her again today and take her shopping at Target, but I declined. I’ve been up to see her almost every Saturday since she’s been there (I think I’ve missed one Saturday in 5 weeks). But with the heat wave today (and it’s going to be especially hot where she is), I told I didn’t think it would be a good day to be running around anyway, especially as she needs to take her very heavy walker and other items with her. She called me later yesterday and said she asked her roommate’s daughter if she’d take her out today and she said she would.
😦 Above friend will be going back into the hospital on Monday as her wound from the abdominal surgery isn’t healing right and there are some resistant bacteria they’re trying to get rid of but can’t. Pray for her full recovery, she is a believer.
😦 In a couple hours today I’ll be attending a memorial at church for a woman (in her early 70s) who died of a heart attack pretty much out of the blue several weeks ago. Everyone was shocked, it was so sudden and unexpected. Her kids aren’t believers and that always had weighed heavily on her, so pray for them — that through their contacts with their mom’s church family they will hear and respond to the gospel.
🙂 😦 Our newspapers are on the market again, which could either be a good thing or a bad thing. Who knows. We’ve been through this before and just go along for the ride, wherever it may lead … http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/business/media/owner-of-dozens-of-newspapers-seeks-buyers.html
🙂 You all want to pool your $$ buy a newspaper?
🙂 Fall is coming. Someday … But until then, my fans in the house are still getting a workout.
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😦 🙂 In contrast to Donna’s heat wave, we had in the forties last night when my husband’s group was playing music on an outdoor patio. We dressed in layers and I also took a quilt out of my car for me. It was not as bad as I thought it might be. It is supposed to be a bit warmer tonight and I hope so, since they will play again.
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🙂 We’re supposed to have amazing northern lights tonight – hope I remember to go out and look
🙂 Great week at work despite a horrible cold
🙂 Husband is running a 10k today
😦 Cold weather – but it should warm up again this week 🙂
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🙂 Autumn is in the air here in beautiful New England! Leaves are starting to change, & there’s a crisp coolness in the air. Lovely & refreshing!
🙂 We all love this season in our family. Before long, someone will start baking delicious pumpkin & apple goodies.
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😦 I decided today that September is way up there in “least favorite months.” None of the pretty aspects of fall, but the kind of chill that makes me feel like I’ll never be warm again . . . and it’s SO long until spring and summer.
🙂 Last night I stepped into our bedroom and commented it was chilly. I saw my husband go right to the thermostat–no way I’d ask him to adjust it in September, never even occurred to me. But I felt loved when I saw him do so. (We have separate thermostats for each room for heat, something I’ve never seen before.)
🙂 I got to go out for lunch with a friend yesterday.
🙂 One daughter had talked about making supper last night, but when she admitted she forgot, my husband started making it himself. (He has two meals he makes, and a few times a year he decides to give me a break and make one of them.)
🙂 And we have enough leftovers in the fridge that I don’t have to cook tonight, either. But the leftovers are all stuff we like.
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🙂 cheryl and I need to switch states in September.
🙂 Good memorial today for a church member who died unexpectedly last month (in her early 70s — her husband died about 5 years ago). As she would have wanted, the gospel was preached with clarity and gentleness. But prayers for her adult children, her daughter was among the speakers and the contrast between a Christian view and non-Christian view of death was vivid. 😦 😦
😦 It’s too hot.
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Our Septembers can vary widely. We choose a late Sept date to redo our roof one year and ended up with temperatures in the 90’s. You just never know.
I got up a couple of times last night and did try to see the northern lights. Alas! Our trees have grown up so much that I could not see them without going outside. It was too cold for that and I didn’t want to wake my husband up, so decided to just go back to bed. I have seen them many times. Once they were just amazing swaths of bright red, green and white dancing in the sky. It took my breath away
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🙂 The last time we had really amazing northern lights, I grabbed a blanket and went outside and the wolves were howling – very, very beautiful
🙂 Toddler room tomorrow
🙂 Three more batches of pickles today – and the cucumbers are finally finished
😦 Lots of tomatoes left – probably make 1 more batch of salsa and then use the Roma’s for ketchup. So much work. I’m exhausted, but the end result is so tasty 🙂
🙂 Husband is digging the carrots today as we got frost this week – they should be nice and sweet. We also got 19 spaghetti squash along with pumpkins and buttercup squash.
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🙂 Mumsee’s birthday surprise
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We’ve had the heat on the last couple days. It’s getting cool tonight, too. I just came in from sitting outside on the deck for 15 minutes, reading, and my glasses fogged up a little. 😉
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September weather for us does tend to go back & forth between summer-like & fall-like. Although we’ve had a couple of lovely crisp days, I fully expect some hotter days to come along. I shook my head when I saw a Facebook post that they were taking the air conditioners out of the windows at church yesterday.
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Our pool came down today, but we have central air in the house, so if it heats back up enough to use it, we will. 😉
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😦 Horrible about the third hostage who was beheaded on video, this one an aide worker from Britain.
Britain not happy.
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Karen, in my job at Chicago it was a big deal to turn from air to heat or vice versa. In my opinion, they always turned the heat off too quickly. First warm day of spring, quick let’s turn on the air. But we might need it for two days and then we’d have some days with frost in the morning . . . sorry, no ability to turn on heat. So coats covered legs for a few days, and I wished they would remember this from last winter and wait a little longer!
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Home safe!
I would love to see the Northern Lights.
Sun flares today causing them; was concerned about safety flying, but Stargazer assured me we’d be fine as long as we didn’t fly over either pole!
I was lovely to see real rain in Cancun!
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🙂 Getting ready for the work week. This week will be just right as I get older and appreciate time to rest as well as work. 🙂
School on Monday
Tuesday is a holiday – PNG Independence Day, I believe the nation began in 1975
Wednesday we have school
Thursday is A Morning in Prayer here in Ukarumpa and a teacher workday.
Friday is school.
One of my sweet students said, “It’s a pattern”
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Michelle,
Did you have to sit on the beach and read a book?
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Michelle, did you have to sit on the beach and read a book? I thought I just asked that but it disappeared. Maybe my comments are not good enough for the real.
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🙂 I have felt lighter in my spirit this past week, & have had such a lovely feeling of gratitude.
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🙂 It’s finally cooling off a teeny-tiny bit now that it’s 8:30 p.m. My house thermostat is now “down” to 87 degrees. Woohoo!
🙂 I’m reading a book titled “Rejoice Always!” by John Gwyn-Thomas.
😦 It’s still just too hot.
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doesn’t get hot here in the Highlands. Are you ready for a visit?
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You coming to Idaho, Jo? Guest room is open.
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