🙂 Rain. We are still a bit short, apparently, but have had a lot in the last week or so. 🙂 🙂 Sunshine today.
🙂 God’s provision of wildlife, not only for food, but for food for our souls. The hummingbirds and orioles are back, although the orioles will move on, I am sure. The other birds are so fun to watch. The beautiful flowers are a joy to see. No matter how cold the winter, we see life popping up from the ground. First green and then so many beautiful colors and shapes. The intricacy is amazing. So fun to see and to study. How God has richly blessed us! Why should we be stingy with providing others with beauty?
🙂 Too often we adopt a socialist/Marxist view of provision. We think art is unimportant. Yet, even the poorest of the poor enjoy the beauty they can find.
🙂 Days with children and grandchildren to look forward to next week. Days that will be spent enjoying the beautiful world our Lord made.
🙂 Rain! With (they think maybe) more to come via an El Nino condition developing as 2015 draws into winter
😦 Hope my roof holds
🙂 😦 The pending sale of our newspaper company (from one hedge fund to another hedge fund) was called off this week. No one knows if this is good or bad, but things never seem to get better no matter what so … ? More wait-and-see. This could bump them into a “Plan B” to sell off papers in regional clusters rather than the whole national company in one fell swoop. But no one was very excited about being sold to yet another hedge fund, so maybe there will be some good out of all of this.
😦 There are rumors of more overall cuts in the meantime, though. How they cut any more than they already have, I have no idea. 😦
🙂 Two of one of our elders’ young kids made it into the paper today, our photographer got a shot of them playing yesterday on one of the tanks that will be in the Armed Forces Day parade … Very cute photo. It’s so fun when people I know just happen to be “found/discovered” by a photographer and get into the paper.
🙂 A male robin is out diligently collecting worms for a nest. (I saw him catch one caterpillar, then he had two in his beak and was still going for more. When they collect them rather than eating them, that means it’s for nestlings.)
😦 I went without a phone for more than a week after mine got wet, but 🙂 a friend sent me her old one, and it’s a flip phone. (I wanted a flip phone when we got mine, but my husband–then my fiance–misunderstood, and I wasn’t inclined to pay the $25 restocking fee to exchange it, though in four years of using a phone I hated, I often wished I had done so. It was so hard to hear on that other one.)
So funny–we were out to eat with friends and I was picking up a local paper. My friend pointed out that her husband’s nephew was on the front cover. I had been at the same event, so looked a little more and saw myself standing off to the side. My husband found his shoes and the bottom of his legs. Lol.
🙂 Nice outing yesterday to an urban green space with lots of nice views, hummingbird and butterfly gardens, etc. In a largely African-American area, not far from where I grew up. The dogs and I walked a couple miles on one of the trails, then sat on a bench for close to an hour reading my bible and another book. It was cool and cloudy, the rain was over with but the skies were very dark. From my bench, I could see the high rises of downtown and the Hollywood sign (though barely yesterday because of the clouds). The dogs enjoyed the day, too, and they got many compliments from passersby — “Beautiful dogs” (I heard one young girl who walked behind our bench with her dad say, “that one” — I turned to see her pointing at Cowboy and her dad agreed he was gorgeous.). 🙂
🙂 Good morning at church but 😦 Norma bowed out again, she’s getting very tired, said she spends a lot of time sleeping and in bed, but is hanging in there …
Donna, your dogs are how old now? They’re still illiterate, but you’re willing to call them “smart”? Does that mean you’ve been lax at teaching them, but they could learn if you weren’t lazy . . . or are they not really as smart as you’re giving them credit for?
Of course, it might not be smart of you to teach Tess to read. Somehow I suspect she’d figure out all sorts of pleasures you have been keeping out of her reach (like, say, how to order her own cat food online using your credit card, with special instructions as to delivery of her order).
Wandering Views 
😦 The rain didn’t stop here!
🙂 But it went to Donna’s house!
She needed it more.
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🙂 Rain. We are still a bit short, apparently, but have had a lot in the last week or so. 🙂 🙂 Sunshine today.
🙂 God’s provision of wildlife, not only for food, but for food for our souls. The hummingbirds and orioles are back, although the orioles will move on, I am sure. The other birds are so fun to watch. The beautiful flowers are a joy to see. No matter how cold the winter, we see life popping up from the ground. First green and then so many beautiful colors and shapes. The intricacy is amazing. So fun to see and to study. How God has richly blessed us! Why should we be stingy with providing others with beauty?
🙂 Too often we adopt a socialist/Marxist view of provision. We think art is unimportant. Yet, even the poorest of the poor enjoy the beauty they can find.
🙂 Days with children and grandchildren to look forward to next week. Days that will be spent enjoying the beautiful world our Lord made.
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🙂 Rain! With (they think maybe) more to come via an El Nino condition developing as 2015 draws into winter
😦 Hope my roof holds
🙂 😦 The pending sale of our newspaper company (from one hedge fund to another hedge fund) was called off this week. No one knows if this is good or bad, but things never seem to get better no matter what so … ? More wait-and-see. This could bump them into a “Plan B” to sell off papers in regional clusters rather than the whole national company in one fell swoop. But no one was very excited about being sold to yet another hedge fund, so maybe there will be some good out of all of this.
😦 There are rumors of more overall cuts in the meantime, though. How they cut any more than they already have, I have no idea. 😦
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🙂 Two of one of our elders’ young kids made it into the paper today, our photographer got a shot of them playing yesterday on one of the tanks that will be in the Armed Forces Day parade … Very cute photo. It’s so fun when people I know just happen to be “found/discovered” by a photographer and get into the paper.
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🙂 I already told about the lovely spring walk with my husband earlier this week, with orioles and a beaver and all sorts of flowers (photos here: http://www.picaboo.com/?share=eaeeb3075fbee7c939b45260272184fa&version=545185&siteID=ViaPreview )
🙂 A male robin is out diligently collecting worms for a nest. (I saw him catch one caterpillar, then he had two in his beak and was still going for more. When they collect them rather than eating them, that means it’s for nestlings.)
😦 I went without a phone for more than a week after mine got wet, but 🙂 a friend sent me her old one, and it’s a flip phone. (I wanted a flip phone when we got mine, but my husband–then my fiance–misunderstood, and I wasn’t inclined to pay the $25 restocking fee to exchange it, though in four years of using a phone I hated, I often wished I had done so. It was so hard to hear on that other one.)
🙂 We have had truly lovely weather this week.
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Donna, one of the pleasures of living in a very small town is to know most of the folks in the newspaper pictures. Usually my own children…..
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So funny–we were out to eat with friends and I was picking up a local paper. My friend pointed out that her husband’s nephew was on the front cover. I had been at the same event, so looked a little more and saw myself standing off to the side. My husband found his shoes and the bottom of his legs. Lol.
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🙂 Nice outing yesterday to an urban green space with lots of nice views, hummingbird and butterfly gardens, etc. In a largely African-American area, not far from where I grew up. The dogs and I walked a couple miles on one of the trails, then sat on a bench for close to an hour reading my bible and another book. It was cool and cloudy, the rain was over with but the skies were very dark. From my bench, I could see the high rises of downtown and the Hollywood sign (though barely yesterday because of the clouds). The dogs enjoyed the day, too, and they got many compliments from passersby — “Beautiful dogs” (I heard one young girl who walked behind our bench with her dad say, “that one” — I turned to see her pointing at Cowboy and her dad agreed he was gorgeous.). 🙂
🙂 Good morning at church but 😦 Norma bowed out again, she’s getting very tired, said she spends a lot of time sleeping and in bed, but is hanging in there …
🙂 God’s patience with and goodness to His people.
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I should clarify, my dogs don’t really read.
They’re smart, but not that smart.
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Donna, your dogs are how old now? They’re still illiterate, but you’re willing to call them “smart”? Does that mean you’ve been lax at teaching them, but they could learn if you weren’t lazy . . . or are they not really as smart as you’re giving them credit for?
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It’s true, I’ve been letting them slide.
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Of course, it might not be smart of you to teach Tess to read. Somehow I suspect she’d figure out all sorts of pleasures you have been keeping out of her reach (like, say, how to order her own cat food online using your credit card, with special instructions as to delivery of her order).
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