I shall rave about all of the wonderful people I have met on here through the years. What a solid support this group has been. In my walk with Christ, in my stand as an American, with the children, and just plain friendship. Thanks all, and especially God for seeing and meeting our need for fellowship in this harried hurried world.
:)It’s the weekend! Last weekend was filled with work so this weekend is especially appreciated!
😦 I lost my Fitbit charger.
😦 My laptop and printer aren’t speaking to each other.
😦 My “smart” phone isn’t smart enough to work here.
😦 My freezer still doesn’t work because I haven’t had a day when I could be at the house with the repair man. Hopefully next week.
🙂 A friend is going to send me a new charger.
🙂 I think I will be able to buy a gently used solar freezer.
🙂 I still have a working phone. It’s just not smart!
🙂 Normal rainfall in my county. Normal rainfall. !!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 Thanks for prayers–but I’d still plant a vegetable garden, the valley where all the produce comes from is still so very dry and the aquifer is too depleted.
🙂 Biddy bio well received. I now have to work hard to finish it well. Writing like this takes a lot more time, concentration and sleuthing than spinning out a novel.
😦 Nothing for Stargazer. Growing concerned about a number of things.
😦 Flap with a family member on FB. I hope I’m not reading too much into it.
🙂 Bible study on prayer going in interesting directions I’d not considered before. Daniel 10 and Ezekiel 22 are stretching me!
🙂 Made chicken pesto pasta for the Nomadic shelter at our church last night. I feel self-righteous 😦 but am gratified our church was able to help people down on their luck.
🙂 Beautiful day here between storms. LOVE IT! Between storms . . . the lakes and reservoirs are full–here. Thanks be to God!
🙂 😦 That’s the problem and the niceness of working at camp. You get to know amazing young people, but they move on to their “regular” lives in a short while. But, I think they’ll be those kind of friends that you can always call friend.
🙂 Love the kingfisher
😦 s Somehow hurt my foot Thursday night – having difficulty weight bearing.
🙂 Husband has been taking care of me as I sit with it up
🙂 With our second day in the fifties, most of the two or three inches of snow we had a couple weeks ago (all that we have had all month) has melted.
🙂 Yesterday my younger (step)daughter got excited about an idea for all of us girls to drive over to Chicago for a couple of days. My husband wouldn’t be interested (he doesn’t like Chicago), but I miss Chicago, and going there with my girls would really be a dream trip–not the least because it wasn’t my idea. (Granted, I had thought of the idea myself many times, but I figured they’d have more fun going without me.) It may or may not happen, but even thinking about it is delightful.
🙂 In our church, we sign up to bring cookies. Noticing that Valentine’s Day is on Sunday this year, I claimed it a few weeks ago. As I expected, younger daughter is thrilled with finding kinds of cookies to make, and she’s even trying to enlist her baking-expert grandmother in a cookie-baking day.
Cheryl. That is one thing I wish we had done.
In order to save money, I had my Bro-in-law (sister’s husband) take some pictures. It wasn’t really very good.
I would have borrowed money for a pro if I had thought about it.
but money was tight at the time.
What kind of woman would marry a man with no money and no job, you ask??.
I’ve been wondering that for almost 59 years.
Chas, I hired someone who was just getting started as a professional. She’d done some really good work doing portraits for individuals, and I had her lined up to do a shoot of me in the park, just for fun. But then my husband came along, and I never did do the spring-in-the-park portrait shooting. About that time, she did an internship with a wedding photographer and then added wedding photography (indoor, more than one person). She’d only shot one wedding when I hired her, but I asked to see the photos of that wedding and liked what I saw.
In reality, her work left a few things to be desired. I mean, I hired her inexpensively, just a few hundred dollars for the shoot and a disk of photos, so “you get what you pay for”; her charge was really a small fraction of what they tell you to budget for wedding photography. But the photos didn’t enlarge well to 8 x 10 and she missed some crucial shots (e.g., she got an out-of-focus shot of the kiss and she got no shots of my stepdaughters at the guest book table). And on the wedding day she started asking me, “What else should I take?” when I’d already e-mailed her a list of what I wanted–the bride shouldn’t be trying to remember, on her wedding day, what needs photos! In retrospect I should have given one of my bridesmaids the same list . . . I just assumed that having put a lot of care into writing a list, e-mailing it to the photographer was enough. I asked if she had gotten any photos of just the groom, and she hadn’t. (She had gotten photos of just me, but I hadn’t been present when she got shots of the men.) So she got my husband to pose, but she didn’t really know how to pose him and he’s goofy so he was making up all sorts of silly poses, and he looked so handsome that finally I couldn’t stay away from him, and I kept getting closer and closer to where he was posed. In the last shot of those portraits of him, he is sitting but looking up, because he is looking at me. He patted the platform next to him, and I immediately sat down next to him. He leaned over and asked if I wanted to sit in his lap–something we hadn’t done during courtship. I sat in his lap, and he leaned over and kissed me. Those photos were spontaneous and priceless. But I’m really glad we got them, because other than those, she had no photos of just him, and very few of just him and me! (Well, except for cutting the cake. But very few posed portrait shots or shots of us interacting.) Most of the shots were of the wedding party or other group shots.
But overall the photos were decent–I’ve definitely seen worse. And I just couldn’t justify spending ten or twelve times what I paid to get someone with 20 years of wedding experience and a topnotch camera. But I did think she would have been very wise to contact me afterward and ask, “What did I do right, and what did I miss?” It would have been invaluable to her to hear some feedback–but it seemed nitpicky to volunteer it unasked, so I didn’t.
My parents were married in a very small ceremony — at a Presbyterian parsonage with just a few people (in the late 1940s) — and I don’t think they had photos either, but there was a nice seemingly professional photo of my mom that ran in the announcements section of the Spencer, IA., newspaper. 🙂
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I shall rave about all of the wonderful people I have met on here through the years. What a solid support this group has been. In my walk with Christ, in my stand as an American, with the children, and just plain friendship. Thanks all, and especially God for seeing and meeting our need for fellowship in this harried hurried world.
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:)It’s the weekend! Last weekend was filled with work so this weekend is especially appreciated!
😦 I lost my Fitbit charger.
😦 My laptop and printer aren’t speaking to each other.
😦 My “smart” phone isn’t smart enough to work here.
😦 My freezer still doesn’t work because I haven’t had a day when I could be at the house with the repair man. Hopefully next week.
🙂 A friend is going to send me a new charger.
🙂 I think I will be able to buy a gently used solar freezer.
🙂 I still have a working phone. It’s just not smart!
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We love you, too.
🙂 Normal rainfall in my county. Normal rainfall. !!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 Thanks for prayers–but I’d still plant a vegetable garden, the valley where all the produce comes from is still so very dry and the aquifer is too depleted.
🙂 Biddy bio well received. I now have to work hard to finish it well. Writing like this takes a lot more time, concentration and sleuthing than spinning out a novel.
😦 Nothing for Stargazer. Growing concerned about a number of things.
😦 Flap with a family member on FB. I hope I’m not reading too much into it.
🙂 Bible study on prayer going in interesting directions I’d not considered before. Daniel 10 and Ezekiel 22 are stretching me!
🙂 Made chicken pesto pasta for the Nomadic shelter at our church last night. I feel self-righteous 😦 but am gratified our church was able to help people down on their luck.
🙂 Beautiful day here between storms. LOVE IT! Between storms . . . the lakes and reservoirs are full–here. Thanks be to God!
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🙂 I’m with Mumsee, so very grateful for this group of friends. so many come and go here, it is nice to have a place to share.
🙂 lots of rain, no more drought.
) power has been working well
😦 mosquitos are the worst I have ever seen them. I am not leaving the house without repellant on.
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😦 Friend and coworker leaving in a month
🙂 😦 That’s the problem and the niceness of working at camp. You get to know amazing young people, but they move on to their “regular” lives in a short while. But, I think they’ll be those kind of friends that you can always call friend.
🙂 Love the kingfisher
😦 s Somehow hurt my foot Thursday night – having difficulty weight bearing.
🙂 Husband has been taking care of me as I sit with it up
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🙂 Grateful, too, for you all
🙂 Carol’s doing better. But I’m still concerned we’re on a downward slide overall …
🙂 A little overtime after getting an extra story in today about a rally; can always use OT
🙂 We stole Peter’s football team
🙂 Waiting for rain, supposed to get thunder and heaving rains (at least short-term, nothing long-lasting) overnight and into Sunday
🙂 Fire in the fireplace
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🙂 Warmer than average temperatures.
🙂 With our second day in the fifties, most of the two or three inches of snow we had a couple weeks ago (all that we have had all month) has melted.
🙂 Yesterday my younger (step)daughter got excited about an idea for all of us girls to drive over to Chicago for a couple of days. My husband wouldn’t be interested (he doesn’t like Chicago), but I miss Chicago, and going there with my girls would really be a dream trip–not the least because it wasn’t my idea. (Granted, I had thought of the idea myself many times, but I figured they’d have more fun going without me.) It may or may not happen, but even thinking about it is delightful.
🙂 In our church, we sign up to bring cookies. Noticing that Valentine’s Day is on Sunday this year, I claimed it a few weeks ago. As I expected, younger daughter is thrilled with finding kinds of cookies to make, and she’s even trying to enlist her baking-expert grandmother in a cookie-baking day.
🙂 I ordered my wedding album photo book.
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Cheryl. That is one thing I wish we had done.
In order to save money, I had my Bro-in-law (sister’s husband) take some pictures. It wasn’t really very good.
I would have borrowed money for a pro if I had thought about it.
but money was tight at the time.
What kind of woman would marry a man with no money and no job, you ask??.
I’ve been wondering that for almost 59 years.
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Chas cleaned up good, lucky for Elvera.
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Chas, I hired someone who was just getting started as a professional. She’d done some really good work doing portraits for individuals, and I had her lined up to do a shoot of me in the park, just for fun. But then my husband came along, and I never did do the spring-in-the-park portrait shooting. About that time, she did an internship with a wedding photographer and then added wedding photography (indoor, more than one person). She’d only shot one wedding when I hired her, but I asked to see the photos of that wedding and liked what I saw.
In reality, her work left a few things to be desired. I mean, I hired her inexpensively, just a few hundred dollars for the shoot and a disk of photos, so “you get what you pay for”; her charge was really a small fraction of what they tell you to budget for wedding photography. But the photos didn’t enlarge well to 8 x 10 and she missed some crucial shots (e.g., she got an out-of-focus shot of the kiss and she got no shots of my stepdaughters at the guest book table). And on the wedding day she started asking me, “What else should I take?” when I’d already e-mailed her a list of what I wanted–the bride shouldn’t be trying to remember, on her wedding day, what needs photos! In retrospect I should have given one of my bridesmaids the same list . . . I just assumed that having put a lot of care into writing a list, e-mailing it to the photographer was enough. I asked if she had gotten any photos of just the groom, and she hadn’t. (She had gotten photos of just me, but I hadn’t been present when she got shots of the men.) So she got my husband to pose, but she didn’t really know how to pose him and he’s goofy so he was making up all sorts of silly poses, and he looked so handsome that finally I couldn’t stay away from him, and I kept getting closer and closer to where he was posed. In the last shot of those portraits of him, he is sitting but looking up, because he is looking at me. He patted the platform next to him, and I immediately sat down next to him. He leaned over and asked if I wanted to sit in his lap–something we hadn’t done during courtship. I sat in his lap, and he leaned over and kissed me. Those photos were spontaneous and priceless. But I’m really glad we got them, because other than those, she had no photos of just him, and very few of just him and me! (Well, except for cutting the cake. But very few posed portrait shots or shots of us interacting.) Most of the shots were of the wedding party or other group shots.
But overall the photos were decent–I’ve definitely seen worse. And I just couldn’t justify spending ten or twelve times what I paid to get someone with 20 years of wedding experience and a topnotch camera. But I did think she would have been very wise to contact me afterward and ask, “What did I do right, and what did I miss?” It would have been invaluable to her to hear some feedback–but it seemed nitpicky to volunteer it unasked, so I didn’t.
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My parents were married in a very small ceremony — at a Presbyterian parsonage with just a few people (in the late 1940s) — and I don’t think they had photos either, but there was a nice seemingly professional photo of my mom that ran in the announcements section of the Spencer, IA., newspaper. 🙂
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