Jo, you can’t know what you don’t know. Did any of your children remind you of the conflict? Maybe they did not catch it either. Understandable.
But perhaps you could continue with your camp plans. Or at least part of the time. Maybe go Friday, return to hang with the family Saturday, go back to camp Saturday night. Lots of possibility. You need to connect with your church family.
Morning! Beautiful warm day today!
I have already shooed off a doe this morning who evidently felt she was entitled to partake of my flowers for breakfast! Three times I told her to scoot and she continued to make her way to the wagon full of beautiful flowers….that’s when I came off the porch and she decided to bounce away!
Ah but she had already been to the big urn of flowers on the side of the house….they were sooo pretty yesterday!!! Pretty pests are those deer! The deterrent balls I purchased evidently don’t deter!!
I suppose I should mention how it went when I spoke at church Sunday. I used 1 John 1:5-2:2 as my text. It went over an hour (we don’t set a time limit to our meetings). Everyone said it was good, so I’d say it was successful.
I prefaced it by saying I was standing in fear and trembling, more so than the times I sang in front of hundreds of people, or when teaching high school and college classes, or when I give a Mark Twain performance, since in James he says teachers will have a stricter judgment.
This was my conclusion (more or less a paraphrase of the text):
We Christians walk in the knowledge that God is the light to our path (Psalm 119:105), and that if we stray from the path we have a way back through the Lord Jesus Christ. We acknowledge that we slipped, then live in a way so as not to slip up in that way again. But should we mess up, we confess again that Jesus is the one who defends us before the heavenly father. Jesus said we should forgive those who sin against us “seventy times seven”. So I firmly believe that he will do the same towards us.
Very good points, Peter, that everyone of us believeros need to be reminded of on a regular basis. Glad it went well.
Jo, sorry to hear about that mixup on the dates. I hope you can juggle as Mumsee suggested.
Today we did not have Bible study. We usually have a prayer call if the leader is away. Today I was the only one available to pray since everyone else had other places to be. It has been some weeks since we had our Bible study. We only have one chapter left in Ephesians and I am ready to movef on already!
The fox reminds me of my childhood Davy Crockett hat (which my visiting Iowa grandmother fashioned from a discarded “fox stole” or something that was tossed under the huge pine tree in our front yard by someone, freaking my mom out as she was sure it was some kind of dead animal … )
One of those great family stories that was retold over and over again. 🙂
Jo, praying for wisdom on how to handle what was an innocent and honest calendar mistake. But I do hope you get to go to the church camp at least for part of the time? Is it close enough to pop out for the family thing and go back? You have that trusty Subaru! Zoom-zoom.
On virtual evangelism — what a great reminder that our words and attitudes go forth from these screens. May we always be conscious of that.
mumsee on Prada Runway? She may have a leg up on us with the latest fashion gear, according to today’s WSJ:
~ From Ron DeSantis to Prada’s Runway, Fisherman Gear Catches On
The Florida governor may be going for folksy relatability, but his nylon shirts follow fashion-consumer demand for pocketed vests, $1,000 waders and fancy bucket hats
John Kerry wore barn jackets. George W. Bush wore cowboy hats. Now, in his own pitch for relatability, Ron DeSantis is wearing fishing shirts.
The Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate has been stumping in a Columbia Sportswear back-vented nylon button-down. “Governor Ron DeSantis” and “DeSantis for President” are embroidered just above its fly-ready chest pockets. …
… DeSantis, who is struggling to gain traction with voters, deploys the short-sleeve shirt selectively. He’s worn it in Texas and New Hampshire, but opted for a traddy suit and tie when speaking at the “Moms for Liberty” conference in Philadelphia and a fleece zip-up at his rally in landlocked Iowa. In those coastal or rural confines where he pulls out the shirt, “he’s probably trying to show that he’s agreeable to a certain type of man,” said Coggins.
That is, of course, the political reading. But know it or not, the Florida governor is oddly on trend. At its men’s fashion show in June, Italy’s Prada sent out several sure-to-be-pricey riffs on fishing vests, with a plethora of pockets and metallic hooks festooned to the front—more suitable for the Adirondacks than Ischia.
Other fashion labels are also angling for angler style. Maison Margiela produced a $2,635 set of leather waders that would likely get wrecked in a thigh-high tributary. Japan’s CMF Outdoor Garment makes a $430 pocket-overloaded fishing jacket. And though more fit for the dockside than a deluge, strappy fisherman sandals are the curious shoe of the summer. New York label Aimé Leon Dore makes a $275 pair that’s nearly sold out online in brown leather. … ~
Oh, how exciting! Those Columbia fishing shirts I bought for Art at Goodwill are a new political statement? He loves those soft shirts with back vents and pockets. I think they are sun protectors, too?
Wear the leather waders. They’re also fashionable (if not exactly fishing-worthy). But they are flats.
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We have online training today on Threads, I’m in the big afternoon session; I’m so behind on the social media stuff nowadays. I’m still trying to figure out Instagram which we also are now being encouraged to use for our journalism. My old account seemed to be kaput — all I ever posted was a blurry photo of Annie Oakley the Cat.
So now I have a new account there … needed, of course, to connect to Threads …
Meanwhile, our owners yesterday announced they’d gobbled up the major urban paper to the south of us (SD) from “la” Times which recently had layoffs and needed the cash apparently. 😦
As someone cracked, “there go our raises.” — which, of course, weren’t happening anyway, haven’t for many (many) years, but there we are.
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Good morning, all. A beautiful day here. Which is good because today is laundry and I like to hang things outside to dry.
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Jo, you can’t know what you don’t know. Did any of your children remind you of the conflict? Maybe they did not catch it either. Understandable.
But perhaps you could continue with your camp plans. Or at least part of the time. Maybe go Friday, return to hang with the family Saturday, go back to camp Saturday night. Lots of possibility. You need to connect with your church family.
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We have another beautiful summer day here. Hope you all have a good day.
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Thanks for the interesting article about the person who found Christ in an online forum, Janice.
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Morning! Beautiful warm day today!
I have already shooed off a doe this morning who evidently felt she was entitled to partake of my flowers for breakfast! Three times I told her to scoot and she continued to make her way to the wagon full of beautiful flowers….that’s when I came off the porch and she decided to bounce away!
Ah but she had already been to the big urn of flowers on the side of the house….they were sooo pretty yesterday!!! Pretty pests are those deer! The deterrent balls I purchased evidently don’t deter!!
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I suppose I should mention how it went when I spoke at church Sunday. I used 1 John 1:5-2:2 as my text. It went over an hour (we don’t set a time limit to our meetings). Everyone said it was good, so I’d say it was successful.
I prefaced it by saying I was standing in fear and trembling, more so than the times I sang in front of hundreds of people, or when teaching high school and college classes, or when I give a Mark Twain performance, since in James he says teachers will have a stricter judgment.
This was my conclusion (more or less a paraphrase of the text):
We Christians walk in the knowledge that God is the light to our path (Psalm 119:105), and that if we stray from the path we have a way back through the Lord Jesus Christ. We acknowledge that we slipped, then live in a way so as not to slip up in that way again. But should we mess up, we confess again that Jesus is the one who defends us before the heavenly father. Jesus said we should forgive those who sin against us “seventy times seven”. So I firmly believe that he will do the same towards us.
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Very good points, Peter, that everyone of us believeros need to be reminded of on a regular basis. Glad it went well.
Jo, sorry to hear about that mixup on the dates. I hope you can juggle as Mumsee suggested.
Today we did not have Bible study. We usually have a prayer call if the leader is away. Today I was the only one available to pray since everyone else had other places to be. It has been some weeks since we had our Bible study. We only have one chapter left in Ephesians and I am ready to movef on already!
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Amen, Peter.
The fox reminds me of my childhood Davy Crockett hat (which my visiting Iowa grandmother fashioned from a discarded “fox stole” or something that was tossed under the huge pine tree in our front yard by someone, freaking my mom out as she was sure it was some kind of dead animal … )
One of those great family stories that was retold over and over again. 🙂
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Jo, praying for wisdom on how to handle what was an innocent and honest calendar mistake. But I do hope you get to go to the church camp at least for part of the time? Is it close enough to pop out for the family thing and go back? You have that trusty Subaru! Zoom-zoom.
On virtual evangelism — what a great reminder that our words and attitudes go forth from these screens. May we always be conscious of that.
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mumsee on Prada Runway? She may have a leg up on us with the latest fashion gear, according to today’s WSJ:
~ From Ron DeSantis to Prada’s Runway, Fisherman Gear Catches On
The Florida governor may be going for folksy relatability, but his nylon shirts follow fashion-consumer demand for pocketed vests, $1,000 waders and fancy bucket hats
John Kerry wore barn jackets. George W. Bush wore cowboy hats. Now, in his own pitch for relatability, Ron DeSantis is wearing fishing shirts.
The Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate has been stumping in a Columbia Sportswear back-vented nylon button-down. “Governor Ron DeSantis” and “DeSantis for President” are embroidered just above its fly-ready chest pockets. …
… DeSantis, who is struggling to gain traction with voters, deploys the short-sleeve shirt selectively. He’s worn it in Texas and New Hampshire, but opted for a traddy suit and tie when speaking at the “Moms for Liberty” conference in Philadelphia and a fleece zip-up at his rally in landlocked Iowa. In those coastal or rural confines where he pulls out the shirt, “he’s probably trying to show that he’s agreeable to a certain type of man,” said Coggins.
That is, of course, the political reading. But know it or not, the Florida governor is oddly on trend. At its men’s fashion show in June, Italy’s Prada sent out several sure-to-be-pricey riffs on fishing vests, with a plethora of pockets and metallic hooks festooned to the front—more suitable for the Adirondacks than Ischia.
Other fashion labels are also angling for angler style. Maison Margiela produced a $2,635 set of leather waders that would likely get wrecked in a thigh-high tributary. Japan’s CMF Outdoor Garment makes a $430 pocket-overloaded fishing jacket. And though more fit for the dockside than a deluge, strappy fisherman sandals are the curious shoe of the summer. New York label Aimé Leon Dore makes a $275 pair that’s nearly sold out online in brown leather. … ~
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Oh, and AJ, too, runway-ready? Forgot about his fishing escapades. He can bring his fox on a leash for a more dramatic walk down the runway.
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Oh, how exciting! Those Columbia fishing shirts I bought for Art at Goodwill are a new political statement? He loves those soft shirts with back vents and pockets. I think they are sun protectors, too?
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Art is always fishing for tax breaks for his cluents🐟🐠🐡🦈
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Tucker Carlson’s show openned with a pic of him fly fishing. It’s apparently very fashionable.
Peter, I like your conclusion and text. It sounds like it went very well.
What’s this about Mumsee and Prada? Is she on the runway now decked out in fishing gear? I must have missed something. :–)
Oh and good afternoon everyone!
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I am thinking of making this for dinner. I have zucchini, too, with which to make zoodles. Not sure if Art will like it.
https://theforkedspoon.com/one-skillet-coconut-lime-chicken/
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What???
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Off practicing your fashion walk, were you?
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She heard us talking about her? These model types can be sensitive and high strung. I’d better watch my step.
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I can’t believe she said that about me.
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Wear the leather waders. They’re also fashionable (if not exactly fishing-worthy). But they are flats.
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We have online training today on Threads, I’m in the big afternoon session; I’m so behind on the social media stuff nowadays. I’m still trying to figure out Instagram which we also are now being encouraged to use for our journalism. My old account seemed to be kaput — all I ever posted was a blurry photo of Annie Oakley the Cat.
So now I have a new account there … needed, of course, to connect to Threads …
Meanwhile, our owners yesterday announced they’d gobbled up the major urban paper to the south of us (SD) from “la” Times which recently had layoffs and needed the cash apparently. 😦
As someone cracked, “there go our raises.” — which, of course, weren’t happening anyway, haven’t for many (many) years, but there we are.
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And layoffs promptly occurred at the new paper we acquired. 😦 Sigh.
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If businesses were not able to own other businesses these monopolizing and destabilizing acquisitions could not happen. It was not always the case.
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Thanks, the real.
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