Good morning, all. A beautiful sun filled day here. Off to Winchester again this morning, to visit with brother and family passing through and get dad out at the same time.
Thanks AJ and Jo…husband and I will be heading out for breakfast soon. Entering into the 70’s is a sobering reality! Thankful to our Lord for each and every day!
And Happy Birthday to Wesley…Janice I hope you all have a wonderful day of celebrating my birthday buddy!!
Happy birthday, NancyJill! May you have a wonderful new year of life, filled with many blessings.
I am thankful our heat is not as bad as Jo has! Nevertheless, it is too hot. I did bake a rhubarb crisp early this morning for an outdoor church service and potluck tomorrow. I did it before my bible study/prayer time so that it was a bit cooler, and the windows were still opened. Even my husband is too warm, and it has to be very warm for him to say that.
Happy Birthday, NJ! It’s a very good thing to have birthdays as we get older😃
And thanks for the B/D wishes for Wesley. We had breakfast at the Waffle House with Brother/Unc to begin an early start to celebration. Brother gave Wes two shirts and a pair of slacks from Walmart. Wes seems to think they will work.
Later I will make a small cake and have it with strawberries and ice cream. I decided whipping cream would be too tempting to over induldge so won’t do that this year. I will make a dinner since we went out for a nice meal yesterday when we went to Chattanooga. I will send AJ a few photos from our trip to Lookout Mountain and Covenant College.
We had lunch yesterday at Champy’s which had the best fried catfish.
This was just the right spot to go for lunch yesterday. We got to sit outside. It’s beside apartments used for the students at University of TN at Chattanooga. Wes has friends who went to the restaurant frequently but he’d never been. Art likes Southern fried food and that it was. The ace we’d wanted to go to had gone out of business. Glad this worked.
It’s not been hot here, just humid — temps remain in the mid 70s and it’s been cloudy with a cool breeze. So I can’t complain (but I do) 🙂
Had an early Saturday morning somewhat, I’ve been helping out Bill (real estate guy) who currently doesn’t have a printer and needs docs printed out for a couple pending house sales. Last night, after assuring him I have plenty of ink — he wants to reimburse me because some of the more recent “jobs” have been larger — I realized that I didn’t seem to have another large black cartridge after I was sure I did. He needed this doc first thing this morning, so I made a mad dash to Office Depot (close by), got the ink, then was able to hand off the document to him when he came by at 9:30 a.m. (telling me their 11 a.m. signing meeting now had been pushed back so we would have had time after all).
Heading out to dinner later with friend who is still getting settled in her new apartment.
Janice, how often do you get to see Wesley? I had thought he was too far away to see often, but I just looked up his university and it’s not as far as I thought.
Happy birthday, NancyJill! I hope you are blessed with some rain today 😊
Happy birthday to Wesley as well!
Another beautiful but not nearly so hot day here. We managed to get the house cooled down last night to 65F and it’s still cool inside. Kathaleena, you seem to get our weather a day or two after us.
Still blazing hot here with no moisture. Several fires breaking out and thankfully firefighters doing an amazing job getting them out! Although the Ft Carson fire is concerning south of the Springs.
It has been a lovely birthday. Thanks for the well wishes!
I have a daughter who works at a university, and she does get some nice time off and some flexibility. She sacrificed more pay for that benefit. Which is why the salary people get is not the only criteria when you are looking at salary disparity.
Good morning, all. A beautiful day here. Dad has been very clear that today is church and we are going. May God speak to him and draw him into the family.
beautiful day at Tahoe. A storm came in and we had a fast baptism. No time to give testimonies but they will do that soon. To experience coolness and a storm was a delight. It got down to 56 and I came home to a house that was 96. Got rained on and then drove home through rain
but I didn’t drive. I took a new friend that I met last Sunday, her first time at our church, Clara. Oh I drove there and she drove home. She was so helpful when I needed a hand and I got to hear her story. She has been on many missions trips
Our day trip to Chattanooga was spur of the moment and Art chose to go with Wes and me and leave his pressing work behind on Friday. I felt tired yesterday (Sat.) so offered to Art that maybe he’d like to go catch up on missed work today instead of going to church. He said no. He did not want to miss church. This is good! So glad we went. Wes left before church. I’m thankful for good weather.
Nothing like having waited until the end of yesterday to have cake and present opening for his birthday while listening to news of the near assasination. Not the fun we had expected. But he did like his gifts.
Bittersweet day at church. Half the small congregation (one family) is moving away to Florida, and this was their last day. That leaves Mrs L and I as the youngest of the 5 people left in the church. How much longer we’ll continue meeting is up to the Lord.
Peter, that is sad, we’ve had a few folks moving in the past few years, some have come back (and we’re a church of a few hundred). So will you seek out another church if yours doesn’t meet anymore at some point?
We had a good (but for me convicting) message today from Luke 5:1-11, “Fishers of Men.”
Sorry to hear that you are losing that family, Peter. That is a big loss. Perhaps the Lord will provide replacement members.
Our sermon today was on Hannah’s prayer in the Old Testament. The pastor’s son, in his 30s did a great job with it. This afternoon as I washed dishes, I listened to Shannon Bream’s book , Women of the Bible Speak, and it happened to fall on Hannah. I look forward to more of this sermon series on Old Testament prayers.
The senior pastor had a prayer to begin with about what happened at the rally. He did a really good job I thought.
We live 45 minutes away from the house church we attend. If it folds there are a couple of churches locally we can attend. One is a church plant we sent out from ours made up of young families. We go there Wednesday nights, but I don’t know if we’d make it our full-time church. We’d be the only ones of our generation there.
Peter – Being a different generation than the others would be a good thing, at least for them. Younger families need the wisdom of older people. And it could be good for you and your wife, too.
today would have been my 50th wedding anniversary. Grateful to God for taking him away. God had better plans for my life and yes, it took me many years to realize that. But my times are in His hands.
Cheryl – We’re a house church in the middle of nowhere. The nearest small town is 5 miles away. Over the past 45 years the church has had as many as 30 people, but they all moved away or left for whatever reason. Or, in the case of the church plant, went to the plant.
I am not the pastor. The man we recognize as such is the owner of the farm house. He is 82 and beginning to show his age, so he stepped down as the preacher and 2 others and I took over. The young man leaving is one of those.
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happy birthday Nj. Celebrate and enjoy. I’m heading to Tahoe for some coolness
jo
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Good morning, all. A beautiful sun filled day here. Off to Winchester again this morning, to visit with brother and family passing through and get dad out at the same time.
mumsee
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Morning! It’s a hot one again today!
Thanks AJ and Jo…husband and I will be heading out for breakfast soon. Entering into the 70’s is a sobering reality! Thankful to our Lord for each and every day!
And Happy Birthday to Wesley…Janice I hope you all have a wonderful day of celebrating my birthday buddy!!
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Happy birthday, NancyJill! May you have a wonderful new year of life, filled with many blessings.
I am thankful our heat is not as bad as Jo has! Nevertheless, it is too hot. I did bake a rhubarb crisp early this morning for an outdoor church service and potluck tomorrow. I did it before my bible study/prayer time so that it was a bit cooler, and the windows were still opened. Even my husband is too warm, and it has to be very warm for him to say that.
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Happy Birthday, NJ!
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Happy birthday, NJ!
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Happy Birthday, NJ! It’s a very good thing to have birthdays as we get older😃
And thanks for the B/D wishes for Wesley. We had breakfast at the Waffle House with Brother/Unc to begin an early start to celebration. Brother gave Wes two shirts and a pair of slacks from Walmart. Wes seems to think they will work.
Later I will make a small cake and have it with strawberries and ice cream. I decided whipping cream would be too tempting to over induldge so won’t do that this year. I will make a dinner since we went out for a nice meal yesterday when we went to Chattanooga. I will send AJ a few photos from our trip to Lookout Mountain and Covenant College.
We had lunch yesterday at Champy’s which had the best fried catfish.
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This was just the right spot to go for lunch yesterday. We got to sit outside. It’s beside apartments used for the students at University of TN at Chattanooga. Wes has friends who went to the restaurant frequently but he’d never been. Art likes Southern fried food and that it was. The ace we’d wanted to go to had gone out of business. Glad this worked.
https://champyschicken.com/locations/mlk
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Happy Birthday NJ!
It’s not been hot here, just humid — temps remain in the mid 70s and it’s been cloudy with a cool breeze. So I can’t complain (but I do) 🙂
Had an early Saturday morning somewhat, I’ve been helping out Bill (real estate guy) who currently doesn’t have a printer and needs docs printed out for a couple pending house sales. Last night, after assuring him I have plenty of ink — he wants to reimburse me because some of the more recent “jobs” have been larger — I realized that I didn’t seem to have another large black cartridge after I was sure I did. He needed this doc first thing this morning, so I made a mad dash to Office Depot (close by), got the ink, then was able to hand off the document to him when he came by at 9:30 a.m. (telling me their 11 a.m. signing meeting now had been pushed back so we would have had time after all).
Heading out to dinner later with friend who is still getting settled in her new apartment.
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🎂 Happy Birthday, NJ! 🎂
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Happy Birthday, NancyJill! And to Wesley as well.
Janice, how often do you get to see Wesley? I had thought he was too far away to see often, but I just looked up his university and it’s not as far as I thought.
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Happy Birthday to Wesley, too!
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Happy birthday, NancyJill! I hope you are blessed with some rain today 😊
Happy birthday to Wesley as well!
Another beautiful but not nearly so hot day here. We managed to get the house cooled down last night to 65F and it’s still cool inside. Kathaleena, you seem to get our weather a day or two after us.
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Happy birthday to Wesley, too. Is he home for a bit while school is out?
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Trump was just shot in the ear live on TV.
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Still blazing hot here with no moisture. Several fires breaking out and thankfully firefighters doing an amazing job getting them out! Although the Ft Carson fire is concerning south of the Springs.
It has been a lovely birthday. Thanks for the well wishes!
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He has been home for a few days, but he is still working with summer online students. Nice that online is flexible for some travel.
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I have a daughter who works at a university, and she does get some nice time off and some flexibility. She sacrificed more pay for that benefit. Which is why the salary people get is not the only criteria when you are looking at salary disparity.
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Good morning, all. A beautiful day here. Dad has been very clear that today is church and we are going. May God speak to him and draw him into the family.
mumsee
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beautiful day at Tahoe. A storm came in and we had a fast baptism. No time to give testimonies but they will do that soon. To experience coolness and a storm was a delight. It got down to 56 and I came home to a house that was 96. Got rained on and then drove home through rain
but I didn’t drive. I took a new friend that I met last Sunday, her first time at our church, Clara. Oh I drove there and she drove home. She was so helpful when I needed a hand and I got to hear her story. She has been on many missions trips
jo
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New friends are great, Jo. God keeps providing♡
Our day trip to Chattanooga was spur of the moment and Art chose to go with Wes and me and leave his pressing work behind on Friday. I felt tired yesterday (Sat.) so offered to Art that maybe he’d like to go catch up on missed work today instead of going to church. He said no. He did not want to miss church. This is good! So glad we went. Wes left before church. I’m thankful for good weather.
Nothing like having waited until the end of yesterday to have cake and present opening for his birthday while listening to news of the near assasination. Not the fun we had expected. But he did like his gifts.
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97° so it’s hot again. We have an air quality alert, too.
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Hot here…91 degrees and air quality alert! Rain promised this week. We shall see!
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Bittersweet day at church. Half the small congregation (one family) is moving away to Florida, and this was their last day. That leaves Mrs L and I as the youngest of the 5 people left in the church. How much longer we’ll continue meeting is up to the Lord.
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Peter, that is sad, we’ve had a few folks moving in the past few years, some have come back (and we’re a church of a few hundred). So will you seek out another church if yours doesn’t meet anymore at some point?
We had a good (but for me convicting) message today from Luke 5:1-11, “Fishers of Men.”
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Sorry to hear that you are losing that family, Peter. That is a big loss. Perhaps the Lord will provide replacement members.
Our sermon today was on Hannah’s prayer in the Old Testament. The pastor’s son, in his 30s did a great job with it. This afternoon as I washed dishes, I listened to Shannon Bream’s book , Women of the Bible Speak, and it happened to fall on Hannah. I look forward to more of this sermon series on Old Testament prayers.
The senior pastor had a prayer to begin with about what happened at the rally. He did a really good job I thought.
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We live 45 minutes away from the house church we attend. If it folds there are a couple of churches locally we can attend. One is a church plant we sent out from ours made up of young families. We go there Wednesday nights, but I don’t know if we’d make it our full-time church. We’d be the only ones of our generation there.
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Peter – Being a different generation than the others would be a good thing, at least for them. Younger families need the wisdom of older people. And it could be good for you and your wife, too.
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today would have been my 50th wedding anniversary. Grateful to God for taking him away. God had better plans for my life and yes, it took me many years to realize that. But my times are in His hands.
jo
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Sorry you had to go through that, Jo, but glad God was with you through all.
mumsee
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thanks Mumsee
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Jo, that’s a tough anniversary!
Peter, are you the pastor of the church, or the other man? How old is it that it’s still so small?
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Cheryl – We’re a house church in the middle of nowhere. The nearest small town is 5 miles away. Over the past 45 years the church has had as many as 30 people, but they all moved away or left for whatever reason. Or, in the case of the church plant, went to the plant.
I am not the pastor. The man we recognize as such is the owner of the farm house. He is 82 and beginning to show his age, so he stepped down as the preacher and 2 others and I took over. The young man leaving is one of those.
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