Well as you probably know, I'm fairly new to this blogging thing. I was just having fun being an anonymous user when I got shamed into starting my own blog by my son and...... ahem.....another blogger and you know who you are!!!! . Now I've kinda gotten used to the idea and have questions. What does the point system mean? It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I'm guessing more responses more points? One article I wrote only has two responses and many points while another has more resp...
THE TOP TEN PREDICTIONS FOR 2006- 1. The Bible will still have the answers. 2. Prayer will still work. 3. The Holy Spirit will still move. 4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people. 5. There will still be God-anointed preaching. 6. There will still be singing of praise. 7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people. 8. There will still be room at the Cross. 9. Jesus will still love you. 10. Jesus will still save the lost.
This is a true story. It was the summer of 1997, August 23 to be exact. It was a very warm day and as usual I decided to do my run later in the day because of the heat. I can't remember all that I did that day, but I do remember making my son a homemade birthday cake. It was his 15th birthday. Quite often that time of night, around 6 pm, my husband and I would run together. It was still quite light out and cooling off so it should be a good run I was thinking. Since he was anxi...
I don't know but I think I may have had a flashback tonight. I went running late at the end of the day sometime after 7:00. There was a slight rain and with warm temps I decided what the heck? I might as well. Once wet it doesn't matter to the rest of the run. So I went. After running in the blistering heat the last few days, the sunless sky and warm rain was refreshing and it didn't take long for me to know that this would be a good run. I decided that it would be dark soon s...
It was a beautiful day for a wedding. After all the rain we had it was nice to see a sunny day again. Thank goodness it wasn't the week before. The week leading up to this day was extremely busy. The bride's mom could not be there until the Thursday before as she was flying up from Va. So on Thursday when she arrived we spent the whole day decorating the reception hall which basically was our sanctuary in our church. This is the second wedding we had there. On Wednesday night we st...
Wow, what a week we had in sunny Virginia. The whole time we were there it poured and poured and poured here in the Northeast. We have a record 11 inches of rain for the month of May so far here which is about 9 inches above normal I think they said. I am soooooo glad we got to escape the brunt of this gloomy weather at least for a bit. Well we drove straight all day last Thursday arriving at the Natural Bridge Hotel at about 10 pm. All the hotels in the whole state of Virginia it ...
Here are some tips to help you decide. You can live in... Phoenix, Arizona where..... 1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade. 2. You can open and drive your car without touching the car door or the steering wheel. 3. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl. 4. You would give anything to be able to splash cold water on your face. 5. You can attend any function wearing shorts and a tank top. 6. "Dres...
Little things make me happy. Today was a good day. Today I hung out my clothes on the line for the first time this year. That made me smile. It was still a bit chilly but there was a breeze, no snow on the ground and a new clothesline just put up by my husband. So I lugged out my big basket and hung out two loads. I hate using the dryer, not only because I am cheap, but also I think hanging clothes out on a line is a lost art and nothing beats the smell of freshly hung-out -to-dry lau...
It's been about two full months of blogging for me. I never really wanted to, felt I really didn't have the time. But then one day after months of trying to talk me into it, my youngest son also a JU blogger set me up (so to speak). "There" he said, "you're all set to go now...blog away." I have to say it's been interesting. For the most part I enjoy meeting and talking with others and seeing the other viewpoints on any given topic. I've always liked to find out how people tick....
This is sort of an update on a previous article. At Christmastime I posted an entry called Holiday Musings in which I wrote about what we did for the holidays. One of the things I mentioned was inviting a mother and daughter to our home for Christmas. They were living out of a motel and our church had been helping them since late fall. Just before Christmas they were given many nice gifts from the church family as well as many other helps and offers. They were regulars at our Wednesda...
A dilemma is a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives and I have one right now. Here it is. For months before we went away on our latest vacation I had a friend of mine beg to take Quincy Dog the next time we needed a dog sitter. So I knew when the time came I could call on her. Well two weeks before we left she needed help with her animals. She had chickens, a cat, a bunny and a dog. We cared for her animals while she was away. I had to drive abo...
Christmas is finally over!! It's been, as usual, very busy here. It seems as tho as soon as we got home from vacation after the Thanksgiving holiday it's been go, go, and go right up until Christmas. Right off I threw a party for about 60 of us at the top of December. That was alot of fun with many surprises tucked in as well to make for an enjoyable evening. Then we had our Cantata a week later which kept me busy even tho I wasn't in it. It was a packed house two night affair. We ...
Something awful has happened here. At work my friend upstairs who usually comes down to my office for coffee had some bad news. He has an insurance business and just received a claim the night before that also hit the news. A 17 year old boy here was hit by a car just after dark. He was wearing all black and walking WITH traffic. The driver never saw him, because of his dark clothing, until too late. The driver was neither speeding nor drunk. The driver, from eyewitness account...
The presents are wrapped. The stockings are hung. The house is lit with candles in all the windows. The tree decorated to the hilt with my little angel on the top holding her light. The nativity is prominent as always and this year with lights over the stable. My Christmas village is now up with a few additions this year. My husband even hung out those pretty white icicle lights outside. I wanted to see if the boys even noticed. Probably not. I'm not too sure why I go all out li...
IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME AGAIN!! We left more than two weeks ago, our longest vacation ever. We had a blast for the most part although we did manage to wreck one transmission, get sick and maybe deal with one stress fracture. But all in all we had a good time. We started off heading straight to Hilton Head, SC. I woke up that morning with a cold to be. By the time we reached our destination I had a full blown head cold. Hilton Head.....our new favorite place. It was gorgeous the whole...