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Quote from: Colin on January 09, 2007, 06:30:40 PM
...oh by the way Kevin..thank you for taking a photo of the mother-in -law...I will pay to get it framed.

GOODNIGHT!!

Colin, I knew that wasn't my mother-in-law, only 'cause she was (and still is) in San Diego with my wife when I took the pict!

Gripped,
Kevin

The play was okay!  Not a musical or dance.  A play.  'Ten Little Indians'.  One little, two little, three little Indians.  Four little.....nope, it wasn't like that.  It used to be called 'And Now There Were None'.  Agatha Christie.  Now you are getting closer.  It was a mystery!  Ten strangers, each with a deadly secret, are invited to a desolate mansion on Indian Island by a host they never see and who doesn't arrive.  As they wait, they realize they are cut off from everything but each other and their own dark deeds.  One by one, the guests share their shameful stories, and one by one, they die.  Those who remain realize the murderer is one of them - but who?  And who will be the next to pay for their past?

Now let me take you back to photography club.  Each member may bring 4 total photos to show and be gently critiqued.  We can email them to a gentleman, or they can be prints with mattes or they can be slides.  All are shown on an overhead screen. (actually the wall) or easle. There was one elderly lady there, thin, big white hair, foxed up pretty good.  All of a sudden on the easle was this huge portrait style photo of what looked like a sick E.T.  Really!!    Mostly in brown tones but really not the sepia look.  I am just glad it wasn't my turn to critique.  But when asked who the creator was, she said she was.  Then the President asked, what is it?  Very calmly, like everyone has one, she said, it is a picture of her dead cat that she has had in her garage for 15 years!!!!     Yes!!!  She didn't go in detail but she said she just couldn't part with that cat or another one that she has.  Two dead cats in her garage for 10 & 15 years.  All that is left she said is bones and petrified skin!!     And she decided that she needed a photo to further memorialized this cat.  8" x 10" matted and framed!!!  She also had a photo of the second one and it was gorier if there is such a word.  It was a head shot looking into its mouth with its teeth and empty eye sockets!  I have no idea why I keep thinking of these two photos.  I think the woman is nuts!!    I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!

Red Hats today.  Thought maybe they might cancel it since there will only be four of us but we are still going out.

I will be off and running shortly but thought I had better stop in here before I leave and  say hello to all  who enter here today and all who have already been here. Sorry I can't stay long enough to write much, I have homework for Bible study tonight and a bunch of other stuff to get done, too.

TTYL

Etta Sue, I knew a woman who kept all the veterinary records of her dead cat, carried them around with her everywhere she went, and bored everyone with tales of the cat and its many illnesses.  SICK, if you ask me!  Or they need to get a life!

I have to go soon, appointment in town, and need to take Beth 4 gallons of water (she likes the well water from home, no chlorine) and some money.

Darrel and I have been busy around here today, and he has been practicing on the organ.  Says after 30 years, it's hard even to read the top hand, and his left hand is pretty stiff.  So this will be really good for him, mind and body!!  He called about his piano, they said 2 weeks yet.    Of course, we are having to get rid of some furniture, to make room for the piano!  When the other one got struck by lightning and messed up, we moved it to the garage; then bought a couch that takes the space it used to occupy!

I need to fix my hair and face and be ready to head out soon.  Back later.

Hi Everyone!

Not much going on here today.  We got a few flurries this morning and are supposed to have snow tonight and tomorrow as a cold front is headed in, but we will wait and see.  Sometimes we get the cold, but no snow.  

It's another school day for us.    It's lunchtime right now, so I thought I'd pop in and say hi.  Seems like I'm never on when everyone else is.  Kinda lonely.  Oh well.  

Pat-Glad to see you're back.

Colin-You crack me up!  I'll have to tell you a joke that my daughter told me...as soon as I remember it.

Etta Sue-EEEEwwwww!  I can't even imagine how horrible those pictures were!  I think you're right, the gal's crazy!

Marilyn-thanks.  I hadn't even noticed you called me Karen...  Glad you figured it out, though.

I'm taking pictures, but not getting time to download, process, and get them ready for web.  Especially since I'm still working on the church directory.  Are you all still praying for me on that one?  Ugh!  Can you believe people think because of the digital age, this job is easy?  If they only knew!

Have a nice day everyone!  
Blessings,
Kathleen

Etta Sue that is just plain gross.  Yukky.  It is stuff like that that unfortunately we can't get out of our minds.  OK lets change subject.

So far the snow is staying.  One of the big ski areas had laid off all 1500 personnel as there was no work for them.  Well they have been rehired.  It can be scarey when a town is dependent on the weather to function.

I have had a pain in my left hip for a couple of weeks now.  Today it got worse and I finally figured out why.  I need a new desk chair, or something fixed on this one.  The legs are not even setting the balance off with my back and hips.  The funny part about it is that there is only about a 1/2 inch difference in the legs.  I am back to my old chair, the ache is slowly stopping.

I am working on a project in History to teach the girls next year.  It is Canadian History form 1800 to 1900.  I used to really dislike history, amazing how your perspectives change in just a few years.

Well I need to go, Need a cup of tea.

Till later
Judy

Hi everyone. 

This was Bible Study day with our pastor and we started a study of Revelations.  There was a good group in attendance.  Then 10 of us went over to the donut shop and visited until after 12 noon when one of the group suggested we go next door to the cafe and have lunch.  So it was after 1:30 when we got home.  I have felt very weary today so laid down and had a nap.  Not much of the day left as I have choir practice this evening.  I have some things I want to accomplish but nothing that won't wait.  One of the joys of retirement is that I get to set my own schedule (with a little help from my wife). 

Etta Sue, that is just plain creepy about the photographs of the dead cats. 

Janet, glad that Darrel is taking up playing the organ and piano again.  That is something that I need to do more of but always seem to put it off.

Colin, when I wrote about getting under the electric blanket I thought to myself I bet Colin will have something witty to say about it and you didn't let me down.

Guess I had better move on today.  I enjoyed reading each and every posting.

Ok...enough tomfoolery! Kathleen ..who I am very sure is Irish or of Irish descents... and I are shouting at each other! She is dafter than I am..

Right....contrary to good advice and the fact that this is a photographers site...I purchased a camcorder today! It is a belated Christmas present because my sons said they would help me buy one in the January sales....no flies on us! It is a mini digitial Panasonic model..NV-GS180EB with a 3CCD lens. It has taken me all night to get the lens cap fitted on it so I am doing very well! I am working my way through the instruction booklet...it will all sink in sometime It does take still photos but only 2.3 mega pixels which is not much better than my mobile phone.I did lots of research on it and did not find any bad comments so hopefully it will shoot good quality video. The battery is on the charger so I will get trying out my camcorder tomorrow.

Hello everyone and goodbye....more reading to do! Take care!

Hi Folks,

Just want to remind everyone that my Shoutbox doesn't work.  I'm not ignoring you!

Gripped,
Kevin

Kevin are you absolutely sure you aren't ignoring us in the shout box. 

Hi Colin.

I am home for a few housrs and trying to get my laundry finished up. Read the newspaper and not  much  happening there either. It is a free paper that  is delivered daily to the bushes in the front yard. Would be nice if they hit the drivway now and then.

Later y-all

This month I will talk a lot about quilts. I am so happy because I have been calling around to try to collect quilts for the homes in Texas - we will haul them in the back of our van and by now there are 13 to 14 quilts expected.  Today, our quilting group at church tied three quilts. 

Judy B:  Hooray and happy to see that you have snow on the ground. 

The temperature will drop tomorrow but snow isn't expected until tomorrow night and not as much as the last two winter blasts.  I am waiting for the oven to cool so I can clean it after a pizza dropped into the bottom and the kitchen became full of smoke. 

Carol

Hi everyone.  I wanted to write a line or two before leaving for coffee.  I have a very busy day ahead and probably won't make it back to CP today.  After coffee I have to drive almost an hour to see my heart doctor.  I hope to be done in time to get to a retirees luncheon at 11:30.  Will come home and rest a bit and then have a white paper to write for our SeniorNet Computer Learning Center on recruiting and retaining volunteers.  It will be based on research I have done over the last couple of months and I am working with a committee but I seemed to send up as the leader.  Then this evening I have a commitment. 

Carol, sure hope you don't get much more snow.  You all need a break.  It is nice that folks are contributing to your quilt project.  Pat's quilting group has probably made about 10 quilts, some of which were contributed to Katrina victims and some to the Family Promise families when they are able to get their own place.

Marilyn, it sounds like your paper delivery person is very consistent. 

Hi Kevin.

Colin, I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from your camcorder.  I have never had one or really know little about using them.  I know those lens cap projects can be daunting. 

Here's hoping that we each remember to be grateful for the day the Lord has allowed us to have.  The hard days makes the good days more enjoyable. 

The above poem is not one of mine I hasten to add. I was reading Carols post and was thinking nearly all the ladies here are at the quilting or something. I had that poem in my mind as good while!

Hi Larry...I will certainly get plenty of enjoyment from my camcorder...when I get it going

Hi everyone else!

Colin Why do you think I don't quilt?  Your poem says why.  Sewing can be like that as well.

The temperature is down today.  The cold is needed, but I have to say that I did perfer the weather we had earlier in the month.

This is shaping up to be a busy day here in the north.  The power went out at about 10:00 so we went to bed and we are well rested.

Pat How is Judy and when is her surgery?

Bye for now
JydtB

Good Morning it is cold here. lastnight the weatherman said that we may hav e snow today  down on the beach even.

Good Bible study last night. It seems like our Bible studies are a "God appointment" for those who  attend that particular night.  I still have some more stuff to type up for the Bible study. What I took last night was a bit too long so now I have to condense it and turn it into a prayer. That is going to be a hard task, but  will help me I am sure.

Well I must get off the computer and get ready for work.  ot he foot doctor this morning with my Jan. I am so glad that Medicare pays for these appointments. I have an ingrown toenail that is giving me  fits and I  just can't seem to be able to get my foot into my lap anymore to cut my toenails and I can't see them if I just put my foot up on something.

Later.

Thanks for the comments on the crazy lady at photography guild.  I still can't keep that image out of my head.   

Colin ~ Does your camcorder record on DVD?  I have a VHS camcorder that I haven't had out of the carrier since my first digital camera.  And I haven't had the first digital out since I got my new one.  Now I am thinking of finding a less than $100 digital to carry in my purse for those emergency shots!

We did go to Red Hats yesterday even though there was only four of us.  It was fun.  We went to Don Pablos and then to a novelty shop.  Then to Kohl's clothing.  We were to meet at the door in half an hour.  I saw I had 5 minutes until the half hour was up so headed to the door.  There was a bench so I sat down.  Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes and finally a Red Hat lady came in from the outside and said, 'You are at the wrong door!!'.  There were two doors and I didn't know it.  So all was well.  Then we stopped for homemade ice cream.  Two scoops of Coconut Almond Fudge Ripple....a meal in itself! 

I still have TV programs to watch.  And I will be gone all weekend to two baby showers in Ohio.  One of my classmates called last evening and said she couldn't be there Saturday so we decided to just cancel 60 Chix for January!  So I sent out emails telling them to wait until February to meet. 

I have a little wind whistle in one of my bedroom windows.  The wind was fierce and I was whistled at all night long.  That happens when the wind is from the south.  Bright and sunny but freezing cold.  Brrrr! 

That's it for today.  No appointments today and no plans of going anywhere.

I forgot to tell y-all that the ice on top of my car looks like hair standing straight up, so my car has a crew cut 

I hope you took a photo, Marilyn.

Etta Sue, you live a "happy life" as they say in China.

I have been going over my notes on China, preparing to give a program for Sunday School on Sunday, and Lions Club on Monday.

Colin---for me, it is painting!  Or scrapbooking!  I read a very similar poem years ago about painting, and really identified with it.  There was a man on the 700 Club this morning who really made me think of you, because he used humor for many years to hide his pain.  I hope your pain is gone now, but we do enjoy your humor.

Larry, have a good day, and don't work too hard.

JudyB, I used to sew a LOT when my kids were young, making all their clothes and most of mine.  But when painting came into my life, sewing had to take a back seat.  You may be able to do it all, but not in equal amounts!  Right?  I still get the sewing bug once in a while, but not often.  I want to continue to teach Abby to sew, though.

Carol, quilting is something I have never gotten into, other than making some quilts for my babies---years ago!  They do a lot of quilting at the Senior Center here.  I'm a great admirer of quilts, but not a maker of them. 

I had to go and take Mieka (dog) to visit Beth this morning; they were both begging for it.  Beth asked if we can bring Mieka to her when we go to church on Sunday, so one of the nurses she especially likes, and who like chihuahuas, can "meet" her.  Also, that will give her longer to enjoy having Mieka, and Mieka should then be a "holy dog" as she will take her to their church service there at the home.

Darrel had to go to Liberal, so I have the place to myself for a while.  He asked if I wanted to go with him, but I just wanted to stay home today.  Now, I need to see if I can get some things done.

Hi Etta Sue....if you mean does my camcorder record straight unto a dvd disc..no it does not. They reckon a mini dvd tape is still the best for recording on and editing in a computer. The 3ccd lens is supposed to give a very high quality of picture and is used in TV cameras. I only got a limited use of my camera today because the weather was atrocious outside. I took some indoor shots of Gregory playing on his new games console. I played my recording back on the TV but it was hard to judge because the high wind was giving me a bad signal.  When I did get a half decent signal...the quality of the pictures were really good..and the outdoor shots showed up a really natural colour with good detail. I will be able to judge better when I shoot more film and get a better signal but overall I am quite pleased. Gregory says the pictures were very good too so it is a 

Hi JudyB and Janet...Marlene my wife likes to put up jigsaws but there is not much end product with them and are very time consuming. I seem to rotate my hobbies a bit...in the winter I would do most of my paintings and in the summer months it is the gardening. Poems I write anytime. The camcorder will occupy me as well now. I do a lot of things on the computer as well which includes using the scanner.
Janet..when does that pain ever go away...but I do like a good laugh!

Hi Marilyn...I never could get my feet into my lap but everytime I open my mouth I usually put one in there. I understand about seeing the toes! Do you know....I wish I had never read  what Etta Sue had written about that lady and her dead cats! I keep getting a mental picture of them and every time I hear a cat mew..it gives me shudders!

We were so pleased when our Irish team appeared in the World Tug of War Championship in Japan and then they got disqualified for pushing!

Take care everyone!

Hello all,
Its been busy around here. More winter preperations for the upcomming storm. EMS planning times Pizza hut Meetings trying to clean what we can of the house incase of lose in electricity---- we now have our generator tho!!! anyways i need to get off here and ready for work so i can get to the meetings i have this afternoon ttyl
Sarah

G'day all,

Colin ~    you crack me up!!!
            My canon 430 Powershot had a video setting and I took video's of my Pastor Kevin's sermons throughout the Advent season and Christmas eve. I then made a DVD of it titled Advent 2006, it came out pretty good and it's digital. Pretty soon you'll be doing all that fun stuff too. 

Marilyn ~ I know the feeling about getting the feet up. I messed up my right knee years ago and can't bend it properly to do that anymore.

We got snow too! A whole inch, but boy did it get cold last night, 20*F. Michael's day and evening nurses each got about 8 inches where they live, one north of us and the other south. And we're stuck in the middle....

I have had a project going for a few days now, I took digital pictures of my mom's slides of the family and all before my parent's got married and some from when my brother and I were little. I have been touching them up and brightening the colors to where they should be. There are about 425 slides to go through and I've got 300 done so far. IT's quite a job. I'll then make copies of the DVD I'll make of the slide shows and give them to family. It's actually fun to see the pictures come to life again. There are some great shots from my parents wedding 46yrs ago.

Okay, time to go and get some shut eye. I pray everyone has a God filled and blessed day/evening/night.

Blessings,
<><Jeannine

Here is the photo of the roof of my car this morning.

Hi Jeannine..I am sure your DVD is brilliant. Took more footage with my camcorder this evening and very pleased with the results. The colour is so natural looking. I know I will have a brill time using it. Say hello to Michael for me.

Hi Marilyn...That is a picture to make me shiver! Take care on the roads.

I am going to bed now so goodnight all.

Isn't it strange what nature can do?  I've never seen the frost/ice stand up on a car roof like that before.  Bet you will be glad to get your little garage back into service!

Jeannine, I wish I had some of those skills with photos.  I have 8mm movies I want put on DVD, when I find them again! 

I wanted to tell you about a cousin of a friend of mine.  He has MS really bad, is barely able to walk with two arm crutches, but he gamely keeps on going.  He's a teacher and subs at a school over in Satanta.  Well, when they were without power for a week, then it came back on; he decided to drive out in the country to tell his elderly parents they could come in to his house to shower.  (They still had no power.)  His cell phone battery was dead, and he didn't take time to charge it up before he left.  Anyway, the power lines were down across the road, so he decided to try to drive across a field---got stuck---got out and tried to make it on to their house, which he could see.  He fell, of course, kept trying, got too far to get back to his car.........and was found 18 hours later, nearly frozen.  He is recovering in the hospital, with frostbite on hands, knees, and face.  He scraped the skin off his legs from knees halfway to ankles.  My friend said he has huge black scabs which they remove three times a day--ouch!

But there were several miracles that helped him make it.  The main one was that the two men who found him were out there to pump a well.  They had planned to do it the day before, but decided to wait; and if they hadn't been there, who knows when Terry would have been found?  His parents weren't home, and they said that if he had stayed in his car with the flashers on, they would have seen it when they came home that night.  Terry is a Christian, and I'm sure he did a lot of talking to Father God during that ordeal.  I can't imagine how awful that was, and still is, for him.

Time to hit the sack.  See you tomorrow.

 ;)Good evening to all. Well we still have not got much snow but it is supposed to get very cold this weekend.

To let you all know that my niece has finally gone and she is feeding every two hours so it is very hard for her mum but praise the Lord for your prayers for this little life and thank you. She is very weak and and so is mum as she has had very little sleep so please contiue to pray that bothwill get strength and baby will gain some weight.

A prayer request from myself that the Lord will guide me into doing something for him so that souls will be saved for the Kingdom.
 
Have a good evening and the Lord bless.  Gord.

Hi everyone from N. Ireland. Cold wet and windy...so nothing new there then!

Hi Janet....thank you for sharing that story about Terry. The Lord had His hand on him without a doubt. I hope he makes a full recovery. Are you still painting Janet...I have not done any for ages. Take care and mind you dont fall again.

Hi Gordon...thank you for the update on your niece. Will continue to pray for your family. I do pray that the Lord will give you a guidance. I wonder if you feel if you are being led in any particular direction. I know I do not do enough for Him...I heard once and it would be true...if we could only look into Hell this moment...we would work never ceasing to get souls saved.

Hi Pat..wherever you are! Hope you are well. I know this is hard for you at this time of year. I have been thinking about you...I cant get on the msn when I really want to and I do miss our chats. Take care.

Hello to everyone else who will visit here!

Hi everyone. 

Just back from coffee at the senior center and shortly will have to leave for the other senior center.  I have 4 different meetings to attend up there today starting at 10 am.  This is going to be a long day.  Our program this afternoon is on buying and selling on Ebay.

Janet, that was really a frightening experience for your friend.  It is a wonder he was found in time.

Marilyn, your picture of the ice crystals is great.  It almost looked like water with little waves.

I don't have time for individual comments today but have read the postings and appreciate each person who has posted. 

Tony just called and we talked for too long.  Now I have to get off of here to get ready to go to my Urologist.  If my bladder is clean of tumors today, I don't have to see her again for a year!!! 

Will try to get back later! 

Hmmm.........slow day in here, everyone must be busy!

I've been "out and about"......went swimming and that felt good, the hard thing was watching out for the ice chunks.  (Just kidding!)  The water was a wonderful 83 degrees.

I'm wondering if any of my painting group will be able to come tomorrow.  They come from as far away as 200 miles.  If we have to cancel, this will make 3 years in a row that something caused us to cancel when I was hosting the meeting.   But I surely do not want any of them out on the highways in dangerous conditions.  It looks as if the really bad storm they predicted for this area will miss us, but it is really cold.  It has "warmed up" from 9 to 11 degrees today!  BRRRRRR!!!!

Thanks for your concern for Terry.  He's trusting in the Lord, as he has for years, through the good and bad times.  His wife kicked him out about 9 years ago, which really devastated him, but he is doing better.  His daughter and her fiance` from Denver came to visit him in the hospital, and that really gave him a boost.

I forgot to tell you a praise report!!  The other day as Darrel and I were coming home from town, a deer jumped into our path, we missed that one, and here came another!  Darrel was driving, and managed to slow enough and quickly enough, that we just hit the deer's rear leg!  It cracked part of the bumper, and knocked off the deer whistle, but we were SO thankful.  Could have been a really bad deal, but for the protection of the Lord.    He's so awesome, and I love Him.

Etta Sue, I'm trusting for you to get a good report again on your bladder!!  (((hugs)))

Larry, don't work too hard today in all those meetings!

Our high today has been about zero degrees F.  So, I have spent several days indoors just working like crazy on quilts & driving out to churches that will give me any of their quilts.  Enough, I am starting to dream of these.   

Larry:  It is nice of Pat to work with her church group on quilts.  I hope that you stay warmer than us.

Colin:  Love you quilter's poem.  I can't do any sewing unless everything in the house is in place & that is why I get so tired, I think.  You can tell Marlene that doing jigsaws is great for the brain - am glad that one of you is working on brain maintanence......   Oh, I am going to have to duck after saying that....... 

Marilyn:  LOL on your car top.  Does that look frosty. 

Off for a much needed haircut & I have pork chops in the oven so it should be ready when I return.

Carol