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I found out today that Barb, my SIL, the one that had a cyst surgically removed from her eyelid...that there were some cancer cells in the cyst.  She goes to the surgeon Tuesday to find out what is next.  They did tell her before surgery that if there were cancer cells in the lesion, then he would have to go back and remove more tissue from her eyelid.  So I assume that will be done and what else we don't know.  I guess it all depends on what type of cancer.

I have had a relaxing evening.  I talked to Kitty on the phone...they are in St. Louis.  She is hoping that Bob says to go home tomorrow so she can go to Photo Guild tomorrow evening but he last said he wanted to spend a day in St. Louis.  They were just in St. Louis in August! 

I still haven't seen Ivalou but she is home. 

Thanks. so much, Etta Sue, for the devotional for this week.  I can really empathize with everyone in all that is effecting their families and loved ones.  God knws what is best -- for all -- and He will see that His will be done in each and every one of us and our loved ones.

I have read and prayed for each one of the posts here and in other forums... God knows our hearts and He will be glorified.   

Thank you Lizzy, Liz and Jane for praying for my son. I am very concerned for him and I know that God can use the healing to draw Gilbert to Him. Please remember Sarah to she has MS.

I have an interview this morning, I am interviewing a potential client and checking out the situation in her home.

Good devotional Etta Sue, sometimes I forget to even mention the devotional but I do read them and glean all I can from them.

I am going to be spending more time Studying the word not just reading the word. I am taking notes and writing down addresses and scriptures writing down how to apply all God's promises  to my own life and the lives of my family members.   How we can be all the God's word says we can be and how we can have all that God's says we can have as heirs to the kingdom and children of the living God.

Gotta go now

Good Morning everyone!

Well, after quite a rainy weekend, today seems a pleasant day.

I'm going to be sorting some boxes today and see if I can maybe start to make order out of chaos!  My basement is just truly a place for "STUFF"!!

Thanks Etta Sue for getting us started in our new "Thoughts" for this week.

Hi Jane and Ruth!

Hi Marilyn...

You asked in the other thoughts about whether we saw about Gilbert's  ulcer.  When I posted in there, that wasn't in your post.  I see you added it later.  I'm continuing to remember Gilbert in prayer.

Hi everyone.  A very busy day here as our grandson is here doing the heavy cleaning and Pat decided she had to take down, wash and rehang all the curtains with him here to help.  He is tall so doesn't need a step stool to put the curtains back up.  I think the job is about done for another period of time.

I think we found an apartment for our daughter that close to down town, in an area known as Buckhead.  I used to work about 3 blocks from it.  It is nice and flat, in handicapped accessible and the Bus stop is right in front of the building.  It is a high rise building that has elevators so she won't have to deal with steps, which is very important.  It isn't cheap but the utilities are included, except water, so it is basically a fixed cost.  She will be getting the smallest efficiency apartment available.  Just hope it all works out and we can get her moved this weekend.

Etta Sue, thanks for the devotional.  Glad there hadn't been a breakin in your home.  We have also had some less than satisfactory experiences at O'Charley's, although the last couple of times have been fine.  Sorry to hear of your SIL having the cancer cells appear.

Pat, that sounds like a terrible storm you had last night.  Hope you didn't lose your power, but guess you didn't since your computer is working.

Marilyn, hope you interview goes well today.  I missed the part about Gilbert having an ulcer as well.

Al, I am like you in that I don't set an alarm clock anymore.  So far it hasn't been a problem. 
Hi to everyone who stops by today.

Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian Friends,  something I did not know but I believe it was in 1956 or 1957 the original date was changed from November to October for reason that Rememberance Day and Thanksgiving Day were to close together to reflect on the importance of both dates.

Etta Sue:  Thanks for the devotional. 
Marilyn:  I will be praying for your son and Sue is she his wife - sorry for not remembering.
Larry:  I trust that everything works out fine for your daughter as it must be quite a concern.
Etta Sue:  Cancer is a terrible word.
Pat:  It is hard to get rid of what is not needed or used any more and I will find and empty crack  and fill that up as well. Good Luck with the sorting.

Soon we will leaving for our daughters as she is having Thanksgiving dinner with her daughter & friend, mom & dad (us) and aunt.

Ruth it is Sarah and yes she is his wife.

Nice devotional, thanks Etta Sue.

We had a terrible rain all weekend and Misty drove me nuts with going in and out the door.  Have to dry and clean her each time as her long fur brings in half the garden, leaves, mud, etc.  Today is much nicer and the sky is clear.  My daughter is outside working in the garden, and now Squeek is sitting by my door, looking out and meowing like mad.....Oh, CATS!

I have made a nice pumpkin pie for dinner tonight and the turkey is cooking upstairs in the kids kitchen.  There are a few perks with growing old   I am not fond of cooking turkeys....surely taste good tho'...

Have any of you ever read Margaret Truman's book, 'The Presidents House'?  I am reading it and find it most interesting.  Like her mystery books and have read all she has written.  This is an especially nice book as it looks at the White House from an insiders perspective.  Now why does a Canadian find that interesting??  I guess most of us in Canada know more about your country than you do about ours. (For those who live in US)  Probably because it makes for more interesting reading.

Went to the Sally Ann with my daughter to look for records, CD and tapes.  Found a nice SMOKEY MOUNTAIN HYMNS tape done by hand crafted instruments...Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle, Auto Harp, Dobro, etc.  I love this type of music...guess I should have kept on with my Banjo.  Once it gets in the blood, never seems to go away.  Kind of like Art work and writing. 

Think I will go for a walk now, before rain sets in again.  It is predicted for most of the week and best take advantage of the day.  Hope everyone has a  nice week and Happy Thanksgiving to all us in Canada.

Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.

Liz

Thanks for that Ruth!  I didn't know about the date of Thanksgiving being changed.

I looked it up in Wikepedia and found this:

After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the Monday of the week in which November 11 occurred. Ten years later, in 1931, the two days became separate holidays, and Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day.

On January 31, 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed:
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.

I'm not certain, but some of my email addresses aren't working, and now I've needed to log in again to both SeniorNet and Christian Photographers! Something odd must be going on with my computer. And, no, I didn't delete any cookies. 

At any rate, it's good to hear all of y'all again.

Etta Sue, thanks for the good devotional, and I'm really sorry to hear about your sister in law's difficulties. Will be supporting her with my prayers.

Also, Gilbert and Sarah, and Larry's daughter and so many other requests.

Y'all have a good rest of the day.

Hi!  We are home, got here around 6 this evening.  I haven't read all the posts I missed, but wanted to stop in and say "howdy!."

Howdy, Janet!

It was so nice to be able to chat with you while you were on the bus on this trip.  I loved that.

Talk to you soon.  Get a good night's sleep.

Certainly glad, Larry, to hear of your finding an apartment with all those characteristics for your daughter.  I pray she'll be blessed greatly there.

WELCOME BACK JANET!!  I said it in the other forum, but I'll say it here too.

Supposed to rain today and tonight.  You can figure on the same storm coming you way in the midwest and east in 2 to 4 days.

Good Morning It is supposed to rain today according to the weatherman and the air smells like rain. I am working two jobs today. Beginning next week I will work for the new couple on Mondays. that will leave all but two hours on Tuesday morning and Wednesdays off during the week.

I am holding Wednesday in case I need to work another day with Cliff. It also gives me all day to complete my Bible study research for the lesson.

This morning I reinstalled Compton's  interactive NIV Bible into my computer, so I won't have to have a pile of books to research because it has all the commentaries in the program, much more that I have in books.

Welcome home Janet glad you enjoyed your trip.

Yesterday I finished making my Glory Ring, prayed over it and anointed it with anointing oil. Now I will take it to church and wait on the Holy Spirit to give me the dance and arm movements I am to use during worship.  You can learn more about Glory Rings HERE

TTYL

Thanks to all who commented about the devotion this week. 

Marilyn ~ I have a New Living Translation Life Application Study Bible.  It has lots of notes throughout the Bible on how to apply verses to your life.  The devotions I post comes from the same study Bible but it is a different book. 

And I would like to say that when y'all have a prayer request, I keep you in my prayers.  I may not mention it but I do.  Prayers are still for Gilbert, Sarah, Al, Ruth Ann, Janet, Liz, Pat, Ruth, Sue, JudyB, Larry, Jane, Nita, Colin, Samantha, Jeannine, Michael...well, all my CP friends and all their families. 

Today I have nothing I have to do but I think I am going to deep clean my living room...that means move the furniture around.  If I have to move the furniture out to sweep, I might as well move it to a different spot!  And Kitty and Bob gets home today.  Also Barb, my SIL, goes to the surgeon at 12:30pm to find out what the next step is. 

Photo Guild was great last night.  We can submit up to 4 photos by email to a member who put them in his laptop and are then shown on the overhead, or slides projected on the overhead or printed and matted photos.  We had two couples that just got back from Utah and Arizona.  Beautiful shots...full of color!  I submitted 3 pictures that I made 3-D.  Now they want me to show them how I did them.  But I use PaintShop Pro and they use PhotoShop mostly!!  Both are fruit but one is apples and one is oranges.

Today hasn't started out well!  Amanda went out at 8 AM to leave for work.  Sometime between when her dad left at 5.30 AM and 8 AM, her car was broken into and the window smashed, hood damaged, $400 + IPod stolen, etc.  Fortunately her camera and other valued things were not in the car.  This was right in front of the house, in daylight!!!!  ICBC is coming to tow the car away, pictures have been taken for the RCMP....tho' that won't help much.  Seems they know the teenage gang doing a rash of break-ins and haven't stopped anything.  Of course, it could have been the workers from the construction site, seems many are ex-convicts!  This once lovely, safe area, is now only a dim memory.....  

It seems to be one crisis after another these days.  On the weekend, there was another terrible accident at the Frayne intersection. (where Wendy was almost killed) In the summer, two of the neighors were horrible injured and won't ever fully recover.  Now another one, and it seems to be even worse.  Do not have the details yet.  The SUV was folded like an accordian...everyone critical, could not airlift to Vanc. because of fog in Vanc.  There needs to be a turning light and a camera installed there...everyone drives like they are insane and go thro red lights all the time....I am simply too old for this world now.  Praying for people has become a daylong project....

Now that is off my mind, welcome back Janet.  I hope you had a good rest.

Like you, Etta Sue, I pray for people, don't often mention details.  Guess that comes from the old Baptist background.  Doesn't much matter, since we are all on the same page.

Time to go and hope the day gets better.  My daughter just came down and told me that the reason the hood was damaged, is because they have been stealing the cars and burning them.

God Bless, 

Liz

Good afternoon, all. 

I'm so thankful for this site.  I love the weekly devotions ... always great to start off that way.

As I read the posts here I was hit with one thought -- we are all so blessed to know that, regardless of circumstances or our health or our isolation, we can pray to our Father.  To have His hope and know that He still is in control, even when it doesn't appear that way, is something that can bring us peace.

It seems that just about everywhere we look, regardless of where each of us lives, and in spite of the challenges facing friends and loved ones, we have an anchor to cling to ... One Who hears our whispered prayers and knows the heaviness of our hearts.

May His presence be with each of you.

Changing gears here -- I'm not sure where to post this question.  It's technical dealing with photo editing software.  I want to be able to take black and white photos and make certain images within these photos color ... like a flower, or a dress ... I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about.  I currently use Microsoft Digital Image Suite and can't seem to figure out how to do it.  I don't know a thing about applying layers ... I more of a point and click kind of gal.  Any suggestions, even different software to use, would be so appreciated.

My husband and I went to one of our State Parks here and I was able to take some lovely photos of flowers and desert plants.  While we had a wonderfully "Autumn" weekend, the temps are climbing back into the 80s today.  Still, I won't complain.  I love the high desert.

Blessings, Francine

Etta Sue, regarding the question, how do you explain to someone why Jesus had to die on the cross---we had free time at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, and my favorite room was the one with the Old Masters.  One painting must have been 6 ft x 8 ft; and depicted Jesus, after the crucifixion, showing the wounds in His hands, feet and side.  I was visiting with the woman on duty in that room, and she said "You'd be surprised how often I'm asked to explain this painting, especially to foreign students.  They have never heard of Jesus---they say, "Who is Jesus?" "  I said, "That gives you the opportunity to witness to them!  How wonderful!"  And she agreed.  Praise God for faithful witnesses, and I'm so thankful she hasn't been silenced in the name of (ugh) political correctness.

Busy day today--finishing the laundry, therapy, errands to bank, to PO to pick up the mail, to chiropractor, to school to eat with my Youth Friend, now have ironing to do, and must go and see Beth, too.  Plus sorting through the mail, getting the phone messages, booking and re-booking doctor appointments, etc.  Whew!

Tomorrow I go to Salina for the Senior Spelling Bee, it is Thursday and we come home that night.  Whew!

Our doggie and two cats missed us and were really happy to see us last evening.

Liz, I have noticed that most people who do art work also love music.  I'm so sorry about your lovely neighborhood "going to pot."  That is happening so many places.

We were close to President Bush the other day, didn't see him, of course.  He was in Lancaster to speak to the families of those little Amish girls who were murdered so heartlessly in the one room schoolhouse one year ago.  We were told the Amish had to tear down the school in the dark of night because souvenir hunters and greedy people were stealing bits and pieces, whatever they could tear loose, to sell on eBay.  How horrible!  So they decided to remove all temptation and put a stop to it.

I need to get busy again, don't want this to become a short novel!  Hello to all of you, and thank you so much for the warm welcome home!

ES Loved the devotion.  Your post reminds me of something on the Gaither Homecoming that is said.  "Thisgs will get worse, or better or stay about the same."  Your post reminds me of that saying.

Janet Welcome Home.

Liz What an ordeal.  Too bad there aren't surveillance cameras in the area.  And traffic cops at the intersection.  It sometimes seems the police do less and aless and expect more and more.

Francine Thank you for your thoughts.  You are so right  about always being able to turn to our Father.  Now with the question I have no clue how to do that .  I told my daughter about your question and she may be able to help.

It has been wet,wet,wet, for the last 5 days.  Not cold just wet and a penetrating dampness.  I am looking forward to dryer weather.  We should have had this in the early summer then the crops wouldn't have been burned in the ground.

Got to go, it is late and I have supper to prepare.  "See" you all tomorrow.
JudyB

It's me again!  I thought I'd post again tonight in case I don't have time to do it tomorrow before I leave.

"Things will get worse, or better or stay about the same???"  That sounds like a DUH to me.  Guess you have to hear it in context. 

Judy, thanks for the welcome home, and send some of that wet stuff down here!  One sometimes wonders why things can't even out a bit in the weather department.  North central Kansas has had flooding and way too much rain all summer, while we have dried up down here.  My youngest daughter and her husband have been trying so hard to establish a stand of grass on the hill where they live, and have had it washed out over and over.

Beth said she really missed me!  Nice to be missed.

I am totally disgusted with our police.  They didn't even bother to come and see the car or take fingerprints.  If it was someone from the Construction site who has a record, that would have answered one question.  If it is the teenagers, they must have some of their prints on file...that would have solved that question.  ICBC didn't come with their flatbed truck to take the vehicle to Victoria...so another day sitting waiting for them to come.......Now we are having a huge windstorm with rain tonight, so the car sits covered in plastic bags!  To bad our cops can't do their work instead of riding around on bikes and shaving heads for charity.  I guess solving crime is too much like work!

This has not been a good day.

God Bless,

Liz

I'm so sorry about all of this, Liz.  What do the police think they are hired to do??  This is just crazy.  ((((((hugs))))))

 We were greeted with rain this morning but at least it was much better than the very hot and sticky weekend.

Judy:   The country from North Bay south to Lake Ontario got very little rain while  the country from North Bay north got plenty of rain and had lots of green grass and beautiful crops.  

Janet:  Welcome home.

Pat:  Thanks for looking up the spec. on Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day it is amazing how the government at the time acknowledged Almighty God  but now they would like to put and keep Him under the rug.

It is good that the phone rings but this evening it seems to be going constant.    Have a great evening      Ruth

Francine, we'll see if we can get you a tutorial on doing just what you are talking about.  Maybe there's one on Photography Cafe?

Liz, that is just terrible.  I am so sorry that this happened.  Can't believe that the police would act this way.

Ruth, lots of rain the last few days here in Guelph.  Things are really green.  But it's been awfully hot as well.


Janet, sorry you're off again so quickly.  You just got home!!!

I'm off for an early night.

Talk soon, everyone.

Hi everyone.  It is past my bedtime but thought I would drop in for a moment.  Janet, great to see you home.  Liz, it sounds like you have had quite an ordeal.  I think the police problem exists everywhere and has for a long time with regard to burglary as it doesn't see to get much attention.

This has really been a busy day but the apartment deal is signed and our daughter will be able to move into it on Saturday.  I have reserved a cargo van for one day in which to move her stuff rather than try to make several trips in a pickup truck.  I think it will work much better and everything will be protected and secure.  Pat and I saw the apartment, which is very small, but very adequate for one person.  It is an efficiency with a large room, a small room they call a closet but big enough for her computer desk and plenty of closet space.  It has a nice size bathroom and a little kitchen that appears to be very compact with a 4 burner gas stove and a nice size refrigerator.  All the utilities, except water, are included in the rental amount so we are dealing with a fixed cost.  It is nice and flat outside and a very reasonable distance from the major street in Atlanta with good access to the subway and buses.  We are thankful to God for leading us to it.  My grandson will come on Friday night to help load her things here at the house and then we will stop by on Saturday morning and get the things she has where she is staying.  She has no furniture there but her clothes and miscellaneous things. 

We actually had a nice rain here this afternoon.  Don't know how much but certainly apprecaited. 

Well my eyes are shutting so better stop for tonight.

Ruth We had llittle rain.  Even people I know in Redbridge got very little rain and their crops died in the field.  It sure has been a crazy year.

Today has been piano lessons for the girls.  Kassie has a natural ear for when a  sound is wrong, as a result she finds it wasier than Elizabeth.  Elizabeth loves music.  she had a stint at playing the clarinet in school.  She now wants to play clarinet again, wich means buying her one.  At $250 that is something she will have to wait for, in the meantime she will know her notes and the theory so when she comes to learning the instrument, it will be somewhat easier.  KAssie is more interested in singing.

Even though it was a shorter day, we gor a lot accomplished.  Usually on piano days we have cadets in the afternoon, so the day is reallt choppy.  Today yhere was no cadets so we were able to dig right in.

Well that has been my day, I am off to bed.  Good night everyone and God bless.

Francine that question about mutation of a digital image to include both black & white & colour elements will depend on your editing package.    I use LivePix which is an old program but allows me to manipulate very easily.  Whatever pack you do use you probably would need to use a colour photo superimpose another copy on top and change that one to black and white (maybe by reducing the colour or by direct change to b&w - which some packs have a widget for) then its a case of erasing the areas on the b&w where you want to see the colour (or vice versa).
here's one I did in a matter of moments on LivePix:

So that is where all your grey matter is Keith...nowhere near your head I see! We crossed turkeys with banjoes over here so we could have self plucking ones for Christmas! Have to get you back some way for taking a hatchet to my poems.

Hi everyone else.