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Did you get time to eat your own meal, Janet?  But what a great feeling it is when you can help out that way!

Have you all gone over to vote in our Mini Challenge~Autumn Splendor?

Some fantastic images there so I hope you all go and vote.  Grab a piece of paper and pencil and write down your top TEN choices before you start to vote and then vote all at once.  You can't do a few and then think that you can come back and finish.  The software won't let you do that.

Enjoy!

Had a great night out last night at a one man show by Rick Wakeman (ex keyboard player of 'The Strawbs' & 'YES') he's now 58, umpteen heart attacks ex-wives and solo albums to his name, and his fingers still move faster than a speeding bullet on his keyboards !   His set included 'Amazing Grace' and 'The day thou gavest' amongst his more well known stuff.

Hi everyone.  I am up very early as had to get our daughter on the 5:30 bus to get back downtown.  She had a 6:30 pm chiropractic appointment last night but one of the buses broke down and she had to wait a long time for the bus.  Fortunately the chiropractor waited for her.  Of course, her mother was in the office and was keeping them advised as to where she was. The bus station is about 2 minutes away so when she got in I had the car running and got her there as fast as possible.  She really needed to see him.  This was the first time she has used this bus service.  I can't drive downtown and back for the $3 it cost her plus it saves me a long drive both ways.

It is chilly here this morning with the temperature at about freezing.  Suppose to warm up into the higher 50s.  Still no rain in our area.

Wordsculptor, it sounds like you really enjoyed the concert.  It is great to hear an accomplished keyboard player.

Carol, glad you are enjoying the Pandora.com website.  I have listened to it a lot as it is easy to use.  For those of you do don't know what Pandora is let me explain.  It is a website that has professional musicians who screen music and you can create your own "radio stations" by indicating a particular artist and you can add other artists or types of music to a radio station and can have up to 100 stations (the last time I looked).  What is nice is that you here not only the artist you designate but others of the same genre or type that you might listen to and I have found the quality very good.  If you don't like a song you can tell them to never play it again.  When you register it remembers your stations and it doesn't require you to keep software on your computer but downloads what it needs to play each time.

Judy, it sounds like all those cookies will keep you busy but I am sure they will be greatly enjoyed.

Janet, it was wonderful that you could be at the nusing home to help Beth, your mother and the other lady.  It must be terribly lonely to be in a nursing home and to seldom, if ever, have someone visit with you, especially loved ones. 

Pat, I will try to look a the photo challenge.  I did look at the photos a couple of days ago and it will be very hard to select a favorite or even 10 favorites.

Hope everyone has a nice day.  We have Bible study this morning with our pastor and then I have choir practice this evening.  It has been 3 weeks since I last practiced, although I did sing on Sunday as we had practiced the anthem we did several times and had done it before. 

Quote from: wordsculptor on November 07, 2007, 05:14:46 AM
Had a great night out last night at a one man show by Rick Wakeman (ex keyboard player of 'The Strawbs' & 'YES') he's now 58, umpteen heart attacks ex-wives and solo albums to his name, and his fingers still move faster than a speeding bullet on his keyboards !   His set included 'Amazing Grace' and 'The day thou gavest' amongst his more well known stuff.

Sounds like a great night out.   Does he have any CDs?

Pat even though I cannot hear the music, I can hear the singing of this hymn.  How many times we gathered around the piano and sang hymns like this and many others.  What memories.  Now Kass and Elby are learning the piano and hopefully we will again gather around the piano and sing the favourites.

Good Morning I have been a little bit busy this morning, cooking food for the dogs, doing dishes twice, going to Curves etc. I will go to Tai Chi at 8:30 then on the my little house cleaning job at 9:30.  The sun WAS out so nice and it looked to be a great day BUT then the fog  rolled in very thick right now.

This afternoon I think I will clean out my pantry cabinet and clean of my counter and able. Too much clutter. I really need to do my china cabinet. Something I have been putting off for a year or more.

Yesterday I DID cancel my health insurance and apply for medicaid.  Nothing else new here. Back to the corner.

Noon here in Indiana. 

As I was watching TV last evening, I thought...my throat seems sore.  Sure enough, I woke up this morning with a sore throat, full sinus and cough.  I feel much better now but still a little bit of sore throat.  And I just got over a cold!!!

This morning I called the girls in my class that doesn't have email.  I found out that one of my classmate's husband passed away early this morning.  He was about 20 years older than Darla and had had a stroke and wheelchair bound.  He was in the hospital with pneumonia.  Sad. 

Then I made a run to Lapel to get stamps at the Post Office and Dollar General.  I did a first today.  I went to the Dollar General for three items and left with just those three items!!! 

I also got Medigap...Medicare Supplement yesterday.  I shouldn't be getting any mail saying I owe anything for a medical service.  Yes, I am paying a monthly premium but at least, I won't be stuck with a big bill that needs to be paid all at once.  For my health, I think this is the best alternative. 

Time for lunch and this afternoon I am having a termite inspector check my home and garage.  This house had termites 20 years ago.  The inspection is a security blanket for me.

Quote from: JudyB on November 07, 2007, 10:05:56 AM
Pat even though I cannot hear the music, I can hear the singing of this hymn.  How many times we gathered around the piano and sang hymns like this and many others.  What memories.  Now Kass and Elby are learning the piano and hopefully we will again gather around the piano and sing the favourites.

Judy B-I so agree with you!  When we still lived in Southern California, my hubby and I and my mom would all sit in the jacuzzi out on the patio and sing the hymns in three part harmony.  Who knows what the neighbors thought?  Hey, guess that could be considered seed planting, eh?  A fun way to do it!

We also did it gathered around the piano since my brother is a pianist.  We had a group that would go to nursing homes and such and sing, too.  Oh, what fond memories! 

Thanks for that hymn, Pat.  I sang it along in my head as I read it.  It's hard to find churches these days that still sing enough of the old hymns to suit me, but ours does a pretty good job of balancing with the praise and worship songs.

I'm praying for all the needs here.  God bless your day, everyone!

Thanks Kathleen for that nice memory of singing the great old hymns of the faith with your family.

Glad your church is having a good balance.  I'm so happy that my church is using the hymn book and singing these each Sunday.


Hi Judy and Etta Sue!

Awake at 2:30 A.M., I went to the chilly living room and wrapped myself in an afghan while opening the bible to whatever - it was Eccles. 33.  Perfect message to me that "nothing is new under the sun".  The entire word was like a tender reminder of not to fret about things - and that is just what made me wide awake - concern about son being out of work.  And, here I felt that I was really letting this go all along and being so calm but apprently my brain wasn't about to shut this prediciment out.  Went back to sleep around 4 A.M.  - ahhhhh, great to relax and sleep.

Pat:  Larry explained Pandora.com so well - I like listening to it and often just minimize it while working on the 'puter.  Then, if some song isn't very likeable, I can quickly bring Pandora up and click - I do not like this song - they say they are sorry and will never play it again.  What power!   

Larry:  Thanks for stepping in here to answer Pat.  For some reason, I seem to be having to delete too many nonsense & wild songs. 

So, I went to the pool this morning as exercise is good for stress too.  Then, bought some fabric to make pillowcases for gifts this Christmas.  Fun cotton fabrics with snowboarders/ airplanes/hockey/ and I sewed the music themed one this morning.  Ran up to the church with a fabric donation but didn't stay to help - as if they need me to cough around them. 
Time to fix dinner - avacados are ripe so will put it all in a salad or make tacos.

Carol

I'm home again, from a trip to Garden City to take Beth to the urologist.  Total waste of time and money.  He said she's fine, didn't even look at her, just at the sonogram results; said come back in a year.  They could have faxed him the results and saved us the trip.    Oh, well......Pat went with us, and we enjoyed the day.  Of course, just getting out for the day is a treat for Beth, so guess that makes it worth it.

I need to go mix our Reliv shakes and see what's for supper!

Just wrote this one tonight


In Adam You are Dying

1 Corinthians 15: 22, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." You know the first half of that scripture instinctively, you know that from the very moment a child is conceived it begins to die, you grow up, you grow old, and at some point along the way, you are going to pass from this earth.
   What I want to say to you in this leaflet, is something so very simple even a child can understand it, yet seemingly it is beyond the comprehension of the grown up mind to grasp. The thing is. Will you ask Jesus Christ to come into your life, at this very moment in time? It's a simple enough thing to do. Because Jesus said. John 6:47 "Most assuredly. I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life." Why should I ask Jesus to come into my life? Simply because you owe it to yourself , to be be saved from judgement and become, Born Again.
   "Born again, what's that?" Born again is not some glib slogan, or techno Christian speak banded about by modern got myself saved with it Christian's, it is a fact of eternal life. Jesus said, John 3: 7, "You must be Born Again."
   Nicodemus came to Jesus by night knowing that Jesus was a teacher sent from God, and showed this through the miracles he worked, but Jesus said something to Nicodemus that really confounded him. Nicodemus saw in Jesus, many things relating to the kingdom of God, to which Jesus replied. John 3: 3, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." The only other place the phrase, Born Again occurs is in 1 Peter 1: 23, "Being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible." Then Peter goes on to quote some Old Testament, verses that says, V24, "For all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls away." The quotation is from Psalm 103: 14-16, "For He knoweth our frame He remembers we are dust. (our nature from Adam's sin, and its consequences} As for man his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passesn over it and it is gone; and the place thereov shall know it no more." This theme is carried on in Psalm 104: 29-30, "You hide your face, they are troubled; you take away their breath they die, and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the facen of the earth."
   We in Adam, are dying in his sin, but if we receive Christ into our lives, we are being re-created, anew in God's Spirit, Jesus was surprised that Nicodemus being a teacher of the law, didn't know this, because here in the Old Testament, the new birth is mentioned quite clearly, that's why Peter refers back to it.
   Colossians 2: 6, says, "As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in Him." Why must you receive Christ, because He is God's eternal gift to you? You cannot earn a gift, or buy it off the giver, to try and do so is an insult to the one who is giving you that gift, a true gift is given because the giver loves you and wants to give you something special as a token of their love for you. John 3: 16, "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." Does what I've just said, not put a new slant on what it is to become a Christian, if so what is holding you back from having what's rightfully yours? New life for the asking.

Janet:  Sometimes, when we think time has been wasted it really hasn't been wasted at all.  You had a day off from housew**k.

Summicron  Thanks for your posting - it looks like you have put a lot of research into your pamphlet material and it all comes together very nicely.  You write pamphlets?  That must be a lot of work and talent. 

A friend changed her email address so I just sat and wrote a long letter to her - via email.  It goes so much quicker to type. 

Tomorrow is quilting with friends in Loveland so I need to get a project ready - actually may bring the crochet hook & yarn.  We do anything.  I have to cut out a lot of material for the pillowcases I am making and not sure I want to haul my sewing machine up from the basement to the car and to the church basement - although they have an elevator.  Super nice. 

Not good news on weather forecast for this month at all as Colorado gets snow now and here it is into the 60's and sunny.  Some days are about 20 to 25 degrees above normal.  There is one fire in the hills and no rain predicted. 

Carol

Hi everyone.  I must leave in a few minutes to go about an hour away to my retirees luncheon.  We meet every two months but I haven't been there the last two meetings.  We go to a Ryan's and there are usually about a dozen of us.  We just eat and visit, no program or responsibilities.  One of the men always contacts us to remind us and then calls in a reservation so they have a table set up for us.  One of the joys of being retired.

It is a chilly but beautiful day but like Carol we are just not getting any rain.  People are taking actions to reduce water usage.  We don't use a lot of water but are trying to conserve where possible.

Carol, even though we know it does no good for us to worry about our children, it is easier said than done.  However, our worrying isn't going to change anything (guess it just gives us something to do).  Hope you don't have very many nights of not being able to sleep.

Janet, sorry your trip to the doctor with Beth seemed a waste.  One of the nice things that Kaiser is doing is to e-mail us test results and I have had the doctor call us rather than have to make an appointment and go in to see him.  I am sure the outing was good for Beth but hard on you and your friend.

Summicron, thanks for sharing your leaflet material.

Kathleen, I feel fortunate in that our church still has a traditional service and sings the old hymns. 

Etta Sue, sorry to hear you have developed another cold.  It seems you have had more than your share of colds in the last few months.

Marilyn, hope you got your cabinet cleaning done as planned. 

Judy and Pat, the memories of singing the hymns in the past is a wonderful thing to have. 

About time to leave for the day.

I voted in the Autumn contest this morning. There are some stunning pictures and it was hard to choose and I wish I could have voted twice.....like they used to do here in N.Ireland....eh Pat! Even the dead were able to vote at times! I am always inspired by the beauty of nature and I do love this time of year. I am disappointed I could not get any pictures of Autumn scences as the winds seemed to have whipped the leaves of the trees while they were still green or like the beech trees; went a miserable brown without bothering to go through all the nice colour changes.   As I say...I am always inspired by nature and I am also nearly a year with you guys so I do hope you like the poem. If Keith Wallis goes to critique it....give him a clip on the ear for me! We have another site for doing that on! God bless

Good Morning. Michael what a wonderful tract you have written the plan of salvation couldn't be plainer. Thank you so much for sharing.

Larry yes I got my kitchen stuff done  yesterday. Now to start on the china cabinet.  I think  will downsizing some of the  dust collecting knick knacks. I am going to try to get in to see the Chiropractor today.

I see Kevin stopped in yesterday and left a message in the shoutbox. I sure miss seeing his wonderful photos of Japan an his dog Jazz.  Kevin Come Back!!

Janet how is the arm doing?You haven't said anything in quite a while.

I am doing some laundry this morning and enjoying a second  . My neighbor brought me a few packages of organic pork yesterday. He butchered his pig; I got some pork chops, smoked ham, sausage and bacon. this is the man has the two pit bulls and I made the baby quilt for his  new baby girl that will be born the end of this month.

Thanks Carol!  I'll have to go back and have a search for Larry's post on Pandora.

When it rains, it pours.  Ivalou went for her yearly checkup yesterday.  She failed her EKG.  She has Atrial Fibulation. Our Mom had it too.  But we thought it was caused by the auto accident Mom was in.  But the doctor said that some people just get a-fib when they age.  Now Ivalou will have a siege of blood tests until her coumadin gets regulated.  Then tested every three months.  I remember Mom having to do this.  So keep Ivalou in your prayers, please. 

I am off to 60 Chix today at Olive Gardens.  Judy B is going with me.  We may be the only two there!!  I haven't heard from anyone else that is going but then they don't reply to emails generally. 

Time to get ready!! 

Great message in your leaflet/tract, Michael.  The plan of salvation is so simple, it's a shame some try to make it hard.

Larry, hope you have a great time at your retirees luncheon.

Carol, have fun, whatever you decide to work on.  It is nice to get together and work with friends.

Yesterday morning as I was getting ready to leave, I opened my makeup compact and my blush brush fell out---and right down the drain of the lavatory sink!    Darrel went to take the trap apart, and the pipe (plastic) came apart inside the wall.    Plumbing problems are so aggravating.    When I got home, he had it all fixed.  I'm so thankful Darrel knows how to do things like that.

Marilyn, I guess all the resting I did after my wrist surgery was the right ticket for my arm, as it is hardly bothering me at all now.  Thanks for asking.

Etta Sue, sorry to hear Ivalou's news.  Heart problems are rather scary.  My sister called this morning to tell me Audra's heart is in very dangerous condition, and she will be having open heart surgery on Nov. 19th.  Please pray for her.  The heart walls are so thick it is interfering with the flow of blood.

COLIN---I really love this poem about the seasons!  Thanks so much for sharing it with us.  Hey, we still are planning a trip to Ireland!

I need to go eat lunch with my Youth Friend today.  I have some little wooden snowmen for us to paint, hope she will enjoy that project.

Pat, how are you?  We need to talk!

To Janet, No actually, God plants scripture in my mind, He does, usually scripture that ties in with, or is a quotation, in the New Testament, taken from the Old Testament and when I look into them, they tie up perfectly, and sometimes, just sometimes, I get a tract out of them. But I must write them in one sitting, whatever the cost, because itf I stop I loose my train of thought, and they never get finished. Usually takes me Two, two and a half hours to complete.


   What I really wanted to say on here is that, in order to get through to people who profess not to be Christians, is that hammering home the gospel of repentance and accepting Jesus, can sometimes be self defeating, As I have said, "God is the author and finisher of our salvation," And it often perhaps even just a single word, that becomes the spark that causes realisation in a persons life. That happened to me, somebody was telling me about the need to accept Jesus into my life, and I knew instantly, I was a Christian and had been for months, because God found me in a graveyard, and spoke to me. I felt like shouting out, "If what you say is true, then I must be a Christian." No I just kept that quiet, I wish I had though.
   The most remarkable testimony, I ever heard, was a man, who was a farmer, each morning he went into his milking shed to milk his cows, one morning he went into his milking shed, and came out a Christian, he doesen't know what happened, he simply knew the indwelling of Christ in his heart.
   A man who used to come to an evening gospel service, every Sunday night, never seemed to respond to whatever the preacher spoke about. But then I got some John's gospels from America, (I've got Wells Fargo, mail bags in my Loft, hows that for a souvenir?) however I digress, I gave that man, one of those John's gospels, and he said, "I just may well become a Christian," he died a few weeks later, I think in his heart he did accept Christ.
   Very often I think we can preach and preach to people, when all it needs is to leave that person in the hands of God, a bit like throwing a lit match in the petrol tank to start the car, when all that's needed is just the right spark, and the engine will turn over itself. The trouble is we don't know how that will happen, its God who holds the ignition key, I guess that's what Paul calls the mystery of the gospel. "And God added to the church daily those who were being saved, He's still doing it.

Hello to all.   

Yesterday we woke up to our first intorduction of winter (snow) for this season. Today it is sunny and fresh but what little snow we had  is now gone.

Jeannie: I was saddened to read that your hubby has chosen to leave,  May you feel that Jesus is with you in your time of stress.
 
We went to Wal Mart this morning and it pays to check your sales receipts as I have to go back after work for a correction as they did a double billing.  ($10.00)   if it was less I would not bother going but this is a little to much. and yes I know it was a error.

Mel has curling this evening so I had best get dinner ready before leaving for work then all he has to do is put it in the oven.

See I am out of the corner, who will follow?

You know what I use make up brushes for Janet? Cleaning transparencies, and Getting in those nooks and crannies on my cameras, the eyelash brush, really gets between the shutter dial and the pentaprism, Michael, Haven't figured out a use for the eyelash comb yet, 

I'm back. I went to see the chiropractor and he wants me back in two weeks. I've waited too long between appointments he Is a good friend as well and sometimes adjusts me for free away from the office.

I've walked both dogs it is a bit chilly out there at 50° my nose got cold and ran.
Al if you make some comment about my nose running it will be totally expected of you. Ha ha 

Not much else going on here. I am thinking of making an apple cobbler. I did make Posole soup for my supper ate a bunch of walnuts but that all beside doing some laundry.

Marilyn, what in the world is posole soup???

Busy day for me again.  And we will be leaving very early in the morning for Amarillo.  Darrel has two doctor's appointments, also one to get the van repaired.  We will spend the night and be there on Saturday for Mother's 95th birthday celebration and early Thanksgiving dinner.  Then when we get home we only have one day before leaving for Peru.  So I won't likely be in here much!

We are still having very nice days, up near 70 by 10:30 AM or so, and then cools off again at night.  I like it! 

You kids be good while I'm away, and play nice, okay? 

My goodness, Janet, I think we're going to have to change your middle name to "traveller"!

You're always on the go!

Hurry back!

Today I really have something to look forward to - I'm booked in at hospital for a cystoscopy this afternoon!  I won't be taking MY camera they use their own 

Janet Posoli Soup is a recipe I posted long ago.

Not much on my agenda today. at 10 I am going over to vacuum a lady's house for her. I will go to Curves shortly maybe I will go to Tai Chi at 8:30 I haven't made up my mind yet.

gotta get dressed now.

Hi everyone.  Will check in this morning as have a full day and will be tired when I get home this afternoon.  I am leading an audit team to audit the books of our Computer Learning Center and then we have our monthly volunteer meeting, followed by a business luncheon and then our User Group Meeting.  This will be the last User Group Meeting for 2007. 

We have had a little change of plans and are going to have to wait one additional day to go see our granddaughter and great grandchildren.  We will be going on Sunday rather than Saturday.  Our daughter is coming out for the weekend on the bus this afternoon and will go with us.  We will take her back on Sunday evening as she has a number of fragile ship models that she wants to take to her apartment and I told her I wasn't going to try to move them.  If one gets broken it will be her doing and not mine. 

Janet, hope you have a good trip to Texas and the doctor appointments for Darrel turn out well and you are able to get the van repaired.  We will miss you while you are gone on your trip but that sounds like a wonderful adventure and so glad you both are up to making the trip.

Wordsculptor, hope the cystoscopy goes well this afternoon.

Marilyn, it seems tha seeing the chiropractor is a life long thing for those that are helped by the treatments.  I am fortunate in that I don't have any back problems.  Both my wife and daughter benefit greatly from the treatments.

Ruth, does Mel actually play the curling game or just observe? 

Etta Sue, sorry to hear that Ivalou has heart problems. 

Guess I had better head out.  A special hi to those who have posted that I didn't mention by name.