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That's interesting about llamas, I never heard that before.  They have no defenses except their hooves, do they?  Must be a sight to see a fight between a llama and a coyote or wolf.  Hmmmm.  Judy, that is a LOT of beans!  Wish I had enough for a "mess."  Darrel really loves fresh green beans, and probably the other colors as well.

Larry, glad you are feeling well.  Try to stay out of that heat!  It was well over 100 here yesterday, and high 90s today.

I worked this morning, went back to the doctor, then to lunch, then to nurse for nail care, home to rest a while and back to Senior Center for supper.  The Mennonite young people served us hamburgers with all the fixings, salads, melons and then homemade ice cream!!  Yum!

And now it's about time to put the ol' bod to bed.  

Quote from: Pat on August 01, 2010, 10:02:56 PM

Getting to Know You
a fun Trivia Quiz

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?

I'd like to have a car that has an automatic transmission, so my arm can heal.  And maybe a new one than the one I have now.



2. What room are you in right now?

The computer/piano/book room.



3. Are you afraid of spiders? 

No, not afraid....I just don't have any friendly thoughts toward them.



4. How many times did you move before you were 20?

We moved a lot......probably 10 or 15 times.



5. Did you grow up with pets?

Yes...I had Brownie, our dog, and various cats and a few birds.



6. What color is your car? 

silver grey



7. What did you have for dinner last night? 

chicken and rice, green beans, cantalope



8. What's for breakfast today? 

eggs


9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?

both...mixed together is best.










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Hello everyone!  

I'm still kicking!!!!

Life tried to get me down, but I'm slowing bouncing back!

I've been taking a lot of pictures lately, that seems to make me happy.  I'm not very good, but I like what I see.

Y'all have a good evening.

Samantha

Good to see you here Samantha.

Janet Llamas Spit!  That will send any animal running I am told.

Judy, I have had a few spit at me, and it isn't nice, for sure.  After reading your post last night, I typed in Llamas as guard animals and found some really fascinating stuff!  They apparantly are very good at using those sharp hooves, and even small animals such as cats and raccoons turn tail and run when the guard llama gets after them.  Fun to learn new things.

Ugh, I feel so sleepy.  I took an Ambien and slept really good, but just not enough.  Hope I can keep my wits about me at work, whih is where I am headed now.

What should be our attitude in prayer?

Then Eli realized it was the Lord who was calling the boy. So he said to Samuel, "Go and lie down again, and if someone calls again, say, 'Yes, Lord, your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went back to bed. And the Lord came and called as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel replied, "Yes, your servant is listening."

1 Samuel 3:8-10 NLT

Speak, Lord, in the stillness, while I wait on Thee; hushed my heart to listen in expectancy.
Speak, O blessed Master, in this quiet hour, let me see Thy face, Lord, feel Thy touch of power.
Emily May Grimes


God revealed
God revealed himself mightily to the prophet Elijah, sending fire to burn the sacrifice on Mount Carmel. But later, as Elijah moped on the mountain, the Lord taught him an important lesson. There was a wind, an earthquake, and a fire—but the Lord was not in any of these. Then came a still, small voice. That was how God chose to speak to His prophet.

The same is true today. We long for fire from heaven to silence the skeptics once and for all, but God doesn't usually work that way. Long ago He revealed Himself as a helpless baby sleeping in a dirty feed trough, and today He speaks quietly to ordinary people like you and me—if only we are still enough to listen. That is the sentiment expressed by Emily May Grimes in the words of the hymn, "Speak, Lord, in the Stillness."

Is there any news on Jeanne?

Judy:   While away I had only one ice cream cone/maple walnut $2.50 a scoop..  Mel was with me so that helped me keep in check good thing as I do not need any more added to my already well fed bones.

Earlier we went to Bass Pros the men's sporting store and purchased two life jackets it was thought only one but two came home.

Any word about Jeanne and what is wrong because like Marilyn I had no idea she was not well.

Now I must head out to the local expensive grocery store.  I will not be gone any longer than needed as it is hot and hummid.  

Diane and I only got 52 photos scanned.  But I am resizing, sharpening and adding a border on the bottom or the side and adding text that tells when, what, where, and/or who.  The program only takes 101 photos so she is coming back next Monday.  Hopefully we will be done!

Tony just called and he is bringing equipment to check out the lawnmower.  And bringing his FIL.  He knows engines and mowers pretty good.  Hope it isn't expensive...or a new mower!  It is his mower but I will pay for the repair or a new mower that would be mine!

Got to go open up the garage doors so it won't be 150 degrees out there!! 

1: Do you have a wish list?

Yes, to get together much more often with the family.  To visit Swedish relatives and stay longer and to have a long & interesting tour of the Holy Land, including parts of Turkey. 



2. What room are you in right now?

I am in the kitchen sitting at the desk area near a table.  I like my little niche.  Don gets the separate room for his "office".  





3. Are you afraid of spiders?  

No, except Wolf spiders that are huge & jump.



4. How many times did you move before you were 20?

We moved at least 10 times and I lived in five states - Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts, and Washington.



5. Did you grow up with pets?

Yes, dogs, one cat and one parakeet.



6. What color is your car?  

Light gray



7. What did you have for dinner last night?  

Mushroom pizza - salad



8. What's for breakfast today?  

oatmeal


9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?

mustard

   Belated Happy Birthday greetings to Al.  May this new year be filled with good health for you and Marbeth. 

Prayers for all the young people out of work.  Our SIL is now getting some more interviews and this is his 7th. month.  Grandson will visit an Infectious Disease specialist this month - the doctor is making a special appt. before grandson goes to school.  We hope and pray.  I was reading about Janet;s Darrel going through such a test and it is really disheartening at times - we keep on praying. 

I don't think Jeanne posted, Marilyn.

She wrote to me from the Intensive Care Unit.

Kassie invited some friends over to pick beans and peas.  Boy did they ever get done fast.  Then swimming.  Home now and gettin the beans done into the freezer.

I haven't heard anything Marilyn.

Ruth Clark Street and main in our town is the Kwik Way.  They fill one of the smaller Styrofoam cups instead of a cone.  It is the equivalent to a Laura Secord Large.  I could never finish a Kwik Way large!

Back to work!

Hi everyone.  We have had a very busy day and in a few minutes I must leave for choir. 

Pat saw the eye doctor for her 4 week follow-up for the cataract surgery.  All is well.  However, she has such dry eyes that he prescribed Restatis to try to treat the dry eyes.  He also gave her a prescription for new glasses.  She has been using drugstore glasses that she carries around her neck and really dislikes using them.  She prefers just to wear glasses.

We then met our daughter at a new Italian eating place where she could get to in wheelchair.  The food was very good.  We split a serving of lasagna and a flat calzone and it was plenty for each of us.  No dinner tonight.  We then went to her apartment where I looked at her computer.  She has gotten a very nasty trojan on her computer.  I had to bring it home and think I will have to use the restore disks and put it back in factory condition to get rid of it.  It is blocking the anti-virus program and want to take you to a sight where you have to pay $50 for a program to remove it.  This should be totally illegal but guess it is hard to control.  She doesn't know how she got the virus but it has sure made a mess of her computer.  Fortunately she uses G-mail and she doesn't have anything on her hard disk that she wants to keep. 

Pat and I came home and immediately laid down as we were both exhausted.  Still feel worn out so know it will be to bed when I get home from choir.

Time to get ready for choir.

Larry that is the same virus that Keith got on his computer and he had to take it in to the shop to get it cleaned out, however there is a site online that you can go to  and get the instructions for removing it. Just Google the  name of the Trojan. You can get that trojan by clicking on a link to a photos or anything.

Quote from: Pat on August 01, 2010, 10:02:56 PM

Getting to Know You
a fun Trivia Quiz

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?
Well, if it be God's will, I'd like to be able to get another TV - mine is more and more difficult to get up and running. The tube's most likely failing. Also, if He wills, it would be nice to have a laptop with WiFi.

2. What room are you in right now? I am in my office/walk-in closet. In really small spaces a person must be creative with use of space.

3. Are you afraid of spiders?  No - I think years of teaching in our church's day care center helped me get over my fear of insects, n frogs, n other critters.

4. How many times did you move before you were 20? 9

5. Did you grow up with pets? A budgie (parakeet) named Kippy came into our home about the time I was 11 or 12. What fun he was!

6. What color is your car?  A soft grayish purplish color. She's named "Josie" in honor of a dear friend, whose favorite color is purple.

7. What did you have for dinner last night?  A little frozen chicken/rice/broccoli/cheese dinner.

8. What's for breakfast today?  An egg sandwich on whole wheat bread.

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard? On occasion, ketchup, mostly mustard, honey mustard, barbecue, or mayonnaise type sauces.






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As I understand it, Jeanne found a way to the hospital and learned her appendix had ruptured. So, she's really fighting a HUGE infection. Let's still keep her in our prayers.

Ruth Ann

Yeah!!  I have my mower fixed.  Tony and FIL came.  They determined that it was the battery after all.  I asked them to take the battery out of the old Honda mower that was Mom's and get a new one for it also.  Now I have two mowers that run!!  All for only $51.  Yeah!

Then Tony remembered that I needed a bulb replaced in the basement.  Why does my minute jobs turn into an hour?  The porcelain fixture shorted out in the off position.  I didn't even realize that there was a chain to turn it off and on...the chain was on the floor.  Also Tony checked my water softener and I was OUT of salt!  So I went to Lowe's this morning.  I have a new fixture and 4 bags of salt...two of which I put in the softener.  Resting before I put the other two in!  Those 40# bags are heavy to carry to the back door and down the steps and then lift to pour the salt in the container!

Nothing else on the agenda today! 

Tomorrow is a check up with the urologist.  I asked Ivalou to go with me, then have Pizza and then get groceries.  She didn't sound interested.  Kaye Don is to take her today or tomorrow to shop for a new kitchen stove.  Hers is a '50 or '60 model and it seems the oven switch is burnt out and wiring probably burnt up.  Doubt if any replacement parts could be found.  She is due for a new stove...only two burners worked also.  Hope she find exactly what she wants without a lot of extras that she will never use.

I saw my WeatherFX read 96° yesterday.  So hot.  Felt like an oven when you went outside and felt like you were going in a refrigerator when you came back inside!  My glasses kept fogging up!!  Then we had rain, lightening and thunder and it dropped 20°!!  Nicer today and not suppose to get as hot!  But I am kind of wishing that I could mow...to try out the Honda again.  First I need to wash it...3 years of garage dust on it!

Oh, so sad about Jeanne.

Reminds me of when my hubby, about 10 years ago, had so much pain--waited in emergency room for over 5 hrs. and they sent him home with antibotic(he had a sligtht fever) pain pills, and a stomach acid reducer pill...

Two hours later, after pain started to go away with the pain pill, my DIL called her doctor who immediately sent him back to hospital..By then, the appendix ruptured and he had to stay there for
18 days with back to back IV's loaded with antibotics.  Another young girl was there and the same thing happened to her, after sending her home, her's ruptured ,too...

So remember you know your own body better than anybody, so speak up and fight for better health care and awareness..

tHE GOOD thing when my hubby was on the IV's he stopped smoking and never had withdrawals or smoked again.

His not smoking helped tremondously when he came down with cancer..He is now a cancer survivor , passing thed 5 year mark.

love and prayers to Jeanne and to the others that are not feeling well mentioned here.

Well, it's quiet in here!

It's so nice to read through your trivia answers. 

Yesterday was my first day back from Winchester, VA and I spent the whole day cutting my back lawn!  I measured the height of the grass and it was 15 inches high!    I was cutting and cutting and cutting.  And the old saying was so true that goes, "Horses sweat!  Men perspire but LADIES GLOW!"    I was sure "glowing" most of the day in the heat but I needed to get it done! 


Yes, please keep praying for our Jeanne.  She's still in intensive care as far as I've heard.

Add your greetings to her to give her a lot to read when she gets back (over in the Prayer and Praise area).

I was just looking through my emails that have come in today and thought this from "Joni and Friends" was good reading today.


Joni and Friends Daily Devotional

Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. Because of my chains, most of the brothers in the Lord have been encouraged to speak the word of God more courageously and fearlessly.
                                                 
-- Philippians 1:12-14

I'm not like Paul; I'm not in prison -- far from it! But I can identify with the bolts and bars of a prison cell. This wheelchair is made of a lot of metal, and in a way it's confining. I suppose that's why so many prisoners write me. My testimony has encouraged them, and they look at my bolts and bars and understand.

Even though I know nothing of the kind of imprisonment the apostle Paul went through, I do know I like his attitude. In the scripture for today, he basically says, "Okay, so I'm in chains? My bolts and bars help me spread the good news. Every time they chain me to another guard, he gets an earful of the gospel. And my imprisonment helps others to become bold."

I've read letters from prisoners who say the same thing. "Okay, so I'm behind bars? It's a chance for me to draw closer to Christ." I can say the same thing. "Okay, so I'm in a wheelchair? These bolts and bars give me a chance to spread the good news to anyone who experiences confinement and limitations."
 
What are your chains? Maybe you feel manacled to the kitchen sink. Maybe you feel chained to your desk with just enough slack to reach the restroom and coffeemaker. Maybe you feel imprisoned in a difficult marriage. Goodness, we all can name the bolts and bars that confine us. Look at today's verse again. Has what happened to you served to advance Christ's gospel? It should. It's the locale from which God wants to work.

I finally got a good night's rest and feel like a new woman today!    I went to my chiropractor, and he is working on my face, helping the TMJ so much!  And I never even thought about a chiropractor being able to help that condition.  Dr. Saxon is one of the most brilliant, and downright NICEST people I have ever met.  God bless him.

I am leaving very early in the morning to go to a painting seminar in Newton for a couple of days.

Good to read all your posts and catch up on your activities!  We have some apricots from Diane's tree that we need to do something with.  We are still eating the little peaches....I had six of them for breakfast!  

I drove down last evening to watch Abby's practice for her dance recital, which I will e and Mark to take lots of photos, because I have a  nice ballet album and no pictures to go in it!

I am off to do more stuff.  Always something needing to be done.

I had a post, but it posted before I was finished, and then instead of modifying it I removed it. LOL

Good morning, everyone. 

HAHAHA!

And I got your original post in my email, Nita!

Got this from Chris Saunders and his wife Margit says, "Isn't it amazing that many a country that under the communist regime was not permitted to uphold Christianity now has risen high above and in many ways outdone Christianity as it is today in America or anywhere in the West."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dSIL358NM

Pat:  Just loved the Utube of the young people doing an religious dance in Budapest.  I will try to find that square. It is amazing to see something like that and why not right here in the USA?  I figured out that Joni is the former skier paralyzed and now an artist - I read her story many years ago.  Thanks for the uplifting video. 

We drove our neighbors to breakfast in the hills and it is an old place next to a little, divided river.  There are many birds and a few ducks with their ducklings but no one fly fishing this morning.  Still, an interesting place with photos of Roy Rogers to Nixon.  We spent 4 hours visiting with them there & later at their home.  Time to stop dilly dallying here -

 

I was writing a letter on the laptop and tried to put a clip art in - well, when the symbols were of "Religion" there were scads of Muslim mosques and some outlines of church or cathedral but no cross.  What has happened that this has taken over our lives without us realizing - it has been an insidious plan to eliminate, Christianity in our lives and if we speak out, we are branded as being racist, far right evangelicals (and they want to brand that as being a bad thing). 

   

Hi, friends, I'm peeking in the door again. Have been interested in watching election results tonight - we have had some very hotly contested races, so have been kinda "glued" to the TV tonight.

Well, I managed to bump into something last night, so now have a gorgeous, slightly crooked broken toe (the one beside the big toe on left foot). It made me think of that warning - "beware of things that go bump in the night!!!" 

No, Pat, this time I don't think I'll paint my toenails. <chuckle>

Isn't it wonderful that when our bodies begin to show the ravages of age, we can still have that constantly-renewed faith in our Master where that faith never wavers nor ages! My faith still holds tonight.

Love to all y'all.

Ruth Ann

Pat:  I sure enjoyed reading Joni's devotional. 

Ruth Ann:  You broke a toe by walking into something and I walked into the corner of our coffee table thus a wonderful bruise and a layer of skin lifted about the size of a quarter.  I moved a chair in the way as I was using the full length of my dinning room table to repair a tarp that goes on hubby's boat.

Jeanne sure has a long way to go in getting better we must remember her in our prayers.

Today we had lunch at a restaurant that many locals go to, details I will not mention but is it ever maddening when someone claims to know all the facts  after checking when I got  home they were so very wrong, I guess that is how stories get twisted. One of them is a know all type.

As mentioned above I am repairing the tarp for Mel's boat, after checking a couple of seams they have to out as the canvas is buckling too much, I am the kind of person that it must come out and be done right.  Yes I will have the job done tomorrow and will be a little more careful.

Ruth

Well, time to go to bed now but I'll be setting my alarm for a couple of hours from now.  Lauren, my cat, is not well and I don't want her to get dehydrated.  She doesn't want to drink or eat and the vet gave me a syringe to put water in so I'm trying to do that every 15 minutes to 1/2 hour to see if I can keep her strength up.

Not nice to see our "buddies" ill.


Glad you've enjoyed the YouTube and the Joni devotional.  Yes, Carol, she dived into the water in Chesapeake Bay and hit a rock and broke her neck.  The Lord is sure using her now.