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Sorry folks, guess I've gone and got the flu so couldn't get the new NEM up last night.

Now, I'm back to my bed.

Talk to you later!

Hi everyone.  Al I send happy birthday wishes to Marbeth.

JudyB, glad to see you are out from under the pressure of the sewing.

Janet, glad to see the report that all is going well with Beth and John.  Know you will rest better now and enjoy your trip more.  Hope you have a great time.

Marilyn, I do hope you get the house.  I used to own a rental house and I had tenants wreck it as well.  Fortunatley my son lived in it the last 13 years we had it and he didn't do any damage to it.  It was a most happy day when I signed the papers to sell it and never want another rental property.

Pat, I hope you have or will have had a nice trip to pick up your grandson.  Whoops, see you were posting as I was writing and that you now have the flu.  Please take care of yourself and don't worry about us here.

I am not going to try to mention everyone posting today as have a lot of things I want to get done.  

Hope everyone has a good day.

Friday, August 19, 2005

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19, New International Version

  We love others because God has first loved us. Our Heavenly Father taught us how to love in Jesus. Our Abba Father has given us security and confidence so we can love more fully. Our Holy and Almighty God loved us boldly and sacrificially so we could properly understand and define love. We are not the source of love; God is. We are not the great example of love; God is. We tend to be careful and share our love with only those with whom we want to share it: God's love is expansive and open to all. We love because he first loved us.

    Forgive me, Righteous Father, for the times that I have been careful and guarded with my love of your children. Please help me to love others as you have loved me. I ask especially for today that I might use your love to touch someone who needs it in a special way, whether they respond favorably to that love or not. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Pat I am praying for you right now.


Good Morning I have just seen on TV that there was a terrible tornado in Wisconsin.

Not a busy day today. I did have an awful migraine yesterday so Fay sent me on home after only 45 minutes at her house. But today I only have Fay to go to then on to have my nails done.
y special little treat to myself since I am no longer a smoker and this costs less per month that the cigarettes did. It has been 1 year and 10 monthsa since I quit. Praise the Lord.

Had a problem with my cable internet connection this mronign and had to call Cox it that took up some of my time this morning, sitting here on the phone and waiting for the computer to do what it is supposed to do. There was a glitch at their end. I thought the modem had gone.

Nards I am going to go back and read the blogs on Taz and  the Princess.

TTYL

Hello all:  Just looked at the clock it is now afternoon.

We had rain for a good part of last night and today so far it is the day after a rain.

Janet:  I am pleased  that you have heard from Beth & John you will now have a light heart.

Papa John:  So nice to see you back.

Marilyn:   I am so glad that the cigarettes are gone.  Praise the Lord.  Now we just need to hear about your housing.

Pat:  Get Well

Hey my cow problem is solved but now I am wondering with the digital camera's and printing and keeping certain photo's for the album - do you print them at home or do you has the pro. camera shops do them for you.  I have been on a web site that a camera shop has and they are suggesting that their printing will have a longer life compared to doing them at home and of course the cost will be less - paper and ink being a part of their reason.

Now to get a bite for lunch.


Ruth

I pray, Father, that You'll give Pat comfort and rest - that she'll feel completely at peace.  And I pray You'll heal her cold quickly as well.  Through our Lord, do these things, Father.

Nards - good blogs.  Put the links on here occasionally - we'd like to see 'em.

Well, I didn't go and get James last evening due to not feeling well so had to go today and I drove through the absolute worst weather!  I had lightening and thunder happening at the same time with high winds and rain and fog too.  I couldn't see the stores in Erin on the sides of the road.  We had hail about half the size of golf balls and one chipped my front window or maybe it might have been a stone flying off a truck.

Now I'm home and we're still having it.  Just had a tornado warning sent in the email.

I'll chat later.  Have to get this temperature down.

Ruth, I have found that having someone else print my pictures is cheaper for me.  Of course, we don't have a photo quality printer at home, but . . .  If you want somewhere online, I like adorama.com or snapfish.com. Not sure how shipping would work to Canada or outside US, though,

Hope ya'll are having a good day.  I've got ot go to Knoxville, TN in the mornign for a Mary Kay meeting/event, and I'm trying to get as much housework done today as I can so I don't have to do it tomorrow when I get home.  (Simply becaause I know I won't do it tomororw!)

Laters
karmatr

Pat -- hope your're feelingb better

Thanks Karma...


Ruth, my brother, Murray, did an experiment with 6 photos all the same and took them to three different places we all have access to.  I forget where the first two were but they were 64 cents per print.  He went to Walmart and they were 25 cents per print.  (We're speakin gof 4x6) and the only ones that were any good and realistic looking were the Walmart ones at 25 cents.  He, being a photographer, was very critical of colours, grain, etc. and was thrilled that the least expensive was the best deal.  I saw them and agreed with him.

I thought I posted this but I just previewed it and then it wouldn't let me post...said it was searching for www.christianphotographers.com.  But I did save it so here it is........

What a lovely day today.  I called Ivalou and asked her is she would like to go shopping.  I wanted to go to a K-Mart since what I wanted I can only find at K-Mart.  There are still two K-Marts in Indianapolis so we headed to Indianapolis.  We shopped...walked all over the store...and did get what I went after.  I noticed a Mexican restauramt near K-Mart and went to that restaurant.  It was 11:15 a.m. and the parking lot was full.  We went in and nearly every table was full.  The prices were what they were about three years ago and the food was excellent.  When we left, people were standing in a line outside waiting to get in.  My kind of restaurant. 

We then went to Hobby Lobby.  They didn't have what I wanted.  Ivalou bought a greeting card...we were big spenders there. 

On the way back, Ivalou said she had something terrible to tell me.  I had no idea what she was about to say.  But it seems that the earrings that I gave her for her birthday July 22 broke.  She caught them in a blouse and one earring broke.  So I asked her if she still had it.  Yes.  So we came home...she got the earrings...I got my receipt and we went to Noblesville to Wal Mart to exchange them.  No problem exchanging them.  And she got the same kind but this time she said she would be more careful with them. 

Now at 5 p.m. we are going to a Fish Fry at the church where we are going to have our 45th Class Reunion.  Ivalou and I haven't done all day things like this for years.  It feels good to be with her like this.  God is good.

We are not captive anymore - well, the frontage road on which we live was topped with tar layer and we could not drive on it for 24 hours which meant walking about a block and a half on the side of the golf course and around to the car.  Watching for those golfers.  Yesterday, when we had to walk it there was a lot of lightning and a storm passed over with nary a drop of rain. 

Pat:  You are fighting a temperature?  That doesn't sound good at all.  And, it sounds like you have a grandson visiting - what a time for you. 

Larry:  I understand what you mean about celebrating birthdays.  We should celebrate every day. 

Etta Sue:  What a great graphic on the cat with a duck today.  Thanks for your message as well.

Carol

Well today there was a message on my answering machine to I am invited to a barbeque union Meeting tomorrow at 1:30 pm so I will not be eating lunch with Fay. Just got home from having my nails done, a pretty neutral color sort of gold yet sort of copper, very light.

Tonight for supper I am making myself a veggie wrap with Jalepeno/Cheddar tortilla wrap, lettuce, cucumber,tomato, onion, with some imitation sour cream/garlic spread. I found a great web site with MediterrAsian recipes.Anyone want to join me?

TTYL

We have had another extremely hot day today.  Our thermometer got up to 100 degrees.  I believe that officially it got up to 98.

This afternoon Cornelia and I went to see The March of the Penguins.  The photography was absolutely fabulous.  I believe the story of how those little animals go to such lengths to reproduce and how the mates even after being separated are able to find each other tell us something about God's creation.  Also we see the devotion of the parents to their offspring which says something about faithfulness and family ties.  Anyway we enjoyed it.

Gen 1:20-23
20   And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
21   So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22   God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."
23   And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fifth day.
(NIV)

Papa John          <)))><<   

I'm sorry I've been away. Just too tired to come to the desk to read or post.

More later, friends.

Ruth Ann

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