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Good Morning everyone. It  is good to see you all and hear about your lives. I don't posts as often as I used to, as I am pretty busy these days will lessons to complete on my computer, and taking care of the  big house.  Today I am going to clean two of the bathrooms and vacuum the family and living rooms, then after Keith gets hone fro work we will go to Walmart to finish up the grocery shopping, he  enjoys shopping with me so I usually wait until he cam gp. I went to the Grocery Outlet yesterday to do some of the shopping, we still have to buy meat and a few other things that we are just about out of.

Yesterday when I first got into the grocery Outlet it started to sleet and  boy oh boy was it loud on that roof, but by the time I was ready to leave it had toned down to a light rain, however that didn't last  long, It poured rain off and on yesterday and it was so cold that poor Happy was chattering his teeth, I rubbed him good to warm him up.  I don't keep the heat turned up in the rest of the house that we are not using at the time. But  do keep the heat  on in the computer room since that is where I am most of the time. So the dogs stay in here with me most of the time too.

I went with Megan to her Doctors appt.  What a pleasure that was!  She has about four and a half weeks left.  Heard the heart beat...healthy and loud.

Well we had a great day.  Did some shopping, and generally enjoyed ourselves.

Anthony good to see you.....Ed. and all the others. 

Al I am not a morning person at all.  Now to be up after midnight...that is more my style, John is a morning person, that worked well when we were driving truck together.

Have a great rest of the day everyone.

Hello everyone.  It has been good to read all of the posts.  I was late coming home this evening and can't reply to everyone personally.  Sorry for that.  I went to see some friends of my mothers.  The husband is taking chemotherapy.  He has it in his bones.  The wife has a clot on her brain and is unable to walk.  As we sat together we spoke of the faithfulness of God and how God remains faithful throughout all of the various stages of life.  What a comfort to know this when we feel the body packing up. 

I am going to bed early tonight because I have to go into Birmingham after work to the dental hospital.  I dislike going there.  This is the biggest city in my county and there are so many people it is impossible to walk and be relaxed.  The last time I went to the dental hospital, two men were fighting because one bumped into the other as he strolled past and didn't apologise. 

Thanks for all of the posts and God bless to you all.

Anthony.

Hi everyone.  It is another beautiful day here in Georgia.  It is going into the mid to hi 80s this afternoon.  We just now turned on the air conditioning for the first time.  We had a hot afternoon and evening yesterday and think it iwill be needed only for today. 

Tomorrow morning is the opening ceremonies for the Senior Golden Games and they will continue for a month.  My next big job with them will be to post the results so need to get the website ready.  Pat and I will go tomorrow and they always have a nice lunch and the opportunity to win some nice door prizes.  Last year they used gift cards for the gifts and that was very popular versus something that the person probably didn't want beyond the enjoyment of winning.  We will be done shortly after noon.  I have done the webwork for this organization and the paperwork needed for the last several years.

It is nice to read the comments of everyone regarding how long they have participated at this site.  While I know many others have helped it has been the leadership and vision of Pat to start this site.  If you ever have the opportunity to meet Pat (and Paul) do so.  They are delightful Christian folks and a joy to be with. 

Marilyn, hope you have had a safe trip home. 

Hope you are feeling better Larry.  Take it easy for a while.

I think it would be nice if we all sang this together! 

Wow, I can't believe it.

I just checked when I registered--it was 7 years ago.

My , how time flies when you're having fun.

I do enjoy this site....mostly I have been reading for the last 7 years and every now and then ; I jump in and get my feet wet..

Thanks to all who keep this site going and going and going

I love that one Pat.

Hi Joyce!  Yep!  7 years!  Isn't that wonderful?


New Members
I hope that all of our regular members will go to our Introductions Area and help to give our new members a big

Congratulations and Happy seventh anniversary to Pat and any others who were involved in forming this site seven years ago, and have kept it interesting and edifying to all who visit here! 

Although I joined four years ago, I haven't been as active as many others here, but always enjoy my time here when I do stop in. Being a casual photographer, I guess my favorite forum here is the Photo Challenge, because it's fun as well as instructive and uplifting. Unlike many other photography sites, most of the participants here are not professional photographers with top-of-the-line, expensive equipment, so it's not quite so intimidating to go ahead and enter a couple of photos.

God continue to bless your ministry here, and grant Christian Photographers many more years of fruitful service for Him! 

Thanks, Jim, for that lovely post.  It's always good to see you here.

    Pat.  Thank you for that great old hymn.  Noreen and I stood and sang it at our computer and it sure did bring back many memories at 69 Sheppard Ave west.  There were so many good times there and it is good to be able to be in touch with you still.

Larry:  Hope that you and Pat are looking after yourselves and not overdoing things.

Judy B.: Hi how are things going I do hope that your daughter-in-law is doing well and that you are looking after yourself also.  Say hi yo John.

Etta Sue.  I see that you are still keeping busy and it sounds that  Ivalou sounds that things are going well for her Praise the Lord for her recovery that continues

Anthony:  Is it still the usual rainy old wet country over there ? When I first left the British Isles it was raining and the first time I went back it was doing the same thing. It is very hard to here about a family that has the problems that you talked about on you post but we will all be praying for them.  I know what it is like to have one close to you so sick but God gets us through. God Bless.



Marilyn:  Don't  work to hard as there is always tomorrow but it does get to be to much sometime.  Look after yourself and your man and God will give you the strength that you need.

Well may the Lord be with you all the rest of this week and may his Richest blessings be upon you.

Pat,

Congratulations on the anniversary of Christian Photographers!  It was your site that got me really motivated to do more with my love for photography, and I am grateful. 

In His Grip,
Kevin

Wonderful day yesterday working on things from church.  The minister's wife sent me a Power Point and said she wished we could use the images on the overhead but without the words on the images.  So I opened it in my Microsoft Power Point and took out the words and 'saved image as' to my Pictures.  So now I have 17 images to upload for Spring/Summer at church.  Then I turned on Sunday Plus and saw that we can put Power Point Presentations (.ppt) on Sunday Plus.  So again I opened the same Power Point Slide Show (.pps) in Microsoft Power Point, took off the words again and saved it as a .ppt file.  You then copy it from your computer to a 'cue' in Sunday Plus and then we can view it on the overhead!  So I was thrilled that I learned something new that could be used at church.  It also kept the music on the .ppt.  ...... I know...too much information!

Now I am waiting for someone to call me and say that I can take my thumb drive to church and upload images to the computer there.

Today looks gloomy and suppose to rain.  Nothing yet.  Ivalou has rehab at 1pm and then we are done for the day!

Etta Sue, I love that "The Beginning" graphic.   

How about a chuckle from my email this morning?

Wilderness Trip

The first carload of Boy Scouts had left my house minutes earlier, bound for our three-day wilderness trip. As I backed my own van load of Scouts out of my garage, I noticed a pair of hiking boots on the back steps, so I stopped to retrieve them.

An hour later, we caught up with the first car, which was parked at a highway rest stop. Seeing me pull up, my assistant Scout leader rolled down his window. "Your wife just called on my cell phone," he said. "She asked if you knew anything about the plumber's boots that were on your back steps."

*Thanks to Pastor Tim for this joke!*
cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh

HAhahahaha Jeanne too funny!! 

Etta Sue never too much info about puter applications.  I show the info to Kassie and she knows how to do it!

No answering any other comments except to say we are all fine and John as usual is working hard.

We have a cold wet day today with snow on the forecast for tomorrow.  After a weekend of 80+degrees this is really a shock to the system.

Have a good day everyone.

I think I am slowly coming back from the extreme exhaustion I felt these past few daze.  I have a lot of sorting, cleaning and putting away to do, but that will happen sooner or later.    

It is good to be home!    May be cold and overcast but it's home!  I'm not too sure just what I will be doing today, but I will be around here and possibly posting a time or two. 

Y'all take care and have a wonderful day in the Lord ... Be well, be safe and be happy.   

I,too, like to come and relax..

This is a great forum for that..You have so many interesting forums going on to review and learn from.

I especially enjoy "Manna for the Soul"--Every day , I NEED to be refreshed by HIS word and I find that my home here seems to be the Manna forum

I just studied a wonderful bible passage and message that I will share shortly there.

We know, as a believer of the word, that we will be sharing our eternity with our Heavenly Father and I thought the message that I am going to post there helped me understand a little more about Heaven.

I know dear Al, can add more to the message as he is far more informed on bible studies than I can ever be.

But I keep on trying to learn more and more, so that is why I love this forum--we have friends who share and sharing helps us all.

Thank you for that

I want to remind you of God's phone number. It's Jeremiah 33:3.
Call on me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which thou knowest not.'

What a lovely hymn to sit and sing today, Judy!  Thanks!

Good Morning, I have been here to read much earlier, didn't post at that time. I have had another busy morning, after Keith went to work, I checked my email and read the posts here and over in the Abuse Survivors forum on S&F, then I boiled some rice and cooked up some  ground turkey with some mixed veggies and  the juice from a pork loin added the rice and some rosemary and Parmesan cheese, This is for the dogs. The get one heaping tablespoonful on  their  kibble  twice per day.

Then I ,made the bed and finished getting dressed, put on a little makeup and got  4 shirts out of the top of the closet that I will iron for Keith later.  After that I  put what cooked for the dogs into two quart size Tupperware containers (as it was cooled by then) and cleaned up my mess in the kitchen, I pulled the plastics out of the dishwasher and washed those too.

It is a beautiful day here today Although only 46° for now. I will walk the dogs after dinner (lunch for those who don't know that dinner is the meal you eat at noon   )and Keith goes back to work, I will iron his shirts also this afternoon.

I am going to make some fried brown rice with fresh garlic from my garlic garden chopped up in the rice,. I fry the uncooked rice until it is a light brown color  add the water and let it cook for the required time, It comes out nice and fluffy  and not stuck together that way. We will also have a nice green salad and a marinated broiled half chicken breast. I marinate the chicken in Italian salad dressing.

Have a blessed day all y-all, I have to get busy.

Sounds like a busy day planned, Marilyn! 

Seven year anniversary my the time has gone fast. 

Etta Sue:  I sure wish that I could move around power point with confidence will you come and spend some time with me ?

Larry:  I look forward to your words of encouagement as well.

Marilyn:  I am glad that you enjoyed your time with family.

Janet: It seems that you never retire, keep well.

It has been wonderful spending time with all of you this afternoon. 

About the day & night folk my family lived with the saying that we should go to bed when the birds do and wake up around the same time.  It works best for me.

Today was our coffee morning, one of the folk there had got a phone call from someone that was doing their family tree and they have now been connected more relatives.  I enjoy hearing these stories.

A day of rain and wind the rain is sure needed.     Ruth

Ruth that was how John was raised as well, but I was always a night hawk.  We work it out and have a good life.

Had a call from Kass this afternoon.  Totally frustrated with school.  She is bright and finds helping those who have a harder time makes school easier. 

I have the fire going, it is warm in here now.  God bless you all

JudyB

Hi everyone.  This has been a delightful day.  First the weather is great.  After coffee three of us went to the gym and I walked a mile without any problem and only one rest period.  I am feeling great yesterday and today.

Pat and I attended out Golden Games Opening ceremonies I spoke of yesterday.  There were 328 registered this year and probably 240-250 came to the opening luncheon.  The food was delicious with a meal of baked chicken or pulled pork, green beans, corn, cold slaw, rolls, and a dessert.  The gift bag contained a very nice insulted lunch bag with the games emblem on it.  We didn't win any of the door prizes that were given away but another chance at the closing ceremonies next month. Today I have choir practice, a great way to end off a day.

The final great thing today was a call from Kaiser Permenente saying they had schedule payment of an outstanding bill on Pat's foot surgery last fall.  It has been a long process and a bill collection agency has been calling us daily on it (we let the answering machine pick up the call) so hopefully that will stop in a day to two when the payment gets processed by the Hospital. 

It is so nice to read all of the posting here.  Ruth, if you want to play around with creating and working with powerpoint type presentations you can do it from the Google documents that go with a Google e-mail account.  It is called "presentation" and it is a free program. 

Judy, I liked the bit on God's telephone number.

My this evening is dragging.  Kass is at a Doug's.  She is a chatterbox, but I miss the chatter. 

I am heading to bed very soon.  God bless everyone here.

Here I am at the end of another busy day.  I worked this morning, then changed shirts, grabbed my red and purple feather clips, picked up Pat, and we met a bunch of other ladies and carpooled to Elkhart for our Red Hats lunch.  The son of one of our members lives there and owns a new restaurant.  He and his wife served us a delicious meal of barbecued brisket or pork, cole slaw, potato casserole, baked beans, a biscuit, drinks, and then caramel apple cheesecake for dessert.  Whew.  Too much food, but very good.

After we got home, I rested for a while, then went to the library to meet with the group who get together on Wednesdays to do a scrapbook page.  We did a really nice one for Easter photos.

Tomorrow Darrel and I plan to go to Garden.  He gets his prescriptions filled there, and I need new shoes.  Our days are running out before we leave on our trip.

The group who scrapbook together are an inspiration, as all are Christians, and we enjoy sharing our blessings and prayer requests with each other.  I wonder how much longer we will have the freedom even to mention the name of Jesus in public?  I pray for our country!

It's getting late, and I have been up since five AM, so think I'd better shower and hit the hay!  Goodnight!

So glad you had a lovely day, Janet.  I'd like to do some scrapbooking.  I have a huge kit of Creative Memories (is that what it's called?) and just haven't got into it yet.

Sleep well.

Good morning Gord.  Looks like you, Jane and I are the only ones left to keep the fire stoked tonight!  Hope you all have a blessed day, I'm calling it a night!