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Janet, thank you for that devotion. I truly hope that our nation returns to its foundations and remains "under God."

After church and a small lunch with friends, the kids from Atlanta called and I had the rest of my lunch with them at the marina. Then, we were out on their big pontoon boat all afternoon. What a lovely time with all of them!

I surely wish they lived closer than Atlanta!

Y'all have a good day.

 Hi, Pat!
How was the wedding? Got any good pics?

What a wonderful day yesterday!  Everything went well.  There were lots of little glitches that could have bothered us a lot before the wedding but all was just fine.  Paul's little grandchildren sang, "The Bible Stands" and were fantastic.

Just thought you'd like to see this:

AAAWWWWWW. Very nice Pat.

Ruth Ann:  That was a very nice link....thank you.

Janet:  Your hand is surely taking too long to heal.  Stars in my crown?  I will be seeking atonement for sure....I ask for this at the end of each and every day.  As a Lutheran, I am taught to receive the Grace and believe me - I am grateful for that most wonderful gift.  

Al: I would love to hear you give the sermon.  You have a gift for writing as well - have you considered writing more?  

We are packed and ready to drive tomorrow, first to the Twin Cities and then on to Duluth.  I am speaking of Minnesota.  Way north to a lake that doesn't want to give up the frozen bits of ice.  Don has several cousins and an elderly auntie he wants to visit and we will take them out for dinner if they can be mobile.  They look forward to his tender care every couple of years and keep in touch with letters and phone calls.  We may have to drive to a casino to get near any wi-fi for the laptop - no, I won't go in and gamble even one nickel.  

Pat:  What dear pictures of you two.  Thanks for sharing.

What wonderful photos of the happy couple!  Thanks, so much, Pat for giving us this glimpse into your joyful day.  These pictures tell it all ... your love for each other, and your happiness in being together.  I'm so glad you've found each other and pray God's blessing on you for many years to come.      

Jane said it so well.  Those pitures sure make it all appear blessed - just as it actually is.  I pray our Father will continue to bless each day. draw you to Himself, and enable you to continually learn new ways to serve and worship Him.  Oh may He do this through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pat, the pictures are lovely and I add my sentiments to what others have already said.

I read once, "A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ, that you'd have to go through Him to find her."    I know that's just what Paul did.  I pray you both experience the joy that only God can give as He reveals Himself in each of you.  Nita

Oh Aunt Pat!!!  You looked positively radiant!  I am so glad that the Lord worked out all the glitches and everything went well for both you and Paul yesterday!

All my love
Heather

Hi everyone.  It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day for the last day of this holiday weekend.  I have a luncheon planned with two men friends but other than that not much on my schedule today.  I have a little web work to do in posting some pictures from our Golden Games that were just completed.

Yesterday we sent several hours with our daughter.  We got her a new desk chair with arms for her computer and had to assemble it.  Her sprained ankle is better and hopefully she won't reinjure it this week. 

Her mother did three loads of laundry for her as she really couldn't manipulate the stairs with the crutches and would have had trouble getting all of her clothes to the laundry  room in the basement of her apartment building.  I tried to get her set up to use Skype on her computer but couldn't get the microphone to work.  Probably some silly something I wasn't doing right.  The speaker part worked fine.  I also put the free AVG 8.0 on her computer as she wasn't running a anti-virus program on her computer.  It needs a lot more maintenance as is running very slowly but we ran out of time and didn't get home until after 7 pm.

Pat, thanks for sharing the wedding photos.  It looks like it was a wonderful day. 

Carol, hope you and Don have a good drive to Minnesota and a nice visit.  Don't get too cold up in the far north country. 

Janet, it has been a long time since I read the Gettysburg Address.  Thanks for making that our devotional this week.  Our nation seems to forget these days that we are a nation under God and we see the result of that thinking all around us in the destruction of our society and family lives.

Janet, hope you don't have to work too hard today and tomorrow or cause more damage to your hand.  Your get together over the weekend sounded like a lot of fun and those hugs are very important.

We spoke with our son last evening and he said our oldest great grandchild fell on a stick yesterday morning.  They took him to the hospital and that hospital transferred him by ambulance to the children's hospital.  They feared he had done internal damage but test showed he probably just brusied the abdomen.  They were keeping him in the hospital overnight for observation but by last evening he was feeling much better. 

Marilyn, it was nice of Keith to wash and wax your car.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day today.

The cookout in the woods was great even though there was only 6 of us there.  It got windy and chilly so we came back to the house.  Funny, it wasn't windy here. 

The 500 Race is over.  I did get to watch it live on indycar.com on a 3" screen.  It was live but not like TV.  What do they call that when it is a few frames then it stops, then a few more frames, etc. Jumpy but I did see the cars go around the track.  Then us Hoosiers could watch the entire race at 8pm!  After the fact!  Tonight is the awards ceremony.  Lots of money leaving Indiana. 

Ivalou asked me over for a strange lunch today.  Her words.  She made a chicken broccoli stovetop stuffing casserole and leftovers from last night and Euchre.  I thought it was very good and now I have dinner for tonight also. 

My friend, Judy, sent me an email.  Her computer was down and she got a new laptop.  We are going out for breakfast in the morning. 

I did do some yard work early this morning but now it is sprinkling outside.  Sounds like a great time for a nap! 

Interesting devotional, Janet.  Lovely photo's Pat.  You two are all over the internet today....SN, Photo Cafe.....Sincere wishes for a wonderful and happy life.

We are having the usual mix of warm/cool/wet weather.  I have been fighting a virus for days now and mostly inside resting.  The kids are leaving tomorrow for a short holiday, so got my daughter some Cold FX to take and it seems to be working.  Has been approved by Canada Health so seemed safe.  Too late for me as I was already ill.

Watching more TV than usual and saw the Fifth Estate (CDN) and was in shock afterwards. 

Cruel Camera
Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we'd grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value.

Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate's first Cruel Camera documentary. What they found may astonish you.

I think my viewing has been permanently changed after this show.  It seems that even the Wolf doc. done by IMAX was also staged.  Suggest anyone interested in animal shows go here and watch:  G

Google:      www.cbc.ca/fifth

                           

Watched one of the Memorial Day shows on PBS and it was so well done. 

Time to go and do a few long neglected chores. 

Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.

Liz

Carol, I just injured my hand on Thursday, so not too long.  Thanks for the thoughts.  And I do think you and Don will have stars in your crowns, you do so much to help people.  And I forgot to answer your other question--no, we don't have a weather radio; need to get one.

Arrghh!  We have severe storms in our area again tonight--big hail, etc.  Over 59 tornadoes in Kansas yesterday.  There is a big storm near Johnson right now, that is only 22 miles from us.  I pray we escape this round, too.

Our pastor's message yesterday was so good.  He preached on, "Freedom Isn't Free,"  And correlated that to the fact that neither is our freedom spiritually free; it cost God His only Son, and Jesus His life.  I was thinking about all of that when I chose to use Lincoln's Gettysburg Address for the devotional.

I just watched part of a wonderful program on George W. Bush, narrated by Janet Parschal.  How blessed we are to have a true Christian and man of faith as our President.  I wish all of you could watch that program, it gives a new appreciation and respect for our President.

Pat, what lovely photos!  I agree, you do look radiant, and Paul looks so happy and pleased, too.  Thanks for sharing those so promptly, we all wanted to see them.

Ruth Ann--   and a million THANK YOUS for getting me out of the hole.  You're the best!  {{{hugs}}}

It was so still here today we all thought we might be dreaming, but so enjoyable.  Rachel (the other cook today) and I took our lunch outdoors and ate.  Now the thunder is rumbling, and the warnings are flying.  But it surely was nice while it lasted!

Liz, I will go check out your link now.

I'm back to tell you that a tornado and softball sized hail is heading directly toward Greensburg, Kansas.  That's the town that was virtually deatroyed by a devastating tornado just last year!!  My goodness!  I am praying it doesn't get hit again!

Yes, those photos say much MORE than a thousand words! I'm so thankful you have found each other.

Janet - not a problem, just couldn't do it as well as some of the others in our group.

We had a rare occurrence down here-a funeral on a holiday. One of the members of our church passed away Saturday morning, and the funeral was at 11 am today. A few ladies (including me) cooked the after funeral meal for the family and mourners that is traditional at our church. Now, I'm plenty tired and ready to rest the remainder of the day.

Thankfully, the hard storms waited to begin until after the mourners had gathered in the church fellowship hall for the meal.

I have a private little matter to request prayer for. Thank you for your support and prayers even though I can't reveal the problem.

Y'all have a good day.

Prayers winging heavenward, Ruth Ann.  And your link was wonderful--it worked! 

The storm seems to have missed poor Greensburg, but there are still plenty of them bouncing around the state, and down into Oklahoma.  Oklahoma has gotten hammered pretty hard this year, too.

Darrel is taking me to the movie tonight!  It's the new Indiana Jones one.

Hi everyone.  I had an enjoyable day yesterday.  Where my two friends and I had planned on having lunch was closed but the buffet across the street  from it was open so we ate there.  I then had a quiet afternoon. 

I don't have too much on my schedule today.  I have a meeting to attend this morning and may see if I can get my car in Midas to have them check my brakes.  I called them and they wanted about $80 less to fix my brakes than the dealer.

Yesterday afternoon a friend of Pat's (and mine), who had dropped her sewing machine and broke it a few days ago, came by and she and Pat sewed up some place mats that our friend was working on.  Pat has a portable sewing machine so set it up in the kitchen and so both of them could sew at once so the project didn't take long. 

I spent the evening watching a very interesting PBS series called Carrier that is based on life on the USS Ninitz aircraft carrier.  There are 5 thousand in the crew.  It is an interesting view into a slice of life most of us would never see.  There are at least 5 hours in one hour segments and I have more to watch.

Janet, certainly glad the storms escaped you.  I would certainly recommend a weather radio.  I have one but didn't have it set up correctly until yesterday.  I had put a wrong code in the programming so it wasn't working correctly.  Hope you enjoyed the Indiana Jones movie.

Ruth Ann, those lunches after funerals are certainly a nice thing to do.  I know my folks church did that for us and it gave us a time to visit with many relatives we wouldn't have had the opportunity to visit with a the funeral. 

Etta Sue, did you help your friend set up her new laptop.  Your picnic sounds like fun.

LIz, I have the link about the show you wanted set aside and will try to watch it later.  I remember watching Wild Kingdom when I was growing up.  Hope your daughter and SIL enjoy their holiday and that you start feeling better soon.

Time to go to coffee.

Good Morning, I arrived back home about 5PM yesterday. The  trip down the coast was  nice, not much traffic coming south, more was going north. There was  fog  after I got into California a little bit of fog now and then in Oregon.

The dogs were sure glad to see me, the about wagged their tails right of their little behinds. 

Wonderful photos Pat. Glad all the little glitches didn't effect the wedding.

I think I spoiled Keith pretty much while I was in Oregon. With the cooking and and waiting on him. Well he spoiled me too.

Now back to work and  my life here in McKinleyville.

Marilyn - do you live in McKinleyville, CA?  I didn't know you lived near here!  Thought you lived in North Bend, OR or something.  I thought just your dogs lived down here!

We got home late saturday night or early Sunday Morning depending on your view.  We were both tire, and I wondered where one of the dogs were when John drove in the drive.  Dexter the rotti broke his lead and pushed a basement window open and spent a portion od the time we were away in the house.  He is not a Joke, and it is rather frustrating behaviour we are dealing with.

John had to leave for work after supper on Sunday and Iwent to bed shortly after he left.  Last night was the laast small group meeting for this year, we restart in September with a BBQ in the country.

Sunday one of the puppies died, there were problems with it, and there would have been life long vet bills.  The puppies are big.  Really big.  Thankfully Mommy has a lot of milk.

I have read all the posts, I am not taking the time to comment on each of them.  Just know I rejoice with the safety of the weekend and continue to pray for the needs represented here. 

Today is another busy day at work and Iam struggling over an order. so I had better get on with it.

God Bless each and every one here.

The movie was disappointing, but I think young folks would enjoy it more, or probably we would if we rented it and watched it at home.  They play them so LOUD that you (we) can't understand the conversations, and thus lose much of the story line.  It is a very fast-paced movie, for sure.  The only preview they showed that I have any interest at all in seeing is the new Narnia one, Prince Caspian.

We are still struggling with that leaking shower.  Thought it was fixed, but not.  So my poor clothes are still laying on the bed getting all wrinkled.  Good time to weed them out, if I can find the time.

I'm working again today, going to Liberal tomorrow, teaching Thursday, working Friday, helping Pat with her garage sale Saturday, and leaving Sunday afternoon for my once a year painting class in Fowler.  When I get home, only a very few days until Reunion.  Whew!   Hope we can be ready.  But I guess whatever doesn't get done, the world will keep on turning.

I must get busy and make these few hours count!

I had a nice breakfast with Judy.  Seems she got her laptop Saturday so is still learning.  She said she would call me to come help her with it.  It is wireless and she must be using her neighbors ISP!!  She can get on the internet but doesn't have her own ISP!  Hope her neighbor isn't dial up! 

Tonight Ivalou and I go to Beef and Boards and see 'Peter Pan'.  Wonder how they are going to get Peter Pan to fly?  I am going to be leery in what I eat.  I just know that something I ate there the last time made me sick as a dog for 2-3 days and longer to get back to par.

I posted some pics that my sister Courtney took yesterday. We would appreciate it you all would come and take a look.

      Love, Scotty and Courtney.

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let me try this again i thought i had posted last night but i guess not.
HELLO ALL! i'm still alive and well but been BUSY BUSY BUSY i thought that summer would allow time for rest and friends but the boss just dumped a lot more hours in my lap and said this is your summer schedule. OH WELL. All the storms are completely missing cimarron county. we are a very dry area in severe drought they are talking worse than any year in recorded history with less than .5 inches so far this year . please pray for moisture to come to the area! anyways hope all is well congulations pat and paul. praying for those who request it!
sarah

Hi everyone.  We are anticipating some rain later in the day, which we really need.  Sarah, you aren't the only place with drought, although we have certainly had more rain than you have.

Today is Bible study and it will be the first time is about three weeks I have been able to attend.  I am not sure what we are studying now.  Then tonight I have choir practice.

Yesterday I had an interesting experience.  I think I mentioned that when I had my Hyundai in for service to the dealer last week the service manager told me my front brakes were gone and the rotors needed to be ground down and the back brake rotors needed to be turned.  Well yesterday afternoon I took it to Midas thinking I would have the work done if they agreed.  However, after taking off the tires and checking the brakes the mechanic came to me and said he would do what I asked but it wasn't needed and that my brakes were fine and still had at least 50 percent of the life of the brakes left.  So I certainly wasn't going to have them changed.  Needed to say my confidence in my dealer has taken a huge plummet. 

Sarah, you appear to be about the busiest young person I know of as you carry a very heavy schedule.  I think we are going to have to shake you and Janet up in a sack as she is certainly a busy older person. There must be something about western Kansas!!

Etta Sue, there is apparently nothing illegal or unethical about using a neighbors wi-fi signal if it is not protected.  We were told this by the head service person at MicroCenter last year.  However, usually it is a weak signal.  There have been a few times when I have had to do that when my system wasn't working and I could get a signal from a neighbor. 

Janet, I have heard or read some other views that the movie you saw wasn't the best.  I think I will wait and catch it on DVD.  It is certainly frustrating to have something leaking and not be able to find the source.  Water can do so much damage.

Judy, sorry to hear of the loss of your puppy but nature tends to take care of situations like you describe.  Glad you had a safe trip home.

Marilyn, glad you are home safe and sound.

Time, once again, to go to coffee.  Today we are meeting at McDonald's.

 

Good Morning, I thought I would get around to coming back to post again yesterday but I was pretty busy after I got home from work. I walked the dogs, went to K-Mart to buy a swim suit (on sale 40% off), cleaned up  the dog mines in the  yard, then I mowed front and back yards, took a shower, washed my hair, and put on a big pot of veggie beef soup. After that I slowed down to catch up on all that I missed on SN, changed my membership in my two yahoo groups to receive mail again, and  I'm-ed with Keith until  8:45 then went to bed.

Hi Sarah long time no see you here.  Yes You certainly are a busy woman, Did you graduate college this year?

Janet, so would  not recommend the new Indy movie? How is Beth? I am still praying for her.


I am finally getting better from my injuries when I fell. I did notice a little bit of  discomfort from the vibrations of the lawn mower yesterday, good thing I quit when I did.

TTYL

Good morning ... 

I read, but didn't comment, of the loss of one of Judy's puppies.  I, too, had some sad news to report but didn't want to put a pall on the festive mood following Pat and Paul's wedding.

Two of those cute little swans, that y'all saw Nita's photos of, have died.  I watched one struggle and die just outside my window on Saturday then, when we (the neighbors and I) were fetching it from the lake, another died in much the same fashion at the other end of the lake.  Now there is only one.  I notice the parents keep a very close watch on this only child now, tho.

We are experiencing Spring showers this morning ... heavy mist?  A lot of dampness that's for sure.  Sorry I can't package it and ship it to Sarah and Larry and others who need it.  I guess all y'all will just have to come get some of it for yourself.  Bring a big bucket.

Sorry to here about the swans. How did they die, do you know.

Not sure, Scotty.  The management is taking them to have that determined.  There were no wounds on either of them and the one I saw just seemed to be choking and acting sick for a while before giving up.  I heard that's the same way the other one acted just before dying.