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Quote1.  At what age did you accept Christ as Savior?    Age 40 (or around there)

       
2.   What age is your oldest child?  50
     

3.   Year, make and model of your car?  Don't laugh!  I took this car on purpose.   1984 Honda Civic Wagon
     
4.   At what age did you get your first car, and what was it?  husband's car too....1957 Chev Impala
     
5.   How old is the oldest garment hanging in your closet, and
       what is it?      A skirt that I'll never wear again. Broomstick skirt. Probably 10 years old. lol
   

6.   What is the newest garment in same closet?   Pair of jeans I got at Goodwill
       
7.   What year did you graduate from high school and what size was       your class?
   
       I didn't graduate.  I got married when I was 17.  I can't believe mom and dad let me, but they did. Mom was   17 when she got married too.  Neither of us were pg at the time. 
       I later got my GED and went on to some college classes

8.   Do you prefer the age-old songs, or the new songs, (or a mix) in
       your church?
       I like a mix.  Some of the new songs, new lyrics, are so worshipful and intimate.  Some hymns I like.

9.   Which is better, the Good Old Days, or Today?
       I like my life today.  I wish we had the simplicity, the morals, the trust, the life styles of yesterday.

10.    Name one song, any type, with the word 'Age, Time, Years, or
          'Old' in the title.
         
         Old Rugged Cross.  The song, the lyrics, touch me deeply.
   

I just got home from eating out with three other ladies.  We play Euchre and they invited me to come along.  We then went to J.C.Penny's and the CVS store. 

Dark and gloomy today and cold.  Drizzling rain that could turn to snow if the temp drops many degrees.  Brrrr!

Tomorrow Red Hats are going to Metamora...a little town that has lots of little shops.  I will be looking for something for my Secret Sister for Thanksgiving and maybe Christmas.  There will be only four of us so Ivalou asked if I would drive her car.  Yes.  So I may not be here until evening tomorrow.

Of course!!  It is no secret!!  But that wouldn't
fit the age, time, etc. guideline, so........I'm glad I mentioned it, as I really enjoyed hearing the music again.  Thanks, Pat!

Work wasn't too bad today.  Dr. Friesen sent Darrel and me to a store that sells medical hosiery, and we each got two pairs of compression knee high socks.  I wore a pair today, and boy, what a great difference!  He told us to be sure to wear them any time we fly from now on, too.

Larry, I really hadn't intended to go back to work.    Guess I will have to re-learn how to say NO.  I plan to say just that if they only want to use me on holidays and weekends.  Not worth it!

Interesting that nearly all of us have a first child around the age of 50.

I need to make some phone calls tonight that I have been postponing.  Not a good thing to do, need to stay in touch better.

Janice, your salvation experience very closely parallels my own.  I was five or six when I first responded, then later became unsure whether or not I had understood, and was assured that it wouldn't upset God if I sort of repeated the process and made sure.  So I was also baptized again at age 17.

Oh, my.  Now they are talking a 50 billion dollar auto maker bailout!!  Is there no end to the insanity??? 

I made Darrel happy....I made several coconut cream pies, and brought a piece home to him.  (With permission, of course.)

Later, Kids!

I'd just like to know one thing about all these "bail-outs" - who will pay for them, and how will it be paid? (especially considering that our nation is already multi-billions in debt).  May our Father have mercy on us!  Especially may He have mercy on those of us who depend upon Social Security, etc. - when it goes broke.

I just cannot let this day go by without paying tribute to our armed forces......so:


A Tribute to Veterans Day





Thank you for your service to this country.


 
Today is Veteran's Day and yesterday, November 10, marked the 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps.

We proudly salute each and every veteran that has ever served our great country, the United States of America.
For those of you who served or are serving in the branches of our military, please accept this salute to the Marines, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.


Flags today in tribute wave
For those loyal ones who gave Of their youth, their hopes,
their might For a cause they knew was right.

Morning bells sound their call,
Pause and say a prayer for all--
All who served valiantly
That men might be ever free.

Toll of bells, drums' slow beat--
Silence falls in every street.
In each heart swells the plea:
Keep us safe, but keep us free!

 
History of Veterans Day

1918

World War I, then normally referred to simply as The Great War (no one could imagine any war being greater!), ended with the implementation of an armistice [temporary cessation of hostilities—in this case until the final peace treaty, the infamous Treaty of Versailles, was signed in 1919] between the Allies and Germany at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of November, 1918. 

1919
November 11: President Wilson proclaims the first Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations..." The original concept for the celebration was for the suspension of business for a two minute period beginning at 11 A.M., with the day also marked by parades and public mettings. 

1920
On the second anniversary of the armistice, France and the United Kingdom hold ceremonies honoring their unknown dead from the war. In America, at the suggestion of church groups, President Wilson names the Sunday nearest Armistice Day Sunday, on which should be held services in the interest of international peace.   

1921
Congress passes legislation approving the establishment of a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. November 11 is chosen for the date of the ceremony. According on October 20, Congress declares November 11, 1921 a legal Federal holiday to honor all those who participated in the war. The ceremony was conducted with great success.

1926
Congress adopts a resolution directing the President to issue an annual proclamation calling on the observance of Armistice Day. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, most states establish November 11 as a legal holiday and at the Federal level, an annual proclamation is issued by the President.

1938
Congress passes legislation on May 13 making November 11 a legal Federal holiday, Armistice Day. The United States has no 'actual' national holidays because the states retain the right to designate their own holidays. The Federal government can in fact only designate holidays for Federal employees and for the District of Columbia. But in practice the states almost always follow the Federal lead in designation of holidays.   

1941- 1945
1950- 1953
World War II and the Korean War create millions of additional war veterans in addition to those of the First World War already honored by Armistice Day.   

1954
On June 1, President Eisenhower signs legislation changing the name of the legal holiday from Armistice Day to Veteran's Day.

1968
Congress passes the Monday Holiday Law which established the fourth Monday in October as the new date for the observance of Veteran's Day. The law is to take effect in 1971.

1971-1975
The Federal observance of Veterans Day is held on the fourth Monday of October. Initially all states follow suit except Mississippi and South Dakota. Other states changed their observances back to November 11 as follows: 1972- Louisiana and Wisconsin; 1974- Kentucky, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, South Carolina, West Virginia; 1975- California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming

1975
Legislation passed to return the Federal observance of Veteran's Day to November 11, based on popular support throughout the nation. Since the change to the fourth Monday in October, 46 states had either continued to commemorate November 11 or had reverted back to the original date based on popular sentiment. The law was to take effect in 1978.

1978
Veteran's Day observance reverts to November 11.

 






Thank you to all that have served
Past Present and Future.




 

Thank you, Janet.

Yes! A profound THANK YOU to all who have worn a uniform and served our country!   

AMEN!!!!  They have given much that this nation might go on in freedom.  May we be delivered from the spendthrifts who would destroy it!

Thank you Janet for sharing  that about our veterans.

Amen!!!!

As some of you know as you've been actively clicking on the "Report to Moderator" button, we've been spammed today with all sorts of weird and horrible posts and members.

Thank you for clicking on that "Report..." button and the moderators are working overtime trying to get them banned and deleted.

I don't spend that much time on the site, so didn't read any of the things Pat mentioned.  Is that what happened to cause Sr. Net to close down? 

My daughter had recorded Master P. Theatre's "God On Trial" and I went upstairs to watch it....suggest anyone who missed the program, watch it if repeated.  It is about the Jewish people waiting to be killed by the Germans, holding a trial about God and the Covenant.  Well worth watching, even tho' it made me cry.

Sometimes I wonder if the human race will ever learn anything from their mistakes.  As I said to my daughter, we must look for good and for beauty in the simple things now.  No matter how bleak things look, God is in control.  One day we will have the answers to our questions.  For now, we must trust and pray.

God Bless,

Liz

Liz, I watched it last night.  It was sad, and I've thought of it all day.  It pains me when I think of the the depth of depravity Hitler's men sank to.  And it pains me because, without Christ, men are still able to do such horrible things.

Pat, I didn't know about the spammer.  I'm glad the volunteers are on the spot so that we don't have to even see it.  Thanks.

Well, today is the day Red Hats goes to Metamora for lunch and shopping at the quaint shops.  Metamora is noted for its canal and the horse drawn canal boat.  There is a grist mill there also.  Really a fun place to visit.  Just hope it doesn't rain like it is predicted.  It is about 70 miles away...a long way to go for lunch and then return right back home.  I sure sound like doom and gloom.  It will be a wonderful day spent with friends!  God gives us cold, rainy days so we appreciate the warmer sunny days all the more! 

I hadn't heard about the 50 billion dollar auto maker bailout.  Of course my area was the auto maker area.  I can't see the government doing that if the auto maker continues making gas guzzler vehicles!  If this all keeps on, we definitely will have change....not bills...just change!

I was away yesterday and got a lot of sewing completed.  My boss is in the armed services so she closed the store for the day yesterday.

Larry Hunting comes before any and everything here in the north.  THe people born and bred in the north march to a different drummer.  Everything moves slower with them, much to John's aggrevation.  Also when they hunt it is with the purpose of filling freezers for the winter.  We have friends hunting on our property that will be giving us some venison, and if they all get a deer, we will get a whole lot for our freezer.  This is the northern winter bailout!

I have read all the posts and I am praying for each of you.

Good day. Its cloudy and cooler here today.

I have just come home from my ladies prayer meeting which we have every Wednesday morning.

I am not looking for something to have for my lunch

I trust you are all having a great day!!!

Janet my oldest is 13

LOL  My youngest is 14! 

Great to have the diversity in our lives and to celebrate the unity in Christ!

Samantha, it's wonderful to have you "younguns" among us! 

We are trying to decide what to do on Thanksgiving.  We have been invited to daughter Kerri's at Salina, and also to grandson Curtis' in Los Lunas, New Mexico.  What a great 'problem' to have! 

I have a couple errands to do, and am meeting my sweetie for lunch.  I spent the morning getting rid of accumulated mail....ugh....my least favorite household chore.  I do much better at keeping up than I used to do, but still........

Pat, sorry about all the spammers.  I can't imagine having so little to do with my time that I would want to cause problems for others.

Liz, I would love to see that program..  I don't seem to hear about those in time to watch. 

I hope you all have a great day!

Well I am out of here and headed for Oregon in about an hour,l I will check in from there so I don't get too far behind reading the posts. I better be checking my email from there too or I will really be behind. I've already loaded the car and had the going away for a few days talk with the dogs. Bill from across the street will be taking care of them and has both phoned numbers if he needs to reach me for anything. I've called Gilbert to let him know where I will be and what times I will be driving both ways He likes to keep track of mom inc case anything happens on the road. Don't ya just love the concern your children show for your safety?

Well I have other places to read before I leave. I don't  want to get on the road for at least another hour.

Janet, thanks for the post about veterans.  I hope we never forget their service.  Earl served in the Philipines at the end of WW2.  That was before I knew him of course, I was just a kid during the war.  I was 9 years old when Pearl Harbor happened.  I do remember a few things about that war time though, we had a Victory garden. some bought war bonds, and we had 'stamps' to be able to buy certain things (My parents did, I mean). 

Would y'all pray for my great niece and her husband please?  This is quite a story so I will try to be brief.  A little over a year ago, they had been dating for about a year.  He was in the Navy reserve, and got orders to deploy to Iraq.  The time was short, so they decided to get married by a JP with no family present, and then have a formal wedding when he returned.  He was able to come home on leave for 2 weeks in May, and then came home in late September, and they had the wedding (renewal of vows) in October (the original wedding was last year in October).  Now he has been notified that he will be deployed again in December.  It just seems so unfair, they haven't had the time to begin their married life yet, and now is delayed again!  I am not sure if he will go to Iraq or to Afghanistan. 

JAnice this is so sad.  Yes I will be praying.

Last week, I went to lunch and someone I was with payed for a group of ten US soldiers' meals to thank them for their service and sacrifice foe our country.  I pray that someday I will be blessed enough financially to do something like that.

I guess I missed the spam, too.  Yeah!  Thanks to the ones who notified of and took care of the problem. 

My hubby's off this week and we're enjoying family time together.  Please Pray for me-I had a bad asthma attack last night and acid reflux, which then caused aspiration pneumonia that now prevents us from going on our day trip today that we had planned, which involved hiking.  I still am having much trouble breathing even though I've taken my nebulizer and am coughing stuff up.  ew.  We will still do something fun today, but so far I've been resting and my girls are practicing an Irish Dance piece to a worship song for church this Sunday.  My hubby's reading a fat book he's been reading. I think a scenic drive and a movie are planned for later today.

Well, I didn't read all of everyone else's response to this, but here go my answers...

Age or Years

1.   At what age did you accept Christ as Savior? 8, came into full relationship with Christ at 13

2.   What age is your oldest child? 17

3.   Year, make and model of your car? 1999 Isuzu Trooper

4.   At what age did you get your first car, and what was it?   19, 1965 Mustang

5.   How old is the oldest garment hanging in your closet, and what is it? A denim jacket that I got when I was 14.  No, I don't wear it anymore.  Most of my older clothes become costumes for my kid's films.

6.   What is the newest garment in same closet? Blouse for church

7.   What year did you graduate from high school and what size was your class?  1985  600ish (my hubby graduated 10th in our class  )

8.   Do you prefer the age-old songs, or the new songs, (or a mix) in your church?  Mix  Personally, I like it a little more weighted toward the old songs, but I enjoy both as long as the new ones aren't sung into the ground.

9.   Which is better, the Good Old Days, or Today? both, depends

10.    Name one song, any type, with the word 'Age, Time, Years, or Old " in the title.  Age to Age, Amy Grant

Well, that may be more than you really wanted to know about me.  LOL

Ya'll have a great day.

Am praying Kathleen

Praying for your asthma Kathleen, Terry has that also.

I am soooo jealous of your 1st car too!  Do you still have it?  I would love to have a 65 Mustang, just to tool around town in!

Terry bought me one a few years ago that needed restoring, but I didn't have the time then, nor do I now, to work on it.  So he sold it a year later for the same as he gave for it.  Then the new owner informed us it was a 64 1/2 not a 65!  I had a gold mine in my yard and didn't know it. 

I'm some better today, thanks for the prayers!

So glad you're a bit better today, Samantha.  Not nice being ill.

Kathleen, I'm sorry about your problem.  Praying here in Guelph!

Thank you for your prayers, everyone.

Oh no, Samantha!  I can't imagine.  How terrible you didn't know it was a 64 1/2.  I actually had mine until 2000 when we sold it in order to buy a Ford Bronco to pull our travel trailer.  It was a sacrifice for the family that I don't regret making.  The memories we made camping as a family are far more valuable to us than that material possession.  It was a very nice material possession, though!

I'm glad you're feeling better. 

Age or Years

1.   At what age did you accept Christ as Savior?  Not sure exactly - in my 30's

2.   What age is your oldest child?  56

3.   Year, make and model of your car?  1997 Subaru Outback

4.   At what age did you get your first car, and what was it? 20 years old - 1938 Buick

5.   How old is the oldest garment hanging in your closet, and what is it? - I have no idea, some things were brought from New Jersey when we moved in 1979 and still get used.

6.   What is the newest garment in same closet?  Bathrobe my daughter gave me last Christmas

7.   What year did you graduate from high school and what size was your class? 1949 - 12 girls

8.   Do you prefer the age-old songs, or the new songs, (or a mix) in your church?  We have a mix but I'm much more comfortable with the old time hymns.

9.   Which is better, the Good Old Days, or Today?  Today because "This is the day the Lord has made..."

10.    Name one song, any type, with the word 'Age, Time, Years, or Old " in the title. As Time Goes By


Samantha, my youngest grandchild is 13!   

Quote from: Jeanne Lee on November 12, 2008, 03:40:07 PM

Samantha, my youngest grandchild is 13!   

My youngest grandchild is 15!      I have 11 great grands.

I'm here in Oregon been here about an hour. will check back in the morning

Be praying tonight for a couple Kelly and Sean, Kassie is taking them to Young Peoples at our church.  Neither have any experience with true Christianity, so this will be a whole new experience for them.  Pray for Kassie as she works at getting more kids out to Youth.

Hi everyone.  This has been a very busy day and still have choir practice this evening.   Before we arose this morning our phone rang and it was our daughter telling us she had had to go to the ER at 2 am in the morning and was waiting in the ER to be assigned a doctor.  Yesterday she had taken her trash to the trash chute, which is only a short distance from her apartment and used her cane rather than the wheelchair and had a loud pop in her foot and it started hurting worse and worse until about 2 am when the pain became too intense and she called the EMT's.  They x-rayed her foot and compared the x-ray with her previous films and apparently didn't see any break so they dismissed her.

I had an appointment in a town south of here so when it was over at noon I checked with Pat and learned that Stacey was waiting at the hospital.  I was about 25 miles away but all Interstate.  It took me about 30 minutes to get to the hospital and pick her up.  Fortunately the EMT's had allowed her to take her crutches, although they didn't let her grab a coat.  Anyway I got her back to her apartment.  Tomorrow afternoon I will go back and take her back to the hospital for a scheduled appointment with the foot doctor.  

I didn't eat lunch until about 2 pm after stopping at Kroger's for a sub sandwich to eat on the way home so won't be eating dinner this evening.  

Janet, I agree that insanity seems to be guiding our government officials.  Today they have announced they will now bailout a whole bunch of new sectors of the banking industry.  What bothers me is to see the Federal government acquiring interests in all of these banks and apparently will buy part of the car industry as this appears to be the beginning of nationalization of our industries.  I heard today that the average GM worker makes $81 per hour.  No wonder the cars cost so much and the industry is in so much trouble.  Our country seems to be getting weaker and weaker by the month as we become beholden to other countries who hold our debt.  I'll get off of my soapbox now.

Marilyn, glad to see you are safely at your destination.

I have read the other postings but will not try to make individual replies today.