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Thank you Pat  and Jeanne Lee for your kid welcome back. I'm not sure how regular I will be but I will try to post photos between now and this weekend. Please do keep me in your prayers as I job search. Blessings.

this is a new laptop & I am trying to figure it out - so, please have patience.  Don is staining the deck - he shouldn't do it but he is taking it slowly and it is still cool enough this morning.  Several days ago, there was snow in the high country and the leaves are turning.  Don bought a Lenovo refurbished laptop for me as my old one had a new problem every day.  Not like the old days when things worked forever, is it?  These come with no instructions now, I guess the techies figure everyone knows everything there is to know.  We finally found the "on" button, all black and hidden & so tiny. 

Yes, of course I have said prayers for the special two missionaries from the beginning.  Both are said to be improving.  Wouldn't that be a miracle.  They are using a new drug discovery - isn't it amazing that it is "discovered" just in time - that would make a lot of sermons. 

Back to my purging files in my deep drawer and reorganizing it once again. 

Thank you so much for devotions - they always are "spot on". 

Hi everyone.  Another hot day here in Georgia.  We went to Bible Study and then to Dunkin' Donut.  It was not very comfortable in Dunkin' Donut as the air conditioning was not working but we made the sacrifice to stayed until noon. We will be staying in the rest of the day where it is cool. 

Janet, yes Pat did decide to keep her LazBoy chair and we are having the seat re-stuffed.  By using a couple of pillows behind her back it puts her feet out far enough so her heals don't touch the foot rest.  It was $80 to re-stuff the chair as it is in good  condition.  By the work order it appears they will adjust the foot rest mechanism without additional charge since they are doing other work. 

Janet, where will you be going on your next trip?  I don't remember seeing that information. 

Judy, sure don't envy you and that expensive vet bill. 

Pat, I read yesterday that the experimental serum they have given to both of the eboli patients has some connection to something found in tobacco. 

Ruth Ann, I don't think I have ever had more than 5 vials of blood taken at a time.  It sounds like you would a wounded sticker.

David, welcome back and look forward to your postings. Hope the job search soon proves successful. 

Carol, I have had two Lenovo laptops, one of which is my current laptop,  and now have two Lenovo desktops.  Even if you gotten a new one it wouldn't have come with much in the way of instructions.  Do a Google search to find answers to your concerns as there always seems to be others who have had the same questions. You might put a drop of fingernail polish on the power button to make it easier to see.  Pat has done that on several things where it is black on black.
Pat. I did not lift the chair as two of my coffee drinking buddies came back to the house and loaded it for me on Monday.  One of the guys stayed and helped me complete the sorting of the boxes we had on the porch and the housekeepers took most of what we are donating and will get the rest in two weeks when they return.  The fellow I pick up for coffee will come and help me get it out of the car when I get it home. 

Quote from: Larry Hanna on August 06, 2014, 01:06:12 PM
...two of my coffee drinking buddies came back to the house and loaded it for me on Monday.  One of the guys stayed and helped me complete the sorting of the boxes we had on the porch and the housekeepers took most of what we are donating and will get the rest in two weeks when they return.  The fellow I pick up for coffee will come and help me get it out of the car when I get it home. 

Ohhhh, Larry!  That's good news and I'm sure happy you put the word "coffee" in that sentence! 

I have a CD that I bought when I was down in Florida in Pensacola.  It's of the Rejoice singers and this hymn especially has meant so much to me in the past several days.  I've played it over and over again.  I then found it on YouTube and so I'm going to post a link to the YouTube location and the words and we're going to have the best choir here as everyone sings together.

What wonderful words all about "building your faith"!!




Turn up the volume!

Published on May 7, 2014

sung by Rejoice Singers

BUILD YOUR FAITH

The faith on which we stand is just as strong as its foundation;
If it's on the Rock, the winds of life won't blow it down.
But if it's built upon the sand, When the storm comes you'll be shaken;
You'll be looking for a place to stand on solid ground.

But if you build your faith before the walls start breaking,
Build your faith before the earth starts shaking,
Build your faith before the storm gets out of control;
If you build your faith upon God's foundation,
Then you'll still be standing when the storm is raging;
Build your faith on the Lord, and you'll have peace in your soul.

To those who trust in Him, God gives a calm assurance
That whatever comes, His love will always stay secure.
So if your hope is getting dim, remember He provides endurance
To take you safely through each storm and keep your footing sure.

So if you build your faith before the walls start breaking,
Build your faith before the earth starts shaking,
Build your faith before the storm gets out of control;
If you build your faith upon God's foundation,
Then you'll still be standing when the storm is raging;
Build your faith on the Lord, and you'll have peace in your soul.

So if you build your faith before the walls start breaking,
Build your faith before the earth starts shaking,
Build your faith before the storm gets out of control;
If you build your faith upon God's foundation,
Then you'll still be standing when the storm is raging;
Build your faith on the Lord, and you'll have peace in your soul.
Build your faith on the Lord, and you'll have peace in your soul.

WOO!  Hallelujah!  I sang myself happy!  Thanks, Pat, that's a good song!

Larry, we are going to Niagara Falls next month, and the plan is for Pat to meet us up there somewhere.  I'm so looking forward to it!  We leave here on the 12th.

I went to Red Hats today.  We ate at Puffy's Pizza, a new place here in town.  It was good!    There were ten ladies present.

I'm doing laundry this afternoon.  At the gym this morning I did intervals, and used most of my energy. 

Quote from: BigSkyKen on August 05, 2014, 01:10:36 AM
Nice, to-the-point devotion Jeanne Lee, thanks for that!  And Pat, Colin's poem took the backroads to arrive at a very good message, thanks for sharing it.

Just thought I'd drop in to break the silence here, and to offer Buddy some male companionship

We could sure use some of that rain Pat reported...things are getting very dry here, and the fire danger is approaching critical, again 

Will be off to the eastern part of the country on Wednesday with my youngest daughter, she has an audition in Strasburg, PA.  We'll do a little touring around and goofing off beforehand.  Am hoping the weather, particularly the humidity, won't be too tough on us while we are there.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week, filled with the riches of His blessings!

Ken, I am praying that you have a wonderful time with you daughter!

Quote from: DavidB on August 06, 2014, 11:22:35 AM
Thank you Pat  and Jeanne Lee for your kid welcome back. I'm not sure how regular I will be but I will try to post photos between now and this weekend. Please do keep me in your prayers as I job search. Blessings.

I will be praying for you that God will open the doors for you to find a job!

Quote from: Janet on August 06, 2014, 05:32:21 PM
WOO!  Hallelujah!  I sang myself happy!  Thanks, Pat, that's a good song!

Larry, we are going to Niagara Falls next month, and the plan is for Pat to meet us up there somewhere.  I'm so looking forward to it!  We leave here on the 12th.

I went to Red Hats today.  We ate at Puffy's Pizza, a new place here in town.  It was good!    There were ten ladies present.

I'm doing laundry this afternoon.  At the gym this morning I did intervals, and used most of my energy. 

Janet, make sure you see Niagara Falls at night with the lights on them.

Ahhhh, the mention of Niagara Falls! The first time I saw the falls was when I was about 5 years old. I remember being mightily impressed by those falls, then when it got boring, I drove my parents nuts with them trying to keep me on the inside of the barrier, not outside of it near the overhang.

Not too many years ago, my friend Mary who came with me to the Atlanta SeniorNet bash asked me to travel with her to upstate New York where she grew up and then on to Niagara Falls. We had her little 2 year old grandson in tow. The strongest memory that makes me smile is of the little one begging his grandma, "No showah, Mamaw, no showah!" Apparently, he was much more fond of tub baths, than of showers.

The visit with the doctor was a good one with some good results. Now, to work on the areas we discussed before the end of this quarter.

Much love to all,
Ruth Ann

Buddy, I'm pretty sure that will be on the agenda.  Lovely photo of the falls at night, thanks!

It's 12:19 am and I just finished the POTD and Cracker Shots on Photography Cafe and decided to come back here before retiring for the night to hear "Build Your Faith" one more time!

So happy that you sang yourself happy, Janet!

And what a wonderful photo of the Falls, Buddy!  Yep!  She'll see them that way.  Up the Skylon Tower!


Anyway, I just posted the POTD on the Cafe and thought I'd share it with all of you!  It's so cute!





 

Pat...

Hi everyone on another sunny and hot day here in Georgia.  I have a very light schedule today.  This is my men's Thursday lunch day at 11:30.  I think I will also go to Kohl's Department Store this morning to check out their sale items on men's shirts as could use a few more.  I think I will do that on my way to lunch so that when lunch is over I will be ready to come home.  That will be it for today.

I am glad I put "coffee" in that sentence as well.    I love that Hymn you posted and found it on Spotify by a group called Fresh Anointing and have saved their music to my Spotify music playlists. 

Janet, sure wish we could join you when you meet with Pat as we always enjoy being in her company and would love to meet you and Darrel as well.  Is this a tour group you are going with?  I had to chuckle when I saw the name of the pizza place you ate at yesterday as a person would be "Puffy" if they ate pizza too often. 

Ruth Ann, glad you got a good report from your doctor yesterday. 

Sure a cute picture of that "chow time animal" enjoying what appears to be a chunck of licorice. 

That's true, Larry--one could get pretty Puffy by eating pizza too often!    And I think that's a sunflower seed the little critter is eating.  What a sharp photo that is.  Wow!

I must get ready to go to a tea party/supper.  It's a combination birthday party for one of our gals along with a farewell party for my friend Pat (the one who does my hair).  She will soon be moving back to Texas, and I'm surely going to miss her!

Catch you all later!

Larry:  Thanks for the tips for my new to me computer. We can't see if this can get Bluetooth but it can get Bluetooth files so will keep looking.   We listened to and watched an old u-tube of Liza Minelli and Pavarotti singing "New York - New York" - such talent.  It looks like I will be trying to visit Maine sometime this winter because one grandson is going there for hockey season.  I am almost finished with his quilt.  A full size quilt -almost a queen - is getting tough to handle.  Only one more grandchild and then I think I will stop making the big quilts. 

What a gulley-washer we just had with hard hail and the water came up in the ravine for a short time.  It looks like more is headed this way.  Truly the monsoon is in full force. 

Janet:  What fun ahead for you to be able to meet with Pat too!  It should be nice and cool in that area.  Take lots of pictures. 

Hi everyone from  the  other person on the west coast.  No I didn't get lost it has  been a very busy time both at home and at the clinic. So I am finally getting here to post. Bible Study today was part two of the Spiritual warfare and Armor. As I read II Chronicles 20:1-29, about the Spirit of God and the Battle Jehoshaphat faced. I could feel the holy Spirit all over me. After reading that section I just sat back in awe of our God All I could say was Wow!!. What an awesome God we have.

Please pray for Keith, I took him to the eye DR. yesterday and he has a fast growing cataract growing in his left eye. The doctor said that no pair of glasses would help him because he has far sightedness in one eye and Near in the other. He was told that it is either surgically removing the cataract now or contacts. He is opting for contacts which will probably one be good for 6 months  or maybe a year at the most. He is also set up for to excise a thing they called a cutaneous horn under his right eye that will be sent  to pathology to check for cancer cells, which could be under it as well.

Hi everyone.  I have a few minutes before leaving for coffee at the Senior Center.  We had some rain last evening and a fifty percent chance of more rain today.  At least we should stay in the high 80's rather than the 90's.  They called late yesterday afternoon to say our Laz-Boy chair was ready for pick up so will do so after coffee.  I also need to stop at Kaiser for a PSA blood test and at Walmart.  So it will be another busy morning but the afternoon and evening will be free.  We spoke with our son and DIL last evening and the news was good in that our DIL has gained several pounds and is feeling better.

Janet, the sunflower seed makes more sense than the licorice candy.  I am sure it was a bitter sweet party for you last evening in having to get that much closer to your good friend moving to Texas. 

Carol, it may be that your laptop doesn't have the blue tooth feature so I may have sent you on a wild goose chase. I know the iPad and iPhones and I believe the other Smart devices have that feature as am using it when I type from the iPad with the bluetooth keyboard I have so I don't have to type from the screen keyboard.  I don't think Pat plans on making anymore quilts unless they are twin size.  She is about to finish the two identical twin quilts and they are very colorful and a change from anything we have ever had as bedspreads.  Our you familiar with the Missouri Star Quilt Company?  If I have asked you about this before please forgive me.  Pat loves the site and the videos and has made quite a few orders from them and is very satisfied. 

Marilyn, sure hope the check of the cells don't prove to be cancer.  Interesting that the contact lens would work where glasses wouldn't.  I am happy to read your Bible studies have been going so well. 

Marilyn, that diagnosis Keith got about his eyes sounds scary!  I'll keep him (and you) in my prayers.

Marilyn, I would suggest that Keith go ahead and have the cataract surgery.  It is so simple, totally painless, and only takes about 10 to 15 minutes.  I don't have any idea of his age, but if he is on Medicare, they pay for the surgery.  Darrel and I have had it on both eyes, with excellent results.  Maybe there are other factors affecting Keith's decision, I don't know.

We had another lovely rain last night!  Wonderful!

We are leaving in the morning to attend a wedding in Great Bend, Ks.  Pat is going with us, and we will come home on Sunday.

I am exhausted (bad night last night) so am heading to bed!

Hi everyone on a cloudy and relatively cool morning here in Georgia.  We had a very heavy rainstorm yesterday afternoon that continued quite a long time with the possibility of the same this afternoon.  After a very busy week looking forward to a quieter weekend.  I think I will go to a meeting this morning and we will go too church tomorrow and that should about be it for the weekend. 

Janet, do you think the drought cycle has been broken for where you live.  Hope you slept well last night to prepare for your weekend trip to the wedding.

Hello everyone, I am checking in from Strasburg, PA.  My daughter and I spent Thursday taking in the sites in DC, but for some reason my back and knees were killing me.  I am not in great shape, but should have been able to handle the walking better than that.  But later that evening the cause of the aches and pains became more evident, as the flu attacked me with a vengeance the entire night!  After getting a late check-out from the hotel, it was all I could to do to muster the energy to drive us to Philadelphia.  If I was alone, I would have just holed up in a motel room all day, but we had plans to see some historic sites in Philly, so made the trip.  Today we did a little sightseeing, and are now enjoying the slower, peaceful pace of Strasburg.  My biggest concern at this point is that Leah can avoid, or at least postpone, getting my bug.  She has an audition with a biblical music theatre group here on Monday, which is the point of this trip, and I pray that she can stay healthy.

Here is one of very few shots I took today in Strasburg.


You're all in my prayers!

Quote from: BigSkyKen on August 09, 2014, 10:36:06 PM
Hello everyone, I am checking in from Strasburg, PA.  My daughter and I spent Thursday taking in the sites in DC, but for some reason my back and knees were killing me.  I am not in great shape, but should have been able to handle the walking better than that.  But later that evening the cause of the aches and pains became more evident, as the flu attacked me with a vengeance the entire night!  After getting a late check-out from the hotel, it was all I could to do to muster the energy to drive us to Philadelphia.  If I was alone, I would have just holed up in a motel room all day, but we had plans to see some historic sites in Philly, so made the trip.  Today we did a little sightseeing, and are now enjoying the slower, peaceful pace of Strasburg.  My biggest concern at this point is that Leah can avoid, or at least postpone, getting my bug.  She has an audition with a biblical music theatre group here on Monday, which is the point of this trip, and I pray that she can stay healthy.

Here is one of very few shots I took today in Strasburg.


You're all in my prayers!

I will be praying for you and Leah! 

Nice shot of the train!

Ken, I'm so sorry your trip has so far been less than ideal.  I'm praying for your complete recovery and protection from this "bug" for Leah.

Wonderful shot of the train.   

Hi everyone on this day that the Lord has made.  It is cloudy again here and we had heavy storms in our area late last evening.  Our power was off for a couple of hours.  Chance of more showers again today.  Pat and I did something different this morning and went out to breakfast.  We will not go out to lunch with the group today after church. 

Ken, not fun to get the flu while traveling.  I bet you will be glad to get back home.  Best wishes for your daughter on her audition. 

Hello everyone!  We are back home again.  We were hoping to make it in time to attend church this morning, but got here just as church was getting out. It is a bit over three hours to Great Bend from here, and we stopped once to fill the car with gas.   Pastor had said he had some exciting news for us and we wanted to hear it, but I'm sure we will hear it tonight (this evening, rather) when we attend our small group meeting.

The weather was hot, but not too windy, and the wedding was beautiful.  We went to the reception/dinner/dance which was held in a convention center, but left after the "grand March" just at the beginning of the dance.  Darrel nor I had slept much the night before and we were very tired.  And Pat didn't mind leaving, either, so we left.

I took an over-the-counter sleep aid and slept soundly, even in the very uncomfortable bed at the motel, so I am feeling much better.  I can take that sort of thing occasionally, but if I take them very often, they start working in reverse and keeping me "wired" all night.

All is well here, except we had a big invasion of tiny ants into the kitchen, had to spray those nasty little critters again!

Ken, I hope you are feeling much better and that Leah didn't get the flu bug, and wish her great success with her audition!

Hi, friends,

It's time to check in again! I've had a relatively quiet few days. My back pain returned, so have been in bed with legs elevated lots of the time.

It seems much better today, thanks to our Lord's care.

Marilyn I agree with Janet - I was SOOOO grateful to have the cataract surgery. What a difference it made in my life. And, I was only off from work 1/2 day the second surgery, and 1 1/2 days the first surgery. How wonderfully beautiful the bright colors seemed to me!

Y'all hang in there, and I'll be checking back in.

Ruth Ann

Good Sunday to all, we had a very good sermon today, per usual.  Most of them speak without any notes and they stay on point so it always a treat.  (Remembering a pastor who got off track every Sunday  ). 

Larry:  good news about your DIL gaining weight.  Yes, the Missouri Quilt site is really nice to turn to and especially clear on the iPad.  I am with Pat on handling smaller quilts - just one more large one to go and perhaps one for our bed if I ever get roundtoit.  It would be nice to have a pre-cut quilt kit for a change.  Nothing makes me more nervous than using the rotary cutter --- measure many times before cutting.  Super concentration at that point! 

I downloaded a free book from Amazon called, " Living the Lord's Prayer" by David Timms.  It may only be free today - I get an email alerting me to books for the iPad. 

Yes, to cataract surgery.  It is such a fast recovery. 

The calendar says it's August 10.  But it feels like September 10.   Even the weather reports say these temperatures are normal for September, not August.  And of course there is a little color starting.  Not much yet, but once it starts it usually doesn't take long until we're into autumn.      On the plus side, nights are great for sleeping, with windows open and curtains blowing. 

Time to open a new "Thoughts for the Week" so please CLICK HERE to get there!

See you there!