Sorrow

Since I live near a very small community. I know most of the people that I see on a daily. The tragic death of two children in a fire yesterday has touch everyone. If we don't personally know the family we know someone who knew them. Remember to get those smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and if you have them check them regularly. Could this tragedy been avert? I don't know but I do know that this community's heart has been broken.

Under the Influence

Okay since this program won't let me add a picture I have some work to do. I will post more later.

Okay enough!!! Winter should not look like this but like this. Enough nice weather bring on winter. Crazy? you bet but I love winter.

It is now 2006. The holidays were wonderful. Life is great. That is the way I am looking 2006. My life is far from perfect. But why make it worse by dwelling on the problems. Believe me I have problems and I acknowledge those problem but I refuse to dwell on them. I have four wonderful, and magnificant children (see enclosed photo). This year I have children who have chosen to marry truly terrific people. These are the things I chose to dwell on. The blessings are to be my mantra.

Time Passes Well

Thanksgiving has come and gone. Christmas is almost upon the world. Peace and tranquility to all and remember there is a world full of good news. Go out and find it.

Yeah!

The weather is finally cooling off. I was in the 40's last night. Fall is wonderful.

Busy!

I do love overtime, at least when my pay check comes. I do. But I miss the slow pace of life. Just sitting and watching the colors change.

And to All a Good Day

The world is once again settling in and preparing for winter. It happens about this time every year. The days grow shorter and the scurrying starts to prepare for the coming of the cold.

Another Blessing

I love summer night. This storm is about 60 mile away. Hope it gets here. We could use the rain.

Time Passes

Only 4 months away is that great holiday of Christmas. I love Christmas! Hurray for Christmas.
Anyway now school has started things are settling down. Back at work. The children are all settling into their respective routines, One in Idaho, one in Maryland, one in Alaska and one in Missouri. Adult children are a wonderful pay off. I really like my children as people! Got to go. More unimportant information later.

The Beautiful People

Guesswhat! Ordinary people are gorgeous by just being ordinary. Just remember we do our best every day and that is what makes beauty.

Why I live Here!

The view from my back porch this morning!

A need to see! And he is just getting better, stay tuned.
http://www.joshhoppe.com/Josh%20Stuff.htm

Hurray for Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. I love it. Get quotes, images, information, etc.. Try it out it is free.

Summertime Pleasures

Summer is a great time to touch the forgotten childhood. Watching the stars and fireflies, standing out in the rain, bluff jumping and swimming the day away then sleeping in the porch hammock. I do love summer.

4th of July Weekend
Great weather in the high 80'-low 90's
Great Food grilled peaches with icecream
Gratitude to all those who have protected this nation for the last 229 years making this weekend possible.

1st Amendment of United States Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-7 NASU

Then God spoke all these words, saying,

2 " I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 " You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 " You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

5 " You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7 " You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 " Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

11 " For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

12 " Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

13 " You shall not murder.

14 " You shall not commit adultery.

15 " You shall not steal.

16 " You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 " You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

It all sounds like good ideas to me if we would just follow what has been written. So what are we quibbling about?

Another week has come and gone. One thing age teaches is the wisdom of understanding that life goes on day after day. The true heroes of life of those who continue to live each day no matter the sacrifices.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910.—“Citizenship in a Republic,” The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 21, p. 510 (1926).
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The afternoon thunder storms have finally come. They are selective about where they spread their blessings. Bringing the monentary relief from both the heat and drought.

"Loud are the thunder drums
In the tents of the mountains"

Favorite Poems Old and New. Hellen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday and Company