Alger Falls are so close to the road...the square shadow is my car.
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My Current Bed Partner
The Hand-off
My husband's sisters, Deb and Judy are still close to me and have been very good to us.
Today, Judy gave Tom as college send off (iPod cover and many $ of iTunes gift cards, all the linen needed to set up a dorm room and a check for $500...)
Deb...
(the Nisson behind them)
THANK YOU ALL! (Tom is being rewarded for his good choices...)
The family
Tom's getting ready to go away to college (about as far away as you can get and still be in Michigan). He's worked hard to get his act together and I'm proud of him.
Yesterday I got into my jewelry box and pulled out the pocket watch that I had given to his father on our wedding day and gave it to Tom. It still keeps good time, but the second hand has fallen out (so the other hands can catch on it). We need to take it to a jeweler and have the glass taken off and the hand removed completely.
I'm going to need a bumper sticker for my car (Northern Michigan University)
Amanda...still struggles.
Photo Hunt – Hope
"For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. (Romans 8:24-25 ESV)
Experimental Fulling (AKA lessons learned)
Okay...I made two pieces of knitting - one in garter stitch, the other in stockinette. I took before and after photos...
This first piece started out (cast on 30, knit for 20 rows) 11 inches by 4 inches and ended up stretched width-wise, but only 3 inches tall.
This second piece (stockinette, cast on 20, work for 20 rows) started out 6 inches wide and 6 inches tall. It ended up 7 inches wide and only 4 inches tall.
Lessons learned:
- bind off very (VERY) loosely - in fact, try knitting the last row and binding off with a huge pair of needles.
- get to the washed piece quickly in order to block it while it's wet (although this may not be as important if you bind off loosely)
- stockinette and garter stitches don't act the same.
lunes linkage – July 21, 2008
MzEllen Reads: "Save the Males: why men matter, why women should care" by Kathleen Parker.
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Next up:
Yet another false rape cry.
Clearfield police said a teenage girl's claims that she was raped in the middle of a church parking lot in broad daylight are false.
In a statement sent to the Deseret News on Friday, Clearfield Assistant Police Chief Greg Krusi said laboratory test results and other evidence analyzed did not match up with the girl's claims about being attacked.
"The juvenile was formally interviewed again by investigators at which time she admitted to fabricating the story due to personal issues occurring in her life," Krusi wrote.
At least this one wasn't aimed at a real person whose life could be ruined by a "wolf" cry.
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And...the most offensive site of the week:
Since I followed a couple of links to this site, and the sites that I followed to it are full-egalitarian (and don't seem to much care that "soft-complementarian" is different than "hard-patriarchy"...I really have no clue whether a Godly man who leads his home and church is equivalent (in the eyes of this blog-writer) to the taliban, Hitler and those who kill their daughters for dating the wrong man.
If a picture is worth a thousand words...this says volumes about what the posters of this logo think about those who disagree with them on the gender issue.
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In the spirit of the above link (NOT), here are a few things to ponder...
"Muslim "judge" rules kidnapped Christian girls "converted to Islam and cannot return home"
Two girls (ages 10 and 13) are kidnapped by a Muslim "fruit vendor" who turned them over to a friend, who organized a "marriage". Here's the thing...
The girls' uncle does not conceal his preoccupation, and denounces to AsiaNews that the Muslims involved in the kidnapping are acting as a "gang", recruiting the girls in order to "make them work in a bordello". This alarm has also been heard by the Catholic commission for justice and peace (NCJP) in the country, which confirms the words of Khalid Raheel: the kidnappers are believed to be human traffickers linked to prostitution, known to the police and under the protection of some local politicians.
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New York: Muslim stabs his sister because she was a "bad Muslim girl"
Infuriated because his younger sister was going to clubs, wearing immodest clothing and planning to leave her family for a new life in New York City, Waheed Allah Mohammad stabbed her outside their Henrietta home, prosecutors allege.Afterward, he told Monroe County sheriff's investigators that he attacked his sister because she had disgraced their family and was a "bad Muslim girl," according to court documents.
Mohammad, 22, is scheduled to appear Friday in Monroe County Court on charges of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the May 8 attack on Fauzia A. Mohammad, 19.
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Remember these two girls?
"Contrary to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline, he didn’t actually say he was innocent. He said he had done nothing wrong. That’s not the same thing. According to an earlier story on this case, he confessed to killing his daughter, and explained that he had done it to cleanse his family’s honor. When he appeared before the judge, it is unlikely that he changed this story. He just said he didn’t do anything wrong. And by the lights of the Islamic culture from which he comes, which thinks that a father killing a daughter who has sullied his family’s honor is perfectly justified, he indeed hasn’t done anything wrong. "
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Here's something new:
A popular Hamas children's television program shows a giant bunny character who is lured into stealing money — and then is sentenced by a child host to have his hand chopped off.
Oh wait, that's not very "new", Muslims have also made anti-Semitic children's programs as well.
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Contrary to "popular belief", complementarians do not teach that it's "nothing wrong" to kill their daughters, sell them to prostitution rings or stab them for going to clubs. Nor do we make children's shows that encourage amputations as punishment for minor crimes.
To those who are attempting the comparison between godly male leadership in Islam. NOT HELPFUL.
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Another set of "black and white" twins! (although being a fan of a certain adult beverage, I'd most likely call them "black and tan".
😉
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The Senate restaurants, which include not just the stately Senate dining room in the Capitol but a huge cafeteria and coffee shops scattered in the two-building Senate compound, have lost $18 million since 1993 and are slated to lose $2 million this year.
Without an immediate $250,000 subsidy from the taxpayers, they won't be able to make payroll next month. The restaurants have lost money for 37 of the 41 years they have been in “business,” but the taxpayers have made up the difference.
The food in the Senate eateries is “noticeably subpar,” said California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who, as chair of the Senate's Rules and Administration Committee, supervises these culinary/fiscal horrors.
MY favorite quote?
And the Senate that knows it can't even run a restaurant will soon vote to have the government run health care.
Indeed.
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File under: Look, mom...it followed me home...can I keep it? 
GORHAM, Maine -- A woman checking her laundry Wednesday afternoon found an 8-foot-long snake wrapped around the clothes inside the washing machine at her Gorham home.
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The pope would not have been impressed
(personally, I like snakes - the big ones...I don't like surprises)
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Global COOLING?!?!?
Late last month, some leading climatologists and meteorologists met in New York at the Energy Business Watch Climate and Hurricane Forum. The theme of the forum strongly suggested that a period of global cooling is about emerge, though possible concerns for a political backlash kept it from being spelled out.
However, the message was loud and clear, a cyclical global warming trend may be coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and a new cooling cycle could impact the energy markets in a big way.
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(mostly) "clean" (the only off-color one was "roof sex" and that involved furniture. The part that made it worth watching was the apartment owner getting after the cat for scratching up the furniture). "Western Spaghetti" is wonderful!
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Photo of the week:
Thursday Challenge – Rocks (I CAN DO THIS!)
Thursday Challenge...
(Me, in the Valley of Fire, NV)
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The Pain of Life…
I read your post today about your grandma - you are very fortunate.
I loved my grandma very dearly - but there was pain in her life that was evident until she died. She had given birth to 9 (maybe 10) babies...5 of them lived to be adults.
My grandma and grandpa were married in 1919. Grandma was 23 and Grandpa was 26. I had thought they were younger than that.
I've written about a possible first child, Leila. If there was a Leila, she would have been born in 1919 and died very young.
- Jordan was born September 6, 1920 and died February 5, 1921...5 months old.
- Lydia was born July 5, 1923 and died August 29, 1929...age 6
- Robert was born January 17, 1922 and died September 30, 1923...age 1 year, 9 1/2 months.
- Marian Ellen was born April 7, 1925 and lived to adulthood, but died before her parents in 1970.
- Joyce was born January 17, 1927 and lived to adulthood.
- Pat (Helen Patricia) was born May 26, 1932 and is still alive.
- Marilla was born January 24, 1934 and died April 4...1935.
My Aunt Joyce once told my cousin that she never felt loved by her mother. I'm sure that my grandmother was emotionally drained by that time...and lost yet another baby when Aunt Joyce was only 7. Did Grandma fear (did she brace herself emotionally by being distant) losing her baby Joyce?
- My dad, Thomas, was born a year after Marilla and missed sharing her birthday by a day...January 25, 1934.
- My Aunt Roberta was born August 12, 1937 and is also still alive.
Her first 3 (maybe 4) babied died and she lost another when she still had three children under 10 to take care of.
How would I - or many women living in the medically modern world today - have handled this grief? Would I have done any better than Grandma?
The look on her face in the photo...this was the typical Grandma look. If she smiled ever...I think it was seldom. It's the same look she had in my parents' wedding photo.
The more I see life, the more I understand how important it is to draw into God in grief.
Happy Father’s Day…(my dad is the fiddler)
