Wow! Has it only been four days since I last posted? It really seems longer than that. It could be due to the fact that I have been hours and hours working on trying to improve my website pages.
I am making progress. I am learning to work with the programs. AND I am finding it to be a test of my patience. But, did I say .. I AM making progress! PTL! (Praise the Lord!)
My website designer, Ray, is such a patient man. He explains things to me and understands that I just don't get it the first time, or maybe even the second time, but I keep at it until it makes sense to me .. or just happens to suddenly fall together and work. LOL! He is deserving of lots of credit as he is trying to help me so that I can do this work myself.
I am enjoying this process, though. My frustration level goes up and down, along with my stress level, but perseverance pays off. Last night is a case in point. Earlier in the day I asked Ray many questions, he gave me appropriate answers and instructions, and I set off last night to make it work. Well! At 2 AM I gave up, wrote him an email saying please help me fix this mess I have made! But I didn't send it. I decided .. this is not going to beat me! Instead I kept trying (and praying to understand) and at just before 3 AM .. click! There it was. The way I wanted it. And the email got deleted, I got a few hours sleep, and here I am again. :) There is so much to do. I tend to be a perfectionist and I want this website to be a nice place for people to spend some time.
This morning I enjoyed being outside for a little while on this lovely Fall day. Between working on my website and probably catching a nap this afternoon, (up till after 3 AM does not work for me very well!), I knew that I would need to get out and appreciate a little of God's world. It inspires and refreshes me .. and we all can use more of that gentle calm in our lives, can't we?
Now, back to business. As for you ... what are you working on that is taking so much of your attention and time?
Thanks for reading, and ... Blessings on your day. :)
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
thankfulness, time & anger
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Canada!
Today is Thanksgiving Monday, but yesterday our family got together at Dad's for our annual Thanksgiving feast. Our son-in-law is home from Alberta for a few days, but even so, there were only ten of us this time since two of our daughters could not get home. (I'm really missing them lately.) One of our daughters out there celebrated a birthday last Tuesday. (Happy 26th, Sweetie!)
It is such beautiful weather right now. The leaves have turned colour and are starting to blow around in the nippy Fall wind, but as long as the sun is shining I don't worry too much about the cold yet. So far we have not had a frost here in our location, but that will happen all too soon. It rained earlier - with a quickly passing thunderstorm last night - but now my husband is taking advantage of the good weather to get our wood split and put into the shed for Winter -- hard work. We have an outdoor wood furnace which my husband decided several years ago that we should buy, and it has made such a positive difference for my health. Once we start using the furnace in the heating season, it only has to be filled twice a day - and I don't have to do it! It has eliminated our need to purchase furnace oil, too. Gotta love that!
Last week marked a whole year since I started meeting with the housegroup once a week. Amazing how quickly time passes, isn't it? I really think the world - and the whole universe - is turning and moving faster, all part of the creation's appointment in God's plan. Any thoughts on that?
This past week was productive regarding work on my website. Yaaay!! :) It is coming together better now, but someone visiting it will notice little change since I have not validated many items yet. I have other things to address first, but it is coming along. PTL! Soon there will be lots to see on there.
Last week I posed questions about Twitter. I still have not made a definite decision, but I will mull that over further. I'm still hoping to hear from more people about their experience with it, so please leave comments for me to ponder. How time consuming is it to keep track of postings on your account?
I will leave you with this to consider: On Sunday our pastor talked about Thanksgiving and how we often express what we are thankful for as being those things we have materially, or healthwise or things like that. He pointed out that true thankfulness comes from the heart and mostly within our relationship with God. It is a spiritual thing. He also addressed anger, saying that anger is mostly based in our often deeply rooted anger toward God about things that have happened or that we wanted to happen and didn't, and such. Bottom line .. we blame God. I believe that those two points are really beneficial to consider, and it will make a huge difference in how we view life and live it out.
What do you think? I would love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading, and ... Blessings on your day! :)
Today is Thanksgiving Monday, but yesterday our family got together at Dad's for our annual Thanksgiving feast. Our son-in-law is home from Alberta for a few days, but even so, there were only ten of us this time since two of our daughters could not get home. (I'm really missing them lately.) One of our daughters out there celebrated a birthday last Tuesday. (Happy 26th, Sweetie!)
It is such beautiful weather right now. The leaves have turned colour and are starting to blow around in the nippy Fall wind, but as long as the sun is shining I don't worry too much about the cold yet. So far we have not had a frost here in our location, but that will happen all too soon. It rained earlier - with a quickly passing thunderstorm last night - but now my husband is taking advantage of the good weather to get our wood split and put into the shed for Winter -- hard work. We have an outdoor wood furnace which my husband decided several years ago that we should buy, and it has made such a positive difference for my health. Once we start using the furnace in the heating season, it only has to be filled twice a day - and I don't have to do it! It has eliminated our need to purchase furnace oil, too. Gotta love that!
Last week marked a whole year since I started meeting with the housegroup once a week. Amazing how quickly time passes, isn't it? I really think the world - and the whole universe - is turning and moving faster, all part of the creation's appointment in God's plan. Any thoughts on that?
This past week was productive regarding work on my website. Yaaay!! :) It is coming together better now, but someone visiting it will notice little change since I have not validated many items yet. I have other things to address first, but it is coming along. PTL! Soon there will be lots to see on there.
Last week I posed questions about Twitter. I still have not made a definite decision, but I will mull that over further. I'm still hoping to hear from more people about their experience with it, so please leave comments for me to ponder. How time consuming is it to keep track of postings on your account?
I will leave you with this to consider: On Sunday our pastor talked about Thanksgiving and how we often express what we are thankful for as being those things we have materially, or healthwise or things like that. He pointed out that true thankfulness comes from the heart and mostly within our relationship with God. It is a spiritual thing. He also addressed anger, saying that anger is mostly based in our often deeply rooted anger toward God about things that have happened or that we wanted to happen and didn't, and such. Bottom line .. we blame God. I believe that those two points are really beneficial to consider, and it will make a huge difference in how we view life and live it out.
What do you think? I would love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading, and ... Blessings on your day! :)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
canoes and eagles
Today is the first full day of Autumn. How I hate to see Summer go!
Don't you love the outdoors? I don't consider myself to be an "outdoorsy person" but I do love this time of year. Well, actually I enjoy - in fact, favour - any season during which I will not freeze. The sunshine and flowers and singing birds rejuvenate me. I am always amazed at the beauty God created.
Do you canoe? On the weekend my husband and I made the long trip to Amherst - a three hour drive for us - which gave us many pleasant hours together - a rare event since he works in the city and I at home. Usually we only have parts of evenings and weekends together. It was a wonderful day. Our purpose was to purchase a canoe at Cumberland Canoes and Kayaks, which we did - a bright orange one. It was a longer drive home with that strapped on the top of our car, but we certainly could not get lost in the crowd. :) This canoe is very similarly made to the yellow one we lost in the cottage fire (caused by a neighbour's carelessness) two and a half years ago. Now we need to find time on a good weather day to enjoy a "test drive."
On another note -- have you ever watched the eagle as it floats on air currents? It is an amazing bird. I enjoy watching one or more nearly every day from my house or yard. There are many bald eagles around here, and one particularly large one that glides majestically on high.
One day a few weeks ago I was on one of my walks when I was dismayed to find an eagle corpse in the ditch. When I told my husband, he said that when he was driving out that way several days before he had seen one trying to lift off the road with a dead raccoon in its talons. When an eagle gets a grip like that it has a hard time letting go, so we don't know if another vehicle carelessly hit it, or if the eagle accidentally rose up under the power lines and got electrocuted. Either way, it was a sad find.
I got thinking about how people would probably like to have eagle feathers for crafting or something, but then there was something about it that didn't feel right. It seemed I had heard some legal aspect to that, so I did some research. It is illegal (with huge fines levied) to own any part of that honoured bird since it is very special to the First Nations people, so I contacted the Department of Natural Resources about it. I was told that there is a long waiting list of Mi'kmaq wanting even just a feather, and even that item has to be approved by their Band leader. Well, that got me excited! If I could bless some of these people through my find that would be fabulous, so later that day I went out and carefully gathered the remains. Not long after I placed another phone call a man from the department came out and collected the eagle from me. It would be handled appropriately and given to the right persons. That makes my heart feel glad. :)
Of course, this means you will not find eagle feathers on my website, but you will find authentic wild turkey feathers once I get them posted on there.
Thanks for reading, and Blessings on your day!
Don't you love the outdoors? I don't consider myself to be an "outdoorsy person" but I do love this time of year. Well, actually I enjoy - in fact, favour - any season during which I will not freeze. The sunshine and flowers and singing birds rejuvenate me. I am always amazed at the beauty God created.
Do you canoe? On the weekend my husband and I made the long trip to Amherst - a three hour drive for us - which gave us many pleasant hours together - a rare event since he works in the city and I at home. Usually we only have parts of evenings and weekends together. It was a wonderful day. Our purpose was to purchase a canoe at Cumberland Canoes and Kayaks, which we did - a bright orange one. It was a longer drive home with that strapped on the top of our car, but we certainly could not get lost in the crowd. :) This canoe is very similarly made to the yellow one we lost in the cottage fire (caused by a neighbour's carelessness) two and a half years ago. Now we need to find time on a good weather day to enjoy a "test drive."
On another note -- have you ever watched the eagle as it floats on air currents? It is an amazing bird. I enjoy watching one or more nearly every day from my house or yard. There are many bald eagles around here, and one particularly large one that glides majestically on high.
One day a few weeks ago I was on one of my walks when I was dismayed to find an eagle corpse in the ditch. When I told my husband, he said that when he was driving out that way several days before he had seen one trying to lift off the road with a dead raccoon in its talons. When an eagle gets a grip like that it has a hard time letting go, so we don't know if another vehicle carelessly hit it, or if the eagle accidentally rose up under the power lines and got electrocuted. Either way, it was a sad find.
I got thinking about how people would probably like to have eagle feathers for crafting or something, but then there was something about it that didn't feel right. It seemed I had heard some legal aspect to that, so I did some research. It is illegal (with huge fines levied) to own any part of that honoured bird since it is very special to the First Nations people, so I contacted the Department of Natural Resources about it. I was told that there is a long waiting list of Mi'kmaq wanting even just a feather, and even that item has to be approved by their Band leader. Well, that got me excited! If I could bless some of these people through my find that would be fabulous, so later that day I went out and carefully gathered the remains. Not long after I placed another phone call a man from the department came out and collected the eagle from me. It would be handled appropriately and given to the right persons. That makes my heart feel glad. :)
Of course, this means you will not find eagle feathers on my website, but you will find authentic wild turkey feathers once I get them posted on there.
Thanks for reading, and Blessings on your day!
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