10.05.2023

49⁰F clear WSW@12MPH SR0705 SS1837

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

Coffee… too sleepy and lazy to get some after 0130 baby run.

Sky is looking like rain

Picked up some new thinking of you cards. MK amish friend made them for me. She does beautiful work.

EG thanks for the short confession video. “Sins as multiple as grains of sand on the beach”

Have an awesome day.

Know you are prayed for.

10.04.2023

70⁰ F SW@12mph SR0703  SS1839

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

Coffee aroma infiltrating the house. The taste is ambrosia.

12 years ago, I came across the most wonderful smelling plant. The giant blooms looked like trumpets. The colors were glorious. I studied it and found it was 100% poison. I wanted one. The man brought one home a couple weeks ago. It sits on my front porch. I will try this winter to keep it alive. It over winters in a dark basement till spring.

Angel’s trumpet is a very poisonous plant, causing intense hallucinations, seizures, and even death in the most severe cases. This plant can also cause poisoning through various routes. You can get poisoned by touching, inhaling, or eating almost any part of an angel’s trumpet. The intoxicating scents are variously described as musk, lemon, mint, lily, hyacinth, citrus, jasmine, gardenia, and more. Regardless, the fragrance is most noticeable on warm summer evenings. (WI Hort. EDU)

We humans are fickle and vain. We want beauty, comfort, adoration, and power. We want it knowing it will poison us. This plant reminds me of that defect in my character.

Tread carefully, my friend. satan entices with beauty and power but can only survive in dark dormant places.

Know you are prayed for.

10.03.2023

55⁰F clear S@13mph SR0702 SS1840

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

No coffee

The man in Iowa

Happy baptism anniversary to Amber, Amy, & Dennis.  May your relationship with Jesus thrive.

Slept in. It was needed.

Pkd up book to read yesterday. What are you reading these days?

Woke with those awful leg cramps. I knew I hadn’t had enough water yesterday.

Hoping expedition is ready by lunch.

Once daylight time goes off on Nov 5, I am hoping it never comes back. If you are with me in this thinking; send a blue index card to your congressman and Senator with “No more daylight savings time” written on it. Sign your name, and mail it off. Let’s get rid of this nonsense once and for all.

Know you are prayed for.

10.01.2023

64⁰F S@9mph SR0700 SS1844

Morning Offering given

Village quiet & peaceful

Coffee good

The geese flew through this past week. The barn swallows, humming birds, and robins, too.

It is time to put away the yard art. The squirrels have been busy burying things in the woodchip mulch. It is time to decide where to over winter the house plants from the porch. Time to gather the items needed to begin winterization of the porch.

I’m certain winter snowfall will come next month with many storms and cold temps.

Have a wonderful day. Know you are prayed for.

09.29.2023

59⁰F fog SSE@10mph SR0658 SS1848

Morning Offering given

Village waking

Coffee and sausage aroma on the air

The man cooks

Another dream night all disjointed parts of last evening’s television selection. I found zip lining down the electrical wire and dropping into the pond quite interesting and very MacGyverish.

Will finish the JDRobb book CD today. Loved the mystery plot line disliked the foul language. Would have been much better without it. I have another to hear. Hopefully, the language is better. If not, I’ll put it on the don’t read due to language list along with Sandra Brown.

Know you are prayed for.

09.27.2023

62⁰F cloudy E@9mph SR0655 SS1855

Morning Offering given

Village quiet & peaceful

Coffee good

The month is ending… it went past quickly in a flurry of activity. The days seem blurred together in one long smear across my memory cells.

This means that once again, I have put my relationship with Christ on hold. Why do I fill my life so full that I lose sight of the one relationship that could/will take me thru eternity?

Yes, I did begin attending Scripture study. However, I am not giving that the attention it deserves.

The Stapletons benefit last evening was very nice. Their music is just flat-out fun to hear. If you haven’t heard them, find them on utube. You won’t regret it.

Got an email asking me to renew our local paper subscription. I had to respond to that with when you start covering the local news, actually going out and looking, and when you stop writing in a liberal, progressive, democratic far left manner, I will consider it. I still await the response.

I want to see

Police News

Public opinion

School news

Church news

Library news

Personal interviews with local people

Business place highlights

Political news… national, state, and local.

Well, you get the picture

Know you are prayed for.