Happy Sabbath!
I've been playing with this blog (probably more than I should be). I don't really UNDERSTAND blogs, so it's been fun to fiddle and ... well, not sure if I know more or am more confused. But it doesn't matter. It's interesting!
We've had a nice Sabbath so far. Started off with us needing to pick up Jerry, a man who is in a nursing home - due to his disability caused by a high school football accident, to take to church. I decided to call ahead and see if they could ask him to meet us at the front door. I was rewarded by a sweet Phillipino accent... "Bellie's station #2".
It was my SIL Bellie who had to work today. She walked him out to the front and showed me her slick new phone! I love my Blackberry, but hers and Rhiannon's and Ryan's all make mine look sorrowful. I mean they have touch screens and ... EVERYTHING. Bellie is able to say "text Vonda" and it opens up text messaging. Then she can say the message - and it types it out. She doesn't even have to TYPE it. How cool is that?
It was fun to see her so early in the a.m. She's such a great addition to our family! Almost three years now isn't it?
We got to SS late (mutual fault, I would say -- I feel like I race around so much during the week to get UP, get to my computer to get Vonda's Vine done and sent, be sufficiently beautified to leave the house, and be in my chair at work at 7:30 a.m. -- that I have convinced myself that I need to lolli-gag around a little on Sabbath morning!).
Lolli-gagging has its benefits! I had totally forgotten about my beauty tip ... HEMEROID (sp?) CREAM ... I was rewarded this a.m when I went digging in a drawer for something else with a full tube of PREP H. I slathered that stuff all over my face - and I have to say that I looked at least 23 1/2 minutes younger INSTANTLY.
It seemed like EVERYONE did a really nice job with their portions of the service.
Chuck Lee does such a nice job with teaching the SS lesson. I should have gotten there earlier. Sometimes I get a little 'peeved' at discussion because there is so much "I think" or "my opinion", etc. and not enough "THE BIBLE SAYS ..."
Moving into the service - the gentleman who spoke presented a really nice message. He has a special talent in public speaking and made his topic very informative, spiritual/Biblical, and easy to listen to.
Children's story was nice - it was about a town in Romania that during one of the World Wars had hippos in their zoo. Everyone was concerned about them being hungry (and sad). So they gathered over 9000 articles made of straw (which was a popular material to create slippers, shoes, hats, bags, etc.) and they fed the hippos slippers, shoes, hats, bags, etc. during that cold hard winter.
Special music, the lady who had agreed to provide special music had unfortunately forgotten and was gone. So we asked Karin W. to do it. Her special was well done, especially considering she had only a day of preparation time.
Even the call for offering went well. The person who was set up to do it called about 20 minutes before and wasn't going to make it. So Randy asked Abby Paul to do it. She did, and in my opinion did a great job. I loved her prayer when offering had been gathered and brought back. Her words were clear, youthful, and heartfelt. I was blessed and I know God WILL use the offering to His glory!
Anyway - my custom (to take a short story and make it L-O-N-G) has been upheld. The bottom line is that it was a very spiritually rewarding service.
This afternoon we're just hanging out. Randy and I took Jerry and his mom back to the nursing home after church. I'm going to take a little nap in a bit. Then it will be time to make popcorn. We have small group here at 5 p.m. We always serve popcorn and ice water. (We're such good hosts/hostesses aren't we?) When we first started small group I tried having bars or cookies or ... but that got to be more than I wanted to do. Popcorn seems to be well received by everyone and it's become a staple. Once in awhile we'll add something small (candy corn, caramels, etc.) but usually not.
Following that we're having a little gathering here. It was supposed to be the young people. Savannah, the little gal who did an evangelistic series here last year, came back to visit Lynn Tavener. (She stayed with Lynn for all three weeks of the series.) Lynn wanted something for her to do tonight with young people. I emailed a couple of the girls at church to let them know about it. Haven't heard back from them. The other girl I thought might come is involved in Homecoming Festivities tonight - so I can't blame her for not coming. Homecoming is a big event - complete with pretty dresses and tuxedos!! So our gathering is going to end up being GEEZER WII, I think! Should be interesting!
Hope your Sabbath day is full of peaceful blessings. I can't tell you how much I love Sabbath. I don't think I would be sane without it.
We want to hear from everyone! I think of you all often and even though Ludke-ville doesn't seem all that 'personal', it is. I have each of you in my mind and heart as I write.
V
rludke@machlink.com
Saturday, October 17
Thursday, October 15
LUDKE-ville 10/15/09
Feels like a long time since I wrote a Ludke-ville note. I feel bad because I consider this my personal email to each of you. I love hearing from people and always hope to hear back from each of you!
Well, starting from today and going backward -- howz that for a plan?
10/15/09
FIVE LEFT SHOES. Yes, five. All left ones.
I ran home at lunch (my afternoon job is less than 5 minutes from home) - walked in and oh my! Every day with Ti is an adventure in puppy boredom. He's lucky he is cute ... BUT!!
Today someone left the main floor coat closet open about 6 inches. Never mind that it was dark in there, but Ti (I suppose Rooney might have helped, but am sincerely doubting it since we USTACOUD leave the door ALL the way open and NONE of our shoes would wander out.)
So anyway Ti busied himself with finding 5 left shoes and bringing them out into a pile. He also busied himself by bringing a rag rug from the front door to the dining room. He also busied himself by bringing the afghan from the back of a chair in the family room TOWARD the dining room. He emptied a basket of some books.
YUP - we USTACOUD leave our house and except for a few animal hairs here and there we didn't know we had a dog. But Ti reminds us of why TWO dogs are NOT better than one.
Of course now that I'm home, he is sleeping soundly. Must be worn out from all the frolic of the day. *sigh!*
*LOL* I think God made creatures cute while they were young and super spunky or else you'd reconsider pets, kids, etc.
I saw a WALKING STICK outside today. It was on the side of the garage between the two garage doors. Don't see those around too often. They must be kind of lonely. Unlike those pesky LadyBug Wannabe's who travel in herds.
WED10/14/09
There are now TWO of us in my office with allergy to hair dye. One of the gals had her stylist/colorist do a patch test on her and she reacted. Today she asked me all about my allergy. It was hard to talk about it because my vain side colored my hair a couple days ago, so I'm really suffering right now. It will only get worse for awhile, before it starts getting better. Anyway, she was talking about itching and I was feeling like scratching!!! (ME, not her -- I would scratch ME!)
I'm itchy - but I AM gorgeous! I really LIKE my haircut (I got it re-cut after the FIASCO haircut of a couple months ago.) But there are still some days that are not good. Like today (Wednesday) - every morning when I get ready for work I am flying around like a maniac! (I always feel like the music in Wizard of Oz when the wicked witch is peddling her bike - with Toto in a basket - and the music is rapid and rushing ... well anyway that's my morning in my head theme song.)
So anyway I got to work thinking I was some sorta hot chic and then I looked in the mirror. OH BOY! I looked like I'd been rubbing balloons on my head to stick on the wall. Every hair on my head had an assigned duty. Either it was CLINGING to my head for dear life or it was WAVING aimlessly straight away from my head. NONE of my hairs were doing what the 'cut' intended them to do. Can't imagine what people were thinking - it made ME laugh and I shoulda been crying.
Son in law is on his way home for mid-term break today. Which basically is a weekend with a couple of extra days off. But its enough that his little family is happy to have him all to themselves for a few days. He gets to take Baby J to swimming lessons and Wee Read tomorrow (with mommy, I'm sure!).
TUESDAY - 10/13/09
I had an all day training for my afternoon job on Tuesday. Had to travel to the Mesquawki Casino in Tama for it. I thought of you Gloria - they had a really big BINGO place right close to the conference rooms. In fact one of the ladies at my training also had to drive quite a way to get there, so a friend came with her to play BINGO while she trained.
Lots of white haired folks at the gambling casino on this Tuesday! I wonder if they bring in bus loads of people for the day or something because there weren't that many cars in the parking lots. When we left there were quite a few more, but early in the a.m. (10-ish) cars were sparse.
The casino/hotel had a conference room area and that's where our training was held. It's a nice facility and it was GOOD training. Last year's was kind of non-informative but this year I felt that I learned quite a bit. Plus the 5 hours on the road gave me a chance to listen to my Bible on CD CD's ... I've listened to most of 1st and 2nd Samuel today.
I stopped by Coralville on the way home to see the little peanut. She looked sweet today. But her little cheeks were red and her little nose was runny. I think she spent too much time with Grandpa this past weekend.
We gave her crawling lessons. She gets up on all fours like she is GOING to go somewhere, but then she either goes backward or nowhere. So while she was up on all fours I manipulated the back end of her (legs) and her mommy manipulated the front end of her (arms) ... we did left/right/left/right ... at the end Baby J picked up one arm and then toppled.
She'll get it on her own eventually, but we had fun playing with her. At least Gram(me) did!
BACK TO THE PRESENT - Thursday
I suppose, even though there are just paragraphs and paragraphs of absolutely gripping adventures from my life left to write, I should probably say SO LONG!
Hope you are seeing God's blessings in your life each day.
Keep in touch!
Well, starting from today and going backward -- howz that for a plan?
10/15/09
FIVE LEFT SHOES. Yes, five. All left ones.
I ran home at lunch (my afternoon job is less than 5 minutes from home) - walked in and oh my! Every day with Ti is an adventure in puppy boredom. He's lucky he is cute ... BUT!!
Today someone left the main floor coat closet open about 6 inches. Never mind that it was dark in there, but Ti (I suppose Rooney might have helped, but am sincerely doubting it since we USTACOUD leave the door ALL the way open and NONE of our shoes would wander out.)
So anyway Ti busied himself with finding 5 left shoes and bringing them out into a pile. He also busied himself by bringing a rag rug from the front door to the dining room. He also busied himself by bringing the afghan from the back of a chair in the family room TOWARD the dining room. He emptied a basket of some books.
YUP - we USTACOUD leave our house and except for a few animal hairs here and there we didn't know we had a dog. But Ti reminds us of why TWO dogs are NOT better than one.
Of course now that I'm home, he is sleeping soundly. Must be worn out from all the frolic of the day. *sigh!*
*LOL* I think God made creatures cute while they were young and super spunky or else you'd reconsider pets, kids, etc.
I saw a WALKING STICK outside today. It was on the side of the garage between the two garage doors. Don't see those around too often. They must be kind of lonely. Unlike those pesky LadyBug Wannabe's who travel in herds.
WED10/14/09
There are now TWO of us in my office with allergy to hair dye. One of the gals had her stylist/colorist do a patch test on her and she reacted. Today she asked me all about my allergy. It was hard to talk about it because my vain side colored my hair a couple days ago, so I'm really suffering right now. It will only get worse for awhile, before it starts getting better. Anyway, she was talking about itching and I was feeling like scratching!!! (ME, not her -- I would scratch ME!)
I'm itchy - but I AM gorgeous! I really LIKE my haircut (I got it re-cut after the FIASCO haircut of a couple months ago.) But there are still some days that are not good. Like today (Wednesday) - every morning when I get ready for work I am flying around like a maniac! (I always feel like the music in Wizard of Oz when the wicked witch is peddling her bike - with Toto in a basket - and the music is rapid and rushing ... well anyway that's my morning in my head theme song.)
So anyway I got to work thinking I was some sorta hot chic and then I looked in the mirror. OH BOY! I looked like I'd been rubbing balloons on my head to stick on the wall. Every hair on my head had an assigned duty. Either it was CLINGING to my head for dear life or it was WAVING aimlessly straight away from my head. NONE of my hairs were doing what the 'cut' intended them to do. Can't imagine what people were thinking - it made ME laugh and I shoulda been crying.
Son in law is on his way home for mid-term break today. Which basically is a weekend with a couple of extra days off. But its enough that his little family is happy to have him all to themselves for a few days. He gets to take Baby J to swimming lessons and Wee Read tomorrow (with mommy, I'm sure!).
TUESDAY - 10/13/09
I had an all day training for my afternoon job on Tuesday. Had to travel to the Mesquawki Casino in Tama for it. I thought of you Gloria - they had a really big BINGO place right close to the conference rooms. In fact one of the ladies at my training also had to drive quite a way to get there, so a friend came with her to play BINGO while she trained.
Lots of white haired folks at the gambling casino on this Tuesday! I wonder if they bring in bus loads of people for the day or something because there weren't that many cars in the parking lots. When we left there were quite a few more, but early in the a.m. (10-ish) cars were sparse.
The casino/hotel had a conference room area and that's where our training was held. It's a nice facility and it was GOOD training. Last year's was kind of non-informative but this year I felt that I learned quite a bit. Plus the 5 hours on the road gave me a chance to listen to my Bible on CD CD's ... I've listened to most of 1st and 2nd Samuel today.
I stopped by Coralville on the way home to see the little peanut. She looked sweet today. But her little cheeks were red and her little nose was runny. I think she spent too much time with Grandpa this past weekend.
We gave her crawling lessons. She gets up on all fours like she is GOING to go somewhere, but then she either goes backward or nowhere. So while she was up on all fours I manipulated the back end of her (legs) and her mommy manipulated the front end of her (arms) ... we did left/right/left/right ... at the end Baby J picked up one arm and then toppled.
She'll get it on her own eventually, but we had fun playing with her. At least Gram(me) did!
BACK TO THE PRESENT - Thursday
I suppose, even though there are just paragraphs and paragraphs of absolutely gripping adventures from my life left to write, I should probably say SO LONG!
Hope you are seeing God's blessings in your life each day.
Keep in touch!
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