Ranchwife loves me so she's harrassing me. We have NO internet at home. We moved here two weeks and one day ago, we called for phone/internet service two weeks ago and we've had 3 supposed days where we were to wait for a service guy to come fix our phone line (no dial tone) and NOTHING! I'm seriously getting frustrated with Verizon but... Satan can't win this battle, Christ still Died on the Cross for me. Issuse Etc is BACK!!! www.issuesetc.org and www.piratechristianradio.com and I actually used the oven in our new house (which is bug infested and gross and need color badly!) this morning. We have all our furniture and Mr Top Gun (also known as my hero) put in a real live clothesline outside and we've been drying blankets and the rest of the wash for a whole day! Ahhhh, the country life, I'm trying to talk him into a fence (well, we'd have to talk the landlord into it first) so we can get a cow and a horse or two (hey Ranchwife, how many acres per horse, if they're eating the grass?). We're going to put chickens in and Mr Top Gun and the Wild Bunch (see future posting regarding their names) are currently shopping for lumber to build my gardens (we're putting in potatoes!). So, bear with me, I'm getting there - lots to do - gotta contact the landlord (who's overseas, what's with that, can't anything be easy - and has to use e-mail only - duh, no internet at home!) about getting a bug guy out to kill the bugs and the mice - maybe I'll just get a cat! |
A few weeks ago my favorite talk radio program Issues Etc was canceled - on Holy Tuesday no less - and the host and producer were fired. There was no explanation given, and after more than a week of letters, calls, and e-mails asking for answers the church (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) offices came out with the answer that the show was canceled for "Programatic and Business Reasons." A few days after that they changed the message to read "programatic and stewardship reasons." There has been a LOT of talk about this on The Wittenberg Trail, a sort of "Facebook" for Confessional Lutherans and those curious about Lutheranism. I found this YouTube video today on the WT and had to put a link here too! |
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Butch is a good kid - well, as much a good kid as any 6 year old can be. But he sure does despise cleaning up his messes. Right now it is almost nine in the evening, he is sitting on the floor staring at boxes of toys and supposed to be picking up. Every time he picks something new up he has to play with it. I'm slowly going crazy - I *want* to throw all the toys away (they prefer the boxes the toys come in anyway right?) but they are quality toys (Thomas trains and wood blocks) and I can't do that - but I'm so tired of the mess. So, I stupidly sit here and ask him what he is *supposed* to be doing. It isn't working. It's 9pm and I want to go to bed. If I clean it he wins anyway, b/c he's just trying to get out of doing it - well partly, I realize at 6 he has a short attention span. Normally I'd just put him in bed and come back to it in the morning but - he's been doing this for days and I'm really sick of the mess - I want it gone - I want the toys to stay in their boxes and look cute! I'm sure I got in plenty of trouble for the exact same things when I was a kid - but why can't they clean like adults? |
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There are SO many things I'd love to say but I'm taking only a few moments to check my blog while I'm downloading my favorite radio program to my mp3 player on a friend's computer. If anyone is still reading this (and why would you be after so long since I last was able to blog), a Blessed Christmas to you all!!! We will be spending it at home with friends and I think I'll have solved my computer problems by then (mostly finding time and money to fix parts so I can get online at the wifi zones). We finally get to move out of this desert in June so I'm also trying to figure out how to move a wannabe homestead! MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Jenn |