I hope that you had a cheerful and meaningful Christmas day yesterday.

I had a delightful Sunday-before-Christmas, followed by a particularly nice Christmas Eve which included Candlelight Service at my church, St Philips Lutheran, followed by a late Christmas Eve Special itle "One Christmas Story: People Rich in Spirit"  on location in Reading, ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving for the U.S. was Nov 22 2012.

My sort-of-Thanksgiving was Friday, Nov 23 2012.

In the Past.

My family would give a toast at the holidays each year which was more of a wish/prayer/hope for things to be better the following year. Sadly our desire for things to improve in the future never seemed to work out as we wanted. I lost my last ( Read more... )

Actually not that much ( Read more... )

Question:  If we call the hurricane "Sandy" rather than "Frankenstorm", will she play nice?
Probable Answer:  Get real!

Which is a problem for this fantasy-writer. ;-) Much as I wish otherwise, NOAA predictions still show the Mid-Atlantic's unwelcome guest heading right toward the southern Jersey shore--including my beloved Ocean City--shortly ( Read more... )

I may be moving...I may be moving here:

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Some of you already know parts of my increasingly frustrating apartment story. (See past entries.) For those who do not know, living here recently has become an awful ordeal. You really don't want to know the details though I ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week for me--full of  "social engagements".  Vicar Karen Larson came to visit me from church Monday afternoon, Brandon visited me after Bible study Monday night, Tuesday--no one, Wednesday Joanne picked me up & Kristy dropped me off for the Written Remains meeting. (We discussed Weldon's chapter 20 & my G&B end of chapter 2 plus ( Read more... )

Apr 30 2012:I thought this was my 2000th post but it wasn't.

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted recently, the last time I posted to my LiveJournal blog, “Scribblings”, I noticed a stat at the top of the page saying that I had posted 1999 times so far--since Nov 2007. Naturally, in order to commemorate the upcoming milestone, I felt that ( Read more... )

Vartha (the black Maine Coon cat) is hiding--maybe from the snow.  ;-P

She has spent large parts of this past week in the big bathroom window looking out at the bare trees and then at the snow falling. Part of the motivation may have been the occasional visit of squirrels. (I left a whole box of crackers out for the squirrels on the balcony at the ( Read more... )

Vartha, the black Maine Coon, likes boxes of all sizes, preferably empty though she's cunning at off-loading them. She also likes large department store shopping bags, preferably with tissue or smaller bags stuffed inside them. For these she flops on one side and kicks all of the rustley stuff until it's "alive!". I've put very small bags or boxes ( Read more... )

I feel like a small prey anmal coming out after the predaotr has left ( Read more... )