Good Morning halkel.  I know you like breakfast tacos.  I can tolerate soft tacos, but not for breakfast.

Riley/Peter--Glad to hear you are OK after your fall.

Gloria, don't feel bad, I don't think I've said a lot lately.  It seems by the time I get in to read posts, that others have responded to everything already. 

I've noticed we have some color around here, some of it quite pretty.  We have a mixture of maples and oaks, among other varieties.  I used to go north when Tom was still married and living in Boyne City and the color was beautiful most years. 

We may hit 50 degrees today but that may be our high.

Gloria, we have a similar situation with voting here.  The library across the road is a voting precinct, but we have to go down the road to a middle school to vote, a place about a mile from here.  I do vote absentee and I should look at the ballot to see what else other than presidential is on the ballot.

The roofs across the pond showed signs of frost this morning.  The sun is now out so the signs have disappeared.

Mary Ann

Good Morning. I'm here, sorta, my mind is still asleep, so please excuse my neglect or errors in replying. I woke at 7 and took my bones out of a nice warm bed in preparation of my housekeeper. She arrived about 7:15, gathered up the linens and put out fresh, gave me a hug and  kiss, and went on to change six other beds. She will return ere long to do the deep cleaning, and that is when I go sit in the lobby and read. She scours everything clean, scrubs, dusts, vacuums and that takes time, so I vacate the premises.

I enjoyed each and every message, and glad to hear Roley/Peter, is all O.K. and everyone else seemed very "social" today. Now it is time for me to vacate, so see y'all later. June

Mary Ann--One thing I miss here is the changing of the leaf colors.

June--Your place will be all spiffed up when the housekeeper gets through.  She sure starts early.

I'm home!  I'm tired!  My eyes feel dry!  I've fed myself and I gave the doggies a snack.  I think I'll put some drops in my eyes and collect a few zzzs.

JOANIE, thank you for the prayers on Lew's behalf.  I told my daughter about you and she said, "That's so nice of her. Tell her we both said Thank You!"

 JaneS
sounds good to me if you have liquid tears good stuff.take a nap and have a great rest of the day

Lloyd

Jannie--My prayers will continue.  I hope you can collect some ZZZ's.  I rested, but couldn't go to sleep.

Lloyd--Did yo get a nap?

HALKEL....
...not sure where that springs from, I cant see any recent postings about our Benji in Soda Shoppe but, of course I will dread it the day i-we lose our pup Benji, wouldn't that be obvious? and know others have faced this also, and of course I am aware of...quoting..."  but that is what we must all face, rich, poor, old, young, all living things will die, like it or not....." I just wondered why you would feel that I didn't already know this, that every living thing dies...and what do you mean by telling me?....quote,...." like it not not..."
I am just checking back on my posts and wondering where this all came from....and wondering what I have said to make you respond like this...Infact I cant see any postings to warrant this.....

Jackie, no particular reason.  You just sounded like you are having a hard time accepting the fact.  If I offended then accept my apology.

I wasn't trying to pick a fight.  Maybe as you get a little older you will understand where I was coming from.  Death at my age, my death, is a fact I face.  Old joke, but somewhat true.  If you wake up in the morning, you know it is going to be a good day.  Just maybe I was talking to myself.  Who knows.

Jackie, I went back and looked up the posts. I think Hal is aware of your feelings and was trying to be sympathetic. That is hard for a man to pull off in a written manner. What we say in person, where you see the expressions and hear the voice tones is so different from posting a message on the Internet without those clues.

You are worried as I was with Sarah and Jack was with Jessie, so we tend to be more sensitive at those times. I know I was with Sarah just this past spring.

Bis yes I did got a good western Movie and  done more listing than seeing GOOD NAP.

Lloyd

It's spreading.  If you are having problems getting to a favorite website, they may be under attack.

OFF WITH THEIR WEB: INTERNET BLACKOUT
HACK ATTACK SPREADS
'TRIAL RUN' FEARS

http://www.drudgereport.com/

I'm back..finally. Been a busy day, plus a long nap this afternoon. Sorry about that. Gosh what happened here.....No replies all afternoon ??

Good Night Everyfriend!  May God bless us, every one!

Good Saturday morning, Everyfriend.   There's a breakfast casserole to accompany your coffee or tea. I wish everyone a good day!!





Army of God

A friend was in front of me coming out of the Synagogue one day, and as always the Rabbi was standing at the door shaking hands as the congregation departed. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The Rabbi said to him, "You need to join the Army of G-d!"

My friend replied, "I'm already in the Army of G-d, Rabbi."

Rabbi questioned, "How come I don't see you except for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?"

He whispered back, "I'm in the secret service."



How Do You Use Laugh & Lift?
(By Chris Long)

I have found over the many years of doing Laugh & Lift now that people use Laugh & Lift in varying ways and varying degrees in their life. For some, it's something they read occasionally as they feel they have time, for some it's a daily "can't miss". Some use it as a key part of their primary "devotional" time in the morning, some use it more for just getting an extra smile or boost before facing the day (or at the end of the day). Some primarily only read the jokes (the Laugh) and just skip right over the spiritual content (not that I recommend this!). Some primarily only read the Lift. Some read it all without fail. You get my point - with something like Laugh & Lift, with thousands of people it is bound to be utilized in different ways.

How you feel it is best of use to you in your life is up to you for where you are at. I'm just happy to be able to minister to you in whatever degree you'll let me do so through Laugh & Lift in your life!

But there is one thing I can say without fail that I hope you are NOT doing with Laugh & Lift. I hope you are NOT using it as your primary "God time" in the day. In other words, if the main extent of your time spent with God in the day is just when you spend a minute reading Laugh & Lift, there's something wrong. For many people (myself included for far too many years) daily "fellowshipping with God" gets reduced to merely reading a 1 page devotional or quick email, with maybe a quick prayer thrown in for good measure. In other words, we give God 3 minutes and then put Him out of our mind the rest of the day.

Jesus desires a close relationship with us where we are abiding in Him (John 15). To abide in Him, we have to spend quality time with Him - being real and honest. Indeed, this is the only way that we can really live the victorious Christian life. In order to "abide" though, we have to read and really desire to know and understand His Word, since that is the primary way that He speaks to us.

Laugh & Lift has grown increasingly "meatier" over the years, and often contains some Scripture in the issues. But reading a Lift item where some person gives their take on something is not the same thing as going to the Source and reading and studying God's Word for yourself. It has recently become very very clear to me in a way that it wasn't previously that this is one of the biggest problems within the Church. Everyone is looking to their favorite pastor, teacher, ministry, to give them all they need to know as a Christian. And God certainly uses them! God uses people and things such as Laugh & Lift to help teach and encourage His Body - obviously I'm not discounting this! But just getting "spoon fed" pieces of the Word with man's interpretation (which can be flawed) in a sermon, radio show, t.v. show, or email, is no substitute for you spending time talking to God and reading His Word - genuinely asking the Holy Spirit (who lives in you as a believer in Jesus Christ!) to illuminate for you what you are reading. While God gifts and uses teachers, the Holy Spirit is a much better teacher than ANY mere man and wants to directly teach you one-on-one, not merely through an intermediary such as a pastor or ministry. One of the Holy Spirit's roles, the Bible tells us in John 16:13, is to guide us into all truth. There's a difference between looking to God as your source, or looking to man, a ministry, etc. Many people settle for the latter.

Some time back, a subscriber wrote me that they and their friend were discussing Laugh & Lift and they both came to the conclusion that it was really good "dessert". I initially was a little off-put by that in my flesh because I thought "dessert? Why not the main course??" Well, actually, that subscriber and her friend had it just about right. They got their priorities right.

I hope Laugh & Lift is a real blessing to you. I hope it helps exhort and encourage you, and brings some smiles to your face! I hope it's really good dessert that really helps you to go out into the world with an extra oomph in your step that you otherwise would not have had.

But I do hope it's not your "main course".

With love,

Chris



One who takes time for prayer will find time for other things.

--Author Unknown

Good Morning everyone.
Bis I only see you do not know if it is not working or you it so far.
Hall I see where you was here yesterday making a comment about hackers? I think they only hack populations and you rich ones. HA HA HA. hope you are feeling better. I am doing much better.
VA is going to cut that growth out of my cheek on the second of next month. have a great day every one.

Lloyd

Good morning, Lloyd.  Yes, just the two of us have posted so far this morning.  Glad to hear you are doing better.

Good morning everyone.

Chilly here this morning with a threat of snow!!! I hope the rain/snow holds off till I get my laundry dry.

Gloria, that would be wonderful to have a day like that..I know I would be in the sewing room having a great time too!

Joan, thank you for breakfast...need to get the laundry started and out on the line.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Good Morning Amy.  It is chilly here, for FL, this morning.  I would think you hands would freeze hanging your laundry out in that cold weather.

No Joan, not yet they don't freeze but later on in the winter they do get cold and I quickly hold them over the fire when I get in the house!

Good Morning Everyfriend!  The doggies and I slept in a bit this morning.  We've been out and they had a treat and I'm having my coffee.  But I can't hold them off from breakfast much longer. 

They don't know it yet but they are both getting baths today.  If I said that word aloud, I'd have to go look for Mickie.  She always hides.

Amy, I remember those days of hanging the laundry out and having it freeze almost before we got it on the line.  When I was in high school, my mother worked Saturdays and my sister and I did the laundry.  We took turns hanging it out and when we came in, we lit a burner on the gas stove to thaw out our hands.  When I told my husband that story, he said, "So that's why you married me....because I sell dryers!"  And for many years he told people that story and ended with, "and that's why she married me. 

I guess I better go feed the doggies and me so I can take my vitamins.  I think I'll need all my energy today.  Washing dogs is right up there with hanging out the laundry!  Have a lovely day Everyfriend. 

Whoops!  almost forgot....Lloyd I'll remember you in my prayers on Oct. 2.  I remember you every day but on the 2nd I'll try to be more specific!

Good morning everyone, looks like Mother Nature is trying to make up for the drought by bringing rain and more rain along with hours of thunder. Wild night here, glad I was home and not out. Supposed to rain more today but with winds so what foliage is showing will be gone by tomorrow. Just saw local weather report and temperatures will be dropping today. Next week saying the highs will be in the 50's.

PETER-ROLEY  good seeing your post from yesterday. Thanks to S&F and the SS group we are not alone. Many of us hardly get out any more and when we do we rely on others to take us away from our homes. Glad you did not hurt yourself bad in your fall. We all have to watch how we move so we do not take a tumble.

HAL  I did not hear about the cyber hacking till I turned on the news at 5 yesterday. It would be wonderful if those who do so much damage to people and even countries would put their brains to doing good to help the world. Nothing we do on our computers is safe from trouble makers.

MARY ANN  at times I will say something to everyone and other days I hardly say anything. It has been unusually warm here for this time of year but with the storm/rain this week end it is about to get more normal.

JUNE  when the CNA is here we are not supposed to leave our apartments.  I trust the one I have but I think they do not want anyone to have a complaint about something missing or broken.

JACKIE  I don't think Hal was picking on you but just stating a fact of life. We have all lost loved ones and much loved fur family and we are not far from being there now.

HAL  I did not have my PC on all day yesterday but do know I wondered why when I did get here I had no new email. About 7 last night I had a lot come in at the same time.

JOAN  a serving of breakfast casserole will be a good way to start the day. I got a good chuckle with today's chuckle, secret service-yeah right. Copied Laugh & Lift, good one to share.

LLOYD  glad the VA doctors will take that growth from your cheek.

AMY  be thankful you can still do all you do. So may things I can no longer do and it gets to me if I think about it. I did hear there could be snow to the northeast but now here yet. I do remember hanging clothes out in the winter months. Clothes would freeze to the line before I could get a clothespin on. But they would smell so good when finally dried and brought into the house.

JANE  guess you will have to sneak up on Mickie later so she will get her bath. Have fun with that.

Amy--Can you wear gloves when you hang the laundry out?

Good Morning, Jane.  I don't envy you bathing the dogs.  Every dog we ever had fought baths.  Funny about why you married your husband.

Gloria--Good Morning.  At least it's rain and not snow you are getting.  I remember a couple times when it was snowing on Election Day.

Good morning on this cloudy, windy Saturday.  They are predicting  for the sun to make an appearance later, but it is a lot cooler this morning than the past week.  I am afraid those balmy days we had are gone until next spring.  It was lovely while it lasted.

I have not posted anything for a couple days, as I have had a couple busy days. 

So, Good Morning, Joan  and all the other friends.  Joan, I will enjoy  the breakfast casserole this morning.   A breakfast casserole is so nice to have when you have a big group for breakfast. Especially good on a buffet. Thanks, Joan.

Nothing special going on in my little corner of the world.

Amy, I admire you for being able to hang out your laundry, even in the winter. I used to really like to hang up clothes, but now enjoy my dryer.   When I was little, we had a very long back yard.  My mother would string the clothes lines the whole length of the yard. I can picture her now walking back and forth hanging the clothes.  It was an all day job.  By the time she would get them all hung up, it would be time to start checking to take the ones down that had dried the fastest.  A nice memory to have.

I have not been up too long, so need to get my coffee  and see what the day will bring.

Hope everyone will have a wonderful week end.

Joy

Good morning everyone! We had our first snow about 3:pm on Thursday so winter is officially here now. I've been busy offline as well, these past few days.

Both doggies bathed!  They're beat and I'm beat!  Back later. 

SNOW?  EEK and DOUBLE EEK!

Good morning Joy.  I think the weather here has turned fall-like, too.  I used to like to hang clothes out, too, but lines are not allowed here.

Good morning, angel face,  Yuck--you can keep the snow-but then you are used to it.

JJanie--Good for you getting both dogs bathed.

Good Morning Everyone!

Been kinda busy here this morning. Up at about 7 and had some coffee and looked at the paper and ate a bowl of cereal and then off to pick up the cleaning lady at the bus terminal and back home.  Stayed out of her way till she got my room done and then here I am on the puter.

Jackie, like Patricia and Gloria said, I meant no harm or offense.   And like I said yesterday if I did offend then accept my apology.

Speaking of cold and clotheslines.  In my four years living in Canada and having three little girls a couple of them in "cloth" diapers I got plenty of experience hanging clothes in the winter.  We lived in a six apartment house and had assigned wash days.  No automatic washers in those days, well any we could afford.  And certainly no dryer.  I was simply amazed, being an old Texas boy, that clothes could dry when frozen.    but like Gloria said they smelled really fresh and good.  Do you all remember how nice closets used to smell with all the starched clothes, freshly ironed.

Larry, there should be one heck of a football game on today, Texas A&M/Alabama.  Comes on at 2:30 Central.

Lloyd good luck on the operation on your cheek. 

Good morning....

Enjoying my last morning in Austin.  Oliver is so sweet today....he is being very snuggley!  Sure is going to be hard to say goodbye to him, but I am feeling very blessed to have been able to have this precious time with him. 

I hope you all enjoy your Saturday.....

Jenny

HALKEL....
...of course I will, over the years you have become what I consider a dear friend, of which, I sure plan to keep things this way....this was between you and I only, ( a misunderstanding ) that we have now cleared and sorted out......

If anybody feels they need to remind me that " we have all lost loved ones, or lost a furfriend...." I already know, and I have too...please, I dont need reminding..... I have been a part of this forum and been on those journeys with you...