Late again
1/19/06 7:30 am.
27º F, Cloudy, E wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
Up late again this morning. I don't know what is going on, but I wake up at the normal time, about 4:30 A.M., then roll over to sleep for a few minutes more, waking up 2-3 hours later. Don't like the trend, too much of the day has disappeared before my eyes really get open. Have to change the pattern - I hope.
Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day. Cold and windy, but a really nice change. Today? Well that is a different story - back to the clouds again. There are some really light snowflakes falling at the moment too. Looking at the radar, I thing we will be in a band of light snow all day. Maybe longer. We need the cold and snow right now.
We did go to Green Bay for our supply run yesterday. We had a nice day, but started later than I planned, thanx to sleeping late. Besides the normal stops, we also took a detour to the "Lighthouse Christian Book Store, for a change. Our daily devotion book is about done, so needed to find a new one. We usually pick up one that takes us a year to complete. The present one requires me to read a complete chapter from the Bible each day. Since my ability to do that is not what it used to be, we found a website that has the bible in audio form. The only problem is that it is the King James version, which we are not used to. It does cause some additional conversation, but maybe not a Biblical as we should be.
The stop at the Lighthouse is an infrequent task for us, but is very enjoyable. It is difficult for us to not buy the place. There is much we would like to have! Of course there are books and more books, but there are a lot of other things too - like computer programs. If someone gave Margriet and I a gift certificate to the store, we would have a hard time to choose what to spend it on. There are so many interesting things in the store.
One of our "normal" stops is Fleet Farm. Seems there is something we always need to get there. In wandering around the store, I found tinsel for the Christmas tree on a close out price. Of course I bought enough to last for several years to come. We havenÂt had any for several years, but by gum we will for the next few years. I can remember when I was a kid, after Christmas always picking off the tinsel and saving it for the next yearÂs tree. Not too sure if I have the patience, or a Dad telling me I had to do that, to pick it any more for the following year. Might consider the task next year.
Another "find" was an add-on wood furnace similar to the one I had years ago. It is made by the same company, but a bit larger and has brass handles on the doors. The cost is considerably higher. Like $999.99 compared to the $199.95 I paid for mine. I used it for a number of years, but it finally developed a hole between the firebox and the hot air plenum - not a good thing. In the paper the other day was an article about a family that added a corn burning add-on to their heating system. He was bragging about the savings on the cost of his natural gas bill - like about $10.00/day. Then he went on to explain how the corn furnace works and costs. The furnace would cost about $1,500.00 to buy and would pay for itself very quickly in gas savings. True if he didnÂt have to purchase fuel for it. He indicated he used 3-4 bags, 50# each, per day to heat with. The bags of corn cost $4.00-5.00 each! Now my numeric functions were messed up in 1994, but I still can see that he is losing money on the deal. Another fuel source starting to make some inroads is wood pellets. I can see using either corn or wood pellets if one doesn't have a source of wood, like city dudes, but I still like the idea of cutting wood from the property here or from my neighbors at no cost, other than the operation of the chainsaw and splitter. The wood stove we are using I bought used for $75.00 in about 1974 and has paid for itself many times over, even though I thought I was paying way too much for it when I bought it. Besides I get to cook on it too!
Our council meeting went fairly well Tuesday night. One of the gals on the council, the vice president, was very broken up though. Her Dad was back in the hospital again with a reoccurrence of a brain tumor. The doctor's thought they had solved the problem a couple of months ago. The return of a tumor has really messed her Dad up in many ways this time. It was not said, but I think he is not supposed to pull through this time. Of course he also wasn't supposed to pull through last time either. Sherry is such a tender hearted gal, who falls apart at almost any trauma, but this has to really hit her in the core - again.
As fortune would have it, I was scheduled to lead the devotion before the council meeting. Rather than read a story or a few passages from the Bible, I decided to have the council split into their covenant groups had pray as a group for each other. It fit right into the needs of Sherry. There was an opportunity for some very personal and up close support for her in a real way. When the idea of covenant prayer hit me, I really wasn't too sure about the idea. Now I know why it was planted there.
finallyto finialy get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
27º F, Cloudy, E wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
Up late again this morning. I don't know what is going on, but I wake up at the normal time, about 4:30 A.M., then roll over to sleep for a few minutes more, waking up 2-3 hours later. Don't like the trend, too much of the day has disappeared before my eyes really get open. Have to change the pattern - I hope.
Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day. Cold and windy, but a really nice change. Today? Well that is a different story - back to the clouds again. There are some really light snowflakes falling at the moment too. Looking at the radar, I thing we will be in a band of light snow all day. Maybe longer. We need the cold and snow right now.
We did go to Green Bay for our supply run yesterday. We had a nice day, but started later than I planned, thanx to sleeping late. Besides the normal stops, we also took a detour to the "Lighthouse Christian Book Store, for a change. Our daily devotion book is about done, so needed to find a new one. We usually pick up one that takes us a year to complete. The present one requires me to read a complete chapter from the Bible each day. Since my ability to do that is not what it used to be, we found a website that has the bible in audio form. The only problem is that it is the King James version, which we are not used to. It does cause some additional conversation, but maybe not a Biblical as we should be.
The stop at the Lighthouse is an infrequent task for us, but is very enjoyable. It is difficult for us to not buy the place. There is much we would like to have! Of course there are books and more books, but there are a lot of other things too - like computer programs. If someone gave Margriet and I a gift certificate to the store, we would have a hard time to choose what to spend it on. There are so many interesting things in the store.
One of our "normal" stops is Fleet Farm. Seems there is something we always need to get there. In wandering around the store, I found tinsel for the Christmas tree on a close out price. Of course I bought enough to last for several years to come. We havenÂt had any for several years, but by gum we will for the next few years. I can remember when I was a kid, after Christmas always picking off the tinsel and saving it for the next yearÂs tree. Not too sure if I have the patience, or a Dad telling me I had to do that, to pick it any more for the following year. Might consider the task next year.
Another "find" was an add-on wood furnace similar to the one I had years ago. It is made by the same company, but a bit larger and has brass handles on the doors. The cost is considerably higher. Like $999.99 compared to the $199.95 I paid for mine. I used it for a number of years, but it finally developed a hole between the firebox and the hot air plenum - not a good thing. In the paper the other day was an article about a family that added a corn burning add-on to their heating system. He was bragging about the savings on the cost of his natural gas bill - like about $10.00/day. Then he went on to explain how the corn furnace works and costs. The furnace would cost about $1,500.00 to buy and would pay for itself very quickly in gas savings. True if he didnÂt have to purchase fuel for it. He indicated he used 3-4 bags, 50# each, per day to heat with. The bags of corn cost $4.00-5.00 each! Now my numeric functions were messed up in 1994, but I still can see that he is losing money on the deal. Another fuel source starting to make some inroads is wood pellets. I can see using either corn or wood pellets if one doesn't have a source of wood, like city dudes, but I still like the idea of cutting wood from the property here or from my neighbors at no cost, other than the operation of the chainsaw and splitter. The wood stove we are using I bought used for $75.00 in about 1974 and has paid for itself many times over, even though I thought I was paying way too much for it when I bought it. Besides I get to cook on it too!
Our council meeting went fairly well Tuesday night. One of the gals on the council, the vice president, was very broken up though. Her Dad was back in the hospital again with a reoccurrence of a brain tumor. The doctor's thought they had solved the problem a couple of months ago. The return of a tumor has really messed her Dad up in many ways this time. It was not said, but I think he is not supposed to pull through this time. Of course he also wasn't supposed to pull through last time either. Sherry is such a tender hearted gal, who falls apart at almost any trauma, but this has to really hit her in the core - again.
As fortune would have it, I was scheduled to lead the devotion before the council meeting. Rather than read a story or a few passages from the Bible, I decided to have the council split into their covenant groups had pray as a group for each other. It fit right into the needs of Sherry. There was an opportunity for some very personal and up close support for her in a real way. When the idea of covenant prayer hit me, I really wasn't too sure about the idea. Now I know why it was planted there.
finallyto finialy get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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