Done!!!!!
3/9/06 6:56 am.
33º F., Foggy, NNE wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
The hot seems to be here. I don’t think the temperature has gone below freezing for the past couple of days. Yesterday and the day before have been in the mid-40's. The snow is melting in a rush, so it will not be long before our driveway in particular, an the rest of the land too, will be mud for sure. Or at least a lot of water on top of the soil and/or ice. There are several schools delayed this morning thanx to the fog. All are to the sought of here.
I finally was forced to buy a new snow shovel. The old one I use the most broke once again. Dale threw it out and I rescued it from the dumpster. I have repaired it about a half dozen times in the years since, but enough is enough. Since this has been a poor snow year, so there are a lot on sale. I picked one up for less than half price. Now of course it probably will not snow until next year. The last snow shovel I bought I think was to use at the store about 1980. Still have it, but it is designed to be used on concrete and were are beyond the sidewalks here, so it doesn’t work that well here.
Our Bible study breakfast went well. Lots and lots of food. Way too much. Margriet built a couple dozen muffins to take along, leaving the remainder at the host home. Last night in church the owners told Margriet and I how they liked the muffins - but ran out! There really was a lot of food and all good. Most was homemade too. The way it should be I think. I am really struggling in the task of finishing the next workbook. For some reason (maybe it is having too much information to sort though), I can’t get everything to "fit" in a way that makes sense.
3/14/06 7:16 am.
24º F, Windy, W wind 14 mph, 35 mph gusts
Good morning,
Obviously I didn’t get this finished last week. Besides working full time on a Bible Study workbook when I could, I also was fighting with my computer. This was having a lot of problems with the web and staying online for some reason. After a lot of emails to ITOL service folks, it was concluded that the phone line was/is the problem, though there also were a couple of problems with the setting on this machine too. Now it is up to the phone company to get things right again. Seems we have a problem with the phone line on a periodic basis. Makes for a couple of grumpy folks here at least.
I finally finished the workbook yesterday afternoon about 3:00 pm. One of the biggest problems was the file I have my research in became corrupted for some reason and I could not use it. Finally had to delete it. Fortunately, I did make a hard copy of it, but that meant I had to transcribe it into the workbook file, rather than cut and paste a lot of material. I did lock myself into a room at LSM and worked a lot on the workbook there, but no scanner for the notebook, so a lot of keypad work. A couple of times the room was appropriated for some classes to use, but I did lot done there. I did shirk some of my duties though to accomplish what I did. The wordbook is the last half of the last unit in this series. We have had a two year run on this topic and I don’t know what is next. Might just take a break for a bit. Have to go a bit early this morning so I can print it out - all 19 pages.
The weather until Sunday was beautiful May weather. The temperature got up to the 50's and the sun was out most of the day. Sunday things changed with the wind. Actually Saturday night with a real thunderstorm and heavy rain. Sunday the wind became very strong and the temperature dropped closer to normals for this time of year. Some of the gusts were above 50 mph. Sure glad we are down in the woods here, but we still felt the effects of the wind. Really blew things around. We also got a bit of snow, really freezing rain, which made a bit of a mess everywhere. One advantage of the wind is it dries things up some. Also with the lowering of the temperature again, the melting has turned to a bit of freezing again at night, again slowing down the runoff and creating new lakes and rivers. The snow storm we were to get passed to the north of us. Barron County got 23" of snow last night. Wish we were there! I did get a chance to try out the new snow shovel - sort of. Used it to remove the freezing snow on the ramp, but the edge is too sharp yet, so kept cutting into the wood some.
Sunday I was supposed to give a temple talk about prayer. I knew my plate was over filled, so asked the gal who has it next week to switch with me. Instead, Howard showed a power-point presentation. With the computer problems, workbook, and some other things, I knew I didn’t have sufficient time to prepare for it. Or my head in a right place. When we got home Saturday, we both were very tired and I really went to bed early. Sunday after church, I took a fiver that lasted THREE HOURS! Guess I was a bit worn out.
Margriet started to download the new operating system, XP, on Sunday. I was not too much help as I was trying to get the workbook finished. As a result, most of it loaded, but she was not able to access the web. Finally she gave up and used my machine after I went to bed. Yesterday morning, when she opened up, everything worked, including the web. She, nor I, have the faintest idea what happened to let it decide to work, but the look on her face was priceless. I had a hoot, and chuckled for most of the day. Glad it is working now.
The biggest achievement of the weekend was Margriet giving her first sermon and leading worship at LSM. She really did a great job. I also have a new name for her - Preacher Woman! It fits. She is walking on cloud-nine since. Not too sure who was more nervous - she or I. I did a lot of prayer walking during the service. I really am proud of her and how far she has grown since I first had any kind of contact with her. The worship service experience did just exactly what it is supposed to do for the students in her.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
33º F., Foggy, NNE wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
The hot seems to be here. I don’t think the temperature has gone below freezing for the past couple of days. Yesterday and the day before have been in the mid-40's. The snow is melting in a rush, so it will not be long before our driveway in particular, an the rest of the land too, will be mud for sure. Or at least a lot of water on top of the soil and/or ice. There are several schools delayed this morning thanx to the fog. All are to the sought of here.
I finally was forced to buy a new snow shovel. The old one I use the most broke once again. Dale threw it out and I rescued it from the dumpster. I have repaired it about a half dozen times in the years since, but enough is enough. Since this has been a poor snow year, so there are a lot on sale. I picked one up for less than half price. Now of course it probably will not snow until next year. The last snow shovel I bought I think was to use at the store about 1980. Still have it, but it is designed to be used on concrete and were are beyond the sidewalks here, so it doesn’t work that well here.
Our Bible study breakfast went well. Lots and lots of food. Way too much. Margriet built a couple dozen muffins to take along, leaving the remainder at the host home. Last night in church the owners told Margriet and I how they liked the muffins - but ran out! There really was a lot of food and all good. Most was homemade too. The way it should be I think. I am really struggling in the task of finishing the next workbook. For some reason (maybe it is having too much information to sort though), I can’t get everything to "fit" in a way that makes sense.
3/14/06 7:16 am.
24º F, Windy, W wind 14 mph, 35 mph gusts
Good morning,
Obviously I didn’t get this finished last week. Besides working full time on a Bible Study workbook when I could, I also was fighting with my computer. This was having a lot of problems with the web and staying online for some reason. After a lot of emails to ITOL service folks, it was concluded that the phone line was/is the problem, though there also were a couple of problems with the setting on this machine too. Now it is up to the phone company to get things right again. Seems we have a problem with the phone line on a periodic basis. Makes for a couple of grumpy folks here at least.
I finally finished the workbook yesterday afternoon about 3:00 pm. One of the biggest problems was the file I have my research in became corrupted for some reason and I could not use it. Finally had to delete it. Fortunately, I did make a hard copy of it, but that meant I had to transcribe it into the workbook file, rather than cut and paste a lot of material. I did lock myself into a room at LSM and worked a lot on the workbook there, but no scanner for the notebook, so a lot of keypad work. A couple of times the room was appropriated for some classes to use, but I did lot done there. I did shirk some of my duties though to accomplish what I did. The wordbook is the last half of the last unit in this series. We have had a two year run on this topic and I don’t know what is next. Might just take a break for a bit. Have to go a bit early this morning so I can print it out - all 19 pages.
The weather until Sunday was beautiful May weather. The temperature got up to the 50's and the sun was out most of the day. Sunday things changed with the wind. Actually Saturday night with a real thunderstorm and heavy rain. Sunday the wind became very strong and the temperature dropped closer to normals for this time of year. Some of the gusts were above 50 mph. Sure glad we are down in the woods here, but we still felt the effects of the wind. Really blew things around. We also got a bit of snow, really freezing rain, which made a bit of a mess everywhere. One advantage of the wind is it dries things up some. Also with the lowering of the temperature again, the melting has turned to a bit of freezing again at night, again slowing down the runoff and creating new lakes and rivers. The snow storm we were to get passed to the north of us. Barron County got 23" of snow last night. Wish we were there! I did get a chance to try out the new snow shovel - sort of. Used it to remove the freezing snow on the ramp, but the edge is too sharp yet, so kept cutting into the wood some.
Sunday I was supposed to give a temple talk about prayer. I knew my plate was over filled, so asked the gal who has it next week to switch with me. Instead, Howard showed a power-point presentation. With the computer problems, workbook, and some other things, I knew I didn’t have sufficient time to prepare for it. Or my head in a right place. When we got home Saturday, we both were very tired and I really went to bed early. Sunday after church, I took a fiver that lasted THREE HOURS! Guess I was a bit worn out.
Margriet started to download the new operating system, XP, on Sunday. I was not too much help as I was trying to get the workbook finished. As a result, most of it loaded, but she was not able to access the web. Finally she gave up and used my machine after I went to bed. Yesterday morning, when she opened up, everything worked, including the web. She, nor I, have the faintest idea what happened to let it decide to work, but the look on her face was priceless. I had a hoot, and chuckled for most of the day. Glad it is working now.
The biggest achievement of the weekend was Margriet giving her first sermon and leading worship at LSM. She really did a great job. I also have a new name for her - Preacher Woman! It fits. She is walking on cloud-nine since. Not too sure who was more nervous - she or I. I did a lot of prayer walking during the service. I really am proud of her and how far she has grown since I first had any kind of contact with her. The worship service experience did just exactly what it is supposed to do for the students in her.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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