The last five days have been very nice, pushing outstanding... Thursday was close to 70. The bottom fell out of the thermometer yesterday.  At 5:30pm it was 68deg F.  by 6:40pm it was 54deg F. at 1030pm it was 44deg F.  It's now snowing nicely... The streets and sidewalks are still clear, but the grass, gardens, etc are not.

Spring arrives today ( Read more... )

Have i said recently just how much i hate Microsoft and their abortion of an operating system (pick all).  I have a real stinky feeling I picked up some malware from LJ. from exactly where I'm not sure -I do not utilize any of the click-thru ads, or anything like that ( Read more... )

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun ( Read more... )

Well, we head south Tuesday AM. We still need to retrieve Kristen from Madison -would you believe that some kids have finals up till the 23rd of December? Kinda tough to get home if you're not from WI, or a border state. Would make it real tough to travel to FL on that schedule, but we're ok ( Read more... )

Three minutes on a battlefield long ago...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long ( Read more... )

 By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) 
Canadian Army
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow 
Between the crosses row on row, 
That mark our place; and in the sky 
The larks, still bravely singing, fly 
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
Loved and were loved, and now we lie 
In ( Read more... )

In Oak Park, the end of the Farmer's Market means that Winter's coming.  rrrrgh.  Oh, well, we have a fridge downstars full of apples, both for eating and cooking.  We're lucky enough to have some vendors at the market who have lots of heirloom apple trees, or some of the new experimental varieties.  We got some apples this year that were only ( Read more... )

 
An insurance company denied insurance to a baby who was deemed to be obese...(a 4mo breast fed bady)
An insurance company denied insurance to a child who was deemed to be too thin  (looked pretty healthy to me)

and, now insurance companies are denying coverage to rape victims, after the rape, saying that causes a 'preexisting condition'???!!!!!!!

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Remember one of my last posts about selling the church? Well, we had a meeting last night.  It's worse.  According to the Synod lawyer we have no choice but to sell to the 2nd offer, which is not the Thai congregation.  We'd pretty much been told that we had no choice.  According to other lawyers, this is not true.  We could sell to anyone that we ( Read more... )

 My parents were married 61 years ago today.  Amazingly, all the wedding party minus 1 made it to 50. Almost all the men in the party fought in WWII before Mom and Dad were married.  Unfortunately, that's not true for the 60 or 61st.  The last few years haven't been the most optimal -my Mom has been in a nursing home, and Dad is pretty frail (he ( Read more... )