QuidNunc/QuidTunc?

Most days I don’t feel like I accomplish much because there is so much left to do, or the ‘little’ I do just takes time and it just doesn’t look huge when I am done. But TODAY, I cleaned the basement and got things where I wanted them and got things out that didn’t belong there, straightend out my laundry area, found things I was still looking for and vacuumed up a LOT of dirt that had probably been sitting there for years. I used a shop vac with a bag. I also took another walk around the neighborhood before I got to work. I always think of cities as stagnant places, after all where is a building going to go??, and maybe that is true, but I can keep walking down a new street and see a new thing. This morning there were wonderfiul roses hanging over the front fence and I drank it in!

Joel got the place fininshed to put in the piano which arives home Tomorrow. Chris built bookshelves in the living room. Accomplishment with an A.

I ain’t got no title. I am posting because I am afraid people will stop looking for my blog because I am so scarce lately. I will tell you what isn’t scarce and that is boxes and messes. Joel is starting to plop filing chores on my sitting chair. Which I see at about 7:00 in the evening.  We took our first walk around the block this week. We noticed that while we are the only ones to have flowers on our porch on our strip of Locust St, Around the corner they are profuse! Our neighbor’s son and his wife bought 40 window boxes and passed then around and 99 per cent are used! (Someday I am going to leave all my typos just to entertain you…. I’m not there yet.)

I’ve been making smoothies Jeannette’s style. Frozen fruit, fill the blender a good half full, I add about a cup of yogurt and 2c.  water. Blend. It’s fast, easy , cool , and yummy.

I mowed our lawn myself for the first time last Saturday. I like using a push mower. It’s so gratifying to not make all that noise!!! Motor noise irirtates me, but sometimes it gets the job done handily.

I went with Mary to the grocery store this week. As A.A. Milne would say, It was an Expotition. Katarina rode in my cart for a while and helped her mommy the other while. Annika slept until we were about 10 or 15 minutes away from home and when she woke up, she woke up hungry!!!!

I’ll post again when I have something to say!!

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….And a time to write

As I wake up in the mornings, my brain starts roaring along and is full of things to say if only I could get them out fast enough! Right now I am sitting in my ‘treehouse’. Joel and I took one of the small bedrooms that is currently holding our king sized bed and a small ‘boudoir’ chair. It has east and west windows and we can catch a nice cross breeze. It also has a balcony off it. So I can sit here with my laptop and watch the sun rise… or set!

I have been on a Philip Yancey kick since last summer. I started with ‘I was Just Wondering’, then ‘Rumors of Another World’, ‘The Jesus I Never Knew’ and now I am mostly through ‘Soul Survivor’. I don’t usually read so much of one author in so short a time. I bore easily of the same thing, but Yancey continues to be interesting in every one of them. ‘Soul survivor ‘ is about the characters who have shaped his life by their example and include Paul Brand (of course) and John Donne (and several others), so it is a mini biographical sketch of several people. Lots of things I never knew.

The church we have been going to for the past several years has always seemed to attract French speaking people. A couple of weeks ago our music director handed me a song that is originally French and I thought “I am taking this to Mike.” Mike was a missionary in Cameroon, which is a French speaking nation, and he sings beautifully. Well, he already knew the song, and his family was having French speaking friends over that particular Sunday and they knew the song, too, so we had a solid start on a new song! Nah, most of us sang it in English, but we got to hear it in French. I think that a song has a special beauty in its original language. Hans Deutschmann knew the German to ‘Take thou my Hands and Lead me’ and wrote them down for me and I have done that. In our new church in the city, sign language seems to be the rage. Joel and I know a leetle bit, but there a couple families with grown children who sign and yesterday when we were singing our last song, one of them started to sign. We had a visitor who has a deaf child, who wasn’t with her and her husband, but they sign, too! It amazes me the little or big things we do that make a resounding connection with someone else. I often feel like signing when I am singing.

Yesterday I lay down for a little while in my treehouse bed and fell asleep for a little while. I woke up slowly to what sounded like a family party and it was all in Spanish. I laid still, just listening to the music of it all for a while and then I got up to see what it was and it was the Spanish speaking church across the street letting out. Some family party! Some of my neighbors speak mainly Spanish. Our names fit right in around here.

Luisa is home for a couple of days, with a place to go finally! She claimed the top of the house. Tomorrow I take her to the camp she will be working at for the next couple of months.

So you thought this blog would be about the baby??? Well, you can read about the baby on Jeannette’s blog! The baby and his mother are doing very well and I will write a bit every now and then. I had a wonderful week and Luisa got to stay with C&J as well. A week ago Sunday (the day he was born, no less!) I was holding him for a while with his little warm peanut self all snuggled up on my chest and I was dozing off with the oozy goozy feeling of it. Then I passed him to Chris’s dad and he did the same thing, and then his mom did, too! I think Ellis likes the new ‘toy’ his mommy brought home!

Well, this is enough for one sitting. Laptops get warm on your lap and I am hungry for brekky!

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I am officially ONLINE! In my own house! I just wrote a blog and lost it. I can’t seem to get Flickr and WordPress to agree just yet. I did just upload a bunch of pictures on ‘flickr’. I’m going to bed

Annika Evelyn was born at 10:30 Tuesday night! I don’t know how much she weighs, but sh looked pretty normal to me! Pretty and Normal! Mary had a C-section as the baby’s heart rate kept dipping with every contraction and she was having rouble with her blood pressure. Katarina held her for about a mintue and then wanted to go play. I am steadily working on the move-in. All our stuff is in and we are finding places to put things and putting them there. We’re schedued to get our computer hooked up some time tomorrow! I’m at Jnet’s right now playing with the other baby till the other one gets home from the hospital. I did get to hold her this morning.