Also -
Glad the weeding helps. Isn't it wonderful we can get rid of the weeds, and help our peace of mind at the same time.

I notice in Genesis 3 when he curses the ground to bring forth weeds, he does it "for thy sake."
Anyone who has ever taught a child to work in the yard and finally sees them "get it" understands how it's good for us.

SS Chuckles again.

I've proabably talked enough for today. Maybe I'll take the twins camping tonight. W has a cub scout day hike to put on tomorrow, and she'll be busy tonight, and leave early in the morning. I think it's about their turn for a little fun.

SS

hi all <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I've been a bit of a failure posting lately but it's only because I'm spending all my time with Mikey or Aussie <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I've been trying to keep my mind away from other distractions and just concentrate on happy. Mostly good times even if I have little whispers of guilt getting me down, I'm trying really hard to keep focused on whats eally important, Aussie & the kids.

I have to admit that when the world intrudes I sorta stick fingers in my ears and go "nanananananananana" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I'm not sure if thats what is recommended but hey, whatever works right ??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Just say yes amd pat me on the head <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

[[[[[[Neak]]]]] big hugs Kimmy & SS big hello's to you & hope things are on a even keel, see I'm being nautical for Aussie <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />, AND I see my mum has been telling the world about my last eye blink, again <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Neaksis thinking of your little sweety and you, hugs too & TL get busy hugging Flard just because. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

SEE MUM, only a few faces will do quite well <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I don't want this to come as too much of a shock to you, AW, but your eye-blinking wasn't the most exciting part! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I know. Outrageous, isn't it, the way that poor young saint is having his name maligned. And impugned, too!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />t <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />l

Well, tonight the heat pump is running.

Rain is good for you, dear sir. I'm sick of what's good for me. I want something...uncomplicated, that's what I want. But I think the Good Luck Fairy is on vacation. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I didn't bring any coat along on this trip--not even any long-sleeved shirts, because Flard said it was warm. Yesterday when I arrived, it was 10 degrees colder than the day before (when I was in CA!). I wish my timing in life was as good as my timing in music. Lucky for me I'm pudgy. Got lots of "insulation"!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Today we went to Phoenix to the IMAX theater to see Deep Sea 3-D, and The Human Body. I recommend it to anyone with kids old enough to sit through a movie. Or to regular adults, even without kids. The undersea stuff was gorgeous, and in the other movie, when the piece of cherry tomato got squeezed out of the distal end of the esophagus and plopped into the stomach with the rest of the pasta salad I realized how wise God was to make our digestion take place inside instead of out where other diners could see it happening. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

When we got back I took Flard by the school for an extra rehearsal of this whatever-it-is he's going to be singing Sunday, and as I dropped him off, he said, "Thanks, Mom. I actually had a good time." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> What do you mean, "actually"? OF COURSE he had a good time. He was with me, wasn't he? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Now I'm going to bed. It's almost 8PM, and getting later by the second. Carpe nochem is what I say, or whatever is the opposite of "diem". 'Night, Kimmy, SS, Neak, AW, et al.

t&l

And Cinderella, she of the running pump, who came on while I was in the throes of composition.

t&l

Yes, well 'some daughters do hav em' don't they! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

And she just told me this morning as we were shopping that she has just gone on 8 weeks long service leave, joy <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Would someone like a visitor for 8 weeks? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

AND I would like it known for the record that I did tell Aussie about the patio & lounge suite, ... well sorta, ... um almost anyway.
Ok it was going to be this morning.
As soon as the furntiure van backed into the drive way.
but they haven't arrived yet.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

The builder is supposed to be arriving today as well <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I wonder if Aussie wants to go for another jump today <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

If he goes jumping, he may not notice even when he gets back.

Hi back to everybody. I've got to get to bed - I'm so sleepy!

Mom, you'll be glad to hear that Grandpa is listening to his Bible CD's.

Well, Neak, I went to church today and scoped out the library. There was your book, big as you please, waiting to be borrowed. It didn't have a card in it so I couldn't see how many people had checked it out, but at least you can thank them for $1.09 worth of your book royalties!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

So, if I found out about the book, and bought a copy, Neak would get $1.09 of my hard earned money?

Yep. $1.09 exactly. Or maybe it's $1.89. We could ask Neak, but she's in Yosemite today. I think it's the lower number. If she sells a copy herself she makes about $5. It's not like it is for Stephen King or John Grisham, that's for sure! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> However, she absolutely basks in the positive feedback, which I'm sure is just as valuable to her right now as money, if not quite as negotiable at, say, Wal-Mart. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Adub's mom, come on over to beautiful Los Angeles. I have a guest room. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Hi, sorry I have not said hello for a long time t&l. Hope you are well.

And if you visit FF, then come down to San Diego and visit me. I DON'T have a guest room, but will put out a cot for you.

Y'all, I like you guys - take care....going to bed.

Next February. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Royalties are paid out by her publisher only once a year. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I almost hope they turn down the next one so she can self-publish. That company pays royalties every three months, plus she has total rights to her own intellectual (<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />) property.

I'm on my way to bed. Flard and I have bonded all day, and I'm pooped. I haven't talked and listened so much to anyone in AGES!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Hi, Believer and FF. I've missed hearing from you both and it was nice seeing your posts again. Hope you're doing well and prospering and all that good stuff. I've been very low lately, and have often felt like I'm so far down I could scratch a snake's belly...if only I could reach that far over my head!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Believer, I'm going to be in San Diego Monday, although only for about an hour or so to change planes. I'd like to come down there sometime and see some of the wildlife attractions. Maybe late this summer about the time school starts. Can we take you out to dinner? I mean as a guest, not an entree, of course!

t&l

You're close - it's $1.08 per book. The ones I sell myself I make $6, PLUS the $1.08, since I am bound by my contract to not sell less than the church bookstore, and until I go on sale (which is a bad thing, because they're trying to dump the last few copies for cheap and it means I'm almost history), I have to sell for the full price.

Which is why I don't hold it against anyone who wants to get it for a discount from Amazon or someplace like that. $5 is a big price difference for me, too.

Well, we're back. The camera malfunctioned at the worst possible time, but I still have a few pictures to put on later. I just gave haircuts, and am about to start the pancakes.

I can't wait to go back!

Hello all

just a very quick post then I'm off to bed.

I have just rushed over a few hours ago as my grandson - the budding young AUSSIE - its not fair to have G/kids & children like them its just not - was run over at the army training camp by a tank or truck or some army thing.

First off he is alright except he cannot move, he is black & blue from head to toes and besides swelling and concussion and a few scraps hes 'right as rain' according to Aussie! Humpf!!

Aussies comment was 'well he won't zig when he should zag ever again will he" again Humpf!!

AW ran out of here like the devil on her behind, and only calmed down when she spoke to him. And thankfully rang me sitting and waiting here with little Mikey while his mum & sister & finally his dad turned up at the hospital.

I'm getting way too old for this.

FF & Believer, I'm on my way!! I wish!

Now I can actually breathe a bit

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I'll say a proper hello in a day or so when things are QUIET
I hope.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Wow <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> no shortage of excitement in your world! Praise God he is ok.

Thank God he is alright. That was a close call.

T&L - I always read this thread, but sometimes don't have much to add.