Thirty years ago today I graduated from college! I'll have to scan a photo to put in here. I loved college. "Pomp and Circumstance" was one of the saddest songs ever because the sound always made me think of saying good bye to friends. Of course we thought it was funny to sing the words, "I want to get married, I want to have kids. I'm tired of dorm life, I want a home of my own!" Try that with that first line!
We have a reunion in September; I think I'll go. Meet up with the other "empty-nesters" and see what every one else is up to these days. One of my friends has a lovely grandson who can be seen at "The Gentino Family". Check him out. You'll want to pinch his cheeks!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Slow train comin'
That's what they say a tornado sounds like, a train. We had a tornado here in the big O. last night. The siren woke me up about 2:20. Pitch black, wind blowing. The wind had been blowing a gale all day, so that wasn't any different. It wasn't raining yet, then the front hit the house WHAM! and we couldn't see anything out the window. Will and I walked around the living room in the pitch dark wondering what to do. The TV had nothing on but the streaming info line saying there was a tornado warning here and three surrounding counties. But one had NO idea where it was, how far away, if it was headed our way. Nothing. Will gave up and went back to bed; Den never got up. I sat in the closet under the stairs and listened to the sirens go off again. About 25 minutes later Andrew called and said his friend's dad had just called and said the tornado hit the Target across the street from them. We talked for awhile since he was sitting in his basement and I in the closet. It's a little more comforting in a storm to have company! He said it was really loud when it hit over there. They wouldn't have heard a siren going off if there had been one, but the storm hit before any warning sirens went off. (He lives west of us.) Then I went upstairs, and the TV was on with the good ol' comforting weatherman telling us that the storm was over Iowa, so I could go back to bed. By this time it was after 3. It took me quite awhile to unwind and get back to sleep.
Andrew was going to have Sunday dinner with us, so when he didn't show up and didn't answer his cell phone, I figured he hadn't gone to church and was around helping the neighbors clean up. Sure enough, he showed up about 2:30. He and his friend had gotten a chain saw and they went around the neighborhood sawing up fallen branches. He had a few fall in his backyard, too. We just were over there, and there are piles of branches piled along the street. (Darn, I forgot the camera!) We stopped and picked up a load of logs for the fire pit later! *smile* Andrew was pretty tired. He said they didn't get to bed until 5. They went out last night to get the chain saw at W's dad's, and then looked around to see if anyone needed help last night. He said everyone was out at 3:30am all over the neighborhood looking around. They got to know the "old ladies" who live across the street and on either side. Those ladies are going to be happy for two strong handsome boys in the neighborhood! Andrew said he and W. are having a wiener roast tonight! (They had dry wood in the garage.) I told him to tell his friends to bring a rake. They could have all those leaves in the backyard cleaned up in no time!
Andrew was going to have Sunday dinner with us, so when he didn't show up and didn't answer his cell phone, I figured he hadn't gone to church and was around helping the neighbors clean up. Sure enough, he showed up about 2:30. He and his friend had gotten a chain saw and they went around the neighborhood sawing up fallen branches. He had a few fall in his backyard, too. We just were over there, and there are piles of branches piled along the street. (Darn, I forgot the camera!) We stopped and picked up a load of logs for the fire pit later! *smile* Andrew was pretty tired. He said they didn't get to bed until 5. They went out last night to get the chain saw at W's dad's, and then looked around to see if anyone needed help last night. He said everyone was out at 3:30am all over the neighborhood looking around. They got to know the "old ladies" who live across the street and on either side. Those ladies are going to be happy for two strong handsome boys in the neighborhood! Andrew said he and W. are having a wiener roast tonight! (They had dry wood in the garage.) I told him to tell his friends to bring a rake. They could have all those leaves in the backyard cleaned up in no time!
Friday, June 6, 2008
Botticelli Blue
The skies after two days and nights of storms. Lovely blue. "Simpsons" could be written in clouds! Like this:
See how lovely the blue sky is in this Botticelli painting? Soft color in the sky and more vivid blue in their clothes. Rich. I'm thankful for color!
What's in a name?
"A rose by any other name is still a rose."
However, there is a NAME far above any other NAME. It would be a good word study, but this is just from today's reading.
Acts 4: 7, "And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, 'By what power or by what name did you do this?' "
10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead...
14 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved
Then the leaders thought that this was getting out of control so they said..
17 .....let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name. (18) So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
And then in the Psalm I read today: Psalm 124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
One of the greatest verses on the name: Philippians 2:9,10 "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth"
Good thoughts to begin my day.
However, there is a NAME far above any other NAME. It would be a good word study, but this is just from today's reading.
Acts 4: 7, "And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, 'By what power or by what name did you do this?' "
10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead...
14 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved
Then the leaders thought that this was getting out of control so they said..
17 .....let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name. (18) So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
And then in the Psalm I read today: Psalm 124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
One of the greatest verses on the name: Philippians 2:9,10 "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth"
Good thoughts to begin my day.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Life after 60, $60 that is
Hey, I just drive a regular mini-van, not some giant SUV or van! So why did it cost me over sixty bucks to fill my tank?? Granted, it got lower than usual. The "ticker" on the gas pump look like a conversion from Fahrenheit to Celsius, $61 for 16 gallons! If I'd had my camera, I would've taken a picture. And if I still had kids at home or in college I could say like Dan in "Dan in Real Life", "There goes your college education....!" Something else will have to go, hmm, the new laptop, new car....not anything I want, of course!
And a weather post
One can't live in the Midwest and not talk about the weather. It's either subzero, Arctic freeze and blizzard in the winter or torrential rain monsoon in the spring or blazing hot desert in the summer. Autumn is about the most temperate season, although we can get one of the above then, too.
Rain and wind are the themes right now. Here's the "crick". The little one in the foreground is barely a trickle normally. Today is still
stormy, and more big ones are expected tonight. We were sitting
in the back of the house last night and didn't realize that the rain was pounding in the north windows. I say "pounding" because it was huge rain drops being blasted in the front windows. It was a lake on the floor by the dining room table, and the back bedroom.... Good thing Andrew isn't sleeping there anymore. Every thing cleaned up nicely, though, once we closed the windows!
History before our eyes
No matter what your political views are, we saw history being made on Tuesday evening as the first African American won the nomination for the Democratic party ticket. It would be great if Martin Luther King would have lived to see this day.
I started taking photos after dinner while the count rapidly declined. We were all watching the numbers come in. This one is around 7pm
This is the first photo after South Dakota counts started coming in. I had to get the "Breaking News" headline.
This last photo isn't very good, I don't know what caused the black line. I had it in several. Probably the angle of the screen to the camera. I had to get this headline. I feel, in a way, this is like watching the first man walk on the moon. And because we didn't have TV growing up, I never saw that.
To go along with the story, Will went to the Sarpy County Democratic Convention last evening (while the tornado warning sirens blared). He really enjoyed it. Said there were about 77 people there, mostly older. One couple he talked to said they had been coming to these since the 60's!!! What changes they had seen. He said he told them, "Bet you saw a lot of empty rooms!" That got a good laugh. One guy was a 25 year old running for some county office. Will is going to be a delegate to the state convention in Fremont the end of June! Cool! The Democratic Party is so small in Nebraska, probably everyone knows everyone!!!
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