broken promises

i promised myself and my sister not to buy anything that could be labeled cute or anything that had to be dusted.....but i was in holly lobby looking for graduation decorations and i just had to mosey around to see stuff. and i saw this little -2 feet high) cat bird house. it is definitely cute but i think i can get out of dusting it if i find a place for it outside. after all, it is a bird house. the bird on the plate is on a spring so it wiggles as is the arm with the spoon.

just fun

well, i mention in passing that i though having a mini would be really cool, but way too dear for me. but my nephew --now a car salesman--has decided to hunt down a used mini that i could afford. so i have been crusing the mini sites and ran across this video! RACING

my kids

recently i visited my son and daughter-in-law in illinois. it seems they are following one of the current trends in our church. very small church gatherings or home churches. their group is meeting is a chapel on campus and the chapel is very nice. my son runs the sound system which they probably don't need for such a small group except that he records the service and posts it as a pod cast which gets visited often. pretty cool.

my daughter and her husband and their study group almost started a small home church. and our church here is about to become a home church or small church. it is pretty small right now but during the school year their are the students. now that the school is closing there will be about 10 members. there is a larger church 30 miles to the east and and to the west which would be easy enough to join, but they want to keep their small group.

so it seems that the trend is either a large megachurch or a small home church.

alumni

i made a mad dash to lincoln to alumni weekend the sabbath. it wasn't our class, but it was probably the last time it would be easy for both donna and i to get together. she drove down from michigan. she is still slim and energenic, i am still a slow mover and have gotten fat... no nice way to say that. we are standing by our favorite pictures in the little art gallery. mcclellen is the artist. he teaches at union. it is hard to believe but all the paintings are watercolors. some are transparent watercolors, but most use opaque water colors.

my jeep gave me a scare on the way in. trying to decide if it is a sign or something. as i got to lincoln i slowed down and my dash went crazy. the engine light and air bag light came on, the odometer disappeared, the other dash gages quit working. ie the ones that had lights. the oil gage and temp gage still worked. scared me... slowed way way down. turned on the right hand turn signal....don't know why i thought that would work when all the other lights went off. well i turned the headlights off when i turned the radio and heater off. anyway when i turned on the turn signal, all the dash lights came back on.

the classic dilema. fix or trade.