Common Ground Coffee House #105

Helen, that sounds like you were born in a leap year or something..... :type:

 

Yup.......:applause:

 

Good Morning Everybody,

Let me get this right Helen: You're married and have children and you're just celebrating your 14th birthday. Definitely sounds like a Leap Year Baby.

It is 18 degrees here right now headed for a high of 22. Sunday we're supposed to have a high of 3.

This morning is omlettes, sausage, and home fries. Enjoy.

After my chores I have to go into town to get supplies for the Super Bowl party on sunday. I can make the food and the dips, but I'm not very good at making crackers.

Time to get started.

 

Good morning everyone!

Brr! It is even cold here! I have hope that the sun will come out soon though.

I have one last dress to work on and that is the one Cassie is wearing to her school beauty walk. She is having a blast with this. I've never really been into the whole pageant thing, but it seems to be a very girly thing to do. Of course if I don't get this dressed fixed she may have a "wardrobe malfunction" walking across the stage!

Then I have to get dressed and carry Jenna her sneakers. It was career day and she went dressed as a "business woman" complete with dress shoes. She can't play in gym without the sneakers and she's already called for me to bring them. I'd just hate for her to miss out on gym. <sarcasm>

Okay, I gotta get this dress fixed, see ya'll later!

 

good morning, all!

It's FRIDAY! Yeah!

Well, Anna had her angiogram yesterday and Gina called us in the afternoon and it all went OK. That's a nasty thing to have to put a little girl through and we were praying for her. They will be back home today. I'm quite sure that Anna will be scheduled for open heart surgery sometime this year now. She has been through more in ten years than most people go through in a lifetime, and she remains bouncy, sparkly, and totally fun to be around. God bless her!

Kitchen floor is almost done in that one spot where the leak ruined it. Evidently the leak was from a slow drip in the wall plumbing which saturated the subfloor. But that part is fixed now and ready for the vinyl. We had to move the refrigerator and pull a cabinet to get to that part of the floor. No big deal except for Chris -- he is permanently hungry and we have to keep the fridge door locked -- and we do that by bungee cording it to the door on the matching freezer which is next to it. But now the fridge is across the room and watching Chris is a fulltime job for whomever is in the room with him now! It will be good to get the vinyl in and the fridge moved back.

The dining room is a different matter. There is a large, built-in planter connected to the dining room on the outside and evidently the metal pan has been leaking at the seams and the wall, floor, and subfloor are all saturated and black mold was under everything. So that part will be completely torn out and redone. Thank God at no cost to us, as it was the contractor's fault. At least he is being good about fixing his own mess!

So the workers will be back today in about five or ten minutes. I'm sitting here typing and keeping a watch out the window for the truck(s) coming down the lane.

Yes, FoG, I'm a leap year kid. But please understand I will be celebrating my 14 3/4 year this year (those quarters are REALLY important!). All my kids are older than I am, which is an interesting situation....grin...

When Barry and I were dating, I was firmly instructed by them to be back at ten, as I was much too young to be dating in the first place. After my ex walked out on us in 1991, and after my year of crying everyday, my oldest daughter told me that if I ever got wrinkles she would make sure they were grin wrinkles. She has kept her word. That leap year stuff was just part of it for her, and she played it to the hilt.

 

Please go to "Update on Anna" in prayer requests. Gina just called and things are not good. Please pray.

 

If anybody should ask about your children being "older" than you Helen....just look them straight in the eye and tell them sweetly " of course you knew I was a Child Bride didn't you?" :laugh:

Funny though you don't look a day over 10. :thumbs: :saint:

 

Hi Ann, I'm surprised you are not allowed to get it wet yet. I can imagine that is very uncomfortable. I'm glad you are going to check with your dr. about it.

Have a good time shopping and in the kitchen! You'll do fine.

Some clouds rolling in here and, finally, no fog in the morning. It's really pretty out. Hopefully rain later next week.

Kitchen floor is back in but the wall needs repair and a cabinet replaced so we can put the fridge back. The carpenter told us he won't be able to be back until Wednesday. Oh good......

The folks who are working on Barry's videos will be by this morning to preview what they have done so far on Christmas Star. We've also approved the template for the new web design done by a superb graphic artist, and that is exciting, too. Things are moving.

Barry has claimed for sometime that there was a flood on Mars (and on Venus) just like on earth. The major creation organizations pooh-poohed it (maybe because it was Barry who said it?), and finally have come around. Dr. Andrew Snelling, who is actually a friend of ours, just came out with a recent article in Acts and Facts (from ICR) talking about the water on Mars which was extruded. No one, of course, mentions Barry in connection with it. We don't get frustrated anymore; we simply expect it. But that sort of thing makes it more than doubly wonderful that there are so many others who are backing us in getting these videos out which will explain Barry's work. We have tried to do a lot of speaking and traveling, but jet lag is really wearing, and with our responsibilities here at home it just is getting too difficult.

I know that no one in this forum is probably interested in this, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. It's the biggest item in our lives right now -- his work!

God bless you all.

 

thanks, Ann. That is an excellent video and we recommend it highly. Some of the men involved are friends of ours, as I worked with the Intelligent Design folks for awhile.

What's funny about Barry's work is that, of the various scientists I have worked with, his is the ONLY work that goes data first instead of theory first. He has the simple, firm faith that God has not lied in creation and that we can see where the data leads. The data leads straight toward the accuracy of Genesis and the reality of a very young creation. No need for dark matter or dark energy which have been invented to hold together a very old cosmos.

I'm going on too much....I'm extraordinarily proud of my husband's work and very proud to be associated with it.

However.....he uses a lot of Greek symbols in the math and I found out yesterday that in order to get his material up on the net so everyone can recognize the equations, I have to insert each equation as a jpeg, and that is going to take enormous time and I am kind of dreading it. But if it has to be done, it has to be done and that's that.

We are currently redoing his entire webpage. Within a few weeks we should have some of it up and running. The web address will still be the same but it will be much more professional and many areas will be more lay oriented.

Going on too much again.....I'll go spray the roses.....LOL

 

Good Evening Everybody,

It is 3 degrees here right now, and I have no idea what the low is supposed to be tonight, but the high tomorrow is supposed to be only 3 degrees.

Ann: I sent you a glass of snow, it should arrive by Monday. :laugh:

I've been busy all day so I came home to Maple-Glazed Pot Roast[in the crockpot], and made Warm Roasted Vegetable Salad, Orange-Pecan Squash Bake, and Shortcakes with Cinnamon Fruit. That should warm us up.

I brought the same dinner into the Coffeehouse for anybody who stopped by for a snack. Enjoy. :wavey:

My day started at 5am, so it's going to be dinner then baths then bed [for everybody.]

 

Good Morning Everybody,


Thank You for the Hot Chocolate dear, sweet,
sister Sue.


It is also -4 but with a wind chill of -40 here[ we still have strong winds and blowing snow.] Yes, we did get snow but we got it in the form of a blizzard. What is called a whiteout [0 visibility.]


We didn't try to make it to church this morning. I had my police scanner on and there were tons of accidents, and roads that had been drifted closed by blowing snow.


I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid. All in favor vote aye, opposed the same.


I made Waffles, Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, hot Biscuits, and various fruit jellies, sausage gravy and biscuits. Enjoy.


The town the church is in is having a Men Who Cook Contest. Last year I made Roasted Salmon with Strawberry-Orange Salsa. I was nowhere in sight of a ribbon. This year I'm making Salmon with Tarragon Cream, Chicken Apricot Curry, and Passion Bowl.

Maybe now you Ladies will believe me whan I say I'm just a cook, not a chef.

Going to stay in and enjoy a fire in the fireplace, family and friends[ not always the same ] and watch the game.


GO COLTS!!! [just hope it's a good game and not a blowout.]

 

I'm so glad, Ann! I was so concerned about you that when I got a PM from Debbie this morning I told her I hoped her scar was doing better, and I hoped she had seen her dr. I was mixing her up with you.....sorry Debbie!

I bet it feels better. The big thing, and I'm sure he told you, is no lifting weights for a rather long time -- and that includes buckets of horse feed....young lady.....!!!

My day to stay home with Chris today so Gina can go to church. I got two sections of Barry's paper formatted this morning early and that is good! For anyone who ever has to deal with Front Page, which we use, if you need to insert letters from another language, there is a way to do it. Feel free to contact me! I'm getting good at this!

Not that I understand everything Barry is saying.....

Sunny and warm today -- the cloud cover is keeping the heat in a bit at nights but enough blue sky during the day to warm things up. THIS is the weather we came here for!

OK, enough break. Time to actually get to work around here! God bless you all.