I've been "surfing the blogospere". Interesting! I've found a couple of very, very good blogs. I need to figure out how to "link" to them (catching on to the jargon, what?!). Maybe I'll see if there is such a thing as a book, "Fixing Up Your Blog Page for Dummies". There's got to be such a thing; there is everything ELSE "for dummies"... Sure would be handy!

How, for instance, do I put a video from YouTube on to my site? (I would like to post the video taken at one of my son's graduation from Advanced Infantry Training.) Or is that even possible? Can I "tag" this as a question, in hopes that some computer geek can answer my plea for assistance? Or am I fated tp spend the next couple of hours hit-and-missing, gnashing my teeth and losing cyber-ground?

P.S. Oh, thank heavens for cyber-savvy daughters!  The deed is done; now I have only to figure out a few more things and I shall have entered into at least one facet of 21st-Century life!

I haven't been on for a couple of days -- weekends can be busy, what?

We are having absolutely gorgeous weather here! I was bustling about after we finished lessons, doing all those little things on every housewife's list: laundry, cleaning, cooking... and all of a sudden, my feet took me out of doors. Next thing I knew I was checking the gardens, looking to see which bulbs have come up, figuring out how many fence posts I'll need for the chicken coop. Traitorous feet! The housework isn't finished! 

The kiddos are as bad as their Ma. They have asked, so far today, if we can have a picnic? How about a cookout? Can they sleep outside in a tent? Can we hike the hillock across the valley from us? I've pointed out that less than a week ago it was snowing, and that Spring has yet to actually spring, but they see the daffodils and feel the sunshine and are as ready for the glorious outdoors as I am!

We had another excellent sermon yesterday, this time on Phillippians 3:17 -- 4:1. The Pastor pointed out that we live in a society where true values have been inverted, where "their glory is in their shame".

I was reading in the Old Testament last week, the rules about sacrifice for atonement for sin. The sacrifice itself could not have any blemish -- no blindness, no lameness, no eczema. THAT caught my eye, because my glasses give me grief (over-forty eyes!), so that sometimes, in my frustration, I feel "blind". And at the moment I had a bit of eczema, which was making playing my guitar troublesome. So I thought to myself, "Hmmm, I'd make a lousy sacrifice, just on external basis!" But then it went on to say that the priest who offered the sacrifice could not have any blemish -- no blindness, no lameness, no eczema. And I thought, "Well, I'd also make a lousy priest, then!" But praise God! Jesus, perfect, unblemished Jesus, is both my sacrifice and my Priest! How good God is, to provide it all, knowing that I never could!

"If you want to be miserable think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to play you and what people think of you." -- Charles Kingsley

And now I really must get to the neglected housework... Have a good day, all!