blogging

I keep checking and expecting the blogs that i follow to have some mushy thanksgiving post, but none of them do, and i don't have mushy thanksgiving post either. oh well.

God knows

this is my new kitty, Itka. God gave her to me, and i'm soooo excited. God knows what we need and what we want. and Itka is what i want, and maybe even what i need. here's the story:
when i cat sat for someone while they were away on their honeymoon, when they called to come and get her, i was really upset. i did not want to give her up at all. actually i was a little traumatized, but i managed to recover.
my friend Crystal said that she was going to get me a kitten for my birthday. then she found out it would cost about $300.00 from the humane society to get everything done. but she was still persistent and decided she was going to do this. she searched hours online to try to find one. so i told her just let me check the humane society and maybe we could find one close.
so another friend and i jumped in the car on Thursday night to do an errand and go to quincy to the humane society with some light shopping on the side. we arrived at the society, but they were closed. big let down for both of us. so i decided to come and look on Tuesday when i was in town.
but low and behold on Sat. morning a co-worker got on the computer to check her e-mail and there was a free cat. i saw the pic. and my heart melted. and it was free, and it was de-clawed, and spayed, and with a whole bunch of extra freebies. God knew the desires of my heart. here's the pic!

WHAT?????

what??? could this be an actual post? i think it is! things have been so busy here it's nuts! i must say my desire to blog has wained a bit since i started "disciplines of life" Bible college class, we have to do a journal every week, and it's sorta like a blog. so by the time i do it once, i don't really want to do it again, but here we are anyway! did anyone else notice that October flew by? here we are at the 27th and i just got use to writing October! okay enough of that!

so, we had our annual bon fire last Saturday night, and it was beautiful. the lake was pretty the trees fantastic and super good food. i think everyone had a good time. one girl wiped out on the gravel as she was chasing a soccer ball, been a long time since i bandaged a skinned hand! and yes, we went snipe hunting!!!!

just for a laugh, here's what wikipedia has to say about snipe hunting:

A snipe hunt, a form of wild-goose chase that is also known as a fool's errand, is a type of practical joke that involves experienced people making fun ofcredulous newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task. The origin of the term is a practical joke where inexperienced campers are told about a bird or animal called the snipe as well as a usually ridiculous method of catching it, such as running around the woods carrying a bag or making strange noises. Incidentally, the snipe (a family of shorebirds) is difficult to catch for experienced hunters, so much so that the word "sniper" is derived from it to refer to anyone skilled enough to shoot one.^[1]

In the most popular version of the snipe hunt, especially in the American South, a newcomer is taken deep into the woods late at night and told to make a clucking noise while holding a large sack. The others, who are in on the joke, say that they will sneak away and then walk back towards the newcomer, thereby driving snipes towards the bag holder. The frightened snipes, they say, will be attracted to the clucking noise and easily caught in the bag. The newcomer is then simply left in the dark forest, holding the bag, to eventually realize his gullibility and find his way home or back to camp.

A wild goose chase can also be more serious, either a deliberate attempt to thwart an opponent by sending him/her off on a quest based on misinformation, or a mistake on one's own part leading to a hopeless quest. ^[2]

we have some young ones right now, and one of these young ones are from Russia. it took a while to convince her that there were snipes, we just walked along the timber line looking for them and calling them. she wanted to stay in one spot for a long time because someone else saw a snipe there and she really wanted to see it and catch it. i had to move her along because she was so obsessed with finding one.

then sunday during lunch we were talking about snipe hunting and someone said they thought it was fake, and the girl from Russia spoke up and said it had to be real because someone had claw marks on her bowl and a hole where the beak went through. i had to stifle my laughter because i didn't want to blow it. i asked her if they had snipes in Russia and she told me no. she said she asked her dad about them, and he said they were real (way to go dad!).

so now she is utterly convinced that snipes are real, and she said next year she's going to catch one.

well, so long for now!

all sunshine makes a desert. arab proverb.

Jesus says for us to expect hard times in our lives. when they come will we run to the cross for comfort, or to entertainment and people that will pat us on the back and tell us all the things we want to hear?

bloggin'

i have not abandoned my blogspot. it's just one of those many things that have to be put on the shelf somewhere! as soon as i can and have something blog worthy that won't take a million explanations, i'll write about it.

Michelle's wedding is this weekend, so i'm sure i'll have something to say!

until then...

This is my new buddy Jayden. He just came into the world last Thursday, that's October 1st. he was quiet reluctant to come, but he came anyway. isn't he cute? he's got the cutest chin, and man, look at those fingers!!!! they are so long!!!! my best friend Ashlee had him. she did a great job and will be a great mom, Jared will be a great dad too. he weighed 8lb 13oz. and 20 inches long. he's just simply beautiful.

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