It’s been a while since I posted.
The new year started out with some tragedies around the world in January, but now what’s on everybody’s minds is the winter Olympics, and Canada is doing extremely well!
I am more than a bit put out with the sore loser, whiny attitudes so many people have about the Canadian men’s hockey team losing out to Russia.
So they lost. That’s just one team, one sport. People, dry up and look at the rest of Canada’s victories – they count every bit as much as the men’s hockey team, and more, Canada is not sufficiently represented by men’s hockey. Every sport, every victory honestly achieved, counts.
I wanted to write the news station that broadcast all those snot-nosed sore losers and put in my two cents and tell them to suck it up and move on – it’s not the end of the world!
Somebody sent me another chain letter yesterday, which I thoroughly trashed in a fit of frustration. Forwards kill intelligence, I’m sure of it.
After that, it was out, and I could go on to other, more cheerful things like church band practice!
We’re doing “Days Of Elijah” “Be Thou My Vision” “Majesty” and “Awesome In This Place” as gathering songs on Sunday.
I’m glad we’re doing “Be Thou My Vision” in its original 3/4 timing, the gathering bands have been doing that and “Revive Us Again” in this syncopated 4/4 time, every time they do these songs – and it just bugs me. So, I asked if we couldn’t try something different from the usual style they seemed to have adopted for those hymns and play them straight.
We are doing it straight, but a little quicker – cool, I’m fine with that. Because sometimes mucking with the timing doesn’t work.
Fonda stayed at my house for a while after dropping me off, I invited her in to see Abby. Her response was very enthusiastic, and priceless! Hehe!
The chinchilla was pretty good about being held by a stranger, though it took a little time waiting for her to get over her shiness enough to come out and investigate. Abby didn’t stay as still in Fonda’s arms as she does mine, but I think she held more still with Fonda than she did with my niece Lindsay the other day. Abby holds very still in my arms and dozes off. Absolutely amazing for a chinchilla, they’re not usually that calm and into being held and cuddled. And she’s still posing no problems with shedding, so I’m very glad for that and hope it stays that way.
It’s been snowing here, finally! Days of snowfall, now that it’s getting late in the winter. All the nice weather had me a little worried that we’d get a cold, wet summer again. Last June was terrible! The rain was welcome at first, but it had gone on and on, so much that some homes were being flooded. And that is not cool!
Lindsay came over the other day to quilt, and she had supper with us. That was fun, like the times she spent here at Christmas, working on a quilt. Now it’s a different one, and she’ll be coming over to work next week as well. Cool.
Now that I got the smallish stuff out of the way, what I’ve been meaning to write down and hadn’t got around to logging in here until now, is this!:
My cousin, Sylvia is a grandma! The little boy’s name is Carson and he was born Feb. 13! Congrats!!
Also, it’s been confirmed early this week that my friend Sandi is pregnant, due some time in the fall! Wow! This is really unexpected, because the little one is going to have an 18-year-old sister! 18 years is quite the age gap!
Sandi has been really into birds and bird breeding, but now she says she’ll have to sell quite a lot of them to make room and help with the expenses of the baby. What a change this is going to bring. Kerry, her husband is dreading the diaper expense most, Sandi said he found that the most urksome when April was a baby.
Now, for some online fun.
Odeo.com
