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April 2, 2006 |
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April 14, 2006 |
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April 26, 2006 |
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| April 2, 2006 |
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YIKES! I had another alignment/spacing problem in some of the pages here. I use Microsoft FrontPage to do the web pages. It inserts various codes in the pages to tell your browser how to show the punctuation, line spacing, etc. Well, it doesn't always use the same codes and they don't always look the same in the program when I am creating them and in browsers when they are online. The spacing was off in the index portion at the top of the Bible studies. Some had extra lines in between them. It wasn't bad, but looked unprofessional and sloppy. So, in fixing those I didn't realize I was changing the way the rest of the studies looked. It wiped out the line spacing in a lot of the studies. Oh dear, that made them hard to read! I thought the first problem looked unprofessional and sloppy... the new problem looked like I was totally careless and didn't know anything about spaces between sentences or lines between paragraphs. So, instead of doing the new Bible study, I spent part of last week cleaning up that mess. Am I having fun yet?? I just have to check every single page that I put online to see what good old Microsoft has done with it. That's another thing... I cannot get any help from Microsoft on that issue unless I pay them $25 an hour! Can you believe it? They are just too big for their britches! |
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Have you ever eaten veal? I hear it
is pretty tasty and tender. I know why it is tender. There are
some dairies not far from here. Some of those dairies raise calves for
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I've been busy, again, adding new things here at the Clarion Call. God
has been blessing us with more and more great stuff! I've been getting some really nice emails and guestbook entries from people who found things at the Clarion Call. One of the emails really got my attention. The things that woman said reminded me of when I was reaching out to connect to others who had gone through the spiritual things I was going through. That was about seven years ago that I searched and searched and searched and found nothing. I remember reading the description of a site while I was searching and the description sounded exactly like what I needed. Then, when I went to the site it wasn't at all what it described itself to be! I was so very frustrated and tired that I sent an email to that person. I used her description and pointed out how none of the things described were anywhere to be found at her site. The lady turned out to be very nice, but she had no idea what I was talking about. Anyway, this email I got opened my eyes to where God has brought the Clarion Call. Over the years it has turned into that site I was looking for way back when! Praise God! I had no idea that it would grow so big or that it would become as full of varied things as it is. There are lots of different contributors, too. Slowly, but surely, as I plodded along adding things the Clarion Call became something that was needful. I'm so glad God kept nudging me to do it! |
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| April 14, 2006 |
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I got a digital camera for my birthday and have been playing around with it trying to figure out all the things it does. I've been taking a lot of pictures of my pets. I put a new picture up of my dogs so now you can see all three of them together. I did get a picture of a duck that is always in my garden. Well, I thought it was a duck but an expert told me it is a loon. I always wondered why he had blue feet. 
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Whew, I'm worn out!! I spent a few
days this week up in the attic. A couple of years ago my husband put in some flooring in
our attic and one of those pull-down ladders so I can climb up there.
I store things up there that can handle the heat in the summer. |
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My husband and I got away for a few days last week. I stayed in the
camper and worked on web pages. I like going places where my husband
has things to do that he likes so I can stay in the camper and work on the
pages here at the Clarion Call. Here at home there are too many other
things that need to be done and it is hard to spend dedicated time. I finished some things that were in my "to do" folder. I had forgotten about some of them. I have an old poetry book that had some beautiful poems. I added those to the prose section. Between working in the attic and being gone for a few days last week my house has gotten messy looking. A few things I brought down out of the attic are in a pile. The clothes I've been washing are in a pile waiting to be put away. The things that go in the camper that I washed are in another pile waiting to be put away. The dust bunnies are running around waiting to be vacuumed. Can you guess what I will be doing today? |
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Isn't the Internet a wonderful thing? It has brought you and me together! I meet people that I would have never met the old-fashioned way. The Body of Christ can network with each other. We can find others who are being told the same thing by God and share. It is a great tool. The bad thing is there are some awful things on the Internet as well. However, you and I have a choice as to where on the Internet we will browse. It is because people make wrong choices that the bad things exist. People choose to create them and other people choose to visit them. Free will... now there's another good thing/bad thing. Well, I have to go finish up in the attic while the morning is cool. |
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| April 26, 2006 |
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I've been having more fun with my new camera. The digital zoom on it is amazing. The digital zoom on my movie camera makes everything real fake looking with big pixels. This one is as clear on the digital zoom as on the regular zoom! The camera I got is the Kodak Z740. I got it through Amazon.com. the price was way cheaper than at our local camera store and there was no shipping or tax on it. I even took some of the pictures I snapped and made some new graphics for some of the pages here. They were flower pictures so I used them on the pages that are more personal, my "about me" page and the welcome message archives. (I'm careful not to make the pages too feminine because I was told by a man I know that he didn't read anything here because of the flowers. I'm sure it was just an excuse, but I'm not going to hinder anyone from receiving anything just because they are turned off by the graphics!) I'm working toward having all the backgrounds here originals. A pair of red tailed hawks has nested in one of our cottonwood trees. The nest is way up in the tree, but look what my zoom caught:  Isn't that neat? My friend, Sue, has inspired me to take more pictures. She takes absolutely stunning photographs. You can see some of her work in Awakenings in the Wild. |
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I finished organizing and re-packaging
the things in my attic. I even drew a diagram of where everything is.
I did such a good job that I was able to put more things up there and you
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Did you know that God makes dinner reservations? My niece
and her daughter were vacationing about an hour from here. So, we
decided to meet them for dinner. Since she was in an area that had lots of
restaurants I told her I'd find one and let her know. I did a search on the Internet and found about 60 different restaurants in a ten square mile area. I narrowed the selection down to one that offered a wide variety of foods so we would all be able to find something we liked. I didn't make reservations because we wouldn't know until the last moment exactly what time we would be able to meet. When the four of us got there (my husband, my two sons that live here, and myself) the restaurant we had chosen was gone! There were a couple more in the complex where we were so my husband wandered around to pick one while I looked for our relatives. The restaurant where we ended up was not very large. The hostess asked if we had a reservation. When we said we didn't she said something along the lines of, "That's not good." Then we were told there was a party of six who had made a reservation and hadn't showed up. So we were seated at the only table in the whole restaurant that held six people! We should have asked what name was on that reservation. It just might have been ours! God is GOOOOOD! |
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I've been reading a book called "The Pursuit of Holiness" by Jerry Bridges.
It is good so far and goes along with what God showed me in "A Call to Holiness".
It also has the study guide for the book and a bonus
book of the sequel which is "The Practice of Godliness" all
included in the same book. So far the only things I see that aren't correct are that the author hints that we will always be on a journey toward holiness and will never arrive. That isn't God's opinion. He also says God's Word is in the Bible and, so far, hasn't even mentioned that God's Word also comes directly from God to each of us. However, the basic information he gives in the book so far is good stuff. I bought the book at Christianbook.com. |
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