THE SHEPHERD'S JOURNAL

Saturday, May 5, 2012

NO ANGEL

NO ANGEL laid earth's foundations.. stretched cascading stars cross sky’s curtain.. crafted Heaven's jeweled beauty.. JESUS DID!

Tonight I'm blogging from my youngest daughter's kitchen table. I just put Mathew to bed after reading to him 4 chapters of the incredible adventures of the hapless mouse Geronimo Stilton.
I came over around dinner time to watch the boys, Mathew and Liam, while Chuck and Wendy went to see The Avengers Movie. After a little pizza, I put Liam in the safety swing while Mathew played with a new toy, a parachuting soldier that's thrown up in the air and floats down.
Wendy said that Liam would never let her swing him in the safety swing, but he was quite willing to let me put him in. It might have been the special song I sang.
I used the same made up song I used to sing to Mathew and Zach with a slightly different verse. The original went: I know some boys named Mathew and Zach! I know some wonderful boys! They like to go with Grampy to the railroad track, and listen to the trains make noise.
I realized as I was swinging Liam I had to do a change up, so I made this one up: I know some boys named Mathew and Liam! I know some wonderful boys! They like to look for trains whenever they can see 'um and listen to the trains make noise!
No applause, please. Just throw quarters.
When we finally had to go in, Liam broke into tears because we stopped swinging. I am an awesome grampa.

Art Show in Niles Michigan

On Friday, May 4, 2012, I took the Taberski kids (my oldest daughter's children) to an Art Show and Awards Program at the Cornerstone Evangelical Free church in Niles Michigan. Gloria Seitz, a certified art teacher who holds varied art classes at mulitple skill levels, hosted the event. Becky's children and we grand parents have been participating for over 5 years, After the awards, there was refreshments, then the Taberskis, other relatives, (me) and another family friend and participant Melissa Bachtel and her children met at Steak and Shake in Roseland Indiana for dinner. The art shown is from Zach, 8, Libby, 11, and Allie 14.

Here we are doing what we do best, eating, at the Steak and Shake.
I'm taking the picture.

Gloria, the director, presenting an award to her 81 year old father, mentor, and fellow artist.

This little pixie ended up being my buddy by the end of the awards.

Allie and Libby, (who just came from.. where else?.. basketball practice) with their 2 long time buds Madison and Kendra

Zach in the middle with the rockin hairdo and his two longtime buds Bryce, left, and Joe, right

Allie's Cardinals

Libby's Frogs

Allie's Lighthouse

Libby's lighthouse (in the middle)

Zach's

Zach's Snake

Eric's Greenhouse

Eric, Mary's son, has a passion for gardening. He has a well designed and built portable greenhouse with automated venting whenever the temps get too hot for the fragile seedlings. Mary gets to take care of the babies whenever Eric's job as an Airline Flight Attendant takes him away overnight in the spring.

Turning Mary Into A Nerd

(This was originally posted 12/31/2011)

Mary and I stayed up to watch The Nerdist tv show because it had Nathan Fillion from the excellent TV show Firefly cancelled by nitwit network Fox, Will Wheaton, the former child star of Star Trek, Next Generation, David Tennant, former Dr. Who, & The Nerdist of the Year Runner up Weird Al Yankovich, introduced to us by our super geek friend Barry Skalski. The winner was supposed to be Isaac Newton, but he couldn't attend the ceremony on account of he was dead. (see pictures at bottom of blog)
It felt good to know my influence of two years had turned Mary into a fanatical sci fi nerd.

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Barry got us back stage passes
to meet Weird Al.
Mary's on the right.

This is not Weird Al!
This is Isaac Newton!

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Friday, May 4, 2012

Senior Travel

Blogspot is Google is Blogger is..

If you have a blog on blogspot, you're already on Google blogger. Blogspot is google is blogger. Blogger is the dashboard FOR BLOGSPOT, which you can get to by signing in to google either through gmail or google+ and then in the menu bar hit the drop down more and blogger is there. Hit that link (blogger) and it will take you to blogger draft. The top part of the page is for your blog or blogs, bottom part is for blogs you are members of. Your blog name on the page is also a link that will take you to the dash board of that blog. Hit the stats icon on the left side menu and you'l go into analysis, a basic analytics tool available to every Google blogger. Check out the audience (countries) and traffic sources (who's checking you out - Facebook, twitter, or google or others). Also look at the stats for different time lines in the time line icon row. The buttons say NOW DAY WEEK MONTH ALL-TIME.
Cool stuff for geek guys and maybe girls too.

Google Blogger, Plus, Search

Because I post on Google Blogger and Google Plus, the powerful Google Search is referring my posts to websites in other countries and other languages, according to Google Analysis. Languages used tonight are Portuguese, Malay, French, Vietnamese, the 8 languages of India, and of course, English. Since I post about my varied passions, including THE PASSION of my Lord Jesus Christ, The GOOD NEWS OF JESUS is being posted around the world. God is good!