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I've created today's tapes to tickle the fancy of my dear Sister-In-Law, Judy who is going through a lot right now. She and my brother have made a decision to downsize their life, selling their home of many, many years and moving into a big RV - a radical change in their life and lifestyle. They still have a young'un at home, my sweet niece Melissa - and this is really a big step for her. May God Bless you all during this time! I'm excited to hear the adventures God has planned for you, and how He may use your new lifestyle as a ministry! (Now get out there FISHING, Girl!)
I LOVE THIS TAPE...
Today's entry is another short one as I'm working diligently on a project (Yes, A. I'm cracking the creative whip over myself yesterday and today!) Shirley Shanley - I plan on publishing your layout tomorrow.
Thanks for sending me your lightening stories. I KNOW I've missed one or two - please forgive me. Dawn shared her lightening story with us:
"Not nearly as interesting as your friend's lightning stories (although I had a modem fried by lightning through the phone line. Weird because it went through Dh's puter first and didn't effect his but fried mine.): A couple weeks ago, we were getting a bit of a storm. At the exact same moment, we saw the lightning and heard the thunder (making my DD and myself jump & look at each other). My 17yo DS came downstairs to tell us he just saw the coolest thing: When the lightning hit, it apparently hit a pole across the street from us. No damage, fire, etc. but he said it was the "hugest" ball of fire he'd ever seen...and it was totally random that he happened to be looking out his window at that exact moment."
PRETTY CARNATION
I'm reading a good book right now, it's called Tree - A life Story by David Suzuki (illustrated by Robert Bateman) and it's just fascinating. I learned a neat fact about the Pink Lady Slipper flower from it:
Lady Slippers tempt bees into landing on it's big, overhanging lower lip of it's pink flower, whereupon the upper lip closes and traps the bee inside. The bee struggles to get out and as it does it bumps into the flowers anther stem, picking up a headful of pollen, which, after the bee gets away, may deposit it onto another flower. Pretty cool, hey?
I THINK THIS IS THE FLOWER
FROM HENS AND CHICKS
Today in History
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington Del)
1752 - Ben Franklin flies kit in storm
1854 - Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich German
1869 - Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1910 - Portuguese Natl Day
1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
1955 - 1st virus separated into component parts - reported
1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II.
BARB'S HANDY TIP #278
Enlighten Your Ears
More than Music!
Why not treat your ears to some good Christian Videos while you work today. Besides news and other great Christian oriented content, this website enables you to watch a variety of Christian Music Videos as well.
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Today's tapes are created to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a very dear friend of mine, Gina. Gina and I met online, thru some scrapping sites and we've walked the journey of our lives together for the past couple of years. A highlight in my life was meeting you in person, Gina - you're amazing and I welcome the opportunity to honour you today. May God bless this day for you!
Gina - I thought of making some geocaching tapes... but thats as far as I got with that... there is virtually NO images associated with it... so I defaulted to your passion, tea.
Won't you all leave some love for this special friend of mine to make her day sparkle, please? You can find Gina's blog HERE - her blog is a great read, besides.
BACHELOR BUTTON
Today in History:
0068 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide
1860 - 1st dime novel published
1897 - Alvin Graham Clark dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40-inch lens
1898 - China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years
1977 - Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
GINA - you share your birthday with the following:
1781 - George Stephenson, principal RR locomotive inventor
1791 - John Howard Payne, American author actor diplomat
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist pacifist (Nobel 1905)
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer
1893 - Cole Porter, composer lyricist (Anything Goes Kiss Me Kate)
1900 - Fred Waring, musician-conductor
1915 - Les Paul, guitarist
1916 - Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. secretary of defense
1934 - Donald Duck, famous fowl
1951 - Bonnie Tyler, Singer
1961 - Michael J Fox, (Family Ties Teen Wolf)
BACHELOR BUTTON2
Barb's Handy Tip #277
More than Shoes
Have you seen the new Adida's website? It's more than just shoes and clothing - its a beautifully presented website with some truly inspiring stories of great athletes! Enjoy!
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A PATCHWORK QUILT OF WILDFLOWERS
There is an entire field of wildflowers blooming right here - this is a sampling ... over the coming days I will feature individual pics of these beauties.
Today's entry is short and sweet - I'm off to help my sweet husband with a workshop with the students for a few hours this morning! 20 kids will definately take some energy from me today LOL! Have a blessed day!
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Thanks for all your suggestions - the list grows... and grows! Thanks for today's tape theme which was suggested by Silvia - who I've added to my permanent links on my blog sidebar today. She's got a good list of giveaways going there!
Just leave a comment on my blog if you have a tapes theme you'd like to see!
A note for Trudy from Saudi Arabia - just email me (lalalime@hotmail.com) and perhaps we can work something out that works for you.
unfortunately don't know who to credit the rest too :(
GREAT JOB JUDY! - this layout is of Judy's freind Sharley's son, who just turned three.
Yesterday I promised to share the lightening story when I recieved permission from my friend Mavis to do so. This is what has happened to her in past lightening storms - a real eye-opener to those of you who may scoff at the dangers of an electrical storm!
"A few years ago lightning hit a power pole at the commercial building next to our home. It knocked out two TV's, our computer, two surge protectors, scanner and telephone.
When the power surge fried our computer it also travelled through the phone line and destroyed the modem according to the computer repair person who handled our insurance claim.
Another time I was lying down on the couch and a lightning bolt came through a power outlet and went above my body into the outlet on the other side. Lightning also travels through telephone lines. Don't talk on the phone during a storm, we have had lighting "ring" our phone numerous times."
Thanks for sharing your story with us Mavis! I'm sure it might wake a few people up. Do YOU have a story to share with us, about a lightening storm - the damage you have seen it do?
brown paper + yellow flower by Nandinha Menezes Designs..both pennants by Calico Designs..bent frame by lemonaidlucy..frame on the left by JanaM Designs.. stitches by Lisbon lioness+Melly.. mint flower by Janosch Designs..tape by Mrs. Miles Barb Derksen..button heart by Karel Hamilton..green flower by Danielle Engebretson..ribbon, flowers..+button by Nana's Attic..cow bow by Redju..butterfly by Jill D-Zines..doodle arrow+flower sticker by Beth..adorable stamp byKrizomel..old pages by KimB..beaded safty pin by Rachel Young..bead element by Nachtamazone..striped bow+ twine tie by Mindy Designs
WOW! - thats a lot of designers contributing to this one layout!
I have a personal hint for you IF you use PS and are creating a layout which uses a lot of different bits of kits... I've found its hard, if not impossible to remember who all's stuff you used unless you make a note. Yes, we all keep the pen and paper at hand, and thats great at the time... but there's a better way. PS has a feature called notes - its the little icon 10th down on the left side row of icons. If you click on it you can add a 'note' to your layout. I put all the info on all the kits, fonts etc there... that way, later I can open my note and copy and paste all that valuable info whereever I want. The notes DO NOT show up in any jpg files you save - so don't worry you might have a little icon in the middle of your jpg pics. You can also create audio notes - which is handy too. Practice and you will wonder how you lived without this feature!
PRETTIES!
Yesterday was a day for learning the things I can do to keep our place in ship-shape - all sorts of maintainence jobs and things I can do while outside walking about. Bonnie and I spent a big portion of our morning exploring the lakeshore. We found some interesting things bumping up against the shore, including several bottles, a beer can and a stinky 'ol carp! This thing must have wieghed close to 20 lb, I would think... She brought it out of the water using a stick and left it to melt back into the ground. Hauling big carps around is good exercise!
My exersize consisted of raking and moving some gravel up a road which had washed away in our big rainstorm. There was a virtual canyon dug down the center of the road and all the nice crushed gravel created a mound at the first bit of level ground. I put my shoulders into shovelling some of it back up the hill so it could be graded smooth later. The road looks good as new today, as it got graded later on.
My friend Becks came out later on and we took a walk (in my pajamas, no less! - I'd had a bath after my shovelling and with it being such a bleak cold day, I was drawn to my 'fuzzer' jammies...) Later, I was Beck's practice model for her to try out an external flash. She has some upcoming photography jobs. I sat and read her all of the great ideas from a back issue of Martha Stewart while she snapped away! Today is Beck's last day at her OFFICIAL job. She's leaning on the Lord to provide what she needs and is excited to see what's in store for her future. Won't you slip by and leave a word of encouragement for her at her blog? Her blog's always got a good word for YOU!
Becky, I hope you enjoy the following lyrics from a song which has been playing a lot and is reaching deep inside of me - it too, is a song of knowing the Lord is walking with us, always!
RIGHT HERE
by Jeremy Camp
All the world is Watching
All the world does care
Even when the world weighs on my shoulder now,
These feelings I can bare
Because I know,
That you’re here,
(CHORUS:)
Everywhere I go,
I know your not far away,
Your right here
Your right here, yeah (x2)
All these thoughts I’ve wasted,
All these thoughts I fear,
Even when these thoughts have faded,
I still know that you’re here,
So I can rest my hope in you
CHORUS
Many of times that I have felt alone,
Many of times that I have the world was crashing down upon me,
You always stood here by my side,
You were always there
Everywhere I go,
I know your not far away,
Your right here Your right here, yeah (x4)
BACKLIT BEAUTIES!
You might want to slip by and pick up the latest June scripture desktops from Crosscards - just click HERE.
Today in History:
1654 - Louis XIV crowned king of France
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Ky
1776 - Richard Lee Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence
1839 - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1864 - Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
1929 - Vatican City becomes a soverign state
1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown by Eddie Allen
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ
1955 - 1st President to appear on television in color - DD Eisenhow
1965 - Judy Holiday dies at 42
1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall
1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1982 - Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
BARB'S HANDY TIP # 276
Take a Course!
Welcome to MIT's OpenCourseWare: a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
"OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT's goal of advancing education around the world. Through MIT OCW, educators and students everywhere can benefit from the academic activities of our faculty and join a global learning community in which knowledge and ideas are shared openly and freely for the benefit of all." - Susan Hockfield, President of MIT
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You asked - I made! Lucy & Corri - I know these are some elements you specifically requested. Stay tuned for some rockin' Father's Day tapes coming tomorrow!
Just a wee entry today, Lassies and Laddies (I like to drive Miles nuts with my fake accents some days, he,he!) Must be something left over from my childhood. My Stepmother was a transplant from England, so I'm quite profficient at the Queen's English... truly, one day I'm going to have a 'high tea' of my own right here!
SOME NICE, LOCAL, WILDFLOWER...
The storm was devastating yesterday! Some of Miles students were missing from school as they had to do damage control and repair to their properties. The rain came with such fury that it almost completely eroded their flowerbeds... and it washed all that topsoil down to, and across, the road - right into the basement of a parent of another student - flooding it entirely! I've had another accounting of the flooding and a terrific local lightening story - just waiting for permission to share with you!
Some thoughts for your day, for all of you, but specially for my friend Becky, who's at a point in her life where she's getting to see God working in her life day by day right now. I'm soooo excited to see what door He's opening up for you - because you trusted Him enough to give control over to Him. Looking forward to seeing you today, my friend.
The next hour, the next moment, is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for the morrow, or a day in the next thousand years - in neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. - George Macdonald.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
WILD DELPHINIUM - right? ;)
I have to put in this little snippet my Mother in Law said when they left here... not looking forward to the long drive home, she said "I wish I could just wiggle my nose, and be home"... I dunno, I thought that was SO cute. Reminds me of when we were little and watched Bewitched, or I Dream of Genie - do you remember these shows?
I was forwarded a very good message from my friend Marie. It does not say where it originated. I thought it was a great one to share with you:
Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies.
This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain.
It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break in your house, odds are the burglar or rapist won't stick around.... After a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that.
And, remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there..... This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.
Be sure to share this message with your friends!
WINDMILL - OSOYOOS, BC
This windmill has been around for a long, long time. I can remember my Grandmother buying bread which had been ground and baked in it. Today, it's an ice cream parlour and part of an amusement park called Rattlesnake Canyon. It's got all sorts of fun things to do - mini golf, rides, water bumper boats (I know theres a name for 'em) and other rides. The owner spoke to us briefly before we went in to try one of the 48 flavors... and he said there's still all the workable fixins' inside the top of the mill which the bakery etc... and it could one day function as such, but probably never will. :( Too bad, it was good bread.
Today in History:
1809 - Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
1844 - YMCA founded in London
1889 - Great Fire in Seattle
1909 - Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted
1933 - 1st drive-in theatre opens in Camden NJ
1933 - US Employment Service created
1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1977 - Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
2012 - transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
BARB'S HANDY TIP #275
Watch Your Weather!
This is a very cool site which allows you to feed in a location and it will allow you to check and monitor your weather - from webcams even! It works with Google Maps!
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This is a HUGE learning curve for me, folks! Your requests pouring in with requests for new tapes - keep them coming! With each request I have to push my creative envelope to learn new techniques. I have made each graphic from scratch! I'm going to work my way thru the list - and I will try to credit each of you with your idea - though I will surely miss some of you. Just leave me a comment with your theme and I will add it. I would also love to post your layouts here, using my tapes or elements - Yes, Judy, yours will go up here soon!
GOD'S ALARM CLOCK!
Well, all my own ideas for blogging got shoved to the back this morning, in light of the FANTASTIC lightening storm we experienced first thing this morning. It began about 6 a.m. and lasted for about a good hour. Miles and I sat in the safety of our patio and watched it unfold all around us. We managed to capture it for you in photos and ...
MILES & MICROTRAK
Miles was busy with his little microtrak recorder while I was busy with the camera. Gina - this is specially for YOU... he captured the fury of the lightening and also the pattern of the rain on the roof. The recorder does an amazing job! We now have our 'ear' to the world, it's opened up an entire new soundscape on life! To hear this morning's storm, TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS and just click on the following links:
In the Thunder clip you can hear Miles say "That was a good one!" and I follow up with "It was a doozer!"
RAIN ON THE ROOFTOPS!
While we were sitting on the patio watching the storm, it occured to me that I felt safe - and its how I would describe being in God's protection. The world is a storm raging all around us, while we can rest in the safety of His embrace. It reminds me of His POWER and MAJESTY - if He is FOR us, how can anyone be against us, really?
1 SAMUEL 2:10
those who oppose the LORD will be shattered.
He will thunder against them from heaven;
the LORD will judge the ends of the earth.
"He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed."
1 SAMUEL 12:18
Then Samuel called upon the LORD,
and that same day the LORD sent thunder and rain.
So all the people stood in awe of the LORD and of Samuel.
JOB 26:14
And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"
Whew!
I don't know 'bout you - but He's got me on my face!
CLEANSING, REFRESHING RAIN!
Ok, so I run around all over the house unplugging almost every single appliance in our house. My grandmother, (bless your heart - how I miss you) - used to unplug at least her tv! Though it's never personally happened to me, I understand that an electrical storm can fry your appliances and computer equiptment in the blink of an eye - so its worth it! I did a bit of research on the internet to see if I'm just obsessive or if this holds merit, and I think I can safely say - unplug your stuff! Its well worth the few minutes investment of plugging and unplugging to keep your electronics safe! And if you don't take this advice, promise me you will at least not USE any equiptment during a storm? I care 'bout you!
Do you unplug your stuff? Or not - share with us!
Today in History:
1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College - Cambridge
1783 - Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
1833 - Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
1917 - 10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
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I just made a small assortment of tapes yesterday as I am working on another project as well. Loving all the suggestions coming in - and your encouraging comments as well! Thanks so much.
GOODBYE TO DAVE AND CATHY!
Dave and Cathy don't 'do' the internet, don't have a computer atall (I know, very rare these days) but you never know where they might see this! Dave and Cathy have been faithful members to our Church over the past few years and good friends. We wish you all the very best as you move to Alberta to be closer to your family. May God Bless you where you go!
BIRD BOX IN THE HILLS
I heard a very interesting article on NPR on Saturday morning. It was entirely about crickets and other insects, 77 in all, which sing. Why they sing etc... two authors have written a book on the subject. They give some sound samples on the article (Gina, you will love listening to this article!) To listen to the entire article - or to email it to your friends, just click HERE.
I also listened to an article that my brother Barry and Sister Judy would be interested in - being the fishers that you are... its on the spread of a virus in fish in the northeastern states of USA. It sounds like its devastating to anglers and people who rely on them for people who take folks out to fish - and it's mostly been spread unwittingly by humans. You can listen to the article HERE
LEAF GREEN!
Great message during yesterday's message yesterday - very encouraging, coming out of both Job and Lamentations. Yes - imagine! Pastor assured us that tho God allows trials in our lives, they're for our good- though we can't see that, and we struggle instead of giving it up to Him. The following points are good to keep in your heart if you are going through the fire right now:
God is not against me. He doesn't WILLINGLY allow bad things to happen to me. He WANTS all my troubles to end!
Lamentations 3:33
For he does not willingly bring affliction
or grief to the children of men.
The Lord wants to help us - He's waiting for you to ask Him... He can't help without your asking Him.
Lamentations 3:25 - 26
The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.
His love is unfailing.
Lamentations 3:32
Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
so great is his unfailing love.
And there is HOPE - daily, His mercies renewed EVERY MORNING.
Lamentations 3:21 - 23
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness
What a powerful, powerful message of hope - thanks Pastor Ed, for your word - right on, again!
Today in History:
0780 - BC 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
1784 - Mme. Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
1896 - Henry takes his 1st Ford through sts of Detroit
1946 - Largest solar prominence (300 -000 miles) is observed
1957 - 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1985 - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
BARB'S HANDY TIP #273
Keep Your Mind Sharp!
Play With Your Mind is about mind games, brain puzzles and IQ tests - a great way to keep your brain in top mental state!
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You folks are TOO KIND! I know you're all so busy - we all are, but you took the time to leave some appreciation, and it means a lot to me. Thanks also to you for your suggestions for new tapes. I've compiled a BIG list of ideas - so I hope you won't get tired of them. Keep the ideas rolling - you dream, I'll create!
7 a.m. BOAT RIDE...
Yesterday WAS fun! Believe it or not, we were up and out on the lake by 7 a.m. with a friend for a ride in a boat. The water was a sheet of glass and the air was buttery soft. We were out for about an hour, making a large loop along the shores of our beautiful lake. It was an eye-opener to see all the development along the shores - you just can't see it all from the roads. It was thrilling to watch the shore slip by in a spray of water, glinting like diamonds!
If this were not enough, Miles took me to yard sales, where we scooped several 'treasures'. He was horrified as I 'bargained' with some folks for what he already considered a great deal - but was in admiration when they actually reduced the prices for me! Seemed like most sales yesterday were the type where no reasonable offer was refused. It was breakfast at McD's - yes, sad as it is, I crave a nice greasy, fattening sausage McMuffin someday!
I C U... DO U C ME?
And, then we drove east of town and up into the hills to get some photos of the beautiful wildflowers and critters. There are many new developments happening up among the hills to the east - and we were wowwed by how much our town is swelling. Pretty prestigious up there!
JUST STAY STILL FOR ONE... MORE... SECOND - GOTCHA!
I thought I might share some of my heart from this past week with you. This has been such a week of encouragement. Encouragement from you to me, and encouragement I find I've been receiving and unbeknown to me until now, giving. I had a dear friend sit next to me at the school and tell me that she found simply to sit next to me and soak up my presence, was encouraging to her. I can't tell you how this moved me... our friend is an older woman who has in her past, been a missionary in India for years in her past. She's a fount of Godly Wisdom and kind words and has been a complete inspiration to both Miles and I over the years. Lately she's been struggling - she's been feeling dry, very dry and uninspired, and uninspiring, we've all been there before. What a blessing to be used to 'whet' her... to whet her appetite for desire to be creative, to fellowship with me as a sister. What an honour the Lord would use me, a younger woman, with far less experience and knowledge, to encourage her at her time of need.
I've had several other gifts of encouragement over the past short while, and each time it's been like receiving a jewel. Won't you reach out to someone you know and encourage them? Whether its someone close to you, or someone you know barely - pray and ask the Lord to use you to bless someone's life. Trust that whom you choose to build up is in need of the words or kind deed you can give them. Somehow, I always find, that by giving - I receive something special in return in the form of fellowship, friendship and gratitude.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from his neck saying, "Make me feel important"
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Friendship is God's special way of loving us through someone else.
"A friend loves at all times"
Proverbs 17:17
Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause, our heat and hurry look foolish enough; now pause, now possession, is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart. The moment is all, in all noble relations... A friend is the hope of the heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
MILES SAVE ME!! THE SASQUATCH IS LOOSE!
Today in History:
1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
1789 - Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
1888 - Casey at the Bat published (SF Examiner)
1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin knighted
1935 - Atlantic crossing record French "Normandie": 1077 hours
1948 - 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1949 - Dragnet's 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in LA)
1957 - Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1959 - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight
1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1979 - Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
1981 - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life
BARB'S HANDY TIP #272
It sounds WILD!
Wild Sanctuary is home to the world's largest private archive of natural sound ANYWHERE!
You can download a special layer for Google Earth or Google Maps here by clicking on the link above the graphic, which will then allow you to listen to little soundbites of natural recordings from all over the world!
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It's a relaxing morning for me, with my sweet Husband - so I will catch you all tomorrow. Have a Blessed Day & please comment if you need any special tapes made!
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You spoke, I listened! Thanks for suggesting these designs for my tapes. I still have a few ideas, so look for more tapes, and I'm still open to more suggestions!
Ok, today is a day of 'firsts'. My FIRST first is that my blog is evolving. I've never before promoted a paid product on my blog before. I did this intentionally because I wanted to just share. Share my elements, share God's word, share tips, share ideas and I wanted it to be a place for you all to just fill up. Besides, it took me a long time to grow enough in my computer skills to reach the point that I would feel able to market my own 'stuff''. Well, the FREE stuff won't change - you'll always be able to visit for a daily free download (well, 'cept for the days I take off) but I may create some kits and elements for market too - and I need to be able to promote myself, right?
Also, my DEAR friend Sonya and our friend Katy have just launched their own store - and I'm so very proud of them that I simply can't NOT share. Their store, Kissed Studio will feature all sorts of templates. Sonya has been basically my mentor, scrap-wise and in so many ways, over the past few years. She added me to her chat after meeting me in a chat at Scrapbook-bytes and babysat me till now... I can't tell you how big of a job that must have been for her. I wish you and Katy every success, my friend!
TODAY'S THE DAY!!
They've a great freebie giveaway to celebrate their opening and also a terrific sale on, too. I know you will love their stuff! You can find their store by clicking HERE
FIRST PADDLE!
Today dawned crystal clear and calm. The lake lay like a sheet of glass at the foot of the mountains, and it beckoned us. Miles and I went for a good walk, while it was cool and as we stood looking out over the lake he asked if I would like to go for my first kayak today. O Yeah!!! I chose the yellow kayak which worked to my advantage, as his blue hand made one turned out to be more armwork. Luckily for Miles, he's been working out his arms at the gym regularly, and it enabled him to keep up to me, even when he had to catch up after encouraging me to go ahead. I made it all the way to the other side of the lake, and back! It was simply lovely gliding over the water...
FIRST SWIM!
The first of June, Hooray, Hooray, Out doors swimming starts today!
My friend Alicia made up this little ditty for me... though as she points out, one could substitute the word swimming for any word you would want, and change the month... at any rate, it was a perfect first swim day. Osoyoos Lake is Canada's warmest fresh water lake and it can get quite 'soupy' toward the end of summer. This time of the year its at its best - cool and lucsious, and not too busy with boats yet!
I have to tell you that yesterday I nearly choked out the staff of Mile's school. I was exeriencing hunger pangs and thought I might heat a frozen bun in the micro. I tossed it in, for 3 min on what I thought was defrost... next thing I know there are whisps of smoke furling out of the door. I raced over, ripped the offending blackness from inside and ran outoors and let it smoulder in an abandoned plant-pot... staff began arriving for the staff meeting... and the apologizing began. :
I just read an interesting article on whether insects can get fat - or not and if you wonder too, you can read all about it HERE.
Today in History
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in U.S. - at Plymouth - Mass
1845 - Homing pigeon completes 11 -000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek
1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile - Don Bowden
1967 - Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
1971 - Ed Sullivan's final show
BARB'S HANDY TIP #271
Fake OR?
Take a look at the ten images below. Some of them are photographs of real objects or scenes, others are created by computer graphics (CG) artists. Test your ability to tell which among the array of images are real, and which are CG. If you want a closer look, click the image to see a larger view of the picture. Once you've decided what's what, click either CG or REAL to begin the tally of your score. Work through each of the ten images. When you've finished, you'll be prompted to get your score.
ASSORTED TAPES ELEMENT #10
I LOVE THIS TAPE... 
PRETTY CARNATION
I THINK THIS IS THE FLOWER 
