Texting

I do believe that texting is the realm of the young, but someone older than myself has convinced me that it is a good way to get a message out to a group.

So I set out this morning to let the kids know that their Dad was in the hospital for a couple of days--doing well--not to worry.

I managed to enter the five numbers from my contact list.

Step one complete.

I started the message: "Dad in icu."

I accidentally hit send.

Oops!

Once again I started through the contact list. Text comes in from DD#1.

I got the next part of the message typed in explaining that I had hit send too soon.

Text comes in from DD#2.

I finally  got that word that looked like pnptq6dd changed to postponed and about to hit send again and DS#2 calls. Message goes to draft.

After talking to DS#2 I  find the message in draft and hit send.

Did you know that you are supposed to keep the phone open when you do that?

Called DS#2 and asked him if he got it. Yes, well, part of it. No, most of it. All but half of the last word.

Does that mean that the others got that much or did some get all and others get none? since DS#2 was in the middle of the list, he offered to forward it to the others.

DD#3's text came in later when she was on her lunch break. DS#1 may look at his phone sometime tonight, but for all I know he is somewhere obscure on a business trip.

Since we do not have unlimited text on our contract, if one message sent to several people counts as several messages, I have done some very expensive messaging this week. Well, not as much as that kid in Texas who sent a couple thousand texts in a month. Or some of the I-got-him-a-cell-phone-on-my-account cases on People's Court who are suing for the texting fees he ran up.

I have to check into that.

Headbanger dilemma

To play or not to play? That is the question!

My computer is toast. Not totally fried, but apparently the video card is. I cannot see backgrounds, some of my games, and my header. So I am going on faith that I have set it up in such a way that my title fits neatly into the scheme of things. I adjust it each week so that it does not obliterate some important part of the theme image proper.

Doing that without being able to see it is problematical.

For some reason, I can see the header images of the other headbangers--whos blogs are linked in my sidebar. Why is that, do you think? They must be doing something I am not. I have asked.

In the meantime, here is the image that I have posted in my header for the theme "Fashion" which was presented us by Chris (Gailsman).

 This is the fashion for the men of the wedding party in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

What did you wear to your wedding?

 Now, a request: Please let me know if my header works. If the title runs into the groomsmen's heads or anything else is bizarre that I can fix. (I can't really fix the fact that I have no actual fashion images.)

Sunday's Psalm--15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Lord, let us see your kindness, 

and grant us your salvation.
 

I will hear what God proclaims;
the LORD --for he proclaims peace.

Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him,
glory dwelling in our land.

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

Kindness and truth shall meet;
justice and peace shall kiss.

Truth shall spring out of the earth,and justice shall look down from heaven.

 

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

The LORD himself will give his benefits;
our land shall yield its increase.

Justice shall walk before him,
and prepare the way of his steps.

 



Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

Headbangers--in a Flower

Health or Wealth or Happiness - in a Flower

This is what IMac gave us for this week's Headbanger Challenge.

Nothing like making it easy? Eh?

A single perfect golden rose. Does it for me.

See what the others manage. Especially what Mac has up his sleeve with this conundrum of a theme. Their links are in my sidebar.

Sunday's Psalm--14th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy.

To you I lift up my eyes
who are enthroned in heaven --
As the eyes of servants
are on the hands of their masters.
 

Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy.
As the eyes of a maid
are on the hands of her mistress,

So are our eyes on the LORD, our God,
till he have pity on us.

Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy.

 

Have pity on us, 

O LORD, 

have pity on us,
for we are more 

than sated with contempt;
our souls 

are more than sated
with the mockery 

of the arrogant,
with the contempt

of the proud.
 

   

Our eyes are fixed on the Lord,

pleading for his mercy.

Headbangers--My theme--It's a Small World!

When I sent this theme along to the headbangers I had just been hiking in Idaho when we had come across this anthill. The boys were fascinated by it. When we got the picture up on the computer screen, we could see that it was the ant nursery. The ants were very busy moving the babies around. Click on the picture to enlarge and see them even more closely.

Then I got home and thought about other tiny worlds I had photographed and went looking for some of them.

The tiniest of mushrooms.

 Moss spores

 Emerging Fiddlehead Ferns

 Lunch

And settled on the attack of the aphids.

But in the end I realized that no matter how many small worlds I find,

we are small in a very large world.

Take a look at the other headbangers and see what they have made of this small world. You will find their links in my sidebar.

Sunday's Psalm--Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
 

I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear

and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O LORD, you brought me up from the netherworld;

you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
 

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.

For his anger lasts but a moment;

a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;

O LORD, be my helper.

You changed my mourning into dancing;

 O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
 

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Skywatch Variety

We had a variety of skies over Lake Cascade, Idaho, during our four days of "Cousin Camp".

As well as a variety of the denizens of the sky.

Skywatch Friday

Bling--Headbangers Challenge

Headbangers theme was provided by our new member Gail: Bling

I am not all that much of a bling sort of girl and my bling is at home and I am not. Really, actually, most of my bling was taken by the burglars a couple of years ago, and not being a bling sort, it was not really replaced. So here and  in the header is my bling.

I blinged up my cell phone because...

Here is my husband's cell phone.

 

He does not pick mine up by mistake.

Ironman! You Go Greg!!!

My grandson Nate took this with his phone as he watched his dad near the start of the bicycle portion of the Ironman Triathlon in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, this morning.

I've been watching the tracking at the Ironman website, and within the last few minutes Greg finished the 112 mile bike ride and has started into the marathon run of 26+ miles. His swim time this morning was 1:17:12. His bike time was 6:44:59.

This is Greg's second Ironman, and he plans to do it again in Phoenix this November. We are all very proud of him.

Go!!! Greg!!!!

 (Nate came through again at the finish line. Let's get that boy a real camera.) 

 Here is Greg's finish with a time of 13:15:04.

Way to go, Greg!!!!!