Long time gone...

There's a Dixie Chicks song with a line "long time gone..." which sticks in my head and came out in reference to this sadly neglected blog.  Why can't i manage to keep something like "picture of the day" up?  It's not as if it's a hard, monumentous thing to take a picture each day but somehow, it just doesn't seem to be happening.  True, that half the time i go to take pictures, my camera batteries, much to my chagrin, are languishing in nearly deadness... i can never seem to keep them charged up properly - i should probably have my dad come by, assess them all with his little volt meter thingy that we as kids were super interested by, and get rid of the ones that really don't work.  That would be efficient.  But sadly, i'm not really very efficient - i had to laugh when on Friday i cleaned the house.  I started in one room, then you find something that belongs in another room so you pick it up, haul it over there, see another job that needs doing, do that for a bit until something else leads you forward... i think someday that i should take a ball of yarn with me when i do cleaning, and see how twisted of a web i can weave with it.  But in the end, the jobs do get done, rather in strange order, but done nonetheless.  I just came off a busy weekend... but it was great.  Friday night, i spent some time at the art crawl with Timothy - seeing the many creative (and often times, very "interesting") things that people come up with... infinite possibilities for art.  I wish so often that i was artsy, so much so that a few weeks ago, i decided to buy myself drawing pencils and a notebook - but alas, they are lurking around in my desk drawer begging to come out, eagerly expecting saving from the drawer's blackness each time, but i shove them back, saying, not now... One day i'll have to smarten up and just try it out - i'm such a chicken!!! 

Saturday saw the pancake breakfast, a lot of rain, watching a movie and heading out to Elora for a BBQ. Sunday saw an impromptu family reunion at Mom and Dad's - they seem to be inundated with family on the weekends - i thought it would just be Mom and Dad and the two boys, Peter and Aaron and Timothy and I for lunch - but happily, Lauren and Tom decided to join us for "coffee" which turned into lunch and coffee and such... and then Rach and Mike came too so it was full house... so nice and special to have those times together!  I cherish it with all my heart!  I have truly been blessed with a great family! 
And Sunday evening was Bible study at Eric and Ang's... also, a great time - we had a very far ranging discussion on judgementalism and sins of the tongue - boy, i have some work to do - so often those little sarcastic comments slip out and are not upbuilding - the old tongue needs a better bridle to be sure!  But it was a really great discussion and i learned a lot... how also to build others up with our speech and how important that is!
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing (1 Thessalonians 5:11)

So, now it's Monday and it's raining (again) and it's cold, oh so cold, and i'm so happy i didn't get all gungho on Friday when it was so warm and start planting things as their poor little roots would be freezing out there - my inside thermometer in the house read 13.5 degrees this morning - and silly me, i was wondering why i woke up with a frozen nose!?  So now, the heater has been called back into service and we will hold out for some warmer weather to come our way hopefully soon!!!  Keep warm!