10 January
Why I rely on
the weather forecast I just don't know, but there yer go, I do. But it's for
tomorrow I looking at now. At long last Jan is feeling much better, after she
began with a bad head cold last weekend. She's feeling well enough now to be
able to say it's time for a birding trip. Great, we've both been looking
forward to it since the 1st but weather and health has kept knocking us back.
So far we only got ten birds on our list, all but one of them we watched out
the back here. Tomorrow we are hoping to add a good number when we get to
Draycote Water.
With that
decision made I started to get our bits n bobs ready. Cameras OK, bins OK,
field guides OK, listing book ... where's the listing book? I know it's here
but where is it? The thing is, our home is like a big black pit at times.
Things just disappear on us. Like the address book that has vanished not so
long ago. This has always happened in our home for as long as I can remember.
One time in Bedworth I bought a brand new pair of black trousers and wore them
when we went to Brum one day. We got home and I got changed and remember
leaving them on the bed. That was the last time saw them. They have never
turned up, not even when we moved away did we find them, fallen behind a
wardrobe or something, nope, just vanished. Our current listing is the latest
incident. Happily I have found it under the pile of books and odds an sods on
the table beside me. Yes, I know ... we would live on without it but it can be
a pain at times.
We sat and
watched Jodie Foster in her film Contact
last night. I got caught up in it the very first time I watched it. Seeing it
on the big screen in a cinema would have been great, still would do for me. Later
I was wondering which film was my all time favourite film. Contenders are Contact, 2001, Close Encounters and on a
different tracks, Medicine Man and
finally It's A Wonderful Life. Please
note, there's no violence in any of them!
Yesterday I
began sorting out my photos from Wednesday. After around 3 hours I got fed up
with it so closed the lid on the lappy with quite a few left to do. This
morning I lifted the lid and once W7 had started to closed down to begin
installing all the Windows Updates. In the process it also closed down the
Photoshop Elements software too. That meant that all the photos I had open
ready to work were also closed. Now I have to look at my edited shots (saved
safely) to find out just how far I had got before I can the rest done. and
tomorrow of course there will be lots more ... ah well ... ... ...
Here's the first 2014 photo then ...
A pile of
Granny Smith apples in Caves fruit and veg shop, Queens Road Dorktown.
And funny
time, from the Sage ...
A Bible
study group was discussing the unforeseen possibility of their sudden death.
The leader of the discussion said, " We will all die some day, and none of
us really know when, but if we did we would all do a better job of preparing
ourselves for that inevitable event."
"Everybody nodded their heads in agreement with this comment."
Then the leader said to the group, "What would you do if you knew you only had 4 weeks of life remaining before your death, and then the Great Judgment Day?"
A gentleman said, " I would go out into my community and minister the Gospel to those that have not yet accepted the Lord into their lives."
"Very good!" ,said the group leader, and all the group members agreed, that would be a very good thing to do.
One lady spoke up and said enthusiastically, "I would dedicate all of my remaining time to serving God, my family, my church, and my fellow man with a greater conviction."
"That"s wonderful!" the group leader commented, and all the group members agreed, that would be a very good thing to do.
But one gentleman in the back finally spoke up loudly and said, "I would go to my mother-in-laws house for the 4 weeks."
Everyone was puzzled by this answer, and the group leader ask, "Why your mother-in-law's home?"
"Because that will make it the longest 4 weeks of my life!"
"Everybody nodded their heads in agreement with this comment."
Then the leader said to the group, "What would you do if you knew you only had 4 weeks of life remaining before your death, and then the Great Judgment Day?"
A gentleman said, " I would go out into my community and minister the Gospel to those that have not yet accepted the Lord into their lives."
"Very good!" ,said the group leader, and all the group members agreed, that would be a very good thing to do.
One lady spoke up and said enthusiastically, "I would dedicate all of my remaining time to serving God, my family, my church, and my fellow man with a greater conviction."
"That"s wonderful!" the group leader commented, and all the group members agreed, that would be a very good thing to do.
But one gentleman in the back finally spoke up loudly and said, "I would go to my mother-in-laws house for the 4 weeks."
Everyone was puzzled by this answer, and the group leader ask, "Why your mother-in-law's home?"
"Because that will make it the longest 4 weeks of my life!"
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