Denise Austin and I did some weight lifting this morning.
Matthew chapter 8 and 9 - Jesus healed a leper and called Matthew to follow him. There are things we need to be healed from, one is sickness and the other more important is sin. He can do both. Have faith.
On this day:
2005 - Nicole and Adam went up and stayed at Michi lu ca because they were going to do a camp event at a church in Cheboygan. Because they are selling this camp and we are going to a meeting tomorrow night about saving it, this seemed important. We all loved this camp but honestly it needs to be used to it's potential. Pray for guidance.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard. As we know he listened.
Parenting - Took mom to have her ears checked. She says her hearing is fine that Nicole and I talk soft so that she can't hear us. They found a Q tip particle lodged in her left ear, I have to take her to an ear nose and throat doctor to have it removed. Life is weird isn't it? Who knew.
Ethiopia - health
Metrics of health in Ethiopia are among the world's worst due to poverty which leads to poor parental care and infections. According to the U.S. government, Ethiopia's health care system is wholly inadequate, even after recent improvements.[1] The Ethiopian government has launched a campaign to improve the health care system. Something else I didn't know.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014 Tuesday
My trainer was Kathy Smith today. Aerobics with a real good warm up and stretch.
2 Corinthians chapter 4 - This is a good reading for someone that feels overburdened with life. All our trials here will be over. While here we live by faith and not by sight. It is hard considering what we have to look at everyday. Turn off the TV and pray for awhile. God has a home and new garments ready for us in the future. He sent the Spirit to strengthen you.
On this day:
2003 - so eleven years ago, it was a Tuesday and we had very heavy rain as predicted for today. It would be interesting to be a weatherologist, or whatever they are called and keep charts and records to follow patterns and history. But that's just me. I came home from work early and washed the kitchen floor, not as interesting.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award. This has been largely forgotten, lately.
Parenting - I did not allow my kids out to roam the street at night. If they did it was not with my knowledge. I hung out in the streets enough to know what can happen along with the personality traits that that behavior develops. If your child claims that they HAVE to have a soda/pop at 9:30 at night and they want to go out and get one, tell them no. Tell them they can't hang with their friends on the street corner. Or has it already passed the point where they ask you?
Book Club - As I write this story I realize how intense and dramatic teenage years are. It is a time that can make or break you, give you a future or take it away.
Ethiopia - child welfare
The child protection programme focuses on building and strengthening an integrated child-focused social welfare and protection system to support interventions that will ensure that the justice system better serves and protects children, whether victims, witnesses or alleged offenders. It will strengthen youth empowerment and reduce HIV incidence among the adolescents most at risk.
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2 Corinthians chapter 4 - This is a good reading for someone that feels overburdened with life. All our trials here will be over. While here we live by faith and not by sight. It is hard considering what we have to look at everyday. Turn off the TV and pray for awhile. God has a home and new garments ready for us in the future. He sent the Spirit to strengthen you.
On this day:
2003 - so eleven years ago, it was a Tuesday and we had very heavy rain as predicted for today. It would be interesting to be a weatherologist, or whatever they are called and keep charts and records to follow patterns and history. But that's just me. I came home from work early and washed the kitchen floor, not as interesting.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award. This has been largely forgotten, lately.
Parenting - I did not allow my kids out to roam the street at night. If they did it was not with my knowledge. I hung out in the streets enough to know what can happen along with the personality traits that that behavior develops. If your child claims that they HAVE to have a soda/pop at 9:30 at night and they want to go out and get one, tell them no. Tell them they can't hang with their friends on the street corner. Or has it already passed the point where they ask you?
Book Club - As I write this story I realize how intense and dramatic teenage years are. It is a time that can make or break you, give you a future or take it away.
Ethiopia - child welfare
Child Protection
Ethiopia’s children make up 55% of the population, whilst young people (ages 15-29) are about 30% of Ethiopia’s population of 82 million. About 84% of the country’s children are engaged in activities that may be regarded as child labour. Behind every statistic is a human being who deserves a better life. We, at UNICEF Ethiopia, are working to do just that.The child protection programme focuses on building and strengthening an integrated child-focused social welfare and protection system to support interventions that will ensure that the justice system better serves and protects children, whether victims, witnesses or alleged offenders. It will strengthen youth empowerment and reduce HIV incidence among the adolescents most at risk.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014 Monday Columbus Day
Did some ballet this morning. Now I get to act like a prima ballerina all day. Not sure whether ballet is good for your knee health or not.
Proverbs chapter 25 - basically about keeping your mouth shut unless you know what the right thing to say is. Let me read this again.
On this day:
2002 - We all love our pets. I honestly don't trust people that don't like animals. I have had parakeets in addition to dogs and cats and I loved them almost as much as a dog or cat. They aren't typically real cuddly, but they do endear themselves to you. Binky had a small vocabulary, but he did talk. On this day he went to birdy heaven to join my other parakeet Mickey that I had for 21 years. Pets add dimension to your life and life to your home, I think. One cat is enough Nicole.
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special. Bet this was a great show!
Parenting - raising up a child and/or the method of rearing a child. That's the definition of parenting. I wonder how many couples sit down and say "what are our plans for raising a child"? I think most of us go into it blind only to discover later we have very different child raising ideas. Most often I think it works out, with the father saying, "oh well, she's got this" and backing off. I think I am seeing a change in this, where more dads are actively involved in decision making. Or did I just dream that?
Book Club - getting more people involved in the memories from these years in hopes of expanding the story.
Ethiopia - National holidays?
Best Time to VisitEthiopia ? - When to Visit Ethiopia
Proverbs chapter 25 - basically about keeping your mouth shut unless you know what the right thing to say is. Let me read this again.
On this day:
2002 - We all love our pets. I honestly don't trust people that don't like animals. I have had parakeets in addition to dogs and cats and I loved them almost as much as a dog or cat. They aren't typically real cuddly, but they do endear themselves to you. Binky had a small vocabulary, but he did talk. On this day he went to birdy heaven to join my other parakeet Mickey that I had for 21 years. Pets add dimension to your life and life to your home, I think. One cat is enough Nicole.
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special. Bet this was a great show!
Parenting - raising up a child and/or the method of rearing a child. That's the definition of parenting. I wonder how many couples sit down and say "what are our plans for raising a child"? I think most of us go into it blind only to discover later we have very different child raising ideas. Most often I think it works out, with the father saying, "oh well, she's got this" and backing off. I think I am seeing a change in this, where more dads are actively involved in decision making. Or did I just dream that?
Book Club - getting more people involved in the memories from these years in hopes of expanding the story.
Ethiopia - National holidays?
Best Time to Visit
goafrica.about.com
Orthodox christian festivals are the most prominent and visible in Ethiopia , despite the fact that 35% of the population is Muslim. It's also good to have a guide who can tell you exactly what is going on during the processions. October to March is the best time to plan a trip to Ethiopia's stunni... More »
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Sunday, October 12, 2014
October 12, 2014 Sunday
Going to church with Mom this morning and then to the Fall Festival in the church gym after for lunch and pumpkins.
On this day:
1999 - This is the first time I recall seeing that I was emailing someone. It seems like the computer has always been in the house when actually it hasn't been that long since it took over my life. I was doing some reports for the Board of Youth at church and that's how it starts. Now I'm probably on 4 to 6 hours a day.
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain. Ok In his defense, no GPS or gas stations to stop at for directions.
Parenting - I like Sundays at home with family. Football on TV, something cooking in the kitchen and Nicole asleep on the couch. I'm sure she will be tired after driving home from up north after the wedding yesterday. How do you spend Sundays? Trying to get all the stuff done because you aren't home during the week? Or going some place with the kids for family time. Enjoy whatever you do!
Ethiopia - Religion
Ok so primarily Christian.
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On this day:
1999 - This is the first time I recall seeing that I was emailing someone. It seems like the computer has always been in the house when actually it hasn't been that long since it took over my life. I was doing some reports for the Board of Youth at church and that's how it starts. Now I'm probably on 4 to 6 hours a day.
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain. Ok In his defense, no GPS or gas stations to stop at for directions.
Parenting - I like Sundays at home with family. Football on TV, something cooking in the kitchen and Nicole asleep on the couch. I'm sure she will be tired after driving home from up north after the wedding yesterday. How do you spend Sundays? Trying to get all the stuff done because you aren't home during the week? Or going some place with the kids for family time. Enjoy whatever you do!
Ethiopia - Religion
Ok so primarily Christian.
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Friday, October 10, 2014
October 10, 2014 Friday
Did some dancing with Rita Marino. Remember her from West Side Story? Well we did a little salsa, samba, rhumba and weights. Nice way to wake up the muscles and energy!
Mark chapter 6 - this is the story of feeding 5, 000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. We try to find earthly reasons for this working - but with God all things are possible. You can do less than this with the same results.
On this day:
1975 - Waynette and I went to the Holiday Inn to hear Tom King and Judy Dery entertain. Judy was later in the play Menopause the Musical, she was the earth mother and she is still active on TV ads and out at Meadowbrook. Keep an eye out for her. Waynette and I also went to a place called The Trio out on Northwestern Hwy. after. I don't believe it is there anymore, maybe under a different name, but it was a neat place back then. What are some of your old haunts?
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, DE, restaurant. What an embarrassment.
Parenting - I admit I have a mixed bag of beliefs. I have always believed in equality for races, genders and life styles. On the other hand I do not believe in entitlement for anyone to have those equalities. Achieve what you can, live the life you want and don't expect anyone else to be responsible for any of it. You will be happier with yourself and less disappointed in others.
Ethiopia - Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uWJHHY__K_Q
Hope this is the right one. Loved this video! Hope you can watch it!
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday Jesse and Rena!!
Mark chapter 6 - this is the story of feeding 5, 000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. We try to find earthly reasons for this working - but with God all things are possible. You can do less than this with the same results.
On this day:
1975 - Waynette and I went to the Holiday Inn to hear Tom King and Judy Dery entertain. Judy was later in the play Menopause the Musical, she was the earth mother and she is still active on TV ads and out at Meadowbrook. Keep an eye out for her. Waynette and I also went to a place called The Trio out on Northwestern Hwy. after. I don't believe it is there anymore, maybe under a different name, but it was a neat place back then. What are some of your old haunts?
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, DE, restaurant. What an embarrassment.
Parenting - I admit I have a mixed bag of beliefs. I have always believed in equality for races, genders and life styles. On the other hand I do not believe in entitlement for anyone to have those equalities. Achieve what you can, live the life you want and don't expect anyone else to be responsible for any of it. You will be happier with yourself and less disappointed in others.
Ethiopia - Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uWJHHY__K_Q
Hope this is the right one. Loved this video! Hope you can watch it!
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday Jesse and Rena!!
Thursday, October 9, 2014
October 9, 2014 Thursday Leif Erickson Day ??
That 2 year old tired me out yesterday. Slept in today. Maybe a walk later.
John the Gospel - chapter 16 - Jesus spoke plainly to his disciples about who he is. The Son of God.
We are not promised a rich easy existence here, we are promised peace of heart and mind. This life is all about how you perceive it - glass 1/2 full or 1/2 empty. "In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." verse 33.
On this day:
2010 On this day a lot of years I was working the craft show at church. Every year each circle had a different task, on this one Grace Circle had the door admission. Mom's circle Hope, had the lunch. They gave up doing the craft shows, apparently people aren't excited about handmade kitchen towels anymore. My friend Monna has taken the lead position with Mom's group as they are all in their 90's now and only one is capable of doing any tasks. Yesterday Monna took Mom to her circle meeting along with the cake I baked, and I got to keep Abel, Monna's grandson. Nice trade huh?
1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom. First guy to fight the system? Did he also write that song, Trailer for sale or rent?
Parenting - AND I got Abel for the day. What a great happy kid. We played outside for most of the 3 hours he was here. We did go in when any of the lawn services showed up in the area (even a couple houses down) because, his Papa told him to go in the house when someone is cutting the lawn. He would watch out the window until they left and then announce "outside". When I was exhausted and sat on the swing outside he came and took my hand "play". Great up bringing on this guy! And a great physical trainer.
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John the Gospel - chapter 16 - Jesus spoke plainly to his disciples about who he is. The Son of God.
We are not promised a rich easy existence here, we are promised peace of heart and mind. This life is all about how you perceive it - glass 1/2 full or 1/2 empty. "In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." verse 33.
On this day:
2010 On this day a lot of years I was working the craft show at church. Every year each circle had a different task, on this one Grace Circle had the door admission. Mom's circle Hope, had the lunch. They gave up doing the craft shows, apparently people aren't excited about handmade kitchen towels anymore. My friend Monna has taken the lead position with Mom's group as they are all in their 90's now and only one is capable of doing any tasks. Yesterday Monna took Mom to her circle meeting along with the cake I baked, and I got to keep Abel, Monna's grandson. Nice trade huh?
1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom. First guy to fight the system? Did he also write that song, Trailer for sale or rent?
Parenting - AND I got Abel for the day. What a great happy kid. We played outside for most of the 3 hours he was here. We did go in when any of the lawn services showed up in the area (even a couple houses down) because, his Papa told him to go in the house when someone is cutting the lawn. He would watch out the window until they left and then announce "outside". When I was exhausted and sat on the swing outside he came and took my hand "play". Great up bringing on this guy! And a great physical trainer.
Dʿmt[edit] ETHIOPIA
Main article: Dʿmt
The first kingdom known to have existed in Ethiopia was the kingdom of D'mt, with its capital at Yeha, where a Sabaean style temple was built around 700 BC. It rose to power around the 10th century BC. The D'mt kingdom was influenced by the Sabaeans in Yemen, however it is not known to what extent. While it was once believed that D'mt was a Sabaean colony, it is now believed that Sabaean influence was minor, limited to a few localities, and disappeared after a few decades or a century, perhaps representing a trading or military colony in some sort of symbiosis or military alliance with the civilization of Dʿmt or some other proto-Aksumite state.[21][22] Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom survive and very little archaeological work has taken place. As a result, it is not known whether Dʿmt ended as a civilization before Aksum's early stages, evolved into the Aksumite state, or was one of the smaller states united in the Aksumite kingdom possibly around the beginning of the 1st century.[23] 
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Octoer 8, 2014 Wednesday Full Hunters moon
Pilates for dummies. I still do this one because I'm still a dummy. Lol I really do like Pilates, easy on the knees and back, great core exercise. What's not to like about laying on your back and exercising?
Psalm 62 - It's lonely at the top. King David didn't make a lot of friends, he had to depend on God for his peace and rest. You can trust God to stay with you when you are a lowly shepherd or a king.
On this day:
1994 - 10 years ago today, Mom moved in with me. Nicole had gone off to college and Mom had not been well so I had her move in. She was 82 then, a lot has happened, it is a good thing she is here.
Parenting - I get to babysit Abel today, so I looked for my Halloween books to read him. He loves books. Yay! In looking through those books a lot of memories were stirred up. When Nicole came in from the bar, lol, I had her sit down and I read her some of her favorite ones, and she remembered them by heart. Happy memories, not for the Aunt that got fried in the pan though. They have probably banned those books for children now.
Book writing - talked to my friend yesterday that I shared living through the 60's with. When I told her what I was writing about and assuring her I changed the names, she shared some additional memories. Funny stuff.
Ethiopia -
According to linguists, the first Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic era from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley,[41] or the Near East.[42] Other scholars propose that the Afro-Asiatic family developed in situ in the Horn, with its speakers subsequently dispersing from there.[43]
Enjoy the day! Make it Memorable Happy Birthday to Cameron and Blake!
Psalm 62 - It's lonely at the top. King David didn't make a lot of friends, he had to depend on God for his peace and rest. You can trust God to stay with you when you are a lowly shepherd or a king.
On this day:
1994 - 10 years ago today, Mom moved in with me. Nicole had gone off to college and Mom had not been well so I had her move in. She was 82 then, a lot has happened, it is a good thing she is here.
Parenting - I get to babysit Abel today, so I looked for my Halloween books to read him. He loves books. Yay! In looking through those books a lot of memories were stirred up. When Nicole came in from the bar, lol, I had her sit down and I read her some of her favorite ones, and she remembered them by heart. Happy memories, not for the Aunt that got fried in the pan though. They have probably banned those books for children now.
Book writing - talked to my friend yesterday that I shared living through the 60's with. When I told her what I was writing about and assuring her I changed the names, she shared some additional memories. Funny stuff.
Ethiopia -
Prehistory[edit]
Ethiopia is widely considered the site of the emergence of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, in the Middle Paleolithic 200,000 years ago. The earliest known modern human bones were found in Southwestern Ethiopia, and are called the Omo remains.[39] Additionally, skeletal remains of Homo sapiens idaltu were found at a site in the Middle Awash in Ethiopia. Dated to around 160,000 years ago, they may represent an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens sapiens, or the immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans.[40]According to linguists, the first Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations arrived in the region during the ensuing Neolithic era from the family's proposed urheimat ("original homeland") in the Nile Valley,[41] or the Near East.[42] Other scholars propose that the Afro-Asiatic family developed in situ in the Horn, with its speakers subsequently dispersing from there.[43]
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