Texas Weather

Hi guys,
Well we had a downpour last night. Even had tornado watches as a front went through. We had a lake out front but it has disappeared now. You hear about ice and snow but that is hardly ever around here. We are far enough south that that weather always misses us. It sounded like a summer storm with all the rolling thunder. Texas is such a large state that they can get 15 inches of snow in Amarillo and we will be in a heat wave.

In 2 days my Microsoft Office 60 day trial version will be over and I'm wondering what will happen to all my documents that I saved in Word. A person gets frustrated with a new version of Microsoft in that you have to try and track down new driver software for all your old peripherals. (A peripheral is a device attached to a host computer but not part of it whose primary functionality is dependent upon the host, and can therefore be considered as expanding the host's capabilities, while not forming part of the system's core architecture.)(wikipedia) I haven't been able to print with my old laserjet and my searches for a new driver have been fruitless.

I try not to be down on all this computer stuff as I realize how nice it is to just sit down, and type, and hit send, and off goes a thought, request, musing, apology, encouragement, advice,etc, etc, etc. One thinks of our parents, grandparents and beyond that didn't have this almost instant communication. It was weeks, months and even years before they learned of news from loved ones. Having said that , thanks for keeping in touch. K&W

Dreams

Dreams

I’ve been having the most vivid dreams lately, when I can remember them. If I don’t write down a few salient thoughts about them, they’re gone. The mind is a marvelous thing. We watched a PBS documentary about the human mind and how it develops. It was very interesting. The mind is a marvel of God’s handiwork. It is hard to believe that some people still think we evolved some primeval ooze! I guess their answer is time. If a frog changes into a human (prince) in a second, then that is a fairytale. If a frog changes in a human in a million years (evolution), then that is science! (falsely so called!)(historical geology)
I find it amazing that I can see and do things in my dream that I have never in my life done before or even seen. It is also amazing to me how one scene can morph into a completely different scene and it still seems connected and reasonable. The other day I remember fly a helicopter on a rescue mission and I had to land it in a small meadow. The blades were just barely touching the leaves front and back. Boy, I was good! Then seamlessly it morphed into me training on a huge, and I mean humungous, seismic vibrator. It was bigger than one of the rock trucks at Fort McMurry. The vibrator I can rationally imagine but the helicopter is a bit of a stretch. Oh well just musing.
Well everyone have a good day. We're off to volunteer at the tourist information center for a few hours. K&W

Texas History

Hi Y'all.  We went out to Camp Verde, just a dozen miles from Kerrville.  It originally was a post/fort for the south during the civil war.  Jefferson Davis set it up as transportation depot (experimental) with camels to suppy troops in the west.  Didn't work out too well.  Author Elmer Kelton, who resides just a few miles from here,  brings in the local history in many of his western sagas.  Not quite as good as Louis Lamour but is a very good read.

Nothing profound

Hi y'all. Just paid the rent so we're here in Kerrville, TX for another month. We didn't pay for cable this month and it seems more peaceful already. If anything important happens you can let us know. It was a sunny day in the mid70's so it seems that everyone in the park was out puttering and cleaning. We were no exception. It feels good to get things straightened up.


I always feel that I'm supposed to say something witty or profound or both when I do these blogs. Creative juices just aren't there sometime. I t does help on my typing skills though.


A friend in the park told us a story about a 4 year old at the doctor's office and the nurse let the little guy listen to his own heart beating with her stethoscope. He seemed really entralled with it all and after awhile he asked, "Is that Jesus knocking at the door of my heart?" I guess it is just that easy-we just have listen and open the door. (Rev3:20)



This blogging is a bit of a pain learning all the new settings. At least the computer warns me of mistakes I might be making if I decide to wander off some where without saving. I am a bit frustrated with this new Windows7 because if I want to print something out I'm stymied as my laser printer doesn't work with Windows7. You would think that Microsoft would be able to come up with some generic driver to do some basic printing without my having to go out and buy a brand new printer! I can get around it by saving it to a flash memory card then booting up my old lap top and then printing it with that hooked up to my old printer.
I think I am going top have to start working on the blogs in Word and then transfer them when I have intenet access. I had about another half page done last night when we lost our internet access and so lost whatever hadn't been saved by the automatic draft saving feature. Oh well. What I was suggesting was some internet sites that I thought we pretty good.

1. www.truthorfiction.com great for checking out forwards and rumors
2. www.cia.gov great for facts on countries and peoples
3. www.buzzardhut.net different bible studies and facts
4. www.floydnolenjones.com mypersonal favorite for bible studies mp3

Well things to do so will post this and get on with life. K&W

This is our first attempt at this and there is so much to read and understand to try to do it right. I guess the first few will be experimental.

Life is so busy when you are semiretired. time to go swimming so I will have to finish this later.