"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
- John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
RIGHT NOW, and then again tomorrow and then again the next day and on it goes day after day,
1/2 OF THE WORLD lives on LESS THAN 2 DOLLARS each day.
Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Do all you can and don't worry about the odds against you. Wield the miracle of life's energy, never worrying whether we fail, concerned only that whether we fail or succeed we do so with all our might. That's all we need to know to feel certain that all our force of diligent effort is worth our while on Earth.
Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Week in review

A hectic and busy week.
Monday - not too bad, but I did go in for a thyroid blood draw. I will find out the results this Monday

Tuesday: usual busy day & night except now Tuki & Ve's Awana started tonight so yet another activity to fit into this night.

Wednesday: Again the usual busyness; day & night, except we traded Mim's youth group at church this week for the Golden Dragon's Acrobats..THE RAIN STARTED TONIGHT

Thursday: IT IS STILL RAINING.ALL.DAY.LONG..The chicken's pen has 2 plus inches of standing water, the chickens are SOAKING WET, and by noon my basement started to flood. I have standing water ALL OVER MY YARD!! After school, we shove all the dumb, soaking wet chickens into the dry Coop to dry off. Basement isn't worse, but it isn't any better either..THE RAIN CONTINUES.

Friday: IT IS STILL RAINING IN THE AM. The chickens, and chicken pen is dry, the yard is still wet but the basement is starting to dry out. Found out at work that our little water was nothing compared to others who live nearby. One family had 10" in their basement..boy was I lucky that the water was never more a few small rivers never reaching an inch flowing from each of the side walls.

Saturday..The basement is a little better, drier. This morning is cool and eventually sunny. We drove to Mim's CC meet, came home 9 hours later, ate supper, found out that my cabbage that I picked last weekend rotted before this weekend, so I couldn't process it. Tonight went to the town's attractions (small town) and saw the high river...my yard is still wet, but obviously by the speed of the moving river, the water will be drained within the week.

Mim on the start line

racing on the course; unofficial 14:31, a 14 sec PR

Tuki and Ve standing near Lake Michigan. The race course ran along the lake. The CC meet was 2 1/2 hours from our home. It was a long drive

Tuki on the way home.

Tonight's big entertainment; going down to bridge on HH, bike riding distance from home, to see the overflowing river

Mim explaining why the road was closed for traffic

a flooded walk path

the posing beauties

the fast moving river

look closely you see how how close the river is to the road on the far side of this picture

flooded woods

a spider close-up while watching the water

Posted by Aves @ Call of the Phoebe at 5:17 PM

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