Friday, August 31st, A FULL MOON! A BLUE MOON! really? Well, yes and no. Yes the moon will be FULL but Blue? Well, not really!!! A "blue moon" is a term used when two full moons appear in the same month! I never knew that did you guys? So who of you will be looking at this big wonderful ''blue moon?" I will……and hope you will be too. So, sing it….. "Blue, blue..my world is blue…."…..see P.S. below.

(the article below is copy/pasted from: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/30/turning-blue-fridays-full-moon-a-blue-moon/?hpt=hp_c2

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Full blue moon

This Friday, Aug. 31, might not be all that much fun for you, especially if you’re someone who vows to only do obligatory tasks once in a blue moon. Then again, if you’re a believer that good luck comes your way only once in a blue moon, Friday might be just the day you’ve been waiting for.

The fact is, for the first time since March 2010, we’ll gaze upon a blue moon this Friday, illustrating just how long that fabled stretch of time really is: almost 30 months. After Friday, you’ll have to wait another 36 months — until July 2015 — for the next one. So, it’s time to loosen up Friday and do all those things you say you do “once in a blue moon.”

It’s a rare cosmic rising that will be unveiled, coincidentally, on the same day as astronaut Neil Armstrong’s funeral service. Armstrong, who died last Saturday at the age of 82, brought the fabled moon into mankind’s domain when he became the first man to walk on its surface in 1969.

Despite the colorful turn of phrase, you might be disappointed if you look into the sky. There will be no magical chameleon act performed by the moon on Friday. That’s because the phrase blue moon — dating back centuries with no pinpointed origin — is nothing to do with hue, but instead signifies a full moon happening for a second time in the same month. Full moons occur every 29 days. With a full moon having already appeared this month on Aug. 2, Friday’s full moon will turn blue, well, in name only.

At times moons have actually appeared blue, but that phenomenon has nothing to do with full moons and everything to do with ash particles floating in the atmosphere. Varying volcanic eruptions over the last few centuries have sent up ash clouds. When the ash particles reach a certain width, they can block reds and yellow from getting to our eyes, giving us tints of blue — and sometimes green — moons.

Of course, we can’t rule out a volcano erupting between now and Friday evening, giving us an actual blue moon. But, then again, that only happens once in a blue moon.

And PS: Do you ever use the term, ''once in a blue moon?" I do…oops, is that a good thing or a bad thing? (to be continued, gotta get some shut eye)

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/30/turning-blue-fridays-full-moon-a-blue-moon/#ixzz255sdWKGx

Alzheimer's & Mitochondria

For mitochondria, bigger may not be better: Optimal length of mitochondria is essential to preventing Alzheimer's

"We have a good idea now of where the process starts. We know it ends with neurodegeneration, and with this study, we know some milestones along the way," said Feany. "But we still have to fill in the gaps and learn more about DRP1 and its role in this process."

(oops: just noticed I didn't put the reference/source of this material: will do that another day)
apparently if my Tau is out of whack then dumdey dum dum….not good…..

Just Because There's A Smile….

How many of us hide
all of our lives
curled up in a little ball?
To close our eyes
sitting a while
it's a place to block out, find calm.


How many look on
think we're "great" or just "fine."…...
"They can accomplish & do anything."
"I wish that I could be…...
….that personality, 
          …...that smile…
                   …they always seem to win…"

How many of us struggle
yet, Always seem to muster the "lustre"
for family, company and calls?
We dare not to bother or
take up their time….
We want them to be happy not grim!

How many look on the other
through their narrow eyes,
their experience, perspective, own lives?
"They cannot imagine, touch or intone
what another experiences within,...
that pain those cross' they bear.."

To care for another,
No judgements, those assumptions!
Only the Lord & this individual's aware,
Of  their struggles, their efforts,
To walk through each day...
Perhaps minutes of hours,  burdens

Are there…
                    ... of a racing pacing heart.
                                                            -suzie

BIRTHDAY THEME: FARM or BARNYARD ANIMALS

Some of us learn by reading, some by pictures/tutorials, some hands-on….Here I will primarily post photos which will give you some ideas: THIS PARTY WAS FOR YOUNG TODDLERS so there are not games per se, rather, activities. (the above photo: everytime I crop this and adjust lighting only the original transfers…rats! Will keep trying)

CAKE: Check out the cake Daddy made up for the party! (above)…little pig made out of starbursts, hay is yellow-dyed coconut with marshmallow behind for circular bale; cake = pound cake; walls of barn use red string licorice; roof = chex; fence = pretzels, 2 round 9'' cakes, icing and presto! Barnyard Cake. Blue icing for a pond, black for pig in mud, green for grass, red for some of barn. Notice the 2 round cakes are nestled within one another; cut out a portion of one to fit the other inside it. Feed the birthday child his first piece of chocolate cake iced separately with green icing. Everyone else has cupcakes…the following days the family enjoys the Barn Cake together. You can give the baby the entire silo to dig into! Oh man; oh fun.

CUPCAKES: Pigs, Chicks and Cows and Sheep:

1) Pig: nose = marshmallow dipped in sprinkles; string licorice chopped for nostrils; eyes =choc. chips; ears = pink starbursts

2) Cow: nose & eyes = same as pig; nostrils = choc. dripped through small hole in bag; ears                                                                 
   = pink mentos gum

3) Chicks: covering = yellowed dyed coconut; wings are gummies; eyes same as pig; nose (oops I forget - some sort of orange gummy)

4) Sheep: one large marshmallow surrounded by tiny marsmallows; eyes = drip like cow; mouth 
    =  pink gel icing. 

BARN YARD: (for mother's to sit with crawler's; or toddler's to play.) Place blankets/table cloths on ground and set around barnyard stuffed animals and books about farms for mom/dad to read etc.)


HAY RIDES: label a wagon with a sign and presto! Kids love taking rides in a wagon

You can include a ''waterpond'' if you don't mind the kids getting all wet. Heather did have this with towels nearby (no picture).

now for FOOD: 


Wanted you to see the pig placed in dark icing for mud; blue icing for a little waterhole and the hay is coconut dyed yellow with a marshmallow behind some to make a circular bale of hay.


The main theme was a garden patch of vegetables on a tray made to look like a vegetable garden. Place vegetables in rows and make some dip! (left front: with play fences on the sides. They borrowed my animal dishes/bowls for fruit; Oreo cookies labeled as 'spokes' of a wheel; Rice Krispie treats labeled "bales of hay"; the candy called 'Cow Tales'; and in the Crock-Pot were ''pigs in a blanket.''
Hot dogs wrapped in bacon cooked in a crock-pot ahead of time. Labels with a farm theme name and presto! Barnyard Party and Food.

What To Make for A One Year Old

        Baba            
 THAT'S WHAT!
   (Baba: knit project)

At the last minute, actually 24 hrs. before the birthday I thought, "I'd love to make Joel a huggable something." So, searching on Ravelry,
a knitter/crocheters' website, I found the perfect pattern to download by Shafer Dobry. Find her pattern on Ravelry.com or Etsy.
Ravelry is great to join, by the way. 

Store pictures of all your projects in one place, see what people all around the world are making, share ideas, free patterns, trade yarn, meet professional knitter/crocheter's and get advice etc. etc. etc.

PICTURES ABOVE of Baba: my son sent these to me in an email with the following captions:

"Waiting around for my little boy to wake up," says Baba (picture two)…."But first some fun!" (picture one). You see, Michael, age 29 is still a child at heart; the apple doesn't fall far from this tree! He has all the animals talking to his kids and being goofy and crazy well, like I was I guess. Michael you are a blast. Sometimes I am not sure who the children are; you and Heather?
(below: Baba ''hanging around in my flowers." NOTE: I'm a beginner knitter - easy pattern; written well.

Watercolor: Double Impatients

-for my guy, son Jonathan 

(okay, now that i look at it here..it needs more bright color in upper left..this

is a joke..i was trying to sweep color through the picture and dahhhh..it looks arghhhhhh dumb…

oh well, that is how we learn, right? the background isn't bad though. so yeah.

A Daughter, A New Son: They're Wed!

       






  JOHANNA & DAVID 
        JUNE 2nd, 2012
The Inn at Whitewing Farm

    A cello, 
   A harpist,
A setting so bright,
Sound and scent apple blossoms, this breeze,
        It's just right!
 
                   
                                        Mother's are waiting,
                                 With sons and grandsons.

  
Flower girl "Ella" with Ring-bearing ''Isaac," wait                                                                           for their entrance - but First comes his ''mommy," It's daughter-in-law
Heather!! 




Sarah, Maid of Honor, sister of the Bride, loving and beautiful, sweetly she glides.  

                                                                              And now comes the time for the children
to enter,
    Daddy makes certain that all is together!
                                     
                                                                      Groomsmen and Best Man look on with wide smiles,
                                                                         supporting the Groom as he waits for his Bride!  


  The Harp strikes its note, the Bride takes her stand, atop of the stairs looking down at her Man!

Proud Father, so careful, guides His Daughter down the stairs, Arm in arm  tender words &  laughter exchanged; twenty-four years meeting as one descending those stairs.

Overwhelming tears, the Groom is in awe, the magnitude of this gift; Christ and His Bride! Is this not what the occasion then mirrors for us?

The setting,    how gorgeous,   flowers in bloom,    the "poofs" Johanna's made,   -perfectly strewn.  


(more to come…)

can't come up with a title

Something was different about today: are you ever in a more pensive, melancholy mood
than usual? sure, who isn't. thoughts:

If I could touch the moon from this small patch of earth where I live and toil; and,
if another could touch the moon from their small patch of earth where they live and toil.
Write a story;''if'' I was creative enough for such a thing. I admire creative writers.

The Owl and the Pussycat poem; they sailed away under the moon on the sea...what if they could have touched the moon? And, when the author wrote their story..why did he put together these two - an odd combination,......hmmm...isn't that what makes for a fabulous story? The coming together of. These two would not seem to be a pair but the author places them together and it's a perfect fit.

When I stare at the moon there has to be at least one other person staring at the moon, right? Or, several thousand or million? This same moon: Napoleon, the Disciples of Christ, unknown tribes of today, Socrates (was he Greek), slaves of the south escaping to the north navigated by, etc...all looked/are looking at the same moon, right? Did you ever think about that? The moon, what is it that
fascinates us about the moon; its beauty, fullness...and there are romantic stories that go along with the moon; stories around fires...and on and on. Yeah, what is that song,,,''dancing in the moonlight..."

                                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


ps: I missed once again this year Isaac's birthday wish (yesterday)    <Happy Birthday To You>
will post what I made you! I always tell what mistakes I made on something or apologize for it; why is that? BUT, this once is it okay if I brag and say... I did a GREAT JOB on Isaac's gifts...of course with my new Artista 730 Bernina (a splurge...eeeehhh). Who couldn't. 

TWO-SIDED Toddler APRON (my own pattern)

Apron: playing kitchen, art/painting, etc.

-  waterproof liner.

-  Velcro ties and neck strap for independence.

-   Elastic in neck strap grows with child.
- 3 pockets on front: Isaac side
- 2 pockets reverse side

 

-posting another day: designed/made
mixing bowl and hand mitt that coordinate with the apron. Tools? just
pull from your drawer!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISAAC...(to left)

NOW WHAT TO MAKE FOR JOEL...HMMMM

You LIVE FOREVER on Certain Websites?

DID YOU KNOW: EVEN AFTER YOU PASS AWAY (not intended to be morbid): Certain sites continue to age you and may even list you as still owning your home.....etc.?? No joke!

HOW DO I KNOW? My little sister, Amy, passed away October 2000 at the age of 41. While searching for friends and family on google.com and bing.com I decided to look up her name ''just out of interest."Why? So much has become way too PUBLIC, (my kids and I were finding many images & info. about us that we did not want out there); would Amy be listed anywhere; would there be Images of her? She never used a computer!!WELL SURPRISE!

ANSWER: yes!  According to one site Amy is now 52! Her husband Bruce who passed away at the age of 55 is 62 now! They still have a home which is valued and the address is provided.CRAZY.
I did not bother to look any farther than the one site. There were no images; however, had I posted any in my blog or elsewhere they most likely would have been visible.

Is it possible to discontinue Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. and be ''invisible''on the net?

So far I can find/locate anyone I have searched for....hmmmmm. Even if we enter ''keep private'' within these sites information still appears on the net!

Anyone know how to become totally invisible from the net? Let me know. That way I can only be found in an orbituary.  I don't believe anyone will bother to look for me there, so yeah.

Should we all go on a quest, turn the tide on all these sites and go for invisibility. What would happen to Google, Facebook, etc.... if we quit the sites even for a day or a week???

ANYWAY, we do eventually depart (not to be morbid); but, will live forever on the net, is my guess. 

 

CHAPTER 1 verse 12 of JOHN:

  Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—Acts 4:12
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Romans 1:16
....the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
Ephesians 1:13
And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal,  
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. (Jesus Christ)

NAME THIS BIRD

                Does anyone know where this could have been taken? 
         NAME THIS BIRD and post a comment below: thanks!
                    (sent via gmail.com/good friend and colored pencil artist: Doris. Thank you to
                                  the photographer for sharing this in public domain)

Psalm 91:4.  "He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings.  His faithful promises are your armor and protection." (translation?)

           NIV translation: " He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge;his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. "