No Music and odds and ends

Well the votes are in and it looks like most of you (55%) prefer no music on a Blog (and probably web sites as well) And I can fully relate. When I am surfing the net and enjoying the peace and quiet in my room at the back of the house here after a crazy day at work, I don't enjoy visiting a site where music starts blaring at me. Sometimes it is really quiet stuff and it actually makes me enjoy the site...but music, like art, is personal, right? Why risk offending? The other downside is when I post a great video (like that Amazing Grace one) you get this jumbled sound and the two compete for your ears. So for these reasons and because I plan to post more great videos (a powerful and cool guy Mark Driscoll - don't miss it!) I will refrain from adding music to my blog. The masses have spoken!!

Feel free to leave your comment. Tell us all how you feel about music on a blog.

On another note I took a course today on Microsoft PowerPoint. Very cool!! Tomorrow we learn to add music files.

Today's scripture verse - "not even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity" Check out Matthew 5:28 for Jesus' definition of this. It is indeed impossible to keep the law...what are we to do?

My Dad continues to struggle in his recovery from bowel cancer surgery. I keep waiting for news that he has rounded that corner and each day brings a few set backs and a few steps forward. I would appreciate your prayers for him and my mom during this difficult time.

I have a few pages I got done the other day and will try to post them tomorrow.
Blessings!

Julie

Winter

Winter in Hawaii

Winter in Saskatoon

Today	Tonight	Tomorrow	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Blowing snow High: -16 ºC WindChill: -34 ºC Wind: SE 20 km/h	Chance of flurries Low: -22 ºC POP: 60 % Wind: NE 10 km/h	Chance of flurries Low: -21 ºC High: -17 ºC POP: 40 % WindChill: -28 ºC Wind: NW 15 km/h	Sunny Low: -26 ºC High: -23 ºC Wind: W 15 km/h	Sunny Low: -26 ºC High: -16 ºC Wind: W 15 km/h	A mix of sun and cloud Low: -21 ºC High: -17 ºC Wind: W 15 km/h

soooo...remind me why I live here?

Expensive hobby!! really?

I have a question for you - I need your help. Every time I talk to a non scrapbooker about scrapbooking, somewhere in the conversation they say "Yah, but it is such an expensive hobby".
How do you respond to this comment???

I have trouble articulating my response, but in my head I am thinking...this is a hobby that has lasting value - I am creating something for my children, grandchildren and even great grandchildren. It's not a golf game that ends at hole 18, gone forever (and is cheaper too). What I love about scrapbooking is that I can enjoy(big understatement) the whole creative process - the craft part - but when I have finished I have preserved a memory - wow that is priceless!! I just see it as a win/win adventure! Am I deceived?

So what do you say to people who know nothing about scrapbooking except that "that is such an expensive hobby" ...and really in the scheme of things..is it that expensive? Really?

Help me out gals - I need to defend this wonderful craft! I am heading to a family reunion with a 40 page 8X8 family history as a gift for the grandparents...and someone is going to say it!

BTW...speaking of that 8X8 - the idea came to me Sat am at ....yah you know me...6am. I have been at it 12 hrs a day ever since - 12 hrs scanning and editing old, old photos and printing and scrapping - 9 pages to go - what a fabulous marathon! :) :) :) I will try to get them on the blog before I leave.

Love my scrapbooking buddies! That's YOU!
Julie

Bike Ride

I was up at 6:30 am this morning. It was so beautiful out. You would think I would sleep in after the two very long weeks I have had at work, but I was in bed really early last night. I wanted to get in my first bike ride of the season. I wanted to see the new walkway that just opened under the Circle Dr bridge. It took a while to convince David...
It will be a short ride I promise...didn't work(he knows me too well)...
We'll stop for breakfast and coffee downtown....getting close...
Really, most of the time you are gliding! ....Okay he would come.

Well it is mostly gliding (to downtown) because it is mostly down hill. :) But coming back up hill after poached eggs, fruit and coffee was a little bit of a challenge for both of us. He just kept telling me to pick the most direct route. :) We travelled almost 12 miles and we were biking well over an hour averaging 8.1 mile/hr. I love this little techno thing on my bike that tells me everything. And it is so accurate. BTW I have a bum that is a tad sore and I am not sure David will be game for another long ride for a while. Next time I will have to go solo. Who else gets up as early as me?

It was pretty quiet at 7:15 in the morning (I wonder why). We were standing looking out over the new walkway and I was getting ready for a shot when out of nowhere without any warning came a swarm of bikers - over 50 of them. Photo op!!

The mighty Saskatchewan River and our resident Pelican. I wander where her buddy was today? That is Royal University Hospital in the background.

It has been a very fun and relaxing day. A loooong bike ride, some photos, two layouts and a third on the way. I love it! The kitchen is a mess, my bed isn't made and the closet is full of dirty laundry!

Thought for today... Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands! Psa 90:17

Blessings!