So the past couple of days have been good. I have enjoyed having Jera, and I look forward to the day when she is housetrained so I no longer have to block off the kitchen. Jera has already bonded to us immensely, and whines pitifully whenever we leave the room. This morning she cried/howled for an hour after Paul left… I was mentally writing apology letters to all the neighbors as I listened. My heart breaks to hear her crying,…
It’s a girl… puppy! Today was an eagerly anticipated day, because today we brought home our new Beagle puppy! Jera is 4 1/2 months old, and sooo cute. (But then again, what puppy isn’t?) I don’t have one good picture of her. She wiggles a lot! Hopefully these will give you an idea what she looks like. You can see more in my Facebook album. Hello? Who you looking at? Mmm We like doggy ice cream! Look! A…
Here we are, in the final hours of 2006. It’s been quite an exciting year! As you all know, of course. :-) I have lots to blog about, but first a recap of 2006 (in a similar style as last year): January: I looked through my old blog posts, and nothing happened in January, I decided. :-) I didn’t get to go see End of the Spear, about which I was very disappointed, but I ended up seeing it in…
It was a delightful trip but seemed too short. Paul and I, along with Lewis and Ebony, drove back to Atlanta last night. We are so glad to be home. I wasn’t feeling all that well, so we stopped at exit 5 and checked out the $3 bookstore. That made me happy and I felt much better afterwards. I picked up a book about a subject on which I am intending to write a blog post in the near future….
I pause from Christmas celebrations to remember the reason why we are celebrating… About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his own ancestral hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s town, for the census. As a descendant of David, he had to go there….