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Share Your World 2014 Week-38

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This week’s questions that open our community conversation can be found at:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/22/share-your-world-2014-week-38/

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Go to Cee’s  page and see how some of our other friends have answered the questions.

Here are my answers:

If you could be a tree or plant, what would you be?

I think I would be a giant redwood. As I understand it these trees may be the biggest things in the forest but they have very shallow roots and the only way they stand up to the storms of life is by interlocking their roots with other redwood trees. If I had to be a plant I would like to be one in fellowship with other plants.

If you could have a servant come to your house every day for one hour, what would you have them do?

Oh gosh that is a hard one but right about now I would have them take an hour a day to get all the projects around the house done that are being neglected because of my fall work schedule.

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?

Assuming I could still buy and eat any other kind of food I wanted I would opt for an endless supply of coffee from around the world.

What was one of your first moneymaking jobs (other than babysitting or newspaper delivery)?

Since my dad owned a restaurant one of my first money-making jobs was dishwasher and bus boy.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful to have had another wonderful weekend with my C.cada friends and this week I am looking forward to the Toy Town Fall Fest. It’s planning crunch time!

Share Your World 2014 Week 37

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It’s time once again to give you a glimpse into my world with Cee’s help of course

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Broaden your own world’s horizons by visiting:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/15/share-your-world-2014-week/

And while you’re at it  share your world with the rest of us by answering these questions in a blog post of your own.

The questions are…

List three pet peeves.

1. alligators in my bed

2. sunspots

3. people who mix liver into fruit salad.

Actually I tried to answer this seriously, but I thought of the people who perpetrate these pet peeves and so I thought it just best to keep the whole thing to myself.

What makes you unique?

Why my pet peeves of course! 🙂

Actually I think the best answer is…God makes me unique. I have a relationship with my Savior God which is intensely personal and unique to me and Him. The good news is that each man and woman in the world can have a unique relationship with God just like mine (that would seem to be the very definition of not unique but that’s the thing with God, He defies definition)

Would be your ideal birthday present, and why?

Lately I have been craving a massage because of my intensely sore and tired muscles. Someone else wrote a day at the spa as their ideal birthday present and I think I could go for that a mud bath and a hot rock treatment right about now.

Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under?

I solved this whole issue by breaking the toilet paper holder off the wall. So currently the toilet paper goes sideways as it sits on the shelf. And I wasn’t even thinking of my pet peeves when I broke it.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful that just this morning I got up and did a stretching video. it is nice to be back to exercising and I look forward to exercising at least 5 times over the next week.

Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday 9-14-14

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Watching the next generation rise up gratifies!

 

Yesterday my oldest daughter did a bang up job planning and running her younger sister’s wedding shower. I got to see my little girl in her wedding dress! And then I went to a concert put on by a young man I literally watched grow up in our church. I am glad to see those to whom I will one day pass the torch become powerful in their own right!

Share Your World 2014 Week 36

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I missed Sharing my world last week because I was away in the Berkshires leading worship and caregiving for guests at the New England Special Touch Getaway! So this week I am answering question for two weeks to catch myself up. When you have finished sharing a bit of my world find out about other worlds by going to:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/08/share-your-world-2014-week-36/share-your-world2

Let’s start with this week’s questions from Cee:

Do you prefer reading coffee table books (picture), biographies, fiction, non-fiction, educational?

My first book is the Bible. I read several chapters daily (that’s non-fiction in case there might be any confusion) After that I am a big fiction reader. I am currently fascinated by anything to do with the English royal lineage and I am particularly stuck in the War of the Roses.

What is your biggest fear or phobia? (no photos please)

I dislike new things and change. That means currently I am being HUGELY stretched because everything in my life is new experiences.

What is your favorite cheese?

I love Gouda.

What is your favorite month of the year?

I like November. It is my birthday month and Thanksgiving and  this year we will have my daughter’s wedding in November!

Now as to last week’s questions:

Have your blogging goals changed?

When I started blogging on “Reinventing the We’ll” I thought I would be talking about the empty nest. I ended up doing a whole lot with photography and of course sharing the Christian message. I also never expected to get so involved in the blogging community. That has been a happy surprise!

If you were to perform in the circus, what would you do?

I think I would be a clown.

If you could go back and talk to yourself at age 18 what advice would you give yourself?  Or if you are younger than 25 what words of wisdom would you like to tell yourself at age 45?

I think I would tell myself to take better advantages of the opportunities that presented themselves. To be more proactive and less reactive. Time passes quickly and some things only present themselves for a brief period.

What is your favorite comfort snack food?

I have to have my daily nutty buddy with a hot cup of coffee.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so thankful for the opportunity I had to help my friends at Special Touch Ministry. The work we did there will last into eternity. I was privileged to baptize three of our camp guests. The joy each guest expressed coming out of the waters of baptism is not something I will soon forget.100_4726

The chapel and gymnasium at Eisner Camp

The chapel and gymnasium at Eisner Camp

I am looking forward to planning out the Toy Town Fall Festival this week. It is my next big project and now I can put my full attention to it!

Share Your World 2014 Week 34

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This post was created for Cee’s Share Your World forum. When you finish here check out how others are sharing their world at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/08/25/share-your-world-2014-week-34/

Here are the five share your world questions for the week.

What is your favorite smell? What memory does it remind you of?

I love the smell of cilantro. It reminds me of my grandmother for some reason. It is not like she ever cooked with cilantro. I didn’t even know what cilantro was until I was a grown up but the first time I smelled it I got the strongest mental picture of her.

Name a song or two which are included on the soundtrack to your life?

Do you play video/computer game?  Which one(s) or most recent? 

Oh Heavens no. I am so bad at them; Playing video games is bad for my psyche.

Which of Snow White’s 7 dwarfs describes you best?  Plus what would the 8th dwarf’s name be? (Doc, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey)

I always wanted to be Doc. I think the eigth dwarf would have to be Lumpy a chronically clutzy dwarf.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful that last week I got the opportunity to do the communion service at the Gardner Visiting Nurses Dayhab. This monthly service is so full of life and hope. And to think a year ago I was going to stop volunteering there. God stopped me from quitting at the midnight hour.

I am looking forward to Special Touch Ministries New England Getaway next week.

Share Your World 2014 Week 33

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Once again it is time to share my world with Cee. Every week Cee asks four questions (and a bonus). We her readers answer and by this everyone has a chance to know us better. A few weeks ago everyone learned I like spaghetti sauce with my peanut butter. This week you will learn:

Do you believe in ghosts? 

I answer with a qualified yes. I believe there are evil spirits that roam the earth (that is biblical by the way see Job 1:7, Rev. 12:9) and I believe they masquerade as the spirits of our dearly departed (2 Cor. 11:14,  1 Sam. 28) for the purpose of deceiving us and drawing us away from the One true God. This is why we are commanded in Scripture not to consult with those who speak to the dead (Deut. 18) . That is perhaps a longer answer than you were looking for but there you go.

Irregardless of your physical fitness, coordination or agility:  If you could play any sport professionally what would it be?  Or if you can’t picture yourself playing sports, what is your favorite sport?

I would be a professional snowboarder or maybe an acrobat.

 

Do you prefer long hair or short hair for yourself?

I prefer short hair on myself. It is getting shorter (or more non-existent) with every passing year.

If you were on an small island, who would you want to be with? And where is it?  How big is it?

My island is big enough to get away from a tsunami but not so big that I can’t get to the beach easily. It is in a zone where the temps stay 75 all the time. I would love to have my family with me on the island. Friends can come and stay for up to two weeks but I need my privacy in between visits.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful to have gotten my sister all settled in at our house for the next year. The office is set up so she can work.  Now I am looking forward to our dogs transitioning in with each other which will be a lot easier once the female is out of heat!

Now learn a bit about Cee and her other contributors:

Share Your World – 2014 Week 33

Share Your World 2014 Week 32

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Every week (or almost every week) for the last three years I have been skipping over to Cee’s place in Oregon  to answer four questions she poses to all her readers. In the process I have gotten to know Cee and her readers and they have gotten to know me.

This little exercise is a great way to make connections here in the blogosphere; So let me encourage you, when you are done here why don’t you skip over to Cee’s place too and read some of her other contributors and then take the plunge and answer her four questions for yourself.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/08/11/share-your-world-2014-week-32

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Do you prefer ketchup or mustard?

I am not a ketchup or mustard fan. I prefer to mix them together with a little brown sugar and soy sauce to make BBQ

If someone made a movie of your life would it be a drama, a comedy, a romantic-comedy, action film, or science fiction?

I think my life would make a great comedy/drama. I have had plenty of both but I like to focus on the laughter. We do tend to take ourselves a bit too seriously most days.

If you could be given any gift what would it be?

I would be a trip around the world because then I could travel with someone! 🙂

For potlucks or parties do you cook it yourself, buy from a grocery store, or pay for catering?

Oh I wish I always had time to cook it myself but most times I am the guy buying potato salad from the deli on the way to church potlucks (I buy a lot of potato salad)

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up.

I am grateful my sister made it to my home from her home in the Netherlands. I am looking forward to getting her State-side cell hooked back up tomorrow with no problems (fingers crossed)!