“Give Us a Sign”: Fun Foto Challenge

 This week Cee has asked us to give her our SIGNS.

CLICK THE UNDERLINED LINK TO SEE “ALL THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.”

Here are mine:

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There is this rusted out old sign

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This is the location of one of the monthly outreach concerts I do.

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My home away from home.

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Makes me giggle. It probably shouldn’t.

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges

This week Cee has asked us to show her BRIDGES.

You can find lots of bridge photography by clicking the underlined link above.

Here are my bridges along with a few quotes to “bridge the gap”.

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn

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On the banks of the Liffey

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. Max Beckmann

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Events

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This week Cee has challenged us to have fun with EVENTS.

You can click that underlined link to see what fun events others have participated in recently.

Sometimes it feels like my life is one long series of events to attend. I am privileged to stand with people in many different venues.

This week was enormous event wise.

I was honored to stand with two  grieving families as they said good bye to loved ones at the graveside.

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While no one relishes funerals there is probably no event in the world that brings the dual human condition of sorrow and celebration into starker contrast. We mourn the passing, honor the life, celebrate the next step of existence in hope, and prepare our own hearts for that which eventually comes to us all.

This week was also our region’s annual Relay for Life. Gardner’s relay is one of the largest cancer fund raisers in the nation.

Our prayer shawl ministry hosted the prayer tent for this event.

Dot, Diane and Karen started the booth off on Friday night at the 24 hour Relay For Life

Saturday was Men’s Ministry breakfast and then mentor coaching and then Special Touch Disabilities Ministry.

This month we did a God project making Birthday cards for a young disabled lady in Maine who had received none.

The week and weekend were full of wonderful and tiring events.

This next weekend C.cada is hosting a booth at Winchendon’s Summer Solstice Festival on Saturday and then Sunday we say good bye to one of our long time worship leaders who is moving to Missouri.

 

Fun Fotos of Fun Pets

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It’s time to have some FUN WITH PETS. At least that is what Cee says (and she is generally right about such things).

You can see lots of fun fotos of even funner (I know not a word) pets by clicking the link above.

Here are my fun pets.

In my house we currently have two dogs and a cat.

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This is Mercedes. Here she is establishing with my daughter that she is indeed queen of the castle.

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The snowball covered puppy in the front is Jacopo (pronounced Yacahpoh). He is Mercedes’ mate.

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This is Snug one of Mercedes’ and Jacopo’s three children. He has lived with us for the last 20 months and just this week moved back to his home in the Netherlands.

This is Picasso. He and my daughter Amanda moved in last month.

Now up until last week we had three dogs and a cat. Then my sister moved to a her new home in the Netherlands. She is living on a farm in Zaandam. She and Snug have just made a new friend.

Fun Foto Challenge: The Colors Yellow and Red

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Catching up is hard to do! I have had so little time to actually write this week. But I am determined to keep connection with the blogging world.

It is time once again for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and this week is all about RED&YELLOW, which in case you are wondering is very different from Cee’s Black& White Challenge. That comes later.

You can click the words underlined above to see a world of reds and yellows.

Here are mine:

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