On Friday, we did nothing exciting except digitize.
I love to read the names of the people on the pages. Many of them are biblical in nature and I guess that was quite usual for the early to mid 1800's. I was reading names and the thought came to me, "Even though these people are in trouble with the law, they are still My Childrren, and I love Them". I guess it goes without saying that God loves all his children - even when they are in trouble with the law.
Thursday evening some men got drunk and decided to drive their ATV's on the iced up Kennebec River down in Gardiner. The ice could not hold them and so both vehicles broke through the ice. The picture in the paper tells it all - the wheels of the vehicles are visible above the water and they look for all the world like dead cockroaches on their backs with their legs in the air. Now the men are in real trouble. The ATV's were not registered, the drivers were drunk, the rescue team had to be called in to get one of them out of the water because he was unable to pull himself out and the police have booked them for other misdemeanors. On top of that, they have 30 days to get their vehicles out of the river or they will be in even bigger trouble. God loves these wayward men also, even if they are soaking wet from the icy river.
I was at a shoe store and a little boy looked at my purse and said, I like your purse. It is the one with the Lobster motif on it. I asked him if he knew what the animal was that was on the purse and he looked at it and said a crab. I said no it is not a crab and then he floored me with "Well, it has to be some sort of crustacean doesn't it?". He is 5 years old. His grandmother was with him and they were going home with a new pair of tennis shoes for him that light up when he walks. They were Spiderman shoes. She cannot program the TV and this little 5 yr old is in charge of the devices that start the TV, find the channels and co-ordinate the lot so that the DVR and TV both work together. These children surely are of the push button age...........
It was not so cold today, but the wind was blowing. I was watching the white pine trees gracefully sift the wind with their pine needles. I have to teach the Sunday School lesson tomorrow and it is on the Creation. I marvel at the forethought on the part of God when he made these trees, for instance. The whole structure had to be orchestrated so that when the wind blew, the pine needles did not fall off , and the boughs had to be supple enough to bend with the wind. The sap has to be of such consistency to keep the branches fed and so on to the needles to keep them green. The creation is truly amazing. I heard that the Maple Trees are being tapped right now and some people have even seen Canada Geese heading north. Spring cannot be far away.
Some groups believe that the creation was 'ex nihilio' but natural laws state that you cannot create something from nothing. God is bound by the same law - in the scripture He says, "We will take of these materials and form the earth". So I guess we live on a recycled planet? "Matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one state to another."
Bill is working on the taxes. He has papers in little piles all over the office with neat lists of what is in each pile and an ominous sheaf of official tax papers on his desk that will no doubt be filled with numbers and computations that just make my head swim. Math is not my strong point. If it was left up to me, I would take it to a tax preparer and let them muddle through it. We have a long weekend this weekend - Presidents day on Monday so the state offices are all closed - and no mail delivery either................we live for Mail! At least with no mail delivery on Monday, Bill will be able to concentrate on the piles of paper and hopefully be done before we have to go back and digitize on Tuesday.
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