Dec 15, 2025 @ 11:43 Good morning family & friends❣️ Golly, it's been a while since I've been able to say THAT! But I was up and done with the "morning 3" before noon! Anyway today I was up at 09:00ish after only 8 hours of sleep, like a normal person! Another cold one but warmer than the weekend so there's that. If you have already perused the morning 3 you may have guessed that it is a Music Monday around these parts, so I will have to get dressed. It is also 10 days until Christmas so I plan to ramp up my Christmas-related offerings here. I have been sharing a lot of things about "the back story" so far this month but it's time to get down to the nitty-gritty of the Reason we celebrate and I'm excited for that! Also excited to share as much of the music for the season from my new hymnals as I can manage for the rest of the month. Dusting off the old favorites and becoming acquainted with a few new ones has been a joy; now it is time to share them, starting with today. Which is why I have to get dressed, nobody wants to see which robe I'm wearing today in the background hahaha! So I will go get started and will see you later, I hope your Monday is magnificent in every way❣️ 🙌 🎶 🌟 👑 🌟 🛐 ❄️ 🎄 chia.owly.net/aint-that-the-truth ~ chia.owly.net/video-of-the-day ~

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Happy Monday to you too, brother Roscoe, as you start your weekly routine to God's glory!

Dec 14, 2025 @ 18:28 Good evening family & friends❣️ I hope your weekend was peaceful, productive, festive, restful...whatever you wanted it to be. Ours was cold. Well, outside. I learned today that Maxwell doesn't shriek when I'm playing Christmas music on the radio. I haven't had background music playing this year because it's just more sensory input for my brain to try to manage but so is a shrieking parrot so I'm choosing Christmas music now hahaha! He even has quietly chirped along with some of it (as have I 🎶) so it's been very nice! Anyway, Pete was gone half the day and sleeping until a few minutes ago, this extreme cold takes a lot out of a body! I will be going to bed shortly so I guess we'll catch up to each other tomorrow, I don't think either of us have any plans. I did get a few things done here and on ChiaChow today more than usual so am happy about that too! I will see you in the morning, sleep well, good night❣️🥱🤕🙏🛌

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Dec 14, 2025 @ 13:28 Good afternoon family & friends❣️ It is a bright sunny afternoon outside right now. Pete and Leelan went to church. The girls didn't want to go. I wish I could have gone...as usual... Had a nice 13-hour nap over night hahaha. Been working on my site all morning after a quick visit to my happy place just before noon. Casey just stopped by for a quick visit which is always nice (and wasn't possible until we moved here of course - a BIG bonus for living in the city!)...Pete will be home before long. I got a survey in my email this morning from Sam's club about my shopping experience the other day, so THAT took a minute to fill out, as you can well imagine hahaha! I am starting to feel like I'm recovering from that, not as dazed and confused, so that's a blessing. I did take a couple of short periods to play my keyboard yesterday since music is soothing and healing, as we all know...anyway, I will try to see what I can actually accomplish today, onward and upward, HOORAY!!!!!! Have blessed Sunday❣️ 🙌 🎶 🌟 👑 🌟 🛐 ❄️ 🎄 chia.owly.net/aint-that-the-truth ~ chia.owly.net/video-of-the-day ~

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"Two thousand years ago, God looked upon our sin-ravished world, saw our hopelessness and all our futile attempts to make ourselves right with Him, and He did what we could never do—He came to us. When Christ came to earth, He quite literally became 'God with us.' "

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Dec 13, 2025 @ 05:59 Good morning family & friends❣️ I have been up for several hours after going to bed very early, even for me 😲 - as soon as we got home from Sam's yesterday actually. It was...er...eventful. We got there and had barely gotten started with our shopping when suddenly there was an incredibly Loud Alarm From Hell. For about 2 minutes. (I just wrote more about that in a health page update.) We had to leave, as we were told that they would be testing alarms for another half hour. So we left our buggy and went to a nearby sporting goods store to get me some ear protection "muffs" from the gun dept., gassed up the car, then went back to Sam's after 45 minutes just to be safe. Finished our shopping (I ended up having to sit and let Pete finish it), then came home. Casey & Bill came over to bring it in and put it all away - and there was LOTS - while I went straight to bed. NOT the day we were expecting. And to top it off, we bought a ton of lamb on sale for Pete with a sell-by date for tomorrow, and when they opened it, the house instantly stank of rotten meat! (Glad I was sleeping.) Casey is going to call Sam's today about returning the meat, over $100 worth! I hope we can exchange it, they had some nice legs of lamb there we would get instead. (Pete can only eat ruminant meat, seafood, and rabbit.) So. Not the day we had planned! Anyway, today I will be online/posting very minimally. In fact I will be out of bed only minimally. The "mini-devo" - such as it is - is a "cheat". There will be no Caturday post unless I can manage it later in the day. Just a heads up. That's how it's going to have to be, I'm sorry...but hey, you guys have a swingin' Saturday, eh? And I'll see you when I can❣️ 🙌 🎶 🌟 👑 🌟 🛐 ❄️ 🎄 chia.owly.net/aint-that-the-truth ~ chia.owly.net/video-of-the-day ~

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Dec 12, 2025 @ 12:43 Good afternoon, family & friends❣️ Well last night was one of those nights, I slept a few hours, woke up with thoughts swirling in my head which of course meant I couldn't get back to sleep (God also wakes me up when it's time for a talk, too) - we all know how that is right? Pete woke up shortly after, at about 3:30, and came down to the living room. We were both awake with thoughts swirling. Finally we discussed them and turns out they were the same things! Funny how God does that...we'd been thinking and praying about them, anyway, and we came to some conclusions and resolutions, and I was able to get back to sleep. Not so Pete. He usually gets up at about 4:30 anyway so he just stayed up. Anyway I was up again at about 10:30 and we really need to get some groceries in this house so I got showered and dressed before I did my usual morning blogging/tea drinking/PoiBoi playing instead of after, so I am ready to go when I finish up here. The negative is that I didn't get to visit my happy place before noon. Anyway, we're supposed to have wind chill temps WAY below zero for the next few days and the foods we have in the house mostly have to be cooked, we don't have much in the way of things to eat should there be a power failure. (Our appliances are electric.) So we we can't put it off any longer. I also have to make dog food today, though I think it will be a very basic one just for tonight and tomorrow morning, because it's going to be a hard enough day as it is; I can probably make a big pot of it tomorrow then. Anyway, I will see you later and I hope you have a festive Friday❣️ 🙌 🎶 🌟 👑 🌟 🛐 ❄️ 🎄 chia.owly.net/aint-that-the-truth ~ chia.owly.net/video-of-the-day ~

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Dec 11, 2025 @ 19:48 Good evening family & friends❣️ Well I didn't get done everything but I really didn't expect to...I did get 3 posts up though - WOOHOO! And hoping I can do the photos/video tomorrow! And the shopping...maybe? I also made a nice dish with a couple of squash I had roasted yesterday and planned to try then but didn't get to, and it was delicious, we both enjoyed it and have enough left over for tomorrow. I spent a bit of time today with Maxwell, trying to work on his painful screech, trying something new which may or may not work...will talk about that later...meanwhile it is my bedtime and I will see you in the morning, good night❣️🥱🤕🙏🛌

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