Watseka Flood

My posting absence this month is due, for the most part, to the evacuation of our home on Jan 9 during the worst flood that Watseka, Il has experienced in fifty years. Some families in this community have lost everything, some barely escaped with their life; many lost belongings as the waters filled basements and houses. Some are still waiting to return home while repairs are being made.

I will be posting facts, pictures, and videos at http://watsekaflood08.blogspot.com/

The most wonderful friends put us up from Jan 9 to 26, while we waited for the waters to recede, the furnace to be fixed, and a water heater to be installed. We're so grateful to be home again!

Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery

https://luckylucyvandelft.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/calvinandhobbessnowmen.pdf

The Golden Compass

Good article on Philip Pullman and movie The Golden Compass from tothesource. Several links to additional info on the man and his supporters make this a great resource. =>>>>>

recommended posts

<<<<<= Scroll down the left column to the greenish window titled "rss post favorites"; from there I will share some interesting posts from the 125+ blogs that I am watching in google reader.
So, if you return and it appears that there's nothing new, fear not, other bloggers are still very busy creating, surmising, and passing on links to other blogs! Already I'm sharing a fair number of posts > pictures, videos, news, and whatever else tickled me at the time!

Winter Wren

~~Audubon website~~

"Classic Rock"

~~~ the CF Payne gallery ~~~

The Medieval Warm Period (MWP)

Statement of Dr. David Deming
University of Oklahoma
College of Earth and Energy
Climate Change and the Media>>>>>
(published through g~docs for easier reading,
the original is at the url below)
http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=266543

Creative Church Signs

click on the slideshow for full size slideshow
(I cannot take credit for these pictures)

Amazing Grace

What a great movie... what a great man!

links

I have added some links for your inspiration and enjoyment.
First on the list is my favorite band: Iona.
Then we have some excellent blogs, more music, and more music by way of internet radio.
And last, a short list of videos, which will grow, as will all the other lists.
p.s. please leave your own links of interest in the comments. thx, joe

Antony Flew

...one of the 20th century’s leading proponents of the pure atheistic Darwinian doctrines that categorically reject any possibility of a creative divine being...>>>>>>>>

Dinesh D'Souza

...You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three-and-a-half-billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces...>>>>>

intro

by way of introduction =>>>> http://www.myspace.com/yoeshka
<<<<= see onewayjoe for more