Day 53 - Fun in Vermont

September 13, 2008 Dale   Once again we started the day with a planned route only to make changes mid-stream and have an even better time ... the steeple in repair is more than the congregation is willing to fund so it is taken down. Lunch ... through.  Sadly, we are also seeing churches that have no steeple anymore, but instead a flat top [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 00:35:49

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Final Schedule

The final schedule for steeple repair is here:  Open today, Thursday October 23rd all day.  Closed tomorrow, October 24th, all day.  Miss us?  Join us for Ladies Night at the Community Center 5-8pm! [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 16:36:25

Papal Tweets for 2008-11-19

Thanksgiving looms. # Turned around suddenly this morning to find that the holiday season is sneaking up on me. Happens every year… # What am I doing? What AREN’T I doing? # Steeple is falling off of the church. Cost to repair “well north” of $100, 000. Trustees meeting to “discuss” this. Pastor to bring [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 04:59:59

Our New Home

For those of you who have been wondering, we're in our new house at last! ... the narrow street from us is a car repair shop (ironically housed in what used to be the local parish church, with a steeple and all), so the kids have lots to watch: workers, roosting doves, neighbors’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 09:15:00

My Fighting Red War Loves Her Black Power Fist Into Wall Humidity enveloped me, like a soft sauna. Orb of Sun was buried behind cloud like a melting ice sheet, almost slushy as well. Blue sky appeared as earth from space behind streaks of grey in the north. Cicadas began at 11:00 with their electrical buzz and quick decay [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 02:51:53

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

Bob Dylan composed the song Like A Rolling Stone in 1965, but you could be forgiven for thinking that he may have written it today, with the financial tsunami washing up along the shores of all major financial centres. Thanks to Big Picture and commenter Mystery Tramp Except that some of these lines don't seem to apply to many of the Andrew [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:07:53

BOLT FOR TORONTO? by Alfons Juck, Note by Larry Eder

Usain Bolt is a hot ticket! He can light up any track meet and just the rumor of his appearance should sell tickets. Rumor or fact? Not sure, but we will surely find out. We did hear today that one of the brands with the longest traditions in our sport, Reebok, let their entire team of running sales people go on Monday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:10:50

How do people ever read Slavoj Zizek when there is such a thing as the crime and detection thriller?

The Times recently published a list of Top 50 Greatest Crime Writers. Great! A list! A chance to indulge in the sort of thought-free analysis only normally allowed down the pub! I will pause, leaning on this five-bar gate, and chew over it as my dog chews over a satisfying looking but in fact rather annoyingly shaped bone [more...]

Date: 2008-05-02 11:39:07

Getting to know Cheryl Wyatt

Cheryl Wyatt has hit the ground running with the release of her debut novel, A Soldier's Promise and the sequel, A Soldier's Family. Both books received Top Picks from Romantic Times Magazine and deservedly so. Cheryl is a lot of fun so after you learn more about her in the interview below do check out her website and blog, Squirrel's Treehouse [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 11:50:09

Technosophy: It’s the Little Things

It’s easy, sometimes, to forget that gizmos don’t have to be elaborate, expensive things with embedded application software and 45 different world-shinking, life-simplifying, William Gibson-thought-of-this-in-1985 functions. Not that there’s anything wrong with those; I love a good gee-whiz electronic gadget as much as the next guy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 06:56:16

Air on My Feet

High on the top floor of Mustard House, behind the eye-bleeding bathroom which is itself mustard colored, ... with a wooden floor, a closet, and a single window.The window overlooks the roof of an auto repair shop, which ... , they excavated all the way down to layers of compacted manure that dates from when the auto repair shop instead [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 19:18:00

From Hell Chapter Four Walking and Riding Tour

IntroductionAlan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell is one of my favorite pieces of literature. It is many things: a meditation on symbolism, an exploration of Victorian values, a love letter to the city of London, and a close look at how we interpret and extract meaning from history and current events [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 18:49:00

Bones!

I well remember Sir Gordon Fitch As much for his wealth as his plain language, A spade was a 'bloody shovel' to him, In truth, he was an arrogant man ... prints of Victorian Dames With not a stitch, and of course, no names, I spent too long in there, I'll [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:38:12

Ghost Hunting, Asheville, NC

A few nights ago, hubby and I decided to take a chance and go ghost hunting here in Asheville ... street construction or repair in a certain area of town, sometimes they still find caskets of people ... picture, with the very bright 'orb' near the top of the steeple, that is supposed to 'definitely [more...]

Date: 2008-07-04 13:30:11

Historic Warren church steeple slated for restoration

Historic Warren church steeple slated for restoration by Jim Lockwood/The Star-Ledger Thursday January 01, 2009, 10:00 AM Two years ago, ... and historic preservation, was one of several provided to historic restoration efforts in the county. MATT ... a pair of the corner spires atop the historic wooden bell tower of St. Luke's Episcopal Church [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:56:32

December 3rd One Year Bible Readings

Daniel 11:2-35 ~ 1 John 3:7-24 ~ Psalm 122:1-9 ~ Proverbs 29:1 ~ Click here to read today's Scripture on BibleGateway.com ~ ~ Listen to today's Scripture on DailyAudioBible.com (podcast) or OneYearAudioBible.org ~ Old Testament - Daniel chapter 11 today is phenomenal when you realize that these prophecies were made in 537 B.C [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 03:01:05

Explaining the South

Down There on a VisitBy Charles SimicNew York Review of Books - Volume 51, Number 13 · August 12, 2004For years now I've been looking at a photograph Walker Evans took in the summer of 1936 in the South. I thought of it again while getting ready to travel to the South a few weeks ago [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 10:20:00

Holding The Mirror

I've been continuing to read the many stories in personal mail and newspaper accounts of the impact of this summer's and fall's hurricanes and floods, and am working now on developing a story sharing experience with folks in our episcopal church parish [more...]

Date: 2008-06-14 03:07:53

San Jacinto clock back in place

October 28, 1973 By Conrey Bryson In 1929, a Howard street-clock, manufactured by E. Howard Co. of Boston, was installed in El Paso’s San Jacinto Plaza. Chris P. Fox, now a vice president of the State National Bank, remembers the occasion well. He was then proprietor of the Chris P. Fox Transfer Co [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 17:29:56

Memorial Day in Tunbridge

A year ago, 18 photographers attended Tunbridge's Memorial Day celebrationfor"A Day in the Life of Tunbridge," a fundraiser for the steeple repair fund in town. Today, I went to see the Tunbridge Tigers t-ball team march in the parade and and to catch up with friends and neighbors. Up over the hill on July [more...]

Date: 2008-05-26 19:15:00

How The Internet (And Your Business) Has Changed In 40 Years, PLUS, Friday's Scan

How The Internet (And Your Business) Has Changed In 40 Years, PLUS, Friday's Scan By Rick London Needless to say, we have just gotten past, successfully, without destroying our country, with north and south against each other, as we did in the Civil War, another "Industrial Revolution" [more...]

Date: 2008-06-21 01:49:35

Historic church steeple in Hope will be refurbished

Historic church steeple in Hope will be refurbished by Jim Lockwood/The Star-Ledger Thursday January 01, 2009, 8: ... a grant to repair the spires on its steeple. The result has been visually jarring -- a lopped-off ... was discovered to have severely damaged the bell-tower steeple. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 14:01:54

Announcements and Calendar for the week of November 2

Bulletin Deadline: 5:00 ThursdaysEvents on the ChargeToday• 4:00 chicken shredding for Election Day cafe in Church basement.Monday Nov. 3• (early morning) Center Moreland Election Day Welsh Cookie MakeTuesday Nov. 4Election Day• 7AM-8 PM Center Moreland Youth Election day Meals (all day) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:00

July 23, 2008 - Early Mid-Life Crisis?

The more I move through this journey of cancer survivorship, the more I’m coming to realize it’s a continuing process ... situations – say, for example, an infection that’s successfully treated, or the hernia-repair surgery [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 17:36:00

Barbershoper

Last Saturday morning I loaded a few guitars into the car to take to Dan the GuitarMan in St George. The Rickenbacker 320 (John Lennon guitar) ... repair skills but not before I paid him $300 to build a custom guitar. That was last October [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 17:25:41

Hand Holding Gives Jockey a Lift in Absurd Libel Case

Hand Holding Gives Jockey a Lift in Absurd Libel Case By Larry Pollack Burton v. Crowell Pub. Co., 82 F.2d 154 (2nd Cir. 02/10/1936) ... ; the plaintiff was a widely known gentleman steeple-chaser, and the text quoted him as declaring that “Camel” [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 21:56:58

July 6th Sermon

A Bell’s MessageText: Leviticus 25:1-10Rev. Dr. John E. ManzoJuly 6, 2008 One of the great symbols of the 4th of July is the Liberty Bell ... of Washington and now hangs in the great city steeple irreparably cracked and dumb. It had been cracked [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 12:29:00

Updates from Galveston

In case you haven't heard, here's an update on historic Galveston in the aftermath of Ike ... to assess and repair Galveston's incomparable historic fabric--from its modest working-class bungalow [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 16:56:00

The day we almost moved to petterson hytta

One morning last July, when everything was still simple and straightforward and carefree, I joined M ... and flasks and skis and silver and head up to the cottage: he has been working on its repair every day [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 16:52:42

Oradour-sur-Glane

Oradour-sur-GlaneOradour-sur-Glane (Occitan: Orador de Glana) is a town and commune in the Haute-Vienne département of central-western France.This village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were murdered by a German Waffen-SS company [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 13:24:00

The Caslon tomb at St Luke’s, Old Street

Historically minded typographical visitors to London sometimes go to the churchyard of St Luke’s in Old Street, ... in the expanding London suburbs to the north, east and west. The steeple of the church is in the form [more...]

Date: 2007-12-18 09:06:00

Chapter 7 - Infrastructure

The building is not the church. The church is the people who meet in a particular place as ... & some have padded pews. Most have a steeple with a cross on top. The larger modern church buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 00:34:24

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