Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

I am so upset this morning.  I was in the middle of working hard on Bobby Ross's (the managing Editor for Christian Chronicle) interview for this morning when my hand slipped or something and the entire interview disappeared - deleted forever!  Man, I'm upset.

And I still have to tell Bobby, too, which is going to be even worse.  Hopefully, he's still in a good mood from winning some awards from the Oklahoma chapter of the Professional Society of Journalists last weekend for his work with the Chronicle. 

I think I'll tell Tamie, the other half of the famous Bobby & Tamie's World Famous Blog team and the Online Editor of the Christian Chronicle,  first and get her to gently break the news when he's in a really good mood otherwise.  If you remember, Tamie's interview appeared here two or three weeks ago and was well received, so check it out here if you missed it the first time.

So, now I'm left with all of this blank space for a blog post late on a Tuesday morning.  What to blog about, what to blog about.

Oh - here's something fun and exciting (to me).  Sunday was my 2nd Blogging Anniversary and Birthday!!  I'd been thinking about it leading up to that momentous day, but then forgot it on Sunday when I was having the most marvelous deeply spiritual Lord's Day in the Lord.  I remembered it late in the day and wanted to blog about it, but then decided no one would be around to read it most likely (in my temporary negative thinking) so didn't.

Then yesterday I had no new weekly pictures of the house to share because not much of note got done last week, except to talk with the head electrician for three hours in freezing weather about where all of the lights will go, what kind they'll be, where we'll want all of the switches and outlets and important things like that that you can't really take pictures of.

So I wrote about my favorite blogging subject Tom instead and his huge painting fiasco that now in retrospect seems so funny.

I'll have to tell you that my very first blog post was very short (surprise, surprise) and very tentative.  Here it is if you want to read it - "Meandering or Wasting Time."  It seems really funny to me now and not fitting at all (tell me what you think), but the original name of my blog was "Meandering Footprints."

I got immediate flak from some of my first readers about the difference in what I had to say and the title of my blog.  They didn't coincide because I was much more confidant in my writing even then (well, except maybe for that first tentative one) than what the title suggested.

I was thinking the same thing to myself and within two weeks changed it to "Finding Direction:  The Wind Vane Chronicles," which is the name of the book I'd been working on for some time with some of my special Wind Vane stories.  If you've never read them or the story about how I came to possess my own beloved wind vane, either comment or email me and I'll give you the links to them.

Y'all think I should go ahead and try to work on the book and add some of my blogging articles or just forget it?  In other words, is my work publishable in book form do you think, or should I just be content to the interaction and loving relationship I have with all of you.  I don't know about you, but I kind of like the direct interaction and Christian friendships I've made the past two years and I have to say you have deeply blessed my life - each and every one of you who reads these words, even if you continue to be "lurkers" and never identify yourselves (although I really wish you would because I'd like to get to know you at least a bit).

 I think I've just cheered myself up a bit, too, by writing today instead of posting Bobby's interview, although I sure hope he'll re-do it for me.

I'm also happy that Tom will be home this afternoon after having been gone for the past five days so that brings joy to my heart.  He was very sick for a day and a half while he was gone, too, so I'll be glad to get him home to care for him "properly!" and lovingly (he's okay again already, but you know how I like to dote over him, colorblindness not withstanding).

I also have an age birthday in earth years and 16th wedding anniversary coming up in less than two weeks and I'm excited about that.  Last year I wasn't happy at all about getting a year older, but this past year has been a wondrous year in my Christian walk, friends, and I am very joyful and happy to be a Christian and God's beloved child.

Whether I live on this earth for a long while (as we consider time) yet to come or whether I leave to find a truly rapturous new home that I'm also busy working on daily, I'll be happy and blessed.

I hope that you each will be today, as well, and I pray that for you that it is so.

Cheers & Blessings to each of you today!  Dee

P. S.  Comment here today to tell me where you're reading from and share in my joys.  Yesterday I didn't get many comments at all and was a little down about it.  Like I said in my post above, I really treasure our interaction and relationships!  Love you guys!  Dee

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