The proposition

This morning I woke up, crawled into bed with John, held him a little and asked him to marry me. The words came out so naturally, like I was simply saying good morning, or I love you. I don't really know where they came from and I certainy wasn't planning it. On our way to church, about half and hour later, John pulled over and said yes.
Instead of going to church, we drove to my parents house so John could ask their blessing.

We are officially engaged. Now we need to find a ring.

Are YOU ready for the rapture?

When I first read about this on John's site I thought he was creative writing and literally laughed out loud. Then I saw the link.

http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html


Stolen without permisson from Boerishboy:

"Current conditions include heavy prophetic activity at 159 degrees on the Rapture Index. Be warned, a 160 degree measurement on the Rapture Index is a "fasten your seatbelt" warning for imminent end times occurrences. The Rapture Index is "a prophetic speedometer of end-time activity" which does not mean to predict the rapture, but is designed to measure the "types of activity that could act as a precursor to the rapture." There are, according to the Rapture Index website, two functions for the Rapture Index (from here-on referred to as the RI). The first is "to factor together a number of related end time components into a cohesive indicator" while the second is "to standardize those components to eliminate the wide variance that currently exists with prophecy reporting." The higher the number on the RI, the faster we are moving towards a "pre-tribulation rapture."
On this "Dow Jones Industrial Average of end-time activity," helpful categories such as globalism, Persia, ecumenical activity, and liberalism are complemented by measurements of floods, plagues, and earthquakes. It is nice to know that as American unemployment rates and American crime rates rise the entire world heads more quickly towards a rapture. Interestingly enough, although the overall crime rate in the United States fell, the fact that several key American cities saw a rise in violent crime means that that particular index goes up. Also interesting is that the Democrats taking control of the U.S. Senate raises the RI. Basically, any item of news relating to any of the seemingly arbitrary categories will raise the overall RI."

Check it out- Very Funny!

Wild: Turkeys and Mennonites

I enjoy my travels to and from work because they involve a variety of elements: the challenge of the laneway, the serenity of sunrises or blood moon nights, and of course entertainment. No, I'm not refering to the good old CBC or my mellow prerecorded tunes and although the road conditions, or perhaps lack of, can make me laugh at where tax dollars may be going, I have to say the most entertaining things I see are the wild turkeys and the mennonites gone wild.
Down the road in a wooded area a family of wild fowl live. I think there are about 14 of them in the flock but I don't always see them all. They huddle in the middle of the road-I'm not to sure of their intent- and when they see my car coming they become anxious and spread thier wings wide. Then the fear. I can't tell if thier eyes grow wide but the birds all begin to clamber. They slip and slide all over the iced road, some go head over tail and then they begin to run. They run like hot coals are under their feet, knees held high. Some run down the middle of the road, others run for the ditch. There's safety in numbers and the lone turkey left behind takes flight. It's a sad little flight, he barely makes it off the groud. With way cleared I continue on my trip hoping I will see them maybe later on or the next day. Further along my travels, amongst the mennonite communities, I will run into horse and carriages. The other dayI saw a mennonite boy holding onto a rope attached to a horse drawn carriage that was driving on the highway. The boy had on big yellow skis and was "water skiing" in the ditch on the snow. I laughed so hard! If the elders had caught those boys I'm sure they would have been in a lot of trouble. Black hats, long coats and bright yellow skiis. Mennonites gone wild!