Yesterdays hacking lead to an 8 and half hour vigil in the control panel of my computer..... exhausted, and Bubble is tired of Nannie on the computer.

I said I got hacked yesterday but it took me all of today to get rid of the malware, Trojans and who knows what on my computer.  I am much the wiser for all the lessons I had to learn today and learned to manually uninstall more than 20 programs from my computer.  The most ironic part was that the last thing I got to leave was a great big ugly add that kept coming up in the middle of my blog.  That is how I finally knew I had gotten rid of, or maybe just disabled who really knows, the evil from my computer.  I did manage to can 16 quarts of Chablis grapes during the process.  Bubbles has not liked that I had to spend so much time at the computer, was very mad at her momma when she snuck out without her knowing.  Poppie even brought them home fast food for lunch, well they liked that but not much else. 
I do know, like with anything in my life, that I have learned the hard way about a lot of the goings on on the internet.  I also know my way around the programs in my computer, what belongs and what does not, so the day was not all wasted.  I did have a million other things to do but I guess I was supposed to fix my computer. I didn't get to go to book club, and that saddens me and now I have syrup to finish, jars to take out of the water bath and a 22 month old who needs a bath so she can have her costume on when her momma comes to pick her up, and her sister too.

I pray that your day was a fruitful as mine, I would wish that my fruitfulness was in soul winning but maybe the Lord wanted me to work on something else today.  I hope that some one lead you closer to the Lord today or maybe you lead someone closer to the Lord, wouldn't that be glorious?  prayers to one and all....tomorrow.

I hate when I get hacked, grapes a gift I have to take care up, syrup to make another gift.........busy day.

I do love spending time with my friends.  I think it is interested to note all of my many friends.  The majority of my friends have never been to my house, is that odd?  I don't really know.  I have spent a life time moving, well not so much in the last 33 plus years but it seems that even in my state of staying put I am ever moving and going nowhere.  I have had a few closest friends in my life and they have all been to my house, well at least one of my houses.  I am not a person with a lot of people in my small innerest circle.  I have a lot of family and maybe they have filled up my life so much that I never had the need, or maybe the room for many others in the circle, I don't really know?  Or maybe I am just hard to get to know?  or maybe only God knows?  I do have a secondary layer of friends that are in my second circle and I love each and everyone of those, they for the most part have never been to my house, they don't want to come really and they don't really have a need for me to come to their house, I see them in different pieces of my life.  They see me in the focus of really why we get together in the first place but we have become close friend through our mutual passions.  All of them love me and accept me in the light in which they know me, and have no knowledge of my other life or mine of theirs we feel no need to share those aspect of our selves.  Isn't that a blessing, maybe our friendships are a bit anonymous and maybe because they are we can share things we may not share if we were in a more intricate part of each others lives?  I don't really know and I am not sure that that is important, but I do know that I am bless with lots of friends that some people would not necessarily even consider that we even have a friendship.  I also have an other circle of friend very similar to my second layer that are my close friend because of the time I have spent with them on social media, now isn't that funny, I couldn't have even said that 10 years ago.  I do have friends some of whom I have known since my childhood but I wouldn't have spoken to them again in my life if I hadn't connected on Facebook with them.  I also have friends of friend that I have become close to on Facebook, in real life I would not have even gotten to meet them or at least have gotten to know them had I not had social media, isn't that a blessing as well.  I am so blessed with each and every one that I call friend or that calls me friend, you do know there is a difference don't you?  God give us people throughout our life that we never know how much we meant to them or that they consider us friend and we didn't even know it.  I have friends that don't know what they mean to me as well, they truly never thought of me a second after I meant them in passing and they still speak to my heart in friendship.  How odd that God would make it so? 

I got off track and digressed into another thought but alas I can not meandering in my friendships today.  I spent the morning on the phone cleaning up a hacking, makes me think I have other phone calls to make and fix, sigh**.  I was gifted elderberry juice from Red, last week, and it cannot wait any longer for me to make it into syrup.  I was gifted with Chablis grapes from Belle, that I have to make into juice, and the upside is that if I miss up and they don't seal properly in 6 weeks to 6 months I will have great wine, but for today I just have to get them in the jars.  I have costumes to tailor and household chores that need my attention.  Poppie may harvest on Friday, Yogie is excited she will be home to make the shots, so I have to prep for that.  We no longer have the rabbits, the last two got a reprieve, Mokie and her littles took them home as pets.  Yay!

I pray that today sees you safe in the arms of Christ.  I pray you have found your salvation and you are in the body of Christ awaiting the everlasting knowing, really knowing, you are saved and going to glory when you pass.  There is no greater feeling, it makes life so much brighter even in the darkest hours that you may have..... God bless you. ....... tomorrow.  

Tuesday, lots to do and lots of places to go.........

I do like Tuesdays but alas they are my busy day, again I am whining can you whine and love it anyway?  I have Bible study this morning with Belle, our first so excited.  We both don't get to have it for various reasons so we are having it together.  NO, kiddos today, that is good when they are here it makes Tuesdays so much harder.  I have CAKLs later, sock knitting to teach, and then there is Church on Tuesday nights as well.

Yesterday was a cool day, it was a day for God. I spent time studying for my answers and then both Niecy and Sister visited with at two different times during the day about their questions and the answers they sought and got from the Lord.  I think when all was said and done we all felt closer to God for having spent so much time talking to him, about him and listening to him and his answers.  I do think the most ironic thing in the end was that some one in my life still questions my salvation and I have decided that it is his issue not mine. I regret he is wasting way to much time worrying about something he would see if he took off his rose colored glasses and just looked at me, or maybe spent 10 minutes on my blog.  All of you know what is hiding right in front of his face.  I no longer care if he doesn't see it; God does and that is all that matters. 

I just ordered two boxes of tomatoes, I can't wait to get them I have plans to make spaghetti sauce and probably more plain canned tomatoes.  I do love to can and keep my lazy jars full and I have quite a few that have become lazy lately.  I have to fix the ladies costumes up for Halloween.  They are excited to enjoy the make believe that comes with the day.  Recently we have had the talk about the make believe they have enjoyed about Christmas.  We talked about how Santa was real in the sense that he embodied the spirit of giving, that God tells us to have, for little children it is a fun cartoon character that they can see and understand the spirit in a tangible way.  I don't believe the Santa is evil, unless made that way, he is an imaginary bit of a small child's magic of the season.  He does not take away from Christ and his day.  We have always had Santa on Christmas eve and gave the day of Christmas the respect it deserves, we honor and worship the Lord on that day.  I told them that the magic is not gone with their knowledge, of there being no Santa, it is just different and they can grow from knowing that the spirit is not make believe so they can grow in the knowing of where it really comes from.

I have lots to do and so little time to do it...... I hope you pray to the Lord and he chooses today to be the day to talk to you in a way you can hear him, maybe for the very first time.  How glorious that today could be your day of salvation or your first step toward it..... I pray it is.... tomorrow.