Other favorite Summer memories...







What's not to love about living in Oregon?

Burritos in the garden



This is one of my favorite memories from this Summer.
While Marian and Peter were here visiting, we sat outside as much as humanly possible. This evening was one of several where we actually laid blankets on the grass on ate picnic style in our own yard. It was taken at about 9 in the evening.
Europeans just know how to enjoy the little things in life. They did not think this was weird in the slightest.

How We Became The United States of France

You just have to read this intriguing and insightful article in Time about how we are WAY more like France than we'd like to think. Only without all the perks.

Click here to visit the article 'How we became the United States of France.'

Questions.

In lieu of going private at this point in time, I have decided, in solidarity with my good friend Denise, to stand up for some things during this political season. As far as I know, I still have the rights to think my own thoughts and even to express them and I think--technically at least, there's still a constitutional separation between church and state.

To start with, I have a few questions:

-When did political zeal become a 'Christian' value?

- When did we as a nation become so dumb? I mean it. Really and truly. I'd like to know. Can anyone please tell me how our collective intelligence, attention-span, and critical thinking skills have degraded to imbecilic levels?

To be honest, I can see why many non-believers blame it all on evangelical Christianity. Yes, I certainly can.

If only they knew : Jesus never did this.


Thanks.

Seen on a Portland Bumper Sticker Today:

"Doom is the new hope."

Hilarious...and so true.

Speaking of which, in the interest of actually finding blogging interesting again, I am seriously considering making ours private in the near future.

Happy Anniversary To Us!

We've had 3 wonderful married years and are hoping that God will give us at least 60 more together. What a great day...planned by my honey. More on that soon....hopefully.

I love you, darling husband.

Separating the crap from the crap.



If you're having a hard time figuring out which political claims, ads, etc. etc. are true and which are not, check out Politifact.com

It's one of several fact-checking sites that investigates claims, attacks, ads, and even chain emails, getting to the bottom of whether or not they're actually true.

The 'Truth-O-Meter' indicates 'True,' 'Mostly True', 'Half True,' 'Barely True', 'False', or 'Pants on Fire!' Quite Handy.