"En druckener Marz,..nasser Abril und en kuehler Maie bringt fiel frucht und haie!"

Unfortunately, all we are having around here is rain and more rain and much flooding!! I do not have much hopes for "fruit and hay!!'

Griddlich!!

Yuck!

I was sick again last night!!

Today, I am writing more than usual in this blog. I guess I am really excited and happy because after almost ten years or more, I finally went back to Canton Deaf Church. It took me a while and neither my son or my husband encouraged me to go but I made up my mind to go and did so!! Almost everyone that I knew and liked was still there! I was welcomed with open arms!!

What a relief to know what everyone is saying and to know that I don't have to "listen" with my ears to know what is being said!! All I had to do was watch watch those flying expressive hands and fingers and faces to know what other folks had to say!! All I had to do was just watch!! Signing is such unbelievably easy communication compared to the alternatives and complications of spoken language!!

The minister had some funny ideas! He jumped up and down and talked about some folks being possesed by demons! He seemed to be the only person in the crowd of about twenty or thirty people..who seemed to be possesed by a "demon" as he spend quite a bit of his time thumping the pulpit with his fist and jumping up and down as he preached with the huge hand signs that are the deaf equivalent of shouting!

The second sermon by "Jello," a friend of mine, who has a spinal cord injury along with her deafness, was given by my friend as she sat in her wheelchair. Somehow,..I got more from her sermon about faith in God and patient endurance of life's trials than I got from the "skippy-hoppy" minister to the deaf.

Whew! There is a lot of catching up to do! I had to go home in time to get Bill off to work by one o'clock so I didn't have time to visit after church!!

Heh! Here is a dictem with which I can very much and very well agree!:

"je gelehrenter, desto verhrter..!"

It's oppsite view can be seen in:

"Die dummsten Bauern haben die dicksten Kartoffeln!"

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaakle!

I hope that this is spelled correctly and does not appear too ignorant. I know that some of the letters are not properly marked and that makes me feel dumb, but the computer from which I am working does not permiot the proper marks over the letters!

I was looking at "Das Dicke Buch" as opposed to the "Das Dunne Buchlein." The "Thick Book" is used in worship services. The "thin book" is used by the 'teeners' and the young folk for their frolics on Sunday evenings. Heh! I cannot even imagine some of my local friends trying to plow their way throw this wordy conglomeration of religious thoughts!! The opening title of "Das Dicke Buch" reads :

Das Ausbund
das is
Etliche schone
Christliche Lieder,
Wie sie in dem Gefangnis zu Passau in dem
Schloss von den Schweizer-Bruden und
von andren rechtglaubigen Christen
hin und her gedichtet worden.
Allen und jeden Chreisten,
Welcher Religion sie sein,
unpartheiisch sehr nutzlich.
Nebst einem Anghang von sechs Lieden.

(Poor translation for the "non-Germanically-oriented." If gela is reading this,..I hope that she does not howl with laughter at me for my very poor grammar and spelling!!):

Pretty Christian songs as they were now and then made (created?) in the jail at Passau in the castle by Bretheren and a few other orthodox Christians. To each and every Christian, of whatever religion, impartially and useful. (?)

I will not try to describe the rest of the book. The length of the title gives on an idea of the contents of the rest of the book! Needless to say,..because of the length of the songs, repetition in them and just general vagueness about their reference points,..these "songs" will never make it to the "top forty!!" I am GLAD that certain things..just by way of what they are..can still be held "traditional" and "sacred!!"

These songs were written in the sixteen and seventh centuries. Usually one song can't even be sung in a full church service!! Heh! I can just imagine what one would sound like if attempted by one of Shawn's favorite non-musicians:

Snoopy Dawgy Dawg!

So now, we are going after another grant,..maybe!! I wish that those two would make up their minds!! So far,..we have aquired a "webmaster," a graphic artist, an "illustrator," and a host of other "home-grown" talents.

Where is this leading? I don't know! However,..when someone tells me that one cannot find the type of people that one needs to work with..online,..I will believe them from now on. All I have to do is go back to my old pile of e-mails print outs and refer to it.

Heh! The phone was out for five days and my hubby and I didn't even notice it!! Bill had to hook it back up again with yelps about his social life and other things!! He listens..too much!!

Well,..I went to the grocery store in Br---- this morning and saw some of my husband's "Deutche" relatives,..distant and otherwise. I got a friendly nod and nodded back and stayed away from the back of their horses!!

I can't help it that my husband's grandmother was a Catholic Convert!! It seems funny to look at those folks and know them in our family as..."THOSE FOLKS!!" The funny thing is is that in their family groups,..my family is probably refered to as..."THOSE FOLKS!!"

Life can be sad and strange,..at times!

"LISTS!"


A Kentucky tour?

A bookfair?

A column in a local paper on disabilities?

A different press "hook" for a new book?

Another version of the Walking Free" script?

A new "isbn" reference on Google search engine?

So,..what does the future hold?

Heh! I have read about blogs becoming lists!! I have decided to start this entry out with a list just to see what such a blog entry would look like! Hmmmmmn! It does not thrill me. It just looks like a list!! Ooooo-k! so that's my new thing for the day!!

I just got over ANOTHER round of pneumonia!! At first, I thought that it was something in my immune system, but our thirty year old neighborman,..whose wife is so sweet,..has had a round of the same type of pneumonia!! (I just hope that he does not have it as often as I do,..he has a family to support!!) I think that I am personally supporting a "team' of doctors!!

I have to get back to Shakespeare with her vendor number and a check...soon!

I just checked google, and Walking Free,..that good old book,.. has over three pages of references on its' search engines. Dogpile is not running far behind in references. This is nothing to cry about!!

Silliness reigns online as usual. I sit here wondering about certain types of hypocracy and how it can overlap into real life. I sit here and wonder about how dramas, online,..can over flow into real life and affect those real lives.

On a positive note,..Rissa is tied for first place in her high school graduating class!! Oooooooooh woooooe! Arm dramatically raised to an eighteen year old head as a bosom of eighteen year old disappointment is heaved!!

This kid has a FULL scholarship to Kent State University,..paid for down to her dorm room and pencils,..she has parents other kids would die for to have, and she is complaining about the fact that she off by .ooo1 of a point of being validictorian of her class? I don't understand her thinking,..and probably never will!!

I seek "aufklarung?!!" (I get the concept,..but I probably didn't spell it correctly.)

Anna has said my reading and writing skills in the "brogue" must advance. I guess that she is right. I will never really be able to say what I truly feel,..if i can't express myself..in proper writing!!

Just a word before I go:

Google and dogpile have been very helpful and informative as to the number of our products are being displayed on the search engines! I am quite pleased at the positive exposure that we are getting. Now,..it is time to get back to real life!! :D

Yesterday was a very good day with the parade and the crowd of folks, who came to see it!! After the parade,..the family gathered for hot dogs and hamburgers and a good deal of friendly chatter. The gathering was nothing fancy, but it sufficed for us!!

Shawn joined us for lunch. He and Bill ate their dinner in front of the TV of course as they watched their favorite videos. Out of about thirty hamburgers,..I won't say how many the guys put away, but neither of them said a word about the fact that as a part of my diet strategy, I made the hamburgers about one third smaller than I usually make them!!

I played on the web-TV unit and goofed off most of the afternoon after hubbie left to take Bill to work. I am still looking up more information on my "Mary Sue" and "Marty Stu" stuff. After my last adventure on a certain board,..I will make no attempt to write ANYTHING, but will be a dedicated lurker!!

I do believe that no matter HOW friendly I feel towards anyone on the internet, I don't think that I will ever be so naive again as I was on the scifi board. A young lady,..I met there,..sent me her picture the other day. I immdediately deleted it from my e-mail and I told her never to send pictures over the net! I hope that she NEVER has to worry about what I had to worry about!!