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Posted on 02/13/2018 5:59:52 PM PST by luvie
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LOL! It does get tough when you start getting into multiples. Kittehs can get mighty hyper.
Good night and sleep well - - if the wild man will settle down and be quiet enough. :-)
Oh, goodness! The first year with these two was a nightmare! I wanted soooo much for the friend who gave them to me to take them back, but she said no returns. LOL!
Now they are very good kitties and only have fleeting outbursts of energy and tear through the house. They hardly ever bother my stuff though. If they “rearrange” something it’s because they missed a corner as they were chasing one another.
He’ll settle down before too long. He’s just a healthy kitty, as radu said, doing what kitties do. :)
Nighty-night, Sis! ((((hugs)))) Thanks for peeking in!
I can’t remember what it’s like to have only two. It’s been too long ago. LOL!
It can get a little crazy here at times but for the most part, it’s not bad. We love these silly critters. If we didn’t, they’d have never been taken in when they showed up.
But they do tend to “rearrange” things and it isn’t always accidental. That’s why there’s nothing really nice set out around the house. Not that we have a lot of really nice stuff any way.
Love his rendition of that song.
RIP Tom and George.
Here is the result I got:
Not leaving this one for PRO in the morning. :-)
H!!LOL! It was getting hard to keep tabs on it once “Hunting Hitler” came on. That’s an engrossing program. Tonight’s is especially good.
Good night and sleep well. See ya tomorrow.
About 30 minutes more and I’m done. Neither my desk top nor my laptop will connect to FR.
BUT...the computer in the office works!!! (Different router) As soon as I finish my homework I will disconnect the router for a few and see it that helps.
Only one crazy, but he didn’t get far...slip and slide and I met him at the next signal. Things were just freezing up. Not bad getting home at all.
OK...back to finish.
I wonder what’s going on with your computers that they won’t connect to FR tonight. At least you found a way to slip in for a minute. :-)
Good to hear the streets weren’t so bad after all. But there always seems to be at least on crazy on the streets when they’re iffy.
I hope you’ve recorded Hunting Hitler tonight so you can watch it later. This was one of the most jaw-dropping episodes I’ve seen yet.
Get a good night’s sleep when you get there. Not much longer now.
Flowers, candy, red hearts and romance. That’s what Valentine’s day is all about, right? Well, maybe not.
The origin of this holiday for the expression of love really isn’t romantic at all—at least not in the traditional sense. Father Frank O’Gara of Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin, Ireland, tells the real story of the man behind the holiday—St. Valentine.
“He was a Roman Priest at a time when there was an emperor called Claudias who persecuted the church at that particular time,” Father O’Gara explains. “ He also had an edict that prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died.”
“I think we must bear in mind that it was a very permissive society in which Valentine lived,” says Father O’Gara. “Polygamy would have been much more popular than just one woman and one man living together. And yet some of them seemed to be attracted to Christian faith. But obviously the church thought that marriage was very sacred between one man and one woman for their life and that it was to be encouraged. And so it immediately presented the problem to the Christian church of what to do about this.”
“The idea of encouraging them to marry within the Christian church was what Valentine was about. And he secretly married them because of the edict.”
Valentine was eventually caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius the second. There are legends surrounding Valentine’s actions while in prison.
“One of the men who was to judge him in line with the Roman law at the time was a man called Asterius, whose daughter was blind. He was supposed to have prayed with and healed the young girl with such astonishing effect that Asterius himself became Christian as a result.”
In the year 269 AD, Valentine was sentenced to a three part execution of a beating, stoning, and finally decapitation all because of his stand for Christian marriage. The story goes that the last words he wrote were in a note to Asterius’ daughter. He inspired today’s romantic missives by signing it, “from your Valentine.”
“What Valentine means to me as a priest,” explains Father O’Gara, “is that there comes a time where you have to lay your life upon the line for what you believe. And with the power of the Holy Spirit we can do that —even to the point of death.”
Valentine’s martyrdom has not gone unnoticed by the general public. In fact, Whitefriars Street Church is one of three churches that claim to house the remains of Valentine. Today, many people make the pilgrimage to the church to honor the courage and memory of this Christian saint.
“Valentine has come to be known as the patron saint of lovers. Before you enter into a Christian marriage you want some sense of God in your life—some great need of God in your life. And we know, particularly in the modern world, many people are meeting God through his Son, Jesus Christ.”
“If Valentine were here today, he would say to married couples that there comes a time where you’re going to have to suffer. It’s not going to be easy to maintain your commitment and your vows in marriage. Don’t be surprised if the ‘gushing’ love that you have for someone changes to something less “gushing” but maybe much more mature. And the question is, is that young person ready for that?”
“So on the day of the marriage they have to take that into context,” Father O’Gara says. “Love—human love and sexuality is wonderful, and blessed by God—but also the shadow of the cross. That’s what Valentine means to me.”
Lot of us are sitting out the weather, should clear soon and get back to work.
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TOO CUTE!
I hope everyone is having a splendid day!
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