Thank You Blogger

Today's Link
Taste with the Eyes

Today's Saying
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
~William Shakespeare

Today's Picture
A Rose from our garden for Blogger on its anniversary

This is Blogger’s tenth birthday and I want to take this occasion to share with my readers what Blogger has meant to me.
Over four years ago I came home from the hospital to find that my world had shrunk.
Before this time I was President of the School Board, Pastor of the largest Church in town, and active in almost everything in the community. I was getting ready for my retirement and my wife and I were planning a trip to Finland.
After coming home I was on a ventilator and my house was my total world. I left only to go to the Doctor’s and that was not easy. I missed being with people. My life was now about as dull as it could be.
I did have an internet connection but I used it primarily for E-mail to my children. Then my Son Patrick said Dad why don’t you set up a blog. I had never heard of a blog but I was sure I couldn’t afford it.
“Blogger” he said.” Is free”
So I went to blogger.com.
I set up a blog . That was on May 08, 2005. That day my little world began to expand.
At first I wrote about my day so my kids who lived 120 to 160 miles away could see what was happening. They wrote comments. It was fun.
Then I started writing little stories for my grandchildren about my garden railroad town , Pigeon Falls. They enjoyed them but so did some other people. They left comments. I visited their blogs. My world got bigger.
Soon I had a little neighborhood. It was like stopping in for coffee every day just to see how things were going. My neighborhood kept growing and changing. People quit blogging and new people came.
Now in my little neighborhood are people who live in England, Ireland, Belgium , Switzerland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and all over the United States. Every morning or sometime during the day they drop in to my blog and I stop in at their’s.
One blogger even traveled all the way from Maryland just to meet me outside of the blog. It was a wonderful experience.
Like any neighborhood we share our troubles and our joys. We laugh and cry together. We support one another. They even pretend to like my stories. You couldn’t find a better group anywhere.
Every day I am inspired by them.
There is a mother waiting for her son to get out of prison .
There are parents of autistic children .
There is a young man in Norway dying of Aids.
There is a wonderful homebound lady with a heart as big as they come.
There is a marvelous caring lady that has a tattoo and rides a motorcycle.
There is a lady older than I am that writes good poetry.
Every day people either do kind things or share what others have done for them.
My world is now larger than before I got sick and I owe it all to Blogger.
Thank you Blogger.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal
This morning Tommy UK left for school early and stopped at Eino’s to see last nights videos.
Most of the traffic for the evening was back through the door rather than out into Pigeon Falls. There was one of the men with hands coming out of his head leading a spider. There was one of the jack-in-the-box people leading one of those big wooly elephants. That was hard to watch because the head kept going down into the neck and then without warning popping out. Every time it popped up Tommy jumped back. Just at the end of the video a tin man looking like something out of the Wizard of Oz came through , looked around and went back in.
Tommy said that he had read where one psychologist thinks our dreams, nightmares, and visions are glimpses into other dimensions. So Oz might be a real place. In which case we are the dream world for them and Eino could be a nightmare.
Eino said that he didn’t think that made any sense but the whole thing made no sense so it as good an explanation as any.
“The question now is how do we keep them from leaving their world and coming into ours.” Tommy said. “ And I have an idea on how to do that until we figure out this light from the dark stuff. We need a cage.

Wrap UP

It was a cooler day. My blood oxygen levels were up. I worked at the story for the Portrait of Words blog for Wednesday . I spent some time with my son and grandsons. I visited all the blogs of the people who left comments yesterday. I updated the newsletter on St. Mark's website. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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