OK, OK, so it's almost Christmas and y'all (corrected spelling) haven't heard from me in 1/2 of forever...but there's a reason for that--I really haven't felt the urge to update.  I've been doing "other things."  Seriously...life is a struggle, and put that, work, dating, and everything together, you get...um...what do you get--no updates, for one! 

  I was out in OR for a week at Thanksgiving.  I may post a picture if I feel like it!  Anyway, it was a good week...nice to be actually with her...like, in the same time zone!    That girl continues to bless me...and she says I bless her too, but often it feels like a grossly one-way street! 

  Getting ready for Chrismas?  It's gonna be a crazy weekend!  My whole family will be around , food,  Grandma and Grandpa's 60th anniversary celebration, food, Christmas, my B-day, extended family, food, etc!  Speaking of food, my Grandma Byler's carmel candy recipe is....uh-huh!  I'm watching the screen saver pictures on Mom and Dad's computer as I type this...anybody heard of pig-trough sundaes?  It's schweet.  We do it at family reunions.  You make a trough out of, say, 1x4s, probably 8 or 10 feet long.  Line it with tin foil, load it up with several gallons of ice cream, toppings, cherries, etc., and then have as many people as can crowd around the thing crowd around the thing and spoon it out!  Great fun and more entertaining than serving it up in little dishes! 

  I have been reminded different times this year of how incredible God's gift to man really is.  That God would actually come down to earth and die for us.  Obviously, He knew it would work, but that He was willing to do it.  Here's some lyrics from Selah-Rose of Bethlehem...

"Mystery...how He came to be a man, but greater still...that His death was in His plan.  God predestined that His Son would die, and He still created man!  Oh, what love is this, that His death was in His plan?"

...and then I get cross because somebody cuts me off in the passing lane.  Hmmm....  Perspective? 

OK, here's a picture..and I know it's crooked, which is kinda one of my pet peeves, but that's OK...this time! 

see ya later, Peter