We had a good thunder storm roll through this evening with a lot of hail  The hail was small but it covered everything. Click the pictures to see a closer look.

Click to see pictures

Marlys Dolliver made up a very nice Smilebox slideshow from some of the pictures from Myrtle’s 80th birthday party.  Check it out by clicking the picture or click HERE.  Thanks Marlys, it is really nice.

John

It is sad that so many well meaning organizations, like NASA, are waisting so much time and money on such nonsense. I am an Amateur Radio enthusiast, and I am sad to report that a certain segment of the Ham community, also waist their time, money, and energy on this nonsense.  This article is from Ken Ham on the “Answers In Genesis” web site.

Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  John 8:31b-32

John

---

NASA Sponsors Course on How to Talk to Aliens

Published August 6th, 2008 in Thoughts and Things, Ministry Updates

Email This Post

Yes—it is true. If you’re an American, your tax dollars are being used by a government agency to teach a course to students on how to talk to aliens! This is serious stuff. We’ve never seen aliens, never had any messages from them, never heard from them. They have not visited earth, and we don’t know how to reach them. But we are using tax dollars for this blind-faith idea!

However, if tax dollars were used to teach students on how to talk with God, who stepped into history in the person of Jesus Christ so we could see Him on earth, who gave us a whole book (the Bible) to reveal all we need to know about the universe, who did visit earth as a man, who tells us how to reach Him through prayer—well that would not be allowed! That would be called religion—and you know, the “separation of church” and stuff!

It’s okay to have faith in aliens—just don’t have faith in an infinite God who has communicated to us through His Son and through His written Word! The article on this begins:

English students at the University of Wyoming are being encouraged to consider the possibility that humanity might one day make contact with aliens and then not know what to say.  “Interstellar Message Composition,” a creative writing class, is believed to be the first of its kind to engage writers in a potential cosmic conversation, say its founders. “We’ve thought a lot about how we might communicate with other worlds, but we haven’t thought much about what we’d actually say,” Prof Jeffrey Lockwood, the course leader, told ABC News.

You can read the rest of this article at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1989062/nasa-sponsors-course-on-how-to-talk-to-aliens.html

There is so much talk going on about aliens, one wonders if this is all meant to prepare people for some great delusion!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Have you wondered how I got those nice frames around my photos? And, how about the text or “watermark” with our web site lightly on the photos?  I use a great free program called FSResizer by FastStone.  Visit them at www.FastStone.org for several very handy photo tools.  FSResizer is specifically made for Windows.  I do not use Window, however.  Our family computer runs on Ubuntu Linux and FSResizer works wonderfully under Ubuntu with WINE.  WINE is a program that enables certain Windows programs to run under Linux.  How Cool!

Besides making frames around the photos, and putting a watermark on them,  FSResizer also does them in BATCH mode, that is, a bunch at one time.  FSResizer also will resize the photos, rotate them, crop them, change the canvas, color depth, and color adjustments.  It will change the number of dots per inch that the photo is made up of.  Give FSResizer a try, it is a real slick lightweight program that I couldn’t do without.

Click to see pictures, video, and comments.

There have been some nice comments left about Carol’s Mom’s 80th birthday party.  You can read them HERE, along with lots of nice pictures and a ten minute video.

• What a fantastic bunch of pictures you have done.
  Thank you very much for puting them on Internet, we really enjoy watching you all. Hugs
  Birgitta-Lars (Sweden)
• You all did a great job honoring a great lady!!!!!!
  Douglas C. Houtz
• WOW! What a special time.
  We all have benefited from the legacy we were given by our parents and grandparents, when I pause to ponder ( I’m told I do it frequently ) I’m truly humbled. It was so wonderful to see you all, and share this memory. Debby has been continually amazed at the family. I told her early on in our relationship that ‘this is as much fun as you can have without needing liquor license’, (joke).
  EyeLuvEwe-all,
  Steve Nordberg
• Dear Auntie Myrtle: It was so fun to visit your birthday party in pictures! I’m so sorry we missed it, but it looks like you had a wonderful time. Our best wishes.
  Phil & Ruth

Myrtle’s Birthday Party Was A Grand Success

HERE is the first round of pictures from Myrtle’s 80th Birthday Party.  There are quite a lot of pictures here.  To view a slide show of the pictures click HERE.  If you would like to see an overview of all of them, click HERE.  We would love to have you leave comments.

We attended the McDougall Family Reunion last week-end, June 27 - 29.  We saw many relatives that we haven’t seen in a long time and many who we did not know.  It was a real fun time for the family.  The reunion was in Bonner and Missoula, Montana.  Bonner is just a few miles east of Missoula.

Friday evening, we had a nice get together at St. Ann Church in Bonner.  We enjoyed a great home made spaghetti dinner and good fellowship.  Saturday afternoon, we had a nice picnic at Greenough Park in Missoula; and on Sunday, we gathered once again at St. Ann Church in Bonner for a great breakfast buffet.

During the weekend, our children enjoyed a nice swim at the KOA campground where one of my brothers, and one of my sisters and their families were staying.  We went to church at SHEC, “South Hills Evangelical Church”.  What a wonderful service that was;  God certainly showed up there.   At our Saturday picnic, we took a nice hike around Greenough Park.  It is a very beautiful place.

We took lots of pictures and you can see some of them HERE and let others know that they can see them here.   Click “Comments” at the bottom of this post and leave a message.  We would love to hear from you.  John

This morning as I was coming home from Helena, an MPCAC parade of classic cars were leaving Clancy, heading south on the frontage road.  I, being on the interstate, easily passed them and arrived at home in Jefferson City before they made it that far.  I went running into the house telling everyone to climb into our Dodge.  Most of the kids were still in their PJ’s, as we headed down the hill to the intersection of the frontage road and I-15.  We made it just in time to see the cars turning in front of us to head south on I-15.  I shot a little video of the parade.  Enjoy!

Putting picture albums on our web site is kind of a long task.  I am trying to make it easier and am testing out two online photo galleries.  They are Picasa Web and Flickr.  I am testing these out with some pictures that I have taken while I travel around the state for my job.  I would be interested to hear from you, what you like the most.  Click the pictures below to try them out and please click the comment button at the bottom of this post to leave me a message.  John

Click the picture above to see Photo Album using Flickr.

Click the picture above to see Photo Album using Picasa Web.