Well, I think my iPad 2 is back to functioning now where it was before 9/20/12 when iOS 6 came out. Netflix even works again. I think everyone was scrambling behind the scenes to fix issues with iOS 6 at Apple and the applications that run on Apple platform.
I got a message that an upgrade was out again yesterday on my iPad 2. I read the details and it seemed okay. I took the upgrade with some hesitation after all I have been through since iOS 6 came out. Hey, everything is still working! Hurray! I am so grateful that the upgrade was reasonable painless. I wonder if they fixed the problems caused by World Clock? I don't plan to open that application because it seemed to cause me all kinds of grief after going to iOS 6.
I still love my iPad 2. I saw the Apple Mini is out. I will check it out but I don't have plans to buy it. Although my kids would be happy to inherit my iPad 2 if I should decide to take the plunge. :)
<^..^> Lori
10/01/2012
Apple ios 6 don't upgrade until they fix more of the bugs
In late February of this year I bought an iPad 2. I got it when the new generation came out and they reduced the price on iPad 2. It only took a couple of months for me to fall in love with it. Everything was working great. I learn something new every week. Then along came the Apple ios 6 upgrade. I wish I had waited to see the fallout before taking it. First it messed up my wifi. That meant no email, Skype, Safari, etc. a few days later wifi started working again. Then I had no connection to iTunes or the App Store. ICloud wasn't working, Netflix didn't work. A few days later some of the tabs like Purchased started working in the App Store. A few days later iTunes and all of the App Store were working. Next iCloud started working. I am still waiting for Netflix to work again. I have deleted the app and reloaded it but it still won't connect.
All the while my iMac is working fine. I can reach iTunes, iCloud, App store, and Netflix works like a charm. An upgrade popped up on it last week...I said NO. Who says an old chick can't learn from her mistakes?!
Our Apple TV stopped connecting to Netflix. An upgarde notice popped up. Since Netflix was already broken we took the upgrade hoping it would help. It didn't.
Oh Apple, your upgrade was really bad. I wish I had not taken it. I am pretty sure you will get it fixed but...man...this has been so annoying!
<^..^> Lori
All the while my iMac is working fine. I can reach iTunes, iCloud, App store, and Netflix works like a charm. An upgrade popped up on it last week...I said NO. Who says an old chick can't learn from her mistakes?!
Our Apple TV stopped connecting to Netflix. An upgarde notice popped up. Since Netflix was already broken we took the upgrade hoping it would help. It didn't.
Oh Apple, your upgrade was really bad. I wish I had not taken it. I am pretty sure you will get it fixed but...man...this has been so annoying!
<^..^> Lori
9/23/2012
Organizing my stamps and supplies
I have so many stamps, punches, and other supplies that I cannot remember what I own. It's a blessing from The Lord to have all my crafty supplies but I feel awful that I don't use them as much as I could because I forgot what I had on hand. I have searched the blogs on organizational tips. I have seen some great stuff out there. For my stamps, I tried creating a three ring binder where I stamped on card stock and filed the pages alphabetically. I Thought I would go through the notebook when I as searching for the right sentiment. I did for awhile but then the notebook got heavier and I would forget to post some pictures of some stamps...well it wasn't ideal for me. I am trying something new and it is working for me so I decided to share. I have a Pinterest account. I created a board called "supplies that I own". I have started posting pictures with links to stamps that I own. It makes it so easy for me to search my stamps on my iPad. I love it. I am using more of my stamps in the process. I don't know if I will put all of my crafty supplies on Pinterest. I started adding my hand punches. I love having my stamp inventory at my finger tips. Let me know how you use Pinterest to organize or your iPad to organize your supplies.
<^..^> Lori
<^..^> Lori
7/27/2012
Would you wear this t-shirt?
I am in the process of changing doctors. I want to use a local doctor so that I don't have to drive into the city. I have moved the kids over to this local medical group and my husband. I was the hold out. Ok, I must admit that I don't like to go to the doctor. I avoid it and overall I am blessed with reasonable good health.
As the nurse was asking me all the questions prior to my exam, she commented that I was in pretty good health. I was beaming inside but I was soon to have my bubble burst. She had a nurse in training with her that took my blood pressure as she was asking me questions. The young (and they are all young looking to me) nurse looked concerned and took my blood pressure again. Then she asked the experienced nurse to take it...yes it was high. I don't ever remember a time when my bp was not 120/80 and everyone up to this point was fine and dandy with it. But not in 2012! The scales have changed and that is now considered high. In truth, my bp this day was 131/118. Even I thought it was high but I didn't think it was the norm for me. But I know I had just returned from Brazil and we had VBS and I was feeling heavier than normal so I thought I just needed to get back in my normal routine to get my bp down. The doctor disagreed and immediately put me on a low dose of bp. I came back the next week and sure enough the bp was down to 118/88 but I am not convinced it is the medicine versus getting back to normal at home. Either way I am going to take the medicine for awhile then ask to be weaned off to see if it climbs again. I am aghast to think that I need a daily medicine! Not that I am super woman...I just think that means accepting that I am getting old. I know...silly of me, isn't it?!
Well this post wasn't supposed to be about my bp...it was about the other procedures I am expected to endure for this change in doctors. This week I had my first colonoscopy. You know it wasn't the procedure that was so bad...I hardly remember anything after the anesthesia was administered...it was the prep medicine you drink prior to the procedure that had me wishing I wasn't having a colonoscopy. I had but an every so tiny taste of what true sick people have to endure to get better. I have more empathy than ever for those people. I cannot imagine chemo or radiation or the borage of other medicinal procedures people endure every day to get better. God bless you all and you know who you are.
Well, my procedure did begin with some grins! At check in the nurse asked me what size t-shirt I wear. I instinctively asked why she needed to know that information? She said, "Because we are going to give you a t-shirt." I don't know why but I asked what was on it. My brain must have been working ahead of me. Because she showed me this t-shirt.
That is not so bad. But then she turned it to the back side (pun intended).
Tell me really? Would you wear this around town?
<^..^> Lori
As the nurse was asking me all the questions prior to my exam, she commented that I was in pretty good health. I was beaming inside but I was soon to have my bubble burst. She had a nurse in training with her that took my blood pressure as she was asking me questions. The young (and they are all young looking to me) nurse looked concerned and took my blood pressure again. Then she asked the experienced nurse to take it...yes it was high. I don't ever remember a time when my bp was not 120/80 and everyone up to this point was fine and dandy with it. But not in 2012! The scales have changed and that is now considered high. In truth, my bp this day was 131/118. Even I thought it was high but I didn't think it was the norm for me. But I know I had just returned from Brazil and we had VBS and I was feeling heavier than normal so I thought I just needed to get back in my normal routine to get my bp down. The doctor disagreed and immediately put me on a low dose of bp. I came back the next week and sure enough the bp was down to 118/88 but I am not convinced it is the medicine versus getting back to normal at home. Either way I am going to take the medicine for awhile then ask to be weaned off to see if it climbs again. I am aghast to think that I need a daily medicine! Not that I am super woman...I just think that means accepting that I am getting old. I know...silly of me, isn't it?!
Well this post wasn't supposed to be about my bp...it was about the other procedures I am expected to endure for this change in doctors. This week I had my first colonoscopy. You know it wasn't the procedure that was so bad...I hardly remember anything after the anesthesia was administered...it was the prep medicine you drink prior to the procedure that had me wishing I wasn't having a colonoscopy. I had but an every so tiny taste of what true sick people have to endure to get better. I have more empathy than ever for those people. I cannot imagine chemo or radiation or the borage of other medicinal procedures people endure every day to get better. God bless you all and you know who you are.
Well, my procedure did begin with some grins! At check in the nurse asked me what size t-shirt I wear. I instinctively asked why she needed to know that information? She said, "Because we are going to give you a t-shirt." I don't know why but I asked what was on it. My brain must have been working ahead of me. Because she showed me this t-shirt.
<^..^> Lori
7/16/2012
2012 IncrediWorld Amazement Park
Our church VBS program this year was from the people at Answers in Genesis. It was called IncrediWorld Amazement Park.
It was the first time I had used their material for VBS. It was great stuff! Lots of details and ideas in their books. Here are some more of our decorations:
Lots of time put in by lots of people at our church went into the making of this VBS. I am always amazed at the talent God has given us.
Hannah taught a class with some of her teen friends.
Jim, Johnson, and I were in charge of the games this year. We are just completing an addition to our church so we had the use of the new gym! Yeah! It was wonderful!
We decorated the gym with houses to resemble what you would find in an amusement park. We had concessions, photo hut, souvenir shop, and a ticket booth.
On the last day of VBS we had a carnival in the gym complete with hotdogs, chips, and cookies. The kids had a great time this week learning about the incredible world made by the Lord in just 6 days!
<^..^> Lori
It was the first time I had used their material for VBS. It was great stuff! Lots of details and ideas in their books. Here are some more of our decorations:
Lots of time put in by lots of people at our church went into the making of this VBS. I am always amazed at the talent God has given us.
Jim, Johnson, and I were in charge of the games this year. We are just completing an addition to our church so we had the use of the new gym! Yeah! It was wonderful!
<^..^> Lori
My belated June blog post...we spent 15 days in Brazil
It is almost a blur...it was crazy to get ready to leave the country, then it was stressing me to pack, then we were on a plane (actually 4 planes to get there) to Crato, Brazil on a missionary trip 6/4-6/19/12. It was our first out of the country missionary trip. Jim and I plus our 2 kids and 5 others from our church went on this trip.
It was different that I expected in some ways. I didn't expect it to be so physically challenging. The whole trip was eye opening for us all. We discovered that we take a huge amount of rights for granted in the USA and that was a good lesson.
God loves people of all colors and shapes and sizes around the world even people that speak other languages than we do. LOL! We learned a little Portuguese in our 15 days there.
We helped white-wash this parsonage (inside and out).
White-washing is the most messy project I have ever done.
We laughed in the middle of all that work...a merry heart is good medicine. I had white-wash on me from head to toe. It turns out lime is not so good for the skin. I am still nursing a sore spot on one finger.
We landscaped in front of the chapel with the most crude tools.
To turn this pile of compacted hard red clay that they call dirt
into this
We did street evangelism in Ouricuri Brazil. Hosted a couples breakfast there. We gave the men a chocolate heart shaped favor to take home. We gave the ladies a fabric heart with cinnamon potpourri in the center to take home. See I did get some crafting done in Brazil.
We spent time in 6 different churches ministering with music, teaching, and testimonies of how Christ changed our lives.
We chased toads out of the house where we were sleeping. We shared our bedrooms with lizards and various other bugs. We ate rice and beans and then beans and rice with the Seminary students. We shared wonderful meals with missionaries our church supports who have dedicated their lives to bringing the Gospel message to the Brazil people. We drank gallons of warm water. We travelled over hundreds of speed bumps in the roads. We avoided hundreds but not all of the pot-holes in the roads. We saw the sun rise at 6 am and set at 6 pm every day because we were so close to the equator. We got to see the southern cross constellation in the sky. We met spider monkeys in the trees. We ate freshly picked bananas, guava, papaya, and passion fruit. We ate avocados that were so big they looked comical to us. We learned to travel in groups for safety at night. We learned why every home had a wall around it along with other protective measures. We learned to live without some things we thought we couldn't do without...like TV.
It was good to go there and good to get home.
<^..^> Lori
It was different that I expected in some ways. I didn't expect it to be so physically challenging. The whole trip was eye opening for us all. We discovered that we take a huge amount of rights for granted in the USA and that was a good lesson.
God loves people of all colors and shapes and sizes around the world even people that speak other languages than we do. LOL! We learned a little Portuguese in our 15 days there.
We helped white-wash this parsonage (inside and out).
We landscaped in front of the chapel with the most crude tools.
To turn this pile of compacted hard red clay that they call dirt
We did street evangelism in Ouricuri Brazil. Hosted a couples breakfast there. We gave the men a chocolate heart shaped favor to take home. We gave the ladies a fabric heart with cinnamon potpourri in the center to take home. See I did get some crafting done in Brazil.
We spent time in 6 different churches ministering with music, teaching, and testimonies of how Christ changed our lives.
We chased toads out of the house where we were sleeping. We shared our bedrooms with lizards and various other bugs. We ate rice and beans and then beans and rice with the Seminary students. We shared wonderful meals with missionaries our church supports who have dedicated their lives to bringing the Gospel message to the Brazil people. We drank gallons of warm water. We travelled over hundreds of speed bumps in the roads. We avoided hundreds but not all of the pot-holes in the roads. We saw the sun rise at 6 am and set at 6 pm every day because we were so close to the equator. We got to see the southern cross constellation in the sky. We met spider monkeys in the trees. We ate freshly picked bananas, guava, papaya, and passion fruit. We ate avocados that were so big they looked comical to us. We learned to travel in groups for safety at night. We learned why every home had a wall around it along with other protective measures. We learned to live without some things we thought we couldn't do without...like TV.
It was good to go there and good to get home.
<^..^> Lori
7/14/2012
Mother Daughter Honeybee Tea Party 5/19/12
Well my goal is still to post once per month. I am just a bit behind. I am going to try to catch up May, June, and July this week though.
In May our church held a Mother Daughter Honeybee Tea Party.
Here are a few pictures of the event:
We had a craft for the younger girls. They used yellow ink pads to make a thumb print on the white paper. Then they added bee parts to turn their thumb print into a bee. We had pre-made paper frames to slide the white paper in to frame it. A nice take home favor for the girls.
Fruit arranged as sunflowers.
Honeycomb cereal, nuts, pretzels, raisins to make a sweet trail mix. Cupcakes decorated as bee hives. And not pictured but we had 2 sunflower cakes that were yummy. My friend, Sandy, makes them. She puts a yellow single layer cake in the center. She frosts it with chocolate frosting. Then she places unwrapped Twinkies around the cake so they look like flower petals. She arranges lots of chocolate chips on the frosted cake so they look like the center of the sunflower. Sandy also puts some chocolate syrup on the Twinkies, not a lot mind you, just a swirl or two. If I find a picture, I will post it later. I think I have one from another event at the church.
<^..^> Lori
In May our church held a Mother Daughter Honeybee Tea Party.
Here are a few pictures of the event:
We had a craft for the younger girls. They used yellow ink pads to make a thumb print on the white paper. Then they added bee parts to turn their thumb print into a bee. We had pre-made paper frames to slide the white paper in to frame it. A nice take home favor for the girls.
<^..^> Lori
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