Why did I switch? Well, I'll be taking a class this year that is going to teach me HTML stuff and all. On WordPress, I can try things from that class and design it myself.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Redirecting...
I decided to change things up a bit and moved my blog to WordPress. Most (if not all) of my posting will happen there. The link is: http://thelittleadventuresofwesternrose.wordpress.com/
Monday, August 8, 2011
Priorities
As I head into the school year and am getting ready for it, priorities has been a big thing on my mind. It's become rather obvious to me that they haven't been set straight...
So, here is a list of priorities.... Hopefully in the right order and why.
#1 God first. Period. Why? Because that's where everything starts. Beginning a day by thanking God is so much better than thinking of all that you have to do and immediately being distracted. When everything is right between me and God, everything else falls in place. That's not to say nothing is ever hard, far from it! But I've got a Rock shelter me, a Shepard to guide me...
#2 Family. Family relationships are incredibly important. Spending time listening and talking with family members is one of the best uses of your time.Sometimes my agenda gets in the way. Not only of spending time with family members, but when Mom gives me something to do and I REALLY don't want to do it right now because I've "got this and that and the other thing to finish up". But then I'm not obeying/honoring my parents, am I?
#3 Friends. Having relationships with friends is so amazing! Having people who are real friends and you can do things like, hold each other accountable, encourage each other, laugh with and cry with is something you don't want to lose.
#4 School. It is important to learn this stuff to help me for the rest of my life. It's now or never. I need to stick with it.
#5 Appleseed. I L-O-V-E Appleseeding! I really do! But right now, school has to come before Appleseed. Dad said so. Though in some respects it comes before because the majority of those people that I call friends are Appleseeders. But as far as doing working on Appleseed stuff, that has to come AFTER school.
#6 Everything else.
Now this list certainly doesn't hold everything that it could or all of the reasons why, but those are a few thoughts of a 'Tater...
So, here is a list of priorities.... Hopefully in the right order and why.
#1 God first. Period. Why? Because that's where everything starts. Beginning a day by thanking God is so much better than thinking of all that you have to do and immediately being distracted. When everything is right between me and God, everything else falls in place. That's not to say nothing is ever hard, far from it! But I've got a Rock shelter me, a Shepard to guide me...
#2 Family. Family relationships are incredibly important. Spending time listening and talking with family members is one of the best uses of your time.Sometimes my agenda gets in the way. Not only of spending time with family members, but when Mom gives me something to do and I REALLY don't want to do it right now because I've "got this and that and the other thing to finish up". But then I'm not obeying/honoring my parents, am I?
#3 Friends. Having relationships with friends is so amazing! Having people who are real friends and you can do things like, hold each other accountable, encourage each other, laugh with and cry with is something you don't want to lose.
#4 School. It is important to learn this stuff to help me for the rest of my life. It's now or never. I need to stick with it.
#5 Appleseed. I L-O-V-E Appleseeding! I really do! But right now, school has to come before Appleseed. Dad said so. Though in some respects it comes before because the majority of those people that I call friends are Appleseeders. But as far as doing working on Appleseed stuff, that has to come AFTER school.
#6 Everything else.
Now this list certainly doesn't hold everything that it could or all of the reasons why, but those are a few thoughts of a 'Tater...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
What have I been up to?
Well, over the past while I have been traveling around the country. Ok... around the mid-west and the north-east anyway. :)
Here are links to some of my adventures!
Miamisburg, Ohio - June 4-5, 2011
Zanesville, Ohio - June 11-12, 2011
Annapolis, Maryland - June 18, 2011
Calverton, New York - June 25-26, 2011
Dundee, Michigan - July 2-3, 2011
Nashville, Indiana - July 9-10, 2011
After Calverton, New York, I spent some time in Massachusetts at Boston, Lexington, Concord and Acton.
Before Nashville, Indiana, I was at the Creation Museum in Kentucky. After Nashville, I was at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
During the weekend of July 16-17, I was in Philidelphia and was able to visit Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. On the way back to Ohio after that, we went to Gettysburg.
Over the course of my time back east, I was in 13 different states. They were: West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana.
Thank you to Julia for driving me all over the place!
Thank you to the Richardson family for putting me up for the time I was back east and taking me several places!
Thank you to so many people...
This past weekend, I was at Medical Lake, Washington with most of my family. My "little" sister became a fully certified RWVA Instructor at this event. She earned her Red Hat on her 16th birthday!
Here are links to some of my adventures!
Miamisburg, Ohio - June 4-5, 2011
Zanesville, Ohio - June 11-12, 2011
Annapolis, Maryland - June 18, 2011
Calverton, New York - June 25-26, 2011
Dundee, Michigan - July 2-3, 2011
Nashville, Indiana - July 9-10, 2011
After Calverton, New York, I spent some time in Massachusetts at Boston, Lexington, Concord and Acton.
Before Nashville, Indiana, I was at the Creation Museum in Kentucky. After Nashville, I was at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
During the weekend of July 16-17, I was in Philidelphia and was able to visit Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. On the way back to Ohio after that, we went to Gettysburg.
Over the course of my time back east, I was in 13 different states. They were: West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana.
Thank you to Julia for driving me all over the place!
Thank you to the Richardson family for putting me up for the time I was back east and taking me several places!
Thank you to so many people...
This past weekend, I was at Medical Lake, Washington with most of my family. My "little" sister became a fully certified RWVA Instructor at this event. She earned her Red Hat on her 16th birthday!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
I never thought
I never thought it would be possible that I would stand here or see this in person... Thank you Ratchett!!!
Photo by Western Rose
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Have you ever wondered...
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners: men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall and straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of the declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners: men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr. noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall and straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of the declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
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