Wordle

 
Wordle
 
This is a pretty cool (free) online app.
 
Basically, you paste in a bunch of words (I used the back-cover blurb from my first novel) and it uses them to create “word art” like above. Apparently it prioritizes the words used most.
 
You can choose a bunch of different style and color combinations, or just keep hitting [...]

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Snow Day!

So, church is canceled and we’re hunkered down with stew and cocoa fixings.
 
There was a ½ inch of ice covering the eight inches of snow this morning, here’s what I found when I slid my way out to get the newspaper…
 
 

This is just a sad, sad sight.
 
 

“Honey, have you seen my coffee cup?”
 
 

“Yeah. So, we [...]

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Sunnysiders…

Sunnysiders…
 
I’ve debated a long time over posting this question or not.
 
If you have a copy of  “The Visitation” by Frank Peretti, please read pages 88 through 99 and share your thoughts.
 
In fact, this post might only make sense if you’ve read the above…
 
I remember a high-school retreat where myself, and several other boys, saw “a [...]

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Thank You Reverend Jointer

It must have been like his worst nightmare come to life.
 
Friday, noon, New Hope Missionary Baptist church, North Portland.
 
While studying for his Sunday sermon, as another pastor was officiating a funeral down the hallway of his church, Reverend Robert C. Jointer heard gunshots, followed by screams. Mourners, including mothers with small children, fled the [...]

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Gracie’s First Snowman!

http://ricecereal.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/first-snowman/

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2nd Annual Princess Gracie Caption Contest

Hey all,
Please visit Gracie’s blog to see the picture, and to post a caption. There will be a prize for the winner!
Please DO NOT post your caption here on the Cubeville blog.
Blessings,
-Perk

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New Gracie Pics!

http://ricecereal.wordpress.com/

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Christmas Tree Day! (Plus recipe…)

 

Hey all,
 
TeamPerk is getting geared up for our traditional “Christmas Tree Day” tomorrow. Usually we do so on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, but we were late getting home from Eugene last week. The pic above is from last years “hunt.”
 
Tomorrow, we’ll bundle up and head to a local farm to pick our tree which, [...]

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Hilarous UTube Video…

This is so awesome….I’m weepy…
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20071221/MULTIMEDIA/283841756
-Perk
PS – This one’s for Scotty…

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I had a dream…

…last night that I went to the White House and gave Nancy Regan a quilt that my mother-in-law had sewed for her (Darlene – she loved it, btw!) then I snuck into the Presidential smoking den and, when no one was looking, I filled my pockets with Cuban cigars from Bill Clinton’s humidor…
 
What does all this [...]

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