This afternoon I took the kids for a long walk. It has been raining here for the last 2-3 days strait and it was starting to feel like Noah and the arch in the house the kids were becoming restless little “animals”. Here are some pics and story captions from that trip.
We all know blogs are taking over the internet and now they even start blogs for kids before they can walk like my siblings did for their recent additions practically the day they were born and host on babysites.com (a novel site for new parents and rele’s to keep up with their kids developments). Today I got an email form my mom asking for help to set up a blog to keep up and post things for her growing amount of grand kids, yes, there is now even a Granny blog. I spent about three hours on chat with her just explaining to her the basics and she caught on fast and had fun.
The result, the beginnings to an all new blog for our family and relatives. She might not be the new kid on the block but defiantly the blogosphire, but with her great writing and big vision she sure will BLOG YOU! This should be a great site even for those of the other half of the world that is not related to our ever expanding family yet.
We refer to her with my nieces and nephews as Grammy instead of Granny, she might not ever get a Grammy Award like music stars do but we we have had one all our lives and someone real to pass on to our family’s little ones, a real Grammy.
This is an interesting site called Ancestry.com it gives you meanings to your last name and different insights into your family’s history if you can trace your roots back to 1800’s USA. I can’t but it was fun anyways. I typed in my surname and found some interesting stuff out below the graph shows my family’s occupation back in the day when the main trade in middle America was farming and farmer was the dream job and a vast land owner, though of course was not a banker or anything. You’ll see my ancestors set a high bar in matching or out performing the General Public in their field in all but house keeping, guess that explains why my room is the way it is, though I make up for it on the home level as our home’s “automatic dishwasher” and other domestic duties. In truth my great, great grandfather was an orphan (legend has it brought over from Europe on the second "Orphan Train") and adopted in the early 1900’s into this name so I really don’t know if I can take any credit for this other then that we joined an above average family line and that has continued to be passed on. It is an interesting site none the less, my search continues.
Here is an amazing picture from AP that shows the need for water that India is facing now. Please keep all Family in your thoughts and prayers as you see this picture and for all the poor and frail that these natural disasters affect most desperately.
Well, we just saw the end of the EuroVision music show that is done annually for all European countries to submit a contestant to and do one song. We were mostly interested in our country and its neighbors and hw they would do overall. We had heard of the Finnish group Lordi, a “monster-rock” band that wears outlandish demon outfits that look like a combination of rubber suit rejects from the film set of “13th Warrior” or the vampire TV show “Buffy”. While it does appear to be a “good show” and a good rock beat (compared to the redundint folk and pop music other countries had to offer) it seems beside just being a publicity stint it has a real dark spirit and their song “Hard Rock Hallelujah” is not an inspired song (at least by good spirits) to put it mild. – But yes, you guessed it, they won the night and the title for this year. It seems like spirits are being unleashed in this arena of music too, and the days keep getting darker all the time.
A few years ago we had the British band “The Darkness” win all kinds of awards and their songs playing anywhere you turn, now we have monsters too- the perfect combination for bad dreams – God deliver us!
I like rock music and a good beat but I think I’ll keep my head rocking to “Principalities” or even “Honk, Honk Hallelujah” with an out of tune guitar then this. Thank God we have our own stuff and rock concerts for our youth and not what the masses are giving their votes for. Many people didn’t think this band would win but they did, just like how so many don’t think anyone could take the mark of the Beast, but they will. If it’s cool, hip or “anti establishment” Europe will swallow it, that’s why we got such a big job here.
It kind of reminds me of the film “The Time Machine” where he goes into the future and there is no more use for books (internet) and the populous gets hypnotized into feeding themselves to the beasts, with one difference, there is no need to time travel.
The future is now, and there is no way back, only deeper darkness till we see His glorious light. Let’s reach the world before it’s too late, “for the night cometh when no man can work” (John 9:4).
I looked up the name Lordi and this is what I found from Ansestry.com
Lordi
Southern Italian: patronymic or plural form of a nickname or possibly a topographic name from Italian lordo or Sicilian lordu ‘dirty’, ‘muddy’, ‘turbid (of water)’.
I think I remember it being a name of a God or demon, their music surly is muddy water but that name is much more demonic then that.
Today I went out with some of the kids for a bit of a walk as it was great weather and others in the home were busy. We took a long walk around our rural settings and it was a good opportunity for these guys to just get out in the outdoors and look for little creatures and critters that are prevalent in spring. I found it quite nice too to be away from the ‘beehive’ for a bit and just walk the forest paths where there is no computer work, phone calls, chores, meetings, clean-ups and the mired of things that keep us so busy and rushed most of the day being a Family home and local NGO etc. Time can seem to stand still – at least until the kids excitedly holler “LADYBUG” or “SPIDER” – but that’s okay because just a few minutes of peace is all you really need to clear your head sometimes of the cares of our busy lives and then are ready to jump back in and run into the bushes to get a shot of the ‘cool’ bug or insect that they found and take in the moment with these little exploring minds. Guess that is why Jesus said we have to be more like little children, these little guys who have so much faith and trust and don’t worry about the work or the bills and just are full of life knowing they got a big guy watching out for them on their walk taking snapshots of their daily lives. How much more should we have peace having the ultimate ‘big guy’ looking out for us, and I’m sure He’s looking down and taking snapshots of our lives too –ha.
Those are my thoughts anyways, here are some pictures.
Snail patrol.
Dotty.
I have many mothers that I want to show appreciation for so I’ll do it all here at once. So here is to my mom, Grandmother, 4 Aunts, 3 sister-in-laws and newly mother and most favorite sister Curri. You are all hero’s your love and sacrifices are felt and appreciated daily as you work to care for others as only a mother can.
Today we had a barbeque with some friends over as part of a two day fellowship and Taurus birthday occasion and just a time to relax and have fun. We got some very popular hot dogs to put on the barbe but the name is not the best to market hot dogs under and you got to be mindful of how to ask the guests if they want a hot dog, and not call them by the name on the package. 
I’ve been researching the word yoken and have come to realize (what most of you already know) it is not a word, I’ve poured through old English and Bible dictionaries and nope, it’s not in there either. Only yoked and yoking are alternatives, guess I’ve always just been a bit of a hick and heard yokin’ and thought it was a real word as a verb for the act of yoking something, cattle for instance. We can coin it as a new word for the mags name or come up with something new entirely different, it’s all good. I will move this part of my blog to its own page PWed so if anyone wants to read more and keep up with the developments you’ll have to write grassrootspub@gmail.com and ask for the PW for that part of my blog.
GrassRootsPub (GWP) will be for brainstorming and producing things for the Family “open source” style in that different people will build on the work of others to produce something for the benefit of all. It's kind of like how Linux, Firefox, wordpress and other things are done but this will be for writing and printed material not code and software. If you don’t have much time, give a little. If we get enough people to give some time/effort/talents it will make a lot that we all can benefit from.
Here is another idea I’m throwing out on this blog. For some years now I’ve been thinking of doing a magazine for the Family geared particularly to Family young people 18-80 – opps that’s my age range for something else 
, more like 15-16 and up to all those still young at heart. The details are sketchy at this point but probably as a downloadable from a web site and/or be able to read the articles from this site (yet to be made). The reason for posting here is to put out a call for anyone (FD, MM) interested in helping get this going. I’m hoping to have it as a quarterly mag depending on the amount of content contributed.
I know we are all busy in our lives and missionary work around the word but there is always a little time here and there or you might be doing writing or photography as a hobby, or are just looking for a challenge and fun away to build up CVA credits.
For general news, happenings and testimonies keep sending them to the GV, Link, XN/FSM this is not for that content. This would be for variety things like interviews, mission field profiles, music and all the many facets of Family life. This is just an additional avenue for Family members to promote and uplift the Lord the Word and our unique lifestyle in an informal way amongst ourselves and to the younger ones in a contemporary way. This won’t be for the GP or for anyone just to vent their views and feelings if it does not meet the above mentioned standard.
What is needed is:
Field journalists (on location at local camps, concerts and witnessing opportunities)
Writers (for other pieces, essays, op-ed, columns etc)
Editors
Photographers (to capture the action and also pictorial assignments)
Artist/ graphic talent
Web/tech
A tentative name for it is YOKEN, I know it is an archaic word and associated these days in the gaming world but here is something I got when I asked Him about it. (If anyone has any other ideas or gets anything please pass it on at the email at the end of this post)
The yoke is a very important symbol to the Family and one I have ordained the Family to use and bare with pride as my prophets of the end. In the world it is looked on as a burned or a sign of bondage but I look on it very differently for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. It is a joy and honor for my children and not a chain or weight. I ask you to be yoked one to another and yoked in my love and not unequally yoked with the world and unbelievers so you really should be proud of this symbol I’ve given you and a constant reminder. It is a humble word picture but fitting as my endtime prophets and show that I choose the humble things of this world and that without me you are nothing.
Anyone interested please contact me (Jayman) at grassrootspub@gmail.com let me know how you want to help and your key for farther contact on this. Spread the word.
More will be posted on this in the coming days.
Peace, and revolution!
Jayman
PS. The picture is just an old pic I did some years back and just to show a cover idea that is a word picture as an example that could differentiate this Mag from our other pub cover styles. With less focus being on who it is and more on what it conveys.
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