Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, 2006!



Here's a cool turkey you can print out and color, courtesy of the following site, one I visit regularly... NOT!

www.agirlsworld.com/.../thanksgiving/turkey.gif

More fantastic Emo Philips Quotes...

Thanks for making me laugh, Emo!
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At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, "I don't know... reelection to the Senate?"

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

I love finding cool quotes!

I was searching for some interesting quotes to add to my bio on our website, www.prairielutheran.org, and I found these three...

"What is art but a way of seeing" - Thomas Berger

"You are the music while the music lasts." - T. S. Eliot

"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning." - Jacques Barzun

As the worship and music guy here at PLC, I kinda like those, don't you? We try to do a lot of different things in worship... dance, drama, music, videos... I guess that since it's true people learn and remember things different ways, it's always good to use multiple venues of communication...

Fall is entrenched here in the upper Midwest... we've just come through elections... survived might be a better way of putting it... do the political muckety-mucks really believe that all the negative campaigning works?

And... wouldn't it be nice to be able to vote for a person based upon their qualifications, rather than against what the other candidate represents?

Oh yeah... I had another birthday... all I know is that I'm in great shape for some who is 95!

Have a GREAT day! Until next time, pray for peace!

Prairie Pete

Do you ever have one of those moments?

Well, my Twins are out of it... long gone... the Cards are playing the Tigers in the World Series.
"All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey..."
I wish I had written that... I could retire and move to California... except I can't tread water that long!
I was listening to the radio and the people were talking about Steven Wright... I had forgotten how funny he was, so I looked online for some of his jokes... you've probably figured out that weird things make me laugh!
So anyway, here are a few of his jokes that I thought were funny...

• What's another word for "thesaurus"?
• For my birthday I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
• I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. One day I got a call from a guy in France who said, "Cut it out!"
• I replaced the headlights on my car with strobe lights. Now it looks like I'm the only one moving.
• I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio, I think "Hey, maybe I wrote that."
• I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Weird, huh? Well, tonight I've got nothing... which isn't that much different than most other nights.

Thanks for reading... until next time!

Prairie Pete

We're in the playoffs!

Can you believe it? MY Twins are in the playoffs! Sorry to all you Chicago White Sox fans... What a great run these kids are on! The Boys of Summer... you gotta love 'em!

Everybody... all together now....

GO TWINS!

It's free, free, free!

Hey!

Here at Prairie Lutheran we have a weekly newsletter called "The Post." It contains info about the things happening around here during the week. And, like any church that's "new and hip and what's happening now," it's available electronically!!!

If you would like to receive a copy in your email, just email us at info@prairielutheran.org and we'll add you to the "Post list!" We do not sell our email list, we do not share it with anyone other than staff... it is reasonably safe, in other words!

If you do, can I ask you one more thing? Put "from Prairie Pete" in the subject line... doing a little tracking, you know!

Have a GREAT day! Pray for peace!

Prairie Pete

It's a GREAT day... for DUCKS!

Well, here in beautiful downtown Eden Prairie, we've enjoyed about 2 days now of cold, wet, windy, dark, gloomy, depressing weather... I was going to start with "It was a dark and stormy night..." but that's already been done!

To top that all off, my Twins lost last night... with Johan pitching on top of that! Is it wrong to pray that Detroit loses their next five games and the Twins win all of theirs?

I always wonder about those pro athletes who say that God was on their side...

The really exciting news around here is that... I'm going to clean my office today! If you're in EP and want to check it out, give a couple of months, OK?

Thanks for reading... pray for peace!

Prairie Pete

12:35 a.m., or Insomnia is a wonderful thing!

Well, things are slowly returning to normal... my mother-in-law is in assisted care, our families are slowly returning to our regular patterns... my wife and my m-in-law are dealing with the occasional swells of ups and downs that come with losing someone.

As I posted earlier, my father-in-law, Andy Sullivan, died unexpectedly on September 23rd. It really drove home the point that none of us knows the time or day God calls us home... the song "People Get Ready" is running through my mind right now...

I appreciate all your thoughts and prayers... as we travel down this new path, I'm lifted up by these words...

1 Cor. 13:12-13
[12] Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. [13] And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Give someone you love a call or a hug, OK?

I think I get it!

Short and Sweet... that's the ticket!

After checking out a couple of the 80 billion blogs out there, I've come to the realization that less is more, but often-er is better-er!

So the big thing in my life is that my number one son is off to college this weekend... we've already rented his room!

As Worship ARTS Team Lead, I'm always looking for ways to connect to people... someone told me we need more dance, so please check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&eurl. (You'll need to turn the volume up to get the full effect!)

See you in church!

Links I like!

Sometimes I find stuff online that helps me do my job... and sometimes I find stuff that's just cool!

(NEWS FLASH! I accidentally "figured out" how to activate these links! Now all you have to do is click on a link and it will take you right to the site!!!)

By the way, these are not listed in any particular order...

Twin Cities Gas Prices - need I say more?: http://www.twincitiesgasprices.com/index.aspx?&area=Bloomington&area=Edina&area=Minneapolis

Crosswalk.com - looking for a verse, word, idea, in a certain translation?: http://bible1.crosswalk.com/

The Cyber Hymnal - this is where I go to find the words and listen to midis of traditional hymns: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/

KTIS (98.5 FM) - local Minneapolis/St. Paul Christian Radio: http://ktis.nwc.edu/page.php

ELCA Website: http://elca.org/

Augsburg Fortress Website - if you haven't visited in awhile, check it out!: http://www.augsburgfortress.org/index.asp

Awesome images from space (NASA) - http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/index.html

I get lost easily!: http://www.mapquest.com/

Does anybody really know what time it is?: http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java

The Ooze - I ain't tellin'... go check it out for your own self!: http://www.theooze.com/main.cfm

"I don't know if it's cloudy or bright..." now, I do!: http://www.weatherunderground.com/

Did I mention that I love to eat?: http://foodnetwork.com/

Check 'em out... and let me know what your faves are!

PrairiePete

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