Chapter 51: Wake-e +

Hey Everyone...

I'm still letting the wake-a-thon (which I now dubbed 'wake-e') soak in.. trying to recall what happened there. haha! It was great fun I'll admit. I won't talk to much about it and I'm not posting alot of pics of it YET... I'll get it up by Monday I'm sure.. :) I'll post these two.. my personal favorite.. haha... here:




Anyways.. in the mean time.. I have two other things I found on Yahoo that I thought would be nice to blog on.
Congrats to Ellen for sweeping the Day-Time Emmy awards last night. I wish I had watched at least her win.. she seems so cool, in a funny sort of way! ha! I love her show, she always keeps it down-to-earth and highly entertaining... which is good alone.

Another one was this (the one in purple):



Oh my... the age old question of whether the Ten Commandments should be allowed in public or not... *rolls eyes*.. COME ON PEOPLE!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU! One guy said:


Cramed down people's throats... it's a PLAQUE sitting on the GRASS! COME ON!! Get over it!! Us Christians have never been under more attack if you think about it. Look at society.. trying to tear down EVERYTHING we have... this nation was built on Religion - SO KEEP IT! - oh my.. keep it in your prayers at the least... even if you don't think this really applies or affects you...

Another thing... the Da Vinci Code paper back novel just hit the 1 million mark... congrats to that *rolls eyes*... I wonder how many more people has Mr. Brown ruined? cough..sicko..cough...

Anyways.. yeah... I'm here in school.. I was suppose to blog this Saturday night but I went out very quickly... sorry for the delay... I'll try to post some more pics of the wake-e tonight!

Peace, Prayers
~Josh

Chapter 50: Happy Anniversary

Hey Everyone;

I purposely pushed off blogging until tonight for a few reasons. The most important was the simple fact I have been extremely busy with a number of things and even to right now I am busy. I have been up hill and down, working flat out. Anyways, secondly I wanted to make this blog a special blog since it is the anniversary of my 50th blog - so I simply wanted to celebrate it with style (lol.. Something I lack I know..lol). Tonight is the grad wake-a-thon (yippee!) So I wanted to blog thing while I am at that.
Okay, time to make some news.. You may not find this a whole lot interesting but I’ll admit to it all the same... some people have already asked if I do this - and YES I write a number of my blogs at one point and then post them later. See it’s not an overly big deal now is it? :) As you can easily tell, I am blogging this one but I never wrote all of it tonight... ha! I actually wrote this at 8:45 in the morning.. Ha! See... so that’s something new for you to be amazed over (and I’m sure you will... <_< -)

Carry My Wings
©2006 - Grounded

You dance like you mean it
Still you’re walking through the valley of bones
Will you find what you search for
Or is the passion that you long for gone

Jesus I’m a wreck of fear and doubt
Jesus I’m a wreck of pride and self

Almighty God carry my wings and make me fly
Almighty God carry my wings and make me fly

The world is a Babylon
And I long for the day You come back
You said ‘I am God there is no other...” “I am God there is no one like me”

Jesus I’m a wreck of broken dreams
Jesus I’m just a man who’s full of need

Oh when is it all going to end




Those words are my testimony tonight. Almighty God - Carry my wings and make me fly!
‘King Jesus’ - eh Ruth Ann :) - HA! I’ll admit that Black Gospel music is awesome as well! Ha! It certainly gets ya in the mood for worshiping! :) Last night coming home in car, I was with Ruth Ann, Jana, Tash and Candace... and what a time we had. :) It was good for us to fellowship and just even more amazing that all of us clearly showed our testimony (we had a God Bless You Testimony - and you done good Jana..lol)! -Praise the Lord! :) - it left me with the “God is so amazing” feeling.. lol!

So yeah.. Grad is in three weeks! Woot! Ha! I soon needs to get my stuff together (or start thinking at the least) for emceing the grad. Me and Bri are doing it, should be rather funny. But yeah, plenty of time yet tho... or I hope so! :)

So yeah, I'm here at the Wake-A-Thon now.. it's quite funn so far. Everyone is starting to watch a movie so I figured that I would blog.. and THEN watch the movie!

I'll blog tomorrow with LOTS of pics!


God Bless
Peace and Prayers:

~Josh

Chapter 49: Blog War 3

Hey Everyone;

As you can clearly see... it's been "war" (lol) here... between Rudy and I... ;)

Here is my final shot... I'm trying to take him (Rud) down NOW!! This HAS to end! I want my "Chapter 50" to be a nice, long one!!! haha!

Here it is....

This is PROOF that Camilla has been cheating on Prince Charles!! HAHA!

AND

Rudy has released his BRAND NEW CD... the CD looks an aweful lot like the one Celine Dion made... ;)

AND FINALLY... MEET RUBY (the female RUDY)

Peace, Prayers
~Josh


PS... Try to beat me down NOW RUD!! MUAHAHAHA!!!!

Chapter 48: Blog War 2

Here's a picture of Rudy, taken just yesterday.

Show me the gold!!

Peace & Prayers

~Josh

Chapter 47: Blog War

Hey Everyone;

I'm only here for a second, long enough to post NUMBER THREE of the Blog War between Rudy and I! - lol

I started out and put a pic of him wearing a funky hat... (it was super funny..lol) and then yesterday he got me back by matching me up with my "celebrity look-a-like" - haha! - One of the Oslen twins! haha! So yeah.. now I just HAVE to get him back ;) Here goes:



Looks sweet eh? - ha! Try and beat that Norman! lol-

I'll post a real blog later today!

Peace, Prayers

~Josh

Chapter 46: SOE - Continued...

Hey Everyone...

Well, it's the day after the flood. I am just gonna post some new pictures for you all... and I'll get back to regular blogging maybe tomorrow... enjoy:

Flood water flowing across high road in Middle Arm
Two people out in boat in Middle Arm, during flood.
Truck, half under water.
Skidoo burried under rock slide
Pavement bending on Middle Arm High Road.
Looking up Middle Arm Highroad - the only way in and out of town.
Looking down Middle Arm Highroad.. note brand new house on left hand side...

Side of Middle Arm Highroad, washed outBack road in Middle Arm... most of the houses were flooded.

And that's all for now folks! It is indeed a horrible flood.
CBC and NTV has been out today, taping, interviewing etc. people on the flood. Be sure to check out some footage from them on the news tonight!
VOCM has another good article up.. check em out at vocm.com


Peace, Prayers
~Josh

Chapter 45: State of Emergency

Hey Everyone;

I don’t really know how to address this. Words can hardly describe the total devastation that all three communities are in at this time. It was announced that Middle Arm has declared a “state of emergency” after over 100mm of rain fell since yesterday. Severe flooding and damage that is beyond jaw dropping has taken place as flooding in these three little communities occurred. Roads are literally swept away, water as leveled with the town’s bridges and houses, yes people’s HOUSES are ruined. Report after report of peoples homes have been flooded, ruining almost everything. A fair number of houses, cars, basements, etc. in Middle Arm (Burlington’s neighboring community) has been flooded by the water. The road going into Middle Arm (might I add the ONLY road giving access to the town) as been completely destroyed, with a large gap of run off, the road has been washed out through the surrounding wooded area. The road going to Smith’s Harbour has been closed off - noone going in or out- due to the flooding that occurred there. A lone house stands, totally surrounded by water and the owners were forced to evacuate, taking nothing but an overnight bag. The road going through Smith’s Harbour has been washed out as well. An helicopter has been flown in to pick up an elder man in Middle Arm who has taken sick, this is the only way to get people in and out of the town.

As of now, that is all I can say, so I’ll let the following pictures speak for themselves:

Flooding caused the road to Middle Arm to wash out completly, stranding some 600+ residents.

This is a man trying to cross what was Middle Arm Road.

This is the water that flows under the bridge in Burlington

House in Middle Arm... flooded.

Water flowing under the bridge.

Road flooded.

Water flowing on John Matthew's lawn

Water flowing under bridge

Water crossing the road by Jethro Saunders

Water flowing across road out in Perry's Cove
Water level with road, by United Church

Water flowing over road

Tammy Richards house... burried by rockslide and flood water.

VOCM has an excellent report of this story. You can read it here
Both CBC and NTV has covered the story as well. You can read the CBC written story here.
I'll be posting lots more pictures very soon so keep coming back for more updates!
Also, I would like to add thank you to Bev and Tracy for letting me use the photos.

Peace, Prayers

~Josh