Spent some time this afternoon getting our Flickr account up-to-date with photos we have taken throughout the summer. Here's what's new - over 280 photos in 9 new photosets. You can access them directly via the links below, or by visiting our Flickr profile:

• Tallulah Gorge State Park
• Family Resemblances
• LV's Beach Volleyball Party
• First Day of School - August 2008
• Dad and Cheryl's Visit - July 2008
• New Echota Historic Site
• The Stewarts Visit - June 2008
• May 08 Midwest Trip

At the end of June, some friends of ours from Nashville (the McCaskills) visited us here in Georgia for a few hours one afternoon on their way back home from vacation. They brought along their spaniel, Barney. Fast forward to today...

Emerie and I are in Kohl's and I'm looking for a new purse. She's bringing me different ones to try. I'm looking at one that is a gorgeous color called paprika (more like a burnt orange) but feeling if-fy about whether it will really go with everything or not. I ask Emerie, "Sis - what do you think about this color?" "I like it," she replies, "but it looks like the color of Barney's dog poop, you know." I grinned and asked: "So you are telling me this purse is the color of dog poop?" At this point a stranger nearby hears us and bursts out laughing, "That's the funniest thing I've heard all day - no - all week! They just tell it like they see it, don't they?" She adds, "How old is she anyway?" as she walks away. A few minutes later I decide on the same style of purse, but in a chocolate brown shade instead. Me: "What do you think about this one, Sis?" Emerie: "I like it! Now THAT one looks more the color of Mercy's poop." Give them an audience and they'll take it a mile, huh? But I have to admit while attempting to re-tell this story to Chris tonight, I laughed so hard I was brought to tears. As I ended my story to him I asked him, "So, do you wanna see my purse that looks like dog poop?" I don't know if I'll ever get that image out of my mind. Gotta love it.

So, I posted a cool image/link at ChrisEdiger.com to a service called Wordle that will look through your blog/site and paint a cool image of that most used words. Because I only carried over mostly non-family related posts to the new blog, I thought it would be fun to do it on here as well.

We have close to 750 posts here that span five years. Here's a glimpse at some of the most blogged about words.

Not sure where 'biscuits' comes from :-) I don't think the site works exactly right. But still interesting...


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After Bible story, I often sing a song or two (or five) with Emerie. Tonight I asked, "What song do you want to sing tonight?" Emerie replied, "Sing me one I haven't heard before - a long one." I thought a moment and then sang two verses of "Because He Lives" When I finished Emerie commented, "That was good, Mom. You know - you sound a little like Ariel." (The Little Mermaid)

Andrea made some store-bought biscuits as part of a "breakfast for lunch." The kids were discussing at the table how much they loved them.

Emerie said, "If I sold biscuits, I'd sell these for free so everyone could eat them!"

Micah said, "If I sold biscuits, I'd sell them for a dollar because they're so good! If you sold them for free then everyone would be running in & grabbing all of them."

Josiah said, "If I had two stores where I sold biscuits, one in the U.S. & one in Canada, I'd sell them for $1 at the one in the U.S. & for $2 at the one in Canada - because everything always costs more there."

Well, after a couple of months of want-to, and a couple of weeks of hard work, the new blog is now live! I’ve spend the greater part of the past week tweaking the design and importing over quite a few of my previous blog posts from our family site. Didn’t realize what five years of blogging looked like until I tried sifting through 700+ entries to find those that fit the new blog!

Still not completely where I’d like it. For example, the side navigation on the individual post pages (the one that says “Such and such” is the previous post, and “Such and such” is the next post) isn’t working correctly. You can still reach any post via the archive links in the main nav, or in the side bar of the individual post pages, or via the search box. Hopefully I’ll get the last little bugs fixed next week.

For now, it’s good enough, and with the fam getting set to head out to Nashville for a mini-vacation I wanted to go ahead & get it up and running.

FYI - you can now reach me at ChrisEdiger.com or InTheThinPlaces.com. Family stuff will likely end up more so right here at TheEdigers.com, although some will bleed over to the new blog as well.

More on the “Thin Places” in later posts on the new blog. For now, hop on over & take a look, then let me know what you think. I’d love any feedback!