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First up: L'il Rose is doing great - you'd never know she was sick! I've quit giving Thiamine for now, but we are watching her pretty closely. I think Ali's right - I think she od'd on the All Stock. Silly goat! :lol:

Yesterday was Town Day. My kids are great - Herself went with me, and Himself went with Mom, and both of them saved us quite a bit of money. I came in $150 UNDER my budget - not too bad, huh? (Of course, I'll be going back today to pick up a few extras - like the clothesline the Chloe-monster ATE last night - but still. I'll still be well under what I budgeted!) All was well until we were leaving - Mom tripped and banged up her knee. She said it was OK, but I'm still concerned.

The children are currently cleaning the doe barn - it's not too bad this month. I did most of the inside chores this AM for them - I don't see the need to make them do both; we'll do school when they get done. We're still in Summer mode, so it's light. "Real" school will be starting in August; I have scheduled to add 1 class a week until we're at full load. Should make things easier on them.

Oh- Ali, no Dr. Who??????? IF you're interested, (and if your Roku has it) 1channel has both the original and the reboot. Since you're new, I'd suggest starting with the reboot - the 9th Doctor (Eccleston) is really, really good. The older ones are also good, but I think you'll get into the reboot easier. As Herself says, "It's really Random! I LIKE it!" :rofl: (I only saw bits and pieces of episodes over the years, so my "official" 1st Doctor is 10 (David Tennant). Even then, I only saw 1 complete episode before we started watching the reboot as a family.) It's a fun show, but it IS random, and the humor is definitely British. :lol:

Need to go hunt up some books - laters!

A rebuttal...

that will mean NOTHING to most of you. But I have to get it out...

In a post, you said " In other words, His blood was shed in place of the OT covenant of shedding blood to cut oneself off from sin (aka circumcision). In other words, Abraham was circumcised by his own shedding of blood, and we’re circumcised from sin by Messiah’s blood."

No. No no no no no no NO. Circumcision has NOTHING to do with sin, or the cutting off from. Circumcision is the outward sign of the covenant with Yah. IF it had to do with sin, then a) the Jews wouldn't NEED a Messiah, would they?; b) only men would be covered, so women would be out of luck; and c) why would the Temple run sacrifices all Bloody Day Long? (the pun was TOTALLY not intended, honest!) Also, if His Blood cuts us off from sin, why do we mere humans who believe in Him STILL sin? Even when we try our darndest not to?

Sin is disobedience to God, yes? Sin HAS to be covered BY BLOOD (hence the animal sacrifices) if you (the sinner) wants to be near to God. His Holiness won't allow it any other way. Yeshua's sacrifice REPLACED the animal sacrifices; His Blood washes sin away while animal blood simply covered it.

This is wrong thinking. Circumcision is about obedience, yes - NOT sin. IF it were about sin, then why did Paul say that new believers did NOT need to be circumcised (and yet he himself was)? Yeshua's sacrifice had *nothing* to do with marking one's flesh as a sign of accepting the covenant - it had everything to do with defeating sin and death.

:grumble: Back to your regularly scheduled day now.....