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Christian, wife, mom, homemaker, teacher (both at a Lutheran high school and 16 years of home schooling), personal trainer (16 years), family financial executive officer, sports enthusiast (participant and observer), writer, serious bibiliophile. I love my family, reading, writing, horses, travel, mountains (and oceans and deserts…and desserts, too), sports (especially hockey), the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Green Bay Packers, the Tour de France, dark chocolate, cooking and eating, photography, history, pit bulls, wine, Guinness and quite a few other things. Learning about blogs and thankful my husband knows all about computers!!
Currently struggling with decluttering and packing 27 years worth of living in one house with four people (although not four for that entire time), preparatory to moving not only to a new (rental) house, but to a new place. Since it’s to finally rejoin my husband, it’s well worth it, but still a lot of work. And as a saver, it’s difficult to let things go. Always a journey and a new challenge given to me by the Lord, Who for some reason keeps wanting me to grow more and in different ways. 
Hello — I have always loved sharing words and thoughts with you, and I want to nominate you with this: http://bwthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/versitile-blogger-award/
bw
I don’t sell goat cheese, but I am also a Christian homeschooling mom with a husband who keeps all our computers running and I used to work at a fitness center, too. Oh, yes, I love chocolate! So, now that I’ve read your about, I’m eager to read more. I usually read the about pages first…Sorry–I’m scared of pit bulls, but then I was scared of our rottweiler cross at first. She is a teddy bear!
Nice to meet you. I’m glad you stopped by. sounds like we have a lot in common and I look forward to talking more!
I’m not selling cheese right now either as they don’t need a second person. I miss it, but it does free up my Saturday mornings. As far as pit bulls go, rottweilers used to be thought of in the same way (and still are by many people.) There are mean pit bulls, but I’m convinced that most of them have been made that way by people, bred for that or both. All the ones we meet are complete love bugs.
Yes, what you said makes sense. My shih tzu is way scarier in behavior than our rottibouv, yet they get away with it. We don’t let our little guy,though and now he doesn’t nip anymore…
Little dogs are often much more aggressive than big dogs, but they just can’t do as much damage. You can always just drop kick them, if necessary.
Hello — I nominate you for the beautiful blogger award. Stop by my awards page to find out more.
Hi Janet, you have been added to the authors page, one thing i / you forgot to do was click follow poets corner, Harry.
OK, thanks. Still waiting for Bill to have time to tell me how to get the Poet’s Corner box on my blog.
I appreciate your comment about my poem no choice ….Let me say this , banks lend to people trhat cant afford things …property returns to them …people are dying and living in the street…please understand I know how things work ….things arent good in this nation . the next few years things that have never happened will happen and yes the goverment gets bigger and we get smaller by the day
guinness. mmmm.
My default beer of choice. After that, anything dark. When Bill and I go to the sports bar, I always ask what their non-light beer specials are. I don’t consider light beer to beer and Guinness has only 125 calories anyway.
i don’t care how many calories it has – i’ll drink it anyway!
Good choice!
I’ll be you felt as betrayed as I did with Armstrong’s situation. I use to watch the Tour DeFrance, but after repeated episodes of the cheating by cyclists I just have no intereswt anymore.
Bill and I have assumed for years that Lance was cheating or else how could he win so much when everyone else was doping? And he turned out to be a nasty person as well. Le Tour, which I love, has to realize that if they want cyclists not to dope, they’re going to have to do things like put in more rest days, so that “real” people can survive. I hope things change. I know in the past couple years, at least several teams have committed to riding clean and I hope that increases.
It would be best if they spread out the race over more days. It is ridiculous to expect the wear an tear on the bodies those guys endure. I still enjoy watching for the scenery and spectacle.
I was looking for a way to contact you and couldn’t find an email. I saw here that you’re a homeschooling pro! We have a lot to talk about then… over tea! You can email me about getting together: kdillmanjones at gmail dot com
We are currently in the moving process but after April 1st I’ll be a lot more free. We are in Lake County, so maybe something near Palatine would be half way?
Ha! Yes, always room for growth, it seems. The plants and flowers at the market are quite colorful! My daughter homeschools, too. I would not like to think about moving, we’ve been in the same house 35 years, so I can imagine what you are going through.
It seems unusual these days to be in the same house so long. In our case, it seems it’s time to move but it’s a lot of work. I’m getting there, though. Thanks for stopping by.
Janet
I am so happy to hear about the move. I am sure it will be exciting!
janet
Keep me posted… My husband and I also just moved in to a new city, St. Pete Beach. We are now renting, but are both looking forward to find our own house we can call our haven. I am so happy for you!
I’m sure the blog will be almost the first to know when the move happens as it will make at least one blog post! Good luck to you in your new place and I hope you find “your” house soon.
janet
[...] Friday Fictioneers is a group of people who get together writing flash fiction – short stories – of around 100 words. The stories are created from a prompt which is from a photo that Rochelle chooses out of ones that she has been offered or has asked if she can use. This weeks photo comes from Janet Webb. [...]
Hey Janet. I am going to host a multi-blogger exercise to create a collaborative fiction story starting May 1st. I hope to have twelve writers (eleven plus myself). Would you be interested? You would only be asked to contribute 750 words on your assigned time period (three days to complete).
Joe, I would love to do that but May 1 – 3 I’m going to be busy getting our younger daughter from school and going to our older daughter’s graduation from her MBA program, all with many hundreds of miles of driving. So I probably won’t have time for much more than FF and my blog. Thank you for asking and I would be interested if you do it again.
janet
Okay. I will see how it goes this time and if i do it again i will contact you.
Hi. Nice blog. I see you don’t allow for comments on your photos or writing. Or I can’t find a way. Am I being obtuse?
I love comments! There should be a comment box at the bottom of all the current comments. Let me know if you find it…hmmm, I guess I’ll know if I see your comment.
janet
Yup, just checked another blog with the same theme as mine. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the current comments and there’s a box. I look forward to hearinr what you have to say and I’m glad you like my blog. I love doing it!
janet
If you just see a post with likes at the bottom and no comments, just click on the little speech bubble to the right of the title, which brings up the comments, and scroll to the bottom and comment. Or click on the title of the post and then go to the bottom.
Thanks for liking my post on Patterns and it’s wonderful to meet you in Blog sphere. We certainly share quite a few things in common besides aging with peace of mind. I like reading, food, hiking and powerwalking (still active with 10K and half marathon races). I am following your Blog, and hope you’l; do the same to keep in touch.:)
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You are hereby nominated:
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Hi Janet. I have a comma question for this week’s FF. Can you assist me?
Sure. Send it to my email address: TeaNatious@gmail.com and I’ll see what I can do.
janet
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Janet – here is a good link to the Myers-Briggs info. This is the one instance I use an acronym without first referencing the full term – because people search specifically on that term. (My blog has moved me into the creative writing challenges though…) But here is the link – with some well researched references:
http://wp.me/p39jqC-pe
I need to reorganize my blog – I may have to “relo” due to some personal issues that have cropped up – thinking that one through. Let me know if you have questions about this…
Thanks.
Thanks for the link. Now I understand more about where you’re coming from. I just skimmed that particular type right now. Interesting stuff.