The Official word from Chicago!

In case you missed the recommendations on facebook, here is the official comments from those in the know as to what buildings to see in Chicago:

The Art Insitute, Opera House, Museums, both the Science & Industry and Field's Museum, Wrigley Building. -per Becky

The Water Tower, Marshall Fields Building, All the buildings on Dearborn, New Trump Tower, take the Architectural Tour on the river, also churches, Presbyterian on Michigan Ave. -per Karen.

Haven't heard from any one else, but these will keep us busy enough, if I ever make it back there again.!

I Should Have Been an Architect-

A Look at Chicago

Chicago Theater, Cornelius and George Rapp 1921

Chicago Hilton Towers, Holabird & Roche 1927
Renovated by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz Lasso 1986

Tribune Tower Raymond Hood
John Howell's 1925

Union Station
Grahm, Anderson, Probst and White 1925

Wrigley Building
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White 1924

Harold Washington Library
Hammond, Beeby & Babka 1993

These are old style, however, Chicago has many new modern buildings of interest.
Which new ones do you think our cousins would recommend seeing?

For more interesting info on Chicago Architecture see the following links.

www.thechicagoloop.org/chicagofigural.html
www.chicagoarchitecturetoday.com
arcchicago.blogspot.com

Old Year winds down, New Year to begin.

Today, is my most busy day of the year at work. I must make sure everything is correctly entered in the books for the entire year. So I will be very busy!

I am setting a goal to get my blog back on track! More info on recipes, gardens, animals, Bible chapters, and architecture. Also, more pictures and updates regarding life in our little apt!

There are many architecture finds in Chicago that will be explored in a future post.
For Today! I found these great pictures of the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago.
Hope you enjoy them!

The day I visited the observation deck, was not this foggy, but it was kinda sprinkling so the view was not perfectly clear, but we could still see pretty good.

Struck by lightning, May 11, 2005 picture by Christopher Gazdic.

I love lightning pictures don't you?

Do You Have a Cold or Flu?

I did! But I am better now!

What to do when you can't slow down, but must take care of yourself?

Go to the nearest Taco Shop.
(The hole in the wall kind where all our Hispanic friends frequent)

Order a big bowl or two or three, bowls of Pozole and take it home, pour it into a nice ceramic bowl and enjoy.
If you have a family, order enough for them too. Then relax, so you can function the next day.

The following day:

On your way home from work, stop off at a Thai restaurant.
Order the Tom Yum (Hot and Sour Soup)
This soup has chicken , lemon grass, cilantro, mushrooms and spicy chiles!
(Again, be sure to get enough to share with family)
Rest, so as to be able to function the next day.

By the third day, it you are feeling better,
make some homemade chicken soup!

Every nite before bed, smear Vicks VapoRub all over your chest and neck.

Take a half a dose of TyQuil and nite nite nite!
Rest as much as you can.
Don't do dishes until you are well.

This is what I did, and it seemed to work very well!
Hope you all stay happy and healthy!

A Child Has Been Born to Us

Isaiah 9:6,7

Isaiah points to Jesus' birth and the role he would have in God's purpose as very significant! Yes, Jesus would become a mighty ruler. He would be called Prince of Peace, and there would be no end to peace or to his princely rule. This grand rulership would be sustained "by means of justice and by means of righteousness."

Please compare Isaiah's prophecy, to the words of the angel Gabriel spoke to Mary, "This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most High...And Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule as king over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of his kingdom." -Luke 1:32, 33

The main significance of Jesus' birth lay in the work that Christ would accomplish as the appointed King of God's Kingdom. Christ's rule can benefit all. In fact, the angels that sang to the shepherds showed that his birth would bring, "peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased."- Luke 2:14, Today's English Version

One way to show honor to Jesus is to continue reading his words, as recorded in the Bible. No doubt you have read Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount, recorded at Matthew 5:3-7:27.

This is a good time to refresh our memory of these words of Jesus. As you read, imagine you are there among the crowd of people, perhaps you like many others have traveled a great distance and are now on the mountainside eager to hear Jesus speak. First, Jesus begins by healing all in attendance, when each one is free of pain and illness, he sits down and begins to teach. To give weight to his teachings, he does not point to Jewish oral traditions nor to any well-known Jewish rabbis. Instead he repeatedly quotes from the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). The message he presents is straightforward, his wording simple, his meaning clear. When he is finished the crowd is astounded! They have just listened to the wisest man who ever lived! -Matthew 7:28, 29

My dear family who I love! Continue to build up your knowledge of Christ Jesus, reading the eyewitness accounts of Jesus life and message as recorded in your own Bible, for in Jesus are "all the treasures of wisdom"-Colossians 2:3. (compare: John 17:3)

A Birth to Remember!

"For there has been a child born to us, there has been a son given to us; and the princely rule will come upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace." -Isaiah 9:6

"To the abundance of the princely rule and to peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom in order to establish it firmly and to sustain it by means of justice and by means of righteousness, from now on and to time indefinite. The very zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this." -Isaiah 9:7

How should Jesus Christ be remembered? What do you think?

www.watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm

Snow on the Mountains!

Beautiful! Cold! Invigorating!

What to do with Snow... ????

Build a Snowman!

It is more work than you think!

So, get some friends to help, then have a game of cards!

Happy! Happy!