Who Would Jesus Heal? [and WWJD?] about the US Healthcare/Health insurance debate?

To all Christians, who did Jesus heal?

A man with leprosy(Matthew 8 v 2-3 Mark 1 v 40-42 Luke 5 v 12-13)
An army officer's servant (Matthew 8 v 5-13 Luke 7 v 1-10)
Peter's mother-in-law (Matthew 8 v 14-15 Mark 1 v 30-31 Luke 4 v 38-39).
A paralysed man (Matthew 9 v 2-8 Mark 2 v 1-12 Luke 5 v 18-26)
The woman who touched him (Matthew 9 v 20-22 Mark 5 v 25-34 Luke 8 v 43-48)
Two blind men (Matthew 9 v 27-31)
A man with a withered hand (Matthew 12 v 9-13 Mark 3 v 1-5 Luke 6 v 6-10)
A man born blind (Matthew 20 v 29-34 Mark 10 v 46-52 Luke 18 v 35-43)
A deaf and mute man (Mark 7 v 31-37)
A blind man (Mark 8 v 22-25)
A crippled woman (Luke 13 v 10-17)
A man with dropsy (Luke 14 v 1-4)
Ten lepers (Luke 17 v 11-19)
Malchus (Luke 22 v 50-51; John 18 v 10)
The official's son (John 4 v 46-54)
The paralysed man at the pool (John 5 v 1-9)
A man born blind (John 9)

The rich, the privileged, the homeless, friends, relatives, the disabled, the outcast. Consider whether the “Public Option”, whether “Single Payer”, whether “Universal” Health Insurance, isn’t something more like WWJD than the alternative. You decide.

A Great Weekend

Well, yeah. That says it all. Pat and I went up to Belfair, Wa to visit with Dominic and Kelsie. We drove up in the Smart car (Which does 75 on the freeway just fine, thank you), on Friday night, and stayed until Saturday afternoon. We really enjoyed the new chicks Dom had hatched in his incubator and then got the hen to adopt by first putting golf balls in her nest. She shared with us some of their squash and cucumbers, and we brought up blueberries, potatoes and corn on the cob.

Sunday morning I went to the garden to harvest the rest of the green beans, and what do you know there was also more corn that was ready (another 26 ears). I brought the last of the green beans home with the sweet corn, and canned 11 pints of corn and 7 pints of green beans. Then put on some vegetable soup for supper, washed the two cars, mowed the lawn and did laundry and dishes. Suddenly I'm feeling tired. Oh, and my letter to the editor at the Columbian was in today's paper and I already got a call from a fan. So, I challenge anyone to top this weekend!

Oh, see the picture at the bottom. That was two seonds before the chicken nibbled on Dom's ear, and one second before he turned his head to look at the chicken, and when the ckicken pecked him in the eye.

Garden Update

This picture shows the monster corn we have. I no longer can reach to the top of the plants. They are putting on ears of corn now. Maybe ready in a couple of weeks or less.

And some of today's brief picking.

This shot compares to the others from around the same angle. Note the squash monster has taken over a quarter of the garden, and the peas are about done. Thanks Diana for picking peas.

And this shot is to prove to Dom that the squash plant did have a shoot that was as thick as my wrist.

Ebacher Family Reunion

Pictures from the weekend in Minnesota. Pat and I drove.

And the beet goes on.... And the beet goes on...

The garden is producing well for us. You can use this picture to compare to the prior ones from about the same angle. Since this we did the first harvest of peas, and weeded the buggers. Also green and yellow beans and an initial installment of carrots. The peas were frozen, and the beans and carrots are canned. What a weekend. You can see in the picture towards the back that the corn is now fully tasselled, and the potatoes are, well, huge. In the last picture you can see the beets I just picked. There's about another crop that size if the one's that were left behind will just grow now. I'm becoming a big believer in thinning when the plants initially come up, especially beets and carrots.

Peas, beans, beets and carrots will continue to produce over the next month. Then the corn will be in. The squash, cucumbers, tomatoes and finally potatoes and pumpkins. We are going to need a lot of canning jars.

I wish I had a new picture of Pat's hair as it comes in. It's salt and pepper and soft like a baby. Now about 3/4 inch long. It' s looking pretty good too.

Olie said to Lena... "Hey Lena, I've been taking this Vigaro because the doctor said it would make me more potent." Lena says.. "Oh Olie, not Vigaro. Vigaro is a plant fertilizer. You're not supposed to take that. You are thinking about Viagra." Olie says, "Oh my, that might explain the berries!" [Courtesy of Garrison Keillor]


See the beets. You thought they were apples, didn't you.

Peas, yummy.

Kelsie sent this picture, and I must say that I really love it to pieces. Nice picture you guys.

Thanks for all the good wishes on our 32nd anniversay today, from everyone. I wish you were all here today with us to celebrate together. Pictures, Skype and cell phones will have to suffice.

Calling on all Ebachers to check this out....

As a fellow Ebacher, a fellow Catholic, and a fellow North American and member of the human race, I am very proud of the work of my father's cousin, the Arch Bishop of Gatineau, Ontario, Msg. Roger Ebacher, as seen in this video link. I would encourage the whole family to view it. I wish US Catholics were as liberal minded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJrBmcc1g1Y