http://thewilli.com Life is Adventure Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:43:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Come to TheWilli.com to view this video! var so = new SWFObject('http://thewilli.com/wp-content/videos/player.swf','mpl','470','390','9'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addParam('flashvars','&file=http://thewilli.com/wp-content/videos/passTheBaton-highweb.mp4&image=http://thewilli.com/wp-content/videos/vidpic.jpg&skin=http://thewilli.com/wp-content/videos/schoon.swf&bufferlength=10'); so.write('player'); I'm still playing around and experimenting with codecs, figuring out the best combination of video and audio quality. Please let me know how the video fared on your various internet connections! Once you load the video ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/27/a-lesson-from-the-olympics-turn-up-your-speakers/ I'm sure all the farmers and residents of our county are happy, because we now have RAIN! Apparently this area was in a drought last year, and the precipitation hasn't done much better on this time around either. For the past three weeks at least we've had absolutely no rain...until today! ~Wetness. ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/26/rain/ By now our readers may well have surmised from my last post that we had family here for a while. (after all, how else could niece Sarah be here?) And of course that assumption is correct! These past two weeks my sister-in-law Tina and her three children have been staying ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/22/snapshots-from-last-week/ Guess what I found at Providence Glen!!! I was nonchalantly picking flowers the other day when I came across a rare creature of God's creation. Which soon lead to a full-fledged "photo op" of Providence Glen! (Haven't had one of those in a while :-D) Enjoy! [gallery=89] http://thewilli.com/2008/08/21/backyard-nature/ Good bye Movie Maker, hello Sony Vegas! Sure, it was good hunk of change ($85), but I believe that this is a good investment. Sony Vegas simply runs at a whole different level than Movie Maker, and the learning curve can be a little steep at first. ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/20/video-editing/ -Mom enjoying her special day at the birthplace of Davy Crockett; they share the same birthday you know! http://thewilli.com/2008/08/17/happy-birthday-mom/ We've always loved playing music as a family, and especially worshiping the Lord together. But of course, you guys already know that! God really blessed us with the opportunity to be on the worship team at church in NY for many years. (Good times, eh Mr. Darcy?) And now ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/14/music-in-the-near-future/ ~my little niece Sarah May, who is here with her Mommy and two brothers for a couple of weeks. -Sarah, playing with her first purse. :-) -engrossed in watching VeggieTales "Huh?" Cutey Pie! Big yawn! -thinking hard about something... -and I'll close with her lovely smile! Isn't she so cute? -Kasie P.S. More pictures Sarah's family to follow soon! http://thewilli.com/2008/08/12/the-many-faces-of-sarah-may/ Its hard to believe that this is post number 200!  I would like to thank all of our readers for.......well....reading :) And even though out of 200 posts I've only written around 5 that does not mean that I haven't been doing anything. Mom's been keeping me busy with carpentry projects. Here ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/08/my-latest-projects-and-post-200/ Here are the rest of the pictures we took during our time with Joy and Katelyn last week. They left last Thursday and returned safe and sound in Colorado. I was sad to see them go, but we had such a neat time together, and so I'm left with lovely ... http://thewilli.com/2008/08/06/the-rest-of-the-story/