This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Aug
18
2015
And that is why you don’t leave a 4-year-old alone with ink stamps.
Thus says the Lord God, “Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, ‘Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague!'”
Ezekiel 6:11
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Aug
13
2015
Whether I’m waiting for someone or just arrived somewhere early because I like to be early and hate to be late, sometimes I find myself with some extra time. It used to be that I would stand back and people-watch. Or things-watch. Or daydream. Or whatever – I have no problems having nothing to do.
But it does bother some people – they can’t understand that someone can just stand there and not need something to do. In the past, these people would come up to me and ask if I was okay, or if I was lost, or if I needed help.
No thanks, I’m just waiting.
They would take that as their cue to start a conversation. Something along the lines of ‘since this person has nothing to do, I will provide him with something, in the form of talking. Everyone must be bored if they are not in a conversation.’
But I was enjoying the silence and not having to talk.
But technology has furnished us with a solution – the smartphone. Or phone as it is being called these days, since just about no one has anything but a smartphone.
You can stand about anywhere, conspicuously or not, and people will leave you alone as long as you look like you are texting or scrolling through something on your phone.
I can continue doing things as I used to, now I just hold my phone in front of me and people leave me alone. ‘He must not need me to start a conversation with him since he is already in a texting conversation with someone else.’
These things you have done and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.
Psalm 50:21
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Aug
11
2015
I saw this pile of bags near a local barn:
Looked like horse feed. But not being very knowledgeable about horse feed, I didn’t quite know what to make of this label:
12% ALL HORSE
Not sure what that means. Is it all horse, or only 12% horse?
I wish they would make up their minds.
And they were bringing horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all countries.
2 Chronicles 9:28
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Aug
6
2015
Some of you may recall that we recently moved. Part of the move process involved getting furniture from the 2nd story down to the moving van.
This was a complicated process, as some of the furniture was too big (queen box spring, long dresser) to fit down the stairs, as the stairway makes a turn at the bottom and larger items can’t make the corner. We knew it would be a problem getting those items out, as we had a problem getting them in.
Back then, we borrowed a scaffolding and used that to load the furniture in through the upstairs window. This time, we went to borrow the scaffolding and someone else was already borrowing it.
Not to be deterred, I went to the nearby store and bought 2 sheets of plywood and 3 dozen 2x4s. And some nails.
A few hours later, and with some help from friends and relatives, we had a scaffolding:
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Aug
4
2015
We finally moved. After about 3 years of looking, we found a house we both agreed on and that the sellers agreed with us on the price.
The good news is that it was only a few miles from our old house, so we could move things in stages. First, some boxing up some things and moving them over. Then, one big day of moving furniture. Then, more cleaning and boxing of secondary items.
The bad news is that it was only a few miles from our old house, so we didn’t have to move everything at once. We can keep going back to the old house for things we forgot or weren’t important at first. Which means that the move is dragging on. A bunch of stuff (e.g. boxes of winter clothes) is still at the old house, because it didn’t have to move. Now we still have to get it out of there, but there is not as much motivation any more.
Afterward, however, the people moved out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
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Jul
30
2015
I’m finally back to a zero balance at the library. We had overdue books since April.
They weren’t accumulating fines since April. As soon as I realized they were overdue, we renewed the check-out to stop the fines.
The fine was $11. And it cost $4 to pay to replace the book if you give up and say it’s lost. But the library is generous in that whatever you pay to replace the book is applied to the fine.
But along the way, other books came and went and accrued fines. Here’s a tip: if you let a 3-year-old check out books on your account, don’t let them out of your sight. He will set them down somewhere and then promptly forget where.
So the total was $17 today, and we are the proud owners of two small books.
… if we can find them.
And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’
Luke 15:9
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Jul
28
2015
Balm shelter.
There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.
Isaiah 4:6
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