A gorgeous day here.  Beautiful blue skies, cool breezes, copious amounts of sunshine. Green all around. Just gorgeous.  A day this wonderful can't possibly hold any evil, can it?  Like paradise.  As I make my loops around the park, I cannot but help notice the playground.  It is a sight of destruction.  Men in bobcats scooping up debris and ( Read more... )

  This is an old draft that I started last year and never posted, so I'm posting it just because. (March 14, 2011 ( Read more... )

 When I got back from dropping Ashley off at school, I got a wicked surprise.  Practically on my doorstep was a rather large inky black dead crow.  Did I mention that it was dead?  Oh yes.  Now, I live in the land of stray cats, so I was kind of hoping that one might find it and drag it off for lunch, but no such luck.  What? They can invade my ( Read more... )

The other day, while taking my morning two mile walk in the park I noticed two hawks on the light post. I have seen one, on occasion, but never two together. Although, not crowded, the few people walking around that morning seemed to not notice the hawks at all. They were beautiful birds and I was glad to see them. They sat up there for a while as ( Read more... )

"All my springs of joy are in you." Psalm 87:7 (NIV ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I work, but today I'm off.  Ashley went to school yesterday, but has become so congested I let her skip school again today and rest up.  I don't think she has the pig virus.  She hasn't eaten any pork or kissed any hogs lately.  Just kidding!  She hasn't been all that sick, no fever, etc.  Seems to be just a common cold.  She was bored ( Read more... )

Yes, I am going to return to the blogosphere.  I've been meaning to, but  somehow, I just couldn't get myself to do it.  My life kind of spun out of control for several reasons.  If you don't already know, then that's ok.  I do not wish to blog about it in any detail.  Let it suffice it to say that I was let go from my job under very disturbing ( Read more... )

I know I have been away from my blog for a while.  I confess that I haven't  felt much like writing.  The economic down-turn has affected our family's lifestyle, budget etc. and we have been forced to make cuts.   It is becoming a struggle to pay everything and let some things go, but God is faithful and we are hopeful that things will improve.  I ( Read more... )

That last video was, while funny, the wrong one.  Here is the one I think is the funniest.  I decided to just leave that one.

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BTW, we had a wonderful visit last week from Rachael.  She got to see most of the family, and a lot of old friends.  We spent time eating out together,  visiting family in Brooksville, and going to church and the beach, among ( Read more... )

It has been raining for a week now and we are all suffering from a little cabin fever.  I only got to take the kids in my class outside to play twice.  Today was actually a pretty nice day with a few showers in the morning.  Then out came the sun.  Later, though, it clouded up again...so Ashley and I made a couple of videos.  Here is the one I ( Read more... )