Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Thursday, January 7, 2016
January 7, 2016. Madison, GA. Declaration of War
I have reached the limit of my patience with the lady bugs, Asian beetles, lady birds or whatever other aliases they go by. It's time to pull out the big guns. After a few phone calls, I settled on Ortho Home Defense which will guarantee the elimination of more than 30 critters and pests with a money back guarantee and a toll-free help line in English and Spanish. It's interesting that the ingredient label lists Bifenthrin 0.0500% and Zeta-Cypermethrin 0.0125% and Other Ingredients(not identified) 99.9375%. Those first two must be "somethin' else" or those "Others" must be on the Olympic Games banned substances list, because the first pass around the outside bins and inside cracks and crevices has yielded a major crop of "let's get out of here" bugs. Some came out with their wings in the air and I think I saw a few carrying white flags.
It' not a fair fight right now with my 1.33 gallon weapon of mass destruction, but the initial invasion wasn't fair either and it was long overdue that we took the offense and ran with the ball. Right now it's fairly quiet on the Georgia front, with a lot of casualties looking like armadillos on a Mississippi highway (belly up), and a few stragglers who are returning home to find that the ground rules for living here, or living at all, have changed. I'm not declaring a "George W" victory right now, but will hold out hope that we can get to the negotiation table in less than 6 days. We will settle for nothing less than their total surrender, and unless they want to start paying rent and do some of the chores (?), we will settle for nothing less than "bye-bye-bug".
The war is on.
Sent from my iPad
It' not a fair fight right now with my 1.33 gallon weapon of mass destruction, but the initial invasion wasn't fair either and it was long overdue that we took the offense and ran with the ball. Right now it's fairly quiet on the Georgia front, with a lot of casualties looking like armadillos on a Mississippi highway (belly up), and a few stragglers who are returning home to find that the ground rules for living here, or living at all, have changed. I'm not declaring a "George W" victory right now, but will hold out hope that we can get to the negotiation table in less than 6 days. We will settle for nothing less than their total surrender, and unless they want to start paying rent and do some of the chores (?), we will settle for nothing less than "bye-bye-bug".
The war is on.
Sent from my iPad
Monday, January 4, 2016
January 4, 2016 Madison, GA. Back to Work
It was nice to have ten days "off" for Christmas and New Years. Phil and Sharon visited for part of the time; Karen had a few days of keeping up with the correspondence in the Madison Discipleship School; it rained quite a bit and it was generally warm and un-wintery; we dressed in shorts most of the time; slept "in" almost every day; ate a bunch; played games; went to Sunday School and Church; took a few long walks; moved our motor home; and today we went back to work.
I raked some ditches, filled a small truck-load of tree limbs which had fallen from the leafless trees and then promptly fell asleep in the motor home as I sat down to write this blog entry. For the next two nights we expect the temperature to drop into the low 20's, so I did insulate the water hose in the hope we will not need to unhook, rehook, unhook and rehook or use the water pump and run a heater in the bin as we generally do in cold weather. In any event we are glad we are not having to endure the Colorado or Arkansas winter which has been almost steadily cold and wet. We have just had the wet part, and a lot of it.
It was nice to have the time "off", but it was good to have a few things to do today to get back into the routine we have committed to. Tomorrow we will have a half day of prayer for the Mission and the activities of SLMI around the world, for the missionaries, branches, associate schools and printing, discipling, and church-planting activities we support.
Again, Happy New Year, let the work continue, God's Will be done and His Kingdom expand and impact the world and each of our sphere's of influence within it. To Him be the glory.
Sent from my iPad
I raked some ditches, filled a small truck-load of tree limbs which had fallen from the leafless trees and then promptly fell asleep in the motor home as I sat down to write this blog entry. For the next two nights we expect the temperature to drop into the low 20's, so I did insulate the water hose in the hope we will not need to unhook, rehook, unhook and rehook or use the water pump and run a heater in the bin as we generally do in cold weather. In any event we are glad we are not having to endure the Colorado or Arkansas winter which has been almost steadily cold and wet. We have just had the wet part, and a lot of it.
It was nice to have the time "off", but it was good to have a few things to do today to get back into the routine we have committed to. Tomorrow we will have a half day of prayer for the Mission and the activities of SLMI around the world, for the missionaries, branches, associate schools and printing, discipling, and church-planting activities we support.
Again, Happy New Year, let the work continue, God's Will be done and His Kingdom expand and impact the world and each of our sphere's of influence within it. To Him be the glory.
Sent from my iPad
Friday, January 1, 2016
January 1, 2016. Madison, GA. Happy New Year
We spent our last night of 2015 and our first morning of 2016 in a new location for our road home. Similar to our site at the Passion Play, we are now at the end of the parking lot here at Source of Light. Our old RV site, which we were in all last winter and the past two months, was very rural: we had lots of trees, grass, leaves, quiet and because of the recent rains, a lot of mud. The plan is to improve those sites by making them more level, trimming the trees to prevent damage from falling limbs or the trees themselves and eliminate the mud situation. Hugh and LaVon, our neighbors there will be moving next to us in the next few days. Their mud situation there is far worse than ours was.
Our new location is closer to the Mission building, closer to the road and traffic noise, less scenic, but comes with more TV stations, no mud, nicer hookups and closer access to my donkey friends. Unfortunately the lady bugs came with us.
I just checked our website and saw that we have had 6099 hits so far. Wow! That's pretty good, not viral, but wonderful. Thank you to those who have been following us and for the prayers which have blessed us and have helped us in our journey. God has certainly guided us through a lot of challenges and we look forward to what is up the road. We hope you are encouraged, amused and challenged by what we post. We are praying for all our friends and family, for The Great Passion Play, Source of Light Ministries, Shiloh Christian Church and all those who are serving The Lord around the world. Let His will be our objective and His Kingdom come now and forever. Rejoice in Him. All glory to You, Lord.
Sent from my iPad
Our new location is closer to the Mission building, closer to the road and traffic noise, less scenic, but comes with more TV stations, no mud, nicer hookups and closer access to my donkey friends. Unfortunately the lady bugs came with us.
I just checked our website and saw that we have had 6099 hits so far. Wow! That's pretty good, not viral, but wonderful. Thank you to those who have been following us and for the prayers which have blessed us and have helped us in our journey. God has certainly guided us through a lot of challenges and we look forward to what is up the road. We hope you are encouraged, amused and challenged by what we post. We are praying for all our friends and family, for The Great Passion Play, Source of Light Ministries, Shiloh Christian Church and all those who are serving The Lord around the world. Let His will be our objective and His Kingdom come now and forever. Rejoice in Him. All glory to You, Lord.
Sent from my iPad
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
December 29, 2015. Madison, GA. 3.....2.....1.....2016
Counting down the final days of 2015. How quickly the year went by and in a few days we will be writing 2016 or /16 on all our checks, documents and other places where a date is required. A lot of "worldly" events will take place in the coming year: Super Bowl 50, the Rio Summer Olympics, a Presidential Election and all the events leading up to it, microchipping of all dogs in England, a bunch of space probes and first-time space events. We can anticipate a growing number of strange-named drugs with horrendous side effects, wilder weather and a host of theories on why it is occurring, and occurring more frequently. In all that will happen, we are certain that we have no certainty, and will constantly be "surprised" by what we as humans come up with and what the "world" is capable of.
But of more importance is the reality that we are all getting older, getting closer to the inevitability of our demise and what will take place to us thereafter. For believers in Jesus Christ, the future, while not fully known to us, will outstep life as we know it now, and our present peace and joy will pale by comparison to the peace and joy we will experience then. We don't know if 2016 is the time for this all to take place, but we should look ahead with anticipation and expectancy to God's "ultimate relief" and live each day until then with gratitude and thanksgiving for all He has done for us and the hope He instills in us.
I pray for the coming year, all God has in store for us, and for His peace to prevail in our lives and the lives of all we come in contact with. May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done, now and forever. Thank You, Lord, and Amen.
Sent from my iPad
But of more importance is the reality that we are all getting older, getting closer to the inevitability of our demise and what will take place to us thereafter. For believers in Jesus Christ, the future, while not fully known to us, will outstep life as we know it now, and our present peace and joy will pale by comparison to the peace and joy we will experience then. We don't know if 2016 is the time for this all to take place, but we should look ahead with anticipation and expectancy to God's "ultimate relief" and live each day until then with gratitude and thanksgiving for all He has done for us and the hope He instills in us.
I pray for the coming year, all God has in store for us, and for His peace to prevail in our lives and the lives of all we come in contact with. May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done, now and forever. Thank You, Lord, and Amen.
Sent from my iPad
Saturday, December 26, 2015
December 26, 2015. Madison, GA. Blessed
I just woke up from a two hour mid-day nap, after sleeping almost two hours more than usual and having a morning of mostly sitting with my feet up in the comfortable co-captain's chair of our motor home. My brother, Phil, and I went for a leisurely walk this morning enjoying the 70-ish weather and the lack of rain after a very wet and soggy week here in Madison. Phil and Sharon arrived yesterday afternoon for a visit from Jacksonville, FL, and we have worked very hard at not working hard. It has been wonderful to just relax, lounge around, play board games with some of the SLM people last night, raid the refrigerator, chase lady bugs and "enjoy".
Our only real concern at the moment is a glitch in our bathroom and a possible inability to dump our "black water" and "grey water" tanks because of the over abundance of rain the past week which may have backed up our sewer line. I'm not sure how we will actually know when the line is usable, so, in the meantime, when nature calls, we jump in the car, ride up the hill to our Mission headquarters and use the facilities there. At lest we are getting some exercise, getting out of the RV and learning something about pre-planning and making due with minimal use of one potty for four people. Sleeping later, and taking naps, makes the situation less critical.
It's great to have the convenience and freedom we do. I say it often, how blessed Karen and I are to live as we do. We are well aware that we have little to complain about, much to be thankful for and humbled by the grace of God in allowing us to serve Him as we do, yet having a peace and joy that is beyond what we deserve or have cause to expect. Jesus told us, that in life there would be trials and tribulations, and we have all had our share, but He also promised life abundantly to those who sought Him and sought to serve Him. As we celebrate, Christmas, the birth of our Lord and Savior, and contemplate the life He lived and the life He gave, it's wonderful to know that while we have been given so much, as we give back, we will see that the best is yet to come. Let's all rejoice and be glad and live in the peace of God and say again.........Thank You, Lord.
Sent from my iPad
Our only real concern at the moment is a glitch in our bathroom and a possible inability to dump our "black water" and "grey water" tanks because of the over abundance of rain the past week which may have backed up our sewer line. I'm not sure how we will actually know when the line is usable, so, in the meantime, when nature calls, we jump in the car, ride up the hill to our Mission headquarters and use the facilities there. At lest we are getting some exercise, getting out of the RV and learning something about pre-planning and making due with minimal use of one potty for four people. Sleeping later, and taking naps, makes the situation less critical.
It's great to have the convenience and freedom we do. I say it often, how blessed Karen and I are to live as we do. We are well aware that we have little to complain about, much to be thankful for and humbled by the grace of God in allowing us to serve Him as we do, yet having a peace and joy that is beyond what we deserve or have cause to expect. Jesus told us, that in life there would be trials and tribulations, and we have all had our share, but He also promised life abundantly to those who sought Him and sought to serve Him. As we celebrate, Christmas, the birth of our Lord and Savior, and contemplate the life He lived and the life He gave, it's wonderful to know that while we have been given so much, as we give back, we will see that the best is yet to come. Let's all rejoice and be glad and live in the peace of God and say again.........Thank You, Lord.
Sent from my iPad
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)