Archive for September, 2008



Published on September 25, 2008

I’m not good at in between times. They drive me crazy.
Like, if we have company expected at 5, and we get everything ready, and it gets to be 5:15. I just get antsy. Can’t get involved in anything because they might be coming. Not sure what to do in the mean [...]


Published on September 21, 2008

We look forward to visitors around here. Chalk it up to living in the sticks, or just finally having a house with room for them. It’s always fun.
In two weeks, Kathie is coming to stay with us for a week. She’s going to use our house as home base as she goes [...]


Published on September 17, 2008

During the past few months, I’ve enjoyed being part of an online book club, put on through my pastor’s blog. We read Tim Keller’s The Reason for God, a chapter a week and discussed it in the comments of the post he put up each week. Turned out to be a lot of [...]


Published on September 15, 2008

I read this over at the Desiring God blog and thought it was worth passing on. A good read, even if you’re not a Christian…
Today, 45 years ago, four little black girls were killed in the Birmingham church bombing.
Those were the days when black people could buy things at the stores, but they couldn’t [...]


Published on September 14, 2008

I have learned a few things about guinea fowl in the past months. Mostly that they’re stupid. Really, really stupid.
We got six keats a while back, figuring we could grow them up into rattlesnake killing, tick eating, yard dwellers. We kept them in the mud room until they were big enough to [...]


Published on September 8, 2008

Had a fun day at church yesterday. Our church had a huge “Crossroads Together” event where instead of three services, we had one big service on the field at the High School. Hard to describe it, but it was just really cool, being there all together. By cool, I mean “really hot, [...]


Published on September 1, 2008

Last week was an odd one – getting back to “just” being an engineer. We were starting to get into the swing of me not working from home, and there I was back in the home office.
God is good to us though, and last week was no exception. I came back [...]