Mountain Out of a Mole Hill

It started out as a little drywall repair after getting our shower remodeled a few weeks ago...

Now this -

This one will take some electrical, plumbing, drywall, and framing. Should be fun. I'll keep you posted.

Won of the grates!

This is perhaps the best website out there. The creator is a genius.

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the princess and the king

Nori and I went on a date yesterday morning. It was hiking and out to her favorite restaurant. We got out the door around 9am, jump on the iron horse and started up to Ventana Canyon. God reminded me, with 1 mile of gas left in the tank, that I forgot to fill up. There was a gas station 3/4 of a mile down the road. He's awesome! but I digress.

The weather is perfect for a hike right now. As it was her special time, I told her I would let her pick how far we would hike - as long as it was as least four miles. She picked 30 minutes out and 30 minutes back. As it had already been 40 minutes when I asked her, we settled on another 5 minutes and then turn around. Besides, how could we wait much longer for...

THE HOMETOWN BUFFET!

Once again the HB delivered on good times. The food was par for the course, but I was with my princess... what more could I ask for?

I had no idea Nori could eat that much corn-off-the-cob.

Vanilla ice cream over warm, fudge brownies is really good.

"You don't make sense to me, so you must not be real," said the Ant to the Elephant

This was emailed to me today.

This is really fascinating - it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way.

I certainly thought this was enlightening. Beyond our sun, there's a big universe.

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.

How big are you?

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The next pic is a Hubble telescope ultra-deep field, infrared view of countless ‘entire’ galaxies, billion of light-years away.

The last is a close-up of one of the darkest regions of the other photo. Humbling, isn't it?

And yet, someone knows how many hairs are on your head, and not even a single sparrow dies apart from His will (Mt. 10:29-31)!

So, now how big are you? And how big are the things that upset you today?

And how big is your God?! Keep life in perspective and remember who is in control. (Job 38).

Nobody Tosses a Dwarf!

Last weekend we spent some time with my Aunt and Uncle. Most of the day was spent at the Scottish Highland festival and games. There were tons of competitions - dancing, throwing a bag, bagpiping, throwing a rock, singing, throwing a ball and chain, throwing a tree trunk, throwing a pole with a metal ball on the end of it. I will say this for the Scottish, their culture clearly values big, burly men. You have to be one to be successful at any of those things... except the dancing.

The kids also got to participate in kids versions of all the big, burly people games. There were about 25 kids in the contest and Nori got second, Bubba got first. This was the first time Bubba has beaten Nori at any sports events. Clearly, Bubba is a big, burly man.

The last thing we took in was some live Celtic bands. We ended up seeing a rockin' band called the Killdares. I didn't know there was such a thing as electric bagpipes - there are.

Here are some pictures that my Uncle took.