Prayer is good…and needed

Of course the new kitchen isn’t far along enough to post photos yet, but Jim and I spent most of the weekend completing the rip-out of the old kitchen (the sink cabinet and the gas range had remained to the end). We laid a sheet of thin plywood over the kitchen area and began installing…

Jim and I were away for almost two weeks. We drove down to Vancouver Island to spend a few days with our kids, then headed south (a bit!) and across southern Washington and northern Oregon (back and forth across the Columbia River on nearly every bridge, just because it amused us) to Yellowstone. A lot…

It turns out that many of the best photos were taken by my daughter, so we’ll all have to keep an eye on her blog for the next day or two to see when she blogs up her photos! I couldn’t help wondering if the Giant Squid was after these guys. On second reflection, it…

There’s a moral to the story. (Isn’t there always?) The moral is: Don’t check your email first thing in the morning; it’s too easy to get distracted. And how! The day started with some Forward Motion business that needed taking care of. Yes, it could have waited until afternoon, but not once I knew it…