Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
A few weeks ago, I purchased a backup camera for helping me hook up trailers to my truck. The wiring harness that I was provided doesn't work with my electrical hookup (despite what the product description claims.) So today, I began researching what I need to do to the harness to allow it to work... Continue Reading →
As much as I love the Advent/Christmas season, I am just not ready for it this year. Most years, I try to start the outdoor decorations on Thanksgiving weekend. Despite the fact that the weather was good this past weekend, I completely failed to get started on hanging the lights, the ribbons, or the wreath (which... Continue Reading →
This is the fourth year in a row that I will challenge myself to hold to a daily Advent discipline of capturing a photo each day based on a prescribed daily theme. (I got a late start this year, but hope to be back on track starting tomorrow.) I will again post these photos in three locations:... Continue Reading →
The following is a very subtle variation on a recipe found on allrecipes.com. I began with the basic recipe, made some modifications suggested by a commenter with the name Feeding Frenzy, and added a couple of my own. Valerie is the current master bread baker in the house, but we have both been attempting to perfect it... Continue Reading →
For quite a while lately, church has failed to move me. I have been going through the motions, hoping that something might eventually speak to me, to inspire me, to challenge me, to ... something. As I move to reclaim my life now that it no longer is a slave to a killer commute, I have made... Continue Reading →
As I sit here in the shade this June day, exhausted from laboring in the heat, watching the silent white clouds drifting across a clean blue sky, feeling the relief of a gentle breeze, I look over at you and see you again for the first time in many years. And I ask myself, "How... Continue Reading →
199. Boys are usually loyal friends to each other, and thus friendliness comes almost naturally to a boy. It is the one duty that he understands. 200. A man who has no friends is the man who gives out no friendship. 201. Friendship is like a boomerang: you give out your friendship to another chap and... Continue Reading →
196. Lord Kitchener said to the Boy Scouts: "There is one thought I would like to impress upon you all: once a Scout, always a Scout". By this he meant that when you are grown up you must still carry out what you learned as a Scout, and especially that you will go on being... Continue Reading →
194. A boy does not really get the full value of Scout training until he is a First Class Scout. 195. A Guide who is content to sit down and be a Second Class Guide is only a third-class girl. Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations book Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell –... Continue Reading →
191. Play fair yourself and insist on fair play in others. 192. Notoriety is not the same thing as Fame. 193. First Aid is an important and difficult subject - difficult inasmuch as it requires great care and precision, exactitude, and common sense (all unnatural attributes of the ordinary boy!) Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations... Continue Reading →
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