1 Peter 5:10

Okay, I had to do just one more.

1 Peter 5:10:

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

Thanks to Biblegateway.com for being the go to place for getting any scripture in any version immediately!

I really need to lose this url! ;-)

Exodus 14:14

Well, I combined my new favorite Bible verse with my new favorite time-waster and got this:




My new favorite time-waster is wordle (http://wordle.net/).

It's a little online program (java) that takes your words and puts them into a word cloud. I think I'll go play with it some more.

Crazy thing is that I discovered it from one of my classes - who woulda thunk it? ;-)

Here are more versions of the same thing:






Okay, now I'll try some lyrics - here's the lyrics for Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall.




This is too much fun! :)

Here's a bigger version of the last one so you can see it better (I hope!):

Mr. Lizard is back!

Here he is.

Mr. Lizard is back. Evidently, the front yard is much nicer than the back yard now. Usually the lizards would stay in my backyard where the trees are (I've heard he's a tree lizard), but I guess they like the new layout of the front yard because here he was today. He was lounging on one of my rocks. I guess he thought it wasn't as hot today since we had sort 0f some rain today and clouds.

I hope I see him around more. I tried to get closer to take more pictures, but he didn't like that one bit and ran away.

(Click on the photo to get a better look at Mr. Lizard looking back - I saved the image as a pretty large one so you can get a better view of him.)

Smokey in Cali

I've not been in the middle of a bunch of fires before, but on my latest trip to California brought me upon scorched earth and tons of smoke and occasional ash.

The photo here was taken by my friend as we were driving up to Paradise, CA. It was very strange to see black ground and trees that had brown leaves about half way up their length and then green leaves at the top.

The day after we went to Paradise more evacuations took place there because of different fires going crazy.

The strangest thing is seeing ash fall like snow and it looking like a dark overcast winter day outside, but when you go outside it's 105 degrees.

Needless to say, I stayed inside much of the time that I was there, which is fine by me, but thank goodness for a gym pass so I could get a day of running in without clogging up my lungs.

Real Life "Danny Deckchair"

Have you seen the movie Danny Deckchair?

This guy in Oregon may have:


He's trying to make it from Oregon to Idaho.

Interesting - who woulda thunk balloons would work? ;)

Find the story here:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91NPF1G0&show_article=1