Pacific coast time

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I never could get why HBO and other networks had two feeds; one for the East Coast, and one for the West Coast.  Now I get it.  My TV watching schedule is all goofed up.  Without that West Coast feed, having everything delayed an hour, I never know what time it is to watch my live shows.

I'm trying to get used to living on the coast.  I mean, I love the sea air.  I could listen to the ocean all night long.  It's chilly in the evenings here, even though it's summer, but cool is still not cold.  I can live with cool.  I'm in the house writing this though.  It was too cool for shorts.  My wounds are healing up nicely from the blackberry adventure, though.  Thanks for asking about it though.

I bought some lumber today.  Here, if you want lumber, you have to go to the lumber store.  I hadn't seen a yard ticket since before Sutherland Lumber burned down.  Man, that was a spectacular fire, though!  I'll never forget that one.  Nowadays, in big cities, you go to Home Depot.  Unless you go to Wheelwright in Ogden.  They probably still have yard tickets.  I'm making chairs.  They had lumber.  The hardware store sells hardware. And a little bit of this and that.

Things here just kind of move slower.  Because there aren't five wal-mart stores within a 20 minute drive of here, getting used to buying something you see when you see it is an adjustment.  I should have bought three purple frostings.  I bought two.  I went to get the third one today.  They were out of purple.  Snooze, you lose....

I see a lot of God's timing going on in my life, too.  It's interesting to me to see just how He's orchestrating the events in my life these days.  I had some things to change, and He's given me those things to work on.  He's leading me to where He wants things and that's a good thing.  I can look back and see how the events of the last year have prepared me for living in the place I do in the time that I do.  I've had my eyes opened to some things I didn't understand and was wrong about.  I've been shown some places in my faith walk that need work.  And through it all, I see the Master's hand lovingly guiding me through the days.  It's a peace that I've never known amidst some of the uncertainty that each day brings.  

I'm very mindful of the chance I've been given to start over.  I'm trying to live each day to the fullest and do things differently this time.  I'm not reverting to the default settings.  I think the upgrades are finally starting to take.  That's a good thing.

I love not being in a hurry.  I enjoy going to the lumber store and then the hardware store. I really enjoy the live I have been given.  Even if it's a different time...........

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