Stories and other stuff

I had this huge post I was gonna write that tied into the weirder and weirder post.  I didn't delete the post about stuff.  It's still there, you just can't see it right now. Let's face it; it wasn't one of my better efforts.  An important topic that I don't think I did enough justice too, if you will. Anyway, I was gonna. And then I didn't. Two very nice things happened to me yesterday.  I got a check that was ten times the amount I was expecting.  I don't get to keep all of it.  I have to share with the ex.  And the tax man.  And others, I'm sure.  But it's enough to fix my problem. On my way to work yesterday, I heard something very interesting.  If you re-read the post about weird, you'll notice the part where I said something was just noise.  I found out yesterday afternoon it wasn't, through a radio program you can hear, too, by clicking on the link. http://bbnradio.org.edgesuite.net/BBNOnDemand/htmfiles/english/E0BBFT...

I had some things to do today before I dropped the truck off for middle son who is movin' on out of mom's house. As I pulled out of the driveway today, it was like I was headed on an adventure.  Something felt kind of different today and what that is, I have no idea.  It was just a feeling. On the drive down I got to follow the Perkins Pest Control truck for a few miles.  Nobody tried to kill me on the way down  but about half-way there, I realized I'd forgotten to check the oil in the truck when I gassed it up this morning.  I got to where I was going and checked it.  It needed some, so I ran to the Wal-mart on Redwood Road & 53rd South. When I was going out, in walked this, well, whatever it was, it was dressed up like a woman.  It looked like a guy dressed up like a woman.  My first instinct was to grab a sharp stick and jab my eyes out.  Me second one was to grab my cell phone, take a photo, and send it to peopleofwalmart.com. ...

You know me, I think I can fix just about anything.  A lot of that is born of necessity.  But sometimes you find yourself at the point of decision:  Do I fix it or replace it? Sometimes what you have is junk.  Sometimes what you think is junk should be fixed.  My tillers are a case in point.  I did not know how easy it would have been to re-engine my Troy-bilt.  I gave it away and kept the Craftsman that went with my tractor.  The year before last, I blew up the engine.  I mean that.  When I was trying to disassemble it earlier this month, I saw the hole in the side of it.  That's what happened to the Troy Bilt, too. The Troy Bilt had a Briggs & Stratton engine on it.  They still make those engines.  The Craftsman has a Tecumseh, which they don't make anymore.  I could find a cheap engine at Harbor Freight, buy a sleeve for it and a new pulley from Sears and the thing should work again.  But the tines are...

I'm all about comments on the blog.  Honestly, I think more people get stuff out of a discussion than a story and I encourage comment.  I really wish there were more of them, especially if God is doing something in your life. Having said that, I delete comments, too.  If I think they're left by someone who shouldn't really even be reading the blog or anything else about my life, they're gonna get deleted.  People have tells and I can usually tell.  If the innocent get deleted with the guilty, so be it.  I really feel that strongly about it. Move along.  Nothing to see here. I mean that. Lately, though, there have been new kinds of comments and by the way they're written, they're probably foreign and are basically spam.  Today, two of them got past the spam filter.  I had to delete them myself. So, please don't click on a link unless I or someone who's not anonymous leaves them and they're germane to the story at hand. And to the s...

Many are the plans in a person’s heart,     but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.          Proverbs 19:21 (NIV) Today was a day filled with God's providence but I'm gonna back up a bit to last night. As I left work, a very dear friend of mine was on my heart.  I didn't put her there, but she'd been a burden on my heart off and on all week; for what reason I don't know.  Last night, though, I just told God that there is only one woman who can be a burden on my heart and that I really needed Him to take that from me. This afternoon, she called me out of the blue. After some prayer, I called her back.  I'm well aware that God's no means no and I wasn't tempting fate; for some reason I just felt that it would be all right to return the call.  I'm pleased I did because God in His providence let me see a bit of the why things worked out the way they did. God really does have a plan for all of us and us being together wa...

I felt pretty good this morning when I woke up.  I got in the shower at 10:20 and still managed to be 3 minutes late for church.  I hate being late and I really gotta work at this; I'm getting worse, not better, but I'm always early for work.  I can start being early for other things, too.  I'm gonna work on it, I promise. Anyway, after a good sermon about being the GLOCAL church, which I enjoyed immensely,  came home and had some errands to run.  I procured a new chain for my saw.  I also had to buy gas for the trimmer and mowers and decided to change the sludge that was passing for oil in my tractor.  Ugh, what a mess. I'm in the middle of mowing the lawns.  I'm thinkin' I'm done for the day after running the tractor/mower over what I can.  The rest of it will have to be done by hand and I have to buy a can of fix-a-flat for the boat so I can move it so I can mow under the apple trees.   Anyway, when I decided to change...

I have no happy thought right now.  Fortunately for me, I have someone I can share that with, and when I did, I felt a lot better.  What I mean by this is that I don't have a goal or a dream.  It seems that everything I wanted to do doesn't seem to be in the cards, or at least it's on hold. I mean that.  Everything in my life is up in the air and the only highlight in a week of lowlights is that I fixed the bathtub.  It don't take much to make me happy. I forgot an appointment on Tuesday and was able to reschedule it for Friday.  I'm so glad I did because I got a verse to store in my heart I think will come in handy.  It's Psalm 101:3  But in the broader lesson, it was just a chance to review some very important things to mature as a Christian man.  And even as mixed up as my life is, which I'll get to in a minute, there's only going forward in faith and trusting and obeying God. I know a lot of y'all think I'm nuts.  Sometimes, I'...