Studied Spanish and Swahili. Every day, just a little more!


Got more fruit and groceries at Walmart. Didn’t use my bags today.K said she needed some plastic bags for the small trash cans.

Great talk with my best friend Anthony Jacquin in the UK today. Always a blessing.
Had a good time with the kids at the mission! Taught a lot of math today. One of my favorite subjects.

The girls had fun creating a train.

I guess these were the deluxe accommodations.

Never too many William Blake poems. Perhaps my favorite poet.

Working on Spanish verbs.

Had a 8.81 mile bike ride this evening. Glad I have lights on my bike now.

Fantastic clouds.


Cleaned my water bowls and added food for the raccoons and possums.

Admin duties now.

I found this interesting.

Studied Spanish and Swahili this morning. Surprised?

Went to Westside this morning.


Played djembe and sang with the choir
Pastor Ben spoke on the importance of caring for people.

Ate lunch with Kathy, then went to the pool to hang out together. Fun!

Came home to rest. I was really tired. Didn’t sleep long enough last night.

After my nap, I went to see Meg with Jesse. A fun movie! About half way through it I got a message from a friend of mine in Ireland who was having suicidal thoughts. Ran outside and talked him down. He said I saved his life. I sure was glad that I had my phone off the normal “Do not disturb” setting! Normally, I just call people back when they leave a message.

Thank you Jesus, for helping him!

Added material to my Twitter feed.

Watered my flowers.

Still tired. Will go to sleep soon.

Admin duties now.

Studied Spanish and Swahili! Cada dia!

The reason I study every day!

Went for a 22.35 mile bike ride. Took slightly over 2.5 hours.

Always beautiful.


I see this and wonder how he did it. Big jump.

Had nearly 1″ of rain yesterday. Made the sidewalk damp in areas and the ride very humid.

The girls were both asleep when Ashley and Miles brought them over around 5:30pm.

Penelope slept for nearly three hours!
Everly woke up about ten minutes after she was dropped off. We had good bonding time. She’s a pure delight.


I pretty much used every strategy I knew to keep her happy. Overall, I was pretty successful!

Penelope is so awesome. It was great to spend a whole day with her yesterday. She’s really getting tight with Kathy which fills me with great joy.

Everly can be a challenge when she wants her mama. That’s why I feel so happy when she’s happy.

She seemed better when her sister was awake.
They are both such a blessing to me.

I worked on adding material to my Twitter feed.

Admin duties now.

Studied Spanish and Swahili! Every day, a little better!

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery -590- “Negativity Sux!”
You attitude determines how you will do in life! Be positivly positive! Click on the title and GROOVE!

Uploaded to my server.

Link on Facebook.

Enjoyed lunch with Jesse and the girls!

Kathy and I had fun with Penelope and Everly at the park at Stone Mountain and took them swimming. Good times!

Saw this interesting notice today about iPhones.

First time in 18 days that I did not ride my bike! Was dressed out and ready to go and it started raining. Ok to have a rest day I reckon!

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Studied Spanish and Swahili this morning. Making progress every day!

Recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery! My best therapy! “Gift Wrap” is my present to YOU!

Spent most of the day with my beloved Penelope! Don’t get no better!

They resurfaced the road coming into our house today. Finally! It’s been torn up for about a week now.

Penelope and I had fun at the pools at Evergreen. What a gorgeous place! Then went to the park near our house for some fun. SO grateful to Ashley for sharing her with us!

The road looked better when we got home!

Went for a 10.97 mile bike ride this afternoon.

Loved the clouds!

Astonishing things going on in the White House these day. Lord, help us!

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This morning I read an article on how much exercise we need to be getting every week. I read 150 minutes which translates to 2.5 hours a week. That figure was verified for moderate exercise and only 1.25 hours a week of really strenuous exercise. Very interesting.

Studied Spanish and Swahili this morning. I finally made it through the conditional tense in Swahili. The hardest I’ve encountered so far, in particular because the English answers often sounded really weird.

I only have seven more categories to finish the first level of Swahili.

Recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Improvement Movement.” It’s a good one!

Enjoyed lunch with my girls! They were fascinated by the chopsticks.

Even Ashley got into the game!

After lunch, we dropped off our Whirlwind Awards to restaurants and apartment complexes. The folks seemed to really like them!

Don’t see these very often.

After we’d delivered a bunch of them, we went to White Windmill for a treat. Sadly, they didn’t have any chocolate bread.

Then to the mission to work with the kids!

Everly enjoyed the straw that sounded like a whistle.

I liked her drawing.

Penelope didn’t like Wendy’s drawing of her.

Today the audio version of Story Tim is official released on Audible! Hallelujah! Soon it will be out on Amazon and iTunes. When that happens, I can official mark the project as “complete.”

Went for a 7.69 mile bike ride. I got through about 6 miles and I felt some sprinkles. The sky also looked menacing. Although the weather apps I have didn’t call for rain, I decided it was best to go with my gut reaction to what might happen.

I didn’t rain, but I got poured down on a few days ago when I didn’t listen to my intuition about it.

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Studied Spanish and Swahili this morning. Hard subjects getting easier.

I’m speaking a LOT of Spanish at the mission with mothers and kids who hardly speak any English. Ashley had EIGHT ladies in her ESL class this morning! Way to go, Ashley!

I recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery this morning called “I’mpossible!” Good stuff!

Took the Financial Report that Ashley creates to our Treasurer.

Got the groceries for the household. I’m enjoying using my own bags. I’ve probably saved using at least 100 plastic bags so far!

Started paying off my gutter and board replacement.

The squirrels did about $800 worth of damage. I had a report of a guy that had the same thing done to his house (remove the squirrels and fix the damage) and it cost him over $10,000! Glad I did the removal process myself. Took me a couple of months and relocated 44 squirrels. I see one every few days maybe now.

Paid bills.

Got a new coffee cup from QT. I normally drink tea and I have to keep the cups separate or it makes the tea taste weird. Been getting coffee in the afternoons on the way to the mission. It’s also cheaper if I use my own cup.

Came home for a short rest, then over to the mission.

Busy day with lots of kids needing help. Always enjoy hanging out with the girls!

Came home for a 9.06 mile bike ride.

Always pushing against it getting dark, although now that I have 5 flashing lights on my bike, I’m less worried about being unseen!

GREAT NEWS! Looks like I have the final approval for my new book to be on Audible any day now! WOOT! Makes me feel good that the project is nearly completed!

I’ll be taking some promo pictures with headphones on tomorrow with Ashley’s help!

Admin duties now.

Just a reminder.

Recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery this morning! Always my best therapy!

K and I had a great time watching the girls. Always a blessing.

We took the to eat lunch and then over to the park at Stone Mountain.

Afterwards, we took them to Lawrenceville to meet up with Ashley and Miles after their date time and horse riding. They had a fun time, too!

Did some research on doctors for Kathy, Jesse and me.

We have new insurance from last year after Blue Cross/Blue Shield stopped offering services to us. Our other issue is that our Dr. Pat is planning on retiring this month. I needed to figure out what the best course of action will be for us.

I got some new lights for my bike. As Fall approaches, I don’t want to be caught riding in the dark without being visible. It sneaks up on me sometimes.

Went for a 16.81 mile bike ride. Felt great.

Always something beautiful to see.


The clouds continue to be spectacular. Interesting shape at the edge of this one.

Cleaned and refilled my hummingbird feeders.

I have a solid system now. Takes me less than ten minutes.

I released a new episode of Verbal Surgery -589-
“MEsearch”

Link on Facebook.

Admin duties now.

Went to Westside BC this morning!

Brother Fowobi spoke today on the importance of who are we trying to please, man or God?

We also started the “Know Your Row” campaign to try to get people to know the names of our church members.

Came home to rest.

Studied Spanish and Swahili.

Can you see what I’m talking about? The “correct” answer sounds so weird!

Cleaned my fish tank.

Went for a swim with Kathy.

Kathy doesn’t ride her bike hardly at all, so I took back my bike seat from her bike and put the one I’ve been using back on hers. It was much harder than I thought it’d be.

Did a 8.84 mile bike ride.

Beautiful clouds.

Admin duties now.

Studied Spanish and Swahili this morning. I’m at nearly the end of the Swahili Duolingo course for the first level and I’m practicing past tense in Spanish. Both sections are difficult. I feel like I’m learning!

The road guys left our main corridor in a mess. Who knows when it will be repaired. Certainly not this weekend!

Went for a Personal Record in my bike riding with a total of 37.38 miles! Wow! Astonishingly, I still wasn’t all that worn out. Not anything like the running days when I could barely climb the steps after a long run. Great work out taking exactly 4.00 hours!

I did all three of my routes: Lucern, Garner and Evergreen.
I can tell when it hasn’t rained in a while, because the Yellow River gets really clear.

Cacti blooming!

I liked how these branches were twisting around.

I burned 1,744 calories in my ride, so I went to QT and had an ice cream cone to celebrate. Gassed up my car while I was there. The sign on the street said 2.55. Not sure how much I was charged now.

Watered my plants this evening. They are looking so beautiful.





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