HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

We had an awesome time taking Kathy to the Rennaissance Festival today!

It was really cool being transported back in time.

Lots of nice smells!

I bought this Caduceus. I like the healing symbol.

The blown glass was amazing.

I especially liked the presentation by the actor playing Leonardo da Vinci–one of my heroes.

Do you like this version of the Mona Kathy?

We even had an audience with Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. I was the audience member who guessed who there were.

And the birds of prey were super cool!

I’d never seen a Condor before. Wow!

I love Peregrin Falcons–the fastest animal on the planet.

This is actually a hybird Peregrin and Gyr falcon.

It was amazing to see it swooping in out of the sky. Woosh!

Had a lot of fun watching people throw tomatoes at this guy. He was really fun insulting the people throwing stuff.

We missed having Ashley along. She is studying for two finals tomorrow.

It was good to be with my brother Bill and his girlfriend Debora.

I liked hanging out with Merlin!

The swords were cool!

Jesse saw this Swallowtail Butterfly today. I loved the bottom parts of the wings!

This morning I had the dubious pleasure of mowing the lawn. So much dust! As my Daddy would say, “I got through it.”

Took Jesse to lunch then did some errands at Walmart. Needed to pick up a few things for the mission.

Then over to Walgreens to get his passport pictures shot. Glad he’s getting a new one!

Came home and Kathy gave me another to do list, which included going back to Walmart to do the shopping. It’s a weigh of life, baby.

But since it’s Mother’s day tomorrow, I reckoned it was better to do it and smile about it!

And by the way . . . . Happy Mother’s Day to MY MOM! The best Mom in the WORLD! Love you!

After Walmart Part 2, I came home and put the groceries up.

Working on admin duties now. My head still feels like it’s full of dust. Bahd luck.

I’m still looking for a replacement hub cap. Reckon I’ll get two and just replace one side.

I love these bromeliads!

The colors go POW!

J won this a bunch of times.

Had an uplifting day today. Literally!

Worked on podcasts this morning. That’s always fun. As my wife would say, “Tim lives to hear himself talk!”

These are two of my favorites!

So many people just live life “going with the flow.” I believe you need to “Live Life On Purpose!!” You will really enjoy it!

Seems like sometimes we need a good “wake up” call! We often just don’t notice the wonderful things going on around us. We need to “Fall Awake!” A great one! 10,000 downloads can’t be wrong!

This afternoon I enjoyed hanging out with Jesse! Never too much of that! We had a good lunch then went to see Thor.

AWESOME movie! It was even better than I was expecting. Hard to believe he played James Kirk in the new Star Trek movie!

We came home to pick up the girls then went to Ferbank to hear Eric Boe speak.

He’s a NASA astronaut and was the pilot for the last flight of the Discovery space shuttle.

I liked these mirrors!

Fun to take a picture in a space suit!

Also got to touch a real, live moon rock.

How uber is that?!!

Atlanta from space!

Came home to work on admin duties.

Had such a fun day today!

I always showing people around the International Village. No matter how many times I do it, I always see something new and meet cool people!

Julie Cook is one of the music ministers at FBC Jonesboro–a dynamite church if there ever was one.

Rob Martin is my partner with Mobilizing Students, one of my favorite organizations and a valuable partner.

Of course my awesome son Jesse was also with us. Don’t get no better than that!

We enjoyed eating at Penang restaurant. A new favorite!

We toured Asian Square and Carneceria #1, as well as Global Mall and Al Madina.

Finished off the day working with the kids at Azalea.

They didn’t have much homework because they have Field Day tomorrow.

Came on home to know out my admin work. Always something!

I loved the clouds today.

These are called “Mare’s Tails.” Or Cirrus Uncinus if you want to get fancy pants!

Perhaps we all need one of these.

I liked this motto.

Not crazy about this one.

I wonder what I’d look like with hair like this?

This reminded me of Jesse.

Except for the suit.

Put a lot of miles on the ol’ Chrysler today!

J and I went to Willow Branch in Clarkston to pick up Bennett Ekandem. We had fun chatting with him on the way to the North American Mission Board. We had a meeting with Mike Riggins, our supervisor at the Board.

We had a great chat talking about our mission work and a situation that we’re dealing with. It’s not always easy to keep the whole team moving together, but we certainly do our best to do that!

J and I dropped off Bennett then came back home for a couple of hours.

Jesse has been interested in racquetball lately. I’ve been teaching him a few things about the sport. We bang the ball around in our garage and generally have a good time. Never too much Jesse!

Then off to the church to check the mail and then to Azalea to help the kids with their homework.

The Bengali ladies are studying English now! I was so proud of my wife getting them into school yesterday!

I saw Jimmy this afternoon at the mission. He won 3rd place at the State track meet. WOW! I’m so proud of him!

I spent over an hour talking with a young man who’s like a son to me. Tabias is a cook and I’ve been mentoring him on how to get a better job. With a little coaching, I think he can do really well.

Almost lost my mind working with Rahat trying to teach him some spelling words.

Who would know how hard it would be to learn “nectar” and “phase?” He did pretty well on most of the words.

You have no idea how lucky you are to be a native English speaker. Learning to spell English is a nightmare for foreigners. Rules of spelling? Yeah, right!

Watched my recordings of the Mentalist and Castle with Kathy this evening. Last weekend in NYC I spent time with probably the most successful mentalist in the USA. Super nice guy. My friends from England are great friends of his. Cool group to hang around with. They’re always showing me some trick that blows my mind!

I saw this sticker when I was at lunch.

I didn’t obey the sign. Oops. Only a pickle. Who could resist?

Spent most of the morning and early afternoon working on my financial report. Always takes several hours to write checks, figure out mileage, reimbursements, support for partners . . . then enter all the information into an Excel spreadsheet.

AWESOME to get back to the mission today!

Ashley came to help too! Super groovy!

Kids didn’t have too much homework, but we always seem to stay really busy.

Jesse is always super helpful. He was taking care of the outside kids.

Came home in the drizzling rain.

Back to admin work.

I’m glad I’m truly a mobile office guy. I pretty much keep up with all my email and phone calls even when I’m in the jungles of Costa Rica or the jungles of Wall Street!

Makes it a LOT easier to catch up since I don’t really get behind.

Had a great time visiting with friends from England in New York!


You may remember that I was raised in the British school system as a child in Nairobi, Kenya. It was so much fun hanging out with my English buddies! Reminded me of being a kid again!

What a wonderful city!

My favorite times were spent at the Museum of Modern Art.

And Obscura, a place with antique oddities.

Also enjoyed going to the Hard Rock Cafe and seeing movie memorabilia!

Sure is great to be home!

This is America in a nutshell.