Enjoyed going to Clarkston International Bible Church today.

Pastor Phil preached on new beginnings and returning home to your true love, Jesus!

Enjoyed eating chicken with Kathy.

Had fun working with my microscope.

Posted some creative writing.

Admin duties now.

It was fun having Mooglie, Ashley’s dog at our house last night. Ashley and Miles went to Dublin for Miles’ Grandad’s wedding. Groovy.

I thought this was unusual.

It was great to be with BOTH of our children this Christmas!

I was grateful to my son in law, Miles, that he let his wife come with us! Ashley and Jesse make every trip awesome!

Kathy and I are big fans of Duck Dynasty.

We spent time in West Monroe going and coming home.

On the loading dock where they made the duck pond.

It was great to meet John Godwin!

We saw our friends Luther and Cheryl White in Georgetown. They worked with us in Atlanta recently with a team from the Worship Place.

Ashley, Kathy and I spoke to a Sunday School class at FBC Georgetown, TX. They were a sweet group of ladies!

Ashley and I joined my brother Jim and his wife Kathy and their daughter Katie to explore the Armadillo Fair.


It’s a big craft place. Really top of the line, interesting stuff.

I liked the pictures from the Armadillo World Headquarters.

I saw some great bands there.

Frank Zappa was my favorite.

We enjoyed listening to my brother sing and play guitar.

Fun to sit by the fire.

My kids were glad to be back in Texas.

Ashley helped me wrap gifts.

Like the paper?

Fun with the whole family on Christmas.

Includes my brother Jim and my parents Al and Peggy.

Jim’s daughter Olivia is married to David Hunt. They have the little girls.

Harper dressing Papaw Jim.

Christmas light over kill.

Always beautiful things to see on the road!

I found a deer antler for Ashley.


Two of my favorite girls!

We installed a new wireless printer for my Mom. Now she can print from her iPad since that’s her primary computer now.

It was 992 miles to my parent’s house from Stone Mountain.

Sure was a great team to ride with.

Interesting visuals with shadows.

These pictures are from Nakuru, Kenya where I used to live. They are in my Mom’s bathroom.

Ashley likes chocolate.

I invented a gun that shoots rainbows.

Weird.

Hmmm.

I like making images with lights.

Even though the gas station has been closed for years and there’s NO gas. . . still looks scary.
I wanted to recreate the Zoolander gas scene, my wife said no.

You can never have enough.

Ouch.

Interesting turbulence in these clouds. Look at the rounded structures underneath. And the ragged edges on the side.

Beautiful sunset to end the trip with.

Saturday I gave myself a haircut. Paid all the bills. Enjoyed playing with Ash and Milo’s dog Moog at our house. Cold and rainy today.

Ashley finished the financial report for our ministry. I took it over to our Treasurer’s house.

Spent most of the day working on the Christmas party for the mission.

Went to the Dollar Tree to pick up goodies for the kids.

I lined up everything with the UPC facing her to speed up the process. Also stacked the similar items. It’s all about speed, baby. It was over 140 items.

Packed them up.

Then took them to the mission.

Ashley had done a great job decorating the room.




I told the Christmas story.

Then the kids got to pick out their gift.


They seem to really enjoy it. The older kids helped with crowd control.

Got some food for my fish while I’m in Texas.

Admin duties now. Need to finish packing for the trip to Texas tomorrow. I should be back on line Friday the 27th.

Here’s my meteorite from the Campo de Cielo field in Argentina at 20x.

From the one dollar bill.

At normal vision power.

I liked this dress.

And this coat of arms.

I saw this area of the parking lot filled with tiny white drips. I wonder what caused it?

I’ve been listening to a LOT of Sherlock Holmes lately and it made me want to deduce what had happened. Here’s the visual evidence.

It’s a puzzler. It’s paint, not poop. The drips are very uniform. There are no wires above the area. The closest thing that’s painted white is the tower, which is at least forty yards away and a hundred foot up.

Only in America.

Enjoyed recording a new podcast this morning! Woot!

It’s Christmas time so this is the gift edition of Verbal Surgery. It’s called “The Present!” Click on the title and groove!

Enjoyed lunch with Kathy and Jesse.

I took the defective microscope to the Fed Ex office. Sent it back for free!

The kids didn’t have much homework today.


I used the down time to show them the microscope. The new one really works great and the kids love it!

I like George Washington’s eye. Here it is magnified by twenty times.

The kids are in a good mood. Our party for them is tomorrow.

Admin duties now.

Doing research on some science kits for the kids.

I like the light coming through my window.

Pleasant confusion.

Christmas colored leaves.

Always a good thing.

Tall.

Beautiful sunset.

Full moon. Yeah, baby.

About 2 1/4″ rain yesterday.

Kathy and I met up with Ashley and Miles at First Baptist Church Mountain Park this morning.

We spoke to one of the Sunday School classes there.

The choir did their cantata. It was called the Nativity Symphony. I thought some of the melodies were quite nice.

Pastor Paul preached an evangelical sermon.

I didn’t sleep well last night. Rested this afternoon.

Gave myself a haircut.

Doesn’t take long.

My friend Gregorio cleaned leaves from my yard. I leave the ones in the middle as a mulch. Otherwise it’s just a muddy mess.

I got a microscope for the kids to look at at the mission. I’ve been practicing taking pictures with it. Here are my first attempts.

I found that using a mag light really helps the image. It’s 20 times larger than life.

Admin duties now.

K and I enjoyed watching Duck Dynasty.

Enjoyed eating Thai food with Jesse and Kathy.


J and I went to the Fossil Show in Norcross.

I had a lot of fun going through the fossils and rocks again.

Fun day with J!

Admin duties now. Watched Elementary with K.

I thought the Hindu temple was beautiful tonight.

I enjoyed going to the Fossil and Gem show in Norcross today with Ashley. Always something cool to see.

I liked the charts on dinosaurs. Most of the fossils were about 65 million years old.


This is the thigh bone from a triceratops.

It was dug up in S. Dakota.

Never too many meteorites.

When’s the last time you touched mammoth teeth?

How about a vertebra?

Wow.

My prize is a Kingfisher from Indonesia.

Admin duties now.

I loved the clouds today.

This is called an ice bow.

A car in the parking lot of the rock show had a number of stickers I found intriguing.

I had my car checked out yesterday.

They told me that the compression was really low and no telling how much longer the car would last. I was shocked by that because it’s actually been running really well. Then I talked to my other mechanic who deals with the engine and he said that the lower compression is pretty normal and don’t worry about it. I think I’ll side with the mechanic who thinks it’s going to be ok!

Picked up supplies.

Printed up the labels for the newsletter.

Picked up stamps.

Tried to repair a kitchen drawer. Lowes didn’t have what I need.

The kids at the mission helped us with the newsletters. They like the labels.

This is all that was left of the doughnuts.

Helped the kids with their homework.

The kids like to play with the Perplexus puzzles. Me, too!

Admin duties now.

Watched the Christmas special for Duck Dynasty. Hilarious.

Cold again tonight. Already down to 28.

Anyone else see what’s wrong with this sign?

I like this.

Tiny pine cone. Although I don’t think it was a pine tree.

Recorded a new podcast this morning! Always one of my favorite things!

This one is called “Maximum LIFT!” Need motivation to help you lose weight? This episode will help! Click on the title and groove!

Ate lunch with Jesse and Kathy. Always good.

J and I went shopping for a few things at Walmart.

Dropped my car off at T&G. It has had the oil light come on every once in a while. Checking that out and changing the oil.

Ashley picked me up at 3pm. We went to Best Buy together to pick up a new stereo for her car. It’s my way of saying “Thank You” for using her car to drive to Texas. We need the Aux in on the stereo in order to listen to things on our iPhones.

Then to the mission to help the kids with their homework. Not many kids today.

I got a microscope for the kids at the mission.


Still makes me wonder about their cold toes.

Wrote my newsletter this evening and sent it to my friends at the Atlanta Metro Baptist Association.

Admin duties now.

How can ANYTHING make a claim like this?

I reckon there’s a market for this.

Wow! Tell me what you really think.

From France.

Still very cold and damp here. I’m trying to stay inside as much as possible. I’m glad it started clearing off! Sure was beautiful this evening.

Enjoyed working with the kids at the mission.

They like my Perpleus puzzle. I’m still stuck at obstacle 20. The total puzzle has 125 steps. Nearly got 20 twice today.

Are you smarter than a second grader?

Many of my Bengali kids are still wearing flipflops. It was in the low 40s.

Admin duties now. Spent over an hour uninstalling programs and deleting add ons in my browser to stop the problem I was having uploading pictures. Sure does take time to figure stuff out.

Enjoying reading Smarter Than We Think” by Clive Thompson.

A very up beat book about how technology is improving our lives. I totally agree. I like his term “infinite memory.” Relates to how we can look anything up in a matter of seconds and how people are so archiving their lives that their memory approaches the infinite. Fascinating stuff.

Also liked Bill Gates’ editorial article in Wired magazine this month.

I’m trying to figure out what causes this zipper formation on con trail clouds.

These are from two different planes. Only certain areas get this pattern. I think it has to do with the engines in the plane synching up momentarily which produces a more concentrated section. Like oscillations on a pendulum.

High level ice crystals give the moon a halo.