I got a bad stain on one of my short pants. I scrubbed it but it still looks bad. They turned into work pants now. Went ahead and ordered a couple more pairs.

I’m enjoying playing Far Cry 6. One of the most beautiful games ever.

I’m looking into possible reasons that my phone dims when in bright light. The biggest user of battery power is when I’m doing Duolingo at top speed. I’m usually doing exercises in the bright light. Maybe it’s a combo of reasons.

OYB!

Español!

Kathy, Jessi and I went to Roswell this morning. We had an appointment with the audiologist about J getting a hearing aid. Very informative.

I saw this on a truck.

Walked 1.24 miles.

I liked this tree bark.

My good buddy Matt Johns came by to see me this afternoon. Always a blessing!

Never too many bubbles.

Good to have the family together.

Checked the mail.

Push.

I was a Netflix early adopter. I haven’t had DVDs in years. I don’t buy games on discs any more either.

Glad my old phone got there safely. Sadly, I’d say my new phone has similar issues. I’m beginning to think it’s a feature imbedded in the iPhone. Perhaps power saving.
My old phone got REALLY dark. This one just gets dimmer when I’m in bright light.

OYB!

Went for a 2.01 mile walk. Gorgeous flowers!

There are some significant hills in my neighborhood. I live on one of the steepest. This one may be even bigger than mine.

Edited the video I shot on Monday. Sent their youth director an email with the photo gallery and YouTube links.

It finally got warm enough for me to take my plants back outside. It’s a big process. I have to use the dolly. Many of the plants are very heavy.

Blew the deck and took the inside plants back out.

Cut all the insulation away from the western exterior faucet. I have a proper one for it this winter. Unfortunately, the nozzle was messed up. Ordered two new ones. My other hose nozzle doesn’t have the “soak” setting. I really miss that for watering plants.

Cleaned and refilled the hummingbird feeders. I’ve only seen one male for sure. It’s still pretty early.

This is a news program in Spanish. I’m getting more and more words every day.

I repaired the handle for the table I use for the after school program. Fortunately, I fixed it before it completely tore in two.

I took the grandgirls to Taco Veloz. Everly saw this little beetle by the window. I thought it was cool.

Deposited checks. Amen.

Helped the first and second graders with their homework. All the rest of my kids have the Milestone test for a couple of weeks and don’t get any homework. Fun to have Ashley around.

Every day, the El Faro podcast has a different word. It’ll be the theme of the show. Today’s was Cuenca.

Got gas and checked the levels in my car.

I like having the plants back outside. They’re great indoors, too! It’s just so dark for them inside.

Swept my carpet outside.

Moved into third place. The week is still young.

One of my favorite Spanish exercises is reading sentences out loud.

OYB!

Español!

Walked 1.44 miles.

I put all my equipment back in my storage room. I had pretty much done everything yesterday, but I still had the rug taped to the floor along with a couple of power cords. Put all that up and made sure that all the chairs and tables were in order.

Leave no trace.

Checked the mail.

Poison Ivy is a real problem. It certainly has torn me up! I texted the manager at Azalea about

I brought tables and chairs back in from the front porch.

Keeps going up.

Something was going on. Weird parking to make sure he can’t get away.

Took the grandgirls to Keswick (we call it “Goblin”) park.

Poison Ivy is exploding everywhere.

It’s fun to have fun. I like them to do athletic things.

The First Graders were the only ones who had homework. That includes Penelope!

Keep pushing. I expect to get third place this week if all goes well. The top two are very tough.

Cool.

The team was a complete surprise to me last night. I didn’t think they’d confirmed.

Today was good training to see how long it takes to set up for The Show. Took about 1.5 hours from leaving my house to having everything set up at FBC Doraville. This was the “light” version since I didn’t put up the curtains and I showed the slides on the wall. Someone had taken down the two loops of wire I had in the ceiling for hanging my screen. Replaced them.

OYB!

Paid a bill.

While I was setting up for The Show, I was pumping up the big globe and the little compressor burned out. Bahd luck. Ordered a new one immediately.

The team drove up from Pike County. Over 1.5 hour drive.

Donated to Wikimedia.

I enjoyed working with this team from Cottage Hill BC, Mobile AL.

After eating lunch and going on Safari at the Buford Highway Farmers Market, we went to Azalea to have a fiesta with the kids.

Picked up the grandgirls and got them something to eat.

Everyone had fun.

They seemed to pay attention pretty well.

I’ve made a lot of the top three. Lots of good students last week. This week looks similar.

Here are the top twenty people that I’ve competed against.

I rested today.

I thought this was cute.

OYB!

Español!

Cloudy and damp.

Walked 1.42 miles.

Ordered more handkerchiefs.

Tiny beauty.

Listening to podcasts from Spain. As I get better, understanding becomes more fun.

Lots of hard competition.

Glad I got this figured out.

Perfect weather.

OYB!

My Mom fell yesterday. I gave her a call this morning and we had a nice chat.

Swept the kitchen.

I looked through my stuff and found my orange maracas. It has a terrific sound. I’ve had it since the very start of my ministry here in the ATL.

I got to the church early so I could study Español.

I am going to use my iPhone to stream internet through my projector.

I got my big globe out this morning. Still leaking a little air.

Prayer and eating schedule for Ramadan.

Had a fun group from Christ Church today.

Masala for lunch.

We went by the mosque in Clarkston but didn’t get out. Most of us were wearing short pants and that’s just not cool over there. Especially during their holiest week.

Then to Azalea.

Listened to radio from Spain.

Edited the video I shot.

Posted all the pictures.

Wrote a letter to Ben with links to the gallery and video. I mark the team complete when that email goes out.

Crazy talk.

These guys are nuts.

Walked 1.27 miles.

Listened to podcasts in Spanish.

Tried to cancel this. Not sure what to do now. Apparently, they’re having a hard time getting it here even though it’s marked as shipped.

OYB!

Español.

I worked on the cookbook project today. Got the address. Labeled the package and got it into the mail.

Went to Al Madina to confirm they were open and make an order for my team of 12 people. Glad I did. Even though I talked with one of the workers this week and he assured me they would be open, the sign clearly said otherwise.

The place was shut up tight. We will go to Indian food at Masala instead. I preferred that anyway!

Recorded and release a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Childlike.”

Rained hard today. Remnants of the storm that clobbered Florida.

Rare plate here.

Several months ago, Everly tore the red thread off my arm. Seeing that this is a holy time for Christianity, Judaism and Islam I thought it was a good time to put on a new one. I got it from Jerusalem when I was there.

I brought my projector home with me yesterday. Today, I hooked it up to my computer and made sure everything was working perfectly, which it was.

I’ll achieve my goal of going over 10,000 points this week, but doubt I’ll make it in the top three. NBD.

This interests me, but I doubt I’ll go all the way to NY just to see it.

OYB!

Español!

Rained pretty hard while we were at Azalea.

Walked 1.27 miles.

I took my bag of dog food down my hill and put it in my storage can along with the bird seed.

Left a message with the arthritis doctor’s staff. Couldn’t get the information that I needed. I’ll call again tomorrow.

Worked on the clock again. It fell off the wall when Everly shut/slammed the door.

Made some sandwiches for J.

Had a fun chat with Anthony.

Listened to a podcast from Spain.

Had a good talk with my Mom.

I made photocopies of a lot of my Mom’s favorite recipes. I’ll send them to my Aunt Barbara soon.

(Nana, these were the only two I did not make a copy of due to the page not being completely flat and wouldn’t go through the machine properly. I’m not even sure if they were needed.)

Too rainy to do the after school program today. I had finished almost all of the kid’s homework with them earlier this week. I had two parties for the kids this week. PLUS we’ll have a team on Saturday!

Everly went with me to get the rest of the equipment I needed in my office in preparation for the team coming on Saturday. I’ll set up the projector with my laptop at home to make sure everything is ready to go and then put it together on Saturday before the team gets to the church. I wouldn’t leave all that stuff set up without it being securely locked up.

I was glad that K got to come with me to the mission today. She had fun playing with Penelope.

Got up at 6:15 AM this morning to get ready to take Nana to the airport.

OYB!

Cool this morning.

Got to the airport with perfect timing.

Wheelchair access is fast.

I liked this.

You can track everything on the web.

I’ll miss my Mama!

Good flying weather back to Austin.

In all I probably walked around three miles today, most of it pushing a wheelchair.

Headed to the mission after the airport.

Got to Chamblee and walked about 2.05 miles while I studied Spanish.

Took a shower and rested for a couple of hours. Didn’t feel like I ever went to sleep, but still helped. Amen.

Listened to some podcasts from Spain.

Dig this.

Español.

Got some McDonalds for the kids. They didn’t eat too much. I thought the fries sucked.

I did the candy throw for the little kids yesterday. I had a pizza party for the middle school today. Went to the Dollar Tree to get supplies and Lil Caesars for pizza. Picked up three cheese and three pepperoni pizzas. I let the big kids go first then let everyone else have some.

Helped the kids with their homework.

Ajmain and Adit came to help again.

Looking forward to wearing these.

Went to my office to get the mail, process checks, and bring supplies up from my storage area to the conference room next to my office. I have a team on Saturday. Looking forward to that.

Got gas and added some oil. I’m hoping to get it changed on Friday. We’ll see. A lot of times T and G gets super busy and can’t work it in for hours.

Went to pick up my groceries. Unfortunately, when I got my replacement phone it put the wrong Walmart from where I usually go. Had to drive an extra fifteen minutes each way to get my stuff. Bahd luck.

Deposited checks.

I haven’t had this much competition in a long time. Several hard workers.

Español!

OYB!

Nana and I drove over to the Mission this morning to be with Penelope. She’s still on antibiotics and wasn’t supposed to be out much. We enjoyed Waffle House.

Love these girls SO MUCH!

Penelope’s art work is fantastic.

Good times.

I went to Walmart to get candy for the Easter candy throw.

Deposited checks.

Walked 1.25 miles in Chamblee.

Got Nana checked in with her flight.

Nana, Penelope and I went to Taco Veloz. Delicious. While we were there I thought about my good friend Rollin Hooper. He’s another MK from Nairobi. I immediately gave him a call. We had such a good visit. My Mom and Rollin really do love each other.

I welcomed the kids off the bus and told them we were having the Easter egg hunt and candy throw asap. Great fun.

Everyone got a ton of candy. One of the kids told me he to 97 pieces. So funny he counted it. Of course my girls got a lot.

Helped the kids at the mission with their homework.

I had a couple of the kids from the old days come to visit.

Got in touch with another buddy of mine who’s like a brother to me.

Cleaned and put more superglue on K’s glasses. They still work. I used super glue, super glue fixer (makes the glue harden immediately) and super glue remover to do the job.

Ordered groceries.

We are testing out depositing money directly.

I found this sentence interesting.

Today while I was waiting for the bus, I had a long conversation with three of the construction guys working on the new apartments across the street from Azalea. They were all from Agua Calientes in Mexico. They asked me if I was a gringo. When I said no, they started naming cities in Mexico where they thought I might be from. I only realized this evening how wild that is! I told them that I was from Nairobi, Kenya.

Competition always starts out strong. It’s interesting for me to see how it shakes out.