I worked on my iPhone last night trying to figure out how to auto correct when I spell ans rather than and. It came up correctly when I did it just now.

Teehee.

Paid bills.

Español.

Cooler today.

Everly was mad because she’d forgotten her bracelet at home.

I gassed up my car and checked the fluid levels.

I was teaching Everly about what I check and how to do it.

OYB!

I took Kathy’s truck to get gas in it and check the oil. Discovered that her oil cap was missing. I topped off the level and then used aluminum foil to cover the top. Went on Amazon to get a new one for her.

Ordered groceries.

Went to Walmart to try and get the sermon that my Dad preached on missions digitized from VHS. Their system was down. I’ll take it to the Chamblee Walmart next.

Went to Ann’s house to check on her. Noticed that her screen protector had cracked. I ordered a new pack to replace that asap. Way cheaper than having to repair the iPhone screen!

Kathy’s hip has really been hurting her. I know how she feels after my last bout with back pain. Wow! I brought us home Thai food to cheer her up.

Started Book Four of Harry Potter. I getting a lot more words every time.

Saw this decal. I reckon they’re long hair hippies.

Picked up Penelope from school and took the girls for pizza. We also went to the Dollar Tree to get some prizes for her class’s “treasure box.”

Helped the kids with their homework.

It’s very rewarding to see them making progress.

Went by my office to pick up checks. Amen.

Siempre aprendiendo.

The clouds were fabulous on the way home. Powerful clouds.

Picked up groceries.

Went to the bank to process and deposit the checks.

Came home and blew the garage and driveway.

I’ve had the good fortune to see most of my favorite works of art. MC Escher is one still on my bucket list along with William Blake, who is also one of my favorite poets!

Escher’s main cache of work is located in the Netherlands in The Hague.

The largest exhibition of Blake’s work was supposed to be in Los Angeles last year. It’s to be rescheduled when Covid is dealt with. I’ll make that trip.

I’d also like to go to Hawaii one day and see Kilauea!

Stringing you along.

I talked with my buddy Anthony today.

I’m helping him check out his new website.

OYB!

Español!

I was talking to Jesse about some of my favorite TV series. Dark Matter is one of them.

Palabras!

Good chat with my Mom! Jesse chimed in some too.

Took care of my garden.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called, “ManiFIESTA!”

So tasty!

Wow!

I thought the was cool since Ashley has a modern Jeep.

Teehee.

Went to Stone Mountain to record an episode of Verbal Surgery called, “MEasurement.” Happiness depends on what/who you’re comparing yourself to.

I have been looking forward to this for months.


Beautiful day.

OYB!

I found it interesting that my lesson in Duolingo this morning focused around going to an art show!

Harry!

I’m nearly finished with book three. Just made sure that book four is ready to go!

I don’t like trying to park in downtown Atlanta, plus it’s expensive! I spent $6 and got a round trip directly across the street from Underground Atlanta on the Marta, our train system.

Cool.

I liked this sculpture.

Today’s visit was the first time I’ve been to Underground Atlanta in probably twenty years! There weren’t very many things to see. It was still an excellent location for the Banksy Exhibit.

They drop the giant peach to mark the New Year here.

The Banksy Exhibit was one of the best I’ve ever seen.

Went by my office to check the mail at FBC Doraville.

Transported a squirrel.

Fun day!

There is some truth to this.

Two 100% days in a row. Astonishing.

Nueva palabra.

Español!

This ain’t right.

OYB!

Mas dias!

I usually clean out my hummingbird feeders once a week. Sometimes more often if they drink all the juice.

I love those little birds so much.

I redid the notifications on my phone. I turned nearly everything off.

Deposited checks. PTL!

Went to Stone Mountain to record a podcast. It was a good one!

I also cancelled Showtime. There was a UFO show I enjoyed watching that JJ Abrams had produced.

The big project today was painting Jesse’s office.

I wiped down every surface to clean it from dust.

Vacuumed the room.

Scrubbed the stains with my heavy brush and Oxyclean. I cleaned all the carpet.

I covered the floor with plastic sheeting to protect the carpet before I painted.

I used a putty knife to shove the sheeting under the molding.

I put painter’s tape on the ceiling to protect it from paint.

The prep work takes almost as long as the painting! Cut in the corners.

I let the trim dry and went to Walmart to pick up my groceries. I don’t ever intend to do my grocery shopping myself any more. I’ll always do pick up. Today was one of the rare times that my order wasn’t ready. That’s only happened maybe three times out of over 150 pick ups!

Harry!

Gorgeous sunset on the way home!

Came home and prepped the roller to do all the flat surfaces. I had almost exactly enough paint. I gave some areas a second and third coat.

Once everything is completely dry, I’ll take the painter’s tape down and pull the plastic sheeting up and throw it away.

I did a good job. I’m pretty picky about painting.

I’m really looking forward to going to downtown Atlanta tomorrow to see the Banksy exhibition. He’s my favorite artist.

I love stuff that’s built on Escher’s art.

We have carpenter bee issues. I thought this was interesting.

This guy is an idiot.

Better news.

I didn’t know what this was. Ashley knew it was Michigan immediately! I thought maybe somewhere in Europe.

I put this app on my phone. It immediately told me what it was.

I looked this mold up on my Seek app. Yellow Dog Vomit mold.

I thought this was cool. Her teacher sends these pictures to parents.

I have an action figure of Leonardo da Vinci in my car that Everly was asking me about. Then I showed her a series of pictures of his most famous work.

I visited his home in France when we lived there. He’s one of my heroes.

Some of his sayings.

I don’t see this very often. I sure didn’t expect it this morning since I went to sleep later than I normally do and got up at about 5:30am.

Español!

Cleaned the stove top and the bathroom mirror with my razor blade scraper. I’d gotten little traces of silicon on the mirror.

FRIDAY!

Took Everly to the park to climb and play.

I teach her bush skills, including tracking.

Where to get water. We watched things float down stream. I also showed her the ripple effects.

Cool zipper cloud this morning.

I showed her where someone had painted the major constellations.

I showed her this and then will show her how there are similar patterns in the clouds. They are formed by the same physical reasons: A big miss getting shoved by another mass coming forward.

Ordered groceries.

Nuevas palabras.

One of my cherry blossom trees seems to be dying. Sad face.

Beautiful day.

Took Everly to eat at the Buford Highway Farmers Market. She ate really well, then got sick and threw up almost all of it. Felt sad for her. She felt immediately better after she threw up, which is typical.

I love my little sticker burr.

We had English class today. Great to have Bill and Piper Cordrey over to help!

I focused on helping the kids memorize their times tables.

Went to my office to get the mail and water my ficus tree.

I’m almost to the end of book three.

Three raccoons at my feeders this evening. Made me so happy. I saw a dead raccoon by the side of the road not far from my house. That fills me with deep sadness since I assume it’s one of “mine.”

Fabulous!

One of my favorites from Dali!

Everly and I looked at plants at Ingles. My Seek App helped me identify them.

The car I’m driving now is a Mercury. Did some research on the name. I knew the basics.

We also looked up this caterpillar on the Seek App.

I discovered to my delight that the Banksy exhibition is this weekend! It will be at Underground Atlanta. I’ll ride Marta. I got my tickets months ago and had forgotten the exact date!

Español!

Not sure what this meant. Islands? Bosnia?

Always great to see my girls!

I find bugs interesting.

Everly and I checked out this cool ride.

OYB!

I did a close inspection on the hole that some bird had dug near the top of the tree that fell yesterday. Couldn’t tell that anything had lived there.

Everly and I went to GoodWill to check out some toys. I got her another helmet.

I talked to this Xfinity guy at the entrance to our subdivision. I alerted him to the downed cable of his near my house. Sure enough he fixed it before I got home.

I got a Stone Mountain sticker for the Mercury. Not sure how long it might be before I get a replacement for the PT Cruiser.

We had fun going to Evergreen and swimming.

Then to El Torreros for lunch before going to pick up Penelope. Both the girls LOVE Mexican food, especially rice and beans with eggs.

Lil’ mess!

The girls loved these little ducks we got from GoodWill. They had the alphabet on them.

I had a marathon session helping the kids at Azalea today. Really hard homework and a lot of it. I was there for nearly four hours.

The clouds were fantastic.

Harry durante mi viaje a mi casa.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Ripple Effect!” So good!

We had our version of Hurricane Ida effects this morning.

About 5:30 AM the power went off in our house. That’s never zesty. It turned out that a dead tree in our neighbor’s yard fell and tore down the power, telephone and cable TV lines in our neighborhood.

The wires completely blocked our driveway so we couldn’t leave. The tree was massive. The sound of chainsaws started around 6:00 AM.

It tore the telephone pole in half.

OYB!

I thought it was interesting that the Bible talked about the light shining in the darkness, because it was REALLY dark this morning.

The power company had a fleet of trucks to work on the situation.

They yanked the old pole out of the ground.

Dug the old pole out and expanded the hole.

Put the new pole in.

Hooked the wires to the new pole.

We got power back on after about six hours. The team said that there were THOUSANDS of these poles knocked over by Ida. Wow.

ATT came next to put up their wire. They did us a massive favor by tying the cable line back up too so we could get out of our house without damaging the cable. Unfortunately, it’s still on the ground at our neighbor’s house. Hopefully, they’ll be able to get it back up into the air tomorrow morning.

Español.

I got the title to the PT Cruiser over to T&G. Contacted the tow company that will take it to Kars4Kids.

It was great to see my treasurer Jon Paul today. We had a really nice visit!

Cool!

Palabra nueva.

I signed up for a newsletter about getting a used car.

Mileage.

Got the newsletters folded and stuffed in the envelopes, and into the mail.

I brought some ice cream sundaes over to the girls for a treat. Kathy came with me because she couldn’t go into work due to the wires blocking our cars.

I repaired the burst tube on Penelope’s bike.

I got Jesus into the Mercury.

Helped the kids with their homework.

Not quite as hot today.

Always great to see my girls! First day to use the Mercury. She drove a lot better than the PT Cruiser for sure.

Went over to T&G to get the tag off the PT Cruiser.

Got an adaptor for my iPhone for power/audio. The Mercury doesn’t have Bluetooth connectivity.

Strong storms with a lot of rain blew through. Miles got off work and picked up Everly around 1pm. No mission today because of the weather.

Español.

Filled up the container for the bird food and swept off the outdoor carpet.

I saw a dead raccoon a couple of days ago on the side of the road near my house. Really made me sad. I was pretty sure she was one of “mine.”

Cancelled the registration for the PT Cruiser with State of Georgia.

Organized and repacked the Mercury.

I went through everything in the front compartment of the Cruiser, organized it and will put most of it in the Mercury. For being such a large car, there really isn’t much storage space inside. The trunk, however, is huge.

Dropped off the financial report to my Treasurer’s house along with some dog toys for his pup.

Took Everly to Hot and Cold. We missed going to eat there because that’s when the Cruiser died.

Gassed up the Mercury and checked the fluids.

Cleaned out all the leaves and junk that had gotten into the engine and around the door seals.

Went to Walmart to get some RainX for the windshield wiper fluid as well as some underwear for me.

The power went out at Walmart when I was there. Took a while to get checked out since the self check out was still rebooting. Walked .58 miles.

Didn’t know what this meant. Literally means Dry Hit.

Put the RainX in the fluid reservoir when I got home.

Put some white silicon on the cracked metal for the sheet rock edge. Wasn’t good planning to have that right beside the shower.

Looks better and is now water proof.

Got the paper work (on line of course!) done for the Kars 4 Kids donation of the PT Cruiser.

Talked to the tow truck guy a few minutes ago.

Always more to learn.

Preach!

Native American wisdom. I really needed to read this today.

Wow.

I’m part of “The Session.” It’s a 24 hour marathon of Hypno presentations. I look forward to doing my part!

I see this a LOT. When Penelope packed her bag to spend the night with us last Friday, she had EIGHT t-shirts in her bag along with four stuffed animals.

I’m working with our treasurer to make sure that this is delivered properly. He’s moving in with his daughter.

It’s weird how many nights I think I slept a lot better/worse than what Sleep Cycle says.

OYB!

Español.

Worked on labeling the envelopes.

Edited the donor list.

Went by the UPS store to return two items to Amazon. I had to send two different boxes. They went to two different locations.

I talked to my mechanics today about the PT Cruiser. They said that the timing belt had broken. That meant that the oil seals, water pump and timing belt all had to be replaced. It’s a big job, around nine hours! That would cost around $1,500. THEN, after all that was done, they could tell what else had gotten messed up! The pistons and valves often get ruined with this particular break down. I asked them what they would do, they just shook their heads. “It’s a long shot that it’ll work, Tim.” PLUS, the car has been consistently over heating on a daily basis. “Oh, that will still happen, Tim.” Enough is enough. I decided it was better to invest that $2,000 plus on something that wasn’t old and had nearly 200,000 miles on it. There were many things I didn’t like about that car, but overall it did the job. RIP, PT Cruiser.

Called Geico to cancel the insurance on the PT Cruiser.

The Barrington had given us their Mercury Grand Marquis that is 25 years old a couple of years ago. Jesse has been driving it. It still runs very well. I had my car guys look it over again, then took it home to give it a good cleaning. Jesse keeps the interior looking really good, The outside, not so much. Cars left outside never look great unless they’re washed regularly.

I took all the stuff out of the Cruiser and put it in the Mercury. Looking good!

Blew the roof and gutters. They weren’t too bad. With all the rain coming they needed to be working great.

It’s pretty high up on the north end of the house.

Job well done.

After the roof was blown, I went down to the driveway to clear them all off.

Blew the deck.

Cleaned off the driveway where the Mercury had been parked.

Cleaned the screen and keyboard on my Mac. Best to use a damp rag with no chemicals.

Palabras.

Made some calls about my car conking out. I’m in the asking business.

I decided to add an update to the newsletter with the news about the car. Always best to let our supporters know what’s going on. They often really come through with help! I cut these up and put them in the envelopes.

Of course I always put in the donation envelopes!

Long, hard day. But productive!

It’s amazing how relieved I am to not worry about that Cruiser over heating every day! It’s one thing to have me inconvenienced. It’s totally different when I have the grandgirls with me!

I’m still processing my experience with AAA yesterday. I gave them the lowest score possible in about six categories. The driver wasn’t bad, however.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists. The museum dedicated to him in Amsterdam is fantastic. His self portrait.

Ann was having problems with her car. It wouldn’t start. I went to my car, which was in the parking lot of my mechanic, to get my jumper cables. While I was there, she called and told me that she had managed to get it started. Amen.

OYB!

Español.

I did some repairs on my bathroom sink. Re-attached some of the formica and put more silicon around the cracks in the low areas.

Wrote my newsletter and produced it.

Printed the labels. I’ll put all those on the envelopes tomorrow.

I ordered more of the return envelopes from Amazon.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called “Jimmy Jackpot.” Get lucky and check it out!

Gorgeous high level clouds.

Went to the Post Office to get stamps for the newsletters.

Palabras.

Had a good chat with my Mom.

I boxed up a couple of things to send back to Amazon. I’ll drop it off at the UPS store near my house tomorrow.