Beautiful day!

This caught my eye. Since I’ve seen it, it changed to just say rain.

I’ve been thinking about my podcast and how much I enjoy recording. It truly is my therapy. These are the published episodes of 2020.

My friend Piper is missing her mask. I thought the M&Ms remark was funny.

Great talk with my friend Anthony.

And Dash!

Thai!

Studied Spanish.

Went to the bank to deposit Whirlwind checks and get money out to split up between the family members.

Went to a convenience store nearby to get change for three $20s into six $10s. Turned out to be $5s and even $1s to make it work!

Got groceries.

Gassed up the car. Checked oil and cleaned windshield.

Dropped off Kathy’s vote.

Got the Mercury’s repair paid for. J and K went over later to pick it up.

T&G always does us right.

I blew the roof and cleaned gutters while they did that. Getting lined out.

Also blew the driveway and deck.

Put all the containers back under the deck.

Good News.

Arrived at Global Mall in good time.

Always good to see Ashley.

My “Cadillac” was gone. The extra-grande wheelchair was missing in action this morning. We came over here to see if we could spot it in the senior center across the escalators.

Everly brought her baby, BB Queen.

I asked the girls if they knew what this was. They’d only seen the hand-held kind.

Today, one of the Guatemalan women who works cleaning up the mall called them, “Princessas.” So we had to look for jewelry for princesses.

The room where the Shiv Mandir used to be was open this morning. We went through it. I felt kind of sad. We had had some really special times there.

We used to talk about this.

How many of these airlines have you flown on?

I counted twelve for sure.

I love this background.

Little known Indian god.

Went to Walmart to get toys for the girls. I got a $100 Walmart gift card from our board. I spent all of that plus about another $125. Those little girls play me like a dad gum violin.

We came home to wrap what we had bought except for a few each that they could play with immediately.

The girls bought me my favorite Christmas gift. Wonderful.

I’ll have two big garbage bags full of gifts.

I got an email from the President of the Whirlwind Missions board about our outreach this weekend.

Studied Spanish.

After wrapping most of the gifts, I took the girls home and tried, unsuccessfully, to get them to take a nap.

Beautiful sunset.

The kids are out of school and enjoying playing.

I took the Kendall’s garbage to the dumper and saw this in it! Perfect shape, about a foot wide. It’s a beauty.

Went by the office to get the mail.

Made my grocery order.

I got Kathy’s absentee vote ready to cast tomorrow.

Good news on the stimulus money.

I liked this quote from Star Wars.

Possum and Raccoon outside my window last night.

Good sleep.

Studied Spanish.

Winter Solstice!

Beautiful day.

Did some study on my DNA. Most people want 23 and Me or whatever DNA service for health info. I’m much more interested in where my forebears were from.

Figuring out gifts.

I saw the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. They had already started to separate by the time I saw them. That’s my Canon Elph 360 zoomed all the way in. With the naked eye it looked like one big planet.

I’ve been wondering about this a lot during the winter.

I liked this.

I talked with my buddy Rollin Hooper last night for over two hours. We talked about the old days growing up in Kenya together. Those times could not possible be repeated. That version of Kenya is gone forever except in our memories.

Studied Spanish.

I added the edition of Verbal Surgery that I recorded yesterday to my Mac.

I have a month’s worth of shows in the can.

We had our Christmas Party at Azalea today. I called Bill Doverspike about it.

Mild weather for the party. Amen for that!

Had a fun chat with my buddy Anthony.

We traveled to Brazil together. I saw this sign after our talk.

Later, I was on his Zoomcast to the iLab folks.

Went to Pho 24 to get a couple of egg sandwiches.

Cleaned my shoes.

Gassed up my car. It’s hard to fill up. It keeps cutting off like it’s full. Aggravating. I’ve had this problem fixed before. Can’t say I’m a big fan of the PT Cruiser.

Checked and added some oil.

At our party we decorated cookies and I told the Christmas Story.

Everyone had fun!

Presents!

I was glad my good friend and president of our Whirlwind Missions board, Bill Cordrey got to come.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery called, “In the Safe!”

Gain control over your life with this terrific edition!

Studied Spanish.

Brain training.

Ouch.

Coldest I’ve seen it in my room with the new thermometer.

I sleep with long underwear and last night two robes. I don’t use heaters in my room. By the time the heater is effective, the weather has warmed up on its own.

Frozen bird bath water.

Had some great talks with my buddy Anthony as well as the President of our Board for Whirlwind Missions, Bill Cordrey.

Turned out to be a beautiful yet chilly day.

Picked up the grandgirls at Global Mall. Always great to see Ashley!

We always find something interesting to look at. What’s your favorite fruit?

Must be difficult to make a suit out of grass.

Cool feet.

Up, down, repeat.

Testing temperature.

I had a low tire pressure light on when we left Global Mall. Took it to my tire guy. Couldn’t find a leak. Topped them all off with air.

Went to the office to check the mail.

Deposited checks.

The girls and I ate Sonic for breakfast then went to Stone Mountain to ride the Sky Rail and play.

Lots of ice in the puddles. I wasn’t super happy with them playing with the ice, but that’s what I would’ve done.

Trees!

Ice!

Headed back down!

Studied Spanish.

Cold morning!

Went to sleep early last night. Worked on the blog Saturday morning.

Cold morning!

Filled in and mailed my vote for senator in Georgia.

When I have time, I record messages while I’m waiting for the grandgirls and send them to friends. I usually pray for them, too.

Never too much Ashley!

Sometimes, we just look.

Multi-lingual.

Never really noticed mannequin feet before.

This oversize wheelchair I call my “Cadillac.” I have had great fun blasting down the halls at full speed, backward! Watch out, girls! Global Mall may never be the same.

Came home and the girls helped me clean the glass doors.

Studied Spanish.

Folded my clothes.

My friend Manuel came over to my house to install some handles for our shower.

I like the Sleep Cycle app.

Took the grandgirls home. Checked on the kids at the mission. I told them we were canceling our after-school class. I actually had a girl who wanted me to help her. But at these temperatures? No way. She came wearing flip flops with no socks.

Talked to my mechanic, Jason. He told me they had figured out the problem with Jesse’s car. It was a crank shaft sensor that had gone bad. I’ll pick it up tomorrow.

Beautiful sunset.

Went to the bank to get money for my buddy who helped me install the shower handles.

Got the new wifi range extender for the mission.

Freezing tonight. Dripping the taps.

Our Christmas area.

Fun day.

Woke up right at 6:00am.

Studied Spanish.

The Duolingo course in Spanish is always getting bigger.

Not the best weather this morning.

Went to Global Mall to pick up the Grandgirls. It was raining so we pulled under the covered section in the back.

Ordered groceries while I was waiting.

Always great to see Ashley.

And her boots.

We have an exercise time while we’re at Global Mall. Long runs!

They are both winners!

We have fun checking out the windows and deciding which one we like the best. Here are my favorite shoes.

I like these colorful backgrounds.

Penelope was a fan of the camels.

Just in case you wondered where it was.

Watered some of my plants.

Even though it was so cold, I still had four kids show up for the after-school time.

My girls were covered up!

After helping the kids, Penelope and I did some work with Duolingo ABC for kids to help reading. It’s marvelous. She usually puts in at least ten minutes of hard work.

Went by the office to check on supplies.

Released a new episode of Verbal Surgery Practical ways to overcome fear.

Good night’s sleep. I took a nap with Everly later this afternoon.

Picked the grandgirls up at Global Mall.

I’m having fun with the backgrounds.

I liked this picture at Global Mall. It reminded me of my buddy, Anthony.

Up and down. Up and down. Up and you get the picture.

I got a text from my buddy Chester at One Heart Church. They had a gift for me. Global Mall is really close to their location so that made it easy to go get. Great when things work out like that.

Beautiful clouds.

Studied Spanish.

We enjoyed Sonic on the way home.

Went to the doggie park. We were the only ones there. It was pretty cold. We didn’t care.

It’s so much fun to watch Penelope growing in courage.

They made it to the first little station. It was pretty hard for them to do. They had seen a lot of other kids doing it, so they knew it was possible.

Fun.


Penelope made huge progress on this obstacle too.

Helped the kids at the mission. It was very cold and many were having wifi problems. I just bought a wifi extender on Amazon.

Clouds.

After I finished with the kids, I came inside to give Penelope some one on one school time. She knows if she does that I’m guaranteed to stay. We’ve been using Duolingo’s new app to help children learn how to read.

To my office to check the mail.

Low on gas. Filled up. Checked the oil and cleaned the windshield.

Christmas from my Mom in Texas. Thanks, Nana!

Wrote an email to my Board this morning telling them that we have an Outreach Event of a Christmas party at Azalea Place this Sunday afternoon. It’ll take the place of our business meeting. I also wrote a short summary of our year end report for them. They really knew most of this information already.

Heard from my buddy Pastor Steve Peoples today. He’s sending a check. Always helps.

Studied Spanish.

Got supplies for the Christmas party at the Dollar Tree.

Includes all the gifts as well as all the cookies and decorating supplies. Kept the whole event under $150.

Took all the supplies to the Chuch in our lock up closet.

I’ve seen this word lately. Had to look it up again.

Great talk with Jesse this afternoon. I needed it.