I signed up for another year of AAA. With our cars having nearly 250,000 miles each, it’s pretty much mandatory.

Paid off some credit card debt this morning. It was due mainly to car repairs and dental bills. I’ve made great progress this month.

One of my favorite things this morning: podcast!

I really like this episode of Verbal Surgery. It’s easy to get our minds stuck on a one way road. Sometimes it’s good to try “Channel Surfing!” Some really practical tips that can change your life in simple yet profound ways.

Enjoyed lunch with Kathy.

My first completed book in 2015.
It’s about a family from Afghanistan. It jumps around in time over a period of 70 years. Gritty stories with few happy endings. Welcome to the real world.

Enjoyed working with the kids at the mission.

We have some real artists!

It was great to have Kathy help today. She organized the gifts we were given to be distributed to our other missions.

I took the baby supplies to my friends at the Pregnancy Resource of Doraville. I’ve worked with them for over a decade.

Dropped off the CDs at the library. I almost always use Audible.com. Kathy went to the library and got these. We listened to most of the book in the car on the Texas trip.

I’m thinking about getting some hubcaps like this.

Dropped the financial report to our treasurer.

Ashley and I enjoyed our time with Pastor Paul Mallarc today!

He’s the pastor of Briarcliff Baptist Church. We’ve enjoyed a long term partnership with them.

We had a fun lunch at Plaza Fiesta.

Visited four of the missions.

Then over to the Buford Highway Farmers Market.

After Paul went back to the church, Ashley and I rearranged the gear in our office. We start hosting teams soon. We’ll need to have all our presentation equipment together.

Had a great time working with the kids at the mission.

Ate supper with Jesse before going home. Always something interesting to see.


I thought the Bruce Lee images were different.

K and I watched the start of the second season of Upstairs/Downstairs. We’ve liked this series.

Admin duties now.

One of my favorite things: Podcast!

When you are driving home in the car, and your mind wanders to that time at the beach, are you in the car or at the beach? How often do we pay attention to what’s happening right now? It’s always best to have “Present Presence, NOW!”
Just click on the title and groove!
I brought my Venus Flytraps inside for the next few days. It’s supposed to get down to 14 degrees. Ouch.

K and I had lunch together.

This afternoon Kathy and I met up with Ashley and Jesse at Azalea. We rounded up the kids for a Christmas party.


Our new friends at SOAR ministries brought over some clothes and back packs.


We sang songs.



Told the difference between Santa and Jesus.

They made a thank you craft for their parents.

Then gave out the presents.

After the party, Kathy and I joined Ashley and Jesse for supper. Great fellowship with the family.

Part of the menu at Taco Veloz. I thought their translation of “spy shrimp” was interesting.

Kathy and I enjoyed watching Upstairs Downstairs this evening.

Admin duties now.

I thought the sunset was marvelous this evening. I liked the progression of colors.

I lined up the kids. Reminded me of a pose that the Beatles did.

Jesse showing the kids a new scrambler face app on his phone.

Nearly 1 1/2″ of rain last night.

K and I enjoyed going to Westside Baptist Church this morning.

Pastor Ben spoke on tithing. It was his 25th anniversary today. Wow.

Came home to rest.

Went for a 5.09 mile run.

Always something interesting to see!

I thought this was interesting. Looked like some type of egg sack.

Beautiful clouds this afternoon.

K and I started watching Upstairs Downstairs. Since Ashley and Jesse gave us the PS4, we’ve enjoyed watching streaming movies on Amazon and Netflix. We finished watching the last of Season 4 of Downton Abbey.

Admin duties now.

Dreary weather. Good for mushrooms!

Ate a sandwich for lunch. Enjoyed reading the December issue of Wired. I liked the phrase “eye-hiking.”

Did some shopping.

Walmart had some big poinsettias for $2.80. I got four of them. Beauty color during the winter.

Organized my vitamins.

Paid some bills.

Enjoyed watching Downton Abbey with K this evening.

K is feeling better today. Her voice is a lot better.

Sad day. A friend of mine from my childhood days in Kenya was buried this afternoon. The Jones family are some wonderful people and I’m praying for them after Andy’s death. K wasn’t feeling well, so we didn’t make the trip to the funeral. I didn’t see the point of getting other people sick.

Admin duties now.

Drizzly weather today in the 40s.

Went out for a 5.01 mile run when I thought the rain was letting up. Got about a half mile into the run and continued a steady drizzle. Not the best conditions for a run. I didn’t even take a camera.

Paid for the car maintenance. Oil change and headlight was out. Also cleared some codes on the engine light. T & G has taken good care of us.

Rested. Played some video games. Watched an episode of Downton Abbey with K. Later this evening watched the UK series Sherlock with K. She’s been running a low fever and coughing up green phlegm. Doctor put her on antibiotics this afternoon. She’s been resting a lot.

Admin duties now.

Wednesday was a great time for an end of the year run. I went 5.08 miles. Always something interesting to see.


I love mushrooms.



Beautiful clouds.

These are called cloud “streets.”

I thought these stems looked like fish bones.

Kathy and I enjoyed Mexican food with Jesse. K and I had a quiet evening watching old episodes of Lie to Me.

Then we watched the ball drop in NYC. HAP . . . . . PY new year!

One of my favorite things in the new year: Recording!

I like Verbal Surgery -302- on what does it take to change.

Listen to “New You!”

Met up with the Dovespike family for lunch at Golden Corral!

Restful afternoon.

K and I are enjoying watching Season 4 of Downton Abbey.

This morning I worked on banking and got checks in the mail.

Also gave myself a haircut. High and tight, baby!

Got the newsletter envelopes and went to the Atlanta Metro Baptist Association to pick up our newsletters.

Went to my office at FBC Doraville to stuff and write a greeting on the letters.

Ate lunch at a Greek place, then went to Ashley’s house.

She helped me stuff the calendars into the newsletter envelopes.

Went to the Post Office to mail a package and the newsletters.

Then to Walmart for some more shopping.

Dropped by the Financial Report to our treasurer.

Mixed bird seed when I got home.

Noticed these tiny mushrooms growing out of a pine cone.


These are from a tree I inoculated with mycelium. These are not what I’m looking for.

I cleaned out my St. Francis garden.

I got a new weather station at Walmart. My old one has started developing problems.

I took K to Golden Corral for our anniversary. I thought the chocolate splatter looked cool.

Rested and watched Girl, Interrupted with K. Just ok movie.

Admin duties now.

I like the rainbows from our sun catcher.

A shot from Far Cry 4.

Sunday, I was exhausted from that 1,000 mile trip. I slept about 12 hours.

We had nearly 2 1/2″ of rain while we were gone.

Paid bills.

It was Kathy and my anniversary! 29 years! I took her to see Unbroken.

It was a good film, but a difficult to watch subject.

This caught my eye.

This morning I went for a 5.18 mile run. Always something interesting to see.



Odd looking mushrooms.

I like a good creche.

The county put in this drainage area for flooding times like we had this weekend.

Ate a sandwich, then went to see the latest Hobbit movie: The Battle of 5 Armies.

I liked the movie. I thought it was very well paced. Killing Smaug was amazing as well as the gigantic battle scenes.

Did the shopping at Walmart.

Came home. Vacuumed the house.

Watched Elementary with K.

Admin duties now.

I like the sound of this.

The new QT coming in near my house continues to make progress.

Our family had a great time in Texas with the Cummins clan in Georgetown! We were so glad that Ashley got to come with us.


It’s a 1,000 mile trip one way. Sometimes we felt like this.

This made us happy.

Ashley and I spoke at the Worship Place three times last Sunday.

We enjoyed having a tea party at my Mom’s house with some of our supporters.

Kathy and I enjoyed walking in the Texas neighborhoods.

Always something interesting to see.

Georgetown has a beautiful main square with many antique shops.

It was fun having family time.

It was wonderful celebrating Christmas, especially with the grand nieces!

Great to see my brother, Jim!

Miss my folks!

We stopped at Baylor on the way home. Sic ’em!

A good place to.

I thought this was funny.

Christmas greetings to everyone from the Cummins family!

Amazing sunsets!

I liked the Christmas lights!