{"id":648,"date":"2009-04-17T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-04-17T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:54:31","slug":"carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Carpet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent this morning working on logistics.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514711459_BEETL-M.jpg\" alt=\"i\" \/><br \/>\nI called the 16 managers where we&#8217;ll be serving next weekend and gave them the same message:\u00a0 &#8220;HOWDY!\u00a0 This is Tim!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got GREAT news!\u00a0 Next Saturday, the 25th, we&#8217;ll have a team come to your complex to have an Easter party for your kids!\u00a0 They&#8217;ll have a cook out, with lots of games and then have an Easter Egg hunt.\u00a0 This Sunday, I&#8217;ll have someone come by your complex to put up a couple of posters.\u00a0 The residents are going to LOVE this!\u00a0 Let me know if there&#8217;s ever anything I can do to help! Bye!&#8221;\u00a0 Or something similar to that.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done the same conversation probably a thousand times over the last nearly 14 years!\u00a0 There have probably been at least 2,000 people that have come to Jesus because of these simple events!<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I had the carpet cleaning guys come to our house.\u00a0 I thought Germaine did a good job.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514709385_G4sRG-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\nTook my sweet ol&#8217; Sugar dog out for a 4 mile run.\u00a0 I had neighbors call out, &#8220;Who&#8217;s pulling who?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty even,&#8221; I&#8217;d reply.\u00a0 Actually, I was doing most of the pulling today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514710723_EnubD-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nNormally we have pretty much the same pace.\u00a0 Slow.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really not into racing, just get in the mileage!<\/p>\n<p>The flowers and blooming trees continue to impress me.\u00a0 Even the tiniest flowers have such beauty!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514711323_d4LKV-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514711010_3H6mJ-M.jpg\" alt=\"r\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514709828_sDZQD-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514710098_s7LxT-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514710009_7GySQ-M.jpg\" alt=\"ff\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514710636_Dnxru-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The goldfinches have enjoyed coming to my birdfeeders.\u00a0 I fed them all winter long.\u00a0 The difference is a month ago they looked drab brown.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514709551_bgFaR-M.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><br \/>\nNow, they&#8217;re POW yellow!\u00a0 Awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Just finished watching &#8220;Fly Boys&#8221; a movie about WWI flyers with Kathy.\u00a0 It was based on a true story.\u00a0 We enjoyed it!<\/p>\n<p>Every day (for the most part) I have three things I do:<\/p>\n<p>I upload the pictures I&#8217;ve taken.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514711574_NCquC-M.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\nI write my blog (you&#8217;re reading it!)<\/p>\n<p>I check on my Facebook account.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514711649_GTAvr-M.jpg\" alt=\"fb\" \/><br \/>\nAnd submit a few one liners to Twitter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/514711623_4FzNJ-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nPeople ask me, &#8220;How do you get all that done?&#8221;  I tell them, &#8220;I sleep less.&#8221;  True dat.<\/p>\n<p>Fun day!<\/p>\n<p>And now. . . you know you want it!  Stoooory Tim!  Where I share one of the most powerful events I ever covered:  the soldiers arriving home from Desert Storm!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kwcu4xD9qhM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kwcu4xD9qhM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent this morning working on logistics. 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