{"id":8365,"date":"2016-04-05T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2016-04-05T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:31:38","slug":"podcast-shopping-israel-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=8365","title":{"rendered":"Podcast! Shopping! Israel! Yard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Productive day!<\/p>\n<p>A year ago today I first saw my hummingbirds back.  I worked on cleaning the feeders again.  I actually leave them up all year long.  Wishful thinking I reckon.  I have fewer each year.  Same for honey bees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-mJJBXjg\/0\/M\/IMG_0546-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t see them. : (<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite things:  RECORDING!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-XD3mzWf\/0\/M\/IMG_0549-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nThis is a terrific episode of Verbal Surgery!  Want to get better? Just speed up a little with <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/verbalsurgery\/Large_Format.mp3\">&#8220;Large Format!&#8221;<\/a>  Just click on the title and GROOVE!<\/p>\n<p>Uploaded to my server.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-NxR8rWv\/0\/M\/IMG_0554-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Posted on Facebook.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-dBDnR6c\/0\/M\/IMG_0555-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nDropped off Jesse&#8217;s taxes to the mail.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-5jkQNHP\/0\/M\/IMG_0550-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did the shopping at Walmart.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-fKLsJXm\/0\/M\/IMG_0548-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Helped the guys at Discount Appliance install our new washing machine.  Yeah, baby!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-X4XQ7fz\/0\/M\/IMG_0551-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-j2rtpd9\/0\/M\/IMG_0552-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-Db2fgsW\/0\/M\/IMG_0553-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exciting news!  I&#8217;m headed to the Holy Land!  I booked my tickets from the ATL to Tel Aviv for May 2nd coming home on the 16th.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to studying and learning more about Judaism and how it fits with what we believe as Christians.  It&#8217;ll be a fun sabbatical!<\/p>\n<p>After I figured out what flights to take (lots of things to consider!) I went outside and worked on the yard.<\/p>\n<p>Mowed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-nsrvRqZ\/0\/M\/IMG_0556-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raked.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-QcRQ98F\/0\/M\/IMG_0557-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-MgnFwJv\/0\/M\/IMG_0558-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nWeeded.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-9qch4Ks\/0\/M\/IMG_0559-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cleaned up.  Very, very close to work.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-DDM8szR\/0\/M\/IMG_0562-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought some little clay lamps from Israel a few months ago.  My original plan didn&#8217;t work out. I had thought we would take them to Stone Mountain in the evening and have a prayer service.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-zhRfd3r\/0\/M\/IMG_0563-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t light up very well.  And I found out we weren&#8217;t allowed on Stone Mountain after dark.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to paint them gold and give them as gifts to the team leaders who work with us!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-2RxBXjw\/0\/M\/IMG_0564-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-KcXw59L\/0\/M\/IMG_0565-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Showered and looking forward to spending time with K.  We enjoyed watching part of Foyle&#8217;s War.<\/p>\n<p>This tree is a survivor!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Something-Different\/Shopping-and-yard-work-and-new\/i-H7HRhmb\/0\/M\/IMG_0547-M.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productive day! A year ago today I first saw my hummingbirds back. I worked on cleaning the feeders again. I actually leave them up all year long. Wishful thinking I reckon. I have fewer each year. Same for honey bees. I didn&#8217;t see them. : ( One of my favorite things: RECORDING! This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}