Friday desperation

It sits here for hours, steeping and concentrating as it boils into paste.

Some call it office coffee.

I call it the "black stuff",
Or "tarfee",
Or just "brave".

Today I was desperate enough to actually consume some.

With high levels of sweetener and phoney-powdered-non-cream-creamer-with-a-vanilla-mask stuff of course. Survival rate is yet to be measured.

Give my regards to my family if I spontaneously combust.

Been a while

Sweet!

Shipshe traffic

Waiting in construction traffic behind an Indiana motorist of an earlier breed.

I think the kid driving MIGHT be 12.

But he is being very responsible.

Party@wrk

We are having a carry-in @ work today, and for those of you following me on twitter... Here's some visual proof of a tweet from this morning

Postcard

I love my little town.
Been my home for 40 yrs.

Gotcha!

:)
My co-worker!

My hero

All I need is the little black lines...

Close up

Of nina's cookie.
:)

Bored...

So I made cookies!
:)

Winner

1 small flurry and 1 small coffee.

Yay!

Cleanup

Noah and I are puttin stuff in the barn.

I'm up in the barn. :)

Hidden treasures

Can u guess what we might be searching for?

Here's a hint: much more fun to find with your eyes than with your feet.

Lawn kicks

These are my good ol' hand-me-down workin-in-the-lawn kicks.

There. U happy Eric A?

:)

Buddies

Chillin Sil and his fav!

TinyVision

This is our replacement TV.

Widescreen it is not.

Portability is the new rage. :)

Out the window

I remember going to TX once and having the cab driver ask me, "Do the trees really turn orange and red or is that just something they do to the pictures?"

So beautiful.

:(

can't post from my phone today.  I was checking a setting on my phone because I wasn't getting emails on it, then after I checked the settings none of my emails go through.  :(

 

i love technology

 

weeeee.

Fall fun

We're making caramel apples!

Yay!

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My three kids

My three kids came to work with me for today!

I must be crazy...
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Fall fun

Nothin like a backyard fire in the chill of a blustery fall evening.

Love it.

My kids are so fun.

:)
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No words

:)
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Tie die day

Check out this righteous bro!
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Scarecrow day

Nothing scary about this cutie!

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StamiNOT

Two days of mens retreat and I'm poopt.

Am I gonna survive India?

Help! :)
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Fall treat

Getting ready to roast pumpkin seeds after carving. Yay!
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Taken

The band is rehearsing for tonight's worship/teaching session.

I am taken into God's presence.

What a beautiful sound.... Preparing to encounter God.

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Spark

I got ignited about these words a while back.

It's time to fan it into flame.
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Oh yeah

You see the face of the one who donated all the meat.

:)

Its totus porkus!
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He IS male...

Silvester wants to go to the men's retreat.

I unrolled my sleeping bag and he promptly crawled onto it.

Aw....

:)
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Aye Carumba!

Delicious dinner by my lovely wife!

She's the best!

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snuggle

Good ol' Sil.
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M&Ming

Do you know how to play?

Take a pkg of m&m's (small trick or treat size).
Spill them on a flat surface.
You can only eat one color at a time. You can only eat them if, when you connect all of one color with an imaginary line, no other colors are on or inside the lines. (In both pictures, you can eat the yellow ones, but then you'd have to re-spill.)
Continue eating until you have to re-spill them. If you can't eat any, then you just have to keep re-spilling.
If you have a loner (only one of any particular color), it has to be the last one you eat. If you have more than one loner (of different colors of course, otherwise they wouldn't be a loner, duh!), you can only eat them if the "M" is up.
The first player to eat all his/her m&m's is the winner!

We invented this game at work on a slow day. It's a great stress-reliever! AND... It involves chocolate! :)

Have fun!
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Ahhhhh

I played hard.
I won a prize.
I savor the moment.

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Intellectually stimulated

Journey class makes me so happy!

Reason's for God - Rob Wegner and Chad Meister (see my other blog for links).

Tonight was amazing!
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Thank you

Some1 musta prayed cuz my notebook's been healed.

It's now working w/o that little spring thingy. It just suddenly came on.

I actually think the battery was dead or something.
:/ and I'm supposed to b the IT manager... Craig Groeshel would say "it" can't be managed anyways.

Thanks for ur support!
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Frustr8ed

So my SECOND notebook is not working b/c the locking mechanism that holds it shut just barfed a spring. Now I officially have no portability whatsoever.

:-P
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What fun

Homework time!
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Raingutter regatta

Here's the craft before the big race!

Only moments away!!

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Quote for the day

"Stale chocolate is better than any chocolate at all."

:)
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Face too small

This is my little Nina. She has a huge heart. I'm using this picture today b/c I have a heavy heart and this picture makes my heart smile even though it's hurting.

Her face is beautiful, but I think God made it too small. Her smile is so big her face can barely contain it.

I want to smile like that, don't you?
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AR test

Noah got 100% on his Accelerated Reader test last night at the open house at his school.

He's a great reader and loves challenging books.

And loves to take tests on the computer.

I'm proud of him!

:)
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What about you?

Do YOU have a pumpkin tree in YOUR town square?

:)
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Pride & service

Adam Hahn talked to us tonight.

He is a soldier in the army.

We are proud of him.
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Finally

... driving 55 again! Wow.
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