Risk

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose."

Jim Elliot, a martyred missionary

Don't take the Bus!

After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

I have seen those bars along the road in Kenya. Just out in the middle of nothing. I took this picture of a truck that was at one of these bars! TOO much to drink that day! Watch the driver the next time you get on the bus---cause you might end up like one of their trucks or worse yet in a metal hospital. It just might do some of you some good!

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake would be nice on a Saturday afternoon!!! Here our the kids at Siempre talking about the cake of the day.

A special Letter!

I opened my mail box late last night after coming back from Siempre Para Los Niño’s Christmas party in Mexico. http://www.siemprekids.org/
The wind was blowing, a little snow on the ground and 22 degrees. The first letter was the cable bill and the second and last was a letter addressed to Santa. OOOOOOOOOOOOOO the mail man had placed the letter in my box by mistake. Some kid, from somewhere in the world was wishing for gift, a doll, a dog or a dad or mom to come home and I could not answer their hearts desire. What was I going to do?
I looked at the return address—Riverside—I know where that is and it was from a Leta in Riverside. My Granddaughter! She was asking for things that were already on the sleigh, the reindeers are ready to fly and Santa’s was on his way! She signed the end of the letter- Love Leta. Yes Leta, dreams do come true and letters sent in love mealt the heart!
Papa Santa (Not the real one!)

ooma

Its a weird name but it works great. I got one for my Christmas present a few days ago. Yes it great to get those gifts a week before Christmas. Wish I would had received it 6 months ago! Christmas in June would be great!
Every time I opened my phone bill for my home phone-- I saw those taxes and the taxes on the taxes. Fees for the fees !!! What a great idea for a phone company! So I hooked up the ooma to my computer and now I have free home phone with no taxes and fees. A great idea for me! Just a DSL line ( not taxes or fees with a dry-loop line) and I have service.
Just one bad thing--if the power goes out at home--no ---"PHONE HOME".

Dreaming of running in the snow

Here is a picture of our dog Bella dreaming and planning her day in the snow. We have 5" of nice dry powder today. Only thing missing in the picture is a couple of gray squirrels. Bella loves to eat squirrels.






Anyone like to have a polar bear BBQ??

A Poly Grip Thanksgiving

We served over 3400 meals on Thanksgiving day! What a great time helping those in need. This morning in the office I received a call from one of the households that received a dinner. She told me that the meal was great and she said “THANK YOU, THANK YOU, and THANK YOU! She told me how the two ladies were great but she had not heard back from them. She told them she needed some poly grip for her teeth and she was thinking they were going to come back with some to help her out. I told her that we were only serving dinners that day and I didn’t think they would be back with the poly grip. I told her I was sorry for the mistake. I guess next year we better get a case of the stuff as back-up!
Good thing our turkey was cooked so good and it melted in her mouth and she didn’t need her teeth!