Saturday, October 3, 2009
Doug's Robot made completely of school bus parts.
Robot is 15 feet tall erect, about 10 feet tall crouching. Arms, legs, hands, fingers and head move, talks, Shoots foam "bullets" from Gatlin gun on left arm. Cycles through "act" every 15 minutes. Corporate office saw pictures and is taking it to Michigan to use in promos and school safety presentations.
CATCHIN' UP AGAIN 10-03-09
Wow! It's been a whal since I put anything on this here blog.
NOW
Not a bunch of new stuff goin' on. We continue to walk. Mostly around La Fortune Park. 3.2 miles in 1.3 hours. Since we are keeping Stone on Mondays and Fridays now, we use this as an excuse for not walking the trails on those days. But we make up for it on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. On Thursday we walk in the morning and work the food bank for 3 hours in the afternoon. The food bank served about 300 families during the month of September and it will probably serve even more each month until the economy turns around. Park Plaza is the workingest, givingest congregation I have ever seen. The food bank is just one of a whole bunch of things People do at Park Plaza. We just praise God that He has given us the will and the way to glorify Him in this way.
I have been asked to coordinate part of the new "Furniture" mission the church will be starting soon. We will pick up used furniture, refurbish it and give it to those in need. I will coordinate the pick up and delivery schedule. Others with vehicles will do the actual transporting of the furniture and still others will work on the cleaning and minor repairs. There are also plans to open a clothing outreach store in the new building we have leased next to the church property. It already houses the church offices, Iglesia de Christo, Deaf church and counseling service and will house the furniture and clothing outreach. The food bank, at least for now, will remain in the main church building.
Stone and Ryan are growing like weeds. I can only assume that Megan is doing well since her parents are not speaking to us. David & Nichole are going to the Dominican Republic to work with their missionary friends Kyle and Vicki Graham for a week. That's coming up in two weeks and we will get to keep Ryan for part of that week. It's a blast to watch Stone and Ryan play together. They were both here yesterday, laughing and chasing like a couple of otters.
Doug and Nic have been busy with there work and some extra-curricular activities.Nic is working on the body of his car and will soon have it looking like new. We are going this morning to an open house at Doug's work where he has built a 15 foot tall robot out of spare bus parts that talks and squats and bends at the waste and flexes its arms and fingers. Can't wait to see that.
THEN
What started this session is that I woke up about 4 AM thinking about a chore I had in my youth. When we first moved to the farm and Daddy was trying to make a living "off the land", we had 2 mules and some farm equipment he used to work the land to raise crops. He tried peanuts and corn and some other things but nothing seemed to do much good on the sand hill where we lived.
In the summer, when Daddy was working in the field, Mother would draw some cold well water, put it in a mason jar, wrap it in a wet dishtowel and send me the quarter mile to take the water to my Dad. When I arrived to where he was working, he would take a big drink of the still cold water and I would bury the remainder in the sand under a shade tree at the edge of the field.
This made me think about Christ's admonition about a cup of cold water for a prophet and the song we sing about "just a cup of water". This made me think of the song from the much maligned musical full-length cartoon/live of Walt Disney's "Song of the South" If my memory serves me, Uncle Remus, the main character in the movie, sang a song about "It's what you do with what you got, and never mind how much you got, that pays off in the end." I guess that goes along with the "Widows Mite" too don't it. Since my mind and strength have both gone south, I'll have to be satisfied with sacking groceries and singing hymns and periodically writing in this blog to glorify God. Hallelujah anyway.
NOW
Not a bunch of new stuff goin' on. We continue to walk. Mostly around La Fortune Park. 3.2 miles in 1.3 hours. Since we are keeping Stone on Mondays and Fridays now, we use this as an excuse for not walking the trails on those days. But we make up for it on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. On Thursday we walk in the morning and work the food bank for 3 hours in the afternoon. The food bank served about 300 families during the month of September and it will probably serve even more each month until the economy turns around. Park Plaza is the workingest, givingest congregation I have ever seen. The food bank is just one of a whole bunch of things People do at Park Plaza. We just praise God that He has given us the will and the way to glorify Him in this way.
I have been asked to coordinate part of the new "Furniture" mission the church will be starting soon. We will pick up used furniture, refurbish it and give it to those in need. I will coordinate the pick up and delivery schedule. Others with vehicles will do the actual transporting of the furniture and still others will work on the cleaning and minor repairs. There are also plans to open a clothing outreach store in the new building we have leased next to the church property. It already houses the church offices, Iglesia de Christo, Deaf church and counseling service and will house the furniture and clothing outreach. The food bank, at least for now, will remain in the main church building.
Stone and Ryan are growing like weeds. I can only assume that Megan is doing well since her parents are not speaking to us. David & Nichole are going to the Dominican Republic to work with their missionary friends Kyle and Vicki Graham for a week. That's coming up in two weeks and we will get to keep Ryan for part of that week. It's a blast to watch Stone and Ryan play together. They were both here yesterday, laughing and chasing like a couple of otters.
Doug and Nic have been busy with there work and some extra-curricular activities.Nic is working on the body of his car and will soon have it looking like new. We are going this morning to an open house at Doug's work where he has built a 15 foot tall robot out of spare bus parts that talks and squats and bends at the waste and flexes its arms and fingers. Can't wait to see that.
THEN
What started this session is that I woke up about 4 AM thinking about a chore I had in my youth. When we first moved to the farm and Daddy was trying to make a living "off the land", we had 2 mules and some farm equipment he used to work the land to raise crops. He tried peanuts and corn and some other things but nothing seemed to do much good on the sand hill where we lived.
In the summer, when Daddy was working in the field, Mother would draw some cold well water, put it in a mason jar, wrap it in a wet dishtowel and send me the quarter mile to take the water to my Dad. When I arrived to where he was working, he would take a big drink of the still cold water and I would bury the remainder in the sand under a shade tree at the edge of the field.
This made me think about Christ's admonition about a cup of cold water for a prophet and the song we sing about "just a cup of water". This made me think of the song from the much maligned musical full-length cartoon/live of Walt Disney's "Song of the South" If my memory serves me, Uncle Remus, the main character in the movie, sang a song about "It's what you do with what you got, and never mind how much you got, that pays off in the end." I guess that goes along with the "Widows Mite" too don't it. Since my mind and strength have both gone south, I'll have to be satisfied with sacking groceries and singing hymns and periodically writing in this blog to glorify God. Hallelujah anyway.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
This Week
This week has been more active than I expected. This is Wednesday and we have walked every day although I wasn't up to snuff and just walked about half a mile. Ellen did the whole 30 minutes. This week we walked at Hunter Park next to the Creek Nation Toll Road, around the apartment complex and today walked on the west side of LaFortune Park. It's a good place to walk with lots of shade and the west side is fairly flat so I don't have to go up and down the hills no matter so slight.
After we got back from our walk, it rained for about an hour and a half which was very welcome. The weather man says the rest of the week will be dry and warmer. Tomorrow Ellen and I will work in the Food Bank in the morning.
Ellen will take care of Ryan in the afternoon so Cole can help get ready the "Just Between Friends" sale at the Fair Grounds. I will work with another volunteer from church in the Food bank Thursday afternoon. This mission touches many lives and I hope to make it more evangelistic with some "God bless you's" and some printed material telling the recepients of God's love and desire for them. Stone has been in school this week but I haven't heard how it is going.
After we got back from our walk, it rained for about an hour and a half which was very welcome. The weather man says the rest of the week will be dry and warmer. Tomorrow Ellen and I will work in the Food Bank in the morning.
Ellen will take care of Ryan in the afternoon so Cole can help get ready the "Just Between Friends" sale at the Fair Grounds. I will work with another volunteer from church in the Food bank Thursday afternoon. This mission touches many lives and I hope to make it more evangelistic with some "God bless you's" and some printed material telling the recepients of God's love and desire for them. Stone has been in school this week but I haven't heard how it is going.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
DOINS
This morning was pretty busy. Started at 7:30 walking the east side of LaFortune Park from the library to 61st street and back to the library. Lots of walkers and joggers out in the cool of the morning. Saw a few jogging groups of 10 to 20 people. Lafortune has a number of walking trails around the golf course and some are shaded. We walk most mornings besides Sunday. This was our second walk at laFortune.
After the walk we went to the Savoy Cafe on S. Sheridan for breakfast. The Savoy used to be downtown. We burned about 200 calories walking and added about 500 in biscuits and gravy. Oh well.
Next we went to Philbrook Museum and spent the rest of the morning looking at the art exhibits. Philbrook was donated to the City of Tulsa by oil man Waite Phillips, brother to Phillips 66 founders Frank and L. E. Phillips. Probably one of the largest and most plush residences in Tulsa.
After Philbrook we went to the Walmart Superstore on S. Lewis for groceries and then home to collapse from 4 - 6 P M.
Tomorrow is Sunday. After morning worship we may go to the Olive Garden for lunch and spend the last of the gift cards we got for leaving Skiatook. Some people will go to any expense to get rid of you (lol) We have really enjoyed the gift cards and cherish the memories of all the friends who thought of us when we moved.
Next week is pretty empty so far. Stone starts to pre/pre/k Monday so we won't get to take care of him on Fridays until next summer. Maybe he'll be kicked out of school and we will be able to have him again. (lol) I hope he enjoys going to school but it's a thought.
Thursday afternoon I am scheduled to work at the church Food Bank. It's a good work that helps around 150 to 200 families a week who are in need of food. Each family that comes in gets two grocery bags full of dried and canned food to help them get by.
ME AND THE BOYS
MY TWO(GRAND)SONS
For those of you who don't have Facebook, here's a shot of Stone, Me & Ryan taken 08-14-09 at our apartment. We have been keeping Stone every Friday for some time but he will begin school Monday. Cole and Ryan came over to play with Stone yesterday afternoon. Stone couldn't wait all morning. It was a real blast to watch them play together.
For those of you who don't have Facebook, here's a shot of Stone, Me & Ryan taken 08-14-09 at our apartment. We have been keeping Stone every Friday for some time but he will begin school Monday. Cole and Ryan came over to play with Stone yesterday afternoon. Stone couldn't wait all morning. It was a real blast to watch them play together.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
BUSY DAYS
Thursday we helped at the Food Bank at Park Plaza. Worked from 12:30 to 3:00. Helped probably 15 or 20 people with food.
Friday morning Stone came for the day. We went to McDonalds for breakfast. then we went to Hunter park on S. 91st. They have a lot of cool slides and things for the little kids to play on. They also have a splash pad with 6 or 8 water features. Stone had a blast.
After we got back home, Ellen took Stone dawn to feed the ducks and walk around outside. Doug had said that he, Shonn, Hunter and Stone were going to Branson Friday evening. Doug came to pick up Stone about 4PM. About an hour later Doug called and asked if Stone had taken a nap. We said yes, about an hour. Doug said Stone went to sleep right after they got home. Guess he got worn out with all the going and doing with us.
Friday morning Stone came for the day. We went to McDonalds for breakfast. then we went to Hunter park on S. 91st. They have a lot of cool slides and things for the little kids to play on. They also have a splash pad with 6 or 8 water features. Stone had a blast.
After we got back home, Ellen took Stone dawn to feed the ducks and walk around outside. Doug had said that he, Shonn, Hunter and Stone were going to Branson Friday evening. Doug came to pick up Stone about 4PM. About an hour later Doug called and asked if Stone had taken a nap. We said yes, about an hour. Doug said Stone went to sleep right after they got home. Guess he got worn out with all the going and doing with us.
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