by Randy on August 5, 2008
“What’s that smell Mommy?” Doris Day looking lady looks down at Little Billy and says, “why honey … that’s what we call fresh air …”
… A recent conversation brought a troubling development into focus. A man told me that he had bought a home with some measure of reluctance, fearing that the location of the house so near to a neighborhood playground would mean too much noise. As it turns out, he needn’t have worried at all. Very few children visit the playground at all.
The troubling development is that many children never play outside. They prefer to play computer games, surf the Internet, or update their Facebook pages. Their parents are increasingly afraid to let them play outside, scared by the constant barrage of news stories about crimes against children. These children and teenagers are accustomed to air conditioning, sophisticated entertainments, and lack of physical activity. They are aliens in the outside world.
[From Aliens in Creation -- A Generation of Nature Know-Nothings]
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by Randy on June 11, 2008
more cat pictures
I crack up every time I see this one and ironically … I can relate to both cats.
Is this the cutest or what? This is Mike Ensley’s dog when she was a puppy. Count me in on the Chloe fan club.
She might be dead but I see her everywhere …
Last fall I bought my first home. The structure itself isn’t very old but the lady who owned it before me was quite elderly. Her name was Dot and she is dead.
I hate to be so blunt but I never met her. I am not trying to be disrespectful either. That is pretty much all I know about her. All of my neighborhood loved her. They speak very highly of her and my one neighbor originally from Boston exclaimed with fingers lightly at the edge of her mouth, “Oh, that Dot… she was a GEM … a gem of a woman!”
I bought the home from her heirs so, I don’t even know what Dot looks like.
Anyway, Dot left me a lot of gifts. Dot collected paper products, picnic-ware and bleach (four bottles in the washer/dryer area). I just now, months later, had to start buying my own paper towels and still have a kitchen drawer full of plastic forks, spoons and knives. I found two false gods (Mayan?) made out of concrete in the outside storage, two hurricane lamps, a concrete head of a Chinese woman, a potty chair (clean… thank goodness), a large American flag, lots of scotch tape around the corners of the front door window (I don’t understand), a lamp that is hideous (yes… I am using it in my bedroom), a chair that attacks you (nail sticking out at the foot.) But the funnest, not funniest, of all the leftovers Dot left behind … we will get to that in a minute.
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by Randy on April 19, 2008
The thing is… I don’t live in the boonies. You sure can’t tell with all the wildlife going on around here.
by Randy on April 19, 2008
Say hello to my little friend. I put my big peace lilly out on the front porch and apparently this little fella’ is now calling it home.
by Randy on April 5, 2008
I have been in Fresno California all this week for the Exodus West Coast Freedom Conference. As a result … swamped. I haven’t been able to blog like usual and after this is done I am speaking at a Church Sunday morning and then headed to a retreat through next Wednesday.
So, I don’t know if the other guest bloggers will pop in or not, or when or how I will be able to blog over the next few days so I asked my friend Ocki (pictured above) to kind of preside over things.
Consider this an open thread 
PS, I have been on Twitter and Facebook a lot, even more than usual during this trip though.
by Randy on March 6, 2008
I have been fighting “something” since last weekend. My thought is that it is allergy time (that’s what I am praying it is anyway.) Today has been pretty rough with the sneezing and sniffles.
I posted to Twitter (which auto updates my facebook status as well) that I had sneezed four times in a row and needed a squeegee.
My friend Mindy sent me the following link as an online substitute for a squeegee.
http://theglobalbible.com/temp/screenclean.swf
After visiting the above link, not only was my screen MUCH cleaner… I all of sudden felt much better with a big grin on my face. Thanks Mindy!
by Randy on February 20, 2008
see more loldogs are funny dog pictures!
I created the caption for the above picture and they actually put it on the main LOL Dogs blog. It’s getting a lot of good votes (five cheezedogs). That was fun.
by Randy on January 30, 2008
moar funny pictures
It’s been far to serious the past few posts so … laugh or something.
