Its about time.

For reasons unknown I have been having quite a time figuring out how to actually post a blog. Everything comes up except what I want. Luke figured it out for me and I think we are under way.
What a great time we had with the DeHarts here with us for ten days. Many of those days they spent elsewhere seeing family and old friends, but we got the lion's share. So much fun. And the trip to San Diego was great. Sam has been pretty shy in the past but that is gone now. When we got aboard the Midway, we got him up into the cockpit of a plane and he loved that. What they did was to cut the front of a twin engine patrol plane off and mount it so you can go up steps from the rear and sit is the pilot's seat. Wiggle the controls, it was great. Then videos of plane landing and some not landing on the carrier. Some crashes in which the pilot and the man in the rear seat ejected moments before the plane hit the water or the ship. Then floated back into the water on the chute.
It was a great day for the five year old boy. Not to mention his great grand parents, we enjoyed it, too. How many have we enjoyed? 12 grands and maybe eight of the greats thus far. First trip was in 1976. Poppa

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Not quite up to speed

David got me going and then, once again, I blew it! By posting the thing twice. Well, I guess there is plenty of room out there in cyberspace. Gpa Poppa

Back in business

For some reason I lost the ability to put up a blog and today David Shack is here and got me reconnected. Not that you missed so much, but it is frustrating not to know how to overcome such things. Luke is a big help but has been pretty busy of late.
Seems like what we are really getting into is the idea of the team evangelism we call The Friendly Corps. Plus an idea popped up from Paul Hansen of putting The Gentle Touch on a website as an effort to teach evangelism. We work along at these ideas and they are great fun and who knows what will come of it all?
Next Sunday we will join Clark DeNoon and his family in a celebration of his getting a Masters at Biola, and when that is over we will go to Cardiff for a couple of days to look at the ocean and eat at The Hungry Hunter. It means my weekly letter will arrive on Saturday as there will be no 'normal' time.
Your grandma had a nice Mother's Day with one and all agreeing that she has been a great one.

Back in business

For some reason I lost the ability to put up a blog and today David Shack is here and got me reconnected. Not that you missed so much, but it is frustrating not to know how to overcome such things. Luke is a big help but has been pretty busy of late.
Seems like what we are really getting into is the idea of the team evangelism we call The Friendly Corps. Plus an idea popped up from Paul Hansen of putting The Gentle Touch on a website as an effort to teach evangelism. We work along at these ideas and they are great fun and who knows what will come of it all?
Next Sunday we will join Clark DeNoon and his family in a celebration of his getting a Masters at Biola, and when that is over we will go to Cardiff for a couple of days to look at the ocean and eat at The Hungry Hunter. It means my weekly letter will arrive on Saturday as there will be no 'normal' time.
Your grandma had a nice Mother's Day with one and all agreeing that she has been a great one.

What will come of it?

Some pretty exciting days and the best is yet to come. But one really exciting time was having Heidi pop in for lunch on Tuesday. Now that was a precious time. We realize all the more what we have in our grandkids. Wonderful beyond belief. The best part is knowing it could be repeated 11 times. What a great bunch!! To say nothing of the grands in law! Wow.

But going to, well, not mundane, but other things. In recent months our friends, Clingwald and Hansen have been getting more and more into using TGT and loving it more all the time. Monday this week, a man named Ramesh Richard, a 20 year prof at Dallas Seminary was in Hawaii on a speaking gig. Hansen has known him for a long time. He spoke from John 3 and 4 on evangelism for Hansen's crowd. No notes and an hour and a half. The next morning they were together again and went over TGT in light of what he had had to say.

Here is what Paul wrote to me,
"Was over at his condo and he had read the TGT material. He told me to tell you that he writes a lot of books and has one he would love for you to read on evangelism. He said you wrote in such concise words in TGT and if he did it, it would be at least 100,000 words. He loved it. He told me he has also written a 3 vol set on evangelism. He said the book publishers want nothing to do with books on evangelism. He said we are on to something and we could really see things happen. I have challenged him to try the questions this week. We will talk more about it."

I think that is quite something. After all these years of playing around with the thing, a guy like him sees it. And there is more, but out of space. Well, just this. In April, Hansen is flying over from Maui, Clingwald is coming down from near Santa Barbara and Thom Wayne, who lives near Idllywild, is coming and we are going to have two or three days on how to implement all the stuff we've been talking about.

Low tech frustrations

While we have news of low temps and ice and snow, out here in Sunny California, we have other things. Like tangerines, oranges, the peach trees beginning to blossom, quite a contrast. Howsomever, we have our days. You will quickly recall that I have been identified as a certified spammer by Verizon, who supplies (ed) my DSL. Had a problem at the end of December and got that staightened out. But not this time. Called the techies (in India) and we talked to three of them. I could barely understand them so mom did the talking. No help at all. Then I went to the local Verizon place where I signed up; for it. They gave us a number of a Supervisor, long talks and zero ability to help. So here we are, Wed. afternoon, and even though the weekend letter went out, I got cut off and can't send anything. However, cleverly, on Monday AM I spoke to the Earthlink people and signed up for their DSL, and I figure it should arrive, the kit, Thursday. Luke will then get it going for me and that will be the end of that. Ever talk to yourself in the mirror? Same thing. No results. So life stumbles on. I find that a blog once a month is just fine. Poppa

Once a month blog?

Today is the day above every day! January 4th, the day upon, or in, which, I made an entrance into this cruel world. At a place called Burkett Home in Whittier run by an osteopath lady that my mom thought was really wonderful. My brother also saw the light of day there. An osteopath, for some of the younger ones, is an offshoot of a chiropractor, but higher up the scale, having been to a regular medical school. Don't seem to be any these days. So why didn't your folks have more than just you two? At about 18 months I lost my hearing for about two weeks, and my folks, both being deaf, didn't want to bring any more children into a family of deaf parents. I got a bad cold during the summer of 1937 when we'd been to California and were coming back on the bus. By the time we got to Portland I could hear nothing. Took two weeks to find out that a doctor could do a simple surgical procedure and open up the sinuses and get the inflammation pressure off the ear drums. Instantly I could hear again. I feel pretty good that I have gotten to age 83 and can still do fairly well in hearing people. I started off badly. Howard has now begun to wear a hearing aid, he never had the problems I had. The moral of the story? Eat your Wheaties, drink your pomegranate juice and all will be well.