Earlier this week, Carrie and I were able to get away for a few days to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. We chose an interesting Bed and Breakfast in an equally interesting small town in southeastern Minnesota. The B & B is the Historic Scanlon House and the town is Lanesboro. We stayed in a [...]
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We ordered a new Mac Mini for my wife to use for her business. She has been using a Dell up till this time and with the new offerings from Apple, we decided now was the time to make the switch. It will be interesting to gauge her tranistion to the new platform, but I [...]
Our Verizon U720 EVDO 3G modem and CradlePoint PHS300 Hotspot router performed flawless on our month long vacation to Florida. We stayed in orange grove country with limited high speed Internet. My wife’s parents have DSL in their home, but where we were staying, there was no connection period. I plugged the EVDO modem into [...]
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We went about 13 hours yesterday from Sebring, FL to Dalton, GA. I had hoped to make it further, but I was too tired and fighting a debilitating headache all day long. We picked up supper at a Chick-Fil-A south of Atlanta. What a great place as far as atmosphere. Friendly staff – “Ya’all need [...]
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Some good thoughts from The Simple Dollar blog:
A few weeks ago, a nice reader named Nicole introduced me to the concept of a gratitude journal:
Have you ever written about a gratitude journal? It’s something I’ve started doing and it’s really helped me figure out what is important in my life. It’s easy. Each day you [...]
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I recently finished reading Every Man’s Marriage: An Every Man’s Guide to Winning the Heart of a Woman (previously released as Every Woman’s Desire) and my synopsis is “Wow!” I have been married for almost 25 years and I thought I was a pretty good husband. Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker “schooled” me on things [...]
As the year comes near to a close, I am reflecting on the things that I am most thankful for. To use the proverbial expression, “…drinking from a firehose…” it is difficult to cull my list to just a couple of items. However, the exercise of summarizing the year to just a few bullet points [...]
Desiring God blog reposted this entry from last year. It was written by Jon Bloom and gives great perspective on post-Christmas emotions.
Each year Christmas night finds members of my family feeling some melancholy. After weeks of anticipation, the Christmas celebrations have flashed by us and are suddenly gone. And we’re left standing, watching the Christmas [...]
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One of our favorite traditions each year on Christmas Eve is when Dad/Grandpa reads the Christmas Story from Luke 2. As our gift to you, we share this video.
Merry Christmas!
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