God's Phone Number

'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'
Jeremiah 33:3

Lotis Key-Kabigting portraying the prophet Jeremiah
at Bethany Baptist church on June 27, 2006.

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Jeremiah is known as "The weeping prophet."

It is one thing to read words on a page and know that 2700 years ago a man suffered scorn, ridicule and imprisonment, all at the hands of those he was sent to save, simply for delivering a message. It is quite another to hear his voice brought back from the dead, his anguished and tormented sobs filling the ears of an opulent 21st century audience who could do nothing but squirm uneasily in their seats as the prophet's grieved heart was layed bare before them.

It is one thing to read words on a page and know that God is a jealous God, who will repay the unfaithful with perfect and undiluted justice. It is quite another to hear that righteous anger manifested into an audible sound, even if the delivery method is a mere human voice and only a shadow of the wrathful voice to come.

Backyard Visions

My gardening mind at work over a recent lunch hour.

Flower Power

Lunchtime sights from an outdoor shopping mall
near where I work.

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Petunias

Planters near a fountain

For good measure

Attila & Bernadette got married back in October.
They've done it again, this time in a church.

Congratulations again!

Polverized

Mabuhay ang Goldilocks!

Summer Drink

Here is a photo of our household's official 2006 summer beverage (Recipe below)

In a pitcher mix:

• Crystal-Lite Ice Tea Mix (Select flavor based on type of fruit that you are using)
• 1/2 Cup Orange Juice (Optional)
• Top off with Water

Fruit (Select any one or a combination):

• Sliced Peaches or nectarines (Skin-on for me, thanks)
• Sliced Kiwi (No skin, blech)
• Raspberries
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• ANY Berries
• You get the idea....

With all the fruit, this can be a pricey beverage. The beauty is it can be as simple or as decked out as you want it to be. Be sure to follow the sales in your produce department.

Shields up!

The Toyota caught a pretty good sized rock across the windshield yesterday - It's in the shop getting fixed today.

It's pretty unnerving when a big truck kicks up a birds egg-sized rock, and you watch it take a long and lazy arc directly toward your face in slow motion.

I'm not ashamed to admit that my hands went up and I ducked a little. Whether or not I screamed like a woman is none of your business.

        

A Good Orange

Lunchtime sketchwork, hardly a masterpiece.

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The world around us

We took a walk last week and this is what we saw.

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Our Neighborhood -

On the swing -

Mass Planting -

Making a living -

An entrepreneur sets up shop -

Our Planter in front of our house -

Closeup of a daisy -

The new hydrandgea is thriving -

Out back - a closeup of a petunia -

Marigolds, Petunia, Salvia -

Closeup of Marigolds -

Closeup of a purple Salvia -

April & May 2006 photos

I finally got some of this year's photos posted to the photoalbum, including recent ones from Joshua's third birthday party. Now if I can just get around to posting the photos from his second birthday party I'll be in good shape.

The BWCA gets Wikified

The Dharma Bum has started a wiki site for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The wiki site "...is meant to serve as a resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the area, about camping and canoeing there, etc."

Go check it out:

http://www.bwcawiki.org

December 2005 photos

I FINALLY got my December 2005 photos posted, six months later.

ANYHOO...

http://www.electriclazyland.com/photoalbum
(Click on 2005, select December from the menu)

Extracted

More tooth shenanigans today. I went in expecting to get fitted for another crown. Instead the dentist old me that there wasn't enough left of the tooth to mount to. Because I need crowns on the two neighbor teeth anyway, she reccomended to pull the tooth and install a bridge.

I am at home now, waiting for the vicodin to kick in. Watching the X-files. Now I know where the band Eve 6 got their name from.

It's kind of fun sitting in front of the TV with wikipedia and IMDB open. For example how many people know that actor Todd Duffy , who played Brian, Jennifer Aniston's annoying co-worker in Office Space Also did the voice for Scooter Mcnutty on Barney & friends.

The bleeding has mostly stopped but the pain and discomfort are increasing. I'm a little pissed at myself because I wanted to at least make it to 40 with all of my teeth. I'll be 38 ath the end of next month. I didn't expect to celebrate my birthday by incurring large dental bills.

I know, I know, it sounds like someone has a case of the mondays.