Scoop Made it to New Zealand

My Geocaching Travel Bug Scoop Made it to New Zealand this week! It mission is to travel around the world heading west. It is now only about 6,000 miles away from Mooch my travel bug which is heading around this world going East. Mooch is currently enjoying the island life in the country of Mauritius, which is in the Indian Ocean. Much thanks to the great geocaches that have help the Travel Bugs on their mission. Travel bugs by far are the most interesting part of geocaching. I didn't even know about Mauritius until my travel bug visited there.

Project Scan-a-lot

I bought a auto-feed Picture Scanner. I am currently in the process of scanning I'm guessing well over a thousand pictures. I'm be posting some of the soon.

This Weeks Pictures

Sometime I'll have time and ambition to write some text, but for now here are the pictures from this week. Enjoy

2007.07.29

Prayer Requests

Please be in prayer for theses two international events that God has laid on my heart.

Korean Christians taken hostage in Afghanistan.

This can from a student at Cedarville:

I am in exchange student from South Korea and right now the Taliban in Afghanistan have captured 23 South Korean Missionaries and are holding them hostage. One has already been killed and the other may be released, or they may not be. Please pray that God will deliver them, this He would strengthen and comfort the families, and that ultimately He will be glorified from this situation. Pray for deliverance. Thank you.

Economic Crisis in Zimbabwe

With 80% unemployment at hyperinflation many people in Zimbabwe are having trouble buying or evening finding food. Mugabe's price controls have left store shelfs empty and/or store owns in jail. Please pray that God works in this situation and the people would have food and see their need for the Saviour.

See News about Zimbabwe

Democrats

Ok, so I watched part of CNN's Youtube Democratic presidential debate last night on my computer. I guess there are some things I just don't understand. Why if you are opposed to the war in Iraq would you be in favor of a war in Sudan? To me this is like hmm war in Iraq (The evil Republican's war) not going so well... I know let's move the troops to Sudan and see if that war (The benevolent Democrats "peacekeeping") goes any better. I guess it is about the children in Sundan but their are children in Iraq as well. I personally don't follow to logic, but perhaps someone could explain it. I'm open to hearing and understanding new ideas. On a related side note I just checked out the 9/11 Commission report today from the library and I'll report back on what I think about the book.

Our country and World is in much need of prayer. We also must remember that God is in control.

Roller bading with Lily

Danielle, Lily and I went roller blading on the Bike Trail toward Cedarville. Watch what happens when I trying to do to much at once.

Happy one Month Lily

2007.07.19

Lily, Danielle and I celebrated celebrated Lily's first month today by going to Coldstone. Yesterday we had a good visit from Aunt Pat, Uncle John and Dabney. Enjoy the pictures!

Prices Doubling Every 35 Minutes?

The country of Zimbabwe, Africa is leading the world in inflation at the moment. Black market inflation is currently running at 20,000% and predicted to rise to 1.5 Million % or price doubling every 35 minutes. So a loaf of bread that costs 1 dollar before you watch the evening news will cost 2 dollars by the end of the evening news and tomorrow at the same time will cost $41.96 and by the end of the month $1,273.97 and by the end of the year will cost $15,000.00

The country has officially stopped calculating inflation and forced store owners to *rollback* prices to the *official* exchange rate, meaning the store owner had the choice between going to jail or selling a $30,000 dollar cars for $60. Needless to says store have no merchandise left after shoppers bought and fought for everything they could. Many store owners were arrested and many riots took place. While as fascinating as this all is from an economic side, this is a humanitarian crisis as people are having trouble finding food to eat to survive. Please pray for the people of Zimbabwe. I hope that someone can find the red stop button on the money printing press. I guess they will have to since the country is having trouble importing ink for the printing press. One cannot print money out of thin air forever.

Master of a New Grill

2007.07.26

Much thanks to Ann's Mom for the Gas Grill. Danielle and I were able to enjoy wonderful pork chops tonight for an outside picnic in our yard. I also included a few new pictures of Lily in the album as well. Click on the picture for more pictures.

Lily's First Friend

Lily was able to meet Vivian yesterday as part Our Church Small Group. Vivian was born just 3 days before Lily

Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon is a book I remember being read to me as a kid. I'm sure it one of the most popular kids books ever. Here is a video of myself reading Goodnight Moon to Lily.

Lily Video #2

My goal is to post one new video of Lily a week. Here is #2. She is in her crib trying to fall asleep to the Rock a by Baby music.

First trip out of state.

Lily had her first real road trip this weekend. We had to travel to Lexington to close on the house and pick up our check. Yeah for no more mortgage. We were able to show her off to many of the people I worked with at Asbury. We also stayed with Roger and Nelda's. We had a good lunch at Sonny's with Melanie, Dave & Ginny and their 3 boys. I add a few more pictures. We think that Lily has blue eyes which showed up well in the pictures. The trip was fun but tiring. Lily did grow tired of her car seat after a few hours in the car. I don't think I would blame her.

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SOLD!

It is finally official we sold our house in Nicholasville. We now have a check and no more mortgage! Praise God! The house was sold by a narrowest of margin as far of their mortgage went.

Happy 231st Birthday America

In the spirit of the Holiday I did a little decorating. This week we also took Lily Mini-golfing at Young. I also included more pictures of her in this album. Enjoy!

Lily Grace #2

Wiki Trail Sign?

For nearly 10 years the bike trail signs at Xenia Station have the mileage to the next town left blank until now. I personally decided that they need filled in. In the spirit of Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that any can edit. I wanted the trail sign mileage to be edited by anyone. I used dry erase markers to fill in the the mileage. I see two drawback to this: 1) My handwriting is not the neatest and 2) the black on green cannot be read far enough away. On the positive side: 1) It is very cheap, I already had the the marker, 2) It has easily be modified or removed without damaging the sign. I believe this is the first internet mention of "Wiki Trail signs". So far after about four weeks of testing the marker has stood up the the rain and sun.