Apr 16, 2010 General Leave a comment
Using a digital camera, I sat and took pictures, while the kids moved their “subjects”. Short videos, but it was our first try, and it came out well.
Used Windows Movie Maker. Had to go to Tools/Options?advanced to modify the time for each pictures and transition to the minimum allowed. Then hit publish and post to YouTube! Pretty easy!
Andrews:
Rebeccas:
Mar 1, 2010 General Leave a comment
Been a while since a post!
Some recent events include my Brother-in-Law, Commander Mark E. Johnson taking over as the Commanding Officer of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 45 “Wolfpack”.
Also, yesterday Andrew was baptized at FBCW! Woohoo! Proud Dad…
Sep 22, 2009 General Leave a comment
Well, it still raining here in Roswell, GA (north of Atlanta) and we expect rain for another week. Ugh… Last night we had from 10-18 inches of rain!!! The weather folk say this is now set the record for a 100 year flood. I guess it what we need :-0 based on the 100 year drought 2 years ago.
Anyway, I posted some pics. It shows our little drainage creek flooding the lower half of our backyard, and also the road that is about 4 houses down (which that same creek runs under) and how it got washed out. Poor house in one of those pictures had his car in the garage, and the whole garage was flooded to the top…argh!
Its not a good situation, school is out “because of rain” tomorrow (bet folks up north never heard that!), but really there are so many roads washed out like this one, it is very dangerous to drive on any backroad right now.
Anyway,, figured I’d give yall a peek at the south during Monsoon Season (we really don’t have a monsoon season, but it sure feels like it!) YouTube video from our subdivision during the flood…
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| From 100 Year Flood |
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| From 100 Year Flood |
Jul 16, 2009 General Leave a comment
Wow! Its been a while since I last posted. Summer will do that. Been busy with a lot of things, but one project we got done was changing the fireplace area. We used to have the older dark wood look, that some may say either had an 80’s appeal, or were more suited for a hunting lodge or gentlemans club. (needless to say, as an 80’s reject and a man, I liked it!! In any case, instead, I built cabinets into the bookshelves for more storage, we painted them, and updated the fireplace with stone. We think it came out real nice! Pics below…
Before————————————————-> After
May 12, 2009 General Leave a comment
After reading through that “Dangerous Book for Boys”, of course I had to build a treehouse for my kids. The design on 1 tree is pretty good, so I went ahead with it (keep in mind it will cost you a few hundred in materials, and a few weekends) Below are some of the pics! Its coming along real well. Its about 7 feet high on the close side, and about 13 or more on the far side, as the ground slope downward. It’s already been infested, as you can see from the second picture!
May 12, 2009 General Leave a comment
There has been a lot of news lately about the Miss USA pageant, and Carrie Prejean. She is the girl who answered truthfully about what she believed during the pageant, in favor of Marriage between a man and a woman.
She believes in the sanctity of marriage, so do I.
What was eye-opening to me is how this world reacts to someone who stands up for their Christian beliefs. The attack on this girl is nothing short of awful, from the person who asked her the question calling her vicious names and insults, to the media digging up whatever they can on her to destroy her image. I think this is a clarion call to all Christians, that this is how the world reacts to the message of Christ. Sure she obviously made some bad choices in her life, and a lot of people will dismiss & ridicule her for that, but Christianity is about second chances, mercy and forgiveness. Even on the cross before he was about to die, after living a life of evil, a thief gave his heart to Jesus, and is now in Heaven.
Our past is not about who we are, but it is who we were. We learn from those mistakes and hopefully they help to make us a better person. Who we are and will be depends on the choices we make now and will make. Carrie Prejean chose to stand up for what she believed in front of millions of people, and has chosen to continue to do so, even in the face of ridicule and slander. For that, I applaud her.
I think we should all realize that the path and race that Christ set before us is not an easy one, we will be ridiculed and we will be slandered. That being said, the Holy Spirit will give us strength to overcome, and we will also be blessed and have the promise that God offered through His Son.
“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.”
1 Peter 4:12-16
Apr 30, 2009 General Leave a comment
Maybe I am more important than I know! Somehow, a script got inserted into many of my site pages. I posted a pic below of what it was, but what it did was popup some strange link to “gumblar.cn” on a bunch of my webpages. What a pain! Don’t they have something better to do than hack a basic homebrew wordpress blog, of a poor man?
Oh well…how did I get rid of it, you ask? I had to look at my site via FTP and find all of the files (typically htm and js) that were modified recently, and revert them to backup (or remove the script)
Below is the script that was inserted…
Apr 14, 2009 General Leave a comment
Something just reminded me of this phrase today, though I have heard it often on re-runs of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.
I remember it from is the Snickers commercial…which never gets old! So for all you old timers out there, here it is again! (Sound file only: Googly_Moogly )
Mar 27, 2009 General Leave a comment
The other morning, while driving into work, I was praying and talking with God. I was talking with Him about how hard it is sometimes to have Faith. I can understand where that “sinful generation” was coming from, seeking a sign. It’s one thing to hear about something versus actually seeing it. How it would be really cool if God would just come on down and drive into work with me one day, so we can talk. That way, not only will I see, but I can talk with God, and he can talk to me.
Have you ever thought that?
Anyway, it was a nice morning, and when I got to work, I started up the computer. E-Sword always starts up with my computer, so that my daily reading is right there when I get into work. Well I have been doing this daily reading for about 1 year pretty contiually now, but was very suprised by what came up that day…
What was it, you ask?
Hebrews 11 & 12! Why is that a big deal? Well, for someone who just spent the morning talking with God about Faith, and how I wished God would talk to me, Hebrews 11 is 100% about faith. It is where that famous verse, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”, comes from. In addition, most of the chapter is examples of faith:
So after spending the morning discussing the difficulty of Faith, and hoping God would talk to me…He did! When I opened up His word, He talked to me directly about Faith. Say “coincidence” all you want….I know its true, and you know its true.
Take another look at the Bible, and let God speak to you, cause as it says in Heb 12, “See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him [Jesus] who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him [God] who speaks from heaven”
Feb 26, 2009 General 10 Comments
OK, so during some free time last night waiting for my kids, I ranked my top 127 songs (see the v1 post) with a 0-5 star ranking system. Based on this, using only the 4.5 – 5.0 star song I was able to come up with my Top 25 Favorite Songs of All TIme (so far). I have not ordered them (i.e. there is no #1), as I am not sure I could, given the fact that “mood” plays an important part of this. In any case, they are listed below in alphabetical order! If you have not heard these songs yet, you should!
(sorry Den, no Rolling Stones…)
The Lawson's
