Happy Father's Day!

We're celebrating at Cedar Creek Inn for brunch.  Naturally, my dad comes to mind on Father's Day, too.  We lost him way too soon (1976), just one year after he had retired, and long before computers sprouted on every desk at work and at home.  But when GE brought in their first computer which took up an entire room (!), he was signing up for "time" after hours, and even created a program to do his income taxes.  Oh boy, would he love to be playing on today's computers!  But, I could never ask him to leave the eternal joy of Heaven!  Thank you, Dad, for being such a great model for your three kids, and many more friends.  We miss you!

We'll take you here, Alli, when that Space-A comes through!

REMOTES

A DVD, I just want to watch a DVD, for cryin' out loud, and don't tell me it doesn't take a brain surgeon! 

It takes THREE remotes and some silly switch that isn't working quite right.  Aaaaarrrrggggg!  So, I did this schematic which is in the drawer with all those remotes!

Eat Mor Chikin!

Love this ad!

Cars speeding by enjoyed giving him/her a "toot!"

You "get it", right?

Looking Up

A children's book written and illustrated by a college friend's dad, Rainey Bennett, taught that a baby Hippo couldn't find a place to be . . . well . . . just alone for awhile.  The watercolor illustrations are incredibly charming, and most are in color, but the only one I could find online is b/w.  Yes, I still have the book, but it's packed away at my rental house, so this b/w will have to do.  

Little hippo was always being watched, as this illustration shows, but . . . he found a "Secret Hiding Place", way high up on a rock where he could look down at all the other hippos, but they couldn't see him . . . because they never looked up!!

Maybe that's why I tend to look up?   And here's what I saw today (below). 

Here's what I found at one of our many malls in South Orange County -- a glass dome several stories up, and was it gorgeous!

Here's a small section of it.  Many lessons about "life" seem to orient on "looking up", don't you think?  One of them reminds us how we tend to look at our so-called problems and see them as mountains, and fail to look up to be reminded that God is bigger than any mountains.