gardening

this is a florida shield fern, aka dryopteris ludoviciana. it's a native to the southeast and is one of only a few ferns that can take full sun. i'm going to put it in a sunny, slightly moist spot next to my driveway in front of one of my perennial planting areas.

i took last monday off to rest up from the busy easter activities. i ended up ordering a few plants online - first time i'd done that. so - i've got a bunch of new plants ready to go, but it's been raining like crazy and probably will tomorrow again... so i've gotta wait.

i find gardening very relaxing. i can spend hours working in my yard and end up feeling refreshed. i think tending a garden might be in my genes.

Easter 2005

had a great easter weekend. 2 good friday services, 3 easter services. after the services on sunday, we had our small group families over. it was raining pretty hard, so had an easter egg hunt inside. someone thought it would be funny to put a pickle and some olives in a couple of the eggs. the kids didn't think it was that funny.

and of course, what easter celebration would be complete without some accordion (aka party-in-a-box) music. it really got the ladies dancing.


my buddy bill plunk (accordionist extraordinaire) wants to start a christian emo worship accordion band called "suspected spam." how could you go wrong?

happy st. patricks day

I take for my sureties: The power of God to guide me, The might of God to uphold me, The wisdom of God to teach me, The eye of God to watch over me, The ear of God to hear me, The word of God to give me speech, The hand of God to protect me, The way of God to go before me, The shield of God to shelter me....

Christ be with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. -St. Patrick

and i'll still pinch you if you're not wearing green today...

fiddlin'

sunday - a day of rest...sorta. i slept in an hour later cuz i wasn't leading worship today (got up at 6am rather than 5am). sat in 1st service, did a new member interview 2nd service, taught the college classs 3rd service - outside on the deck - nice, came home to accompany a bunch of cindy's students on their fiddle recital. it was pretty fun.

cleaned up after the recital, went out to our friends the whitaker's house for dinner. just got home around 10pm. well, really Saturday is the sabbath anyway.

sometimes i'm just random

this picture has nothing to do with anything going on in my life. i just thought it was slightly disturbing.

this is the kind of post i make when i haven't slept well for a few days...

until we meet again

this week saw the unexpected passing away of a great man - chris carey. chris is the kind of guy that you can't help but love - a little crazy...maybe a lot crazy, an encourager, an optimist, creative, and incredibly loving to his wife and 2 daughters. had the honor to participate in his memorial service yesterday. probably the most uplifting and hopeful funerals i've ever attended - matches chris' personality.

i know that i will see chris again in the future. chris stands on the promises of Jesus Christ and i do too. goodbye brother. until we meet again.