Ain't Complicated

Breakfast: Madras, Oregon

Wow, we had a “super duper good” breakfast here:

I’m telling you, Apple Peddlers feeds you well and feeds you big.

I ordered their Denver Omelet:

What you see of the omelet is half of what I got! I didn’t move it from where the “remains” sit…and what I ate went clear over to the edge of the plate nearest you.

I didn’t have room for quite all the omelet. The pancakes were left over, except I peeled off the crispy edge of the top one. I like crispy pancake edges.

For only $8.55 — Delicious!

Updated at 7:33 am on January 29: I should have said, we were driving that red Ford Explorer. It belongs to Luke and LaVay. But it could belong to you. It’s for sale.

Weather: Madras, Oregon

Well, we came over yesterday morning.

And we were hoping to go home this afternoon.

But we’ve got this:

The forecast this morning was for 1-2 inches of snow here. 🙄 Lo and behold, we have 4-6 inches here at Luke and LaVay’s…with more falling.

And there’s bound to be more on Highway 26 past Mount Hood.

What’s it going to be like there! 😯

I definitely don’t want to drive in this…and I certainly don’t want to drive on this:

I like snow. Especially when I’m at home. And especially when I don’t have to drive in it…especially if I have to chain up…and chains are required in the Mt. Hood area.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! 😥

Oh well. 😀

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Overcoming Worry

I posted this earlier this morning at Anabaptists and just now got done referencing it at Panting Hart. (Yes, I rarely crosspost like that.)

Overcoming Worry

Do you believe what God says? I mean, can you — do you — accept at face value what He has to say…and believe it, and live it? Or are you like most humans — selective, doubtful, logical?

I believe one of the “good” reasons we struggle with covetousness is our need for security for the future. We don’t want some calamity to catch us totally unawares and unprepared. Neither do we wish to have holes in our roofs, clothes and stomachs. The problem is, we tend to anchor our security in stuff instead of in the Stuff Giver. And when our stuff is in short supply, we worry.

God orders us to give sacrificially, that is, of our sustenance. In return, He says He will never leave us nor forsake us. He assures us He is aware of our need for the basic things of life. He promises to provide all we need if we will give our lives to His kingdom and righteousness. He tells us not to worry about tomorrow.

To read the rest, click the Panting Hart link above.

(Written originally in August 1994)

[If then God so clothe the grass... (Luke 12:28)]

from Luke 12:28

Got Dirt?

Alternate post titles:

Where Does Dirt Come From?
Global Dedirting
Never Mind Global Warming
Save That Dirt!

It seems dirt must be an unreplenishable resource. I wonder where it goes. And how long it has been going there. And why I have to keep dusting it off slow-to-sell books and scrubbing it out from between my toes.

Nevertheless, as a public service, here’s the beginning of the article:

The lowdown on topsoil: It’s disappearing

The planet is getting skinned.

While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet.

Call it the thin brown line. Dirt. On average, the planet is covered with little more than 3 feet of topsoil — the shallow skin of nutrient-rich matter that sustains most of our food and appears to play a critical role in supporting life on Earth.

“We’re losing more and more of it every day,” said David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington. “The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture.”

Agriculture, eh?

Maybe we should quit eating.

I think that would solve the man-caused global warming issue as well.

Now I’ve got to figure out in what category to place this post . . . .

Need More (and Better) Sleep?

I certainly could use more, but this isn’t my problem:

Can’t get the sandman to stop by? Quit calling the guy. According to reports from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, talking on a cell phone before heading to bed can prevent a person from getting a good night’s sleep.

The more I learn about cellphones, the less I like them. 😯

But I still like mine enough to keep it. 😳

Fred’s Resurrection?

Steven Stark has an interesting perspective over at RealClearPolitics :

The Republican race is coming into focus. Well, sort of. If John McCain can win the Florida primary on January 29, he’ll be the clear front-runner heading into Super Tuesday a week later.

But Florida is hardly a sure thing for McCain. Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romney are contesting the state heartily. Plus, Florida is a closed primary, meaning Independents can’t participate — and McCain polls far worse in contests where only Republicans can vote.

If McCain loses in Florida, the Republicans may well be headed to a deadlocked race and convention. And history teaches us that the likeliest candidate to emerge in that scenario is someone like Warren G. Harding: the prototypical, less-than-stellar candidate to which conventions turn when the going gets rough.

This year’s Harding? Believe it or not (are you sitting down?), despite the fact that he’s withdrawn from the race, is Fred Thompson.

That could be interesting, no? 😉

Meanwhile, down at the ~~ranch~~ American Prospect, Spencer Ackerman writes:

Indeed, Petraeus can basically write his next round of orders. But wherever he goes, his next important campaign probably won’t be on any battlefield. It’ll be political. For the past year, the GOP has laid the groundwork to enlist Petraeus as its standard-bearer in the fairly likely event that the party loses in November to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. You read it here first. Plant your lawn signs now. Petraeus 2012: Surging to the White House.

But maybe you actually read it here first, eh? 🙄

If the Petraeus thing were to happen, Hillary could trot out her famous “willing suspension of disbelief” line. 😀

Bye, Fred

I thought he would have made the race much more interesting.

And maybe he did.

But now we won’t know for sure.

Because Fred Thompson dropped out. (No, I’m not linking to any blogs or news stories about the matter.)

Too bad he left, I think.

On the other hand, it’s surely part of God doing part what the Ancient of Days does — setting up and taking down rulers.

I rest in that.

And I look forward to learning more of what He is up to in the US Presidential election.

Oh, and here’s the requisite statement on the subject: Maybe Fred’s departure is another signal to me to start making public the planks of the platform of my own Presidential campaign. (I suppose you still think I’m joking, eh?)