A Single Day

Tonight
Mostly clear. Lows around 59. East winds around 5 mph.
Looking at the forecast, we couldn’t ask for a better holiday — camping — weekend. A bit warm during the days, but not extremely so. And the nights…perfect sleeping weather. We are camping tonight through Monday. The girls are coming down tomorrow morning, [...]

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say that I would probably rate myself at an 8 for how easy it is for me to forgive those that have caused me pain or made me angry. DK and ED have made me angry on many occasions, and yes, even caused me some [...]

My morning boss (aka/our minister) gave me a project to work on. No timeline, no rush. Something he has meant to do, but just never did…which surprises me. He keeps really good records. Partially because he does have to give a report each month of “what he does”. And partially, [...]

How I deal with anger depends which side of the anger I’m on (giving or receiving), and also the time, place, and circumstance. More often than not, I try to avoid anger at all costs. I have ruined our credit rating because I had a misguided sense of trying to avoid anger. [...]

I hope next weekend goes better than this past weekend. Everyone was not in the best of moods. I know why I wasn’t. Swollen feet. Taking a prescription that I haven’t taken for a month. Upset with myself for being like this. But I truly tried not to act [...]

When Ethan and I were heading into town this morning, to get ready for church, after a night of sleeping in the camper, we saw something in the road. It was far enough away, I could approach it, going slowly. It was a baby deer. Most of the time, you only see [...]

Today
More sunshine than clouds
High 85°
Low 56°
Partly cloudy
Tonight
Partly cloudy
Low 56°
Partial sunshine
SUNDAY
Partial sunshine
We couldn’t ask for a better weekend. The temps are perfect. It was good sleeping weather last night. We had the windows open and a slight breeze blew through. We got things put away, and then sat down as [...]

Ethan doesn’t have to work today, and wasn’t scheduled to work until 4:00 tomorrow afternoon (that has changed, however. He has to be to work by noon). Combined with the fact that school starts Monday, we decided this would be a good week to go camping. At first we didn’t think the [...]

Today
Rather cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm around
High 84°
Low 60°
Mostly cloudy
Tonight
Mostly cloudy
Low 60°
More clouds than sun
SATURDAY
More clouds than sun
High 85°
Low 59°
More clouds than sunshine
SUNDAY
More clouds than sunshine

FRIDAY
Rather cloudy and cooler with a couple of showers and a heavy thunderstorm
High 78°
Low 60°
Variable clouds, a t-storm
SATURDAY
Variable clouds, a thunderstorm
High 80°
Low 61°
A thunderstorm possible
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm possible

At the moment, I only have a couple of things that bug me. And that is the key word. “Bug”. They aren’t major drama things. They are quite insignificant in the big picture of things. But nonetheless. They. Bug. Me.
One is that our youth director at [...]

I wish there was something I could do for David. He loves his job, and yet, it drives him over the edge, on a daily basis. He takes what the guys say personally, and he lets it get to him. He does a great job, but feels like he “doesn’t do a darn thing” each [...]

Its hard to grasp the concept that just one short year ago, (actually 11 months — it was Sept. 1), the Shrimplin family gathered together in Manhattan for a family union. Cousins, and aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, and any other combinations of family you can think of — many who hadn’t seen each [...]

Perception of time changes over the years. When I was little, a year lasted for-ev-er. The changing of a new year was a big deal, because we had been in that particular year for what seemed like years. It was like being very small in a room with larger than life furniture. The future was [...]

August Prompt from “The Write Prompts”
Something to work on throughout the month… Where did July go? I can’t believe it’s August already — month number eight… less than a month until school… and just over four months until Christmas. For the month of August I want you to spend each day looking at time and [...]