Yearly Archives: 2015

I took a typing class when I was in Grade 8. 

All things start from the home row keys.  I became so obsessed with the home row keys that I learned them from memory.  I could rhyme it off out loud and in my head with my fingers involuntarily following each letter:  a;sldkfjghfjdksla;.

From there, you learned the keys above and below.  You learned to place your hands on the keyboard with your fingers lightly resting on that home row.  When your fingers were flying all over the place, they always came back to rest on the home row.

Some days I forget that simple lesson.  Start from home and return home.

As I awoke this morning, I was quite scattered.  My thoughts were all over the place.  We are taking possession of a home today.  I’m off to a Conference.  And much more.

The best place to rest is in God.  And the best place to return to is God.

So I had to reset my flying thoughts back to the rest found in God.  The REST of the day will be just that, finding rest in God. 

And then, it is well with my soul!

The other day I spent a few hours in the yard. 

The grass was growing, although sparse rain for the last weeks has not helped.  Prayer for rain in currently in the forecast!  The weeds had also made a stand.  We have tried out a friendly weed killer and fertilizer on the front lawn and it seems to be working.

I love to watch as the leaves push their way out into a full stretch, brightening the landscape with green.  Sparrows and other song birds begin to chirp and sing. 

And the temperature?  Well, we are still trying to figure that one out.  A day or so ago we almost hit freezing once again.  But for the most part I don’t need a jacket.

This is the spring time of the year.  A time of promise and expectation.

With this time comes a heart impulse – to see promise in each situation in which I am found. 

May God grant to all of us a sense of his warming work that melts a winter time’s blanket of disappointment and leads to a summer time’s covering of hope.

Over the years I have been a collector of electronics.

As a teen, I worked with my father on a Marklin train set.  This was a German originated marvel that had intricacies the North American counterparts did not know. 

Then I graduated to house repairs and all that goes along with that.  The switches and receptacles.  Three wire and junction boxes.

By my 40’s I was into computers.  There were hard drives and other drives.  CAT 5 wiring and firewire.  It seems weird that much of this has been replaced or been made obsolete.

And so, today, I go back through those things that I have collected over the past while.  I’ll recycle some, probably throw some out and even try to barter for new electronics.

In the end, the technological age will have seen its “age”, and we’ll have less around the house than when I started. 

And I guess that’s what culling and weeding (such outdated words that used to deal with culling cattle and weeding plants) is all about! 

An interesting overnight. 

And by interesting I mean – not one you want to have happen too often.

In the middle of the night, our furnace quit.  Then, the water heater decides not to work!

Not often that happens.  In fact, I’ve never had that happen.

Thankfully I had a hankering of what the furnace was all about.  There is a pre-fan (OK, that’s layman’s terms) that would start up and then quit.  I had seen this when water had backed up.  Just unscrew the fan and empty it of water.  This time around – no water fell out, but a dead bird did.  Put things back together and it worked (OK, I didn’t put the bird back in).

Then, I took a look at the water heater.  No water was gushing out.  For that I was thankful.  I remembered that there was a coupler that would trip when things got too hot (again, layman’s terms).  I checked and it seemed to have tripped.  Couldn’t remember how to fix it.  Called our plumber and he tried to explain a quick fix over the phone.  Couldn’t quite get it, so he popped by.  In less than ten minutes things were fixed and we have hot water.

I think we just hit a home run, so I’m not looking for a third strike!!