“Why, Soitenly!”

Tomorrow, after an 11:30 funeral service, the Wife and I are headed over to the beach to spend the evening with friends (maybe a movie, certainly a nice dinner together). I will be speaking at Long Beach on Sunday morning, and to be honest (which is rare for me), it feels really strange. It’s been [...]

Last Friday was a long, busy, tiring day for us and by the time I got to Josh’s house to meet up with Janice (she kept the grandbabies that day), all I wanted was to get something to eat and crash. Janice was equally tired, if not more so.
But Jackson let it be known that [...]

“Let’s just say the lusting led to covetousness … but in a good, spiritual way.”

It’s a competitive business, the funeral business. Moreso as the economy continues to basically go down the toilet. The mainstay of the business has been burials, with casket sales. So people shop around and they bring quotes from other funeral homes to see how much lower you will go. We understand that.
Last night, Josh and [...]

Other than going out at 2:30am for a pickup and going out again about 5:00pm for another pickup, and meeting with one of my families in the interim, I spent my day dismantling an HP color laser printer to see if it could be salvaged.
Apparently this particular model has a problem with the magenta colors [...]

It was a sudden and unexpected death. She was a dispatcher for Murrieta Police, Fire, and Emergency services. From the crowd of well over 600 people, I would say she was dearly loved. The stories were wonderful, funny, and filled with her faith in God and her absolute love for family and friends.
Her father was [...]

Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear, usually in passing, about our men and women in uniform being “killed in action.” We scarcely even slow down to contemplate what that means. As the death toll mounts, politicians scream to “get us out,” even at the cost of defeat. Even at the cost of [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was experiencing quite a “down” time in my life. I was stressing out on various levels (certainly not from physical exercise!) and wondering just what our future might hold. Business was very slow (still is slow, but not as slow). Hard decisions were being made to cut our expenses.
To [...]

Josh and I worked on his patio cover all day yesterday and came oh so close to finishing the job. We lack one run of roofing (decided to go with rolled roofing at half the price, plus the other covers in the neighborhood have rolled roofing) and the aluminum flashing that keeps rain from running [...]

California, always in perpetual drought according to the politicians who “control” the water resources, has had significant amounts of rainfall and snowfall this  year with storms coming in off the Pacific one after another. The next weather system (meteorological term for storm) is supposed to come through over the weekend.
Last Saturday the son and I [...]