Just in time for Andy to help him build it out to suit their purposes! Should be fun. I can’t wait to see it and what they do with it.
2026-07-30
Enjoying exploring new fish stores!
Julie discovered Finspiration (we like to call it FinTastic) down in Sharonville. They have a LOT of cool and pretty fish. I particularly liked the discus tank (upper pic) and the shot I got of it. I also thought the cichlid (lower pic) was particularly beautiful too.
Nothing is in focus…
I didn’t get the depth of field quite right in this pic, but I wanted to be able to read the text on both the mug in the foreground and the and that of the wall in the background. Regardless, I was relaxing to a cup of coffee and getting caught up on admin in my favorite bank vault❤️
Two Hundred and Thirty-Three Bible translations❣️
Barton Photo Journal (19 Jul 2026). This is from my cousin, the “other” David Barton. We’ve been blessed to be able to be a part of their ministry financially for so many years…
“This bookshelf holds copies of the 233 New Testament translations that Wycliffe and SIL have completed in Papua New Guinea. Thank you for partnering with us in this work. While it's easy to share a photo of books on a shelf, the real story is found beyond these pages. The lasting fruit of Bible translation is lives changed, churches strengthened, and communities transformed as people encounter God's Word in their own language.”
2026-07-29
A birthday present
Julie told me I could use some of my birthday gift funds get some of my vintage watches serviced. So I’m getting estimates on both grandparents and Steve’s. Good news is I have a highly recommended and good place if you need watch work done. I felt like I was being buzzed into Fort Knox… There were stacks and stacks of watches in process…
The estimates came back reasonable on Steve’s so I will probably start there. The grandpa watches are going to be a bit of an investment…
House warming?
I bequeathed John and Savannah the first thing I made when we bought a house. This little roll-around cart is nice in the garage or basement to store stuff, sit on, work on brakes/wheels, or whatever. Even doubles as a nice dolly for moving boxes/crates around. They said, “out garage will LOVE that!” ❤️
Janice had a Reed & Barton silverware set…
It was just plated, so I kept one of the knives with my name stamped in it for posterity. Hahaha.
2026-07-28
In other news, Andy is back at Daton Plumbing :)
I think we are all happy about that.
In these pics, I was helping him clean out his old truck and get it all into my trailer. It barely fit, and that only because we played a serous game of Tetris will all his packout! Afterwards, we celebrated with coneys at Skyline while watching the sunset.
Andy got reposted by Milwaukee❣️
He called me late at night last weekend when he realized they’d posted the clip he’d made of him using his threader. I went on the Facebook marketplace adventure trip to Indiana with him to get it. I remember it was one of his first large purchases in this kind of deal and we were both a little nervous. But it all checked out and has served him well. Now he’s even “famous” with it 🤪
It’s a sweet setup too with the tripod and everything.
Andy is wearing off on me…
Somehow this red stuff seems to multiply under the bench in my garage…
I did find out that Home Depot was running a 19% sale on Milwaukee Packout stuff. I made a little rolly cart/stool thingy (top pic) that doubles as a place to clip in all my wrenches (front left stack in the lower pic). So now most of my stuff is on wheels and pretty easy to get to under the bench and in front of my car in the garage.
Here we go again…
No need to wonder why I might get frustrated and want to sell the thing, huh…?! Brandon offered to help me get my Jeep back to the shop (of course I had to sneak some cash into his truck for his time and fuel).
I lost a tooth in the rear end pinion gear this time (was the ring gear last time). The good points: I had a spare set of gears, I was able to figure out what was wrong with it myself, it’s something simple and fixable, and the current set is under warranty. The bad points, mo money for the labor to get it down there and get it fixed.
I found Larry’s time card…!
My dad was the church treasurer for many years when we were kids. Larry was the Janitor there for his first job out of high school. At one point I had several boxes full of all the time cards from the church staff, I saved Larry’s just for fun. While recently purging things, I decided keeping one would be sufficient at this point, in a picture.
I like seeing the way he tallied the hours and the minutes separately, converted the hours to minutes to add them all up, then back to hours. For example on Wednesday, 45 mins to get you to 10 o’clock. Two hours (shown in minutes, 120) to get you to noon, then 39 more mins until he clocked out. So 3.4 hours for the day. Funny, that’s the same way he showed me to add time when I was filling out my first time cards as a teenager.
Another method I learned (at Environment Control, the janitorial services company where I first worked) was to round to the nearest 6 minutes. Each six mins was a tenth of an hour. So if I worked 3 hrs and 10 mins, it would round to 3.2 hours (3 hours and twelve mins).
It’s fun to think about Larry and Dad having this relationship back before Larry was any more a part of our lives then just a guy in the youth group at church. 🤪 He’s been a great, fun addition to the family in so many ways!
Here’s to the good ole days…
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)