Philadelphia Phillies

...and all of a sudden I am a baseball fan.

I am a life-long home team kinda guy. I have raised my family up properly in that fashion. My kids are home-teamers too.

I am not a big fan of baseball except for the playoffs. The games seem to mean more ( they do) and are played with much more passion in October.

The Phillies are going to win this one. I know they lost last nite, but they are enjoying themselves and when you enjoy what you do you do it well.

I read somewhere that Philadelphia has not "won" anything in 96 seasons and no, I do not count the Soul. I also read that Indiana University did a study and found that when the home team wins everyone in that town's confidence is increased making for stronger healthier people.

I have to admit confidence amazes me.

Go Phillies!

raspberries?

the moon is 7/8th's full tonite....at least that's what my beautiful wife said, I was never good at fractions. I think it is FULL on Tues...but right now it is lighting uo the cobalt sky like never before. so brite and such lite.

take note...look at the sky---appreciate it. where I am it is as clear as could be, not a cloud in site.

fall is coming...some trees were pure yellow today and others are begining to turn red and golden...the air is cool and crisp.

the harvest is just about complete. tomorrow the last fresh pesto will be made and I will search for the last ripe raspberry, but I think they are all gone. maybe I will find one....the sweetness to be cherished until next summer?
hopefully.
may my days here be strong and lived for truth and good. may yours too.

get up stand up....don't give up the fight

Get Up Stand Up---written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh

....don't give up the fight---the question IS...

what is the fight in this world????

I have seen good and I have seen evil...I will fight the evil of the world by spreading the good.

When you see and hear the evil - go to the good, think of the good. Stand up for the good.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8

Today's Gas Price

Taken Monday 10/6/08 @ around 5:30 PM

New Jersey & you.....perfect together!

Yesterday the wife and I filled up before heading to DC @ 2.99 and when we got home one day later....the new price per gallon is---2.93!
Yowza!!!!

NJ Gas & the eagles

There are only two states in the Union where it is illegal to pump your own gas....NJ being one of them. Early in the week we were seeing gas prices @ 3.05 and 3.09 per gallon. I thought...maybe, just maybe gas will dip below 3.00 and 'lo and behold it did.
Of course right after we filled up at our local station as pictured we passed another Jersey station that had it @ 3.97!!! New Jersey---you can't pump and the prices are hard to beat.

As to the eagles....ugh! I thought the Chi-town game was embarrassing enough. I could not figure for the life of me how we lost that one after playing so hard against the cowgirls and then taking it to the former steel curtain and then........

On Sun afternoon of all things to do while we played the 'Skins...I was driving to DC. When we left Jersey for DC we had seen the score go from 14-0 to 14-3. Wow, I thought---here's the team I banked on this year....crushing the fake skins as expected. The next thing I know, just north of Baltimore we tuned into the game---14-23---WHAT!?
Are u kiddin' me???????

Hey Andy Reid----what's the deal here??????

So we've got the 2-2 49ers next and then a bye followed by Atlanta---there has to be a win in there somewhere...no?

Harvest of Praise

Harvest of Praise is an event by Pastor Greg Laurie. He has been coming to Philly for years. The admission is free and they had Jeremy Camp, Leeland & The Katinas on Fri.

Interesting note---the event is FREE and it focuses on God with some major acts and speaker and yet....I recently paid 60.00 per tix to see Santana...the face value was 110.00 per tix. Santana sold out. The Harvest event had about 10,000 people in a 30,000 seat arena.
Why do people deny God?

The event was free and obviously the muscians were not of Carlos' stature...but c'mon! Why?!

So it wasn't empty, but did I mention it was FREE?????

Go figure...seriously....God is again rejected and yet....He loves us all!
AMEN!

1st Guitar Lesson

today I took my first TRUE guitar lesson---what a blessing!

CHORD- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together

life is changing....yet again.

i miss my inspirations from so many

it is time to find inspiration in new people

i have been dwelling onthepast, past relationships...time to create anew and cherish them

live today friend

tomorrow is but a dream