Today was a really warm day! Hard to believe. But it's supposed to be quite cold tomorrow ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I BOTH feel terrible about the situation in Paris today. I've been praying about it for hours. And I listened to CNN for literally hours today, trying to understand exactly what did happen. Terrorism is EVIL. I feel strongly about that. I don't know what the answer is. Because violence just creates more violence ( Read more... )

So, one of the things Marilyn and I were doing today was looking at a NEW artificial Christmas tree for this year.

We keep seeing those commercials for Balsam Hill artificial trees on TV. They always look so awesome! Anyway, we've needed a new tree for some time now. We have our special 'white' Christmas tree for the beach house -- which is ( Read more... )

So, as planned, Marilyn and I left the house around 9:00 a.m. to drive to Winston, Oregon, and go to Wildlife Safari with our friends Rich and Merlin. I was saying they'd never been there before, but I guess they were there around 30 years ago. Needless to say, things have changed a ton since those days ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I are just back from seeing "Spectre -- which is (believe it or not!) the twenty-fourth Bond film. This movie features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as Bond -- and he is, by far, my favorite of all the Bonds. No, I never thought I'd prefer anyone to Sean Connery, but I was wrong. He's just perfect as Bond ( Read more... )