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dark thirty

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Turned out the light at 8:02 last night and up way too early, one-something this morning. Half a cup of coffee, on two balls of ice, with creamer and sweetener. What to do? Cut off a film I was watching when I dozed off last night and found yet another documentary about the 1942 naval battle of Midway in which Japan lost four aircraft carriers, planes, trained veteran pilots, and experienced technicians who could not be replaced.  How many Times have I watched these things, as well as having seen the film "Midway" when it was at the beach theater several years ago. I'm no expert on Midway, but the event is fascinating and gratifying to relive on my computer screen, basically neutralizing the Japanese navy after Pearl Harbor. A trip out to Tyndall AFB yesterday for a haircut and patronize the Exchange and the Commissary. Home to meatloaf and red sauce. Visualizing that my breakfast later this morning will be a mug of hot & black and a meatloaf sandwich.  It's so ea...
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IDK, maybe

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My usual start is to read the Bible lessons for the upcoming Sunday, and I've done that. Don't remember what I said, but I already commented on the gospel lesson, and don't want to do Judges right now, so going on with First Thessalonians, my favorite of Paul's writings. First Thessalonians and then maybe Philemon. November 11: Veterans Day, staying home until our one o'clock visit to Pruitt. Maybe I'll wear my U S Navy Retired cap out and be thanked for my service. Twenty years, Commander USN retired nearly fifty years ago. May stop at a restaurant on the way home. May be hoping for sushi. Maybe at Basil Oriental Cuisine across the street. Here's the reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction ...
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judgment hour

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Regarding my writing/publishing +Time blogposts, my days of predictability seem to be over and done, I'm on no schedule, don't sleep regular hours, don't wake up at a regular Time, don't have regular mealTimes, have no idea when I arise mornings whether I'll use Time to fool with a blogpost, can't tell whether there'll be a morning nap, an afternoon nap, neither, either, or both. It's the undisciplined Time of a nonagenarian focused on staying out of the hospital. O&H kringles: I placed an order for a couple of things to be delivered before Thanksgiving. Linda marked another few for me to order to be delivered before Christmas. Who can believe Christmas is next month already, and Thanksgiving itself is a couple weeks away! Well, TGiving Day  is three Thursdays out, isn't it! Our plan is to drive out to Tyndall the middle of next week and see what they have for turkeys. My scheme will be to head for the turkey freezer, find the biggest one, hide i...
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Collect and 1 Thessalonians

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Good FSU (31) - Boston College (24) game today, there appeared to be a lot of empty seats in the Massachusetts stadium, but FSU did well, we were proud. Same with the Clemson - Syracuse game, which we watched going on in the living room during noon dinner.  Noon dinner was okra & fresh tomatoes with onion, lobster meat, and the second package of very good lamb steaks. The lamb steaks are a tasty, reasonably priced alternative to beef steaks, and seeming even more special because we have lamb so seldom. I cooked the steaks medium, slightly pink. Oh, an ice cold Abita beer, which was on twofers at Publix. Then a wee slice of sweet potato pie. My weigh-in tomorrow morning will not see the slight daily drop that I've been nursing along in my "No Hospital for Mr B" project. ++++++++  Our lectionary for Sunday, Nov 8 is leading into Advent season with its anticipation of the Second Coming, a faith event that I'm not going up on a mountain to welcome as many disappointed...
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and the evening comes

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These are end of Thursday pictures from 7H porch this evening as the sun finished up and sank off beyond and behind the high-rise buildings on Thomas Drive to the west of us.  Others are to the south and looking east. The clouds were - - "spectacular" is too common a word. "Heavenly" is right, but still doesn't say it. The Bay is flat and taking reflections.  Several of them I posted to Facebook to share with FB friends. Here's one looking out toward the Pass, which from 7H is the other side of Courtney Point jutting out. Living here is an ever changing scene.  I got started on it this evening because of the heavy, dark storm cloud that was framing the magnificent beauty beneath it. Often over the years, the scenery here on St Andrews Bay is so startling that I imagine my father must have seen it just like this in his growing up years here in St Andrews, and I wish he could see what I'm looking at right now. This evening might be a Time like that. It all...
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happy birthday

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Who knows where life and Time will take us! Yesterday was Joe's birthday, he was born at Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida on November 3, 1960. My memories are focused on the moment the physician came into the Fathers Waiting Room and said, "You have a son." A few minutes later, a nurse arrived to show me a newborn and unwrapped him to show me that he indeed was a big, healthy boy. A bit later, standing beside our car in the parking lot, looking across St John's River at a constantly changing Shell Oil display. Red, orange, yellow, the scallop shell growing and bursting into SHELL. I was 25 years old. Then driving home in our car, the 1958 Opel Record two door sedan that I've pictured here now and then.  My mother was waiting at our house in Neptune Beach, a couple blocks off the Atlantic Ocean, with Malinda, two and a half years old. I told Malinda, "You have a baby brother!" To which she responded, "I know! And a sister!" Those were T...
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saints alive!

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Again, today is All Saints Day, when the theology of our Collect for the Day is that our virtuous and godly living determines whether we come to the ineffable joys, which is to join the eternal multitude standing around the throne worshiping and singing in a loud voice.  There's no reason for me to make light of this, and surely not of the Lamb, whose nature in Revelation is far, far different from the nature of the Lamb of God as revealed in the Gospel according to John, who introduces Him right up front, "Behold, the Lamb of God." How is He? The Lamb, what's He like, how is He? And is He like that because that's what you believe, does what you believe create the Lamb in your image of the Lamb? I wander down this thorny path because the Revelation of John (John was/is a common name, there's no reason except your unexamined certainties to think Gospel John and Revelation John were the same man) - - because Revelation John knows the Lamb that was Slain as a fie...
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