Good News Wednesday

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Four-Wing Saltbush

The Four-Wing Saltbush is one of our two main native plants along with Sage. You can see how it got the name from the collection of leaves. It blooms from April through October and its seeds are collected deep within the leaf bundles. Besides food for birds, Indians of the Southwest and Great Basin have historically used Four-Wing Saltbush seeds for food, ceremonial purposes, and…

First Monday In August

My kind of coffee … Is this what we mean by ‘staycation?’ … Dodgeball made me the man I am today … This would be Jessie … No nacho flavor in the 13th century? Sad … Smoky Bear was found in Capitan, New Mexico as a cub after a forest fire. Betty, the boys and I saw him at the National Zoo in Washington,…

The Importance of Loving Jesus

I ran across the following in a daily devotional from John Piper:  “A great incentive to be authentic in our love to God is to recognize our best religious efforts duplicated in hell. Consider the “piety” of the demoniac in Luke 8:28: When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, “What have you to…

Chris’ Birthday

“There is no love on earth greater than that of a father for his son.” — Unknown Chris is our second son, but his birthday comes before his older brother’s birthday which follows in 12 days. Like his older brother, he was born while I was in the Navy, deployed to our second tour in Vietnam. That was the tour that wound up being…