There are some places in the United States that do not have much water of their own. These places have become popular with people, and people in general require water, so those places have tried to get extra water from other places.
In the past, we here in Michigan have resisted attempts by others to take our water. All they wanted to give us was money in exchange for our water. I’m not saying it’s as easy as I make it sound, but we can get money from anywhere. Our water is not worth just money.
I have a counter-proposal: You can take our Great Lakes water, for a fee of course, but you also have to take our mosquitoes and some of our humidity.
I don’t want all of our humidity gone, because completely dry air is bad. We would have to buy a lot more lotion and swamp coolers. But we’ll pipe some humidity and as many mosquitoes as we can over to you. You can’t take all the benefits of water without also taking some of the problems.
Maybe I should add Asian Carp as something you must also take, just as a bargaining chip.
Anything else we should try to trade?
There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.
The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “ If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!
Why then have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here?
Numbers 20:2-4
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No real post today – it’s too hot.
And there was a holiday this week.
And we’ve been busy at home.
But if you want to read something, go read The Eliot Papers.
Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.
Daniel 3:21
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This is what the grocery store sells as American cheese:
But it’s not, really. It’s ORANGE. When you think of things that are American, how far down the list does anything orange appear?
Still thinking?
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Some of you may be wondering, as I was last week, “Can I stack Trofast?” or “Can you flip the stair-step storage things from IKEA?”
If you are trying to do what we were trying to do, then the answer is this: you can stack them as long as you do not flip them.
TROFAST is a series of organizational furniture from IKEA. There are tall shelves and wide shelves and shelves that resemble a piece from Tetris:
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Transcript:
Person A: So you say you bought a new car?
Person A: And you told the salesman you wanted a coupe?
Person B: Kind of…
Person A: ???
Person B: I told him I wanted a two-door car.
So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
1 Kings 6:32
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Delta met a skunk last weekend:
And here he is playing with the skunk:
I tried to warn him not to squeeze the skunk, but I don’t think he understood.
No, it was not a pet.
It was a toy.
His cousin got a radio-controlled skunk for her birthday.
Push one button and it moves forward.
Push another button it moves backward.
Push another button and it lifts its tail.
To my dismay, the box stated “No spray, no mess”.
No fun.
I say we retrofit a pump in the skunk. Tie the activation of the pump to the circuit that controls the lifting of the tail.
You could fill the reservoir with whatever. For fun, it could be bubbles. For usefulness, it could be bug spray or sunscreen (“Okay kids, stand behind the skunk before you go outside.”). For security, it could be pepper spray (“Don’t make me use the skunk…”)
If you are a manufacturer of toy skunks, at least let people have the option of using the spray feature. It’s not really a skunk without it.
The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
Isaiah 11:8
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Here are four different conversations that we’ve had in our house recently:
Beta, under the table and crawling away from Gamma: I got him!
I, after looking at Gamma’s legs: Don’t rub butter on people!
Especially if they are suffering from a burn. All the first-aid advice I remember can be summarized by “Do not put butter on a burn.” I don’t know what I should put on a burn – maybe I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter?
The Scene: I am making eggs for the boys.
Beta: I don’t eat the yellow part because that is what the chick eats.
Fair enough, but this one is done eating his, so you can have it.
I: Okay, which day do you want to buy school lunch?
Alpha: Friday, because that’s the pizza day.
Beta: Do they have cheese pizza?
Alpha: No, it’s pepperoni. But the pepperoni is so small that you can’t even taste it.
Beta: I want Friday too so I can have the tasteless pizza.
No really, with school lunch that’s a good thing.
Gamma, rubbing his hands together: I got some hand sanitizer!
I: But there’s no… hey! That’s macaroni and cheese!
You’re right, it’s probably close enough.
Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:6
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
