Pickup Trucks

This is a Jeep J12 Pickup that is absolutely perfect!

It is four wheel drive truck on the Jeep Wrangler platform and I want one.  This truck is old style and I hope it will be produced without all the electronic gadgetry  that make trucks too expensive. Keep it a simple truck with roll-up windows, stick shift, radio, heater/A.C. and leave it alone after that.  Keep it a simple, straight-forward pickup without all that black plastic/rubber trim and bumpers.

As it is pictured, it is perfect and if Jeep actually builds this J12, I will buy one.  But if they go crazy with the electronics, twenty air-bags, GPS monitor, back-up camera, etc, etc, and the resulting price being above $25,000, I will be very disappointed.

The price of pickup trucks exceeding $30-50,000 is ridiculous. 

'Less is more'

Camp Fire

Campers love to sit around the camp fire at night, admiring the starry heavens, and tell their stories.  They talk about the things they used to do, their experiences and what they want to do in the future.  It is a time to be contemplative, sitting there around that warm glowing fire.  It is a happy time, watching the bright orange coals flicker, feeling free to be silent for many minutes. 

The camp fire is a gift from God. It is a time to reflect on the important things.

Life in a Canoe

I read a little news story about a man who was living in a canoe in Boston Harbour.

He had all his personal belongings in the canoe and he would paddle around the harbour during the day and tie up to whatever was available for the night.  This story fascinated me as I began to picture how the whole thing could work considering the coming cold, freezing and rainy weather.  Living on the water is cold without a shelter and the only thing I could envision is covering up with a plastic sheet during those weather conditions.  But wind on the water would make the plastic sheet impossible to keep in place.  He might be able to sleep on a dock or a beach but owners of these would often object and call the police on the vagrant.
And what about obtaining food and water?  He would have to leave his canoe for these items and this would invite the theft of his possessions.

This kind of adventure might be workable for a month or so in the summer, but not realistic for the long term.

Wisdom

There are many people who have wisdom.  They know how to make decisions based on foreseeing and knowing how that decision will turn out. For example, consider the man who needs to decide who to marry. 

Grace is a beautiful woman in appearance and has a pleasant personality that draws the attention of everyone, everyone. She knows she is beautiful and uses her beauty to gather attention and favours from others.

Ruth on the other hand is good looking woman but not considered beautiful like Grace is. Ruth is warm and friendly, loves her little nieces and nephews, and respectful of her parents. She is the kind of woman that will mow the lawn to help her parents.

The man loves both of these women and wants to get married.  Is he wise, will he decide to marry Grace? Or Ruth?  Will wisdom enter into his decision or will he decide foolishly?  The man of wisdom can foresee the outcome of his decisions before he makes them. - Proverbs 2:10-11

The foolish man will not consider his way, and will rush headlong into calamity. Following his treacherous heart, he will suffer for his lack of wisdom.

Wisdom is not the possession of all men, just a few.

Wood Working

I would like to have a wood shop, and this requires expensive tools and building that has eluded me so far.  Also, my life course led me to the construction trades of plastering and tile setting.  These trades involved gypsum and cement mortar, not wood. As a consequence, my experience and knowledge is lacking in the wood trades.  I will remedy that shortfall.

My grandfather made furniture for his own home, in his shop out in his garage. He taught me how to use his various tools safely, and had faith in me to keep all my fingers attached to my hands. So, as a young boy I could go out to the shop and make various items, to keep my self amused.
My father also was expert in fine woodcraft, making all manner of clocks, trophies, and furniture.  I still have many of the items they made dating back to the early 1930's.


So, I also want to have a wood shop, to learn the trade well and make fine furniture and custom horse drawn carriages and wagons.  That would be so much fun.

Someday .....

Faith

The world of mankind has always been filled with religious faith of one sort or another. The heart of man needs to worship a god or multiple gods and they form various personalities and attributes to these gods. In so doing they have come up with thousands of religious faiths that they adhere to, and enslave themselves to, with varying degrees of intensity.

Why so many religions?  Did not mankind start with the recognition of only one God?  Why then did religion get so confusing and divisive, leading to wars and hatreds?
The answer is obvious, mankind in general refuses to acknowledge the sovereignty of the original and true Creator God of Genesis chapters 1,2,3.
They prefer to invent their own "designer" god or gods that will suit and endorse their independent ideas and aspirations. They have created imitation, substitute gods for themselves.

So now, man has what man has invented;  wars, hatreds, prejudices, immorality, and horrendous crimes of all sorts, to the point of producing absolute agony upon the religiously divided human family.  False religion and the ferver it produces must bear the responsibility for all this chaos.

Flight

Birds fly with such ease and grace, majestic in their form and design.  Their colours are displayed for mankind to see and appreciate.  We marvel at their individual abilities  to procure food, each species having their own specialized methods.

Sea Birds can spot a dinner from altitude and steeply dive toward their goal, pierce the water and swim to secure it.  They actually swim/fly through the water and then surface to again fly to altitude;  Marvelous!

The Goshawk is a fast, low flying predator that can weave its way through dense forest trees and limbs, folding its wings, flying sideways, upside down, through tight openings that require pushing against limbs with its feet to control the squeeze through the opening.  All this while flying at great speed to catch its prey;  Complete flight control, Fantastic!

The Kingfisher perches on a rock or tree limb over the waters edge and searches the surface for a fish.  When spotted, the Kingfisher dives into the water, spears the fish, resurfaces, and flies back to his perch all in one quick motion.  And the bird never misses, never.  Incredible! 

I could mention each and every bird we know of with the same appreciation of their unique abilities and this blog would go on forever.

Man can fly.  But we do it with machines, noisy contraptions that we design and manufacture. We produce wings, inspired by birds. We take great pride in our airplanes and boast over our achievements, and rightly so, because they are magnificent machines.  But can we match the beauty and gracefulness of birds?

I want to praise the Great Creator God Jehovah for his designing and creative genius. - Ecclesiastes 8:17