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Day 101 – Exercise Weights (Sell)
I think I have changed the “comments” setting on this blog to make it easier for folks to leave a message now without going through the hassle of signing in and all. Let me know if I was successful! I would love to hear some feedback now and then – hopefully now it will be quicker and simpler for anyone to talk back to me. Today I am moving a set of weights to the Sell box for the garage sale. Melissa and I have done a good job over the last decade of spending money on exercise equipment to…
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Day 100 – The Message (Sell)
On Day 100 it is great to have a SELL and one that is a win/win for all but a bookstore in Shelbyville. When I listed on Day 88 the Bibles I had found around the house and which were bound for Papua New Guinea, I mentioned that I had a copy of The Message. If you haven’t read any of The Message, you really should. It is Eugene Peterson’s modern English version of Scripture. I find it especially helpful in bringing a fresh perspective on familiar passages. I had hesitated on whether or not I would send it with…
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Day 99 – Garfield Posters (Give)
These are a few of the posters I unpacked a few weeks ago (Day 74). I took them to my classroom thinking I could give them away but then I looked at them and thought, “What modern day high school student would want a 30 year old Garfield poster?” So they languished on my counter, just getting in the way. So I decided the other day to go ahead and throw them away. But first I would hang them on my front board and see if anybody commented on them. We went through an entire day of school – and…
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Day 98 – Winter Shirts (Give)
This is another of those spring fever moves! I realize I still have at least one more Indiana winter to go through before we move to Haiti, so I’m not getting rid of all my good winter clothes. But if I have survived almost an entire winter now without wearing some particular shirt or sweater, I think it’s safe to assume I won’t be wearing it next winter either. Especially turtlenecks. I’ve got two of them … and I don’t know why! You know how sometimes you’ll wear a piece of clothing even though it doesn’t look all that great because it’s so…
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Day 97 – Letters from Pete (Give … Back)
I came across some letters from my first best friend, Pete, and got a laugh out of rereading them. These are letters Pete wrote after his family moved on from Shelbyville. Pete and his family first moved to Shelbyville when I was in third grade. His father was the new pastor at our church. I took an instant disliking to Pete when my parents dragged my brothers and me to the church basement for the welcome luncheon. He was skinny and his ears stuck out. And there was my Mom nudging me forward, saying, “Oh look – they have a boy…
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Day 96 – Assorted Shells (Throw) and Day 97 – Four Gallon Mason Jar (Hopefully Sell!)
Keeping it short so that I can get caught up soon. The Drama Queen is beginning work on a school project where she gets to choose a president to study. It reminded me of an odd little artifact that had fallen out of some of my Grandpa Henke’s books that were passed on to me when he died. I went out looking for it and came across some interesting stuff in the process. (I will write about the “artifact” in a separate entry. It is truly unusual and I DID manage to locate it eventually.) First of all, I came…
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Day 95 – Grudge Stuff (Throw … Twice!)
I don’t know what else to label these items collectively than “Grudge Stuff”: a couple of letters, a print out of a blog entry, and some other documents – all dealing with my rocky relationship with a supervising pastor who greatly offended my wife and me. I’ve mentioned several times here how bad my memory is. When it comes to “Forgive and forget”, forgetting is the easy part for me. Which is why I held on to this grudge stuff. I didn’t want to forget because I didn’t want to forgive. So I found these items in a box I was…
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Day 94 – Muppets Book (Sell – but apparently not today!) and Ignorant Opinions
I am sitting in the Borders Bookstore cafe in Greenwood after a visit to Half Price Books. I pulled a couple of extra books today to sell – like this great Muppet coffee table book – and then drove the 45 minutes to HPB. You know how much they wanted to offer for two tubs full of books?? Sixteen dollars! Unbelievable! I was insulted! The Shakespeare book alone is worth more than that. They made the offer; I repacked my boxes and left with my books. I could get more than that by selling them for fifty cents apiece at my upcoming…
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Day 93 – Outdated Technology … Camera and Disks (Throw)
Home from school for the day with Ida (Age 7) who was running a fever. Melissa stayed with him yesterday. I took a little time to clean out the hall closet. There’s mostly winter clothing in there, but also an assortment of cameras and camera equipment. I found some old computer disks – considered keeping them, but where would I even find a computer that could read them? So I concluded that if I have lived without them for the past ten years or so, I can live without them permanently. I found some extra camera equipment – lenses and…
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Day 92 – “Queen” Glass (Sell)
It’s early February and the weatherman is calling for high temps in the mid-40s in the next few days and that gives me the first tingles of Spring Fever. I hate winter with an unholy passion. I hate putting on a coat. I hate being trapped inside. I hate the cloud cover. I hate shoveling snow. I hate the barenness of trees. I hate the brown grass. I hate the noise the furnace makes. I hate not being able to strap on my running shoes and head out the door for a run. (Because I’m not one of those nuts…
