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1	Blogs / Gerry's Blog / PNG Trip Journal  on: 06/15/08 at 06:47:58
Started by gcw | Post by gcw
We're planning on journaling pertaining to the PNG trip as we can get Internet access at http://blogs.mycrowsoph.com/png/

2	Family Chat / Family Chatter / So THAT's how they win 'em!  on: 02/05/08 at 19:08:45
Started by willa | Post by gcw
From Willa's Blog:   (On TV) Ryan Seacrest: Randy, what's your prediction? Randy: Patriots, by a touchdown!   (watching the interview): Joseph: How do you buy a touchdown?

3	Blogs / Gerry's Blog / A quote for the season...  on: 12/24/07 at 09:51:15
Started by gcw | Post by gcw
I ran across this quote from a TV show.  I think it's very appropriate for the Christmas season, and for the current season of humanity.   Chuck: "Maybe that is his truth, and it's just different from our truth."   Emerson Cod: "The truth ain't like puppies, a bunch of 'em runnin' around and you pick your favorite. One truth... and it's come a-knockin'."   From the ABC show Pushing Daisies

4	Family Chat / Family News / Yet another Perkins  on: 12/15/07 at 19:02:41
Started by Lynn | Post by Lynn
Yup, for those of you who haven't heard, we're excited to be expecting again.  I'm nine weeks along, due mid to end of July.  We'd love your prayers esp right now as I'm extremely sick w/"morning" sickness and Andy's in Austria until Dec.22.

5	Family Chat / Family Chatter / Re: Favorite Kid Quotes  on: 12/11/07 at 17:26:50
Started by willa | Post by MichelleTurnerHall
Been meaning to add this one that occured a couple of weeks ago. The church we attend has a childrens sermon after Praise and Worship, so our Pastor has all the kids sitting in the floor at the front of the church and is talking to them about how We can not see Jesus but he is always with us and on and on, so towards the end he asks the kids, "Now can you tell me where Jesus lives?" So here is Tristan seated kind of towards the back, and he is just waving his had dying to answer the question when david finally calls on him and says "Ok Tristan you tell me".........Tristan's reply ....He lives in jail cause my daddy says everybody he arrests seems to find Jesus in jail" at this point Danny is 10 shades of red and I am under the pew.     Needless to say we had to have a long talk and explain that is not where Jesus lives!   Never a dull moment

6	Family Chat / Family Chatter / Re: Favorite Kid Quotes  on: 12/10/07 at 10:57:34
Started by willa | Post by willa
Last Sunday during communion Noah managed to swipe a piece of the bread and pop it into his mouth before I had time to react.  He turned and smiled and said, "Hmmm.  That does taste like Jesus!"

7	Blogs / Gerry's Blog / Re: What am I Boycotting Now  on: 11/26/07 at 22:25:05
Started by gcw | Post by andyp
The China one is a tough one because it's not just China.   China is only a symptom, not the problem.  Any time a product is made someone can suffer.    Dig deep enough into the manufacturing/life of a product and a profit is almost always made at someone else's expense.  I don't know how to avoid this.     A big thing on my mind these days is the trash from used electronics.  Not only do you have to care where and how a product is made, but what is going to happen to it when the consumer is done with it.  The trash can is convenient and at one time was the end of the matter for me.  But now I've seen pictures of communities in developing countries who are scavenging our electronic waste and living in toxic dumps.  IOne could argue that they have chosen to earn money this way- but have they really?  I help make this electronic waste and look what it is doing.

8	Blogs / Gerry's Blog / Re: I am SO embarrassed...  on: 11/26/07 at 22:17:12
Started by gcw | Post by andyp
You need a back seat driver like Gideon.  He is a maniac about making sure I use the blinker.  I haven't told him cell phones are distracting.

9	Blogs / Gerry's Blog / Camping with Noah  on: 11/26/07 at 20:52:07
Started by gcw | Post by gcw
Noah and I went camping at Gruetli-Laager the weekend of 10/26-27.   By the time we got up there, the sun had set, so we just had time to load everything onto the ATV, get down to the campsite, and set up camp by the time it was dark.  We built a fire and grilled fish - Noah's favorite meal.  Fish and Cheetos for dinner.  Yum!  Noah thought so, too, and ate and ate until the fish was gone.     It was late, dark, and getting pretty cool by the time we hit the tent - or at least I hit the tent.  Noah wanted to sleep in my hammock, so I set him up, on top of a stadium blanket to provide some insulation under him, in his sleeping bag, and covered with two fleece blankets.  I headed over to our nearby tent, and soon both of us were asleep.     Sometime around 2 AM I heard a cough and a couple of spitting sounds.  Hmmm.  Spitting.  He's in my hammock!   "Noah!"     "What Grampa?"     "Were you spitting?"   Silence.  Noah gets shy about talking at times.  "That's a yes or no question, Noah!"   "I forgot."     He forgot?  Oh well.     I was just drifting back to sleep when I heard a call.  "GRAMPA, can you come here!!??"     "What's the matter, Noah?"     "I was in the hammock and had to throw up!"   Oh, no.  I envisioned the mess inside my hammock.  My thoughts quickly went from "How am I going to clean that out?" to "It's 40 degrees - how am I going to keep him warm if all his bedding is messed up?"     "Noah, did you throw up IN the hammock?"  Silence.  "That's a yes or no question, Noah."   "No."  Ahhh.  I love you Noah.     I had been getting myself out of the tent and into some shoes while this conversation was going on.  I walked over to the hammock with my flashlight, and there was Noah, with his face stuck out of the opening in the bottom of the hammock, spitting onto the ground.  I kicked the thick leaf cover directly under Noah's face out of the way, and managed to get Noah and his bedding out of the hammock and back over to the tent, putting him right next to the door, which I left open.     We slept til around 7 AM, then got up and had a good breakfast.  We had a good time together walking and riding the ATV around the property.  At one point, wondering how he was doing, I mentioned him getting sick last night.     Noah: "I wasn't sick - you gave me too much to eat."

10	Blogs / Gerry's Blog / I am SO embarrassed...  on: 11/07/07 at 13:19:28
Started by gcw | Post by gcw
I ran a red light recently.     Happens all the time, you say?  Well, here's the problem - I'm one of those guys (maybe the only guy) who has always said "Hang up the phone and drive, idiot!" (You may have seen me glaring at you from the car sitting next to you.)  And I started out practicing what I preached.  But it snuck up on me.     When I first started carrying a cell phone, I'd pull over to make a call, and look for a place to stop when I received a call.  I knew it wasn't just handling the phone that was the problem, and that hands-free systems only addressed a minor issue.  The real issue is mental focus.  Then I started making quick calls - "Honey, I'm on my way home" - and tried to ensure I ended the call quickly, making a conscious effort to raise my awareness of traffic situations.  I was pretty proud of that.  "A man's pride brings him low..." (Prov. 29:23a)     Well, my cell phone conversations got longer and longer as I got more comfortable with using it while driving, although I tried to avoid discussing issues that required mental focus.  Then, driving home before going over to purchase a small dirt bike for my grandkids' use, I made the fatal mistake.  (Well, it could have been a fatal mistake!)  I actually thought about waiting to call, but in order to save time I called the sales rep at the Honda dealership to make arrangements.  There were a couple of details that needed to be ironed out.  I focused on the call - "Whoah, that light's RED!!!"     I hit the brakes, but immediately realized it was too late to stop.  Quick look to the left and right to see what kind of trouble I was in, and then on through the light.  No cars in sight.  Quick look in the rearview mirror to see what kind of trouble I was in.  No police cars in sight.  Wow, made it through that one.   "Hang up the phone and drive, idiot!"