I had an opportunity to help someone in the field who was using our software, so I took it. It was a remarkably pleasant day. The software fix took about five minutes, but I stayed most of the afternoon to be sure the Service Supervisor was comfortable using our software. Oh, and [...]
I met Lutheran Lucciola and her husband for an awesome tour of San Francisco. She has written a great post about the day’s happenings. I took over 40 pictures, uploading the best to the gallery.
San Francisco looked great with its parks, cable cars, and bridges, but the homes completely overgrew the island like Coruscant in [...]
Wednesday evening I was again able to visit St. Paul’s in Woodland, CA. Dinner was a nice white bean and ham soup with rolls.
Vespers was the order of the evening, spoken because again we were short a couple of organists. The pianist played three hymns pretty well, and I was able to sing the [...]
The first three pictures were taken almost by accident.
The oil fields I worked in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas were described as having either 40- or 80-acre “spacing” — that is, that is the area that an oil or gas well was expected to drain. When I was told that Kern County, CA, had wells on [...]
My older daughter really, really wanted to go outside without her hat and gloves, but I explained to her that it was colder outside (we hit 0°F) than it was in our freezer.
We got a couple inches of snow, so the neighborhood looked pretty cool. A little ice on the bushes is nice.
I knew it [...]
I called Concordia Lutheran Church in Williston to see if there were any evening services. There are not, but there was an adult baptism and a project on Saturday. The company had delayed my next class until Monday, so I was able to attend.
The service was a combination of the Rite of Baptism, the [...]
Before I drove down to Grand Junction I was able to attend Divine Service I at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Vernal, UT. Because they don’t have a web site, you get some pictures here.
The bell is rung once before each service. This is a custom observed by both Our Saviour [...]
I shot a picture from Douglas Pass two years and a month ago. I took a few more driving from Vernal to Grand Junction.
Looking back north from the Pass:
On the south side, looking up at the Pass. It is a little lower and to the right of where the skyline makes a V.
Zooming in on [...]
