Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The old has passed and the new is here. It is a brand new day, and the best is yet to come.
Every morning and every moment, offers new mercy, full forgiveness and the opportunity to experience more of God than you understood yesterday. His love is inexhaustible and has no limit. His plans for you are greater than you can imagine and His presence is available every minute of every day!
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Today
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Seen
I do still wonder if the most known in eternity will have been the least known on earth. We will find out one day. Until then, keep serving and know that God loves you and sees you. Be faithful. The example for us all is our Servant King!
Todd Fields – North Point Ministries
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Negative News
The driving force behind news is to capture your attention and one of the primary ways that media does that is through inciting fear. If the news can make you anxious and afraid, then you’re more likely to check in often to read articles or listen to shows.
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Brunch and a Walk
Brunch at one of our favourite spots, Stella’s on Provencher where we had the “usual” Mexican Breakfast followed by a walk in the park.
Sporting new boots! 
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Older Kids
You never stop worrying about your kids. How could you? They might be older but they’re still running around unsupervised!
Emoji -> ?
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PhotoPills, a learning experience
PhotoPills is iPhone software that helps you plan photographs of the sun, moon, Milky Way and more. I bought the software several years ago but this was the first time I actually planned a photo and when out to execute the plan.
The idea was to photograph the moon over the iconic Provencher Bridge, more specifically the Esplanade Riel bridge which runs in parallel for pedestrians and cyclists.
Winnipeg’s Esplanade Riel: A magnificent bridge connecting people and cultures This idea was to have the moon right at the top of the peak of the bridge. Here is the plan.
Overview 
Detail at the shooting spot The red pin is the shooting location and the black pin is the centre of the spire on the bridge. The thin blue line is where the moon will be at 6:09am, 2022-01-28, right over the bridge spire.
One of the tips in planning these photos is to scope out your shooting location physically to get familiar with the area before arriving in the dark, a good tip.
I thought I knew the area so I skipped the scouting trip. I’d just drive up Waterfront Drive, park near the train bridge (red pin) and I’m good to go. What I didn’t account for was the line of sight from the red dot to the bridge. I get to the spot, turn around, and I can’t see any of the bridge! It’s completely obscured by the large trees that line the river bank and I’m not up high enough to shoot over them. 🙁
So, when I moved to a near by spot where could get a good sightline to the bridge, the moon of course was now no longer in the correct position and this was the result.
A different crop The other learning was to better understand how high the moon will be relative to the top of the bridge. Photopills calculates the hight of the moon but you need to figure out how high the bridge is. A little internet searching turned up:
Top of the pylon is 57 metres (187 ft) above the bridge deck, and the bridge deck is about 11 metres (36 ft) above the water level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade_RielSo, my shooting spot is -10m from the black pin which appears to be the bridge deck not the top of the spire so I’d need the moon to be ~67m. According to Photopills the moon would be 70m higher that the black pin. So, it should have worked, but I wasn’t at the red pin shooting location but the moon seems like it would still be too low.
My next attempt will be on 2022-02-17 at 12:41am when there will be a full moon. Hopefully, the weather will be good and there will be a clear sky. This time, for sure, my shooting location is better known and there is nothing between the spot and the bridge spire.
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Alfred E. Newman had it right
Alfred E. Neuman Humble people worry less than the arrogant. Why is that? Because they aren’t so conceited as to think they have any idea (or control over) what may or may not happen.
The poet Rilke put it well: “Life is not even close to being as logically consistent as our worries; it has many more unexpected ideas and many more facts than we do.” Worry is pointless not only because it rarely makes things better, but also because you’re rarely ever worried about the right thing!
Seneca’s line was that “nothing happens to the wise man contrary to his expectation.” By that the arrogant person might take it to mean that the wise man is so smart that they are aware of all the possibilities. The humble soul knows that is probably not what Seneca meant. They know it’s more plausible that the wise are aware of Murphy’s Law and the absurd randomness of the universe. That is, within the range of expectations of the wise man is the idea that just about anything can happen.
Remember that today when you get anxious. The thing you’re hoping won’t happen, or hoping will happen; well… it’s just as likely that the world has entirely different plans for you. These plans are often things we couldn’t have even comprehended, let alone anticipated or prevented.
So let go a little bit. Don’t worry. It’s unbecoming. It’s arrogant. Be humble instead.
Full credit to The Daily Stoic
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The Decon’s Bench
Well, it’s been almost 20 years in the making but it’s done!
The Decon’s Bench The project started as a 50th birthday present for Shirley. Somehow it got derailed many times over the years. I’d build a part of it and then park it away in the corner of the shop. You’d think it would have been completed last year with the lockdowns and all the time at home and while it did get some attention it wasn’t until the end of 2021 and January 2022 that the push was on for completion.
So, what is a Decon’s Bench? There seems to be a mixed opinion on the origin and purpose but it seems that a bench with a storage space under the seat is common. Ours has a flip up lid under the seat cushion with a large storage area underneath. For us it’s a place to sit when you’re putting on your shoes or boots.
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High School Shop Projects
A coupe of shop project creations from the boys. Keeping the photos for posterity. Fate of the creations is uncertain. ☹️
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Toolbox Memories
My Grampa, my dad’s father, built this for me when I was a young boy, about 8 or 9 years old.
The toolbox came with a saw (original still in the box), a hammer, screw drivers, pliers and a number of small glass jars containing various sizes of nails. I still have some of those glass jars too! The box is very well constructed and has a lock which was quite magical as a young kid. Something I could lock up and keep secrets in. Sadly, the key has gone missing.
My earliest fond memory of using the tools was in Sudbury on a sunny Saturday afternoon out in the garage cutting up various bits of scrap wood and making my version of a toy boat. Something like this only less fancy. I thought it was a masterpiece! After all I did it all by myself!
Fancy Toy Wood Boat Over the years this toolbox has held lots of childhood treasures and good memories.
When we had Eric and Scott my dad decided to keep the tradition going and build our boys similar toolboxes.
