Lynn cooks Easter dinner
Conchita and Lynn joined Lauro at his atelier and ranchito for an Easter carne asada. It would be great to be there with them. The have a great setup and need more conversationalists like Lorena and I to make it complete.
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Painting Tío Lauros atelier
Shortly after posting about how we want to see if we can make our assessory building in Texas (God willing that we build it) like Tío Lauro s atelier in Mexico. Tío Lynn, who designed and built that interior, sent me this image where he is now painting the outside. I was actually kind of sad [ ]
Weight progress April 2026
I have been very consistent in my weight loss and health program since the beginning of the year, eating according to plan and lifting weights four days per week with a brief, celebrate the New Year hiatus in Washington, D.C. with Christian and Kelly in mid-January. I created this new graph with AI and will [ ]
Envying Lauro’s atelier
Tío Lauro has an amazing art studio in a place call Loma Prieta, Nuevo Leon. It was a falling down house when he got it, but he has fixed it up into an amazing place with a kitchen, bathroom, a bedroom and a big, wide open art workshop. As we are considering what to do [ ]
Starting a push to read more
I started my book about the Ethiopian Bible. It is more interesting than I expected with text about the Ethiopian Bible along with a translation of a number of books the 66 book Bibles I read (KJV, ESV, NIV, NASB, etc.) do not have. It does not have the whole Bible, but that is OK. [ ]
Bible Atlas from Reader’s Digest
I ordered a copy of the out-of-print Reader s Digest Atlas of the Bible, An Illustrated Guide to the Holy Land at the recommendation of Brad Coker. It arrived today and I have to say I am not disappointed. It will be good as a reference to look stuff up while I am reading my Bible, [ ]
More garage consolidation
Lorena spent the afternoon consolidating things in the garage to get ready to move. We have not finished throwing things and giving things to neighbors and thrift (charity) stores. Just a little bit more organization and I will be able to start carrying all the boxes of box I packed out to the garage so [ ]
John the docent
My PhD buddy, John, worked the day yesterday as a Exhibit Demonstrator at the International Dark Sky Discovery Center in Fountain Hills, Arizona. That is exactly the kind of thing I think would be fun to in retirement.
Family progress and Kelly’s birthday
Watching from afar, it appears Kelly had a wonderful birthday weekend with friends. It looked like there was lots of karaoke, food, and shopping. She is coming down for a celebration with us over the next little while. I am grateful for where she is in life with a group of supportive friends of good [ ]