April 27 – “Half empty? Half full?”

Out in the yard again.  Sounds like a sad, old country music song, doesn’t it?  This time we attacked the side of the house and its accumulation of sycamore leaves from the Great Fall Fall.  Since we had the rake out anyway. we also moved against the grassy area of the back yard.  Or at least what is supposed to be the grassy area.  All of that means we were pulling weeds and raking weeds and filling up trash cans with weeds in a desperate attempt to finish before the garbage truck arrived.  And we did pretty well.  In fact we thought we had it all in and done, ready to start our next trip with a clean slate and an empty garbage can.  Well … then the garbage truck arrived.  And those menacing mechanical arms shot out from the side and grabbed the can, just as it was designed to do.  However … when I went out to bring the can back to the backyard, it was still half full.  Or maybe half empty.  Which, by the way, poses quite the philosophical conundrum.  If you are an optimist, the glass is always half full, right?  But if we are talking about getting our trash can dumped, wouldn’t it be more of an optimistic statement to say it was half empty?  Now my head hurts.

 

We still have one flower bed in the back that has some rogue weeds still sprouting and taking up valuable space.  We also need to spread Weed and Feed on the grass.  I think Chris wants to do that before we leave on Saturday for Florida. 

 

We were planning to go watch Jachin play baseball last night.  But because of all the rain, the City of Houston canceled all games on their fields.  The game was moved to Thursday.  Of course it was.  We won’t be able to catch that one now since we have home group that night.  We will get to have some outside time tonight, though.  Cailyn has a soccer game in Angleton.  Road trip …

 

1 John 5:14 says, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”

 

Father, again … thank you for that rain.  I know Jachin was disappointed.  I know I always was when a game was rained out.  But we sure needed some of that wet stuff.  Amen.