"Just noticed Twitter keeps prompting me to 'Add a location to your Tweets.' Not falling for that one!" - Anne Frank

Colombian Army doing live fire mortar training:
Oops. RUN!!!

I drove to south-central Phoenix this morning and got 10 Mosquito Fish. They were free but I spent $10 in gas getting down there and back. The guy told me they'll eat anything, and it wouldn't take me long to have upwards of 1,000 of them because of their breeding rate. So, I asked, will I have a pond overrun with Mosquito Fish? A: no, because at that point they'll run out of mosquito larvae and algae and start eating their own young. Self-imposed population control.

So I came home and installed the 10 fish in the newly filled pond. Except it didn't look quite as filled as it did last night. So I added more water and measured - 3.5" from the top lip. Three hours later? 4.5" inches below the top lip.

Some casual inspection reveals I have a leak in the liner somewhere.
Aargh!
Off to Harbor Freight (what a cool place!) for a $20 submersible pump and from there to Home Depot for 20' of 1/2" tubing. Once the pond is drained (when you spend $20 on a pump don't expect high output; this could take awhile) I'll pour a concrete floor and then paint it with the same water proofing paint I used on the walls.
I made a pool net out of 1/2" PVC pipe and an old T-shirt (Pam did the sewing). My plan is to catch as many of those little fishies as possible. They'll go into a 5-gallon bucket I've already filled with water from the pond, complete with hundreds of squirming larvae.

Have you ever heard or read of someone making a case for homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle using the argument that it occurs in nature? I have. So does cannibalism and eating your own young. Don't try that at home!

It was REALLY windy here today, and by afternoon we had dust storms. Life in the desert. The problem is that the Feds don't distinguish between bad air quality due to nasty pollutants from smokestacks and "particulates" like the little dust pieces the wind kicks up in the desert. Which means Maricopa County is in trouble with the EPA because of bad air.
So how do you clean up the desert?

Starting a new sermon series Sunday - a study of Joseph. And it illustrates the problem with history.
I like history, but how do you jump in? Every person and every event is inextricably linked to the people and events that went before. Cause/effect. So, to understand Joseph requires understanding the (totally messed up) home in which he grew up. But that home was a product of those that preceded it, and if I go back to Abraham it will be six months before I get to Joseph.
The good news: it's only Monday, so I have time to figure this out.
How many sons did Jacob have, and how many of them can you name?