Quotes On Bulletin Board At UA Mathematics Building

Beware the realm of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Two thirds of the people do not understand fractions and the other half don't really care.

There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.

Father and Daughter

We just got these pictures from Phoenix. Chris and Hallie and a dog named Bo.

Up The Tree

Scott made it up the big tree in the front yard on Sunday afternoon.

Rough Neighborhood

I encountered these rough characters on Holloween. The guys dressed up for the Fall Festival at McElwain Baptist Church here in Birmingham.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to Hallie James Carroll, born today to proud parents, Chris and Kitty, and proud grandparents and uncles and great-grandparents.

7 lbs. 3 oz.
20" tall (long)

She has already brought a lot of joy to many people.

Brotherly Love

Only brothers can have this much disrespect and it still comes off as love.

Seasonal Spook - Scott's Pumpkin Carving

Scott used his artistic talent to create this pumpkin spook. It starts to feel like autumn when the temperature drops and you see these things in the yard along with some fallen leaves.

Postcard from 1918

This is a postcard from my grandmother to her sister she sent in 1918. My grandfather probably developed this photo onto a postcard. He did his own developing in those days. My great-grandfather, Charles Nahrung, is the man on the right and the man on the left is my grandfather, Ernst Sieder. The woman standing in the center is my grandmother, Esther Nahrung Sieder. I believe my aunt is in the photo somewhere, but my father was not born until 1921.

Thanks to Lila Engelhardt for this image. Her husband, Kenneth,is the grandson of my grandmother's sister Minna "Minnie" Nahrung Engelhardt.

Note the address on the post card is name, city and state. There is no address and no zip code and it got there in those days.

If You Are On Your Back - Look Up

Some things get missed in our normal routine, but sometimes God allows us to get put on our back so we can look up and see something we would have otherwise missed. In this case the boys were tired and stopped to rest on a hill. They spotted a spider web high up in the trees that they would not have noticed if they were just walking through.

You Too Can Be Unshackled

Listen To Unshackled

This is the longest running radio show in the world.

Even more importantly it is documentation of the true stories of how people have been released from the very real chains that bind them.

The combination of the scriptures and a person's personal testimony of what the Lord has done in their life is very powerful in convincing others of the spiritual realities involved here.

You can listen to the archive programs here. This is powerful stuff.

Time Flies

The hands on the watch go round and round and I know I am trying again to be the master of the obvious, but we cannot stop time and it only goes forward, not backward. When our time is up we return to dust, but Solomon says the spirit within us returns to God who gave it.

Prepare to meet your maker. I have to - you have to.

One time I was becoming serious and philosophical on another site and got a comment from a reader who said I had a "Yoda thing going on." I know it is possible to take yourself too seriously, but I am not taking myself seriously, I am taking life and death seriously. One of my favorite Bob Dylan quotes is when he says, "I live in another world, where life and death are memorized." That's how I feel. I have looked at all of this and it is serious business.

I know there is a time to laugh and have fun and I try to do that, but we have one entire lifetime to realize we need God and we must come to him during that one life we have.

Don't come to the end of your life without searching for God.

I Thought I Was Still Alive

I found my tombstone while surfing the web. It's not every day you can find a tombstone with your name on it. As far as I know, I am not related to this Carl Sieder.

Sheboygan Falls, WI Cemetery