In case you haven’t heard, I’m in Canada now. I drove down to the Olds office (from Wetaskiwin) this morning. Just after lunch, Trevor called, and said that there was a steer down over at Mile’s farm (1/2 mile away.) It was either kill and dress it out today, or forget the whole thing. So JRC and I went over to take care of the dirty work.
I was a little earlier than JRC, and helped Miles finish giving the last of the vaccination shots. The he helped us with taking care of this steer. Sure was nice to have his help - especially the front-end loader!
So there we are, working in the mud, trying to get the hide off and the guts out. All in all it went just fine. The temperature was just perfect (~40°f / 5°c) for this sort of thing - not too cold, not too hot. I think there will be at least a couple hundred pounds of hamburg on this one. But that’ll will have to be determined later, once we get the grinder going.
About 6:30 we were all finished (showered and all). But my hands still smell through~!

At first, I was wondering if I was going to stick with it, but Russ threatened me that if I didn’t feel good that he was going to take me to the doctor. Well, I’m pleased to submit that I made it through the day just fine. And with good success. My project today was the Interactive version of The Stranger. I finished going through all 120 video clips, and set the computer up to convert those to mp2 overnight, so I can put them on a DVD to test again. Tomorrow my goal is to get the changes in the book part of this project.
Even after supper, I spent a couple three hours working on Fred’s site (www.drdyno.com) You can’t see anything that I’ve done yet - we are still working on a magazine article that we are sticking in there.
One note of interest: I talked with a fellow that will be leaving the country with his wife for 3-5 years, and there might be a possibility of house-sitting for them. There is a lot to happen before anything to happen, so don’t get your hopes up yet. Other people are interested in staying there too, and since I’m only me, it doesn’t make much sense to use a whole house when it could help out others. But all in all, I’m not sure what will happen. As is the purpose of this site, I’m recording it to look back and remember what was going on and how God was working!

Not feeling the best last couple days - nothing too major - just a sinus headache and I run out of energy for the day at about 10:30.
I’ve been watching Russ & Karyn’s house for a week now - as they took a trip to Fairmont, BC, Canada. It’s been good to help out, feed the dog and get the mail. Oh, and watch Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Concerning which, while it was a lot of work to produce these movies, I am not impressed with their content. What a hopeless story - even though the ‘ring’ gets destroyed in the end, evil does not. Only the Bible has an answer for the evil problem. Evil will be judged and confined for ever and ever.

I realize my site has been quiet for a while. It’s not that nothing is going on, but rather just didn’t get to putting anything up on the site.
But today, we received 3 skids of The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus in Spanish. The new electric forklift worked just fine—so thankful to have that. I didn’t get to run it today, as the driver needed help moving skids around inside the truck.
But once we got it inside, I was able to ‘re-package’ the skids into 2. The reason for this is because we are expecting another 7 skids of Tabernacles, then another 20 skids of Tabernacle Furniture. Still a month later we will be getting about 7 skids more yet. So we need to pack and stack as best we can!

Just a quick note to record the fact that “What’s in a Name” and “Flying Truth in Formation” is finished (my part, anyway.) These DVD’s were mastered back in June as a ‘pre-release’. Now, with a new logo and a cover design, they should be available this month sometime. Sure glad to see this come about!

When people ask me what I’ve been doing lately, and I say, “Working on The Lamb PowerPoint”, but it doesn’t seem to communicate the scope of the project. But below are a couple photos of what’s involved in this!

The stack of papers is waiting to be proof-read so I can go to press with everything. The top is a 160 page booklet, then copies of the Closed Captioning files used for the DVD, after that the PDF handouts printed, then the PowerPoint for the 5 lesson format, and finally the 10 lesson PowerPoint format. This pile doesn’t include the CD, DVD covers, labels, cover of the booklet or the box that holds everything! But it is getting close!

Just some photos from the trip. Needless to say, it was a nice trip!

Today was a fun day. We got the call yesterday saying 16 skids of books were coming in tomorrow morning (today) and that got me thinking that I needed to take a truck-load of materials up to Canada.
So, the semi came in, we unloaded it (by hand, I might add). See, we have 2 forklifts, but only 1 pallet jack. We needed the pallet jack to get the skids to the back of the truck, as well as get the skids in place in the warehouse (we have a small warehouse, and need to place the skids by hand.) Since the truck came with a lift gate, we were able to put 2 skids on the gate, then run them into the warehouse. So, I got some exercise that morning.
Loaded up the truck (1100 Lamb books, and 1248 English ATP) and headed north.
The trip was fine, no problems, drove through Crowsnest, and arrived at around 9:30 MST.

Just wanted to make record of a new forklift that was donated to us today. It’s electric (which means we can keep it indoors, and we don’t have to spend a lot of time trying to get it running, as well as trying to keep it running!) Sure is a blessing. This is what we were looking for way back when, but couldn’t find / afford one like it.

After church today, we piled in the mini-van and headed to the lake. The eagles are back in town!
After walking around a bit, we went to the resort on the lake for a ‘Guey’ (sp?) - basically a huge goblet of ice cream and stuff to go with it. Sorry, no photos of that here…

This week has been another busy one. I’ve looked at several places to rent, but nothing really fits what I’m needing. I’m continuing to look / seek / pray where I should go.

My main project this week has been The Lamb PowerPoint. This has been a long overdue project, and is not a small matter. I am working on the booklet that will go with the PPT DVD,  so the operator will know when to advance to the next slide. Rachel roughed it in, but it was handed to me to finish so she can work on other projects.
This project also includes a ‘slide show’ DVD of The Lamb, as well as the PowerPoint files,  and handouts in PDF format. Both in the 10 lesson and 5 lesson formats! (The DVD also includes a ‘play all’ which is still a full length version yet again. One other things, we are designing this so that it can be easily formatted into other languages. This means adding extra space all over the place so the other languages will fit (German I think is the longest.) So I’ll probably rough in the German to see how things fit before going too far w/ it.

So, as you can see, it’s bigger than what it started out as! I don’t have an ETA on it yet. I generally know the ETA when the product arrives at the doorstep. Being a small organization means that projects take a side track from time to time to do other things.

And now I must go home for the annual Christmas office party.

Yes, time gets away, especially when there is a lot to do!
Our time in Radium was profitable, and it was good that we all were able to get together. We nailed down several loose ends - several projects that were just waiting to get finished.
The trip home on Sunday was a normal 4 hour drive with slushy roads. Not a problem…
And Monday / Tuesday got me back to the office chair driving my computers amap (as much as possible). Lots of little ends to do - from shooting photos for a friend’s website to looking up UPC barcode information, from looking for a house to rent or buy to updating the GS website for the latest and greatest information. And from shoveling snow to making coffee.
Oh, and don’t forget the laundry.
All in all, it’s been a busy few days, with no end of toil insight (well, you know what I mean.) 

Left Butte (after saying good bye to Roger and Renee) at around 9:00. It was -12°F when I left. Might need a new battery for the little car! We’ll see how it holds up throughout the winter.
I drove a new route to BC, and it was very nice. We had a little snow on the ground, enough to cover everything, but not too much to where it was a real problem. Drove around Flathead Lake in MT, which, in my opinion, was one of the most beautiful lakes I’ve seen. Crossed the border just fine, and made it to Radium to meet with the GoodSeed Design team for a couple days.
452 miles, 8:45 hours.

Anohter driving day. It was an interesting trip - as we started out (at 6:00) while it was still dark, lightning, and a slight mist. A little after we got on the road, it rained cats and dogs. Gully washer, so it was. It was so hard that I could only see about 20 feet in front of me at times. I had difficulty doing the speed limit! Good thing there wasn’t too much traffic at that time in the morning in that part of the world. Also - it was around 55°F.
The drive after that was pretty un-eventful (the next 15 hours, that is.) We did have a very strong head wind, because there was a cold front coming in behind. So much so, that I think I got the worst gas mileage my little car has ever seen (packed full, running 75 mph, strong head wind.) But all in all I think it did just fine.
In getting through the mountains in Montana, we started picking up snow and packed snow on the roads. I did take it easy, and made it just fine. Sleep came easy tonight.

I left Browns at around 9:00 if I remember right. The drive today was grand—no real trouble or anything of significance. Other than the fact that I stopped to see Lincoln’s Farm. The silly thing is that I drove around it on the way down and didn’t even see it! So I thought I better get up and stop, since I was going to be driving right by anyway.
I pulled in Emmetsburg, IA at around 8:00, and pretty tired from the trip. 8 hours of driving, with 2 extra hours of fooling around in different places.