No more excuses

The next time you feel like GOD can't use YOU, remember, 

Noah was a drunk

Abraham was too old

Isaac was a daydreamer

Jacob was a liar

Leah was ugly

Joseph was abused

Moses had a stuttering problem

Gideon was afraid

Samson had long hair and was a womanizer

Rahab was a prostitute

Jeremiah and Timothy were too young

David had an affair and was a murderer

Elijah was suicidal

Isaiah preached naked

Jonah ran from God

Naomi was a widow

Job went bankrupt

John the Baptist ate bugs

Peter denied Christ

The Disciples fell asleep while praying

Martha worried about everything

The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once

Zaccheus was too small

Paul was too religious

Timothy had an ulcer...

And Lazarus was dead! 

They do things differently here

High school teachers all over the country had a strike day on Wednesday.

Just one day.

That's all, just one day.

I was under the impression that they were striking because the classroom sizes are out of hand and they want smaller classes. But most of the newspaper articles say it's for more money. Hmmm.

I remember when I was in high school, the teachers went on strike. We had to show up every morning for attendance and then we went back home. That lasted a couple of weeks I think (hay! That was a long time ago and Methuselah would be hard pressed to remember that far back). But they did get what they wanted.

Apparently, the one-day-at-a-time strike works, since it worked the last time the teachers did it, back in 2002, but it sure isn't the way things work in the USA.

Pukeiti Gardens

This huge garden was just placed in the hands of the Taranaki District Council from the Rhododendron Trust and the entrance is now free.

We were out there last week, but the garden has some work to be done before the Rhododendron Festival in October.

I'd like to share some photos from our first visit in 2007. These photos were taken on a very cheap camera that I brought from the US, but will definitely have new shots in a few months.

Their website is here, if you're interested.

Let me in!!

We would hear this awful scraping. Turned out he was scratching the window trying to get our attention to let him in.