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Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Proverbs 6:6

One week later…

Ten days later…

Nice work, ants.

The Savior stood in Jordan’s flood,
  for Him it parted not.
God’s perfect justice requires blood,
  His love the lost be sought.

Calvary’s shadow large and dark
  can’t hide Heaven’s delight.
The lamb of God was baptized there,
  showed forth His grace and light

God sent His son to earth to die,
  Christ willingly agreed.
God’s waves and billows o’er Him poured
  so WE could be made free.

[Joshua 4, John 1]

This is the “Stellar Pink” hybrid. It blooms a few days after the C. Florida. The blooms last longer than C. Florida and it has good disease resistant properties. I like the rich smooth green of the leaves.

This particular instance of “Stellar Pink” is special because it was planted in memory of my grandmother.

Well Buford has always wanted his picture on this website. So there you go — Happy Burthday Buford! I guess having an entire case of monsters on your lap could make anyone act pretty silly.

I was recently reminded by my dear wife (who has known me since I was 7 years old, so I can’t get away with one single thing) that I drank more than my share of caffeine when I was a youth. Quite true. They didn’t have monsters back then, but if they did, I probably would have desired them.

I can’t believe this never occurred to me before. Use GNU date(1) to convert between various date formats

   mike% date '+%Y%j' -d 20080430
   2008121

And for moving a date around in time

  mike% date '+%Y%j' -d yesterday
  2008121

Sweet.