Do you talk about your feelings?

I just got back from "Honor Bound".  It's a men's group that meets every Saturday morning.  Boy, did we all open up.  It felt so good to "clean out the closets".  Several of the guys had tears in their eyes.  My Pastor explained it this way:  We walk in with a 200 pound load.  When we open up we disperse the load to others. 

Is there someone in your life that won't open up?  How do you help such a person?

I'm off to watch some NASA TV via internet.  I love keeping up with the shuttle.

Endeavour Schedule for today:

Orbit
25  ENDEAVOUR CREW WAKE UP  07:36 AM
26  VIDEO FILE HQ  08:30 AM
26  RENDEZVOUS OPERATIONS BEGIN 08:31 AM
27  TI BURN (time approximate) 11:14 AM
28  ENDEAVOUR RENDEZVOUS PITCH MANEUVER / ISS
     CREW VIDEO DOCUMENTATION BEGINS  11:51 AM 
29  ENDEAVOUR / ISS DOCKING 01/ 19:17 12:53 PM 01:53 PM 17:53
30  VIDEO PLAYBACK OF RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING 02:36 PM
30  RMS GRAPPLE OF S5 TRUSS  03:16 PM
30  ENDEAVOUR / ISS HATCH OPENING  03:21 PM
31  ENDEAVOUR / ISS CREW WELCOME CEREMONY 04:01 PM
31  RMS HAND-OFF OF S5 TRUSS TO SSRMS 05:21 PM
31  MISSION STATUS BRIEFING JSC  05:30 PM
32  SSPTS ACTIVATION 05:51 PM
32  TRANSFER OPERATIONS BEGIN  06:11 PM
32  EVA TOOL TRANSFER  06:26 PM
33  EVA #1 PROCEDURE REVIEW    07:21 PM 31
34  EVA #1 CAMPOUT BEGINS (Mastracchio & Williams) 10:01 PM
35* ISS CREW SLEEP BEGINS  11:06 PM
36  ENDEAVOUR CREW SLEEP BEGINS  11:36 PM

It's Annika's birthday today.  Stop by her site and wish her a Happy Birthday and give her 5 stars:  Annika

We had a lot of kids return to Whiz Kids/Heir Force last night after being gone a lot of the summer.  It was great.  We had "Wet Wednesday" and it was a lot of fun.  Throwing water balloons at kids is always fun. lol 

Spach Shuttle Endeavour's Schedule for today:
Orbit                                                            CDT

10         Crew wake up                           7:36 am
12          Unberth of OBSS                      10:21 am
12          OBSS Starboard Wing Survey      11:21 am
12          EMU Check Out                           11:26 am
14           Nose Cap Survey                           1:16 pm
15           OBSS Port Wing Survey                    2:16 pm
16           OBSS Berth                                      4:31 pm
16           Mission Status Briefing                        5:00 pm
16           OMS Pod Survey                                 5:11 pm
16            Centerline Camera Installation                5:36 pm
17            ODS Ring Extention                                6:06 pm
17            Rendezvous Tools Check                          6:06 pm
18            Kelly & Morgan - Downlink                         7:16 pm
20            Endeavour Crew Sleeps                             10:36 pm

I would of given my heart to Jesus much sooner in my life.

   

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Back to work today and I'm excited.  I have several things I'd like see accomplished this month and I'm ready to see it. 

I listened to Paul Harvey the other day and he was talking about the collapsed bridge in MN.  He had an interesting comment.  He said that 50 to 60 years ago the USA was an example to the rest of the world in which many other countries wanted to emulate.  We worked on being an example instead of being an influence.  Paul continued to say that both as an example and as a influence we spent money.  He said that we should go back to spending money on being an example again.  (That is spend money on building up the USA.)  Your thoughts?

My favorite childhood memory was when I would go down to the creek.  I spent a lot of time there. 

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The cabin we stayed in

It's good to be home.  On our way home last night we ran into a really bad rain storm.  Chamberland recieved 6 inches of rain. 
We're headed to a wedding today.  -Pastor Andrew & Jen

Vacation is going great.  I'm in Sturgis, South Dakota right now.  The huge bike ralley starts Monday here in Sturgis and there are so many motorcycles right now.  We're having a lot of fun staying at our cabin. (It's about 15 miles out of Sturgis.)  The cabin is in the middle of a forest so we have a lot of wild life that come close.  Yesterday we saw about 25 turkeys walking in the back yard.  Many of the turkeys were babies.  The deer come really close, as we see close to 30 each day.  It's great.  We've road the 1880's train, went in a cave that had a waterfall and other things.  Last night we went to church in Spearfish and they didn't have anyone doing the children's program, so the Pastor in charge asked me if I would like to do the children's service.  I was excited to do it and we had a lot of fun.  "Ready in season and out of season." 

I'll post pictures when I get back.  I have a limited time here at the library so I'll respond to comments over the weekend.