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| Steve's Tent. Setting it up. |
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| Had to get the chickens in. |
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| John boy and Tigger in John's sleeping bag from the bowlins |
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| Putting things away. |
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| Steve testing the best hard ground to sleep on. |
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| Coleman grill and coffee percolating. |
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| Waiting for coffee still. |
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| Still waiting. |
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| Yay! Coffee! He really had coffee. Half a mug. |
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| Where we slept. |
HORN - A white cloud in a white chapel. Just a moment and then it disappeared. Artist Berndnaut Smilde announced on Thursday clouds in the Hoorn Lady Chapel, for a fascinated public. Bell 17 hours the first cloud floats through the chapel. Shortly before has Smilde spraying the room with plants considerably blurred. With a touch he lets some smoke escape. The water binds to the smoke. Magically, the cumulus cloud is almost perfect. Joe is excited Neefjes. 'This is sensational. I do not often get the shivers, but I do now.''
I used Google Translate to translate the video description from Dutch to English. I have no idea what they are saying in the video but you get to see a guy make a cloud in a chapel using smoke and some kind of spray.
John boy is a pretty hard boy to trick. He has a Mickey Mouse magic book that I read when I was around his age and so I thought I would show him a trick our two. He had already figured out how to make a magic wand using construction paper. He had actually looked at the book, "read" the picture instructions and then put the book away and made the wand. It was pretty impressive.
So, I borrowed his wand and said that if it was real it would float. I put the wand against my left hand with my fingers open and wrapped my right hand around my wrist and the wand was floating! (Mystery revealed below). He was pretty amazed. He picked up the wand and opened his hand and the wand fell to the floor. I explained that since he was eating pizza, maybe his greasy hand couldn't make the wand stick. He accepted that and went on eating.
After he ate I was made to show him again. This time as the wand floated he realized that one of my fingers on my right had was not wrapped around my wrist as the others. Yup, I was holding the wand against my left palm with my right index finger. Busted.
Later in the evening I did something John boy can not explain away. I took a glass Coke bottle and put it in the freezer. After the boys bathed, I took out the bottle, set it on the table and put a penny on top. The whole evening I was telling John that we can catch a ghost in the bottle in the freezer... because that is where they hang out. While he took a bath I told him that ghosts were not real. He would ask how he would see a ghost later and I would say they are not real. Then he would ask how we could trap them in a bottle if they were not real, to which I would respond that he would have to wait and see. Fun times.
After the bath, the bottle in place, a ghost was mysteriously hitting the bottom of the penny trying to escape! I took a video... but it did not work for some reason. Maybe I will record it tomorrow night. Over and over again the ghost would hit the penny trying to get out. The boys thought it was pretty nifty.
"One Nation Under God." This simple phrase, added to the pledge of allegiance over 50 years ago has been the source of unbelievable debate and heated controversy. Likewise, the phrase 'In God We Trust' on our currency has been targeted and continues to be attacked as improper and politically incorrect. Lawsuits have been filed and legal minds employed to ascertain whether such statements violate the concept of 'separation of church and state'. As this debate continues, some so called experts have implied or concluded that our Founding Fathers and Patriots were not religious. These secular champions, in an effort to further their own causes, have even painted these great men and women from our history as being devoid of religious passions or even a belief in God. This is a part of their strategy to remove any discussion of God from the public forum. These men and women were passionately religious and saw the hand of God all around them. To God they gave Thanks for His Hand in the founding of this great nation. To Him, according to their own testimony they turned for wisdom and strength when life and liberty hung in the balance. Certainly the debate on separation of church and state will continue. But no one can dispute how our Founding Fathers and Patriots felt about God. The record is clear! 'One Nation Under God' is Jon McNaughton's witness and reminder that those who went before us knew from whence their blessings came! To read more about the story behind this painting, please click on this link:http://sethadamsmith.com/2010/06/13/one-nation-under-god/ To view the details of this artwork, click on the link below: http://mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=353 Original Edit by Bryan Illguth Cinematography by Rod Meldrum
