The Helena Independent Record had a nice article about a friend of our family, Lyle Schwabauer. Read the article HERE. Lyle is a great artist, and a kind man. If you are in the Helena area, stop by the studio at Upper Missouri Artists Gallery and see him at work.
“THEY” say: “April Showers Bring May Flowers”. April SHOWERS??? It is April 8 today and we are blessed with 19 inches of heavy snow. So heavy and slippery that my snow plow can’t handle it and got stuck several times. It is parked and we will have to wait for a bit of a thaw.
Our family viewed “The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader” on it’s opening weekend; and our family rates it “two thumbs up.” We believe this is the best Narnia movie yet. There are some critics out there that complain that too many things were combined from the book, they are out of order, or skipped. How in the world do you smash an entire book down to two hours without making some sort of changes??? Movies are never as complete as the books, but as for staying on the theme, “The Voyage of The Dawn Treader” does a great job. Better than “The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe,” and much much better than “Prince Caspian” which was just kind of totally made up.
The viewings for the first weekend were down a lot from projected. I encourage you and your friends to go out and see this movie. If we want to see the franchise make more Narnia movies, the numbers need to be up. See the movie. They did a fantastic job; and you will really enjoy it. We need to let the movie industry that we support great family movies like “Narnia.”
On October 8, Jefferson High School in Boulder, Montana, had their homecoming. The football team rocked. The JHS Panthers whipped the Whitehall Trojans. Here is a video of their Homecoming Parade. Yes, the complete parade took about 5 minutes. Enjoy!
I’m not sure who these people are, but some how they came across my ham radio web site and featured it in a blog post. Here is a nice e-mail I received from them. Look way down at the bottom of the blog post to find the mention of my site. Unfortunately, they put the address of our family blog instead of my Ham Radio Blog. You can find my Ham Radio Blog HERE.
- John, K7JM
**EDIT 10/14/2010** – There has been a report that this is a spam site, so check it out at your own judgement.
Hi John,
We posted an article that we thought you and your readers might be interested in having a look at, “40 Top Blogs About Ham Radio” (http://www.satellitedish.org/blog/2010/40-top-blogs-about-ham-radio/). I am happy to let you know that your site has been included in this list.
Two of my favorite media outlets…“Your Network Of Praise” (YNOP) and “Answers In Genesis” (AiG). I support and listen to our local transmitter from YNOP everyday, and I read the blog from AiG every day, along with reading their materials, watching their videos, and listening to their podcasts.
AiG VP of Media Dale Mason with Roger Lonnquist. He leads “Your Network of Praise,” a network of about 40 radio outlets in the northwest U.S. His entire network carries our Answers … with Ken Ham daily radio program. Roger loves God’s Word and our message of biblical inerrancy!
Last night, (Friday, August 27) my wife, Carol, and I were looking at the near full moon. There was a bright start to the right and a bit lower than the moon. Carol commented that she doesn’t remember that star being on the right side of the moon. I guessed that maybe it was a planet and then went in and fired up Stellarium, a free planetarium program that I have on my Ubuntu computer. The “bright star” turned out to be Jupiter. I tried looking at it through binoculars, but that didn’t work too well. I also have an ancient telescope that I haven’t had out in years. I brought it out, and after spending some good time trying to locate the moon, then locating Jupiter (As I said, the telescope is very old and the sighting eyepiece has been damaged for years), we focused in on Jupiter. It was very small, but clear. I could see four very tiny dits of light around Jupiter, that could just be reflections of something in the telescope or my eyes. Nevertheless, I went back to Stellarium, and zoomed way in on Jupiter, and lo and behold, there were four moons visible around the large planet. I went back to the telescope, and there were Callisto, Europa, Io, and Ganymede, exactly where they were in real life (except the telescope reversed the image). Europa was right next to Jupiter, but it could clearly be seen in the telescope when it was sharply focused. It was quite exciting to see, even if it was an underpowered old telescope, being used by a very amateur, amateurish astronomer. Click a picture below to see a larger view.
- John
Jupiter taken with digital camera through telescope.
The moon and Jupiter through the naked eye.
Stellarium's view of what we saw.
How we saw Jupiter through the telescope. (this photo is from Stellarium)
I’m getting excited about this film.Courageous is being made by a church in Albany, Georgia. This will be their fourth movie, the latest being Fireproof. Our family loves and has each of their previous movies. Check out Courageous’ web site HERE, and find their older films HERE. These are GREAT FAMILY MOVIES!
Our family viewed “
Enjoy!
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