The PASSION Blog

My kids asked to do a science experiment this morning for homeschool. At first I thought we would look through the science book we have, but then I remembered something I read recently.

I was reading some comedy from the American stand up comedian Steve Wright. He is very dry in his delivery and has a bald head on top with very fluffy hair on the sides…perfect for a stand up comedian!

Anyway, he talked about how cats always land on their feet no matter how they are dropped, even if they are turned upside down first. Then he mentioned that toast always land butter side down when dropped. He said he decided to strap toast to the back of his cat to see what happened.

I mentioned this to our kids jokingly as a possible science experiment. I am thankful they realised I was joking and they laughed.

Afterwards I wondered what would have happened if they had wanted to do the experiment. I also wondered which one of our poor cats would have been chosen!

I was having some problems with patchy lawn recently and my father-in-law suggested a technique that he has used in the past. He said that I should walk around with an axe and chop it every 12 inches or so.

At first I thought he was joking and I laughed, but he assured me that it would work. He said that it aerates the soil and allows the water to get down to the roots. I was told that in four weeks I would have a beautiful thick lawn.

I thought about it for a bit and then decided to try it in my backyard where no one could see. I carried out his instructions to the letter. Sure enough, four weeks later, hey presto, beautiful thick healthy lawn.

Armed with new confidence I decided to try it out the front. The funny thing was it just happened to be a day when all my neighbours were outside gardening or driving past. A few of them nearly crashed their cars watching me as they drove. I looked very strange and I am sure most of them think I had lost it, but I was confident it would work.

Well it has been two weeks and now my front lawn is beautifying more and more by the day. It is getting thicker and greener and looking good. I hope the neighbours see the results and realise that I hadn’t lost it, I was just doing my lawn a favour.

Hopefully they don’t think of me as that crazy lawn chopping guy down at number 11

I saw something really funny on Friday morning before we left for Perth. At our local Home Hardware they have two really big blowup dogs on the roof. They are two Labridoor looking dogs. One light brown in colour and the other is black.

Anyway, a lady was walking her dog off the leash and it caught site of these two huge dogs on the roof of the hardware store blowing in the breeze. It was absolutely barking its head off at them. It ran forward to bark at them and got too close to the building to see them. Then it had to run back to the edge of the road, to catch site of them and began to bark again. It was one of those classic moments that you wish you had a video camera to catch it. I am sure it would have gone well on the Funny Home Video show!

Just had a thought. I hope my description makes sense and it didn’t come across as one of those “I guess you had to be there” type of things! Anyway it cracked us all up!

Here’s a funny story about our moving process. A certain member of my family was ringing all the power, water, gas and other utilities to cancel our conncetions and transfer them to our new place in Merredin.

After doing quite a few disconnections and reconnections in a row. The certain member of my family asked if we could have the gas connected in Merredin. The person politely said that we do not have gas available in Merredin. It is by large gas bottle only!

I wonder how many times they have been asked to connect gas to house 300 kilomtres away from their plant. I am sure they could do it for us, but it would probably cost about A$20 million or so for the pipeline

Walking through the house just now, I said to my wife Larissa that I forgot to read Proverbs 24 today. She asked if I was trying to get wise [by following her program of reading a chapter of Proverbs a day]. I said yes proudly and asked if she had noticed anything. I waited expectantly for her response. She said, “Nup”.

Oh well perhaps it takes a few more than six days to gain wisdom from reading Proverbs. Or perhaps I was really wise already…something tells me that I am more of a wise guy than a man of wisdom!!!

Several years ago I did a comedy routine for a missions fund raising night. I was nervous beforehand as it was something new, but it went really well. They even replayed it at church the next morning! I hope you enjoy it!