10-28-17 Sat.

Last Sunday I went to Tanner and Breanna's home to celebrate their son Lincoln's 2nd birthday. I've got some pictures and I want to share them with you. Many of you know them and their extended families.
This is Lincoln and Linette. Linette is Breanna's mother.

This is Tony and Lincoln. Tony and Linette are married and are the proud grandparents. Lincoln is a beautiful baby!

This theme for the birthday party was "Construction". Tony has a business of pool excavation. So people were supposed to bring things along those lines and I didn't get the message. I got Lincoln some Lincoln logs. Here you can see the birthday cake and it's supposed to be like a little construction site. Very cool.

This next picture is my favorite. Lincoln is looking through this cardboard cutout Tractor.

Here is Lincoln eating his birthday cake with a tractor and if you notice that Lincoln puts the cake in the bucket of the tractor, very cute.

Lincoln sharing his tractor.

Lots of nice people there and it was just a great time to be with friends and enjoy the little guy.

Yesterday morning I spent with Samuel and Ethan. I picked them up a little after 9 AM and took them on my Friday morning errands. One of things I do is to go by my dads house and make sure everything is in order. Then we came back to my place and watched another episode, of "The Flash". I made the kids popcorn and then we had Natchoes. There really sweet kids and I love them so much. We have a great time together.
This is Ethan watching TV and he has this cat statue he likes to have sitting with him while watching the movie. Looks like he's having a good time. The cat is not real.

I had to have Samuel pose in the same way his brother is posing. Samuel is a really good helper and very intelligent. I love my boys!

It's almost 4 AM on Saturday morning I'm going to head out to the beach and shoot some videos if it's not foggy. I have to run the batteries down on my drones I'm taking with me to Hawaii because it's the proper protocol when shipping them.

Lots of things to do this next week. A week from today will be Brother Al's memorial service. It will be at Sonrise Community Church, starting at 11 AM. I would recommend getting there 15 minutes early because it will be packed.

That's it for this morning I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Maranatha,
Frank

10-21-17 Sat.

The top of the morning to you! I can't forget to do the blog 2 weeks in a row.

I didn't mention to you but a few weeks ago I was asked to speak to a small group at church. The small group is called, "Hope and Encouragement". It's for people who have lost a spouse or someone like a family member. Everybody was very nice. I had the opportunity to share my experiences and then give encouragement through God's Word.

The waves have been pretty poor. There's a swell coming in at the beginning of next week and hopefully something will materialize so that Larry and I can go down and do some videoing.

I am working out the final details in my trip to Hawaii in November. Unfortunately you can only take 2 batteries with you on  the plane and you're not supposed to put a lot of batteries in your luggage that is stored in the belly of the plane. Maybe you recall how a plane had a fire due to a battery that was not properly packaged and shorted out. I'm taking both of my drones and that's a total of 18 batteries. When transporting them I will discharge them to 10% or less (that is the proper protocol). I don't know if this is interesting to you or not, because it's such a unusual situation. I contacted the person that I'm renting the little house from on the North Shore and I will ship the batteries in separate boxes to her in advance of my arrival.

While I'm there I'm hoping to post some more exciting pictures than I had in recent weeks to this blog. Usually there are some good storms in the northern Pacific ocean that generate some nice size swells for Hawaii during this time of year. I just looked on the surf line website and it is projecting 18 feet at the Pipeline for this coming Monday.

Lots to do between now and then. We have Brother Al's memorial service on November 4th. What a great guy he is!

I hope that you'll be in the house of the Lord this Sunday to worship the Creator, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because he is worthy!

Maranatha,
Frank

10-14-17 Sat. Afternoon

No I'm not dead, yet. I got a call at 5 PM this evening from my friend Larry and he was asking me if I put the blog out today because it didn't come up on his cell phone. I so forgot. This is the first time in over three years that I forgot. Well, I guess were allowed a little bit of grace, but not much, right.

It's really kind of funny because during the week I think about things that I can include in the blog and then sometimes when it comes to Saturday I've forgotten them. I think I need to write them down.

I don't think I shared this picture with you. Last week when Larry and I went to Windansea to video the waves and the surfers, this was the full moon that had not set yet. Normally I don't like to turn the camera and take pictures this way, but in this case it's the only way I could get the moon in and the foreground.

Often times I peruse through my files looking for something and I come across  pictures like this one. This is the backwash hitting the shore break at sandy beach in Hawaii in 2015.

My brain is completely drawing a blank. I think I will have to close the blog post and hopefully this next week I will be able to take some notes so that next week's blog will be more interesting.

God bless you and you know what day is tomorrow, the Lord's Day! I hope that you will be in the Lord's house worshiping the creator and our redeemer Jesus Christ

Maranatha,
Frank
PS. I love you Harriet

10-7-17 Sat.

This was the view yesterday morning when we arrived at Windansea in La Jolla. We finally got a swell, it has been a few months. It is a SSW swell which does not hit Del Mar as it does this break. It is supposed to be 7' today. So we are heading out there in about half an hour.
Here is a link to the video we took yesterday: https://youtu.be/tCvU_FtmnLI
You can copy and paste it into your browser if you want.

My friends Brad, Karen and Little Kylie camped at Santee Lakes.

Brad has this electric cart and the dog likes to ride in it.......with it's tail drags on the ground.

They had Brother Al, my Pal's military service on Tuesday, God bless the family!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, Maranatha,
Frank
 Yes, I still miss my Girl.