I Guess She'll Die

One of my favorite children’s stories is “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”. Used to tell it to my kids all the time, from memory. Yesterday morning in the car I was reminded of the story for the first time in years, and recited it right there in the car, out loud. Need to share it with Shivonne.

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. I guess she’ll die.

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don’t know why she swallowed the fly. I guess she’ll die…

…I know an old lady who swallowed a cow. I don’t know how she swallowed the cow. She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, swallowed the goat to catch the dog, swallowed the dog to catch the cat, swallowed the cat to catch the bird, swallowed the bird to catch the spider (that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her). Swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don’t know why she swallowed the fly. I guess she’ll die.

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse. She died, of course.

Speaking of old ladies dying, Tiger Woods’ mother passed away this week. I’d seen that she had attended Tiger’s first indoor golf match a few weeks ago. When Tiger first turned pro it was his mother who suggested he wear red for the final round of his tournaments. Makes me wonder how many pros will wear red this Sunday for the final round of the Phoenix Open, in tribute.

Wednesday: worked until 530. Got home and fixed quesadillas from leftovers. When I finished it was time for small group.

Up early this morning to lift weights at the gym. As I was walking from my car to the front door I felt a bad pain in my back, which usually means it’s going to hurt for a couple of days. All I had done up to that point was to bend over to tie my shoes. Yesterday morning my upper back was hurting just a little bit as I started to play golf, but after a couple of holes I didn’t think about it any more. So at the gym I lifted weights but took it kind of easy, then did extra stretching as well. If I work out tomorrow and play golf on Saturday, that will be ten straight days of workouts. I’ll rest on Sunday.

Work: (1) Our fabricator has a press down now for almost a week, causing shipment delays. (2) Another vendor has a crane down, and can’t cut our metal. (3) A tube mill will not be running next week. (4) Our new slitter was broken for several weeks, (5) which caused our tube mills to be short of material to run. (6) I’m out of several sizes of material, including several “white bread” items that a big steel company like ours should never run out of. (6) I’ve got to get our customer to return empty containers so we can run more parts for them. Makes my job all the harder. Why they pay me the “big bucks”, haha.

DENISON: it was my privilege to be the pastor of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt and his family in Dallas. They are among the most gracious, humble people I have ever known. Joe Rogan, considered the most popular podcaster, hosted Christian apologist Wesley Huff for a conversation about the truthfulness of our faith. Bible sales are booming. Atheist Richard Dawkins is calling himself a “cultural Christian.” Scholars Niall Ferguson and his wife Ayaan Hirsi Ali have become public Christians. Influencer Jordan Peterson’s latest book affirms the Judeo-Christian worldview as foundational to society and states the proclamation of “man as an image of God” is “the greatest idea ever revealed.” Young men are showing more interest in religion than in many years.