

We hurried home to catch NBC's Dateline at 9:00, which was a two-hour special on the story of Taylor students Whitney Cerak and Laura VanRyn. I wrote about the tragic accident and the subsequent mix-up that made national news two years ago here in the blog:
http://palmersworld.blogspot.com/2006/06/amazing-grace.html. Now the VanRyn and Cerak families have written a book about it all. Matt Lauer spent two hours retelling their story with news clips, photos and interviews with both families. It was amazing to hear them tell about their experiences, expressing authentic faith and compassion. They could not have represented the Lord any better than they did. What was even more amazing was how

Saturday morning, I started off by ironing all my dress shirts. Okay, that's not a big deal but I did feel quite productive. After an 11:00 breakfast, Jeannette and I went on a shopping trip. We had three specific and, for us, big ticket targets: a table and chairs for our patio, a BBQ and a lawn mower. We haven't had any of these three items since moving from Oregon and I wasn't sure we could go through an entire summer borrowing Lance Clark's riding mower. Well, we had a very successful excursion. Without going into boring detail, we managed to figure out what we're looking for in a grill (we'll keep shopping awhile longer) and then we found a discontinued model Toro self-propelled mower for just $229, at least $60 less than any other mower we looked at seriously. It isn't as fancy as some of the others we saw but it has the over-sized rear wheels and front wheel drive, and it's a Toro. From there, we went to see a table and chairs that Jeannette found at Value City. They were very nice but right next to the set she liked, I spotted another set for $100 less and Jeannette ended up deciding she liked it even better! A table, six chairs and an umbrella for just $199. Not bad!
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