What the Hell is That???

Okay...Astri and I need some help.

Astri was taking a few photos for her blog that were related to the Norwegian pewter plates she has collected for many years.  The artist passed away a short time ago, so no new plates are to be made.  She just completed her set with the very first plate in the collection...a hard find.

The first picture below is a simple photo of a few of the plates above our fire place.

Now...this is where we need help.  Immediately after this photo was taken I sat down on a piece of furniture just to the left of the photo area.  Astri took another photo from the SAME spot less than one minute later.  The top of my head can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the wall mirror.  But...what the hell is that behind my head!!!  We have spent hours trying to figure it out...showed it to some of our kids, etc.  We have no idea what it is...can you help????

A weird spirit behind me?

Here is a closer shot of the mirror photo.  Our youngest is really creeped out by it.

Galaxy Quest

What if...

Our universe is almost 12 billion light years across.  At the speed of light, pretty damn fast, it would take that long to cross it.  Recently astronomers looked deep into the darkest part of the universe with new telescopic technology and found millions more galaxies...each with billions of stars.  I forget how many trillion trillion trillion stars there are, but there are a bunch (I wonder if Obama is trying to match our national debt to the number of stars in the universe...hmmmm).

So, what if...after God (the father) created the universe, Jesus (the son) was growing up and running all around the universe (he is omnipresent you know).  One day the Father looks up and sees Jesus is making entire galaxies run into each other.  Taking them apart like an eight year old boy and his new bike the day after Christmas.  The Father begins to get frustrated because he has plans for all this and Jesus is messing with it.  So to placate Jesus he gives him Earth, and tells him to mess with Earth and leave the rest of the universe alone.  Jesus would have probably responded with, "Gee Dad, you never let me have any fun", as he pulls out his huge magnifying glass (causing global warming) and starts burning the Earth like a boy at an ant hill.  But the father tells him "NO Son"...they have really screwed things up down there, so you need to try and fix it.  Next response, "I always get the crappy jobs, it's not fair."  So he begins to wonder how to start.

He immediately sees that the Earth creatures don't take accountability for their own actions and are blaming everything on something they call "the devil."  Just because they make really poor choices and nature doesn't comfort them 24/365 they pile all their lack of responsibility onto this creep guy that lives someplace with lots of fire we can't see, but we can use to guilt and scare our kids into doing what want.

We really don't appreciate our parents until we become parents, or at least adults, ourselves.  The father may have had a son tearing about the universe, but now Jesus has to watch us tearing apart our own planet, families, live styles, and global economy...leaving a huge mess for our grandchildren.  Stop whining and complaining, quirt blaming the devil for everything difficult in your life, refrain from waiting for God to fix it, get off our asses, be responsible, and take care of it ourselves.  Wow...what a concept.

~ Digger