Final Basketball Trip

After deciding at the last moment to go with me, Mary, Buster, and I headed from South Lyon, Michigan to our first stop on our final basketball trip for the year. Originally we had planned a two part trip, with me going down on the Amtrak train, staying at the Indiana house from Monday 2/27 to Monday 3/5. Then after a train trip home, Mary and I would drive down together and stay at her sister's home in Mishawaka Indiana till the 13th of March. We would stay there while her sister Lois and husband Mark Black would take a vacation and we would keep Mary's Mom company.

Instead we went together for the entire trip. We headed first to Elkhart Christian Academy where our girls faced some very tough opponents. The elementary girls with Libby were able to eke out a win, 15 to 9, but the Junior High girls fell behind early in the game, and the lead of the opposing team only grew as the game wore on.

Junior High teams are made up of 7th and 8th graders, and sometimes girls from other ages are allowed to play up or down if the other team and rules permit it. We always encourage our girls to play up if possible, and never down, to bring our girls up their skills, rather than focusing on the win.  In our case we had at least two of our 6th graders play up just to make a full roster. 

Delaney, left, 6th grade, Katlin, center, 8th grade, Ely, right, 7th grade

Combine that with the fact that we only had one 8th grader, and this made for a very young team. This normally didn't hinder us, for several of the girls had played together since the second grade, and their favorite pastime was taken on older, bigger teams and shutting them down.
But this time was different. The opposing team had 6 8th grade girls, and may have played down a 9th grader to fill their roster. Yes we allowed it. It gives our girls the chance to play higher skill levels.

Allie, my 13 year old 5' 4" grand daughter is standing between her friends Kaylin Brody, 6 foot one inch at age 13, and her sister Anna Brody, age 11. They joined the MCAC this year. It's their first year of basketball, and they are already making a powerful contribution.

I knew we were in trouble when they stole the ball from us almost as much as we stole the ball from them. (Stealing the ball is our specialty.) Final score for the Junior High was Elkhart Christian - 31, our team 9. Allie made 7 of those points. 6'1" Kaylin also made a basket. More to come later.

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Facebook, Twitter Unplanned Shutdown

Most Facebook users are totally unaware of Facebook's unplanned shutdown, the first ever, on the February 30 and 31. Be sure to mark this on your calendar FIRST before passing this on to as many people possible. Those dates again are February 30 and February 31.

A similar unplanned shutdown is taking Twitter followers unawares for the same dates, February 30 and February 31. Take special care to note these dates on your calendar before RTing to as many Tweeters as possible.

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Predictable

Writing from Indiana today. 

There are two reasons why my lovely daughters have a hard time predicting my lovely wife Mary. One reason is that Mary is not their mother, and they knew their mother well, as most daughters do. The second reason is that Lynne was predictable, a word unlikely to ever precede Mary's name. 

At the very last moment, Mary had me cancel the Amtrak train tickets for myself and we drove down together, along with Buster, from Michigan to Indiana where we'll stay for a while, watching basketball games and working on the house.

Our Indiana home in the summer

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Our Indiana home in the winter, thankfully not this winter!

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Sometimes I pretend

Mike: Sometimes I pretend to be normal. Mary: How's that workin' for ya?

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Kris

The pain of missing him has not lessened one iota. I love him dearly. God is not God of the dead but of the living.

Kris is documentation that the Dittmer gene line has a gift for attracting better looking, more intelligent mates to continuously improve the gene pool. My observations of my relatives supports this thesis 100%. I am the BEST example.

More pictures of Kris at the bottom of the post.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

LET

LET. Just three letters, yet such power! God said LET there be light & light ERUPTED into existence.

Creation & creativity are released when I grant permission. Lord, let my ALL be creative.

Boss, I surrender... ALL I am, I have, I do, I choose, I think... today & every day.

Praising God in ALL & thanking Him for All gives God permission to work Mightily in All.

Best to surrender ALL first, then details as God directs, than surrendering details, holding tightly to the ALL till last.

Raised hands in the air means SURRENDER & PRAISE. Jesus, I SURRENDER! Father, I PRAISE You!

I speak to my heart: DON'T BE TROUBLED! Jesus has commanded this.

Whoever God Authorizes You To Love...He Empowers You To Understand. from Micky Andereas

Children are taught: Step forward, hold the gift, SAY THANK YOU! Jesus, I thank you for peace!

Delivered!

Dark cell opened, chains fell, debt PAID, contract voided by Judge, led to the throng! DELIVERED!

Declared

The heavens declare... they've been given the authority and means to enlighten us in every language about God.

The GOOD NEWS is DECLARED by a HERALD... what a great job!

And more...

Come! Everything's ready at God's supper table! The serving platters of Grace, Peace, Love, and Joy are heaped high!

Dear Algebra: quit asking us to find your X, She's not coming back!

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No matter

No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everybody on the couch!

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SHAKING!!

What can we do to escape THE SHAKING OF THE EARTH? Nothing. What can God do to guide us and prepare us. EVERYTHING!!

A conversation had started on my Facebook page stemming from the blog I had posted about hydraulic fracturing stemming oil price

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Larry Wilson Of course you know this is going to cause the earth to ecxplode!
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Ivan Banks You think this is going to be big
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Ivan Banks Wait until Yellowstone fracts.
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Mike Dittmer
‎Ivan, it already is big, and looks to get bigger. But!! there is a BIG caveat. All infrastructure relies on the earth's stability. But prophecy points to a shaking of the earth. God will allow the earth to become temporarily unstable so that we will rely on His Stability for HE IS OUR ROCK!! What can we do to escape THE SHAKING? Nothing. What can God do to guide us and prepare us. EVERYTHING!!
Our problem is we're looking at it from human eyes and not God's eyes. We, humanity, build EVERYTHING on this earth and it's stability, including our theology, evolution. We need to build both our treasures and understanding on the FOUNDATION OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
That doesn't mean put all your money in tin can and bury it. It does mean that all of our organizations, institutions, buildings, everything need to be centered around families and service.
Build strong families and we will have strong institutions. Build institutions around service and when there is a shaking, institutions can quickly step in to assist the hurting.
We can choose to seek either knowledge of technology, as we have since Adam and Eve, or repent of this disastrous decision and seek to know God in a daily walk, and He can help guide us in troubled times.
We can seek to dominate through strength, the method of choice for the Mafia, the Jihad, the military and evolutionary mind set, and the forces of evil, OR we can choose to win as God did though His Son Jesus, who defeated all the forces of evil in a day and in a moment, when at His weakest moment He died for us on the Cross.

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Good Night!

Good night, parting is sweet sorrow, Mary & I must get some rest. We'll see you on the 'morrow.

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Planning to copy and post more in The Dittmer Legacy, 

Friendship Scrapbook and Prayer Warriors Journal, and My Shepherd's Heart Journal