Tonight is my last night in Soldotna, Alaska, at “Funny River Fishing Lodge.” I have been on a diet for the previous three months and have lost over 20 pounds. I thought I might gain a little this week, but I have been doing well on my eating, so I decided to splurge just a little bit tonight. I popped one microwave popcorn bag and put half a cube of melted butter on it. I am eating it slowly, one kernel at a time, and enjoying the moment!

This week, my goal was to get my boat all fixed up and ready to take out in the ocean with people in it to catch halibut. I put a new Honda motor on it and a new floor in the boat. When removing the old floor, we removed the wiring under the floor, which ran the boat lights, horn, bilge pumps, and fish finder. Yesterday, I tried to rewire everything but could not get the bilge pumps to work. I worked on it for several hours and was so frustrated that I finally went to bed. In the middle of the night, I had a dream and rewired the bilge pumps perfectly. They ran like a charm. When I woke up, I immediately wrote down what I had done in my dream. I knew it would be gone if I waited even a few minutes. I went out and wired the bilge pumps the way I had in my dream, and they worked perfectly. In the past, I have written blogs in my dreams and even wrote an entire sermon once. Many Bible characters had dreams of God and of the future. But I have dreams about wiring bilge pumps. Oh well, it was fun.