Good News (litterally!) The Lamb has been printed, and all that’s left is for these to be shipped across the Pacific. Could be a couple weeks, could be a month, I’m just not sure yet. But this project has been a ‘standard’ project in that it didn’t go easy. With trying to coordinate three first-time translations and one English reprint, it’s almost a miracle that they all were able to print at the same time. Each of these three translations were works in progress for over two years.

For us, it’s helpful to print as many translations as possible at the same time, because first of all, one gets the quantity discount. Next, the way the book is printed also saves. Only the black plates are swapped out on the press for each translation, instead of all four colors, saving some more. This was a neat design at the creation of the book, a process that we continue to follow with the new products we create.

Once the files are ready, it’s not over. I’ve sent / received at least 89 emails on this one project since February alone. And more are sure to come as things start to clear customs. It’s still a complicated order, because different quantity of four translations are being shipped to four countries! I’m glad this isn’t my first print -- that was The Stranger reprint, where things were rather quick and painless.

Thank you for your part -- help and encouragement to bring these new products about. The Lamb is an excellent resource to explain the Message of the Bible to children. And now, it’s available to three more languages that span the globe. Only in eternity will we find out the results of our labor.

Other things happening this month: Gathering email addresses, creating web pages / specials for a monthly eNewsletter (sign up at: http://www.goodseed.com/about/enews/ We are offering specials on our products through this email list. This month’s special: 3 books for the price of one (The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus, By This Name, and All that the Prophets have Spoken,) good to the end of July.) I roughed in the formatting of The Lamb for Yakut, and Russian is next. Took a couple skids of books to Canada and met with the web team, drove around the Olympic Peninsula after driving friends to attend a funeral, and back again to watch three more friends run a marathon in Seattle. Also worked on the Portuguese version of The Stranger and WorkBook, which is close to being sent to the printer. All this among regular office duties -- phones, shipping on Wednesdays, and general office stuff.

Next month: A few books / projects super close to print: Arabic All that the Prophets Have Spoken, Portuguese Stranger, Portuguese WorkBook, possibly the Interactive Stranger, Unlocking the Biblical Worldview 4 part DVD series, and a new book: What are Christmas and Easter all About? I’d love to get to the Kindle version of By This Name, too! Oh, and the audiobook for that and The Stranger (edition 5).

Sunday, the day after the race.

Here are some photos from the Rock and Roll Marathon, 2009!

Drove to Bremerton to see Troy and Joyce and Brooke run the Seattle R-n-R Marathon…

Sure do appreciate all of you that support me, as it enables me to be able to keep pressing on here at GoodSeed. While it seems I'm not on the 'front lines', the materials we create do make it there time and again.

The Lamb reprint is going well, as best as I can tell. I did receive copies of the printed pages (unbound), and am very pleased with them. They are expected to arrive at the end of July, and it would be nice if they arrived earlier, as we are currently out of stock. The delay in printing came when trying to get all 4 translations together, so printing would be more cost effective.

This past week has been a smattering of little jobs that tend to pile up over time. From archiving projects, to building a DVD for our reps, updates on the web, the list goes on.

But in the process, I have a new project -- formatting The Lamb in 2 more languages -- Yakutz and Russian. This would be the first stage, then checking / proofreading, then printing.

Another project I've been working on is a new book, to which my involvement is to find a printer for this, good quality but inexpensive, so as to keep the final selling price down.

I do appreciate your prayers. Very much. Thank you!

To get away from Ironman running today in town, I headed north to the mountains just south of Lake Pend Oreille, to see what’s there and what it’s like. Originally I wanted to go to Lakeview, a small gathering of folks in an isolated little village. Not knowing the roads, I was leaning on my GPS to take me there the most efficient way. It was suggesting roads that would be fine for a dirt-bike, but not a Corolla S. So, I stopped at a trail and got out the bike.

As I was getting ready, 8 guys on Honda dirt-bikes came, stopped, and then headed down the trail I was going to take (677 I think it was.) So, I figured it would be find for a bike. I dropped a couple thousand feet rather quickly, ever realizing that my car was on top.

Since Lakeview was only 3 miles away, I headed down, because that was my goal for the day. And I was glad I did. Took trail 111 on the way back, and wondered if it would ever end. It started as an old logging road, which was a nice ride. But it ended up into an old-grove Hemlock forest, muddy trails, roots, and uphill (which I was expecting the latter.) I pretty well pushed my bike over a thousand feet up, and would even venture to say two. But in the end I was thankful for the opportunity to get out and enjoy some of God’s handiwork.

Today’s drive started at Ozette (07:31 am), picked up Lloyd and Faith at 12:16, then home by 6:44 pm.

Today I drove Lloyd and Faith to Seattle, and after I dropped them off, drove off to the sunset. Camped in Ozette, which had I known, would have camped on the beach (you need a previous permit for this.) But it all worked out perfectly, as I had enough time to get to pick up Lloyd and Faith roughly on time the next day.

Came across this video that is worth a watch.

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All in a day’s drive. I stopped at Bar-U Ranch (which I’ve driven by for several years) and had a great time, learned a lot. If you are driving by, definitely check it out.

Drove to Edmonton, looking at vehicles and stuff. Hung a 4’ tracklight. After supper, went to check on the crops and cows, before retiring for the night.

Helped pour 20 yards of crete for footers on one job, and ran around town for the rest of the day it seemed.

Drove through Radium, and took a side-line hike up Sinclair Creek. I didn’t make it the whole way, because of the snow up top. No worries, but I had enough hike for the time allotted. I’ll have to come back here later in the year and ‘do the loop.’

Today 2,000 tabernacles arrived. Had them packed and stacked in a couple hours. It’s filling up the warehouse quite nicely, which is fine, until we receive the 600 Tabernacle Furniture Sets coming in a few months.

Wonderful dinner at the Iotts. Luke’s graduation was a day or so ago, so Frank and Gwen were up.