Day 2 & 3 of Our Trip Home from Texas
Tuesday, September 20 Since I didn’t have time to post the scenes of yesterday, I will show them to you first – then some of the travel highlights from today. Yesterday – a beautiful morning in Alabama Somewhere between the Tennessee border and Chattanooga (above), the time changed from Central to Eastern Standard – without notice or fanfare. Weigh […]
Alabama to Virginia – Day 2 of Our Trip Home
Since it is my bedtime, I will make this a short post so those who are following us know we had a safe trip today – Tuesday, September 20. 🙂 I will post the rest of the pictures tomorrow. We spent the evening with Chaplain David Nispel – first enjoying supper in the travel plaza restaurant. […]
Trip Home – Day 1 – Texas to Alabama
Monday, September 19 When I typed the date this evening, I remembered that this was my Grandma Hershey’s birthday. I checked. She would have been 119 today. We were on the road this morning by 6 am. It was about 7 am before I could take good pictures. It was a beautiful, hazy, hot morning […]
A Texas Sunday
Sunday, September 18 8:00 am. The first Sunday worship service in the New Caney chapel. Chaplain Don DeSimone welcomed us to the “Chapel at 242” and mentioned that he felt unified in the Spirit with the TFC staff who came to help them dedicate this chapel to the Lord. I am sure that we will be forever friends […]
Chapel Open House & Dedication – New Caney, Texas
Saturday, September 17, 2016 The chapel in its morning beauty when we arrived about 9:30 am. We are at the same motel (LaQuinta) as Doug and Ellen Kraus, so they are driving us to and from our activities. That way we can let the truck at the truck stop. They drove here from Florida. We […]
Day 3 in New Caney, Texas
Friday, September 16, 2016 Cerwin and Dwayne went to the chapel early and helped the local men set up the chapel. By the time Doug, Ellen, and I got there this is what it looked like. A pastor friend of the New Caney ministry team, David Lino (dark blue shirt) stopped in to see the chapel. I […]
Day 2 in New Caney, Texas
Thursday, September 15 This is what the inside of the chapel looked like when we arrived on Thursday morning. Dwayne and Cerwin hooked up the lights and fixtures. Chaplain Don talking to his wife and telling her what Doris was doing, so I took a picture of him. 🙂 Cerwin installing LED tube lights. That […]
Traveling & Arriving at New Caney, Texas – Day 3
Tuesday, September 13 I took a few pictures after I posted on Tuesday evening and will start with those. After supper we exercised our legs and walked around the truck lot at Flying J in Texarkana. By this time it was a busy place – with trucks continually arriving for the evening. We were glad we […]
Delivering the Houston Chapel – Day 2
Tuesday, September 13 – Knoxville, Tennessee, to Texarkana, Arkansas Our view out the front window when we went to bed last night – the fuel island. My office in the bottom bunk. My power source for the computer, Nook, and cell phone. Cerwin reading his Daily Bread this morning. Nashville traffic Nashville We are taking […]
Delivering a Chapel to Houston – Day 1
Monday, September 12 – Marietta, Pennsylvania, to Knoxville, Tennessee We went to bed early last night – because our alarm would be blaring its wake-up call at 3 AM. – but not before seeing the beautiful sunset. Ready to leave – 5 am Monday morning. We were only on the road a short time when […]
We’re Packed and Ready to Begin Our Trip to Texas
Monday Morning, September 12 The chapel area includes boxes of chairs and other items for inside the chapel. The office/living quarters also has items – like outside awnings – that will be installed when we get to Houston. Another view of the living quarters. Please pray for us today as we travel to Knoxville, Tennessee. Our […]
Pennsylvania Gospel Music Festival
September 9, 10, 11 If you follow my blog and Facebook page you know that I rarely post pictures in real time – or in this case a bit ahead of real time. 🙂 But I have reason to post these pictures this morning. (Read the last paragraph.) We are currently enjoying the gospel music festival […]
In Awe of the Master Artist
Sometimes I just stand in awe when I see the sky.
Common True Katydid
Friday, September 2 We don’t often see Katydid’s in our woodlot, but we DO HEAR them. They get so loud at night that it becomes difficult to talk when we have a picnic. 🙂 The cicada (locust) sing during the day, then about dusk the katydids join them with a deeper song. By dark the cicadas […]
Enjoying Scum and a Birthday Party
Sunday, August 28 It was about the middle the afternoon on Sunday when I felt bored and called the boys to see if they wanted to play Scum. They were here within minutes. 🙂 They didn’t know how to play but were fast learners. Jesse used barriers so he didn’t have to hold his cards. […]