I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July. We celebrated Independence Day with friends and family – a picnic, a ball game, and a wonderful fireworks show. The weather was perfect and the day went about as well as a day could go, with one small exception. We started with a quiet morning at …
From July 2014
Baking in the RV
This is not a post about being hot – even though we are parked on asphalt, the air conditioners in the RV work just fine. No – instead it is about baking in the convection oven / microwave in the RV. In a previous post I shared how I was challenged with the gas range …
Goodbye Old Caravan
On June 30 I not only retired, I sold my 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan. The license plates expired on June 30 and it needed to be e-checked, so we decided that we only needed one vehicle after I retired and we could get rid of the Caravan. The Caravan had 191,701 miles on it and …
Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God
Sometimes as religious folks we forget how big our God is. “Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God” is a book that invites you to open your eyes to the nearness and wonder of a living and loving God. Margaret Feinberg is a popular Bible teacher, speaker and author. Her other books include “The …
Retirement – Day 1
Retirement Day 1 feels amazingly like a regular day off. Yesterday I worked all day – an internment of ashes, sitting with a man whose wife died suddenly, visiting in the hospital, visiting a woman on hospice care. In the evening Tom and I went to the men’s softball game and watched the men get …