Yesterday Tom and I took a walk on the wild side and visited a Presbyterian Church – Westminster Presbyterian in New Concord Ohio. We came to Zanesville to spend time with our friend Karen Graham and she was preaching yesterday in a pulpit exchange at Westminster Presbyterian, so that is where we went. Westminster Presbyterian …
From August 2014
The Wilds
Yesterday our good friend Karen Graham, pastor of New Concord UMC and the reason we are spending a week in Zanesville, treated us to a day at The Wilds. The Wilds is a land reclamation project and conservation of endangered species area, which makes it really interesting on two fronts. First, the land was formerly …
The Panhandle Trail
Today is the most beautiful day in Zanesville. It is September cool and clear with low humidity. It doesn’t get any better than this for me – unless it was yesterday! Yesterday was pretty much exactly the same. A great day to ride and so we set off to Newark to ride the Panhandle Trail. …
Retirement – Month 2
Although this is Month 2 of my retirement, it is only the second week of retirement for Tom. I had the month of July which was mostly sedentary with plenty of time for reflection and writing. Now that Tom has retired, things have changed because Tom hates to sit still unless his brain is going …
Proud of my Parents
Yesterday Tom and I headed a little bit north to spend most of the day with my parents. My parents are in their late 70’s and are very active. They had their 57th wedding anniversary on Sunday. They move between their home in Lexington and a cottage at Lakeside in the summer. They play tennis, …
A Second Visit to Linworth UMC
On Sunday we returned to Linworth UMC for worship. We had visited here on July 13 (read about it here) and really enjoyed it. This time we went with John and Jackie. Linworth is only a mile from their house. We enjoyed our second visit even more than the first. The sanctuary at the 10:15 …
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
A parishioner gave me the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer as a retirement present. She said that our plans to travel in retirement reminded her of this book. So now that we are beginning our travels, I decided it would be a good book to read. “Into the Wild” is an older book, …
Working Hard in the Yard
Tom and I headed to Delaware this week and we have spent most of our time at John and Jacckie’s (son and daughter-in-law) house. Like most young couples starting out they have heavy work schedules and a lot of other activities. So they aren’t home much. We offered to help them out while we were …
On the Road – and a Crazy Cardinal
After four months of sitting in one place we are finally on the road. Yesterday we pulled out of Akron and headed to our first camping destination and our new life on the road. It took us a while to get everything ready – we had to sanitize the water tank after not using it …
The Sippo Valley Trail
We have been enjoying rain almost every day, which makes us more thankful than ever that we don’t have a yard to mow. Saturday we scheduled a bike ride with our friends Sandy and Eric Shaw. We got to their house at 10 and the radar showed a certainty of rain within the next couple …