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Near the beginning of the summer (yes, I’m a few months behind on posting these pics) we finally broke down and laid some grass sod after five years of having a dirt and weed yard. The result was amazing!! Green, green grass for the family to enjoy. Much happiness.  Laying sod was a family event The Flash Drive (trust me, you really don't want to see the actually unit!) Forget toys… they are too old fashion. Forget socks, pens, pencils – or even toilet paper. Nope, when my son decides to clog up the toilet he uses a flash drive. Yelp. He is a member of the new [...] The High King of John is a welcome site in most homes. Yet sometimes the WC can get a temper that defies gravity itself. When that happens there is nothing else to do but sign a Magna Carta forcing the removal of the porcelain king. Granted that means locating a new netty with a [...]
Then it dawned on us – perhaps there’s a spiritual side to all this? After all, we did embark on a church wide 21-day prayer and fasting time… (yeah, we can be a tad slow on the up-take) When this realization hit us, the first think I thought about was a Precious Moments picture inside the first Bible given to me by my parents when I was nine years old. This picture (shown to the right) was of a little solider covered in eggs, rotten fruit and band-aids. Yet, oddly enough the solider was smiling… The pat answer would be because he was being beat up on Christ’s behalf…and why that could be true, this time when I looked at the picture I thought of 2 Timothy 2:13:
When we have nothing left to give; when we are at the end of our rope and it takes everything in us to get out of bed – He remains faithful. Not us – Him. I can not believe how fast time is moving…according to my time table, it is still August!! Part of the problem is that I have been trying to install some frost-free water hydrants as I only had one outside water faucet on the property. I saying “trying” as it has been quite the journey [...]
Using a pattern I found in a Handyman book, I went wood shopping. As I did so, I quickly discovered that oak plywood cost the same amount as birch wood (which the pattern originally called for) – or fairly close to the same amount. So, I bought a bunch of oak – besides, it is TONS cooler to say that it is solid oak versus solid birch. (oh – and oak grain is very pretty – as you will see later). The only problem was that once I had the wood in hand, I wasn’t quite sure of where to start…. This issue was resolved with a visit from my father and stepmother at the end of May/beginning of June.  A Family Of Helpers One of my projects this summer has been creating a yard around the house so that Jadon can run around outside next year. So far I have moved some dirt around and leveled out the area where the grass is going to be… The next step is build a retaining wall as our yard [...] Today is a very special day for Requisite Danger as we have a gorgeous guest author – the amazing E! Yelp. She is so famous – she only needs one letter to introduce herself. Enjoy. ________________________________________________________________________________  Nashville, Feb 2009 Dear Friends & Family, Wow – it’s hard to believe that 2009 is over already…and that the last time we wrote a letter to all of you was nearly a year and a half ago after our last trip to Paraguay! Sorry we haven’t been better at staying in touch! The time since then has been eventful and life-changing, so we wanted to make sure we got out a holiday note this year to fill you all in. In our last letter in Sept. 2008, we mentioned that our little church was facing big changes as we and our fellow VLI-grad took on the leadership of the church. Along with our new service time and name, the PRV has been growing by leaps and bounds since then. We’ve seen some turn-over in attendance as is expected when there are leadership changes, but we’ve been excited to see new faces and have been consistently having 30-40 people every Sunday. We still have a good core group from before that have been stepping up in leadership more and more. This summer we finally made the official break from the VB and became our own church entity and just this month we finished jumping through all the hoops and are an official part of the USA Association of Vineyard Churches. Of course through all of this my (E’s) job has gotten bigger with the addition of accounting and more paperwork, but with more people in the church taking on event organization, etc. it hasn’t been too hard to handle. Continue reading The Long Awaited, Overdue 2009 Newsletter
One day I walked out to the well house to get some tools and got quite a shock…someone had ran into the building and knocked it off its foundation. At first, I thought someone had merely “tapped” the building and simply busted in the wall near the door… but as I dug into the problem this Monday, I quickly discovered how hard it must have been hit. In a nut shell, the entire south wall was moved 4.5 inches west – busting loose the concrete bolts used to mount the west wall onto the foundation. Continue reading Repairing the Wellhouse Another item we learned to freeze this Summer was beans – green beans. [@more@] The process is pretty standard – wash and snap the beans, set the water to boil…. After you blanch them, let them dry and then package them up into bags for the frezzer. [...] |
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It took five months – but I am proud to say that I have completed my first ‘real’ piece of furniture. (sorry son, but I’m not sure if your toy box counts as furniture…)
One of the benefits of living in the country is the wonderful, clean water from our own well. To keep the well from freezing during the winter months, it is housed in a small building next to the main house.
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