A STEP BACK IN TIME

I took a long holiday weekend off from my job at the church.

Five days off feels pretty good got a few things done around the house I have been putting off. I’m not real into yard work but love people who have a nice yard.May be that's why we will love full timing when the grass gets to high it’s time to move..

Saturday we were up early thought we would head up to James Port Missouri.http://www.jamesportmo.com/ It’s a  Amish community about 1.5 hours north of Kansas City.

 

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Horse and buggies  parked out back of the hardware store. 

Even parked in the front yard..

A group played outside  of a store in the shade.. 

The town is all about stores like this..

There was a lot of horse traffic guess Saturday is big day to come to town and get supplies.. 

Would have been a better picture without the stop sign!!!

Annie and I waiting for Angela while she was inside looking around.The lady told her to leave the dog outside.So Annie said she would wait outside with me..

After our visit in James port we headed back toward KC about 30 min. and made a stop at Lake Viking, MO http://www.lakevikingmo.com/Details.htm to see some friends of ours.They had just bought a lot there and then rented a RV lot for $380 a year plus utilities  included. 

We had a good lunch and visit before we headed back to KC.  

 

Sunday was spent outside smoking a ham, my son Blake came over and spent the day.Angela made some great side dishes to go with the ham.

It was good to spend the day with Blake he has been working long hours and does not have much time to spend with the old folks.

Annie loves when her brother comes over to play.

Monday will be spent cleaning the lab hair out of the truck I have been putting it off to long now.

Then its back to work Tuesday YUK!!

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START OF A NEW WEEK

It’s Sunday and the start of a new week for me.

My first day of the week starts on Sunday at a 5AM wake up and off to the church for a 6AM start.

We had a great weekend and good weather to go with it.

Angela, I and Annie went down to the Lake Of The Ozark to visit some friends. Annie and Angela found a friend.

Lily is a 6 month old English Bull Dog. She was born total deaf .  She is learning hand singles.

Here she is trying to take Annie for a walk.

Trying to get Annie up to play some more..

Gave up and time for a nap..

That's about it for now have a good week.

 

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RAIN,RAIN AND MORE RAIN

Been real busy building a Ark.

It has rained don’t know how many days now but its getting old  real fast.

My hands and feet are getting so wrinkled from all the rain. Not much going on here but going to w_ _ K  and RAIN….

Hope the next post is more up beat…

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MOMS DAY

Sunday starts a new week for me. Have to be to work at the church at 6AM to get things ready for the three services.

Yesterday was a big church day because it was Mother’s Day.I just sit around and visit with folks and make sure things are running smooth.Not a bad gig for a paying job.

After church (work) we head over to my sisters to see my 85 year old mother it was great to see mom. She has Alzheimer’s so she has good days and bad days. Its hard to watch mom like that,she was always the rock in the family and took care of everything.

After we had a nice visit we went to find a restaurant that wasn't lined out the door. Thought we would drive by a Cracker Barrel Angela said there would be no way we would get in there.

So being a male I had to drive by and see.There was no line and the parking lot about 3/4 full got right in and got a table. Had a great meal then headed home to watch a little TV before bed.

 

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300000 MEALS

For those of you that don’t know I work for a large United Methodist Church as a Facilities Manager.

This past weekend we had a Faith in Action Weekend.

We had volunteer’s doing projects  all over the area like landscaping around the church and ten acre of land we own.Also there was helping widows and shut-ins with things around there homes,helping with a Habitat house build and several other things.

But the biggest  project was packing meals for Haiti. 

We teamed up with a organization called  Numana Saving the Starving http://www.numanainc.com/index.cfm and the Salvation army .

Volunteers worked in shifts both days.

 

This is early Sunday before the start in the dinning room.

Bags of rice,soy and beans.

 

Then they came hundreds of them.

  

Looking down on to the basketball court.

Angela and her helper even got in on the action.

Sunday about 4pm they had pack 300000 meals.

The meals will be on the ground in Haiti and passed out by next Tuesday.

It was a long weekend for me and my crew but it was for a good cause .

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