| August 3,
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I made it! I'm on
vacation! We even left a little early. We are spending the first
weekend with my mother- and father-in-law. Everybody is busy doing
something else and I'm in our camper working on this. I will put it
online before we leave here to move on towards Colorado.
I might even get next
week's Bible study online while on vacation. We'll see!
I only forgot a few
things. I really wasn't able to sit and study my packing list in peace
and quiet and forgot to write some things on it. That's OK, it's
nothing major. I've already gone shopping and bought some new sandals.
All I brought was one pair of shoes. Where was my head?
Actually, that's OK, too. My other sandals were starting to die.
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Boy, this El Nino
situation is causing some very very strange weather in California and
Nevada. How is it where you live?
Usually where we live
and here in Las Vegas it is hot and sunny every single day. This year
the hot and sunny days are interspersed with overcast, humid days.
There have been thunderstorms off and on. We don't usually get much of
those.
Our spring was very
mild for a long time and our summer is, so far, not as scorchingly hot.
Hmmm... my spell checker is telling me there is no such word as scorchingly.
It says I should just say scorching. I like scorchingly so I will
leave it. So there spell checker! Take that!
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We left our back yard in a bit of a mess. We finally finished up with
our barn and there were piles and piles of leftover scrap wood. (We
had collected lots of old wood from a couple of different places to use for
the western town facade.) My husband piled all his tools inside the
barn. We left nails, sawdust, and junk lying all over the patio.
Our sons are supposed to sort the wood while we are gone and separate the
good from the bad. When we get home my husband will have one more week
off before football starts for the fall. Anything not done by then
will probably still be sitting there come December. I may have
mentioned this before, but we have a plaque in the family room, "We
interrupt this marriage to bring you the football season." That says
it all!
I know my husband hates it when I suggest that satan invented sports, but
that doesn't change the way I feel. Sports are good in certain ways,
but they so often take our time and our minds away from what is important.
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Oh boy, I'm well rested. We got here after midnight Friday morning.
I've been sleeping in till about 7:30 and taking a nap each day. I
didn't sleep very well last night because our air conditioner iced up due to
the humidity. I got too hot. Tonight I might get too cold.
My husband likes it cold. I always keep extra blankets handy.
That way we both sleep well. However, I think I've caught up on all
the rest I was needing. God knew what He was doing when He designated
a day of rest each week. It's too bad we don't do that. It's
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Link to the 8/3/03 Bible study.
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| August 26,
2003 |
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My husband and I got home
from our vacation last Monday, but there were too many things that needed to
be done for me to be able to concentrate on this. I'm sorry. I
could have done it, but you wouldn't have received a quality product.
As I had imagined, there
was some partying going on while we were gone. Our sons do a pretty
good job of cleaning things up, but there were some other problems.
The sprinklers were broken and/or turned off. It was very hot here
while we were gone. We still have some major brown spots on our grass
and I've lost some potted plants.
I still haven't finished
cleaning out the camper and getting it put back together so it is ready for
our next vacation. That's pretty optimistic, don't you think?
Always being ready for a vacation? I can dream, can't I?
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Overall, we had a great
vacation! We stopped at a few National Parks and soaked up the culture
and the beauty.
We got some interesting
weather. We got some BIG hail one afternoon followed by BIG lighting
and BIG rain. The lightning and rain followed us and reappeared every
night for about four nights in a row. Thank God the hail didn't do any
damage to our vehicle. Also, we thank God we had left the National
Park we were visiting. The road coming out of it was long, narrow, and
steep. That wouldn't have been fun to maneuver in the hail.
My husband got to golf a
number of times thanks to his loving wife (that's me!) I had mapped
out directions from campgrounds to golf courses in a number of cities.
Sometimes they were close enough to the campground that he could ride his
bike with his golf clubs on his back. Other times I sat in the camper
in the parking lot of the golf course. I worked on some of the pages
for Clarion Call, improved some of the graphics, and just relaxed.
We found a lot of cities
were unfriendly towards large vehicles. Our truck with camper is 25
feet long and our bike rack on the back adds another 18 inches or so to the
length. We drove around and around and around looking for a place to
park. Sometimes we ended up parking in areas that weren't very safe
looking. Once we parked in a pay lot and hung way out into the lot,
but we put money in the meter so we wouldn't get towed. Another time
we parked in a lot that belonged to some kind of organization. We
knocked on the door to ask permission but nobody was there. We left
the truck there and hoped they wouldn't be holding a meeting and have us
towed. I feel sorry for the people in big, long RV's. They were
worse off than we were.
The thing I regret is not
staying in any one place longer than overnight. It is more relaxing
for me if I don't have to prepare to travel every day. We have to pull
up all the mini blinds, stow everything in a place where it won't fall or
break while we are on the road, slide in our dinette (the side of the camper
slides out to give us more floor space--you can see it on this
picture), put
the jacks up that had stabilized us from rocking, unhook the water and
electric, put away the leveling blocks, close all the windows and air vents,
blah, blah, blah.
Some day, when my husband
doesn't have to come back to coach football we will be able to have a more
flexible schedule. Some day..... sigh!
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Have you seen Mars? Did you know that Mars is the closest to the earth
that it has been in the last 60,000 years? I guess it is in different
areas of the sky depending on where in the world you live. I live in
Southern California in the United States and it is in the southwestern sky.
http://skyandtelescope.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/18jun_approachingmars.html
(Note: this links may not be good after a while)
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How close do you think we are to Jesus coming again? We've got
famines, droughts, fires, earthquakes, heat waves, murders, wars, and much
more going on in the world today.
Every time I see or hear of something bad happening I focus on the good news
portion of it. The good news is that prophecy is being fulfilled and
the time is coming closer when Jesus will return! |
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Link to the 8/26/03 Bible study.
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