Category Archives: Fun
Home sweet home
Kimia caught this beautiful sunrise over the barn one morning. Home sweet home and no end to God sightings every day that goes by! After a long trip to California and then a short trip to Tennessee for the retreat, …
Congo missionary retreat
What a treat, to be included with these dear Covenant missionaries to Congo, even though we’ve been out of that country for 22 years now! We had such sweet fellowship, sharing from our hearts, praying, laughing, playing, eating way too …
Keeping busy
Not being able to travel all over the states this year to visit churches has left us with free time on our hands. We are enjoying volunteering, at a local food pantry, and also at our town’s main vaccination clinic. …
Winter is over and spring is here!
In Indiana, we enjoyed some lovely periods of snow, for the sheer beauty of the crystal white expanse, but also for the fun of it, igloos and sledding included!
We are very ready for spring now though. Josh and Kimia …
Maple syrup! Yum!
A friend let our son, Josh, know that the maple sap was running, so he and Roy got busy drilling holes in the trees. They ended up with about 50 gallons of sap,
which, when boiled down over 2 full …
Fall colors
Thankful for God’s creation, for the definite change in seasons that we miss when we’re on the other side of the ocean. Magnificent colors heralding the cold to come. It’s already cold by our standards, but winter isn’t here yet!…
Plantains!!!
Cooking bananas, plantains, makemba, whatever you want to call them, we call them yummy. Roy was given this plantain plant about a year ago; banana family plants produce quickly, nothing like the mangosteen that typically takes about 8 years to …
Happy 48 years of being a couple
I mentioned in passing, on May 18, that Roy and I became an official couple on May 18, 1972. The kids picked up on that and we had a special meal, with french silk pie for dessert. Boy was it …
Monkey business
Our grandkids and their pal, Connor (on Thursdays and Fridays), are very good about keeping up with their online schooling, and not getting in to too much monkey business. Sawyer is actually done with 8th grade, with an overall grade …
Rules and regulations
Back in CAR, we were told that, in order to walk in to the airport snack bar, we had to wear proper clothing, which did NOT include flip flops, shorts, or tank tops, nor machetes and guns. An interesting combination …