Christmas Traditions

I wish you would read Kristie’s blog about a fun tradition we started as a family years ago in Baker City, Oregon. She says it was “ABOUT 100 YEARS AGO…..” but being a preacher’s kid, she was raised on ‘ministerial estimates’. (That’s preacher talk for just plain lying about numbers).
But Harriet and I [...]

A Great Season

This has been a most enjoyable Christmas season to us. Harriet and I have decorated more than we planned but she has the place looking great. She even felt good enough to do some baking of cakes, cookies and she has a whole big cooler full of other good things she has cooked [...]

“For we walk by faith, not by sight. . . “

Grandson Jacob and I were hunting squirrels. It was his first time in the thick tangle and steep gulleys along the Florida River. Even when we climbed out into the more open piney woods, the palmettos and huckleberry bushes were still higher than his head.
“Are you sure we are going the [...]

Blessed weekend!

We are still in Georgia with kinfolks. Had a glorious time yesterday when all 4 of my double-first cousins and their mates had a lavish Southern Sunday dinner together the beautiful home of cousin Bill and Jake (Heather’s parents). Then in the evening service at Bethesda Baptist there were a whole passell of [...]