I know, I know, It's been a while OR We be busy people, folk, it aint like we are slumming here, ya know!

Wow, it's been a while since the last post and (as is our wont) we've been here, there and everywhere since it was written.

First off - SPENCER, WV Sojourn

The sojourn went as well as God wanted it to.  We had 9 kids and 15 adults over the 5 days.  The Gralls and the Wootens did yeoman's work and we can't thank them enough for all they did and how easy they made being the "Team Leader" on the sojourn.  Thanks.  Here's a picture of the crew.

OUR MISSION (TX) TRIP

Following the sojourn we drove in a single day back to Frankfort, IN to park the rig to head for Mission, TX.  We met with the church there on Sunday AM and I preached the sermon.  Then we drove to Indy to get our 4:40 PM flight out.  Unfortunately it was delayed for 2 HOURS which caused us to miss our Flight from Dallas to McAllen so they had to schedule us on the last flight of the night. SO, instead of getting in at a reasonable 8:15 PM, we got in at 11 PM.  Brenda and Phoebe were driving down from Midland, TX to spend the time with us so that became a little tough for the 4 1/2 year old to deal with.  

This was our second inspection of the house that we are having built for us at Retama Village.  Monday morning we selected the plants for our gardens and our 2 trees.  One is a "Live Oak" tree.  

I've got 2 sets of pictures below.  The FIRST set we took on the Monday and shows the house all drywalled and trimmed out - ready to paint.  They are videos:

The second group is a series of pictures taken by Brenda just before they left to visit her family over in Brownsville, TX.  It's just 4 days later and the painters and stuccoers are attacking the house having almost all the stucco done (the 3rd and 4th coats) and inside the ceiling and trim were all painted:

LUCY, you got some Splainin' to do:

Thursday night Steve, Kazumi and I went to see LUCY with Scarlett Johannsen and Morgan Freeman in it.  It was 2001:A Space Odyssey and a Jackie Chan movie put into a Waring blender and put on purée.  Some of the allusions to 2001 were so blatant that if Adam Clarke weren't dead I'd counsel him to sue for Copyright Infringement.  Grandma Irene and Neo stayed at the Chino's house and watched "FROZEN."  Neo can do a command performance of "Let It Go" from start to finish.  It was pretty amazing.  Irene said it was a a really good movie. NO IT WASN'T! It's a cartoon.  I don't do animated films.  I'm not "moved" by them (other than the urge to puke).  Even when I was a kid I thought that Bambi, Cinderella and Snow White were idiotic.  I just don't think in "Cartoon", I guess.

EYE, EYE Sir

Friday I had an eye appointment.  For the second appointment in a row my eye did NOT need a shot (queue Handel's "Messiah" here). Then Friday afternoon we drove up to Shults-Lewis Children's home to give ourselves a "head-start" on our trip to Saguenay, Quebec.

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALL RIGHT FOR FIGHTIN'

Just a quote from a Elton John song.  We left Shults-Lewis at about 1:30 today and drove to Lapeer, Michigan which is about 50 miles from the Canadian border.  Tomorrow we will drive to Toronto to spend 2 days with our daughter, Mary; her husband, Brad and our granddaughter Amélie.  Then it's on to Saguenay for our first of 2 back to back physical sojourns.