Granddaughter Madisyn ‘s 4th birthday party is Sunday. 
The Pop Rock Princess theme is conjuring up a lot of neat food ideas, etc. Her mommy wants to make candy rocks on a stick and I’m getting to help!! You know the ones we loved as kids. I only remember getting them when we’d visit Rock City near Chattanooga in Tennessee. She found the idea on Pinterest and it will go great with the Pop Rock theme. The recipe says to make the mixture at least a week ahead of time so last Saturday was the Pinterest project day!
Our son Chip, his wife Liz and Madisyn are living in our sticks and bricks house until they can find an apartment of their own. It’s nice having them back together again as a family and we sure enjoy getting to play with Madisyn often!
Here’s a picture of all the cups lined up with either hot pink or purple sugar solution in them. It sits for a week while the sugar crystals form rocks on the wood sticks. We’ll see next weekend how successful we were. However they turn out, we had a deliciously sweet fun time making them!
Our dear friends, John and Donna Mollere, came to visit us on Sunday afternoon. They are the couple who allowed us to bring their Class C motor home to our house and live in it a while so we could get a real feel for RV life. We really learned so much from that experience and it helped us make a more informed decision when we chose Dora. They haven’t seen our sweet Dora since we purchased her and today they came to meet her! John and Donna have a lot of RV experience and John gave Roy great guidance when we were learning and looking for one. They both approve of our Dora! Donna told us about their visits to the Amish country in Pennsylvania and we’re thinking we’d love to take our RVs on a trip there. They are some of the only people we know personally who have an RV. While they don’t live in their motor home, they love to travel in theirs and can really be good guides to us in our travels. It would be great to see them while we’re on the road. Anyone else who would like to do some traveling with us, get hitched and come along with us or meet up with us! We’ll be posting blogs of where we are and where we plan to go so you’ll know where to find us!
In this picture I am holding up the red tube used to empty Dora’s “stuff” every two weeks. The tube has its own holders (the grey things underneath) but it seems to dip just before those grey things start holding it up and we want to make sure it’s really empty and cleaned out so I help hold it up a bit! My friend Susan told me this picture reminded her of Eddie emptying his RV tanks in his bathrobe in the snow on the movie Christmas Vacation. I’m at least a little better dressed for the occasion!
We had another Open House for the sticks and bricks Sunday and again no one came. On Tuesday (today) we had a broker’s open house and 20+ came through the house. I think this would have been a great thing to have four months ago, but at least they saw it today. Their comments were encouraging, yet they recommended a price reduction since the real estate market is just not supporting what it should. We really don’t want to cut the price again but may have to at some point. Once Roy’s computer stuff is cleared out of the upstairs computer room we’ll consider it, we’re just not quite there yet. There is no real urgency to selling the house, just our desire to be on the road now that the weather is so beautiful!
We just completed the Healthy Church Conference II – Awakening at our church, Trinity Baptist Church in Pumpkin Center, LA. It started Friday and we heard three great sermons from three wonderful preachers. Our choir director Jessica Davis Bryan is brilliant at picking songs that perfectly support the sermon message. One of the choir specials was “When Jesus Saves”. I’ve never heard it before and the words of the song were such a perfect depiction of what happens to us when Jesus saves us, not just the salvation part but how our lives change in amazing ways. I wanted to share the words of the song here but couldn’t find them anywhere and I know lots of tricks for finding lyrics to songs! I did find a You Tube video of the gospel group Gold City singing the song. While they are great professional singers, but I really loved hearing our choir delivered the message so powerfully! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18zUPOs7qu8. I am going to miss the Trinity Baptist Church choir so much when we leave. There is something about hearing them sing Christian music that comes in a close second in my heart to a great sermon. Whether it is hymns, psalms or contemporary I love almost all Christian music sung by anyone! The rock Christian stuff is not my taste but as long as the message is true to God’s word I’m sure there’s someone that it can reach.
Roy’s last day of work before retirement is this Thursday, February 28th. He’s worked in several fields over the 40+ years he’s worked. He’s delivered papers (as a kid on his bicycle), assisted in making dental crowns, he’s welded, sheetrocked, remodeled houses (with me!!), some air conditioning, installed carpet (for 30 years) and most recently repaired computers at Southeastern Louisiana University. Probably some things in between that I’ve forgotten about. He can truly do or fix anything! Just ask Madisyn! I’m proud of all
he’s accomplished in his work life. Roy has a strong work ethic which I believe he’s passed along to our sons. He’s worked very hard our whole marriage doing his best to provide for me and the boys. He’ll still be available at home for computer repair so give him a holler and he’ll fix ya up! This is his new computer repair area (previously known as our dinette booth in the RV). It will undergo some cosmetic changes to better fit it for computer repairs but for now this will be his new work home! Happy Retirement Roy!!!
Again, this has been a random collection of thoughts and events but that’s what’s going on for now! Ya’ll come back now ya hear!
BECAUSE HE LIVES 