Month: August 2017

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Today here in Senoia, Ga it was a mostly cloudy and sometimes rainy day. We did have some sunshine late this afternoon. We did what we came here to do. We took care of the animals. We were able to give the dogs some nice walks which they seemed to enjoy, and we did too. We also had some time to do a little shopping. And it was actually shopping today rather than buying. We have had some ideas about things we might want to do inside FRED but just haven’t had the time to really look around so today we went to Bed Bath and Beyond and some other similar stores in Peachtree City just looking around. We are more accustomed to going to buy something rather than simply looking and shopping. We usually know we need or want a particular item and go purchase it. It was nice just to relax and look around. We also spotted what turned out to be a really good thrift store on the way back to Jim’s from Peachtree City. We both were able to pick up some nice quick dry t-shirts to wear for work. We hate to buy new shirts and then wear them on projects where we frequently get pretty dirty and sweaty or maybe paint. We spoke to Jim a few minutes ago and he is about 30 minutes away so we are looking forward to seeing him and spending a little time together. Looks like there is still some heavy weather out there so everyone stay safe and pray for a safe travel day for us tomorrow please.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Today it rained. It rained hard. It rained not quite so hard and it drizzled. It was raining on Pine Mountain when we left at 6:30 this morning. It was raining in Tuscaloosa for Ralph’s funeral. And it is still raining when we got to Georgia. Oh, well. They decided to have Ralph’s funeral inside instead of at the grave. We made it safely to Georgia in spite of the crazy drivers and we are in a nice dry home. God is good! We also took Anne’s mom to the funeral too. We are so glad she was able to attend. She is definitely making progress even though it is too slow in her opinion.

Today was Ralph Krupp’s funeral. We told you a little about him last Thursday when he died. Dan Kilgore, one of Ralph’s friends and pastor of First UMC in Tuscaloosa did the service. Dan talked about Ralph’s 35 bombing missions over Europe, and then the resupply missions following D-Day and also about Ralph’s honesty and integrity. Dan said that Ralph usually commented on his sermons each Sunday. He would usually say something like “that was a good message pastor”, but sometimes he would also add, “but you have done better.” Dan added, “and he was usually right.” Ralph also made many wood craft items that the United Methodist Women sold to raise money to support various missionaries. Ralph’s woodworking was beautiful and we are so glad he gave us a few of his pieces. We remember Ralph as a loving and caring person who always had a smile on his face and a positive attitude. We also always new he loved us and his Lord.

We are currently in Senoia, Ga, where Anne’s brother Jim lives. (Yes, this is where they film “The Walking Dead” which we have never seen.) We are here to help Jim out with his animals while he has to be out of town on business. Anne’s cousin Nancy has helped with the animals many times since she lives fairly close, but Nancy is unavailable currently. Anyway, Marguerite loved animals. All animals. So Jim now has two dogs, Roxxy and Dixie and six cats. We have about two pages of instructions for caring for the various ones. They are all sweet animals but we aren’t accustomed to quite so many. It does allow us to get our puppy fix since we still miss our Scout. Jim should be back tomorrow and we will try to get some other things done for him while we are here. Times are still hard for Jim so please continue to remember him in your prayers. We are anxious to return to Alabama and go pick up FRED.

Today we had several comments and emails in response to last night’s blog. And we thought we were putting people to sleep. Thanks for all the responses. Some were quite funny. It really cheered us up as they came in throughout the day. You guys are great!

Monday, August 7, 2017

Today was cloudy and rainy most of the day. The forecast for this week just calls for more of the same.

When we aren’t traveling and are home taking care of things for the LOL’s and the sticks and bricks, we suspect no one is really interested in reading our blog but we hate to get out of the habit of writing because it is hard to start back when we head out. So…. Hopefully this is not too boring. We are still working on cleaning out Uncle Tom’s house which Juno was living in for the past several years. We moved her last Tuesday but only with the things she would immediately need. Now we are working on all the other stuff in the closets, cabinets etc. Today we cleaned out one of the chest freezers in Aunt Helen’s basement (she has 3) and defrosted it so that we could move Juno’s frozen foods into it. We found all sorts of surprises. Well, for the family, you know we weren’t really surprised. We found a quart of 1984 collard greens. Max wouldn’t have eaten those in 1984 much less now. There were a number of “archeological finds.” However, they will now not be found ever again. And if any of you tell on us, good luck in finding the evidence and besides we can always move into FRED and just let you move into our house and take care of everybody. So that was about it, we moved food, moved books, cleaned stuff and took care of some business.

 

One other thing – Sherman RV called and FRED is ready to pick up. We decided to have them go ahead and put in the SeeLevel II tank monitoring system and tie it into the Spyder multiplex system panel. We had the SeeLevel II system in FRED 1 and got spoiled with its higher accuracy. They will go ahead and to that and we will pick him up on Friday. YEA!!! Can’t wait to get him back home so we can do some of the personalization things we have been wanting to do. We will explain the upgrade and other things we had done after we pick him up Friday and make sure everything is as expected.

Sunday August 6, 2017

We are really having some lovely weather right now. It was 64 this morning, very good temperatures for some exercise for this time of year in Alabama. Yes, you don’t have a dry thread when you finish but with a breeze it’s pretty tolerable. At least is is a lot better than a few weeks ago.

It’s Sunday so of course we went to church at Lester Memorial UMC. Pastor Barry had a wonderful message today. He is such a man of God and we just love him so much (even if he is our cousin.) It was a great day at church. It was promotion Sunday for the children. We had a report from one of our folks that went to the Philippines recently and a wonderful worship service. God is so good to us.

Update: A lot of you have been praying for our 13 year old cousin, Josh, who has a rare brain and spinal cancer. We got to see Josh at the wedding yesterday. He was feeling well enough to come even though he had chemo earlier in the week. He has had a really good summer and will be starting high school this week. Thank you for your prayers and please continue. We also have another cousin, Wes, who has been battling liver cancer. He is now on hospice so we ask for prayers for him and the family.

After having Juno and Helen for lunch, we had a quiet afternoon. We were thinking about what to blog about today and started looking through some of our old pictures for this date. We found one of Anne’s mother standing in a field of tall fireweed in Alaska taken August 6, 1986 when she and Anne’s dad made their trip to Alaska in their Tiffin motorhome. We also found a picture of Anne in the tall fireweed taken 28 years and 2 days later in 2014. Love that we were able to digitize the 1986 Alaska album of Anne’s mom and dad.

That’s it for today. May God bless you and may we all follow His plans for our week.