Author: rvingwithapurpose

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

As we expected, today was a rainy day. So glad we loaded most things in to FRED yesterday and planned today for a cooking day. The main items left to load were kitchen/refrigerator items. We like to start trips with some things cooked ahead. This morning we made some breakfast bowls to have in the freezer for work mornings. We also cooked some biscuits to have ready to warm up for sausage biscuits. Later in the day it was time for our favorite, tea cake cookies. We use Aunt Inez’s recipe with some slight modifications. We have been asked for this recipe many times so here it is: Aunt Inez’s Tea Cake Cookies. These are good cookies! We cook them in the convection oven and at the house can cook three cookie sheets at a time. Can’t cook them that fast FRED but probably would only make half the recipe in FRED. Hope you try and enjoy them.

Other than that we did the last of the laundry, cleaned the house and finished loading FRED. Tonight we are back in FRED and ready to roll. We got a lot accomplished in the few days we were home but now it’s time to get on the road again.

 

 

We just found that this blog entry was never posted for last week.  We are having some internet issues and perhaps that was the problem.  Anyway, here it is.

Friday, October 12, 2018

Yesterday (Thursday), was an absolutely beautiful day. We think that the hurricane ended our summer of 2018 and we are now in fall for real. It will be chilly enough to start the turning of the leaves. And the highest high for the next 10 days is predicted to be 82 and several days the high will be 70. Very nice.

Anne had to go to Tuscaloosa to work on more estate business. There was a meeting with the accountant and another with the attorney. She had a long list of things to accomplish. After arriving and talking to her brother, more items were added. It was a busy day but a lot was completed. The final 2017 tax return was finally submitted. Jim came over from Atlanta to help out as well. While Anne was working in Tuscaloosa, Max was back at home working. He cleaned out the garage, a chore we had been putting off. It looks great now. He also cut us some new leveling blocks for Fred and took care of other needed chores.

Today was another beautiful day. Anne took care of more family business, banking, etc, and showed Mama Ruby’s house to someone that might be interested. Don’t think anything will come of this one because the house is larger than they thought. Max washed the roof on Fred, another chore that needed to be done but we just hadn’t taken time. He also finished it with a coat of 303 Protectant. The roof looks nice and we had good luck using the protectant on Fred One. The best part of the day was Anne arriving back home safely. Traffic was pretty heavy but not nearly as bad as in Tuscaloosa. With Alabama’s homecoming game tomorrow, the crowds were already arriving.

Now we have some more business to handle here and then packing out Fred. We will be preparing to head out next week. Fred gets unhappy if we let him sit by himself for too long :).

Monday, October 15, 2018

Yeah, we know we haven’t blogged for a few days. But all we did this weekend has been blogged about before.  Errands and care team meeting for the Aunts, shopping, cleaning, and loading out for our next trip.

So we did some catching up on previous projects:

Here is the framing at New Heights Church’s new building at the end of week two:

And here is a picture of the dining hall at Camp Lake Stephens with new doors and paint:

As always we had a great service at Lester Memorial and it was especially nice since we were joined there by four of our NOMADS friends that are working at Camp Sumatanga.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

As is our habit, we have been watching Hurricane Michael coverage on television. And trying to get all of the field cut before the rains arrived.

Yesterday (Tuesday) started off early with errands for us and the Aunts and, of course, they took longer than expected. But the truck now has new tires, and alignment.  So, Max didn’t get as much bush-hogging done as he would have liked.  But he was on the tractor from about 4:00 pm until dark.

This morning we looked at the weather radar and saw the outer rain bands approaching so he started back as soon as the grass was dry enough and kept going until finished. We can tell we had a wetter than usual summer because the weeds (sage grass, sumac and goldenrod) were as thick as we have ever seen them. That meant he had to run the tractor a gear lower than usual – only 3 mph.

Almost as soon as Max got the tractor cleaned up and put away, the rains started and it has rained lightly ever since.

Then back to watching hurricane coverage. Please pray for all those in the path. And especially remember the responders and officials who have to brave the weather to do their jobs.  Don’t forget all those yet to be impacted in Georgia and North and South Carolina.

Anne spent most of the day working on accounting and taxes and estates.   Again, Max got the better end of the deal.

In case you think we only have venomous snakes around the house, that is not correct. We also have a few of these large natural vermin control friends around.