Sunday

Well the morning started with a 7 AM wake up and its so peaceful here and to make it even better it warmed up a little to nearly 60 degrees. The sunshine was bright as we could just make it out in the tops of the trees that surround our little cabin in the woods. We could see the deep blue skies when looking straight up and hear the dew dripping from the bump out onto the tin roof; such a stillness broken only by the dripping dew and a lonely crow cawing off in the distance. Such a difference in lifestyles here as we observe only natural sounds and smells. After my cup of hot green tea and my few quiet moments I had a bowl of oatmeal with cinnamon and honey, blueberries and an over ripe banana for breakfast. We got ready and headed out for worship at Cornerstone.

Our ride to church was in such contrast to the ride we usually take to Element in Tampa where there is cars galore, high rise buildings, concrete and asphalt  everywhere as well as multitudes of people. We saw nary a car on the way to church or another person along the way on our 8 mile ride through the beautiful mountains and hills covered with heavy foliage. There were rabbits everywhere, a couple deer, cows and horses in nearly every field; but the contrast stops there as we were heading to honor the LORD with our worship with a great group of sweet folks much like those at Element in Tampa. We had a packed house today with a couple hundred or more and Pastor B had an awesome message on our role in missions(telling others about our LORD) and what can hinder us from taking an active role in that endeavor.

After church we headed back to the cabin to have an awesome salad and leftover marinated grilled chicken breast on top, yikes was that ever dewisheous(Annsley) with some homemade Greek dressing. After lunch I wanted to get the corn I had growing in six pack containers into the ground as its supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow. Seems the corn I planted in my upper garden didn't do so well either from old seed or too wet or the crows had a picnic when we weren't around but only about 1/2 dozen actually came up, so I transplanted about a dozen or so hills of the seedlings and then sowed more seed as well to finish up the last row. Hopefully they will make it but if not I'm counting on the large corn patch on top of the mountain at Norm's place to at least give us a couple roastneers dripping with melted butter and a little salt and pepper, oh well.

I had made plans for pickle ball this evening with several folks at church before realizing there was a meeting for those who were helping with the mission team this next week. Nancy and I are helping Wed., Thur.,Fri. and possibly Sat.with the preparation of food each evening as well as helping with the landscaping of the church grounds on Wed. after lunch. So this should be busy late nights and evening this next week. I met with Ted, Mechelle, Caleb and Craig for a couple hours of pickle ball on Sunday evening. We had great time playing outside in the middle of the woods on this great court. It had been the first any of them had played in a year or so but they quickly picked the game back up and we had several action packed games and did we ever work up a sweat over the 2 hours we played. Hopefully we can do it again next week as well.

After pickle ball I came home and Nancy had just got back from the meeting at church as well so we made egg sandwiches from the fresh eggs Mechelle so graciously brought us. There is nothing like the taste and the color of the yolk on free range cackle berries. After supper I headed out to work in the gardens until nearly dark loosening the compacted clay soil around many of my plants as well as loading the garbage in the truck for our trip to Galax tomorrow to pick up Nancy new reading glasses at Wal-Mart.

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