How We Celebrated 48 Years!

It was a very hot August day in Atlanta in 1962 when we married.

It was a very hot August day in Idaho when we celebrated our 48th anniversary on August 25, 2010.

Many,many miles and alot of water has gone under the bridge.

Three children, seven beautiful grandchildren, six church parishes', one child's death, one house fire and many, many different homes.

Larry asked me if I would like to go to the Olive Garden for dinner and I really could not make up my mind.

When he came in the RV and said "Let's grill here at home, it seemed just right."

As is our custom now, about 5:30 p.m., we took a swim in our heated salt water pool here at the RV park. We always end up in the hot tub.

The dinner menu consisted of roses from our daughter's garden, grilled salmon with sour cream and dill sauce, steamed broccoli with lemon butter, sauteed mushrooms/onions in olive oil and butter, marinated fresh tomatoes from a teacher friends garden. The homemade french bread was from the Nampa fresh produce market. We topped it off with wine from the Sawtooth winery here in the Treasure Valley. The Sawtooth mountains surround us here in America's Alps. They are beautiful.

AND, Larry had written on FB of our anniversary and great notes came from friends all over the U.S. Hugs came from the Chesapeake Bay! Our friends Donna and Manning managed to get a card to us on the "day of" toasting us with champagne glasses. A toast from Alpine, Texas.

We gave each other homemade cards.

It was a great celebration and well worth waiting for for 48 years.

God has richly blessed us for 48 years!

He Nailed It!

Our pastor at Covenant Presbyterian in Boise, Phil Moran, preached a powerful sermon Sunday that drove home the point of Psalm 8. I was 'fed spiritually' and needed it. We took Phil and Charla to lunch following worship and I told him, "You really nailed that sermon!" It is so good to hear biblically grounded sermons presented so skillfully and clearly and with real passion. Hope your Sunday message was as meaningful as ours.

Surrounded by New Interesting and Compassionaste Friends

I've got some very interesting neighbors here in Idaho @ our RV Resort. They include a professional bullrider (see old post about him), a Vietnam sniper, and an atheist. Interestingly enough, the atheist is one of the most Christ-like and compassion, honest persons I've ever met! He's become a great friend and we have many good and grace-filled discussions. The bullrider yesterday gave me his remaining rodeo item, a jacket embrazned with "Professional Bullrider". Now, all I have to do is find a mechanical bull in a mall and ride him, thus allowing me to wear the jacket! (lol). The Sniper talks only in very guarded terms of his sniper missions, understandably so. Life is an everyday surprise on the road, and I'm thankful to God.

Surprise re New Neighbor!

Today I spent the latter part of the afternoon talking with my new neighbor/friend and discovered to my surprise that he was a professional BULLRIDER!!! What an interesting conversation as he related to me the inside scoop about bullriding. His last ride was upon BACKSTABBER, a ferocious bull with a 'reputation'. A bullrider seeks to stay on his bull for 8 seconds. Stephen lasted 6 second before the bull reared his head and butted Stephen in the face, resulting in breaking every bone in his face to the extent that his face was sagging off his head! He survived, obviously, but it was his last ride (at the insistence of his wife, of course.)