Vintage View Vednesday Navarre, FL 2009

This is Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas on our YouTube Channel. Thank you for taking a few minutes each day to watch. Let us know what you think.

Vintage View Vednesday

It has turned into winter in southern Ohio and it is probably here to stay. We will most certainly try to leave Ohio before winter does!😁

Since the wind is blowing, the snow is threatening and the cold is penetrating, I walked through our dusty archives until I could feel warm air and sunshine from pictures files tucked way into the back.

I have pictures from our first ever trip to Navarre, Florida. We loved it so much that we went back two years later while getting the bus worked on in Cantonement, but we have never been back. What is up with that?

We talk about Navarre often and these pictures have been making us talk about it even more. I hope you enjoy this installment of Vintage View Vednesday.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Detour For Friends

This is Day 2 of our 12 Days of Christmas on our YouTube Channel.

Detour For Friends

Through the years we have had friends travel hundred and even thousands of miles to be with us in revivals all over the country. We have been overwhelmed by their kindness and we have mentioned that numerous times on Mile Markers.

We are thrilled when friends come to visit from a church in the area where we are preaching. Imagine how great it makes us feel when friends use their vacation time and spend money to drive or fly to see us several states away!

We are very seldom in a position to return that favor to friends. Often we are going right through cities and towns where good friends live and we do not even have time to shake and howdy for a few minutes. We zoom through with a wave and a text message. When we are passing by in the middle of the night, we skip the text message.😁

 

We live on a schedule and the road portion of that schedule usually must be kept down to the hour if not the minute in order for us to keep our commitments. There is only so much time between church services and the miles must be covered.

We always feel bad passing up friends. This fall we had an opportunity to correct a little of that. We had a pretty straight forward route between commitments and two extra days to get there. We figured that by adding about 200 miles to our trip, we could visit at least four sets of friends along the way.

Some friends were not free when we were passing through their town and a couple of friends had been exposed to COVID the day before and they thought it would be best to steer clear of them. We agreed.😁

We did get to eat lunch with Bro. Larry and Sis. Rose Landress and eat supper with Bro. Bruce and Sis. Priscilla Mayhan. We had a wonderful time with our friends and they all seemed happy we stopped.

I am sure that I will feel guilty the next time I zoom past friends that live close to our route, but at least I will know that I am making an effort!

I like this picture of KJo and Odie standing next to our Green Machine and Bro. Larry and Sis. Rose standing next to their green jeep.

The evening we met with the Mayhan's happened to be their 38th wedding anniversary! They have come to visit us a few times on their anniversary trip so I guess it was time we returned the favor!

Soon we were back on our route, zooming here and there with very few thoughts but reaching our destination. Yet our lives were and are a little richer because of time spent with friends. God gave us these friends and we are very thankful for His gift. Praise God for His abundant blessing of gracious people in our lives.

We are thankful that you join us here on Mile Markers too. Thank you for that. Have a great day.

Davy

Day 1 of 12 Days of Christmas God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Here we are near the middle of December 2020. Wow! Way back in April, it seemed like these days were way down the line. We are rolling quickly toward Christmas and we love being in this season.

Today is the first day in our Boggs Family Ministries 12 Days of Christmas!

KJo did the honor of announcing our 12 Days of Christmas about ten days ago.

Today we begin the 12 songs on 12 videos for 12 days. It is fitting that we begin with my absolute favorite Christmas song, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

God rest ye merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Savior Was born on Christmas day To save us all from satan’s power When we were gone astray 

Oh tiding of comfort and joy 

Hallelujah!

We hope you enjoy each day of our 12 Days of Christmas. Please give the videos a thumbs up IF you like them and share them with others.

Day 1

Thank you!

Davy

View Out The Window 12/13/2020

Sunday Morning Sanity

This is a continuation of Charles Spurgeon from last week. 

Grace in the heart leads men to strive to enter in at the strait gate. Sloth and lethargy are robbing Jesus of his honor, and the church of its success.

This was our view out the front window at Flying J in Salina, Kansas.

This was our view out the front bus window at Flying J in Effingham, Illinois.

This will be our view out the front window for the next couple of weeks, for the most part.

Thank you for joining us on Mile Markers today. May God bless you all.

Davy

Being Thankful On Purpose

Hey Friends,

This is Odie reporting in from my Beach Cottage in Waynesville, Ohio. I began pondering this post on Thanksgiving Day 2020.

Probably for most of us in the United States Thanksgiving was different than most years. 2020 has been rough for everyone. A lot of us can not be with our loved ones this year. Sickness and restriction severely limit us right now. Spending Thanksgiving on the road is not an abnormality for our family, but even that was different in 2020.

I was reminded on Thanksgiving that we still have a lot of things that we can thank God for, even during a pandemic!  Did you see Dad's wonderful, Thanksgiving homily that he posted? It is worth watching a few times! It is both convicting and encouraging all wrapped in one package. You can check it out by clicking here. It inspired me to spend more time intentionally thanking God in all things.

 An Answered Prayer Named Kari Noe
Today I want to share with you something that I am taking time to thank God for again. I am praising God for my precious friend, Kari Noe. recently I took some time to reflect on Kari's testimony.  Miss Kari is a walking miracle! Her life is an example of answered prayers.

Several years ago she bravely fought and conquered, what she called, a "cancer dragon". God gave her the strength and answered our prayers. Today she is now cancer free! I know it was not an easy battle to win for Kari and her family! I thank God for seeing them through the many long difficult days.

Praise God for answering the countless prayers that were prayed for Kari and her family! God is awesome! I encourage you to look back at Kari's testimony too.  Dad wrote this post about Kari a few years ago.

Here are a few pictures that I found in our archives of Kari. I enjoyed cruising down memory lane for a moment.

We were able to see Kari and her family in the fall. They came to revival in London, Kentucky.  It was great to see their whole family again.  I am ready to see them once we do not have to be so careful to avoid sickness. It was terrible not being able to hug my friends!

Here are two updated pictures of Kari. Several years can make a big difference. You can see the beautiful and healthy young lady that she is now! I know that many of you helped us pray for her during her sickness. Thank you for those prayers!

Kari, we love you, friend. You and your family will always be precious to us! I am so thankful for you, sweetheart. Thanks for being a bright spot in my life. Just thinking of you makes me smile!

Friends, in closing I want to encourage you to Thank God for answered prayer in the past! Also, remember He is still working miracles today! I am happy to report that God has NOT stopped working and He NEVER will change.

I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Odie

A Few Days of Travel

We had two and one half days of travel from Colorado to Ohio. The weather was absolutely beautiful, even with a little fog one morning. Here is the recap.

Monday started dark and early in Colorado Springs. The BoggsMobile's Detroit 60 Series was rumbling by 5:30 and we were wiggling our way out of the neighborhood where Souls Harbor is located a few minutes before 6:00.

Souls Harbor is 72 miles from I-70 at Limon, Colorado. The first 32 miles took us nearly one hour. At 6:50 I was pulling off in a wide spot of the road to take this picture.

I posted last week that we were about to register 200,000 miles since we have owned the BoggsMobile. Now it is official, 384,479! When we purchased the bus on March 21, 2008, it had 184,479 miles.

Once we joined the interstate, it was smooth sailing all the way to Flying J at Salina, Kansas. For the day, we drove 418 miles in 6 hours and 40 minutes. Not too shabby for us.

We had no sooner shut down when my brother Steve and his wife Karen pulled up next to us. They drove about 90 minutes one way to meet us and we are thrilled that they did. It was so good to see them again.

We ate at Flying J in a wide open Huddle House and it was very good!

We went straight to bed afterward and had a good "night" of sleep in the middle of the evening! Actually, I slept good for about 2.5 hours, but did not do so good later when it was time to go down for the night.

Tuesday we drove 513 miles to the Flying J in Effingham, Illinois. We were on the road 8 hours and 15 minutes, which included a long fuel stop at a crowded TA in Missouri. We did not need fuel badly, but we wanted to buy it while it was cheap. 

The price went up over 30 cents a gallon when we crossed into Illinois. The price is even higher in Indiana, plus there is another huge tax on that.

Ohio is high too, but we topped off about 10 miles before we arrived at the barn Wednesday. The bus will most likely be sitting for three weeks, so I want the tank to be as full as possible.

Tuesday evening KJo and I went to a local cafe in Effingham. They we being very careful and it felt completely safe. I needed to get out of the bus for a few minutes and that did the trick.

We were rolling from Effingham by about 7:00 AM Wednesday morning. I took this picture before we rolled.

All was smooth sailing Wednesday and we finished up 282 miles and pulled onto the Lazy OD Ranch about 1:00 PM Eastern time.

We emptied the holding tanks, unhooked the car, used Dad's truck to pull the tent trailer out of the barn and then pulled into the barn.

After a nap, we went up to Odie's for a masked and distant visit with my parents. It was so good to see them!

Odie called in an order to Acapulco and we drank a little salsa as a toast to arriving home!

The total trip was 1213 miles and about 20 hours of driving. We are glad to have that behind us and I am ready to take a short break from driving!

This is the earliest we have been home for Christmas in a while and we hoped to visit several of the local churches. COVID is raging here in southern Ohio so we do not know exactly what we will do. Fun times, right?

Thank you for traveling with us. May God bless you all!

Davy

The Green Machine - An Extremely Low Mileage Year

We have been putting miles behind us this week so I suppose it is appropriate to write about miles on the Green Machine.😊

This was a very low mileage year on The Green Machine. In fact, the last 12 months have been the lowest mileage year since I have owned my own car. My first car was purchased in the summer before my senior year and I put nearly 50,000 miles on it by the time I bought another car in October of the next year.

We have never looked back! Some years KJo and I put 90,000 miles per year on whatever combination of cars we owned at the time. Several more years we put 70,000 miles or more.

We have not been driving near that many miles for a long time, but The Green Machine really got a break this year!

In November 2019, the original transmission failed on our 2006 Envy Green Scion xB, AKA The Green Machine. It is hard to believe, but we seriously considered not fixing the car and leaving it to fend for itself in California.

In the end, we decided to get The Green Machine up and going one more time and get serious about saving for a replacement. I wrote recently HERE and HERE about our thought process concerning our next vehicle.

We are half-heartedly on the hunt for a replacement now, but we are praying and weighing options carefully. We want to purchase the right "next" car the first time.😁

It has now been a year since we had the transmission replaced and the Green Machine has performed fine. However, it is amazing that we have not put very many miles on it at all. 

The Green Machine had 197,962 driving miles when the transmission was replaced. The transmission went out on November 25 and we picked it up from the repair garage on December 4. As of December 4, 2020, the Green Machine had 207292 miles.

That means for the first time ever, we drove our car less than 10,000 miles! Wow! That is amazing. Of course, COVID had a lot to do with that. I want COVID to take a hike, but I could get used to low miles like that.

We have never, never, never put less than 10,000 miles on a car in a year! But we have now.

It will be interesting to see what happens in 2021. Thank you for reading Mile Markers today.

Davy