The View Out The Front Window November 18, 2018

Thank you very much for praying for my Mother. Several folks let me know you were praying. God bless you for that. It is an encouragement. As of Saturday evening, she is doing much better.

Kelly Jo and I are in the Knoxville area. We are flying from here to begin our trip to Nigeria. I will try to type us some kind of report from this past week and the weekend and have it ready to post Monday.

I do not know what our connectivity will be while in Nigeria. It all depends on where we stay and whether or not they have consistent wifi. Sometimes it is easier to do several short posts. If you follow by email, you should receive an email at the end of the day with the latest post. You might should check to see if we may have posted other times during the day as well.

Here are a few view pictures from this week.

This is a view of the bus in Richton, MS Monday morning.

This was our view out the window Monday night at the rest area near Horse Cave, Kentucky.

We pulled straight into the barn this time. It is the first time we have ever parked in that position. We usually back in. At least it gives you a different view.

This was our view the last two nights after we pulled out of the barn.

This is our view out the front window where we left the bus parked in Vonore, Tennessee.

This is our view out the window at the hotel on the grounds of the Knoxville airport.

I hope you have a great Sunday. Thank you for stopping by. Please pray for our safety as we travel.

Davy

Songs of Thanksgiving 2018 Volume 2

Hey Friends,

This is Odie and I am happily reporting in from Ohio. Today finds me with the Morgan side of my family. The Thanksgiving festivities are starting early for us in Hillsboro. 

I love my Morgan crew so much! I am blessed to be in this family. Any time we are all together we have two things, delicious food and good times! I always seem to laugh until I hurt. I know this will be a fabulous day!

Last Saturday I started a mini-series of posts called Songs of Thanksgiving 2018. Click here to read volume 1 This week is volume 2 of 3. Songs help me put my thankfulness into words and also put in the correct frame of mind for gratitude. 

When I started contemplating this series today’s song was the 2nd one that came to mind. This song reminds us to be thankful always no matter what the circumstances. When I think about thanking God in all things I think of Psalms 107:1.

Oh Give thanks unto the Lord, For He is good: for His mercy endureth forever

I can always thank God for He is Good and His mercy endures forever!

When life does not seem to be going the way we had hoped and planned, we must still be thankful! God can see the complete picture and I want to thank Him always. Somedays I have to stop and give myself a pep talk and a reminder to be thankful. 

Today’s featured song is In Everything Give Thanks. It is another one from the archives that will always be true. Jeff and Sheri Easter first recorded this song in the early 90’s. Charlotte Ritchie also recorded it on a solo project several years ago. Both versions are favorites around our house. I could not find links to either one online. 

I did find a 2010 recording from a Gaither project. In this version, Charlotte Ritchie is joined by Jeff and Sheri Easter providing background vocals. You can find it here on Apple Music or here on YouTube.

Thank you for visiting with me today. I will close with the song lyrics. 

Odie

In Everything Give Thanks 

Written by Aaron Wilburn and 

Sheri  Easter

Chorus 

In everything give thanks

With all your heart give praise 

For the Lord we serve will never let you down In everything give thanks

With all your heart believe 

That the Lord can take a circumstance 

And turn it all around

Verses 1

 When you want sunshine

 to brighten up your day

But you find the clouds rain on your parade

Don't forget somewhere 

Someone you may not know

is thanking God for a rain 

To make the crops grow

Chorus 

In everything give thanks

With all your heart give praise 

For the Lord we serve will never let you down In everything give thanks

With all your heart believe 

That the Lord can take a circumstance 

And turn it all around

Verse 2

When troubles trouble you 

And you think life's not fair 

When you need someone

And there's no one there

Remember all the times that you feel alone 

Are the times He'll use to make you strong

Chorus 

In everything give thanks

With all your heart give praise 

For the Lord we serve will never let you down In everything give thanks

With all your heart believe 

That the Lord can take a circumstance 

And turn it all around

And Broke His Crown

Davy fell down and broke his crown. 

Well, that is not exactly true. I never really fell down. I did not actually break my crown either. I guess none of that statement is true.

What in the world?

I was chewing some scrumptious food last week in Locust Grove, Oklahoma and the crown on my one remaining molar fell off. Thankfully it did not break.

As a side note, I did fall down a few nights before the crown fell off while we were in revival in Broken Arrow. I tripped somehow and before I knew what happened, I was laying in the mulch at a restaurant that Friday night after church. The dozen church folks inside did not see me fall, but they did see me laying on my face between the shrubs. 😳😂

The most painful thing about the fall was when about five men came running outside to help me. Some of them RAN to help me and I appreciate that a bunch, but I was pretty embarrassed.

Maybe that fall was the fall that started in all. I may have bitten down real hard as I went down and started the whole crown escapade. I will probably never know. The one thing I do know is that Jill did not come tumbling after. I was the only one to fall.

I went to the dentist Thursday morning and they confirmed that the crown looked intact and reusable. They poked around on the tooth a moment and then glued the crown back on. It is in my best interest to keep it there.

The rest of the day was spent in more preparations to depart for Nigeria. My Dad met me at Odie's house and we finished hooking up and leveling her washer and dryer. I had ran the washer through a rinse and spin cycle Wednesday night, but Dad and I were not able to check everything out once the installation was complete Thursday.

We had no electric. We had freezing rain overnight and into Wednesday morning and it caused limbs to break and electric lines to be broken all over the area. Power went out at Odie's house and at the barn between 4 and 5 AM. As I am writing some of this very late Thursday night, the power is still off.

We finally pulled the BoggsMobile out of the barn about 7:00 PM so that we could run the generator. Steve and Karen helped us do that. They also brought us Acapulco for supper and helped us in preparation for leaving as well.

I snapped a few pictures of some of the ice and snow. Some of our readers in the south love this stuff and can not get enough of it. You can have it all, I say.😀

Please pray for my Mother, Martha Boggs. She is having a health scare that could be serious. Thank you much.

Davy

Getting It Done

Wednesday was a full-on run all day long, but we ended the day with a lot accomplished. I think we still have about 4 1/2 days worth of work to do and only 2 days to get it done. Somehow the things that are absolutely necessary will be ready.

Kelly Jo has worked and worked and worked to pull everything together and get it all packed in the allotted space. She is a champion packer and traveling stuff shuffler.

We plan to pull out Saturday morning in the BoggsMobile headed to Vonore, Tennessee. Jeff Rowe at East Tennesse Luxury Coach will have a long list of things to do on the bus while we are in Nigeria. The list of repair items is so long, we may not be gone long enough.😀

Saturday evening we will take the car about 30 minutes back north to a hotel near the Knoxville airport. We will fly out of there Sunday and arrive in Nigeria Monday evening by God's grace. By the time we settle into the hotel Monday night in Abeokuta, we will be ready for a nice long nap.

Bro. Shobanke calls me nearly every day telling me about services that have been added to the schedule and going over all the things we are going to be doing and places we will be preaching. I think he may be as excited as I am. I believe the Lord is going to help us.

Pray that everything falls into place the next few days. Thank you for stopping by.

Davy

Vintage View Vednesday Boggsblogs Birthday

November 7th was the 9th anniversary of Boggsblogs.com. Mile Markers preceded the blog by a few years, but migrated here when we discovered how easy it is to post here compared to the old website we had. 

We have posted a bunch of pictures here in 9 years. Odie thought it would be a good idea to post a few of the first pictures for our Vintage View Vednesday.

Our photography standards have always been pretty loose around here, but it is interesting to see how much they have improved, thankfully. Some of these are painful, but here they are.

Our very first post. A Ron's Double Big Daddy!

The same day I tried publishing a post by email and it worked. Here is the picture.

We began the blog as an experiment to see if we could update our friends back home while we were in Nigeria. It worked well and here we are all these years later.

Our luggage ready for our second trip to Nigeria.

The next post was a picture of Odie with my parents at the Dayton airport. You must go to the post and read the comment that I only discovered Monday. Hilarious!

Once we started the trip, I could only send in one picture at a time by email. I posted dozens of times during our stay in Nigeria, one picture at a time mostly. 

Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Advertising the lay down flat First Class seats on the seat back screen in the cattle section.

23 hours later we arrived at our hotel in Abeokuta!

A tasty lunch!

Hotel staff



Praying for Odie at the hotel.







That should give you a taste of the first few days of pictures when this blog began in November 2009. I plan to schedule three Vintage View posts with 2009 Nigeria pictures while we are gone to Africa this time. We are never sure how much connectivity we will have until we arrive so it is impossible to say how much or little we may be posting.

Thank you for tuning in.

Davy

Dueling Banjos

Monday was a driving day. It was a 524 mile driving day. And it was raining all day long. 

When I stopped at the rest area near Horse Cave, Kentucky Monday evening, my muscles were strung so tight that I thought I heard my shoulders playing dueling banjos. (Cue the rimshot, please)

Monday Morning

When I woke up at 6:00 and went outside in Richton, I sure was glad we did all of the work the night before. It takes some time and effort to finagle all the pieces into position. Doing it Sunday night, with great help, without rain, was a whole lot better than doing it by myself Monday morning in the rain. Thank you again, brothers.

Bro. Scott had noticed that one of the trailer tires was low Sunday night. These are new tires and rims so what in the world? The guys discovered the metal valve stems were kind of lose. They tightened them, we set all the air pressure levels properly and this morning, all was right with the world of tire pressure. That could have made for a horrible day!

It was only misting rain when we prepared to leave First Assembly a few minutes after 6:00. The light rain continued while fueling in town and for the first 20 minutes or so driving north of Richton. 

Thank you for the fuel, Bro. JW Cooper

I told KJ I could handle a light misting rain like that. Then the sky opened up and the bottom fell out. Oh well, the light rain was good while it lasted.

That was pretty much the story of our whole day. Those windshield wipers slapping' out a tempo, Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio, I gotta keep rollin' (Except, the BoggsMobile wipers always seem to slap out of tempo)

Even with the hard rain, traffic in Birmingham was doable and traffic in Nashville was heavy, but not as horrible as it could be.

We arrived at Prevost Nashville a little after 2:00. I wanted to get a small part, which they did not have, and I was also picking up two of our speakers. Ben Isaacs repaired two of our nice Meyers that were damaged earlier this year and I had not had a chance to meet up with him to get them.

If I parked in front of the shop doors, I was sure to be right in the way so I pulled around to the side. By the time I carried the Meyers all the way to the trailer I was wishing I had not been so thoughtful and polite. Wow, those things are heavy after a long day.

I could have parked for the night at Prevost, but the parking was tight and I knew there would be open places at the rest area near Horse Cave, Kentucky. 86 miles later we were pulling in and had our choice of places to park. This rest area is huge!

We did get a little break in the rain for the last hour. No, it did not quit raining, but it went back to more of a misty rain.

It was 4:30 when we parked at Horse Cave. I laid down for a long winter's nap, hoping I would feel like finishing the drive to the Ranch. Three things changed my mind when I woke up from the nap. 

-First, my head was as thick as my Grandpa Isaacs' molasses. 

-Two, my shoulders were still playing dueling banjos.

-Three, there was a good chance of snow in the forecast for about a three hour period the coincided with when we would get home.

That was enough for me. We will be home soon enough.

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy