Weekend In The rearview Mirror 8/5/19

It has been a rough weekend in America and this time it hit very close to home. We have been and are continuing to pray for many families that are dealing with tragedy they had no idea was coming. God, pull us together in you.

Bro. Larry Lamb
Pastor Larry Lamb from Sweeny, Texas is having surgery this morning. Please pray that it is successful and that he has a speedy recovery. He and his church have been so good to pray for us, please help us return the favor.

Our Weekend
This weekend goes all the way back to Thursday morning so get ready for a long post with lots of pictures too.

House Stuff
"There is always something to do when you own a house"

A truer statement has never been uttered by a homeowner. So, most of Thursday and Friday and a slice of Saturday were "homeowner" days with a little tent revival preparation and general maintenance thrown in.

The mower we purchased in Oklahoma is working out great, but Dad noticed it was mowing low/high side to side. Everything on the deck seemed correct so the next thing to check was the tires. On visual inspection, one front tire was low, but neither tire showed any air pressure and would not take any air. What?

On closer inspection, we could see bits of thorns in the tread, but no air escaped with the thorns removed. When I removed the tires before tent revival in Middletown, one was definitely lower than the other, plus they were incredibly heavy. 

I took them to WalMart, purchased two tires and warned the tire guy that the old ones may be full of Fix A Flat. Nope, it was not Fix A Flat, it was rubber! I found out that in some places if your mowing area is prone to thorns and other hazards, it is common to fill the front tires completely with rubber instead of constantly plugging and replacing tires.

That would be no problem for me at all, but evidently, one tire did not get full and it was riding low enough that it was throwing the cut off. No one gave me much hope of getting the tires off and reusing the rims.

I waded into the first one with a Sawzall and stupidity. A sometimes deadly and sometimes effective combination.

Piece by piece I got it down to the rim and while I was gone to Boston, Dad figured out how to get the edge pieces off the rim.

  

Knowing more about it made cutting the second one easier Thursday morning. I cut the first tire off in the barn and the little bits of rubber covered my face and head. My skin reacted like fire.

This time I cut the second tire off outside and covered my face and head.

Ready.

No banks were robbed in the process. It was also much quicker the second time.

Dad got the edge pieces off and back to WalMart we went. With new tires on the rims and aired up equally we tested the mower in the midday sun.

Perfect! I saved the actual mowing until Friday morning when it was cooler.

Thursday evening we had a nice supper with Steve and Karen.

Friday morning I mowed. Here is the mower afterward all clean, gassed up and ready to go again.

Friday lunch we finally made it to Acapulco and then made a big stop at Rural King and Home Depot for all kinds of stuff. We stayed busy all day with house stuff, barn stuff, bus stuff and other stuff.

Kelly prepared a wonderful meal in Odie's house on Friday evening.

Saturday had even more adventures. I mentioned at the end of May that I had a dust cover fall off one of the tent trailer wheels and I put it back on at a rest area in Illinois.

When I stopped, I noticed the little cap was missing from the centerpiece of the front left wheel. On closer inspection, it was knocked off by the dust cover on the hub. I just had that dust cover off, so that was a surprise. 

I had to jack up the trailer at the rest area and remove the tire to get the dust cover back on. With Kelly Jo's expert supervision, the job was completed in a few minutes.

There is a possibility that I did not get it back on correctly last week OR that I bent it while taking it off and it will not stay on. I will watch it closely today while we travel. I think I may have a spare.

The dust cover stayed on from there to Independence, Iowa to Wichita, Kansas to Colorado Springs, Colorado to Amber, Oklahoma to Elco, Illinois and then came off again just south of Cincinnati, Ohio. That was an hour from home. 

The temperature on that wheel was the same as all the other wheels, so it had not lost grease and gotten hot. I put it back on and when I pulled into the Ranch and one hour later, it was off again.

Saturday morning was time to deal with that. I jacked it up, removed the wheel, filled the hub with grease, cleaned up the wheel cover, put on a new dust cover and reinstalled the wheel.

For my information in the future, the dust cover is 2.75 OD. It does not matter that the trailer guy I talked to first said that there has never been a trailer axle with a dust cover that is 2.75 OD.😀

I cleaned up the old dust cover and I cannot see anything wrong with it, but hopefully, the replacement takes care of the problem.

With that finished, it was time to change the bus generator oil again. Every second or third oil change, I clean the tray the generator sets on and this was the time. I had sprayed cleaner on it before working on the trailer, so that part was easy.

The next part was not so easy. I changed the air filter last time (July 2019) so this time I was cleaning the air filter canister. I noticed that the hose from the filter to the engine was off the fitting that goes to the engine. I did not take a picture of the loose hose, but here it is with the hose reattached.

The arrow is pointing to the air filter canister and the end that was off is circled. Yes, it is at the back of the generator.

It was a bear to get back on. I had to take several things loose in order to put it all back together and for a while, I despaired that I would ever get it. This fat boy does not fit in the back of the generator compartment.

I need the generator to be in top condition later this week. When we arrive in Central City, Kentucky on Friday we will probably run it until we leave over one week later. That made this little problem a big problem. By God's grace, I got it on. Whew!

After that, I made a trip to Home Depot to gather things for a project I will describe later and then it was time to move the bus to Anchor of Hope where we are preaching this week. I cranked it up, did the work of an evangelist, turned the bus around and less than 30 minutes later I was pulling into the church.

I unloaded all the equipment and set it up. Kelly Jo and Odie had gone to Hillsboro for Kelly Jo's Dad's birthday. 

They came in about 7:00 and we finished our soundcheck.

Revival kicked off Sunday with two good services. We always know the services are going to be good here, but I was much in prayer concerning Sunday's sermons. God honored His Word and helped His people. Praise God for it!

Odie took a few pictures Sunday and I will share some of them here.

We enjoyed a little salsa with Pastor EJ Lamb and his family along with some of Kelly Jo's family after church Sunday night. You know that was good!

Odie went home after church last night and we will probably take the bus to the barn this morning. I do not want to be involved in any big projects while preaching revival, but I have a few small things I need to do at the barn before we leave Thursday.

Come be with us in revival if you can. We will be at Anchor of Hope Monday through Wednesday at 7:00 PM. 

Thank you for reading.

Davy

Our View Out The Front Window 8/4/19

This was our view out the front window in a rest area in Pennsylvania earlier in the week.

This is our view today at Anchor of Hope in Lebanon, Ohio.



Here are the links to our posts from this last week.

Odie's Saturday Evening Post

Travel Log and Circle

Revival In Pictures

Vintage View Vednesday

A Programming Note

The Weekend

We always appreciate you taking a moment to drop in to read Mile Markers. Have a great Sunday!

Davy

Birthdays And More

Hey Friends,

Happy Saturday, this is Odie coming to you from the beach cottage at the Lazy OD Ranch. I am thrilled to be home again. We had a wonderful time in Massachusetts this last week. It was a blessing to watch God move during the four services that we were in at Bethel Revival Center. Thank you to Pastor Orville and Sis. Jennifer for making us feel so welcome.

This coming week we get to be close to home. I am extremely excited to be with all of our family and friends at Anchor of Hope.  I am looking forward to what God planned for this revival. You are invited to join us this week in Lebanon, Ohio. Services are Sunday thru Wednesday. Pastor E.J. Lamb and his family are some of our favorite people! I know that we will have a wonderful time with them. 

Birthdays 

We have two special birthdays this week in our immediate family. It is time for a small celebration. 

Happy belated birthday to my Mamaw Martha Boggs. She celebrated a milestone birthday Tuesday. Now that we are home we can continue the party a little longer. 

She definitely deserves some special treatment. Mamaw is always looking out for someone else. Mamaw, I love you with all my heart! Thank you for being the world’s best Mamaw. You are beautiful, loving, sweet and so much more. I am blessed to have you in my life. I thank God for allowing you to be in my life. 

Today is the actual birthday of one of the real-life superheroes in my life. Happy birthday to my Papaw Danny Morgan. Papaw is an incredible person and I get the privilege to know him as Pappaw, Grand Pappy, or Paperdink. He is a man of many names,  talents and amazing qualities! Papaw possesses the most tender heart. He is always encouraging us to win one more soul for Christ. 

Papaw, I hope you have a fantastic birthday today. Enjoy your free pass to enjoy all the ice cream that you can hold! Words do not exist to express my love and appreciation for you. 

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Pursuing Virtues

Earlier in the year, I was asked by my friend, Sis. Anita Miles to write a guest post for another blog. I was extremely honored by this invitation, but I was also scared to death. Pursuing Virtues is a blog where a team of great writers put up wonderful posts each week to encourage ladies to pursue Godly lives. In the picture above is Sis Shayla and Sis Anita with me. They are both on the Pursuing Virtues team.

July was the month that I had the privilege to be their guest writer. I prayed long and hard about writing this post. I spent many hours writing then starting over fresh. I wanted God to anoint my writing and for everything to flow correctly. Thank God for answering my prayers! I had a few select people that I allowed to see it before it was sent in for publishing. Thanks to my special team that guided, encouraged and helped me! July 25th was the date for the post went live for the world to see. It was exciting to see my post on the website. You can read it on Pursuing Virtue’s website by clicking here. 

Thanks for stopping by to visit with me today. It was a pleasure to have you here. I hope you have a fabulous weekend. 

Odie

Travel Log and Circle

After service Tuesday night in Everett, Mass, we visited while tearing down the sound equipment and loading it into the Green Machine. We left the church a few minutes after ten and arrived at the bus in Peabody about 10:30. 

In thirty minutes we had loaded Odie in the bus, loaded the sound equipment in the bay of the bus, hooked up the Green Machine for the bus and cranked up. We were pulling out of the parking lot at 11:00 PM, right on schedule.

There are three main routes between Boston and home and each of those routes has two or three variations and options. We chose to go around the west side of Boston on the I-95 loop until we hit I-90 west. We followed 90 to I-84W to I-91S and joined back up with I-95 west along the coast of Connecticut.

I knew the first travel plaza in Connecticut would have fuel cheaper than we would see it for many miles, so we stopped in for the pleasure of adding nearly 100 gallons at $3.13 a gallon, a bargain.

This stretch had whipped up on us the Thursday before with all the traffic, but it was wide open overnight. That was the whole purpose of driving at night. Soon we were bypassing entering NY, going around NYC on I-287 and crossing the Hudson on the new Tappan Zee Bridge. They were building this bridge the last time we were through.

The BoggsMobile followed 287 south into New Jersey and then turned west on I-80. With most of the potential for huge city traffic behind us, we began to look for places to stop for the night. We knew our opportunities were slim along this stretch and we were prepared to drive to a rest area in Pennsylvania near Berwick.

We cruised through a few rest areas and truck parking places along the way but they were all over full. We rolled into the rest area near Berwick about 5:40 AM and the truckers were beginning to stir and hit the road. There were two spaces empty and we only needed one. Hallelujah! Praise God for 365 trouble free miles overnight.

Odie rides in her bunk so she was already in position to sleep and had probably been sleeping for hours. Kelly Jo and I did not tarry long and we were in bed a few minutes after 6:00. I did not sleep as long as I would have liked, but I had over four hours of very deep sleep. It felt heavenly.

Kelly Jo prepared a big breakfast later in the day and we were on the road by 3:00 PM. We stopped for nothing but construction and bathroom breaks in the next 501 miles. We did have several one lane construction backups on I-80 though. One of them was especially slow. We traveled 25 miles in 51 minutes. Whew!

All the Ohio interstate traffic was wide open and that helped a lot on the final stretch home. The BoggsMobile was pulling into the drive at 11:05, 24 hours and five minutes after we left Peabody, Massachusettes.

That completed our circle of eight full days and 1790 miles in the bus. Out of the eight days, we were driving the bus five of them. We preached five services in two different churches, both of them in Massachusettes. The first church in Fall River for Pastor Isaac and the second in Everett for Pastor Plummer. It was a great tour.

This is our approximate route.

Our next revival is close to home. We begin Sunday morning and go through Wednesday night at Anchor of Hope for Pastor EJ Lamb. We will leave shortly afterward for our next tent revival in Central City, Kentucky. We are looking forward to both meetings very much.

Thank you for joining us today.

Davy