The Fun Has Begun!

The Fun Has Begun! As most of you know, we have started the dirt work this week on the house we are building for Odie to live in. Bro. David Butler worked diligently Monday and Tuesday and we are seeing the progress. 

As I write this Wednesday morning, the footer is dug and the rebar is in the ditch. Once he has the rebar properly in place, it should be ready for inspection and concrete! With a good inspection and good weather, we should have a footer by later today.

Odie and I have been taking a bunch of pictures and we will post them on a later post. My Dad has helped both days and others have dropped in to offer moral and physical support. We will try to have a full report on that as well.

Today I have pictures from the "Official" ground breaking. You know that we can not have a Bobcat or Track Hoe take out the first scoop so we saved that job for Odie. 

They were scheduled to begin early Monday so Sunday evening on our way to church, Odie worked just a little bit.

Here she is below with the first shovel full of dirt. It was a small shovel but it was full!

Then we all got in on the act.

David Butler and his helper took it from there and in two shakes of a lamb's tale it will be finished! Maybe we will look back and wonder how it was finished so quickly. I sure hope so!

Revival at Dryden Rd. was really good again Tuesday night. We had a spontaneous alter service before the preaching and then Bro. Dallas Lakes preached outstanding. I am looking forward to service again tonight.

Thanks for reading today.

Davy

Pictures From Easter Sunday and More

We have some pictures from our exciting Easter Sunday below. First let me tell you about a little snippet of the excitement Monday. 

Although we have been working on the house for months, Monday April 17, 2017 was the official start day of construction. David Butler removed the sod from where the house will go and had several loads of gravel hauled into place in preparation for digging the footer today.

We also purchased the rebar and moved a bunch of dirt into place. Today will be an exciting day as well and we will have pictures of it all on a later day.

Sunday's post had our traditional Easter poem so I omitted the Veiw Out The Front Window Sunday post. I know that my sister Theresa loves those exciting posts so I have included those pictures and links from last week's post at the bottom of the page.

I think I mentioned yesterday that we had four people saved Sunday at Dryden Rd. It was awesome! I love watching people give their lives to the Lord. Praise God for His help!

Now for the pictures from Easter Sunday. We will begin with a picture of my beautiful girls!

The very first service at Dryden Rd. was on Easter Sunday 1957. This week is the 60th year celebration and Bro. Bennie gave a little history of the church. The original building was 50x96. It was a large sanctuary built on a full basement of 12 Sunday School rooms. Bro. Bennie read that it cost less than $42,000 to build!

Then they unveiled the 60th Anniversary plaque.

These five pictures were taken by Holly Boggs

Sunday night

Monday night we had a great night of revival. Bro. Bill Houston preached on Revival. It was great to hear!

Odie snapped a few pictures from the service Monday night.

Here are links to our posts from the last week.

Odie's Saturday Post

Revival In Pictures - Central City, Kentucky

Part 2 of Vonore, Tennessee

Part 1 of Vonore, Tennessee

Thank God For Central City, Kentucky Church

Weekend Woundup and Weview # 15

Here was our view out the front window when we arrived home Saturday morning.

This was our view as we parked in the barn Saturday afternoon.

Thanks for stopping in today.

Davy

Weekend Woundup and Weview #16

It has been a super great Easter weekend! We have so many pictures from the weekend, we may save the pictures from Easter Sunday for a second post. We will see how it goes.

Friday in Central City was great from the start because it included Mexican food! I think we only ate Mexican food five days while in Central City so we will have to do better next time.😀

Friday afternoon, I unhooked the utilities, started the BoggsMobile and turned it around in order to hook up the car. I had everything ready to go before church started.

Friday night we had another good service to finish up revival. We sure enjoyed being with Pastor Alan Harris and all of his fine folks. They have been so good to us through the years and we cherish their friendship.

Friday night pictures from Sis. Brenti.

Pictures from Pastor Alan Harris

After church we loaded up the BoggsMobile, bid our dear friends a sad goodbye and pointed northeast toward the Lazy OD Ranch. It was only 272 miles and mostly interstate but I was a little tired starting out this time.

The last several times I have driven at night I have not been sleepy at all. I did not really struggle to stay a wake Friday but I was wishing every single mile away. We had to make a detour from our regular route through Cincinnati due to construction but we had no trouble at all going through and very little traffic.

4 hours and 26 minutes after we started, we pulled in next to the barn. We did not take time to take the tent trailer out of its place inside. We pulled in next to the barn, hooked up to the outside plug and called it a night. 

I climbed into bed for a few hours about 4:00 AM. It sure felt good!

Saturday morning David Bulter and my Dad came and officially staked out the perimeter of the house we are building for Odie to live in. 



David Butler is doing the excavating. He plans to be here this morning to begin. We officially "Broke ground" this weekend with Odie turning over the first shovel of dirt. I will have pictures of that later.

While we were working on the layout, the Dodds church was having their Egg Hunt next door. Some of the folks walked over to visit and we enjoyed that. Paul Smith and his wife and children were in from Chicago and walked over for a few minutes. I do not get to see Paul very often so that was really special.

Paul is a first cousin on the Boggs side of our family and is about a year and a half younger than me. We lived close when we were growing up and we spent a lot of time together. He is a very talented artist and that was evident even when we were very young. Who needed coloring books when he could draw all the pictures we needed to color?

It was great to see him.

Then we moved the tent trailer out of the barn and flip the BoggsMobile around and backed it in. Kelly Jo is quite a driver!

At 5:00 PM it was time for a break and a nice meal with some of my family at Dad's barn. They had smoked ham, brisket, green beans, grilled vegetables and a bunch more things that I am not allowed to partake in. 

We enjoyed the short visit with family. We did not stay long since we had work to do and we were hoping we might go to bed early to make up for missing a night's sleep. Fat chance of that!

One of the things I did Saturday before dark was give the Green Machine a good bath. It was way overdue and it cleaned up nicely. It is so nice to have water on the Ranch now!

We did have a super great Sunday at our home church. Pastor Gary Lee preached Sunday morning and Pastor Bennie Sutherland preached Sunday night. They both reeled in a couple of souls a piece and that is awesome. What a great way to begin revival. 

I think this post is long enough so I will post the pictures from Sunday later. I do have a couple more pictures to post before I close. Pastor Alan Harris and the church in Central City are beginning a sanctuary remodel today. They had already sold some the their pews and were using a few of their fellowship hall chairs in the sanctuary.



Sunday night after there service, Bro. Harris and his folks moved everything out to prepare for the contractors arriving this morning! It looks huge!

They are going to remove the paneling and replace it with drywall, extend the platform and replace the carpet. They have new chairs coming soon as well. It is going to look so nice.

The First Church of the Fellowship Hall is set up and ready to go!

That wraps up most of the weekend. I will try to post pictures from Easter tomorrow. I hope you had a great weekend.

Davy