House Update 6/28/2017

When I posted two blogs on Monday, I had no plans to miss blogging Tuesday. I guess I could say, "That is how the cookie crumbles" but since I have had no cookies to speak of in a few years, I am not even sure it is legal for me to say that.

Monday's blogs are HERE and HERE.

Tuesday was a long and productive work day on the house. After doing some measuring inside the house, I went to Waynesville Lumber to check on some plywood and to ask some questions. I forgot two of the most important questions but I knew I would be back there later in the day.

The plumber passed his 2nd rough in inspection about 10:00 and we  are thrilled with that. Once he was gone, I went to get Dad's truck. I went to two different Home Depot stores in order to buy 38 sheets of 1/2" B/C plywood. They call it 15/32" plywood now, but what is 1/32 of an inch among friends?

I brought it back to the house and Kelly Jo help me put it inside. 

She then helped me load some extra material in the truck that had to go back to Waynesville Lumber. I remembered to ask one of my questions but I forgot the second one again!

About 4:00 Steve and I began ripping all 38 sheets of plywood. We made four rips on each sheet for five pieces per sheet.

We set the scaffolding walk board to the right height to catch the plywood for each rip. Between that and Steve's help, the job went pretty smooth.

My phone battery died and was on the charger while we were working so I failed to get any pictures of Steve until we were finished. Gary Coffman pulled up with a tractor so I captured a picture of Steve next to it.

I had about an hour of daylight left so I gave the yard a quick mowing. During the last bit of mowing it was pretty dark so it will be interesting to see how the grass looks in the light of day.

Today I have to do some routing on every board we ripped. Any ideas what we need 190 boards for?

The metal for the roof is supposed to be delivered by noon today, but it gets better than that. Bro. Mitch Boggs Jr. and Bro. Jason Fellers and their families are supposed to arrive later today as well! 

We are anxious to see them all. WE love these dear friends and we are excited to see them. They will be putting the roof on the house and that is very exciting too!

When are you coming to see us?

Thanks for reading today.

Davy

A Meteor (?) in Kentucky 6/26/2017

I posted our Weekend Woundup and Weview early this morning after we arrived at the Lazy OD Ranch from Bristol, Virginia. It gives details of our wonderful weekend and includes lots of great pictures. You can click on the highlighted link at the beginning of this paragraph to read it.

For those of you that receive this post in your email Monday night, you will have to click on the link above or HERE to see the earlier post. It will not show up in your email because this is the latest post.

I had something I wanted to include in that post but I could not locate the file quickly and I was much too tired to let it slow me down. This morning Kelly Jo and I emptied the holding tank on the bus and backed the bus into the barn. When that was finished I found the file.

It is a video clip from our dash cam while on the way home overnight. The clip says it was about 11:00 PM Sunday night but I think the dash cam must be set on Mountain time because it was actually about 1:00 AM this morning. 

We were driving north on I-75 and had crossed Jellico mountain a few minutes before and entered into Kentucky. Just as a semi truck passed us a large fireball/meteor passed overhead. It was white, blue, green and yellow and burning bright. I though at first that it might be a plain about to crash.

I have posted the clip below. Look straight above the truck about 12 seconds into the video. Sometimes when I post a video here, you can not view it with an Apple device. It must be the whole Google vs Apple thing. If you can not see it, you may have to view it on a PC

I record on low quality on the dash cam to preserve space on the memory card for more video at but times like this I wish I had been recording on the highest quality!

That definitely woke me up and kept me awake for a while!

Here are three pictures

Davy

Fireball Meteor Shooting Star

Weekend Woundup and Weview #26, June 26, 2017

One day last week Kelly Jo and Odie drove to Hillsboro to see Kelly Jo's parents. We missed posting the few pictures they took so we are including them in the Woundup and Weview post.

Danny is at his happiest with a bowl of ice cream!

Of course, having his girls around helps too!

The Weekend

Once the plumber left Thursday there was not much to do on the house front, so we pulled the bus out of the barn and hit the road. We have been scheduled to be in Bristol, Virginia Sunday June 25th for quite a while but I wanted to surprise Odie and take her to the Isaacs event on Friday.

I was not sure I could get it done until things fell together on Thursday. When everything tumbled into place we cranked the BoggsMobile and rolled the wheels. We left in time for bad traffic in Cincinnati and then ran smack into heavy rain.

Even though we drove in rain and traffic most of the way, it was good to be in the driver's seat again. We had never been to Franklin, North Carolina before. There is no good road to take a car to Franklin, much less a bus. However, the drive is beautiful and the town is beautiful once you arrive.

We did not behold the beauty going in since it was dark and raining cats and dogs, but Friday was a gorgeous day!

The Smoky Mountain Center For The Performing Arts is an awesome venue with great seats and great sound.

The BoggsMobile was nice and clean when we left the barn but after a few hundred miles in the rain, not so much.

Odie told you about the workshops in her Saturday post but I will highlight the sound workshop. It was fantastic and I picked up some great information from Ben Isaacs and Mark Capps.

All the rest was very good too. We really enjoyed the whole day as well as the concert Friday night.

I slept pretty good Friday night too. That was worth the drive right there!

Saturday we stayed for the morning devotional service and it turned into a prayer line and emotional healing service. Aunt Lily testified about fear and the way it can control your life. She told quite a bit about her parents experience surviving the Holocaust and the nearly unavoidable ripple effects of that.

Faith is the only answer to fear and she made that point well in her personal testimony.

She asked me to finish it up and bring the people in for prayer. God moved deeply in some lives and I am thankful for that.

We needed to leave pretty quickly after that, but it was hard to drag Odie away from Sonya's new baby girl. Look at that smile.

We pulled out about noon and made our way back over the mountains to I-40. Instead of turning west, we followed I-40 east to Asheville. We have been over this road many, many times but then we joined an interstate section that I can never remember driving.

We have been on I-26. In fact we were on a section of it last November. However, I do not remember ever driving from Asheville north to I-81 in Tennessee. It has some very steep uphill AND downhill grades but it was beautiful!

We arrived in Bristol, Virginia in time to visit with Bro. Mike and Sis. Tonya Switzer and watch some of the young folks play wiffle ball at the park.

It is so good to be with our friends again. The Horton's and the Switzer's have been so good to us through the years and we enjoy their friendship so very much. It is always a joy to be here and Sunday was no exception.

The Sunday School lesson was awesome. Bro. Switzer did not get to finish it so I may have to drive back down next week for part two.😀

The whole congregation responded great to our singing and the preaching. It was wonderful again to watch folks respond to the preaching and then watch God respond to them! We had great altar service both Sunday morning and Sunday evening.

After church Sunday night we cranked the BoggsMobile and headed toward the Ranch. The drive was pleasant and without out incident except for a construction slow down east of Knoxville. We lost 25-30 minutes in a 4-7 mile stretch!

Later we stopped briefly at a rest area in northern Kentucky and to fill up with fuel at Flying J about 10 miles from the barn. We pulled in about 5:10 AM after 408 miles and closed out  a long but very blessed weekend!

Hopefully the plumber will be here in a few hours so I am going to get a little rest until then.

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy