Changes to Mile Markers Now and In The Near Future

I wrote about some of this last year but I want to go through it again on my way to an announcement of a small change that is coming.

Bro. David Johnston built our original website at davykellyandodie.com many years ago. It served us well for years and gave us a place to post pictures and news from our family and ministry. Some of you have been with us since the beginning of that site. 

One of the features of that website was called Mile Markers. We posted news of what was going on but we posted on a very irregular basis. It was a complicated process for me and we rarely had good internet signal back then.

In November 2009 we began this site on Blogger. We were leaving for our second trip to Nigeria and I was looking for a way to post pictures in real time for folks back home. While searching the internet, I ran across Blogger and within hours, I was set up and ready to go.

The experiment with this site from Nigeria sealed the deal. It was very easy to add pictures and to stay in touch with everyone. We soon moved our Mile Marker updates here and began posting all our pictures here as well.

The original site became a static site with information but rarely any updates since all of the updates are posted here. We started getting hacked there on a regular basis and the hacks kept Bro. Johnston busy. He made some changes and the hacks have been kept at bay.

We knew this day was coming for a long time, but we will soon point that address toward this site. davykellyandodie.com will bring you to the same place as boggsblogs.com. I do not know exactly when the change will be finalized but it is in the works now.

I did not want you to lose access to our schedule and our Google calendar was on the original website. I could never figure out how to post it here. This week, I figured it out and that change is complete.

You can access our schedule from the desktop view of Mile Markers by clicking one of two places. I have circled both in the pictures below. You can click the picture of the BoggsMobile or the word "Schedule" on the tab across the top.

Those links use to eventually lead you to davykellyandodie.com but no they lead you to a page on this site with our Google calendar embedded.

You can scroll down to see the whole month. You can also navigate the months and see it in a weekly, monthly or agenda view. The default view is monthly.

Nearly half of you view our blog from an iPhone or other mobile device. (48% if our numbers are correct.) If you are viewing our blog on a mobile platform it looks similar to the picture below. 

If you click on the tab I have marked with a red circle, a fold down menu will appear and you click on "Schedule".

That will bring up the schedule page. You may have to scroll down and over to see the whole month depending on the screen size on your mobile device.

I am glad to make that change. It puts us one step closer to bringing the two sites together. There is one drawback. Through the years of posting here, I have linked to the schedule in many posts. Once the old address points to this site, those links will probably be dead. I do not see a way to go back through every post and change that link.

This is what I have decided to do. If there is a post that gets a lot of traffic and it has a dead link, I will repair it. Otherwise I, or anyone else, may never see those dead links again.😀

That is all for today. Thanks for dropping by to sit a spell. Have a great weekend!

Davy

One Night and One Night Only

Monday we woke up in Houghton, Louisiana on the edge of Shreveport. Bro. Scott Morris had broke out in a spontaneous revival on Sunday and he asked me Sunday night if I would be willing to preach Monday night. I told him Monday morning that I would and we headed in that direction.

It was well over 300 miles to Richton and with a lunch along the way thrown in for good measure, it was 5:00 before we arrived at the hotel in Runnelstown. We checked in, cleaned up and went on to church.

We did not have our sound system so Bro. Scott invited me to adjust the monitors to best suit us. I appreciate him allowing us to try to save our voices. It was a big help.

We had a good service Monday night in Richton. I hope we helped revival. It was very, very good to see our friends. They made us feel we warmly welcomed. Here are a few pictures.

Tuesday morning we drove to the BoggsMobile at Moss Point. I had some work to do on sound equipment and Kelly Jo and Odie needed to run to town. As soon as we arrived at the BoggsMobile, they hit the ground running.

We had ordered newsletters to be shipped to Cedar Creek and they arrived Tuesday. Bro. and Sis. Templeton drove delivered them to Mobile, Alabama and met my girls. It was nice of them to do that. They also delivered another package that came. I may tell you about later.

The girls were late getting in Tuesday evening. By the time they had finished stuffing the newsletters in the envelopes we had prepared and putting the stamps on, it was very late. I let them rest a while Wednesday morning. They had earned it.

Once we did get rolling Wednesday, we had a nice easy trip through Mobile into the panhandle of Florida and up to Beams of Light Church near Cantonment. Soon we were parked and setting up our sound system.

It has been one year since we were with Pastor Phillip Deane and his folks. It was wonderful to be with them all and enjoy the presence of the Lord. We had a good service and great fellowship afterward.

We also had a great visit with Bro. Ferrell. Stearnes. Ferrell lives near Pensacola and we love it when he is able to be in church with us. We hope to see him next week in Foley.

I would much rather preach revival than preach a night here and then a night there, but this week has been especially good so far. We have seen good friends and enjoyed the good presence of the Lord. It can not be much better than that.

Thank you for reading today. Stop in again soon.

Davy

Vintage View Vednesday Pine Prairie 2009

Yesterday's short post went up late due to no cell phone signal. If you missed it, you can read it HERE.

I appreciate the response from the older pictures we have been posting. I thought that pictures like the ones I posted last week may only be of interest to our family. But you have let me know you enjoy seeing them and several of you enjoyed the information about Steve's Sony Digital Mavica. That is great.

I am here to please, so here is another set of vintage pictures.

In our archives I had a ton of pictures from a visit to Pine Prairie, Louisiana back in January of 2009. Since we were there only two weeks ago and posted a bunch of pictures, I thought it would be interesting to see some of the people nine years ago. You can see those recent pictures HERE and HERE.

There were visitors from all over at the Homecoming meeting that year and we had a bunch of fun. There are several pictures of us in the old church singing and acting goofy. We had a blast and the pictures bring the memories rushing back.

I hope you enjoy.

Davy