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