Yesterday, the first of our Turkish kids to leave was Aleyna. We don’t know if she’ll be returning next summer or not. The others took her to the airport in Chicago and she flew back to Istanbul.
Continue readingIf I could have gotten down on my knees and kissed the ground when I got home, I would have. As it was, I kissed our address sign!
Continue readingThere have been some changes since Mark and Mom and I left Door County last fall, and I’m not just talking about COVID-19. It did feel weird to talk with my neighbor across the street and her yard from her, but that is perfectly understandable. There are other things that aren’t quite so easy. But first…
Continue readingThis morning, we had every intention of being home by tonight, but Mark had one more bit of fun left in him!
Continue readingI slept in until after 10:00 this morning. Mark had to come in and wake me up. He said I slept through a doozy of a storm last night with lightning that lit up the whole bedroom and crashing thunder. I didn’t hear a thing. When we go west, we gain two hours, but when we go east, we lose two hours. Add that to the late nights I’ve been keeping, and you can understand why I was so tired yesterday and last night.
Continue readingYesterday and the day before, I averaged two hundred pictures a day which took me several hours to sort through to find what I wanted to show you in my blog. Today, I shot forty-four pictures. This is a comment on how much there was to take pictures of today!
Continue readingWe didn’t get very far today, but we sure had a lot of fun! This is another day I’ve been looking forward to.
Continue readingIt took us all day to leave the parking lot behind the church. Mark got up at 5:15 am and pretty much worked through the day on breaking camp down, packing the outer compartments, and getting the motorcycle in the truck and the truck connected to the RV.
Continue readingThe youth minister, Dustin, and his wife, Jill, in my church down here have been trying for a number of years to have a baby, and they were recently preparing to go for their third attempt at In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) when Jill got pregnant. They had been through several miscarriages before, so they kept it hush-hush until they passed the point of no return. Just in the last few weeks, they learned what the gender of the baby is so they decided to have a Gender Reveal party in the church parking lot last night.
Continue readingWhen we got up in Kingman this morning, it was really cold. Mark told me it would get warmer today, but considering how cold last winter was in Tucson, I wasn’t so sure. I put my long johns on. Continue reading