Happy New Year

We are back in Lebanon -- arrived about 4:45. Yesterday I didn't have internet access but I prepared the following comments.

Happy New Year from Grants Pass. Actually, that is confusing because I am in GP while I write this but will be in Lebanon when I post it. Does that make sense? Never mind. It doesn’t matter anyway. We drove down to GP Sunday after church with a stop in Springfield for lunch with Jack and Luwayne (Joyce’s brother and sis-in-law) and their daughter Kelly (we love her!!!) and her NEW husband (now we love him!). His name is Brian; they were married in August and we couldn’t attend the wedding because of Fir Point camp commitments and Lebanon FM Church commitments. Commitments sure mess up the free spirit of doing whatever you want whenever you want!!! (There must be a sermon in there somewhere).

When we got to Grants Pass, I knew we wouldn’t have water (refer to the blog a couple weeks ago). But I did have time to mess with the system a little and discovered a broken pipe at the wellhead. If a problem can be easy and the fix simple, this was it. The pipe was at the top, easy to get to, easy to repair, and only cost about ten bucks. By noon on Monday we had water. I have run a lot errands will here – mostly just catch up stuff that accumulates and then has to happen all in two or three days.

I went to Bluestone Bakery this morning (Tuesday) for coffee and breakfast – but mostly because they have a free WiFi. I got my email and responded to some of them. While I was there it started to snow. It snowed almost all day, sometimes barely, sometimes in big, wet flakes. Late in the afternoon it started sticking just a little bit. Then turned to rain. I just heard on the radio that our high was 35*. If it turns cold tonight, we are in trouble because of all the moisture on the ground.

While home I made a couple “pastoral” calls, checked on the Nazarene Church as the renters of the Allen Creek building, and attended the Tuesday evening Bible Study of the Deaf Fellowship. I finished cleaning the gutters – that project was started a couple weeks ago but was cut short when Joyce discovered we didn’t have water. Tomorrow, I’ll put some insulation in the well house and Joyce and I will clean the upstairs storeroom at Allen Creek. This is mostly because it was left in such a mess we are embarrassed by it and we’re afraid if someone else cleans it, some good stuff will be trashed.

Then we’ll drive to our Lebanon home. I don’t have TV here and there are football games I’m missing!!! A big One is cOming up January One. Can’t miss that One. Go Ducks.