~Christine and I have been inviting people over for a meal almost weekly. One week we had three hospitality meals. I underestimated one such meal, and we ended up with ten people that evening. Everyone had a great time. Christine died and rose from the dead the next morning.

~Monday: Group Bible study in Mark. More Bible students than I ever had in my college classes for the last six years.

~Tuesday: Teaching Home School group 9th-10th grade chemistry and physics. Five students. One hour a week. They are such a sharp and funny group. Great sense of humor.

~Wednesday: 7am Bible study. Not leading it. Nobody should have to get up before 7am. It's still dark outside!

~Wednesday. Joined the VFW. This will be interesting. Church youth group: I've been asked to teach once a month.

~Extensive talk with two young ladies about the mission field. One landed in Romania last week. Exciting!

July - Every local town had a parade.

August - 100 degrees for two weeks. Bought a swamp cooler (whoever heard of having to cool a swamp).

September

~Attended two rodeos, one with Michael’s family and one with Erich and Deb. Julie is an occupational therapist. She had no idea what a rodeo was like. When the bull riders came out, she gasped. “Lots of new customers!”

~Preached at Priest River Community Church on one Sunday, then preached twice at Red Bench’s yearly Family Retreat at Waits Lake north of Spokane. This is retirement?

~Getting settled. Closed down the garden this week. Season over. Lost some veggies to 40 mph winds, intense heat and a billion grasshoppers, but harvested enough tomatoes to make Italy jealous.

Me: The rest of the Bible Study videos on the seven churches in Revelation 2-3, plus an extra one on the seven churches as a whole.

Christine’s latest blogs:

~“Reading the Bible for the 21st Century Woman”

~“Fear”

~“Busy Moms”

~“Encouragement from Others”

~”How to Interpret the Bible, not just read it.”