It’s been a a week of struggles, but it sure helps when we get visitors from up north. Our friends, Curt and Carol Andrews, visited us Wednesday on a cruise. What an encouragement! They had a bit of a surprise for us when they got here. Carol had asked what they could bring that is [...]
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It’s been a regular work week here at HRGS. That means that stuff still breaks about as fast as I can fix it. The first thing on my list Monday was to read all the electric and water meters. In the process, I ambled past a 1/2″ water pipe that was squirting water into the [...]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – but not here in the Bay Islands. Even though it got down to almost 68° the other morning, there’s no point in even dreaming of a white Christmas. However, there are some decorations here and there. Some are right here in our house. Since the house [...]
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Why is the word “normal” in quotes above? Because around here, normal is like luck. There is no such thing. Every day is a new adventure. It’s great to have Peter and Sandi back with us. We missed them a great deal. One of the best parts of having them back is that I don’t [...]
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Yesterday we received a special visit. For several years, I’ve been working on Bible Basics’ Verse by Verse project. The speaker is Pastor Steve Kreloff of Lakeside Community Chapel in Clearwater, Florida. His son, Ben, directs the Verse by Verse program at Lakeside. Ben and his wife, Danielle came to see us while celebrating their [...]
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Turkeys We hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. Of course ours would have been better with our family, but we still enjoyed the day. Jim and Karen Avella came over to have some “dear” turkey with us. “Dear” is the island word for expensive. I read that folks in the U.S. were up in arms [...]
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This might seem incredible, but at the moment I have no idea whether or not our AM signal is going out. We can’t receive the AM signal here at home or at the station well enough to make out anything intelligible. In fact, if I try to scan to it on our radio, it will [...]
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It’s wet here! Rainy season is fully upon us and the walk to work is more like a wade to work. Praise the Lord for rubber boots. Mildred and I recently watched “How to Train Your Dragon” and, as I reflected on it, I realized what a great picture it paints of most of us. [...]
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Today, after Mildred and I went up island to get groceries and eat lunch at The Bakery, I took a solo trip to Carambola Gardens just to play with my old Nikon D100 camera. It’s been way too long since I went out to make art just for the fun of it. I like the [...]
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Wow, it’s been wet. Seems like all I’ve done lately is talk about the weather. Last year the rainy season almost wasn’t rainy at all. I think this year is going to make up for it. But we got some sunshine today, which we really needed. It’s been about two weeks. When I got back [...]
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I don’t think I’ll write much today. For one thing, I’m very sleepy. I’m still trying to catch up after the long days over on Utila and the long days of preparation during the weeks leading up to the trip. Ken Anderson from Bible Basics in Tampa came down on Saturday the 25th of September. [...]
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We’re just about ready for the Utila guy wire project. On Monday I went to La Ceiba where our friend Walter Bush helped me find a good price on some highly rated marine paint. He drove me all over to various paint stores and also to several hardware stores shopping for rope. Would you believe [...]
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