Oct 07 2008
We had a fun party the other night. Maggie and Shinji were in town from Australia, so we had a great time with them and several others who were still in town. We had a fun time hanging out with them, and others for the night. Hopefully we will get some pictures up, but we’ll see.
Sep 16 2008
Incase you haven’t heard, there were winds close to 80mph were recorded in the Cincinnati area on Sunday. The reminants of Hurricane Ike, combined with a cold front to cause crazy winds to come through the area on Sunday afternoon. We lost a tree in our front yard, and many shingles off of our roof of the house, but otherwise not that bad. During some of the storm I was out in the yard putting things away, and saw white caps on our swimming pool. Thats just nuts.
Our power went out Sunday afternoon, but it came back on around 3am Monday morning, so we were definately one of the lucky ones. Most of our friends in Oxford didn’t have power, so they came over to our house on Monday, to charge laptops, cell phones, etc. Whatever they needed to keep going. Our big freezer in the garage is now full with food from people, who still have no power. So it was an awesome blessing to be able to serve our friends.
Here are a few pictures, from our house
Here are a few pictures from Rob & Annie’s house of the huge tree that fell in their front yard.
Sep 07 2008
We went to Rusty Acres Apple Orchard yesterday. It was a lot of fun. There were 14 of us that went. There were only like 3 or 4 kinds of Apples ready yet, since the apples were ripening late this season. But the ones that were ready were Macintosh, lil Red or something like that, and Galas. Which is great cause I love Gala apples, so I was happy. We got a peck of apples so we are going to bake some apples probably make some apple crisp and maybe can some apples or something but I know that I will be eating apples for several weeks. We’ve added some pictures to the photo album, here are a few you might enjoy.
Sep 01 2008
We went canoeing yesterday, it was a lot of fun. I think we went about 8 miles, so we were a little tired afterwards but it was a lot of fun. We went to the early service at church, then made some lunch at our place, then headed out. With the combined Oxford and West Chester groups it was 9 canoes or 18 people, so it was a good group.
These pictures are some of my favorite, the first is a picture of the Oxford group. Corrine and I, then May and 2 new filipino grad students and Sharmaine, so it was a good time. This second picture, you might have to ask May and Sharmaine if the view going down the river looks better when facing the wrong way or not, but either way it was a fun afternoon.
After the Canoeing a group came back to Oxford, and hung out on he deck and we just relaxed and tried to recuperate from the canoeing. Definately fun.
Aug 30 2008
I was out working today, and I had my little garden wagon attached to my lawn mower, and I was reminded of Grandpa. Actually I kinda felt like grandpa. I was driving my tractor, with a trailer on the back, I had it packed with branches and other brush that I had been trimming. My tractor is much smaller then grandpa’s tractor, but felt the same, it was cool. I felt just like I did when I was growing up, when I would ride around on grandpa’s tractor as we did stuff around the house, it was the same but I was bigger and my tractor and trailer was smaller. I haven’t thought of grandpa in a while, but I did today for some reason.