Saturday, December 06, 2008

Recent Events

I find three notable things worthy of mention.

(1) November 23 -- Commissioning service for Rex II and Missy McDowell. Kathy and I went to the Millmont, PA, God's Missionary Church for this special event. Steve Mowery, director of the missions department at Penn View Bible Institute, preached the message. I did the commissioning on behalf of EFM, and offered the commissioning prayer. After that, each father offered a prayer of blessing.


In this photo, Rex II and Missy are kneeling. Rex and Hannah McDowell are standing at the right; Rex had already prayed for the couple. Drema and Tom Susan, Missy's parents are at the left; Tom is praying for them in the picture. Missy's brother Jason stands in the center, and Anita Brechbill, founder of RopeHolders is seated at Tom Susan's left hand.


(2) Christmas is coming! Kathy is wrapping a gift here; and is actually wrapping more presents as I write. We were planning to do outside lights today, but the third notable event is . . . .

(3) It has snowed today! The temperature was down to about 21 overnight and we woke up to a skiff of snow. Then the white stuff really started coming down. I don't think the weatherman was expecting this much -- at least we didn't hear anything in the forecasts about accumulation. I measured 1 1/2 inches of dry, powdery snow in one spot on the deck rail.

As you can see, the carport didn't do much to keep the snow off my car this morning.

I haven't been able to use my snow thrower for at least two years now, either because of the lack of snow, or because what snow we've gotten has come when I've been out of town. I think I'll declare 1 1/2 inches to be sufficient for getting the snow thrower out this afternoon. After all, we have a pretty long driveway.

6 comments:

Michelle said...

Yay! You finally get to use it!

Noah and Heather said...

We are jealous! We are up in the mountains for a marriage retreat and were hoping for snow. The only snow we have seen so far was from a snow machine mounted on a parade float.

Vonnie said...

So glad you finally got to break that thing in!! :)

sankey family said...

Congrats on finally using your snow thrower! But no thanks - I'll take this 83 degree and sunny Saltillo weather anyday! Hey, come see us and enjoy it with us. Ya tienen una casa en Saltillo - que vengan para visitarnos!

Cindy said...

I'm just jealous that Kathy is wrapping presents. I have VERY little shopping done, and I know some of it's going to wait until next week. Such is life :) Glad you got to use your snow blower...lol!

Rodney said...

Wow! That machine is almost worn out by now isn't it?