Moving, Church Dinners, and Tractor Pulls

Hi everyone,
My camera's lenses are on hard times right now, so the quality and quantity of my pictures is a little low right now. But hopefully you'll enjoy anyway. Oh, and if any of you have few hundred $$ laying that you don't know what to do with, let me know and I'll see if I can help you out of your predicament ;-)

Also, please keep my brother-in-law Nelson in prayer if you think of it. Last week he had surgery to remove a tumor from the one side of his thyroid. Well, the tumor tested positive for containing a small amount of cancer, so next Thursday (30th) he goes back into surgery to have the other half of his thyroid removed. Thankfully, this type of cancer has a 97% cure rate when found early, but he and his family could certainly use all the prayer and encouragement you can give them.

*Update - Thursday*
Praise God Nelson came through his surgery successfully today! Of course, he's rather uncomfortable right now from the surgery and drugs, so please pray for a complete and rapid recovery.


God bless,
Ben

P.S. I finally responded to all your comments about the VW bus.

Nostalgia

A few weeks ago, my younger siblings put on a play for the rest of us featuring a beloved character from my youth: Adam Raccoon!*

*BTW, has anyone else read the Adam Raccoon books?

Overcome with nostalgia, we dug out my old Adam Raccoon books and took a trip down memory lane.

Home Improvement

After much planning, we finally added a supplemental well tank to our house's H₂O system. It's such a blessing to be able to turn on the faucet and always have water come out!

Bet you didn't know Ben was an electrician. Neither did he.

Helping Matt and Emily Move

Somehow this mattress and boxspring need to fit into that trailer, but we need to leave space under them for items that need to be packed later.

"Hey, let's try strapping them to the roof!"

Clear the runway folks, I'm coming in for a landing.

"I sure hope you guys know what your doing..."

There's no stopping now, bring on the next one!

Muscle Power

Ah, the drama of moving! :-)

We're finally done!*

*Note: Later, because of some trailer malfunctions, all this stuff had to be unloaded and then reload back into another truck. But we didn't know that at the time - ignorance is bliss, folks.

Church Dinner

Eating and catching up on life.

One of the many excellent cooks that make church dinners so enjoyable.

Foodline

Eying up the cake. But they can't touch the work of art, until...

... we get a picture of the artist!

Anticipation

With Matt leaving for TX soon, it became urgent to pass on his knowledge of how to babysit the furnace. What a demanding piece of machinery!

"Aw, don't worry. If we have any questions, we'll just read manual."*

*Smart guys read manuals.

Tractor Pulling at the Local Fair

Timothy weighs in for the pedal tractor pull.

Ready... Set... Go!

Pedal that tractor, boy!

With flames shooting out of the exhaust stack (use your imagination), Isaac starts his tractor off with a ROAR!

Time for the big boys to have some fun!

Stiff competition.

Just so our readers don't forget what Aaron looks like. ;-)

Pretty much the coolest sisters around.

One day, while I was walking through the park...

Junior: "Hey Mom, look at the funny looking guy walking in our park!"

Mom: "Junior, stop staring at strangers get back to work this instant! Winter is a' coming and there's work to done."

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The End