Well Sunday was a busy day that started with awesome worship at Element Church. We were greeted with lots of "welcome backs", hugs and handshakes. Bob had a great message to go along with the praise music. The Element band is a little more livelier with their praise music than Cornerstone but we certainly love both styles that honor our LORD. We saw lots of new folks and welcomed a new family visiting for the first time from Nebraska as they moved here with his job change. We visited with our Jill's folks(although she was away on business) Brian and Susan who brought Annsley and Gabe with them. Annsley was giving hugs and kisses while Gabe was being a typical boy and playing hard to get a hug or kiss.
We drove over to Brian and Susan after church to pick up a bookcase for daughter Amy that Susan was selling and brought it back to Seminole for her. We had a lite lunch around 2 PM then chilled until it was time to head to GG's for the birthday dinner for Betsy. GG had a 12 pound roast beef in the oven(median rare) and it was cooked to perfection to go along with smashed taters, gravy, broccoli and salad. The eatin' was superb and after awhile we had coconut cake for dessert. Braden and I did the cleanup then we headed out for home. We wanted to watch the 2 hour special on National Geographic about Killing Kennedy which is based on the book by Bill O'Reilly that started at 8. Well the reenactment was right on with the book and I believe it put all of the conspiracy theorist to bed about LBJ or the mafia having a hand in that assassination of our president.
I tuned into a little of the NFL afterwards and then Nancy spoke with our "mountain mom" about her brother Joe who is ill with some pain in his abdomen. Seems he was in the emergency room in Sparta due to the terrible soreness and the diagnosis wasn't what his daughter who is a physician in another state thought it might be, so she took him back to her hospital for a second opinion. Keep Joe in your thoughts and prayers as he is in his late 80's.
The garden transplants seem to be doing O.K. except for the pesky squirrels that keeping digging in an around the plants. I shot a couple with bb's but that only causes them to scamper into the nearest trees, too bad you couldn't eat them as I grew up on squirrel meat in Virginia as a kid. Here the pesky critters have no natural enemies and they run rampart everywhere. The only time we see one dead is when they play in the streets and get run over by a vehicle.
Well today is the day set aside to honor those who have served in the military for the preservation of our way of life in this these United Sates of America. I was honored and privileged to serve 4 active years in the USAF and then another 3 active years in the reserves where I continued to serve during the summers, weekends and holidays while attending California State University to acquire my bachelors degree. All of those 7 years were during the Vietnam Theater in southeast Asia on an airplane that carried troops in and out of the war zone along with materials to support the conflict. I was blessed to never have been in actual combat on the ground but did have several buddies lose their life when their planes were shot down or plowed into mountains in that rugged country while supporting those on the ground.
We were young teenagers and never gave it a thought about giving your life for your country but essentially that's what we who served did when we took the oath to uphold the constitution. It's too bad those who are in leadership in our government today aren't held accountable for their actions that lead to the loss of Americans in harms way while serving their country, Oh well. We definitely have let a group of politicians become a separate class that puts them above the people they were elected(questionable) to serve and be above the laws they enact for the rest of us. That's just my opinion, oh well!!!LATER
