Well Monday morning found us getting up at 3 AM for a 4 AM departure from hot muggy Florida for the cooler temps at the cabin; and it was perfect when we got here with the temps in the low 70's and dry air, oh my what a relief it was from 83 in the early morning when we headed out.
Sunday was a great day with our BridgePoint Church family as we moved from the Seminole Rec to SPC just across the driveway. Wow this place at the college was just great with all of the modern electronics and sound systems which will be less our production team will have to set up each week. We will still have to set up and break down the individual areas for the kids, coffee shop and prayer and care and some sound equipment and store it in our huge truck. Parking will be less complicated with the huge parking areas. We worked the front area greeting and then the putt putt area for those who wanted to try their skill at a hole in one for a new putter drawing. We can now watch the service as there are three large screens broadcasting in the cafe area of what's happening in the service auditorium. We had over a hundred volunteers making this production and change over a success. We had nearly 200 in the first service attendees and close to that number in the second service reaching folks and helping them get closer to GOD.
We chilled after getting Boston Market takeout. We met up with Dan and Carol but the eatery ran out of chicken at Pollo Tropical so we picked up our food across the street and headed home. I watched a little of the poor play by the Bucs on the tube then we started getting ready to head out on Monday. We went by GG's place and checked out the house and the insides which is just about wiped out of the furniture and furnishings. Nancy gathered a few of her personal belonging from school and then we headed home after topping off the gas tank.
We took a different route to the cabin this time which is about 40 miles or so longer but we avoided all of the construction on I-26 near Columbia and I-77 in Charlotte and northbound for 30-40 miles. What a mess that was last time which set us back nearly two hours in the stop and go and at times backups for miles. We continued north on I-95 north of Florence S.C. to route 38 which took us through a couple small towns to I-74 which took us to High Point then Winston Salem where we hit I-40 and then SR 421 over to I-77. What a nice drive and very little traffic and we got here at the cabin in about the same time than last time with all of the construction on I-77. We stop every hour and half to exercise our legs and we ate breakfast out at McDonald's and lunch at Zaxby's plus a couple of gas stops and we still did it in just over 12 hours. We even missed a turn and back tracked a time or two as this was our first time trying this route but will now be our route from now on as its so scenic and no congestion.
The cabin was just as we left it last Wednesday. The green beans are now a couple inches in length so I gave the gardens a good drink as its been dry with warmer than normal temps the past several days. The lettuce still looks great and the Swiss chard has gotten much bigger as well; it's just too bad the cut worms destroyed so many seedlings initially. Speaking of cut worms two of the four tomato plants I set out in my Florida were cut off at ground level yesterday morning when I checked them. My two largest and healthiest plants were dead. I was hoping they would have tomato's set when we got back to Florida in November, oh well.
We unloaded and then headed out for a hike to the top of the mountain where we visited with the folks who bought Ann and Sandy's cabin. I sat and visited a spell as they are from Jacksonville, Fl. They went home for the hurricane to check on their place and are now planning on spending the winter here on the mountain. We next visited with Bertie as she was out for a stroll in the beautiful mountain air and then we made a quick visit with our dear friends Joe and Jetta. They looked well and were happy to see us. We headed on back down the mountain as the evening shadows were falling. I popped some corn the old fashion way and then we settled into getting showers and catching up with some folks on the telephone before I turned in around 9:30, LATER
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