Well Friday was just another beautiful day here in the mountains but off the mountain it was down right hot. I suppose since we are leaving in less that two weeks we had better get use to the heat once again. We will surely miss this awesome weather this past week with the highs in the low 70's and the lows in the upper 40's to start the day.
I missed walking or hiking with my buddy Steve who spent the night in Mt Airy with family that flew in from Seminole over night so after my morning routines that start with some quiet time to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing, I headed down the driveway three times to get some exercise and hopefully keep up the effort to get back into shape for pickle ball in a couple of weeks. I've added a few pounds this summer with all the great eating which tastes so good here with the clean water and fresh air, oh well.
The Botbyl's decided to leave a day early so we headed off the mountain to the Fall Festival in Mt.Airy for a couple of hours and had lunch at a favorite spot called SOHO's just off the main drag. The owner wasn't there once again as we had so much fun speaking and visiting with him as he was born in Viet Nam to an American GI. The food was very good and then we saw the Nymark Family come in to eat as well. There are 7 of them and just this morning we heard the rain falling on the roof so they will be cramped inside their camper and shipping container as they were planning on the 17 mile bike ride down the Creeper Trail. Hopefully the rain holds for them.
I grilled steaks for our last night with the Botbyl's and the Dan had a piece of meat that wouldn't go down initially so he spent the next couple of hours walking outside and trying to get it to go down. He has had trouble in the past but thankfully he manages to finally get it down or throw it up, oh well. The walk around town in Mt Airy was very hot so we cut it short after a couple of hours and headed to Canaan, Va. for some apples and other veggies for them to take back to Florida. We head out this morning for Cornerstone where we are hosting a conference on Bold and Courageous about bringing GOD back into our lives on the political scene. We are hopeful many will attend especially after what happened this past week with the war in Israel, LATER
