The World's Best Dad !!

Happy Father's Day!! We Love You!!
(What is that on top of Diggers head?)

Congratulations to our Church Graduates !!

Here are the young people from our church that graduated this spring.

Left to Right:
Stanley Rice, Susan's Nephew, Galax High School, Going to be a doctor.

Nate Ledford, Pastor's Son, Wytheville Community College, RN Nursing degree, going on to be a Physicians Assistant or something.

Steven Smith, Susan's Nephew, Lee-McRae College, Elementary School Teacher.

Kendra Smith, Susan's Niece, Grayson County High School, going to God's Bible School for music and possibly a teaching degree.

Leandra Wengerd, from our church, Carroll County High School, in school to be an RN.

Esther Ledford, Pastor's Daughter, Wytheville Community College, RN Nursing degree, going on to be a Physicians Assistant or something.

Family Vacation !!

Since Susan is finally off for the summer, I took most of the week off (6/5 - 6/8) for family vacation. We went out to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg for three days - Tues, Wed & Thurs.

Here are some of the highlights from the week:
Monday - Packed!! Woohoo!
Tuesday - Shopping, playing in the creek, Texas Roadhouse, walk Gatlinburg streets......!
Wednesday - The girls rode some rides, Dixie Stampede, walk in the park and feed the ducks, mini golf.....!
Thursday - More shopping, more playing in creek, more walking on Gatlinburg streets, Bennett's Bar-B-que, home!
Friday - Mow and trim the woods behind the house, go to downtown Galax to the String & Leaf Festival for lunch (Polish sausage), grill steaks, corn-on-the-cob, etc. at the river for supper......!
Saturday - Work at Susan's Granny's, relax in the hammock, RJ's pizza for supper, walk at the park, baked apples in the fire......!

What a good week it was! We enjoyed every minute of it! Below are a few pictures from the trip.

This is a picture of the girls on the porch Monday night.

Happy to be in the Smokies!!

Dixie Stampede

Our favorite attraction!! Been a dozen or so times!!

The rides at The Track!

Check out the girls on the racecars! The was the first
time they had driven them themselves!!

Mini Golf

Playing in the creek!

Happy Birthday Babe !! - June 13th

She says 31, but I don't think so! :)

Here We Come !!!

Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN.........6/5 - 6/7 !!!

Happy Memorial Day !!

A very SPECIAL THANKS to all our Veterans!!

To The World's Best Mom!!!

Happy Mothers Day, Mom!!! We Love You!!!

Here is what I have been into recently. We have been remodeling the church - new textured ceiling, new paint, new stain on the wood, new carpet, new pews, new windows....... We also went with a new pulpit and added a communion table. Along with all the normal work, I was talked into building the pulpit and communion table. This first picture is what we decided we liked, so I took the picture and drew it out how I wanted it. I used wood that came out of our old pulpit and made all of the moldings etc, except the dentil molding and the crown molding. It took a while, but it finally all came together!! We really like the finished product.
(For those wood people among us: Birch & Oak Plywood, Solid Oak trim, Poplar moldings)

Jeepers !!!

I killed one of these last night at the house!! It was outside in the mulch.
I had killed one about 6 years ago too!!

Next best thing to Helicopters !!!

Alright Uncle Tim. Let's see you get 6230 on here!!!

A Visit from Mom & Dad

Mom & Dad came down for a few days a couple weekends ago. Sam and his family also came over. We had a really good time. It was a beautiful weekend!

Here is a picture of the girls that weekend.


















What a motley crew!!! Good dinner though!!

The Girls at Easter !!

Here are a few pictures from Easter! Enjoy!!

I'll Have Mine On, Will You !!

Wild Weather !!!

I'm sure most of the rest of my fellow-bloggers got
some of the crazy weather that came thru with this
Nor'easter this weekend. Here is a forcast for today
here in Galax. Notice the wind speed. We had gusts
in the 50's -maybe some low 60's Sunday night.
We lost our power early Sunday night and didn't have
any all night. We had wind gusts in the 50's - maybe
some low 60's all night. There is one fence post
between me and the North Pole, and the fence post
is not stopping much wind!!!

Other than that, LIFE IS GOOD !!!

Surley Not !!!

Looks like Digger (Dad) had a little too much fun the other day !!!