Journaling Left: The weather was to be beautiful for the Labor Day weekend, so we invited Sharon and Calvin, Joy and Bobby to join us for a hotdog roast.

We met at 5:00 on Saturday, September 2nd. We kept the menu simple: hotdogs, brats, Cole slaw, baked beans, chips, soft drinks, desserts. Mark had us “wired for sound” so we played Christian music as we talked the night away. We closed out the evening by watching the Starlink Satellites move across our skies and then we cleaned up and everyone went home. It was a great evening of food and fellowship!

“Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has been launching thousands of satellites into orbit. Many people say they’ve seen them in the skies. They’re part of the Starlink project, which aims to provide high speed internet services from space, to remote areas on Earth. ‘There are people in the UK in that category, but more across the world, in places like Africa,’ says Dr. Lucinda King, Space Projects Manager at the University of Portsmouth. Starlink’s satellites have been put in orbit around the Earth to make connection speeds between the satellites and the ground as fast as possible.” ~bbc dot com

There’s nothing as relaxing as sitting around a fire pit in the evening in good conversation with wonderful friends and Christian music playing in the background!

Lordy, Lordy! My 3rd child turned 40! Brad threw a surprise birthday party for Elisabeth…..but she was suspect all week! It was great to have her big sister come to town for the surprise! 9/9/23

Journaling right: September is the time set aside for the Widows’ Retreat at the Statesville Bible Camp in the beautiful hills of Boone, NC. It is sponsored by Damascus Baptist Church. I took Ilene on Monday and returned for her on Friday. We stopped at Olive Garden in Wilkesboro on the way there. 9/11 - 9/15. Ilene enjoying conversation with one of the other widows on Monday afternoon.

Noah asked us to come and see him at his new job in Winston.

Mark felt water drip on him in the basement. He looked up and saw the soaked floor boards under the bathtub. After a painstaking search he found the shower faucet leaking.

Mark wanted to sit by a fire down at the pits. I told him I would go with him. It was a bit cool but was a delightful evening. I took my knitting. 9/29/23