Monthly Archives: September 2017

Not that we are counting or anything….  🙂 We continue to ask the Lord for a healing touch… this thing of being tired all the time and huffing and puffing is getting old….  🙂    Seems like I get a … Continue reading →

all was quiet on the Western Front today…. no great battles… no great victories… no great defeats…. no revelations… nothing stirring anywhere…. except ellen, of course, putting all the outside furniture away in storage for the Winter… preparing for the … Continue reading →

Ellen asked me if I had ever thought about why they named this place  “Shadow”  Lake…. then went on to give me her reason and show me two photos…. being the astute fellow that I am, I figured it out … Continue reading →

Ellen sent me a picture of one of the loons dropping in for a quick visit on Shadow Lake… pretty neat actually… didn’t realize at the time what kind of a looney day it would become…. 🙂 Everything started off … Continue reading →

My battlefield is my life… I lead the charge down onto it every morning…  a very conscious action… my bayonet is fixed… I am first on the field… and last to leave at night… every day…  every night…. and things … Continue reading →

After a week of 80+ degree weather (and 2 or 3 more scheduled), the poor trees seem clueless that this is the time that the whole world travels to Vermont to enjoy their color. We are hoping that the strange … Continue reading →

No matter how many times I go around on this… Philip still wants to share every detail of his latest wonderful experience with the Lord… so others can experience them as well. Yet… once again…  the Lord has made it … Continue reading →

After our busy day yesterday…. Ellen, the energizer bunny, was out uncovering her 2 rows of Lilacs she planted a year or so ago… from cuttings from Morrisville… the weeds had been growing right up along with them, but she … Continue reading →

We  took the afternoon to check out what is happening with  “foliage”  in the Northeast Kingdom up here… and… hope you can handle this…  philip and ellen actually took some vacation time together… philip left the house, got in the … Continue reading →

Maybe I should be looking at another old war movie…  “A Bridge Too Far”… I may just have over-done it yesterday…  I have been totally out of it all day… Ellen got back around noon and never stopped until she … Continue reading →