Most that know me also know about my love of all things concrete. From concrete canoes to translucent concrete in buildings, I have always loved concrete as both a building material with structural properties but also as an artistic element.When my parents first moved into their house in the Rolling Green retirement community, I did…
Time to get back to work
A couple of odds and ends before I get into the meat of today’s topic. I have installed a bike rope pulley system to store my parents large A frame ladder. I have started working on their garage floor and have cleaned the siding on the outside of the house Now the big news: I…
Cleaning up and trying to relax
I am sorry I have not been as bloggy as normal while I am at home. (yes I know that is not a word but in today’s culture that seems to be ok) I have been busy with filling out applications online for jobs that are filled in less than 24 hours. I have also…
Searching for Clarity
I have been home for just over a week and half though it has felt much longer. There have been a lot of questions asked that my answer of “I don’t know” does not suffice. There has been a lot of activity, some of it mine and some of it tagging along for my parent’s…
Being Recalled
How do I describe this last week? Surreal, hard to fathom, chaos, unbelievable? After last week’s blog about the wonderful gifts, the team brought me and the gift of their time and presence we move to my being recalled to the states. Why? As many will recall, I had to come home in April due…
The bears get adopted
So the team brought over bears made with love and showered in prayers. The people back in the states paid to adopt a bear to help raise funds for the team. They got a laminated picture of the bear they adopted. Now here in Tanzania, we give the bears out to the kids and people…
Mission Team #2
To view almost all the photos I took you can go to Steve’s photo album The team arrived Saturday, June 17 at the Kilimanjaro International Airport which is about 1 hour away from Arusha where they would be staying their first night in Tanzania. Normally we use the safari vehicles to pick everyone up at the…
What is left in life?
So a few of you found out that I turned 50 this week from my parent’s note in the church bulletin. What most don’t know is that I was never supposed to live this long. The doctors who dealt with some of my military injuries concurred I would never live to see 30. So I…
We are getting animals at the Preschool
I remember growing up that occasionally a group would visit our farm like my class (I think it may have been kindergarten) to see the farm animals. I would always be curious why everyone got so excited, they sure would not have been so excited if they had to feed and water them every day….
Steve and Barnabas 