10/12/2020 & 10/27/2020
10/12-Returned home Sunday evening from a trip to Texas. As I entered the house, I heard the one sound no one ever wants to hear: the fizz sound of running water! Yep, there was a leak in the master bath, rising up from the water heater (in the cellar) and spewing hot water onto the floor and wall. When I went to the cellar to turn the water off, I could see the leak has dumped most of its water to the cellar floor and running into the sump pit. But the origin of the leak, I couldn’t see. This morning our real task is to find a plumber. (I’m writing this too early to call.) Found a plumber to come and examine it, and it wasn’t from the water heater: it was hot water from a busted connection inside the bathroom sink faucet. Not as bad as it could have been.
Back to the trip: it was a truly fun trip. Some of it didn’t go as planned, but even so, what we spent our time doing was most enjoyable. We were forced to miss going to the Baton Rouge Bible Believers Fellowship on Wednesday evening, because so many people were fleeing the impending hurricane du jour. So, we stayed North and spent the night in Marshall, TX. But first, we had a really great me in Shreveport, LA, at a fine restaurant named Gibbon’s, on 70th St.—terrific!
Our two nights and most of 3 days with the family of my friend, Dr. Charles Warlick, was a great blessing. Through all the trials and heartaches, their love for the patron remains so very strong. The memorial time was a true celebration of his life and his affect on all of us. Many friends from the former grace church in New Braunfels came in respect and we had a joyous time together. Much of the rest of the visit was enjoying the surroundings of Wimberley, TX.
We took an extended route home and saw parts of Texas we had never seen before—not enlightening in any way, just interesting. We made it home at the time we desired and because of what we found there, just the right timing (see first paragraph.)
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10/27-On the 22nd, I flew to Texas for the marriage of my friends who live in Round Rock, TX, Mike and Charisa. What a beautiful wedding! I was privileged to do the ceremony; but as it is supposed to be, it was all about the groom winning his bride and she being the “star” of the day (moment.) Which she definitely was! The reception which followed was in the beautiful backyard of Mike’s parents and it was in full bloom: a landscape of exceptional floral and shrubbery beds!
My hosts for the trip, George and Jeri, were very generous with me, to the point of me actually getting to drive his luxury car for a couple of side trips, on Saturday being a drive to New Braunfels to meet with an old friend I’ve missed, as well as getting to look over the town’s changes and advancements in the last 7 years, going from about 50,000 to more than 80,000! Some amazing changes, yet a couple of areas look exactly the same (downtown & my old fave coffee shop!)
The Sunday morning bible class: Austin Bible Fellowship, suffered me to teach the class. I hope they enjoyed it at least half as much as I enjoyed being there. Old friends I don’t get to see very often, new friends I’m thrilled to get to meet and with whom I study God’s word! It was a very enheartening morning before flying back home.
This was my first flying since the “plandemic” has hit America, so I was a little apprehensive going in. But, it was as simple as answering three questions and getting on in exactly the same way as before. Wondering now whether going to New York 8 days from now will be harder—maybe, maybe not.
I’m sure you who read this will know that I could have written many more pages about these two trips, but much of it was private, much would read in a boring fashion, and much more would cause a sort of hopping around from thought to thought, so it’s for another time when I’m on some other subject.
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