This morning, I got up early so I could get to the gym before first light. Another weekend with crap weather – rain. We’ve had A LOT of rain here in Southern Middle Tennessee this year. Last week – Monday through Friday – was mostly sunny with temperatures not super cold. But most weekends, we’ve had rain. That’s what is expected again this weekend – more rain.
I didn’t make it to the gym this morning, though. After paying a bill online, I checked my email and read an email update from the Gibello family. I’ve mentioned them before on this site. My son still asks about them and remembers their visit and their camper trailer, which he thought was pretty cool. My wife and I agreed to make what for us is a fairly large, one-time donation (in addition to our small monthly commitment) because while we’re looking for a congregation to worship with, we’re not doing regular local-church giving.
Friends from the Chattanooga area are coming up to visit this afternoon and when my son woke up this morning, he talked about the Gibello family, confusing them with the family that’s actually spending the afternoon with us. Odd, huh? I hadn’t mentioned that I’d just been reading Melissa’s blog posts from her journal. My son enjoyed looking at the photos of life in PNG, thought the stilt house was cool, thought using a leaf-hut outhouse might be problematic, and he thought having a large river near the house would be “kind of creepy, actually.”
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