Men's Adventures in New York

This past weekend, we traveled to Binghamton, New York for the Men's Adventures. This conference has been ongoing every year for the last 20 years. It is one of the ministries of the Empire State Fellowship of Regular Baptist Churches. Craig Golden is the head of this fellowship and a wonderful leader. There were 926 men and boys at this year's adventure. Buddy spoke on Friday night about his Alaskan Adventure. On Saturday morning, he did his relevance of Genesis talk and also an hour long music concert. In the afternoon, he finished with the Dinosaurs - Separating Fact from Fiction. We sold almost all of the books that were sent for this event. Praise God that the men saw the importance of getting materials in hand to be able to help them defend their faith. There were 5 that received Christ as their savior, ranging from 5 years old to 79 years old. Pray that they will get in a bible believing church.

We were surprised to see how much snow they had. Actually, we had more snow at home then they had there. You could actually see the ground there. The weather going out was OK when we got past the freezing rain in Ohio. Then on the return trip, we got into a little freezing rain but it soon turned into just rain.

We were able to do a Home school concert when we were in New York and also a concert and talk for our good friend, Delores Morgan, who lives in Horseheads.

It was a long trip but well worth it. We are getting ready to go out this weekend but only to the border of Pennsylvania. Buddy is doing a wild game supper and Sunday morning services.

We will be heading to the museum next week on Tuesday. We are working on a new workshop. February is almost over and spring is definitely coming!!

SNOW-SNOW-and MORE SNOW!

We arrived home from the museum on Saturday night to find we were without electricity and had been since Friday night. The snow total was about 16 inches. We have great neighbors who came down and plowed our drive way out. They said that because the snow plows had been working on Henpeck Road, they didn't think we could have gotten into our driveway. Well, the electricity was off until yesterday around 10:30 am. There was an electric line down across our pond. The electric crew had to bring ladder trucks to get up to the top of the pole and string the line back up. It was very cold yesterday morning also!

The house was cold until we got the wood stove going. We have a gas cook stove so making meals was no problem. We had water as well so we were all set. We had kerosene lanterns, candles, and battery operated lights so we could even read. Of course, Buddy practiced his music.

Buddy is fighting a cold. We are staying home today instead of going to the museum. He is going to rest today to see if he can get over this cold. We just found out that the museum was closed today. They must be getting lots of snow down there. We took lots of photos of the snow. It has started snowing again and we may get up to 5 inches before this storm moves on.

Buddy did go out yesterday and got some snow and made snow ice cream. Of course he got the fresh white snow! A lot of people have not idea how good snow ice cream is. Buddy says that it tastes just like home made ice cream and it is so easy to make!

We are going to work on a script for a children's program pilot episode today. It will be on dinosaurs. We would love to be able to make at least 12 or 13 one-half hour children's programs. We need to get the pilot done so that we can get someone to invest in this project.

Hope everyone is enjoying the snow. Be careful if you have to drive in it. Spring is right around the corner......

Welcome Bo

The photo is of our new dog, Bo with Cricket . Bo is a yellow Lab and is 3 1/2 years old. We got him to be a companion for Casey. He is such a loveable and cute dog, we just love him already. Buddy is teaching him to heel and throwing a pheasant decoy for him to retrieve. He is a fast learner. All of the dogs get along great.

Buddy and Cricket got to go pheasant hunting with some friends last week. They harvested 9 pheasants.

We have been doing ministry in the Ohio area. We have been to Tipp City, Troy, and Dupont over the past two weekends. We have been encouraged with all of the churches and schools that stand up for the authority of God's Word. May God bless them for honoring Him. We met some wonderful Christian brothers and sisters.

We are excited about the new songs that Buddy has written. He has over 16 new songs. The most recent ones are on the Books of the Bible and the Ten Commandments.

We are at the museum for the next two weeks. Each week that goes by is closer to springtime! We are looking forward to seeing the spring flowers come up and hearing the spring birds as they return.