Karl the Cat is More Aloof!

Karl the Cat much prefers hanging out ... on a kitchen chair in the breakfast nook, soaking up some sun ... or nuzzled into a corner of the blue chair in the living room.

Dietrick and the Recliner

Dietrick the Cat loves to hang out ... on, in and under the recliner! It's all good for him!

SPAM in Email Accounts Just Too Much!

Dietrick the Cat does NOT like having to deal with SPAM in a computer email account! He wonders, "what is a cat to do?" Belinda helped him delete it all!

Brrrrrrrrrr.... It was SO Cold Today!

Today was a very cold snowy day! It was wonderful to stay inside today!

Visitors to the Parsonage This Week

We are entertaining Karl and Dietrick Ronge this week at the parsonage. They are most agreeable houseguests! Aren't they cute?!

Leyton Girls Basketball Team Wins Tonight by One Point!

We had a great time at the basketball tournament at our local high school tonight!

The last game we saw was an action-packed game resulting in the Leyton girls basketball team winning by only one point: Wow!

Basketball Tournament Tonight at the Sidney High School

What a great time we had tonight! We attended the basketball tournament at our local high school tonight! The first game we saw featured the boys basketball team from Potter-Dix.

We were impressed to see Pastor Terry Tomlinson helping to coach the team to victory! Yea, Terry! Terry is a United Methodist pastor assigned to the Prairie West Church in Potter.

About Our Day in Lincoln, Nebraska!

After watching the inauguration on TV, we went to Cracker Barrel and enjoyed a fabulous brunch. They had a wonderful fire going in their stone fireplace. It was so cozy, sitting there, relaxing and discussing the events of this day.

Thanks so much to one of the lovely families in our home church who very thoughtfully provided us with a Cracker Barrel gift card. It was a wonderful and thoughtful thing to give us: Thanks so much!

Belinda dropped Charles off at St. Mark's United Methodist Church (UMC) this afternoon, where he is attending the clergy session of the Nebraska Annual Conference of the UMC.

To learn more about the clergy session, you can go to
http://sidneyfirstumc.blogspot.com/2009/01/united-methodist-clergy-session-lincoln.html .

Our Day in Lincoln, Nebraska!

We arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska, last night. This morning, we woke up, and (like most of the country), we watched the inauguration of our new president on TV. We had fun taking digitial pictures of the proceedings on the TV. It certainly has been a special day in our nation's history.

Four states later and we're home

Leaving Dumas, TX this morning in the chilly breeze, we continued the journey through north Texas, the Oklahoma panhandle, up through eastern Colorado and then back into Nebraska.

The amazingly strong winds buffeted us all the way home today and it made for an interesting experience to be certain.

Now we're home again and looking forward to getting unpacked and into the excitement of 2009 here in western Nebraska!

Mo's New Home!

Here is a glimpse of Mo's new apartment in San Angelo, Texas! Belinda and Charles visited with her over the holidays and helped her get unpacked and settled. It looks great! And her car is happily tucked into its new carport home nearby!

Adios, San Angelo!

We bade adios to Belinda's mother Sheila Hammitt in San Angelo this morning.

Our final morning in west Texas involved last-minute tasks and other chores that helped Mo settle into her new apartment.

Afterwards, it was on the road once more, heading north, towards home. We stopped in Lubbock where rumor had it that a Cracker Barrel was hiding. We eventually found it and enjoyed the ambience of that fine establishment before heading out once more on the road to Nebraska! Tonight we are settled into our hotel in Dumas, Texas: Yee-haw!

Wonderful Wednesday

Still cool by San Angelo standards, Wednesday presented a breezy window of opportunity in west Texas.

Charles attempted to visit the indian pictographs at Paint Rock, TX (45 minutes east of San Angelo) but he didn't realized the site was closed for the winter.

So rather than repeating yesterday's driving through west Texas, Charles went driving in a different direction, back to Quicksand Golf Course and another challenging round in the windy conditions. He saw more armadillos and successfuly played the difficult course in good order.

After that, Charles went to visit the San Angelo Nature Center. This is a lovely facility dedicated to the wildlife of the Concho Valley and the rest of west Texas.

Belinda and her mother completed most of the tasks on the "to-do" list and have the apartment in good shape.

Tomorrow we head back to Nebraska and say farewell to our Texas sojourn.

Touring on Tuesday

Belinda and Mo were busy with even more errands today. In the evening, they met with friends of Mo's.

Charles was out this morning seeing more sights and sounds of Texas. First was a stop to visit the monks at Mt. Carmel Hermitage Monastery near Christoval. This wonderful place of prayer and reflection is all one could ask for in such a holy place.

Following that, he journied south to the town of Sonora and the beautiful caverns eight miles west of the town. The Caverns of Sonora are rated among the most beautiful in the world and are certainly worth the effort to get there from the bigger cities of Texas.