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Holiday Greetings, Saints! It's the Blast Thanksgiving Edition  early, so you don't have to plow thru it on Friday while you're shopping or eating leftovers (or sleeping in). I sincerely hope you have a great weekend whatever you're doing. I'll be eating turkey & dressing & gravy... mostly. There'll be celery casserole (made with cream of chicken soup!) and cranberry salad (with marshmallows and whipped cream, which is more dessert-ish but certainly isn't dessert) and other s

Near-Thanksgiving Greetings, People.  Do you have your turkey or ham yet? We're less than a week away from that day. I truly am thankful for all the harvest safely gathered in and all we have in this land of abundance. We may be in inflationary times, but we still have more than a lot of the world. We'll enjoy that with family next Thursday. We'll have kids & grandkids coming over to our place. I'll be making a double recipe of gravy. I'll encourage Deb to double down on the

Rainy Fall Greetings, Saints. There were about 38 men at the retreat last weekend, including a bunch from Fellowship Church in Spokane. Good food, good conversation (& Bible, of course) and good sports! Some shot guns at the range, others hiked up the hill and many participated in the corn hole tourney. Our own team of Jeff and Doug took the corn hole honors. I talked to a couple guys who just needed to get away from the pressures of life and relax for a weekend. I think that

November Salutation, Saints!  Fall has sure settled in. These days you may need a hat or an umbrella outside. I trust you've gotten all the outsides of your place buttoned up. Deb & I have finished winterizing most things. I still have to drain the gas out of the lawnmower and put up Christmas lights on the house. We got an estimate for those permanent LED lights... $3500 on just half of the roofline. No way!   There's stuff in scripture that's sometimes unexpected... or you