Back In Coshocton and Enjoying Fall

Our trip to Pennsylvania was great. The weather was good up, back, and during the visit; we enjoyed great times with family and friends; and had wonderful worship with Karen's home church, Grace Church at Willow Valley.

Tucker is glad we're home.

We drove the seven hours to Lancaster, PA straight in and started out with a get together Friday evening with our small group from Grace. Hosted by Jake and Ruth Anne, we had a "light" dinner based around a potato soup that was so fantastically rich we nearly had to pay taxes on our caloric income.

Saturday afternoon we visited with Duane & Cindy and family and then with Jack & Pat and family. Sunday was worship at Grace and then the rest of the afternoon was preparation and participation in the Shrom Family Christmas and Holiday Extravaganza (Karen's family!). Wow. It was a three day power-packed weekend with all the food, fun, and fellowship we could handle. We were blessed to be able to stay with Karen's brother and his wife, Steve & Cindy and hung out with "Ace", their son Craig's new Beagle puppy.

We arrived home yesterday evening, slept in a bit this morning, and then enjoyed a wonderful fall day. It was in the mid-40's and sunny and jackets were not required. We stacked wood, I worked out in the garage, Karen ran errands...it was great. We've had winter since before Thanksgiving but it looks like we're going to enjoy November's weather heading into January. That's okay.

We have a bunch of little organizational things we'd like to get done around the house, several ministry projects, and a couple fun things still yet to do in preparation for 2009 and we'll be taking them on one task at a time over the next few days. Stay tuned.