Fall Colors 2 and Beyond

The past week has been rather...crazy. Mon-Wednesday I was focused on writing/assembling/organizing the December GroundCrew newsletter to send off to our graphic designer and then Thursday-Friday Karen and I administered the pre-service orientation to two new families ready to start hangar service: the Beckwiths and Newmans. Normal ministry routines filled the evenings and all of a sudden it's October 20th.

Karen and I totally took Saturday off. We built a fire, laid on the couches, read books, napped under fleece blankets, let the dogs climb on top...it was wonderful. I only went outside to grab more wood. Yesterday (Monday) we started a week of vacation. We ran errands, accomplished some minor household chores, handled some ministry, and took a few minutes to snap some pictures of some more fall colors.

What's special about this week vacation is that my dad and my step-mom are in for a visit. It's been three years since dad and Jane have been here. We're actually heading out on our first day of tourist activity in another hour or so.

So, here are the latest snapshot of some local fall color. These were taken in a cemetery that Karen likes to ride her bike to when she needs a special place to sit and relax, to think and to pray.




And along with that, we also stumbled across one of the top-secret ICBT (Inter-Continental Ballistic Truck) sites readying for a launch!

As far as I know this is the FIRST photograph of this secret site used to rapidly deliver trucks and their cargo around the world avoiding all road blocks, traffic congestion, weigh stations, oceans and other geographic and political hindrances. Thankfully, we were able to evade the security cordon and get this photograph out to you.

We'll see what else we can discover on today's journey north into Amish country and beyond...