Emily's Shower!

Emily is an inventor. When inconvenience stairs her in the face she stairs right back with a glint a "all show you who's boss!" So the case with a shower. This house is presently without a shower, but that didn't matter. Take a look at what our Emily came up with.

This is cold water!

But in North Carolina it's so humid that a cold shower feels good.

Yes! this is her set up.

Want to try it anyone?

A Look At the Storm.

Here are the promised storm damage pics. Some of them are a little blurry because I took them during the storm from the window.

These are after the storm in the early evening.

The water here covers the road. It had at this point already gone down 8 to 12 inches.

Literal standing water.

Between our house and our neighbors had up to 4 to 5 feet of water.

These are during the storm from upstair.

Just after the storm

Down stairs looking at the tree in front of the window

My friend photographer.

Thanks So Much!

Our hearts are warmed to over flowing at God's goodness through the kind hearts of our community. All have offered their help in big ways and small. But all have come straight from the heart. We don't know all of their names yet so some them are still under the Brinley form of naming neighbors (which is to call them by occupation, their house style or color, or pet). 

The neighbor that lives to the left of us is an older name and his wife. The man came over right after the hurricane hit and helped to pull the tree of our roof with his tractor. We we're so touched by his effort being that he is in his seventies and had way more trees done in his yard then us. But he took the time to help us anyway.

Last evening a couple of guys from the fire dept. were out picking up limes and stopes over to see if we needed any water. Soon they were back with two cases of bottled water and hot food made up. But that was not the end. Later on that evening they again returned with a generator, a can of gas for it, and more food. 

We're still learning how to understand the southern ways of our neighbors and church family, but one thing that's hit home is the way they make helping other such a part of their lives. If we as Christians would take that small southern act and make it a mark of Christians what a place this world could be. It is my desire to make that a bigger part of my life. What about you?

We're Still Here!

God as been so good to us. Hurricane Irene hit us with all hurricane power, but the Lord kept his protecting hand over us. As many of you already know a large tree fell on the corner of our roof. It did some damage to the roof along with pulling the power box of the side of our house. Our yard was also a big mess. We have our phone back on now which is a help. But because we aren't the only ones that lost power boxes and lines we are expecting a minimum of another two weeks before we get power.

The bright side of this is that we are inventing a lot of new recipes and hair styles. Because we have a gas stove we can light the burners and use the stove top. So all food is now cook in a pan or skillet on the stove top. Everything so far has been good. It's amazing what can be cooked in a frying pan!

As for the hair...well...there has been better sights around here before. Some of the supper creative ones have been coming up with some supper dos.

Well I intend to post some picture I got of the flooding around our house as soon as I have a way to do so. Right now we are at the Library here in Washington charging up computers and iPads and using the internet. It's a little bit inconvenient, but that's what helps to make the people we are.

Another Adventure On It's Way!

Well you all probably know what's happrning here. Suposedly a big hurrican is headed our way. Actually the locals here don't seem concerned (as though this happens every day), and most of our neighbors have stayed right here and are waiting for the rain to stop.

New Address.

Here is our new address and phone numbers. We'll be arriving in NC Monday evening.


25557 US HYW 264 E.
Pantego, NC 27860

Home phone
(252) 943-2629 

Business phone
(252) 943-2630 

California Trip part 2

Here are a few more pictures from our trip.

We stopped on our way to CA at the Grand Canyon. It was beautiful, but very hot. The temp was in the hundreds. 

We spent the weekend at our Uncle's home in San Francisco.   Here are some pics taken on sabbath around the bay area.

Tuesday we made our way to Sacramento. I got a picture of Uncle Skip working at registration.

We girls helped with registration for the children's meetings.

Special music Wednesday evening.

Special music Thursday morning.

Four of the five boys and a little girl on the very end of the row from my group. (Each one is special in their own way!)

 Randy Steffens giving a presentation on one of the disciples.

Ashley, Emily and I all got name tags with Carthage TN on it. We thought that was rather amusing.

We have the truck and trailer loaded and we are ready for the over two thousand mile trip to North Carolina. We seek your prayers and we make yet another cross country move.