One totally different thing about July was that Elizabeth was gone the entire month. In fact, she was gone from June 26-August 11! She did her mission internship starting with a couple weeks in Hobe Sound, Florida, working with Gospel Publishing Mission, and then in Taiwan, using Gospel Publishing Mission materials in three English Bible Camps for children. That will have to be a separate post.
On July 1, we had Sam and Hannah Kinnamon, Brandon Banzet, and Judy Johnson as guests. Judy has been in our Care and Connect group at church twice now. We were so excited to have her over because her life has gotten busy and she is splitting her time between Cincinnati and Indiana. She got married on July 7th!
Some of the pictures by the river and in Augusta, where we walked around. Unfortunately, most everything was closed for the holiday.
It would have been nice to be able to go into the Augusta Welcome Center, but it was closed.
We walked all over the downtown, doing a self-tour of historic buildings and reading signs about a battle fought there in the Civil War.
Then we took a ferry to the Ohio side of the river. We drove the van on, and then got out and walked around on the ferry.
This structure behind Emily was what propelled us across the river.
After we had gotten off the ferry.
We went back and forth several times between Kentucky and Ohio, trying out the different bridges and driving around in the little towns. This was an interesting looking bridge.
Another bridge. This one was at Maysville.
This was a flood wall by the river.
We went back across to Ohio to eat our lunch at a picnic area in Aberdeen. After we ate, we went down to the boat ramp and watched people put their boats into the river. There was a lot of activity on the river that day.
On the way home, we went to Ulysses S. Grant's birthplace, which was a one room house in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. We have seen the brown historic sign about it ever since we moved here. When we arrived, we were looking at the sign by the house and a museum volunteer came and said she would open the museum if we wanted a tour!
This is a replica quilt of the one that was on Grant's parents' bed. Because it was a quilt, I had to have a picture of it.
The baby quilt and cradle in Grant's birthplace.
Because I have collected blue plates, I took this picture in the display case of the Grant plate.
Later on that day after we were home...
July 10 was "Cow Day" at Chick-fil-A. Our friends, the Harms family, showed up at CFA after Emily had finished her shift...
so they came by to see Emily after their meal. Emily had a great time playing with and reading to the kids, while the parents had a nice visit.
It was so fun to have them stop by!
A really sad thing that happened was the loss of Chuck Weddle from our church congregation. At the visitation, this rose was on the pew he always sat in. Thankfully, he was ready to go when he died. He only knew he had cancer for 10 days before he died. We never know how long we have to live. It is imperative that we live ready to die, knowing we are right with God and can go to heaven.
We had the O'Donnell family over for Sunday dinner on July 15. They have lived at God's Bible School and have just bought a home near our church, so have become part of the Burlington Bible Church family recently.
That evening, our friends from Colorado who now live in Texas, the Vanderfords came to stay at our house for the week while they volunteered at Answers in Genesis VBS. Another boy was also with them, but not at this moment, so he missed the photo op!
On July 16, we were privileged to have Heather Albertson, our niece for supper. Jason and Karen came over to get to see Heather. We figured we hadn't seen her for 9 years, so we had a lot of catching up to do.
Everybody told what they were up to.
Heather teaches in Mongolia, so it was a rare chance to get to see her.
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