Here, There, and Everywhere

Guess it's time to update this blog. We have just been so busy. We spent a week visiting Ruth & Royden in Seattle and Amanda joined us and had a good time with her cousin. Seattle is a hip bustling city but I'm glad I don't have to drive to work there every day. Ruth is a nurse and works in a clinic ... Royden is an animator and has a neat job ... he will be famous some day. Already some of his free lance stuff is being printed and sold in Christian bookstores. And Ruth is the best little cook around! Luke ... our adopted son is here and hoping he can get an extension on his visa ... just loves Canada and says he wants to stay and make this his home, get married here and have lots of kids. I tell him just tell that to immigration ... they'll love it and let you stay! His English is almost perfect and he's popular with everybody. The Schalm siblings got together and rented the biggest houseboat on the Shuswap from Sept. 08 to the 16th. It's off season and so we pay much less. At high season they rent for over $ 1000 a day, there will be 17 of us aboard. That's the closest Earl & I will ever get to taking a cruise so we're really looking forward to it. The we leave for Sexsmith AB. on Sept the 21 ... the first stop on our itinerary trip. We will be visiting churches in Alta. and Sask.Will be home again on Nov. 01. God is so good to us and this summer we were able to get a central air conditioner put into our home.We though we would be putting up about $ 4000. but when the men came to install it they found the air exchange on our furnace was cracked and so we ended up putting in a new furnace! The old one just squeaked in under the guarantee so we will replace the part and try to sell it. The new one has a much longer guarantee and it much more efficient. These spec houses for sale usually have the cheapest appliances on the market put in, and one can sort of expect this sort of thing. But we are just glad it's done and God provided and we managed to pay for it ... that's what counts! Pat and Eric are well as are Lynn and Dwight in Mozambique. Amanda and Russ just starting university classes tomorrow ... Amanda in her second year of Biochemistry, and Russ goes into his third year of electrical engineering. Amanda turned 19 today ... what a clever and beautiful grand daughter she is. Russ is a strapping young man, but of few words. He never asks questions but at least he answers ours! Until another day .....