talkeetnamalispinaloop: April 2009

Sunday, April 26, 2009

NEW BEGINNINGS

Sunday ~ April Twenty-sixth ~ Two thousand nine
...with a new pastor installed today...would you believe TEN pastors and a joint choir of three churches...the singing was AWESOME as was the message!!!
...with a friend who is also a pastor leaving his congregation to be a chaplain in the US Army to serve those who protect us!!!
To God be the glory!!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

EASTER...2009

HAPPY RESURRECTION DAY!!! HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN, INDEED! HALLELUJAH!!!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

SPRING ~ HOLY WEEK TO END OF APRIL

April 1, 2009 ~ Wednesday
Yup>>>spring>>>snow showers>>>and my keyboard doesn"t alwwys work right>>>(these are periods). And...there it worked! never know where the cursor will be>>>or the quotation marks>>>or the caps...
spring break during Holy Week and we're headed down to see our sons and their families...5 grands with one whose heartbeat I've heard via e-mail!
St. Peter will have a SEDER on Maundy Thursday with COMMUNION SERVICE afterward...I've hunted down the lamb's shank:-) Then GOOD FRIDAY service at 8:30pm...EASTER SONRISE service at 6:30am...the next weekend LUTHERANS FOR LIFE dinner and auction at Trinity at 12:30pm...THEN INSTALLATION of our new pastor on April 26.
Hopefully, before that there will be no snow...in His time...

Talkeetna purchase

We bought land about 15 miles SW of Talkeetna, Alaska...on e-bay...sight unseen! in 2006. I probably wouldn't recommend doing that for everyone, but we were blessed it was legal...and now have good neighbors in the north, too. In fact, one of our neighbors built a 250 foot road with a turn-around into our place and we could stay on our land part of the summer. Of course, then there was the flood with the washing out of the only good road leading to Malispina Loop, so had to wait to start back to MT for a few days until that was repaired and we could retrieve our cargo trailer, since we had left it on our land while down on the Kenai.

Welcome to the travels of John and Chrysa

We leave on June 6th so are in the process of thinking about getting ready. Actually, I've had stacks here and there all winter, but don't know if that'll save me time or not. I have washed and waxed the fronts of the camper (slide-in with tip-out) and under the overhead so all the bugs we hit can have a spot now. It was fairly crowded before starting...but I always use 'Black streak remover'~ if you haven't tried it, do...it's awesome! I'm going to give getting pictures on here a whirl in the near future...just hoping it's nearer (didn't have problems) than farther (had problems) away.