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- NEW ORLEANS – LOUISIANA – ADVENTURES ON THE ROAD
- WHO IS CAROL ANN RITCHEY – WHY THE CHANGE –
- HOME SWEET HOME – BACK ON OUR LOT AFTER THREE NIGHTS AND FOUR DAYS AWAY – WHERE DID WE GO – TO GIANT RECREATION WORLD – THAT’S AN RV SERVICE CENTER – NOT A RESORT –
- WHOA – STILL DWELLING IN OUR MOTORHOME – TWO YEARS NOT TRAVELING – FINALLY HAVE INTERNET WE CAN USE – ADAPTED MY NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY – THAT WAS FUN – HAD A LOT TO LEARN AND LEARNED WHILE WRITING – NOW READY TO SELL – DUH – PANDEMIC – YOU GOT TO BE KIDDNIG – STILL – OUR GOD REIGNS – THE LORD IS ALWAYS GOOD –
- Our Rocking Rolling 2018 Tour in Our Motorhome – Living Life – Like Everyone Else – Lots of Good Times – Some Trials and Tribulations – But in the End – It’s All Good – God is Good –
- So Long – So Long – Not Goodbye but Too Long not to Post – We Live the RV Life – Data Costs More than We Like – Posting Requires Data – Almost Decided to Quit Posting – Catch Up Time –
- I Opened the Shades to See the Sun Rise – Black Storm Clouds Loomed – What Would Sunrise Look Like – Would the Light Shine Through – YES – Gloom Gave Way to Bursting Shades of Purple Pink and Lavendar – Reminding Me of Troubled Times that Shrink When Grace and Truth Appear – God Is Good – Hang on When Trouble Hides the Light – Ashes Blow Away – Beauty Remains –
- Sunrise at Van Horn RV Park in Van Horn, Texas – Small Town – Excellent Park – We Are Resting Here – Calm Blue Skies in the Morning – Motorhomes and Fifth Wheels and Campers Coming and Going Each Day – We Love It –
- Books Books – I Read – I Read – And I Wrote the Novel – Buddy for David – Key Words – Crime – Family – Hope – Despair – Adventure – Boy – Dog – Ex Convicts – Love – Courage – Victory – Rich in Action Scenes and Dialogue – Movie to Be –
- Beginning Our 2018-19 Tour in our Motorhome – And the Excitement Builds – What Could Be So Exciting – For Me – Looking Out Our Windows Beholding New Surroundings – I Love It –
- Blue Sky – Blue Sky – Morning Is My Favorite Time of Day –
- Bikes in Our Future – Steve Turning 80 Soon – Carol Ann 70 – We Think We Can Ride Them and Have Fun – Good Exercise – A Recap of Challenging Journey – Different from Our First Year that Happened without a Hitch –
- Las Cruces New Mexico – Destination for Fun with Friends – Fellow RVers Meet Us Here – We Dine Together at Local Restaurants – And There Are Plenty – Steve Had Coach and Jeep Washed after Five Days of Rain and Mud in Texas – Now They Shine Again –
- Long Time No Post – Spent All Our Time Having Fun with Family – But Then Moved on and Parked Here in Louisiana – View of the Bayou – Simple but Adequate RV Park – Staying Longer than Scheduled – Again Diverging from Our Original Plan –
- Moving toward Our Next Destination – Driving a Comfortable Distance – Following Our Plan – Reaching Parks We Booked Months Earlier – Three Days to Rest – Three Days that Fly By –
- Everyday Life for People that Live in an RV – What Could Be Better than to Wake Up in the Morning to New Surroundings yet Being in Your Own Home – It’s the Little Things in Life that Make it Okay –
- Had to Share this Photo of Lake Erie Shore – We Arrived this Afternoon Greeted by a Wasp that Flew into the Small Window Used to Pay Tolls from the Driver’s Seat – Last Year Hornets Invaded the Cockpit – One Huge Wasp Was Just as Effective in Slowing Down our Progress until We Smacked it Silly and Tossed it in the Trash –
- Where Have We Been – Up to Flagstaff Arizona – Albuquerque and Santa Rosa New Mexico – Amarillo Texas – Oklahoma City – West Memphis Arkansas – Nashville Tennessee – Virginia – Pennsylvania – Long Island New York – Ohio now – Heading for Michigan in a Few Days – South to Florida, West through Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and New Mexico – Back to AZ –
- Camping on Little Pigeon River Makes Up for Being Canceled by Our RV Park on the Mighty Mississippi – Which Flooded Her Banks This Year – Here We Are on Another Riverbank – Enjoying the View –
- Growing – Learning – Believing – Confidence – Resting – Our Inheritance in Christ –
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Little Sister Saves the Day
My sister didn’t talk in sentences yet, so she was probably two or three years old. I was no older than five. When we went out to play, I was responsible for watching her. On this particular day, the two … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Thought
Tagged Child, Children, Follow, Lost, Neighborhood, Sister, Sunny, Walk
26 Comments
Not the Woman I Will Be – Not the Woman I Was
LORD I shine like the stars at night Until a horsefly lands On my nose or A horse steps hard On my toes – There goes… LORD I celebrate each conquest You bring into my life But when I believe … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Celebrate, Change, Fall, Fly, Holy Spirit Power, Horse, Horsefly, Housefly, Image of Christ, Toes, Woman
25 Comments
I Think It Still Is
Remember when we were kids I was ten and you were eight Life was fun It was my cookie You ate I know you gave it back Why would I want it back After you licked it You licked my … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Poetry
Tagged Bikes, Childhood Memories, Cookie, Kids, Remember, Sisters
35 Comments
Whom the LORD Loves…
Hope – my soul’s manna Brings springtime in my spirit The silent sweet commencement Of holy expectations borne On wings of rising faith I see you separate the clouds I see sunshine bathing wounds Festered feelings healing Dying spirits alive … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Bruises, Chasten, Chastisement, Faithfulness, Hope, Image of Christ, Lord, love, Manna, Springtime
26 Comments
Hush the Whistling Wind
Why LORD why Am I prone to wander Why do I endlessly stray Why does the whistling wind Cause me to lose my way Why when you’ve Cuddled me near your heart Shattered the shackles that held me Should not … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Falter, Forever, God, Hush the Whistling Wind; Hush Wind, Rescue, Set straight, Stray, Stumble, Wander, Weaken, Wind
21 Comments
Irish Beef Stew or Proximity Thereto
The morning comes too soon No sweat – I can wake up Guest stayed overnight Brew coffee – serve breakfast Start the day off right Guest is gone and I’ve made my way Clear through blogosphere Hubby is watching a … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Poetry
Tagged beef broth, beef stew meat, carrot, Cooking, garlic, Irish Beef Stew, jalapeño pepper, Potato, red wine, salt and pepper, thyme, turnip, white wine
22 Comments
Let Me See Through the Eye of Faith
Looking through my finite eye On a troubled world I see Bleakness Desolation Despair Looking through your infinite eye I see Glittering A lively universe Cuddled securely in the palm Of Your hand Father in Heaven keep me From tunnel … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Control, Eye of Faith, Faith, Finite Vision, God, Infinite Vision, Tunnel Vision, Universe, World
27 Comments
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
How do I find the meaning How do I make up my mind Read and pray read and pray The day will finally come The day will come most certainly That we’ll understand more fully God’s precious Word of Truth … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Believer, Bible, Blessings, Christian, Cross, God, God's Word, History, Instruction in Righteousness, Jesus, Lord Jesus, Prophecy, Redeemer, Rightly Divide the Word of Truth, Savior, Study, Warnings, Word of Truth
14 Comments
Only Yesterday
Two young girls smiling Grandfather eating fish One whole fish staring back at him Grandmother with her steak Cooked way too much Laughing together Enjoying restaurant food My sister with her steak well done And I with mine cooked rare … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Grandparents, Memories, Movie, Only Yesterday, Popcorn, Restaurant
27 Comments
One Expectation
The weight of the world On my shoulders The care of the masses In my heart My eyes focused On our sorrows My ears set To their cries Little Have I To give Less to save For a cushion One … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Cares of the world, Disasters, Economy, Expectation, Floods, God, Help, Hope, Leaders Tremble, Lord, Masses, Mountains, One Expectation, One Hope, Poverty, Wars
16 Comments
Wherever you go, I will go…
Ten years earlier Naomi, with her husband and two sons, had journeyed to Moab because famine plagued their beloved Bethlehem. During their stay in Moab, Naomi’s husband died, her two sons married women of Moab; and next, of all downturns … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry, Thought
Tagged Bethlehem, Book of Ruth, Faith, God of Israel, Loyalty, Moab, Monotheism, Naomi, One God, Polytheism, Ruth, Ruth and Naomi
37 Comments
The Best Is Yet and Forever
I watch you shine in my life As You fill my heart with hope My days with pleasure spill over I thank you LORD for your favor All this is but the beginning I praise You LORD of my life … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Beginning, Best is Yet, Butterfly, Christ, Christian, Cocoon, Crystal River, Eternity, Favor, God, Hope, Jesus, Life Conquers Death, LifeForever, Lord, Praise, River of Life
37 Comments
Says My Heart
What will I do if the well runs dry Where will I go if the rent’s too high Who’ll stay by me if my friends all fly The LORD Says my heart The LORD Who made the earth and flung … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Delight in the Lord, Heart, Hope in the Lord, Lord, Psalm 37, Safe Pasture, Trust in the Lord
23 Comments
Who Is Like You
In my blackest night If there be no light If wrong seems right Dreams blur my sight Will you be there I will guide you with my eye If hope’s glow goes dim If I forget where I’ve been And … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Black Night, Blackest Night, Death, Dreams, Eye, Guidance, Hope, Lord, Praise
22 Comments
Bless God of Heaven
Drum Roll for 1/1/11 One / one / eleven Coming from Heaven Ramp up for an exciting ride We know the signs of the times say This age draws near its end But we have a great God of GRACE … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Bless God, Close of Age, Drum Roll, God, Praise, Pray, Psalm 121, Psalm 126, Signs of Time, Wait, Watch, Year 2011
26 Comments
