Saturday, Feb 20, 2010

We have had an interesting week.
First of all Larry and I had sad news from Virginia. Our dear friend, Ralph Parsons, who was battling ALS passed away on Monday afternoon. We have only known Ralph & Janice for about 6 years but you know how you meet someone for such a short time and they have such an influence on your life? Well, Ralph was just that kind of person. A gentle giant of a man. Janice called us to tell us that Ralph was dying about 30 minutes before he died. Ralph was a retired Army Colonel and his Blog was Eagles in Flight. After his last camping trip with our group he stated in his blog that his wings were clipped but he was not grounded. Sunday afternoon before he died on Monday there were 2 bald eagles flying around our camping area here in Dade City, Florida. Now other people said they had seen them before but Larry and I had not so we now know that was a sign from Ralph telling us he was soaring to new places.
The rest of the week has gone rather smoothly with getting the outside walls up on the new house over in a different location. I spent a lot of time transporting people, tools, and food . We had some painting to do here at the original jobsite but this next week I think we will all be working over at the new site.
Tomorrow about 9 of us are going to church with Erma. We also have a group of college students coming in to work this next week and we plan to have a dinner for them one night if they want us to.
we have one more week here with the care a vanners and then we are going to Disney with Ally(our daughter) and family and then on down further South to Naples for a while before we go back to Virginia.