Lake Wales Care Center

Today for lunch they had a nice ' good bye " for the Sowers. They served a delicious vegetable soup, crazy Cuban bread, ice tea and cheesecake with fresh strawberries!!! Then they Thanked us all and gave each couple a bag filled with all kind of ' goodies '... It was a very fun place to work and you felt like you were doing some good for the needy people in our lives.... We will probably return to this project... But we are looking forward to the next week off... as we plan to spend 3 days over at Daytona relaxing with my sister and her husband from Michigan and then a few days at the new house buying furniture and fixing it up... maybe even take a few swims..... We have not owned a house in almost 10 years ( 9 years 11 months ).. Forgot what a utility bill is....ha ha....

Our New Home!!!

The Sower project is over for 10 days and then we start a new one at HEART in Lake Wales.... We had a VERY busy day yesterday as we left and drove down to Ft Myers to buy the house. We really think that we will enjoy it and invite you all to come and visit us here in southern Florida.... It is very livable as is but we want to change some things and add our " touches". It has 3 bedrooms/ 2 baths.. one is a pool bath ( as we have a beautiful pool and spa... ) Then you can come straight into the bath 2 ways so you don't drip water all over the house from the pool... It has a lot of palm trees, flowering bushes and vegetation.... We have met 2 of the neighbors and they were both nice. We still plan to be on the road and enjoying Sowers.... but MAY slow down a bit.... We have already moved a few of our things there but came back home to our m.h. last night so we could finish this project.. The picture yesterday was me holding a box from the Realtor filled with gourmet cookies, coffees, candy, popcorn, etc. It even had potato chips dipped in chocolate!!! YUMMY!!!!!

Today, We bought a home in Cape Coral, Florida!!!!

Oh Lord, our Lord .. How Majestic is Your name in all of the Earth!!! Today is a lovely day in the Lord!!! The sun is out and it is WARM!!! Probably about 80*..... Sorry to those that live up North.... Only 3 more work days left and then a 10 day " break"... before we start our 61st. project just 5 miles down the road.. at H.E.A.R.T... It is on a college campus where they do missionary training.... We will be parked back off the paved road a mile and then there are villages where the students live to prepare them for jungle and village living.. I'll tell you more about it... sounds like it should be interesting... Only 4 couples next time and we know our group leaders.... Another day of working " on the floor : and helping customers..... Then we had a BIG Surprise Pizza party for the boss's birthday.... delicious cake!!! We are having pizzas tomorrow night for the Sower's birthdays here and 2 more " good bye " parties for us on Thursday... We may meet our son Mark on Wednesday for his birthday celebration at Apple Bee's as he will be in the Orlando area....at lease I won't order Pizza!!!!

Another good week end... Just got back from Ft Myers... Plan to attend church and rest on Sunday as neither Tim nor I are feeling that good... Only 4 more work days and then plan to spend a few vacation days over at a lovely condo in Daytona with my sister and her husband... On 2/2.. Tuesday is my birthday so I have been debating if I should go to Disney... You can go there FREE on your birthday... The weather is warming up so that is good too!!!

I am thankful for the CROSS today!!! Another work week is finished and there were some disagreements in the Thrift Shop working so it will be good to get away from that for the week-end... We plan to leave right after Tim's work today and drive down to Ft Myers ... our daughter Kristy flies home to Michigan, in the morning, after 3 weeks so we will see her to the airport.... My sister Donna and husband plan to come to Fl. next week and spend a month RELAXING in the sun!!!! We have decided NOT to buy the house at this time... Too many RED FLAGS... GOD knows best and we leave it all to HIM..... We were a little disappointed ... as were our children.....We were given LOTS of good breads, cakes and cookies this week... which I do NOT need.... The Thrift Store is very organized and a joy to work at... except the last 2 days it has been VERY COLD!!! The weather is suppose to warm up to the 70's by tomorrow... Guess some of the citrus crop was frozen....Always nice to hear what YOU are doing... As our son Mark always says " Don't count the days... make the days count!!! Carole

This is a Florida sunset!!! We really enjoyed the week-end with our kids in Ft Myers.... We also enjoyed the Reunion in Lakeland with Spring Arbor College on Saturday. Today was another busy day at work at the Care Center... We sure have helped them sell lots of clothes and " junk " The weather has been nice in the 70's but they say by Thursday we will have cold weather again... All the t.v. is full of M.L.K. and tomorrow's inauguration..... Plan to play games with some friends tonight..... Our daughter Kristy will fly back to Michigan on Friday.. She had a great time in Florida but is anxious to be home again.... It has been fun having her down here for 3 weeks....