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The Puerto Rico Mission Trip in a Nutshell. *laughs*  Or, really, a YouTube Video that Karina, one of the people who went, made from all the photographs everyone took.  It's lovely, and the lyrics go so well with the pictures.  I love that she put John in every time they sang "sweat", his sticking his landing, and Kaleia being the little girl who ( Read more... )

( Pictures or it didn't happen... )

And here are all the Biloxi Trip logs that I can find. These all start on the first day of the trip. There's journal and pictures for each of the years.

• 2012 -- Trip Journal -- Pictures
• 2011 -- Trip Journal -- Pictures
• 2010 -- Trip Journal -- Pictures
• 2009 -- Trip Journal -- Pictures
• 2008 -- Trip Journal -- Pictures

I want to start by wishing everyone a very very Happy New Year, and to thank you for your support, friendship, and time. I am very grateful ( Read more... )

It was snowing just two days ago, and it was kind of crazy to see the tornadoes going through the very same places we were just two days before that. It's been a very busy week ( Read more... )

I had a small accident yesterday. Stepped on a floor sub-board that wasn't fastened down, it flipped, and I went down a good four feet to the mud under the house. My left leg stayed up on the floor, the right knee hit a joist, slid down, and then my foot hit the ground. Took me a few minutes to get up, and when I did, I worked another two hours. * ( Read more... )

Jet isn't sixteen, so he isn't old enough, really, to be allowed on the work sites. The liability insurance of the Mission that dictated this rule. We knew that, and knew that really they couldn't cover anything if Jet was actually hurt ( Read more... )

I got up early on Friday, not so much because of breakfast, it turned out, but more so that I would have the time to pack everything before we left for the work site. Since the work site was 30 minutes west of Biloxi, in the direction of New Orleans, the whole group decided to pack all the cars up with Stuff, and head out to the City directly from ( Read more... )

On Thursday, I was tired, sore, and managed to turn off my alarm instead of setting it, so by the time I was up, breakfast AND lunch had been put away already. Luckily, I found some banana bread in the fridge, and John was gracious enough to give me half a sandwich for my lunch. When other folks found out that I hadn't packed a lunch I soon had ( Read more... )

The rain is pouring down and the wind whips through the trees making them roar louder than the train that goes through every few hours. Lightening cracks the sky to let the thunder roll through and it seems like the beginning of a bad novel. It is a very stormy night, though not all that dark as all the light off the casinos bounces off the ( Read more... )