New Hopes Cowboy Church and Chili Cook-off

Another fun and inspiring day in Hudson, FL at New Hope Wesleyan Church. Great seeing our friends Eleanor and Rodney Ladd, and all the other folks from other churches coming together for a great night of fellowship and CHILI.

Denises chili took top prize for the Most Zesty Chili. Yeah Honey!!!!!

Over a dozen different chilis and only a couple of hours to eat as much as I can, Mission accomplished :)

The day started off great with Steve Hopper telling his story and testimony that lead him to Jesus. If you get a chance to go to a event with Steve, I highly recommend it. Will put a link for him at the end of this blog post.

Was nice seeing a lot of PPWC members helping support their former Pastor here at New Hope.


Steve Hoppers Website

6th Floor Museum and Dallas Holocaust Museum

Denise and I explored Dallas today and visited the 6th Floor Museum and The holocaust Museum, lots of death.

6th Floor was very interesting and informative, from pictures and actually looking over the route JFK took from Oswalds perspective and relalizing the longest shot was under 100 yards.  Not a tough shot for anyone with a small amount of training.

Looked up at Oswalds perch from the roadway , little eerie considering what happened there.

They had a Mosaic portrait of JFk and one of Jackie, each made out of thousands of small photos of the other.

New Hope Fall Festival

 Had a blast at the New Hope Wesleyan Church Fall Festival in Hudson, FL..

Everything was free and fun was had by all that came and enjoyed the event. Hay rides, various games and a great band. A bonfire was the night capper for those who came back and enjoyed the music provided by Patrick Stanton and smores galore.

On a personal note was a very blessed and a great reminder of the love Jesus has for his people. Seeing the smiles on kids for winning a toy to getting off the hayride with a smile from ear to ear. Thanks Pastor Eleanor Ladd for letting us help you with this great event and for the other members of various churches coming out to help make this a great success.

 

Largo Fire Dept. Chili Cook off

Great time at the Largo FD Chili Cook off with Denise, daughter Brandy and My Pal AL.
Free chili tasting, K9 demo, ambulance viewing and kids riding in Fire truck with lights and siren wailing.
There was some Owls there, great looking so close.
Bayflite flew in and landed and made the day for lots of kids.

Great Job Largo FD and all involved.

Saturday with the wife in Sarasota.

It was my birthday weekend and decided to travel to the Amish Country in Sarasota.

We decided to see the Para Surfers by the skyway as we headed south first.

Nice View from side of road

Went to the Pumpkin Festival next and enjoyed some old town farm fun and a little craft fair. Got to help reset a tent that the wind blew over as soon as we got there, so hopefully wasn't a sign of things to come.

  

Time to go get some fuel for our bodies and have a nice sit down at Yoders Amish Restaurant.

Got Denise to try some Fried Okra.

Thats a where is the napkin to spit it out look!

Great fun with the wife and some great god sightings while we were out and about the Tampa Bay area. 

Bok Towers and Spook Hill

So once again I talked Denise into another one day get away. Was gonna go to Bok Tower and then head home, but will reading about Bok I noticed a link to Spook Hill near Bok Tower. Being the Graveyard rabbit that I am, we left earlier and made it to Lake Wales and found Spook Hill.

After reading the sign and following directions we indeed travelled in reverse uphill while our van was in neutral. Being the natural pressimist that i am I tried doing this farther from the indicated line, and we still travelled uphill but at a slower pace than the first. We really had fun here and tried different ways but we did travel like they said we would. Worth the early start to our trip.

 

More on Bok Tower soon

Fun with the Texas Grandkids

Busch Gardens trip with the kids. Was great seeing them and had a great time here and on the way home at the Duck Commander for fun and fireworks over the July 4th weekend.
Arianna got some free donuts from Godwin, great time was had by all.