August 14. Quite a heavy rain during the night. I wondered how C&C were faring. Found out this morning that Christy and Connie and Tim and Ruth had an adventuresome night last night. The power went out over there in the camper, and they checked all the breakers but couldn’t find a problem. Connie texted Daddy, but his phone wasn’t on. (He found the message this morning.) So she texted Ruthie who didn’t hear the phone, but Tim did. Tim went to help and found that the problem was at the house here, not the breakers over there. He thought he had it fixed, and they all went back to bed; but the power went right out again. The third time, Tim heard a “pow” in the line between the house and trailer. Oops! No way to fix that during the night. He got Ruthie up, and they moved Christy and Connie into the house here for the rest of the night. Daddy and I never heard a sound, except that I heard the rain, but don’t know exactly what time that was. Praise the Lord for His blessings today. It was a blessing not to have to get up early to get ready to go somewhere. I think I got up around 6:30. Had my shower and had quiet time. Prepared a pot of oatmeal and enjoyed a bowlful with bananas, blueberries, honey, ginger, cinnamon, and almond milk. Just relaxed and didn’t do much of anything after that until about 11:00 when Christy, Connie, and Daddy and I went out for a while — first to Shark Attack (a souvenir store) where we took pictures of ourselves in the shark’s mouth plus a few other pictures. We also went inside the store to look around. Christy and Connie each bought a Topsail Island t-shirt, and Connie bought a gift for someone. Afterward we went up the road apiece to Subway where Christy got a sandwich to eat on the road tomorrow. It was after 12:30 when we got back to the house. Tim spent most of the morning working on the wiring to the camper. He had to get new wire, but he finally got things working. After lunch and nap, we headed for Hampstead to visit Mary J. I was pleasantly surprised to see Linda there. We had a great visit with the two of them. We figured out that it had been about 50 years since we last saw them. Wow! It was great to renew acquaintance. We came back via the scenic route — along Topsail Beach. Ruthie had prepared chicken, sweet potatoes, and peas for supper. After supper, I went outside and took a few pictures. We packed up a few things so we’ll be ready to leave somewhat early in the morning for our trip home. This evening Ruthie, Daddy, and I just relaxed. Tim took Christy and Connie out to the ocean after dark to look for ghost crabs. They also saw a lot of speckled crabs and they gathered seashells. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” Genesis 3:21 A picture of God’s provision for salvation. “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.” Isaiah 61:10 August 15. Up a little after 6:00 this morning. Washed up, dressed, had quiet time, finished packing, ate breakfast, said good-bye to Ruthie, and were on our way around 8:00. (We had said good-bye to Tim last night because he would be getting up at 5:00 this morning to go fishing with a friend.) It was another long day — about eight hours on the road, counting pit stops, gas stop, and stretch leg stops — although it didn’t seem quite that long. Before we got too far along on our journey, we also made a wrong turn somehow and ended up at the gate going into the military base. 😊 Although we had a wonderful weekend, we are so thankful to be home. Daddy and I have been away seven of the last eleven days. All of us are tired. I didn’t feel like doing much in the car today although I did finish reading the book The New Guinea Frontier, by Bruce L. Blowers. What a great book for use in the missionary training program! Just full of culture! We arrived home a little after 4:00. Freddie (Christy’s fish) was still alive and well, anxious for something to eat as he hadn’t eaten for several days. No rain had leaked in as far as we could tell, although we had heard that Shelby had had some hard rainfalls while we were gone. The house was nice and cool as we had turned a/c on before leaving. Praise the Lord for a safe trip, for watching over the house and Freddie, for Ruth and Tim being our hosts for the weekend, for those who prayed, and all the other special blessings of our time away!
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