Best E-mails of the Week 06/27/04.   

Tish is doing great as a missionary in New Zealand:

Hi all!
>    Today was an amazing day.  We worked on more lesson plans for the
>Thursday afternoon program at the primary school, then went to a Bible
>supply shop to get some prizes for the kids when they memorize their Bible
>verse from the previous week.  Then we had lunch at Wendy's, one of the
>more "American" meals I've eaten here, and went back to the church to do
>more lessons.  After work I went to eat at the home of a family from the
>church who came to NZ from Taiwan a little over 5 years ago.  We had some
>Taiwanese food and kiwi food, but the best was yet to come.  The father has
>an incredible karaoke machine so that he can sing and practice his English,
>so he asked us to sing songs so he could sing them along with us.  I sang
>Hey Jude by of course the Beatles (which NZ celebrated the 40 year
>anniversary of their first visit to NZ last week).  Then he had us sing God
>Bless America, which I found quite interesting.  It was awesome to be
>singing karaoke in a Taiwanese house with people who invited us over
>because we're Christians!  The best part was when all of the family asked
>if they could sing a song to us in Taiwanese, which was great.  The kids
>were not embarrassed or anything, they got right up and sang.  Then I met
>some of the ladies from the church in a cafe and we talked for about an
>hour.  It was nice to get to know them more.  I'm off to bed, I hope you're
>all doing well.
>Love and God's Blessings,
>Tish
>
 

www.CTCatholic.org has been launched.  Here's a religious poem:

Brightly Colored Sunsets

Brightly colored sunsets

and starry heavens,

majestic mountains and shining seas,

and fragrant fields and fresh-cut flowers

are not even half as beautiful as a soul

who is serving God out of love,

through the wear and tear

of an ordinary, unpoetic life.

On the job this week, we cut a 1000 foot long driveway to serve two house sites we own.

Alan operates the excavator shear.

This giant chain saw attachment underneath the shear head is sharpened to cut the tree about 2' in diameter..

Alan wraps the grips around it.

He cuts it and picks it up.

Then drops the 70' long tree to the ground. The swishing wind in my face from here is intense!

Ron Jr. who just finished 10th grade grabs the tree with his skidder.

And drags it 1000' to the chipper.

That low area is a dried up watercourse now. We will build a small bridge there next week.

Ron Sr. on the log truck lifts it so Bob can cut the wide trunk into 12.5' lengths.

Frank paints the ends to avoid checking. The portable saw mill will turn these into oak planks.

The rest of the tree is chipped into the chip truck for delivery.

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Wilfred loves Peanuts, so he will surely see this Snoopy exhibit in Minnesota.

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