SMBI

Made the trip to SMBI on Sunday afternoon to take Conrad and his cousin Kendra up for a 6 week term. This is their first time at Bible School. We pray it turns out to be a growing and grounding experience for both of them.

Arrived around 8:30 Sunday night.


Getting unpacked into his dorm room.

The Struggle for Broadband!

Had kind of a busy day today. Working on a Saturday is not one of my favorites. Phineas seems to really get a bang out of it but I sure don't! Went to brother Bill's place to get the cat5 cable in place that will carry the high speed internet connection on back to his office. He is really wanting to get CAD going in his drafting business and broadband is almost a necessity to be able to do it right. Since DSL is not available for him, he had to go with the local cable company. This option started out on a bad note. Originally, Comcast wanted over 1000.00 to get the cable (large "hardline" feeder cable) back his rather lenghty 600 foot lane. I managed to talk a Comcast engineer into running the more standard cable halfway back his lane. I offered to take it from there. It will mean putting the cable modem, and 110v. receptacle, in an enclosure about halfway down his lane. From there we plan to run a cat5 cable, in conduit, the rest of the 300 feet. This will allow us to make it into his garage where we will install the router and connect the 4 PC's located in the office above the garage. All this may seem like a lot of hassle but I feel it will be worth it in the end. The thing that really makes me frustrated is the whole DSL issue or lack thereof! I have to pay 58.00/month for my broadband through Comcast simply because there are no other cheaper options. If Verizon would just get their act together and get DSL more available around here it would save a lot of trouble and money etc. Everytime I see an advertisement for Verizon DSL it makes me want to scream! That Ad seems to be everywhere loudly proclaiming their DSL service for only 15.00/month. That is an incredibly cheap price for broadband to be sure but what good is it if hardly anyone can get it? I just can't believe its almost the year 2006 and DSL service is so sparce. I will keep you posted on how things work out at bro. Bill's place.

Another Deer Pic.

Congratulations to Chad (Kendra's boyfriend) on this nice one! I didn't know they got this big in South Carolina! I wonder if Wesley's is any better than this one? We may never know since nobody gets me a picture! LOL

More of Baby Blake.

We finally got over to see baby Blake for ourselves tonight. He seems to be adjusting really well as do the new parents! It seems just a few short years ago that we had our first child. He is now 18.5 years old and planning to leave for Bible School this coming Sunday! It hardly seems possible. Where did all the years go so quickly? Its too bad there was no capability of blogging back in those days. It would have been fun to post pictures for friends and family to see almost right after they are taken. There are certain things about technology you just gotta love!

Baby Blake...

The picture of contentment....


But it was short-lived!


Even I got to hold him....

School Benefit Auction in VA.

Here it is a cool rainy Saturday morning here in DE. Been wondering how its going at the school benefit sale in VA. I hope the rain is not messing things up too badly. I sure wish we could have made it this year because we really enjoyed being there last year. A couple factors influenced our decision not to go. One is the fact that our 1996 Chevy Astro minivan is still not running very good. I am thinking its a bad valve because the motor has a noticable "miss" when at idle. We already tried changing what seemed like a bad spark plug/wire etc. but it didn't solve the problem. The van only has 112K miles on it and it really disappoints me that this sort of problem has showed up already. I may try ebay about getting another Astro because I like the ability of this type of minivan to pull a trailer. Also the fuel mileage is pretty good with these at around 18-20 mpg.
The 2nd reason of not making it to the sale would be the wedding we will be going to in Stuarts Draft VA. for Naomi's nephew Jerrel. Hopefully we can have the van issue solved by then.

Talk Radio

This post is mainly for those living in, or near, Delaware but feel free to post comments on the subject if it interests you.
I have to admit being a big fan of talk radio. One station we have in our area WDOV AM1410
is pretty much all news/talk. Dr. Laura's show has been part of the daily programming for many years on this station. That seems to have come to an end. I guess station management has decided to replace her show with Sean Hannity. I guess I have mixed feelings about it. I enjoyed listening to Dr. Laura but have found myself really enjoying the Hannity show. I am wondering how you all (those living around here) are taking this change? Are you glad? Sad? Mad? Or simply could care less.
For those from our church please sign your comments with your first name and last initial.
Thanks.

New Baby!

Congratulations to Jason (Naomi's nephew) and Emma on the birth of their baby boy! We wish them the Lord's blessings as they begin this new stage of their lives.

Details:
Name: Blake Sterling Yoder
Weight: 7lbs. 6oz.
Lenght: 21 inches.
Arrival: Today (10/16/05) at 1:15am


The expectant couple just a few days ago.


He seems so content!


Dad seems to be doing ok in spite of the long night!


A close up.

Nice Buck.

I got a call tonight from Travis. (one of the guys from church) He said he wanted to stop over and show me something.

He got this with his bow tonight over at Blackiston's Wildlife area. He said he was only in his stand for 2 minutes! Way to go Trav! I bet a lot of guys would like to say they got one like this with bow.

Crabbing on Friday 9/30/05

This could be the last crabbing trip of the season. When the water temp starts to fall the crabs begin to head out to sea or bury in the mud. Its been a really good year. This time it was Conrad, Kendra, and I on the boat. I forgot my camera but luckily Kendra brought hers. Its the exact same camera as mine. (The Fuji Finepix S7000) A few pics below show some of the highlights. And yes, another 2 bbulging bbushels was the result of this trip. I hope to switch from the subject of crabbing soon to show that its not the only thing that we do! One thing I had to do was work on the minivan today. It developed a "miss" in the engine on the way home from crabbing. I was fearing the worst like maybe a busted valve. I was hoping maybe it was a spark plug or wire going bad. It turned out to be the distributor cap after doing some troubleshooting. It wasn't delivering a hot enough spark to the one spark plug. I got a new cap installed and it seems to be doing ok again.

It was a gorgeous clear cool morning as seen below.


Hanging on to the bait awaiting dippage! LOL


Up close and personal!