Indian Summer in Stroh

The temperature in Stroh was near 70 today with sunshine and low humidity. It was a beautiful fall day in Northeast Indiana. The old folks always talked about Indian Summer. Indian Summer usually follows some freezing temps. We had those; a few frosts and even some snow, so this would probably qualify. According to the weather man we have 40's for highs coming this weekend. It is that time of year.

This fall weather always takes me back to Autumn days of the past. I love the smell of leaves burning, wood smoke from fires, and sometimes I can almost swear I smell smoke from a coal burning stove. That's what we heated with when I was a little boy in Kentucky. I remember burning my butt on that hot stove one time when I was little. My potty was next to it and when I went to sit down my butt hit the hot stove. I don't know how old I was but that memory stuck with me.

Fall reminds me of going back to school. In Kentucky I went to a 3 room school house through second grade. It set alongside the creek bank and we had a dirt playground. Marbles was the game of choice for the boys, most of the time. But the older kids played basketball and baseball. As it got colder we always had a milk break in the morning around a big pot-bellied coal stove in the middle of the room. I remember that the milk had slushy ice in the cartons. I always looked forward to that.

Have a nice fall.

It's Sabbath in Strohtucky.... Awesome day!!!!!

Yep, this hillbilly (Strohbilly) observes the Sabbath on the 7th day, like the Bible says! So, Shalom ya'll!

The picture is me and Lou on a hike at Pokagon State Park in Angola about 2 months ago. He's my son and my best little buddy.

I'm sitting here on Sabbath morning with my almost nine year old son, Luke. We sometimes call him Lou or Louey! Anyway he's my buddy and blesses his old dad a ton. I thank the LORD for him every day. I want him to write some on this blog. This Displaced Hillbilly has a son who has some Hoosier in him so I suppose he is a Hoobilly or Hillsier? I like Hoobilly better. I love him! So look for posts from him from time to time.

Meanwhile, it's chilly outside the old Redmond double wide. We've got a fire in the woodburner, coffee black and hot, and some turkey bacon and eggs coming soon. Me and Lou are HUNGRY! We're waiting for my sleepy headed daughter, Laura, to get up. She's supposed to fix up this delectable delight for us.

After breakfast we will read the Scripture together and then head off the Messiah Fellowship at around 4:30.

We ain't rich by the world's standards, but we are rich beyond compare in HIM. The house is warm, we have food, we have jobs, we have a great family at Messiah Fellowship, we have our little family here in Stroh, and we have one another, all because we are rich in HIM, because we have HIM, and HE has us... that would be the LORD, the Messiah Yeshua I'm talking about.

Anyway, look for Lou to get on here sometimes, and maybe some of the rest of the family as well.

Hope your house and home are blessed today, in HIM.
Banner - the Displaced Hillbilly

I haven't posted here in a quite awhile

It's getting chilly at night in Stroh. Gotta get the chimney cleaned this evening so we can fire up the woodburner. It's a strange thing with my little girl Brook being off at IU for her first year of college. She's been away now since the last week of August. We won't see her till Thanksgiving. The longest she was away from home before this was a week traveling with her big sisters. My little guy, Luke misses her a lot.

I've been writing for my Torah Perspective blog and Pastor Ron and I just did a radio interview with a brother over in Australia. It is the Feast of Sukkot this week and we're having a blast getting together with our family in Yeshua.

Abba willing I plan to post here more often... more of a family, friends, life happenings kind of thing.