UP EARLY AND LOOKING FORWARD TO.....

a day trip with several friends.

Sponsored by one of their banks, we're going to Alton for a guided tour of "four lovely landmark homes in this 170 year-old river town community." and "lunch will be served at the popular Josephine's Restaurant."

I love old homes. : ) My little one is getting a little work done on the outside. You know...a "tuck" here and a "tuck" there. Hopefully to keep her standing another 100 years!, or at least as long as I do.

The goal is to make the repairs look as though they'd "been there forever". I think maybe that's working.


TFT' "...we do not lose heart...Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18