Beginning of August

The Beginning of August brings a lot of activities into our lives. In addition to the Church activities including deacon's meetings, praise group practices, church softball and such there is Karen's birthday, the annual Harris Family reunion, and nice weather to get out on the lake. We went to an art festival and had a couple of short road trips. This year our friends from Minnesota came for a visit. Marti went to High school with Karen and me. Tom and Marti are in full time ministry with Navigators.

Andrew and Adelphia came over in Clarice and Jon's the '69 Firebird. Andrew has been redoing the engine, transmission, brakes etc. while Clarice and Jon are in Australia. Andrew, Adelphia and the kids were able to spend some time on the lake.

We were also able to get over to a summer picnic at a lake house of a couple from Church along with several other folks from Church. The big event this year though was Karen turning 60. We got up early on her birthday so she could ride over to Fort Wayne with me, and she spent the day with Adelphai and the Kids. We all had lunch together at Pizza Hut. On the way home we picked up flowers that Clarice sent to Karen and when we got to the house there was another flower arrangement that her brother sent to her.

We took our old gray Pontiac into Warsaw and had dinner at a restaurant that we both like and had a picture take to record the event.

We had a nice evening on the lake Wednesday, with Blake's and Noel's family, all the guy's water skiied or wakeboarded. We finished the evening with a cookout

Karen and I have been walking in the evenings (3-4 miles) and have seen some really nice sunsets and have enjoyed the nice cool evenings. We are both trying to get in shape for our vacation in September.