September 3rd, Monday – Good News; Haircuts; First Project; Still Hot and Humid

It’s funny, you suffer with the heat all day.  At night it begins to drop so that by the time you go to bed it is comfortable.  But when you awake it feels chilly.  Maybe that’s because it is so damp all the time.  The humidity never seems to go much below 60 or 70% and the dew point is always about 60.  That’s the cycle we are currently caught in.

Breakfast this morning was simple but good.  A bowel of cereal, a toasted English muffin

with peanut butter and jelly, juice and a couple cups of coffee.  Let’s face it you can’t have a feast every morning and why should you.  Sometimes simple is just better.

Breakfast finished and tummies full we headed out to run a few errands.  First on the

list was having the battery tested.  Results?  Nothing wrong with it.  It passed the load test with flying colors.  Moreover, I discovered that it is only two years old.  Good news all around.  Tomorrow morning it goes back in the battery box.   I’ll also take a look at the Battery Tender, maybe call them and see if they have an explanation for it’s strange behavior.

Finished with that we went to get haircuts.  We do that on occasion!  Fortunately, there

was no one but us it seemed who wanted a haircut when we arrived.  Thus, in no time we were in and out.

Yesterday we shared with you that we had become members of the Methodist NOMADS organization.  We already have signed up for our first project.  It will be in Clermont, Florida, October 29th to November 15th.  We’ll be assisting in the building of a home for a missionary.   We’re both excited and looking forward to this our first project.

If you are wondering, yes the heat is still on as well as the humidity.  They tell us it will break by this Friday.  But you know what, I’ll take this over against what some poor folks are having to cope with in terms of rain and flooding and tropical storms.

That’s about it for today.  Spent some more time putting together a preliminary route for 2019 and the states we want to visit.  It’s still a long way from finished but ever so slowly it is beginning to come together.

Some of you have asked, you keep referring to traveling along and singing your song, Well,  what exactly is your song?  OK, the song is entitled Side by Side and was written in 1927 by Harry M. Woods and over the years it has been recorded by many artists.

Oh! We ain`t got a barrel of money
Maybe we`re ragged and funny
But we`ll travel along
Singing a song
Side by side
I don`t know what`s a-comin` tomorrow
Maybe it`s trouble and sorrow
But we`ll travel the road
Sharing our load
Side by side
through all kinds of weather
What if the sky should fall
Just as long as we`re together
It really doesn`t matter at all
When they`ve all had their quarrels and parted
We`ll be the same as we started
Just traveling along
Singing a song
Side by side

Thanks again for joining us on The Road of Retirement.  All those who in the days ahead   will be rolling down the interstate have a safe journey and may God be your ever present copilot.  Time for me to call it a wrap but as always let me leave you with a little something to ponder and think about:

As always,  if you are coming to the end of your day with concerns and worries, let me suggest that you turn them over to God.  After all, He is going to be up all night so why not let him handle them for you.

Time now for our evening prayers and eventually some shut-eye.  Till tomorrow.

These are the voyages of  Graybeard and it’s occupants, four paws and two humans.  Our continuing mission: to explore as many new states as possible, to seek out new acquaintances and make new friends, to boldly go where we have not been before