Family Birthdays

We went to Seffner on Saturday night to celebrate Daniel's birthday.... he's 40 + 7 now!

 

Clergy Day Apart and Other Things

Lots of Zoom meetings this week for me and then I helped coordinate the Bishop's Clergy Day Apart at camp on Thursday. That night I was able to hang out with my covenant group for dinner. 

One of our South West district pastors gave the lunch blessing. 

A few of our South West district pastors who made the trip up! 

And Friday, I preached for the Deacon Retreat. 

 

Highlands Fun

On our last day in NC, Daryl took Parker and Wesley over to Highlands to ride the Scaly Screamer alpine coaster, do a little shopping and have lunch. They had a good time. Davis stayed home with me because he didn't want to ride the coaster and I wasn't feeling up to leaving the bed. 

These super cute decorations were in the back of Highlands Pizza where they stopped for lunch. 

 

First Day of 2026

We went to hike Whiteside Mountain for the first day of the year. It was cold - and parts of the trail were icy. And there was lots of ice on the sides of the trail too. 

The Last Day of 2025

I went to work out at the fitness center this morning and ended up walking the track and the River Trail that goes out from the south end. There's a small little neighborhood River Glen at the back with some condos. 

The view from our porch back home in FoxHunt. 

We spent part of the afternoon window shopping in Cashiers and the top layer of this pond was frozen! We had an ice warning every time we turned the car on too. 

The last sunset of 2025!

Parker and I went back in to Cashiers later to walk the Green and see all their lights.