Navy jets flying 500 m.p.h. just two hundred feet from where you’re standing.
Can you imagine how thunderously loud that would be?
Well, Steve and the Dare Challenge guys (where Steve is a board member) didn’t have to do too much imagining last week because Steve took them all on their annual Dare County Bombing Range field trip where they got to watch Navy pilots practice dropping fake ordnance.
As you can probably guess, Steve was in absolute heaven during the outing; the guys were just a little pumped, too.
Dare Challenge posted some pictures from the day on their Facebook page and included this message:
We had an awesome day today, Thanks Pastor Steve, for taking the guys out to spend the day with you at the Bombing Range. We truly appreciate all you do for us, It’s an honor to have you as a member of Dare Challenge.
We love our Dare Challenge guys!
I took a little meander through the side roads on my way to my infusion last Tuesday. Although I was a few miles per hour below 500, I still got to enjoy the same Carolina blue sky as those Navy pilots.
That’s one of the things I love about a good sky. It’s available for everyone’s delighted enjoyment.
I was happy to get an OBX (Outer Banks) license plate recently.
These can only be gotten at the DMV in Manteo so they’re a coveted piece of metal for those who live at (and/or love) the OBX. When we got our new (to us) car last summer, we didn’t get OBX plates but since they had to be renewed recently, Steve surprised me by getting the plates he knew I wanted.
Love my hubby. Love being an OBX-er.
so here is a photo of her posing in fine Shahrazad fashion. She is such a doggone darling doggie.
we watched the eclipse last week.
During the eclipse, there were guys out in the church parking lot laying asphalt. We were so excited to finally be able to redo our 30-year old parking lot and cover up the holes that were so big they could have disappeared a Volkswagen.
Sarah is coming home this Friday for Labor Day weekend. I am always so thankful when that little gray car carrying its lovely driver points itself in our direction.
A bear. Steve saw a bear.
He was out at the R.C. flying field yesterday and looked up just in time to see this ambulating ursidae meander by.
Navy jets. Country roads. Coveted Metal. Dog. Eclipse. Asphalt. Daughter. Bear.
That sums up the past week for me.
What sort of short or long list sums up YOUR week?
Love the jets. When I lived on the Cape F-15 fighter jets constantly flew overhead until recently. Otis Air National Guard Base was right next door. They generally flew in pairs, quite low over our houses. It was a comfort to hear them, knowing they were protecting our country.
Yay for Sarah coming home. Hopefully no rain during her drive.
Cool license plate. I would like to get a vanity plate but cant quite swallow the cost lol.
My past week: Grandbaby. Towed car. Dentist. ER visit. Harvey coverage. Pajamas.
Lesley,
Fighting jets, in pairs, overhead would be incredibly loud. I’m glad you viewed the sound as comforting rather than annoying. It truly is a comfort to know they are practicing for OUR protection.
I enjoyed reading your Week List. It’s interesting sometimes to distill our lives into nouns, isn’t it?
Very loud! But no matter how many times they flew over, everyone would stop whatever they were doing to watch them. All looking up. A very incredible sight. Actually 2 were dispatched to NYC on 911 but they couldnt get there in time.
Lesley,
“All looking up.”
They are definitely something worth looking at.
Wow a pretty busy week for you all. License plates are cool and that is a great picture of Sarah! Glad she’ll be home for a few days.
Me, working a lot. The family practice office I work at us bopeingbtken over by a health network so there’s a lot of details to work out. Fir fun, the NYS Fair, a end of summer tradition for over 49 years! We’ll go few times since it’s only about 20 movies away.
Wow typos, sorry about that!
Michelle,
Don’t worry about typos; they just make us all feel better when WE make them! 🙂
A summer tradition for 49 years? That is amazing! I love to hear about families creating traditions; those traditions are part of the glue that hold all the memories together.
Work … rush home with cardboard box viewer for son and little one, back to work, work, midweek service, work, work. I need a hobby!
Love the bear! Parts of CT are beginning to see a lot of them… coming on peoples’ decks, in their pools! Thankfully not my part of the state yet!
Have never seen the Navy flyers! Own a Blue Angel t-shirt though 🙂 What a great day for the guys!
Beautiful pic of Sarah!
How is your health since you mentioned infusion? I think I missed something!
Guerrina,
I know your family enjoyed seeing the eclipse with you; a memory you will have for a long time. What a cool moment that was!
Yeah, I’m with you on not really wanting bears rummaging around on my deck; I prefer my little spot to be bear-free. But it’s cool to see them “out there.” I’ve seen a couple off in the woods while driving.
Infusion is RA-related. I drive 5 hours round trips every month and get an hour-long IV infusion.
Hey Becky ! ?
1) You look amazing in yellow
2) Glad the guys had fun !
3) Enjoy the weekend with Sarah – how was her ‘real ‘ birthday ? I thought of her that day .
4) How is your health Becky ? Is is being stable and just the same? I read the infusion part so I was just wondering .
5) I This week I have been playing a lot of Nintendo, colored a unicorn in my color book over several days and I have drawn a a drawing of rabbits . Today this Monday I went to the board game café and played some games for first time in over a month . Oh and washed my clothes
Katrina,
Thanks for the compliment; I love yellow!
Sarah had a great birthday; her roommates took her out for coffee and she she got some gifts and then hung out with some other college friends later in the day. She said it was a very special day for her, so I was glad.
My IV infusion just has to do with my Rheumatoid Arthritis; I get it every month as a way of combatting the disease.
I love that you have a board game cafe where you live. I think EVERY town needs one! 🙂
Oh the navy jets get me everytime. Being a big Nascar fan and attending the 2 Michigan races every year, I always look forward to the “fly over”. We don’t always get the jets but I tell you that when we do, it really is the biggest cheer. Nothing like watching them come in, fly right over top and then you hear them. 🙂 My week was, shower repair, flood in the basement, cleaning up from flood in basement, laundry, cutting and weed wacking yard on the weekend and coming back to work on Monday to rest. Have a great week.
I’ve only been to 1 Nascar race and that was at Michigan. When anyone asks what the best thing about the race was, I say, :The planes that flew over. What a thrill. Just had to share that
Vacation, but wasn’t from work at home..haha! Painting, painting, painting, visited daughter to clean her carpets before my new grandson arrives anytime 🙂 visited my son in law’s wild rice farm, how interesting that was, and I got to ride on a HUGE Combine they use in the paddy’s. Then more painting, my carpets cleaned, cleaned out my old shed and went to the dump with a full load of JUNK!! Then worked my 2nd job on Saturday and was so happy to go to church Sunday and then grab groceries for my little Daycare kids for the week, Nice to be back at my job so I can sit on the floor with them and relax a bit, ha ha!
Wendy,
It’s funny you wanted to go back to work so that you could “rest.” 🙂
I have never heard of a wild rice farm; very cool! And I would love to ride on one of those large combimes if I could ever get up in it. The view must be amazing. I so admire and appreciate the farmers who make our food for us. Very thankful for every one of them.
It’s funny your favorite part of a NASCAR race was the airplanes! But I would have to agree. There are few things more thrilling than that incredible roar from the sky.
Mel,
I have never been to a NASCAR race but it seems to me that between the sounds of the engines and the crowds and the jets, it must be a pretty noisy (and exhilarating) place!
Sorry you had a flooded basement and a broken shower. I can only imagne that work really must have seemed like a respite. 🙂
Work. Eclipse. Work. Golf. Work. Yard work. Work. Golf. Work. Day off….travel to Colorado. Celebrate big brother’s birthday. And then home and back to work. 🙂
LeeAnne,
Well, at least you got a couple fun words to intersperse throughout all those work words.
Sounds like a good week!
Ok, I had to look up undulating ursidea, which turns out to be a fancy way of saying a bear walking around. I gotta come here to learn stuff like that! Now I will have to see how to work my two new vocabulary words into a conversation….?
Love, Deb
Deb,
Well, I first of all wrote, “ambling bear” and then I thought, “Naw. I can do better than that.” 🙂 I’m sure you will get some strange looks if you try to work THOSE words into conversation.
Actually, I just noticed you wrote “undulating” so I checked back to see what I had written and it was was actually “umbulating.” Although undulating sort of works too. So you can use whichever word you want.) 🙂
I actually caught the typo, but forgot to mention it to you. It’s intimidating to correct the grammar police.
Steve,
Ha!
Volunteer on Mondays, Duke appointment Tuesday, visited friend in the hospital Wednesday, Jim had doctor appointment in Greenville Thursday, back to hospital Friday to visit two friends and Saturday took dinner and visited with a friend and family who is having radiation on her head for brain tumors. Busy week but happy I could do it. God is good. My cancer treatment will be drugs to give a better quality life and they are just as successful if not more so than other more severe treatment. Waiting for them to arrive. Continue praying that they will do what they are suppose to do and I can tolerate them without side effects. Trusting Him. Sarah is an inspiration to me and a hero. So proud of the work Steve does with Dare Challenge. Pictures were great and love your OBX tag!!!!????????
Ann,
You are amazing, lady! With all that you have on your own plate, you are still staying as busy as ever doing wonderful things for other people. You said that Sarah was an inspiration to you; well, YOU are an inspiration to US!
Glad your meds on the way and you can get started on them soon. Also thankful you are not having to endure a more severe regimen. You’re in good doctor hands and in the hands of a good God. Perfect place to be.
Work Monday – Friday. Good friend and co-worker had gall bladder surgery Thursday, dinner with another friend at new barbecue restaurant Saturday afternoon late, church annual meeting and picnic Sunday afternoon/evening. Oh and about 6.50 inches of rain overnight on Monday into Tuesday morning. Flooding in some areas of town but nearly the flooding that Houston and southeast Texas is experiencing.
Phyllis,
Six and a half inches of rainovernight is a lot of rain! Hope things are drying out. We are in the middle of a tropical storm warning here with flash flood and high wind warnings. But as you said, nothing as bad as what those beseiged people in Texas are facing.
With work and friends and church and good food to enjoy, sounds like your week was a great one.