Bible School!!

We are having Bible School at Calvary Baptist Church this week. Brady has made it two days so far. (He dropped out after one night last year.) I bribed him to go back Tuesday with a day at home with me. I am going to try to bribe him tonight with a new monster truck toy (Samson). Tomorrow is the picnic, so a hotdog should be enough of a bribe for the last night!

I guess I should be thinking about what the Bible says about bribes???? I don't think that the Lord will mind since at Bible School there is a six foot squirrel, a six foot dinosaur and a mean six foot ape that make appearances. Brady is terrified of them. His friend Sam thinks they are funny, but not Brady!

There were 27 kids in our class on Monday and 24 on Tuesday. They have been great!

The kids have enjoyed snow cones, cookies, pop corn and kool aid this week. I think that is the only reason that some of them come! Whatever it takes to get them there! Maybe they will remember just a little of the message along with the fun and a seed will be planted in their hearts that will last forever! That is what we are praying for!

Monster Truck Show (another redneck story)

We took a family outing this weekend to Bristol Motor Speedway to see the monster truck show. We went early enough for Brady to go into the pits and see the trucks up close. There were eight trucks and four demolition derby cars. The kids were allowed to sign the demolition derby cars. I thought the monster truck show was pretty boring. They did not race, only went by time trials. The best part of it was the motocross bikes that performed between the qualifying. They took these huge jumps and the guys went off of the bikes in mid-air. It was awesome. It started lightning at about 8:30, so we had to leave the stands. I had enough so we left. I do not think that we got our $45 worth, though.

On another redneck note (see previous blog), I need to send out an apology to my friend Carolyn who called to tell me that her husband has crushed aluminum cans with his truck. She said that he did it while they were in the bag, so I think that would be considered a little classier.

Redneck Can Crusher

I was driving home from work on Friday when I got to a curvy part of the road below my house. I slowed wayyy down because a truck in the driveway of a "tralr" (I will have to post about that story sometime) or mobile home as we call it in the insurance business, was about to pull out in front of me. Then he stopped and backed up. Then he pulled forward again. When I got closer to the drive way, I noticed that there were aluminum soda cans all over the driveway. This guy was crushing a ton of aluminum cans with his truck! It was hilarious. I got home and told Charlie about it, but he did not think it was funny..... it seems that if you crush the cans you get more money per pound at the recycling center.....I guess that guy is a little smarter than me. I would have stomped them with my foot!