Last Friday we arrived at Rose of Sharon in Burlison, TN for our next project. We are working with two of the same couples, Lee and Esther Smith and Emmett and JoAnne White, from our last project....so no "getting acquainted" in our initial meeting! The facility serves as a site for youth camps in the summer and also has an addiction rehab/recovery program. The men have been working on projects in an old off-site school building that is being converted into housing for the men in the rehab program, and the ladies have done several different chores....none of them too strenuous, to be sure!! (Will post some photos of the work next week.)

Thursday night we all enjoyed dinner out at Ryan's, complements of Pastor Rose, who heads the facility here....it was much appreciated.

Yesterday found us making our way to Memphis for a ride on one of the "paddle" boats that cruise the Mississippi there.
The parking area was "paved"with cobblestone....but it all made for an interesting photo, I thought!
Before we even boarded the vessel, some of us were having fun.....I think Esther was enjoying mugging for the camera!
I took lots and lots and lots of pictures...some of them turned out and some of them, well, not so much!!! But I did like this one of on the arches on the I-40 bridge with the decorative ironwork on the boat framing it.
The Memphis skyline......
We had a very informative narrator along for the trip....he kept reminding us that we were in "his" history class!

After our boat ride, we found our way to the much-anticipated dinner at Olive Garden.....and after too much good food, we were on our way "home".

Today is a relaxing day...let's see it has included walks, drives, metal-detecting, scrapbooking, and just plain ole lazin' around! We hope you are enjoying this wonderful world that the Lord has provided for us.....it is a beauty!