Tuesday has been a great day!

I’m going to consider this my ‘picture for the day.’

Don and I finally felt good enough to get out of the Q this morning, so we went to breakfast and then drove out to see the new Branson Airport.  The above picture was taken from a mountain out where the airport is.

The terminal.  Can you tell that it was built by BassPro?

Then Don drove down a rode we’ve not been on before and I got this shot of Table Rock Lake.

As we pulled up to the Q, my phone rang.  It was Snookie Quinn and they are in Missouri…. on Interstate 44!!!  We made plans to meet them at Stratford in about thirty minutes.

There they are!!!  Snookie’s the one with the camera!… my blogging mentor.

What a wonderful surprise!  We did not expect to get to see Bob and Snookie this summer and now we are making plans for the next few days.

The Quinn’s have new ‘wheel estate’ and Bob is explaining the Big Foot jacks and leveling system.  N~I~C~E.

They are both so tan from being on the beach in Delaware all summer.

Really got some good shots as they rolled away.  We will meet up with them tomorrow for a few days.

Can’t wait!!!

We came right back to Branson and started packing things up in the Q.

 

MAKING MEMORIES

Well, wow!  After Dennis and Sally left, we went over to see Lucy and Jimmy to say good-bye and go to dinner with them at the Olive Garden.  After dinner, we rode around and Jimmy took us on a street we have never been on and look what we found!!  The Sycamore Log Church.

Jimmy pulled into the small parking area and we piled out of the car.  Lucy went to check the front door.

It was locked.  Sort of.  Notice the screen door type hook latch.

Undiscouraged, Lucy unlocked the door and went in and turned on the lights.  There was a sign there that said “come on in and please turn off the lights when you leave.”

This land was donated by Laura Sutton and the church built was built by the community and the Jones family in 1933.

Inside was very quaint.  Look who went straight to the pulpit.

We got a great idea for a pulpit for the ranch!  A three legged tree trunk section.  Perfect.  Don is signing the guest registry.  There was even a basket for our offering with gifts already there.  Others had been here before us.

Lucy determined quickly that the old piano needed to be tuned.

The wooden plaque says “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. Psalm 121:1”

Notice the padded pews!

Over the door.

Lucy, picking out her pew.

A close up of the sign outside.  Wish we had known about this little log church in the woods before now.

We were so glad we found this old log church.

Mysteriously, we found ourselves at Culver’s, the first place we took Jimmy and Lucy three years ago when we first met.

Jimmy had green frozen custard.  The rest of us had normal flavors of frozen custard.

Oh my goodness, we laughed and talked and laughed some more.  Making memories, as Lucy said.