Trip through a tunnel

I thought I would video our trip through the tunnel and down the parkway from Gatlinburg to Pigeon Forge

Bike Trip to the Mountains

Thursday, we left and rode the bike to Pigeon Forge. When we left it was raining, just a little, it quit pretty soon. We stopped at Smokey Mountain Harley-Davidson, we needed to stretch our legs. From there we went on in to Pigeon Forge. The leaves were really pretty this weekend.
On Friday we did a lot of riding. The weather was Great!!! In the valley it was about 75 degrees in the afternoon, but we decided to ride to the top of the mountain between Gatlinburg and Cherokee and the temperature dropped drastically when we go closer to the top. When we got to the top, we had to put on coats and gloves!!!
Saturday was not such a nice day. We came home in the rain! And it rained almost all the way home. Even with rainsuits, we were still wet, and cold. Three hours of riding in the rain is not really a lot of fun, but that's okay, the other two days were wonderful and we had a great time.
Looking forward to our next trip!
Hope you enjoy the pictures, this is just a small portion of what I took.

Papa and Nana

Papa made this while we were riding down the mountain!

At the top of the mountain!

One of the tunnels going up the mountain!

The sun shining through the trees made it seem like the trees were glowing!

The ridge at the Welcome Center in Gatlinburg.

The colors were awesome!

Nana ready for the ride!

It was pretty chilly Friday morning, but the day warmed up and it was very nice for riding!

Papa getting ready to ride!

Leaves Falling Like Rain

The Tree is Finally Gone!!!

The tree that did the damage to our mobile home is finally gone. Only half of it fell, so we have been waiting on someone to come and take down the other half of the tree, I was so glad Monday afternoon when they got it on the ground. It also had a hollow place in it, so it could have come down at any time. Very grateful it didn't fall on the house or the storage building.

Luggage Rack

Forgot the luggage rack

Bike upgrades

Hey, thought ya'll would enjoy the new stuff Papa had put on the bike.
I know Ken and Stephen will. I did a video to let you hear the new sound but it wasn't very good. You really couldn't hear the difference as much as I thougth you would. You will just have to hear it in person. He put Vance & Hines on, and it sounds really good!

New Chrome

A Good Week

This has actually been a very good week.
They finished up on the repairs on our mobile home, and we now have a roof with NO hole in it :)
They finished the bedroom late Friday so now I get to start moving everything back, but first I think I will do a little house cleaning, as in getting rid of things we don't need, or haven't used, maybe since we have been here!!!!

Still don't have any job prospects, but I know God has something for me to do, I just have to be patient, and wait upon the Lord, which is not an easy thing for me, but I am trying.

We got out and rode today, we went out to Cloudland and rode up 157 a ways, ran into some old friends from Dry Creek! It was very hot, but we enjoyed the ride and the wonderful food, we stopped where a group Kenny works with were set up cooking Barbecue, Brunswick stew and fried apple pies. Yes, we got some of it all!!!!

Oh well, just wanted to let everyone know what is going on.
Thanks for your prayers.

We had a storm!!!

The pictures that follow are of some of the damage after a storm here on Sunday night. We were at church and you could hear the rain, thunder, see the lightning, and the power even went off. Papa just kept on preaching and finished his sermon. When we came out we noticed a tree down in the driveway, so we cautioned everyone to be careful and go around the tree. A few minutes later, Bro. Richard came back into the church and told us that there was a tree on our trailer. It was scary, but we are just so thankful that God is so good. Within a few minutes the men of the church, and some of their family and friends were back and started the work of getting the tree off the trailer to prevent further damage.
Praise God for such wonderful folks he has blessed us to know!

The pictures are not in any order, and I should have put the rainbow last, I guess, but I just didn't think.

God Is Good!

God still sets his bow in the sky! I am just so thankful no one was hurt, and this was just a beautiful sight. I couldn't get the entire rainbow, it was a perfect bow, but I could only get this side.

The tree is finally gone!

They finally got the tree off the trailer about 10:30 pm. Bro. Mike made this picture of the roof where the tree went through.

Helpers

The tree that you see here is a part of the tree that went onto and into the roof. It will be going soon, too much of a hazard now. The squirrels will just have to find somewhere else to play!

Taking the tree off the roof!

Johnny and Mike cutting small sections of the tree to get it off the roof. They had to cut the tree in small sections to keep it from doing any more damage to the roof.

The sun came out!!!

The sun came out so I actually got a pretty good picture of the mess!

This is from the front. If you notice the little dots, it was still raining when I made most of the pictures.