River Day 07/05/2021

 We had great weather for porch sitting this week at Jay's: sunny with temps in the 80's.  Everyone was able to attend - Jay, Tim, Ted, Pat and me.

Not much going on, just hanging out and solving what problems are within our areas of expertise (you can guess how effective that was).  

Also not much in the way of photos either, at least none that I'm willing to post, so we'll go with this one of Jay's home-grown.... garlic:

Happy River Day to all!

(also, it should be noted that this post brings us to the same number we made for the entirety of 2020)

Prayer Meeting 07/02/2021

 A busy Prayer Meeting for the Rivertarians this week, with a couple of projects going on.  Jay, Tim, Ted and I got together for a pleasant evening at Jay's - good weather, good times, great friends.

Projects are usually reserved for Fridays - kind of an unwritten rule - and even the neighbors got on board.  The folks across the street from Jay's are getting ready for some construction around the house, so they had some material delivered via a pretty big truck (and truck driver!).  Of course we oversaw the whole thing, and even got involved by helping the driver back his rig back onto Park Ave when he was finished.  Obviously we did an excellent job in stopping traffic.  The bad part is, we've now come up with a fun way to put our skills to the test, but that's for another gathering.

Tim sent me this next photo, and I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but it's something you certainly don't see everyday:

Our next project involved the highly technical installation of an eyehook into the top of a birdhouse I put together a few years ago.  I got the big idea that it would look better outside than sitting on top of a bookcase gathering dust.  And just maybe it'll get used.  I had apparently overthought the whole process and was going to involve serious power tools.  Jay, using a much cooler head, talked me off that ledge, and we got it done in about 5 minutes, without having to rearrange his shop in the process.

As always, we had a great time talking, laughing, and enjoying a few cold beverages.  Jay's son William was also around this week and spent a little time with us, along with his son Liam.

Can't wait till the next one.

Prayer Meeting 06/25/2021 - River Day 06/28/2021

 Since I've become such a slacker with the blog posts I thought I'd combine the two from this past week - just in time for the next Prayer Meeting.  I couldn't really tell you who attended which session, but all of us were there at one time or another.

I couldn't find any pictures except for the ones I took of Jay's cat last Friday.  He looked pretty chill so I thought he was photo-worthy.

Hope everyone had a good week and look forward to seeing everyone later.

Prayer meeting 6/18/2021

Some of us did get together for a little bit of relaxing on the front porch and a few cold drinks. No pics to display but Tim,Ted, and I did enjoy the afternoon together. Summer weather is in full swing with temps in the 80's and storms seem to come especially when the weather channel doesn't predict it! Good times, and we hope to see Mark next time even though he was busy with Vacation bible week with the kids. Hope you all have a good weekend, and Happy Fathers Day!

River Day 6/14/2021

Hello all! Before I get talking about Monday River day I do want everone to know that we all did get together on 6/11/2021 for Prayer Mtg. So any way back to river day which was held over at Pats for a little bit, cause he needed some help moving furniture. Thank the Lord for the nice high temps and the fact that Pat purchased a trailer that was made for Hamsters!X? Once the moving part was accomplished we relaxed for a while on his back porch.

It was very nice sitting back having a few cold ones, watching birds and listening to the air conditioner. It so reminded me of being home! Any way we finished the afternoon Tim,Ted and myself with a cold one on my front porch. Enjoy the week my freinds.

Prayer Meeting 06/04/2021 and River Day 06/07/2021

 Due to laziness on my part, I neglected to make a Prayer Meeting post from last Friday, and a River Day post from Monday.  So I'm combining both events into a single post.

It should come as no surprise that I don't have an accurate weather report from either day, but we hung out on Jay's porch, with shorts and tee shirts being the dress code.  I also don't remember who was there for each evening, but combined, everyone was there: Jay, Tim, Pat, Ted and me.

Everyone has probably already figured this out, but it doesn't take much to amuse us.  Take this basketball for example:

The challenge was to find two images embedded in the logo: an arrow and a spoon.  Find them yet?

So this one was pretty easy, but how about the spoon:

And now you'll never be able to unsee them.  Just a little public service from the Rivertarian Party.

The person who neglected to provide all Rivertarians with the official FedEx basketball tried hiding from the camera, but she deserves recognition too.

(Camouflage failure)

Tim took a couple of photos of our other visitors that he shared.

Always nice seeing the local wildlife.

Two evenings of good times!  Happy River Day!

River Day 05/31/2021 (aka Memorial Day)

 Jay, Ted and I had a little River Day/Memorial Day Celebration at Jay's this Monday.  We had nice looking weather, but it was still a little cool - 60's with clear blue skies.

The bear on Jay's workbench looks a bit different than the last set of pictures I posted - he got a new paint job over the weekend (the bear, not Jay) and it turned out pretty nice.  And as you can see in the pictures we decided a little re-enactment was in order.

Next our conversation turned to speculating how heavy the little critter was.  I guessed between 40-50 pounds, while Ted and Jay both estimated 60-70 pounds.  So in true Rivertarian form, Jay retrieved a bathroom scale for the final word.  Check the photos for the results.

This week we had a small visitor who also added his two-cents worth concerning the bear:

It's always nice having Rivertarians-in-training attend meetings on occasion.