More Meat for the Freezer

The phone rang this evening and as soon as I answered it a young voice said, "Hi, Grandpa.  Guess what.  I got my first deer."  While hunting with his dad and uncle, Javin shot a young male deer called a "button buck".  He shot the deer just before sundown and after field dressing and tagging, Jason, Javin and Javin's Uncle Joe drove by our house so we could see the deer and take some pictures.

I don't know who was more pleased, the successful hunter or his father and mentor.

Jason, our son-in-law, began hunting at an early age and he's teaching Javin to handle firearms and hunt safely.  Much of their annual meat supply comes from their harvest of wild game, including turkey and goose.

After Thanksgiving jobs to do

It's pretty normal for me to do some domestic maintenance items when we visit our parents.  My mother had two projects on her list for after Thanksgiving, one of which was to clean and paint an electric heater cover with high-temperature paint.  Upon removing the cover, I saw that the wiring wasn't in very good condition.  Consequently, the whole heater was replaced.

Replacing the wall heater

The pull-cord on a window blind failed, so Dad and I put in new cord and took care of Mom's other maintenance item.

Re-hanging the blind with its new pull-cord

Thanksgiving 2010

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Dwight's family in KY. Our turkey was delicious. A slow cooked turkey in a metal trash can - better known as Trash Can Turkey. If you check the Internet, you will see that this is getting to be a very popular method of cooking a turkey.  If you want to try it for yourself check it out here.

Trash Can Turkey in the making. Dwight's brother, Eric, cooked the turkey at his place in Indiana and brought it to the family gathering in Kentucky.



Dad and Dwight peel potatoes



Dwight's sister Pam, with our Scott and Stephanie

 

Thirteen of us Jarboes were able to get together.

We are truly grateful for the blessing of family. We missed our daughter and her family who were celebrating back in Ohio with Jason's family.



A father and two of his sons (Marvin, left, and Eric)



Darren (our niece Brittany's husband ) takes his turn on the Wii.



Floats

We are excited! This week the floats arrived for the Cessna 206 which will be used in Brazil for His Kingdom. With the many rivers in Brazil such as the Amazon and it's tributaries, this airplane will be well used in ministry.

Check out the web page for Asas de Socorro (Wings of Help)  Although it is in Portuguese, you can tell a lot from the pictures  http://www.asasdesocorro.org.br/html/index.php. Ryan Joy, their maintenance director in Manaus, Brazil, is a graduate of the MMS program.

Here's a video of the arrival of the floats at MMS.

Friday

In the MMS Aviation engine shop there was a decidedly English tone to wrap up the work week.  Andy Porter and Mark Beckwith measured parts of the Continental O-300D engine they had just disassembled.  Andy and Mark are from England and are here through the partnership MMS Aviation has with Mission Aviation Fellowship of the UK.  They're from different parts of England, and even we tone-deaf "Yanks" can hear they speak with different accents.  They were working under the supervision of staff member, Ian Hengst.

Andy (left) records data as Mark measures parts with a micrometer.

In the afternoon, friends we knew in Bolivia (with Wycliffe Bible Translators) stopped by the hangar for a short visit.  Steve worked in the print shop and Betty taught in a missionary kids' school.  This was in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the late 1970s and early '80s.

Rena, Steve, Betty and me at the MMS outreach map in the conference room

It is GroundCrew Time

Late this afternoon we headed to Zanesville, OH (65 roundtrip) to the Franklin Printing Company.  The latest MMS GroundCrew newsletter was ready to be picked up.  This company does a great printing job and we are happy with the quality work they do. There will be a few more steps before you receive it in your mailbox. The MMS Ladies are busy sticking labels on envelopes and will have a final "push" just after Thanksgiving to get those envelopes stuffed (approx. 5,000).

We're pretty sure this company was not founded by Benjamin Franklin.



Dwight loads the last box