Our Weekend

We had a nice time this past weekend. School was out on Thursday and Friday since it was the end of the nine-weeks. Dad took off his last two vacation days as well. I house/dog-sat for a friend from Wednesday evening to Saturday afternoon. Thursday, Grandpa Miller came up from Hobe Sound and visited for a few minutes. He had come up for a memorial service for Luis Stence in Kissimmee and had stopped to see Sister Smart on the way from Hobe Sound to Kissimmee. Friday night, everyone but me went to Seffner to the Fall Retreat that Brother Smalley was having. Brother James Bates spoke in the service. After I got home on Saturday, we all went down to Seffner again. Our pastor, Richard Holliday, was to speak at the service that evening and our church was to provide the music. David, Andrew and Grace along with Warren Fink sang two specials: "Power in His Name" and "The Cross Road". Dad, David, Andrew and Warren all took their instruments and the "Orlando Strings" as Brother Smalley calls them performed. Brother Kready was unable to attend as he had a previous commitment. Bro. Plank says that our church is "the Spanish church with the Nashville sound" since our church is a Spanish style building and the guys all play string instruments every service. Bro. Smalley requested prayer for the Smarts as Sis. Smart was very low. Sunday morning Bro. Holliday announced that Sis. Smart had gone home to Heaven. He told us that the Sweitzer's had been with them Saturday evening and that when they would sing hymns and different songs, then Sis. Smart would brighten up, smile and raise her hand.

AHD Ranch Update

Saturday, October 7, 2006 we moved Sir Loin and Buster from Summerfield to Groveland. They joined Bandit in the fattening pen and will stay there until the end of January most likely. I'll try to post pics of them soon. Our baby, Frisky, is growing fast. He likes to run around with the other calf in the field that is about 2 months younger than him.