Getting geared up for Classes...

I brot some mint plants from Iowa (that Mom Schuring gave me)and Dan planted them for me...delightful in iced tea. It's hot here in August!! We've had over 100 degrees recently!

On Mon. the 6th, we had our staff kick-off breakfast, followed by some orientation etc. This semester there will be 155 students. The staff group that you see here are not all teachers...some work in the office, bookstore, maintaince/construction, the M.K. ed center, etc. There are 98 "family units" on staff plus 155 children on campus.

Dan drove to Springfield airport to pick up a student on Friday. Students should all be in today - classes begin tomorrow. (20th) The campus parking lots are filling up with vehicles.

P.S. Just in case you're like me - not too familiar with the wonders of comp. tech. and blogspots...you can click on the pix to have it enlarge and have a better view - pretty neat, eh?!

Driving Home this morning

These condos are available for you to come visit us . (not really)
When you see this Davis Baskets sign start looking to your right for our turn-off.
This sign signals - slow down and prepare to turn right off of Hwy 54
Here's our turn-off sign -AA. This winding road will take you down to the lake campus MTC where we live now. Anyone want to come visit?

More Pix of our Sun.morn. drive

Just some tourist attractions to tempt our family and friends to come visit us here.
We arrive at church this morning. A friendly country church tucked into the hills.
This one's for Scott (I know how you like fireworks :)
But just in case one of them gets "out of hand" there's a backup plan...

Continuing on into town

Just another view of the roadside cliffs...
We come to the Main Intersection of Camdenton...
Just in case you might think the MO intersections look uniquely different than other cities :)
This is where we had to get our cars registered for MO as well as other business when we became official "Missourians."

Pix of our area

Well, here goes. A tour of our drive to Church and back today :) As we head up the winding roads from MTC (Mission Training Center) heading into town (Camdenton) we pass the first entrance into the mission campus up ahead.
We get to the Stop sign at Hwy 54. We'll take a left into town.
A beautiful golf course along the road (where we get our weekly exercise and practice good sportsmanship. Just kidding.)
Crossing the bridge -with marina along shore. (yeah, taken thru the window with reflections of my arm. I never claimed to be a pro photographer. I'm learning, tho. :) More pix coming...