Oct 23rd - Sunday

This morning we went to church at Faith Community Church in Ellington. Bruce, the carpenter with whom I have been working, is the Pastor. It is a small, but nice, church. Attendance was maybe 15 this morning. The music was good as was his message. I didn't realize it at the time but our discussions as we worked contained a lot of information about the message.

I went back to the 6 PM service but Kathy didn't feel like going. There were only 6 adults but we had an enjoyable time. All the singing was southern gospel, which I love, and Bruce had another good message. I invited him and his wife for supper Tuesday night.

To get to Ellington we can drive 0.2 miles of gravel road and then 9.2 miles of paved road (9.4 miles total), or we can go the opposite way and drive 2.7 miles of gravel road and then 3.1 miles of paved road (5.8 miles total).

Following are some photos of the 2.7 miles. Below is a photo of where you cross the creek. It has been dry so there is very little water running across the road. They have thoughtfully poured a 10' wide concrete slab on grade to make the creek bottom where you drive across. Downstream you can see (not in the photo) the remains of a slab that must have washed away during high water.

Below we are on Lila's Hump. You can't appreciate how steep it is going up and down the hump. If you look closely it looks like there is a break in the road. That is because the elevation of the road drops so fast that it drops out of sight.

Below is the shoulder of the road at one point. The gravel you see at the bottom of the photo is actually the shoulder of the road. At this point the sidehill drops probably 50' by the time you are 15' away from the shoulder. At Lila's Hump it drops around 70' in maybe 20' (that photo did show up well).

 In most places you can crowd the shoulder and two cars can pass but the are places where one person has to wait for the other to get through because there isn't room to pass.

The weather was beautiful again today.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.