Some of the scenery from LPCCC. The building are beautiful and we have this very large cactus along with many palm trees as well as trees laden with spanish moss which looks a little like a mans beard. We heard a funny thing about the spanish moss. It is said that Henry Ford thought it would be an inexpensive stuffing for the seats of his model T. It resulted in the first vehicle recall as the moss is the habitat of some small insects which created much itching for the passengers.

Some of the men doing landscaping work.

All the ROAM volunteers working at Lake Placid Christian Conference Center (LPCCC)

We go from working on the buildings by painting etc. to working on each other. Verla is cutting hair and Anne is doing laundry. In Lake Placid we are fortunate as we have laundry facilities available to us.

People we work with volunteers and staff from LPCCC.

Bill getting ready to cut some trees. He has a thing for this!

But cuttings trees from a truck in a bucket named DUMBO is a bit much. The work was done successfully and DUMBO was enlisted in some other duties.

Grandkids and Christmas What a blessing they are. We had a wonderful time with them. It may be a while before we get back to New York. Keeping them in our prayers.

Emily and Sophie with cousin Joshua at Lola's house. My family (most of them) met at Lola's house for Christmas Eve. It was nice and yet a little sad as we all missed our mom's presence.

There were over 20 people gathered at Lola's for our Christmas Eve celebration. We had great food and lots of fun with the kids. Mindy gave me a special gift-an angel pin. I was so touched by that. She and Josh and my brother Tim (their dad) were struggling with this being the first Christmas without Kim.

Bill and I left Plattsburgh on Christmas day to travel and celebrate with Jason and Jessica, Steve and Tammie and our grandchildren.