Grab a chair. This will be a long one

Last night was an incredible night for 3N1. We had the opportunity to sing at Core Point Chapel. It was a fabulous night. The people couldn't have been nicer and everybody seemed to have a great time worshiping the Lord with us. After the service, They laid out a feast for everyone. The food was awesome and the deserts even better. I even took a piece of cake home with me because I ran our time to eat it there. We finally left around 8:30 to head back to Fayetteville and that is when things got interesting, at least for me. We had just pulled onto I 95 when my front driver's side tire chose to go flat. Mike and Steve and their wives were following us in Mike's truck and pulled over behind us. Between the 3 of us we finally got the tire changed and we were back on the road 45 minutes later. My spare tire is what we call a "may pop". This is because it may pop before we get home or it may not. Of coarse these types of tires are only rated for 55 miles per hour. So that slowed the process of getting home way down. We did get home around Midnight and the fun wasn't over yet. We started to unload the van and get the kids in, who were sleeping in the van, when we notice the most horrible smell inside the house. After a few minutes, I discovered a mass of something in one of the boy's bedrooms upstairs. I had no clue what it was but it was definitely the cause of the odor. I removed it from the house and we began the spraying of anything that would kill the smell. We even lit a few candles. Before we went to bed I figured out what the dogs had brought into the house. My wife had notice, a couple of weeks ago, something floating in the pool. i went down to check it out and found a squirrel had met his demise by falling in the pool. I removed him and decided to bury him way back in the back corner of the yard. Well, two weeks later my little rat terrier / basset hound mix thought it was a great time to bring Rocky back from the dead. It was not pretty. And it smelled even worse. This morning the smell was a little better but I do get to go home after work and shampoo carpets. I tell you all this just to let you know even after all of this, it was a blessing to share God's word in song with the folks at Core Point and we would do it all over again even if we knew about the troubles getting home. God is good.

It has been a few days since I wrote. I got a couple of pictures from Rev. Loft's wife a few days ago and thought I would share one of them with you. I am supposed to be getting a DVD from her sometime and 3N1 is very looking forward to getting that. If I can figure out how to upload some of that video, I will. For now we are looking forward to singing at Village Green on Saturday and then we make the trek up to Core Point Chapel on the 15th. God has been very good to us and we thank Him for that on a daily basis. God Bless you all! 3N1