Buckhorn Family Fun Day

BUCKHORN HIGH SCHOOL

New Market, Alabama

We had a great Saturday at Buckhorn High School. The band (parents helped) put together their annual "Family Fun Day".

With carnival style games like Ring Toss, Bingo, Spin the Wheel, all with the promise to win fabulous PRIZES!

Tickets

Ring Toss

Spinning Wheel

Bingo

The attractions also included some new and unique games.

We had "Rock Band" competitions in the Band Room. Complete with laser lights and

"Disco Balls". Sorry, no pictures in the dark.

Also, the Wii "Super Smash Brothers" tournament was a hit with "kids" of all ages.

TP Toss

One different game was the "TP Roll" toss. What made the toss special is the target.

The infamous "Buckhorn Purple Potty"

Something of a legend, the Purple Potty, (proper names are capitalized, right?), has an email at purplepotty@me.com. Apparently, for a nominal fee of $10, you can request the Purple Potty be placed in your friends (former?) yard. Removal is an additional $20.

Dinner

We also had local vendors shopping their wares and raffle tickets, and even a BBQ dinner from Ole Hickory BBQ.

Silent Auction

Remember this moment?

The silent auction offered many great items too.

We won a gift card to Ruby Tuesdays in the raffle and enjoyed a great lunch after church today. Like their salad bar!

PRIZES

We had levels. The scale was 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and Grand Prizes.

I guess the "value" increased, but I think the kids placed value on the prizes by their fun factor.

I hope so anyway.

The Family Fun Day was just that, fun. The fund raising for the band was good, but less than last year. Hope we do better next time.

Sewanee - University of the South

Years ago, when I lived up North, there was a TV show on Channel 8 named
"One Tank Trips".

I haven't thought of that show for a while now, but this weekend we enjoyed a

great little trip up to the Cumberland Plateau just about 50 miles from Huntsville.

A less than one tank trip!

Perched on top of the plateau is Sewanee, The University of the South.

Promoted as,

" home of one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges, a School of Letters, and a seminary of the Episcopal Church."

The school seems a jewel hidden in the beautiful wilderness of Tennessee.

I had never heard of it. Maybe you have?

The campus is highlighted with amazing buildings dating back through the 150+ year history!

Seen here is "All Saints Chapel" complete with real stained glass windows.

The school website states the campus architechture is modeled from Gothic tradition seen at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The construction of native sandstone includes garden pathways in the wooded landscape.

It just begs, "photograph me".

Since the weather was cool and rainy this weekend, we didn't get out and walk around too much, but I plan to take another short trip up to the plateau this year and hope to go for worship in the Chapel

Looking at the beauty of the campus and the purity of the university prayer, I'd say the founders have it right.

"University Prayer

Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we thy servants implore thy blessing upon this University.
Give the spirit of Wisdom to all those to whom Thou hast given the authority of teaching and of government.
Let the students grow in grace day by day; enlighten their minds, purify their hearts, and sanctify their wills.
Bless all who have contributed to this institution; and raise up to the University, we humbly pray thee,
a never-failing succession of benefactors, through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen"

Answer to the riddle?

Do you like riddles?
I enjoy a good riddle and my family really likes riddles and games.

So when a friend emailed this riddle to me, I brought it to my wife and kids for a
family fun time activity. (Fun, really!)

"Please look at the math below:

If:

2 + 3 = 10

7 + 2 = 63

6 + 5 = 66

8 + 4 = 96

then

9 + 7 = ???

The number you find is the password to the Excel attachment

Sign your name, save it, and please forward on to another person.

You will find my name at the bottom of the list . . . you can add yours there."

At dinner, I set it up so each could solve on their own, but not share
the answer until everybody was done.

Thomas was quickest at about 15 seconds, (he has studied these things before). My wife Tam, Jeff II and Rachel followed soon after.

Each saw the riddle solution a different way, however the answer was the same of course.
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Later that night while watching a nature show on TV, I was struck by the
narrator's often repeated term "evolution". He kept saying evolution explained the wide variety of animals and how they live. This is another riddle for many people.

Where did all the animals come from?

To answer the riddle of how all the animals came to be (and everything else), I choose to believe God creatively made each. And everything reproduces (all "creation") after their kind.

This truth is clearly answered in Genesis 1 where God says,

"Each after his kind."

The Truth is clear. No real riddle after all.

Hope you enjoy the math riddle.

As for where all the animals came from, God gave us the answer long ago.

MOONTOWN !

Moontown- when I first heard the name I envisioned

a small residential area on the moon.

Really!

Then I thought "How silly is that?"

What I learned is that Moontown is a small airport

(read as grass runway) off Rt.72, East of Huntsville, Alabama.

No airliners here. Personal, single and double engine planes. Some are Experimental and might have been hand built by their owner. Wow.

My daughter Rachel and I went there early

(6:00 AM) Saturday morning to prepare and

serve breakfast in a fundraiser for

Buckhorn High School band.

This is Rachel's first year in band and she loves it.

We are very proud for her.

Buckhorn Marching Band won

GRAND CHAMPION in the

Tennessee Valley Invitational

in Muscle Shoals this past fall.

I agree, they are the best.

We made scrambled eggs, pancakes (about 200), sausage patties, biscuits & gravy, OJ and the southern speciality - grits. (what are grits really????)

This was my favorite plane today

The pilots flew in from other small airports

near their home or even from their back yard!
Yes, some told me they have a runway at home.

Moontown is associated with aviation group EAA.

Not really sure of specifics on that,

but the pilots and their passengers

were great people and we enjoyed

serving them.

And the name "Moontown". Well I think it has

something to do with the rockets made in Huntsville, Alabama.

Isabella Elise is here and she is perfect.

We are Blessed.

Here she is, God's Christmas gift to us this year.

When our son Aaron, and his wife Jonna told us they were

expecting, well what great news. Finally a grandbaby that

we can love and cuddle close to home.

Oh what a time we will have.