God, the RV & me

We hope that you had a most wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. We sure packed in a lot and the Lord showed us so many of His wonderful creation. It is amazing being on the East Coast and how much older towns and villages are, some are over 330 years old. Well, as promised, I will write about the amazing Gillette Castle and William Gillette. I can't imagine living in a castle, although William never called it a castle, he called it his home. William was an American actor, playwright, stage-manager and had several patents as he created props for the stage. He was best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage. He was born in Nook Farm, Hartford, Connecticut, a literary and intellectual center with residents such as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner. At the age of 20, he left Hartford to begin has apprenticeship as an actor. He briefly worked for a stock company in New Orleans, but the returned to New England where, on Mark Twain's own recommendatio...

We arrived in Moodus last Sunday and enjoyed our first week here. We have done a little bit of sightseeing but seemed like I couldn't get my act together and we went to the grocery store four days in a row. Part of that reason I will share with you in the "Keeping it real" segment.  I saw a fire tower on our way to Moodus. This is our site for two weeks. The flowers here and the views are amazing. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."  Ferris Bueller's Day Off "They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;  You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy." Psalm 65:8 (NASB) Prior to its purchase by English settlers in 1662, the area around Moodus was inhabited by Native American Algonquians.  The names of three of the inhabiting tribes are known. The Wangunks , the Mohegans and the Nehantics  were their names.  The name was derived from the Native American name for t...