Hey, Howdy! I'm still here!

Hello, everyone! I have tried repeatedly to add my trail notes to the blog, under their appropriate dates...but am having no luck. Everything indicates that the edits are successful, but they are not showing up in the blog. So, I thought I would try a new post, to see if I could even do that, and to let you know what is (or isn't) going on with the site. Don't give up, I'll keep trying to get it working again. 'Til then, take care, and God Bless

Gollywobbles!

Yep...Gollywobbles! It seems that I may have a touch of the gollywobbles lingering with me. I feel SO much better than I did a couple of weeks ago, and am able to be at work, attend services at church, and go to our Bible study/Prayer meeting, and all those good things...but I am not fully "bounced back" to my former self. I just don't feel 100% yet, and am experiencing very slight vertigo at times, along with some vision problems...nothin' serious, just annoying. I pray to be back to my old self soon. Maybe you would say a prayer on our behalf, too! Thanks! Cari is continuing to heal, which is AWESOME! She is a real trooper, and, unlike me, seldom complains about her complaints...I think she may be easier company to be around than I am when not feeling great. I guess I am lucky to be me and not her, because I get to enjoy her company, and I don't have to tolerate being around me! God has truly blessed me, don't ya think!?!

More later, God Bless you!

Stickman

A few new entries...

I had an opportunity to transcribe a few days of "Stickman Journals"...not many, but I will certainly try to get more of them logged in...later, God Bless!

Stickman

Could we have your prayers, please?

Thank you! It has been an interesting couple of weeks, recently. I had just gotten over a nice cold, and wham!...Here comes the flu! Also included an incredible helping of vertigo, too! I am back to work now, having lost only a weeks work. I feel very fortunate, and blessed to be done with it all! Not to have things focused around me, me, me, all the time, Cari has been having a ball! A few weeks ago, she tore some ligaments in her knee, as she took the expressway down our stairs. As things are apt to be, she nursed herself back to "feelin' pretty good!", when she was trying to tend to me, and my complaints, and still get to work on time...She approached the dreaded stairs...took a step or two down...and felt tearing in her knee again! Well, let me tell you, it's been pretty interesting around here lately! We spent the week with me flat on my back, upstairs, and Cari downstairs, in a knee brace (a NICE one!), doing the best she could...we communicated via telephone, which we were actually able to look at with some sense of humor!!! Elizabeth was also a huge help, coming up from her home in Rockland to help us out, THANKS LIZ! So, I guess we are on the mend, but a little prayer never hurt anyone...could we have some of yours? THANKS! Love to all, and God Bless!

Stickman

Updating old posts...

Hi everybody!

Just wanted you to know that I took some time today to add my daily trail notes to some of the previously posted blogs...I have up to June 18th updated! Sorry it is taking me so long to get to it, but have lot's and lot's going on...eventually, we will also try to go back and post more pictures, too. Keep checking back with us, and thanks for your patience...also, would love to hear from any of you! God Bless!

Stickman

Wonder where they are...

Hi everyone! I have the day off today,(have to work tomorrow...), and took the opportunity to make a quick run up to the Kingfield/Stratton/Eustis area to see if I might be of any assistance to a stray NOBO thru-hiker or two. I hung out at the trailhead for a couple of hours, then went into Stratton to poke around before coming back to Madison. I never saw any hikers, but maybe next year I will have lot's of meetings...It is getting late in the year, and the closing date at Katahdin is October 15th, just a couple of days away, but I took the chance anyway, just in case there was a flip-flopper, or someone who was still hiking even if they wouldn't make Katahdin. I did wonder, though, where everyone was this late in the season,(some of the SOBO's are still hiking), and prayed for them all, that they have successfully finished their hikes. If not this year, then maybe the next...I, for one, would like to take another crack at it sometime down the road, and Faithful has expressed the same. But, today, I just enjoyed the ride up here, and relaxing at the trailhead for awhile. It is a bit chill, and quite rainy today, but the Fall colors were magnificent, the rain making the colors vivid, much like the way water will bring out the best colors of the rocks in the bottom of a stream-bed. God is so good to give me this wonderful, rainy day!

Now that I am back home for the afternoon, I need to get busy again, getting a few chores done, and working on more ScriptureSticks. There are still orders coming in, folks are still sponsoring them to be given away, and there are many, many folks out there that we still need to give them to. Thank you all so much for your generous support of the ScriptureStick ministry! Let us all pray that each hiking stick given out will minister and be an engouragement to its' recipient...and to all who read them, a witness to our wonderful God!

...looks like I'd better get to a couple of chores before it is too late...I will try to do an update at least every week, and if any of you hikers would like to e-mail me with your hiking results or status, I would be so happy! ...I wonder where you are...but, wherever you are, may God be Blessing you!

'til then, God Bless you ALL!

Stickman

Update on Faithful

Hey everyone,

I just sat down to do a little transcribing for my trail journal, and thought that I would check up on Faithful, see how he was doing...the following is a copy of the latest entry in Faithful's blog...He has done a fantastic hike, and has taken opportunity to share his faith! Now, let's all keep him in prayer that he can get rested, and keep his health up...Way to go my "Faithful" friend! Awesome hike!

Here goes...

...."Faithful called today with the news that he had decided to get off trail and come home for now. He has been exhausted for a while now and has not been enjoying the hiking for some time. There is no reason to continue if he is not enjoying it. Last night clinched his decision. As most of you who read this know, Faithful has epilepsy. It has been under control for several years, with the proper medication, though he does have auras once in a while. Last night, he had about 10 intense auras, HIGHLY unusual. Such inner brain seizure activity tires him out greatly. He believes he needs to get back home where he can get adequate rest and nutrition.
Needless to say, his family is looking forward to having him back home, though we do know he is somewhat disappointed not be be able to finish at this time. However, he hopes to finish the trail at a later date, depending on what he may have for work and other responsibilities.
He has finished his hiking at Waynesboro, Virginia, at the end of the Shenandoah National Park. That means he has hiked 1,325.9 miles of the AT. What an accomplishment. We rejoice with him for having done so much.
Last night, a man who hikes a certain loop once in a while saw Faithful hiking and thought to himself that the young man looked like he could use a place to stay that night. He invited him to his home. He said he had never done that before. He is a retired policman from Atlanta and is now a builder near Charlottesville, Virginia.
A Christian family not too far from there are relatives of friends of ours. They are excited about helping Faithful out. They will pick him up tonight and take care of him till he can get a way home. We will write more when we know more. Thank all of you for your concern and prayers."

Looks like that's all the news for now, will catch you all later!

God Bless!
Stickman



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