I am now sitting in a beautiful public library in LIVE OAK, FLORIDA, home of _____. I'm not actually sure what Live Oak is home too, but there are a couple of things I do know: it has multiple fast food restaurants, multiple grocery stores, and multiple sporting goods stores, which makes it bigger than ALL of the towns we passed through today. Or at least most of them.
Today was many things. Today was the day that I got a flat tire (!!!!!!) I needed a lot of help changing it. But I assisted in at least 25 percent of the endeavor, and I think 25% is an honorable percentage. PLUS if that isn't enough for you... I still have grease stains on my legs. Delicious. Tangentially, I also have a great farmer's tan.
Today was also the day we biked for 55 miles on one long flat road known as I-90. We stopped for lunch at a great petting zoo with poor helpless malnourished mistreated exotic animals. There was also a Christian rock band.
Which brings me to my next topic: Christianity. IT IS EVERYWHERE. "Happy Father's Day; Real fathers love God" is my favorite billboard so far. There have been about 400000 churches so far along our route. We have also been staying in churches and showering at megachurches and basically, God is very present in my life. Which is great.
As for biking, I am a member of what we have dubbed, alternately, Team Tardy, Team Terrible, Team Terrific, and Team Tenacious. Basically what we're trying to say is that we go slowly. See the scenes. Snap some shots.
Yesterday we biked 60 miles, from Jacksonville to Glen St Mary, a town which was the smallest of small. We spent about 15 of those miles on a Rail Trail with, get this, NO CARS. Hilarious jokes were cracked, lifelong memories were formed.
The day before that we had our first "build day", working with Beaches Habitat in Jacksonville. I felt very magnanimous at the end. I laid sod. WOW do I dislike laying sod. But at the end we had created a lawn where only dirt had been before. TEAMWORK IN ACTION. Matthew and I also put up shutters. I even used a powerdrill and I only messed up 3 times. We put one shutter on upside down. Then we realized our mistake, fixed it, and proceeded to put the next shutter on upside now. The shutters were blue and beautiful, and they really tied the house together.
IN CONCLUSION, I hope all of you are well, and don't worry about praying for me because the whole state of Florida seems to be already.
3 comments:
dad got quite a kick out of this.
love you. and im glad god loves you too.
-Kara
Hi Meg,
For someone who has never blogged before, you did more than fine.
I loled several times and if you had not been my daughter I would have probably still been mildly amused.
I love you
Dad
Hi Meg:
As we reach our dottering years, it's comforting to know there'll be someone around to change our flat tires and even do some home repairs.
- Deedee and Gramp
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