Journey to Apison

Our caravan of vehicles got underway shortly after 7 am this morning after Pastor Brad led us in a prayer… Well, not a caravan exactly… we were all following the same directions, at least theoretically [looking at you, Princess Tracy Lost… :-)], but we didn’t want to try to keep so many vehicles together. We…

Almost ready!

We had our final organizational meeting last night for our trip to Apison. We each got one of these (very bright!) t-shirts… I love the slogan! We got our rides all sorted, and discussed what to bring (things like sunblock, gloves, boots, high-power bug spray…). There was a nice article in Monday’s Ellwood City Ledger…

Tornado relief work trip to Apison TN

Dear friends, I will be traveling to Apison, TN (near Chattanooga) later this month with a group of about 30 people from Concord United Methodist Church (Beaver Falls, PA). We will be working with Open House Volunteers to help the Apison community recover and rebuild after April’s devastating tornadoes, which killed 8 people there and…

Biscotti

By request, I’m posting my recipe for biscotti, which is sort of a synthesis of several recipes I had found online, but which I found to be the tastiest combination. Ingredients: 6 Tbsp unsalted butter 3/4 C sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 2-1/4 C flour 1-1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1-1/2 tsp…

SharePoint for the (very) small business (Part 1)

SharePoint for a small business? Isn’t that overkill? As the (former) owner of a small precast stair manufacturing company with all of a dozen computer users, I’d like to share some of the ways we successfully used SharePoint (specifically MOSS) to run our business. A little case study, if you will. Why SharePoint? Most of…

The Main Event!

After another scrumptious breakfast at Hotel Monaco, we checked out and took the U-Bahn (with a very easy change) to BMW Welt. It’s quite an astounding complex; I can’t imagine how many millions it cost to build! We had been told to be there an hour or more prior to our appointment, but we were…

Hotel Monaco

We stayed two nights in Munich at the Hotel Monaco, just a couple blocks from the main train station, which is about a 40-minute train ride from the airport, but then within walking distance of the center of the city. We were a little unsure when we saw that there was a casino and a…

Beautiful day in Munich

Monday we had a full day to spend in Munich, so after a scrumptious breakfast at our hotel (which unfortunately I forgot to photograph), we headed out to walk the 2 km through the back streets of the city to the Deutsches Museum, which is located on a island in the Isar River. We wandered…