The UltraTech Zone

Ah, November...  The month where we (at least in the good ol' US of A) remember to be thankful. I have a great deal to be thankful for -- so much so, that I haven't had a moment to breathe this month until this past weekend.  I've had several of these busy spurts throughout the year, but I really can't complain about them. I have a lot ...

This summer, in addition to a vacation at Cape May with my extended family, we also went to Shepherd Lake twice (in June and August), and we had our annual church camp-out at Stokes State Forest.  All in all, we had ourselves some good times this summer. The past few times we've gone to Shepherd Lake, I've rented row boats, which has proved ...

Yesterday, our church had an outing sponsored by the Family Life Ministries department -- which is the Ministry that my wife and I are responsible for.   On the advise of our Pastor and his wife, we went to Shepherds Lake in Ringwood, NJ.    Ironically, we had been to the Botanical Gardens of Ringwood several times, but ...

Generally speaking, I don't like to drive for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time.   Maybe even 4. Somehow, various family members (primarily my wife) have managed to convince me to take far lengthier trips by car over the past 12 months or so. For instance, last year in June, we drove down to Georgia -- with the kids -- to visit my wife's ...

We had a fun time camping this weekend.   Except for a little rain on Saturday afternoon, the weather was gorgeous, and we even got to see a good bit of stars on Friday and Saturday night.  Friday night was a bit better, because it was less hazy. This was our church's annual Spiritual Retreat weekend, and it was especially ...

This weekend, we're going camping.  We, as in my entire family.   Actually, to be more precise, every year, our church has one Spiritual Retreat Weekend where we go off to the woods for a nice, semi-quiet time with nature.   I say ''semi-quiet'' because we bring the young-uns with us, and some of them are adept at ...

This past Saturday (July 8th), the family and I had the extreme pleasure of hearing Chaplain Barry C. Black preach at the Allegheny East Conference Camp Meeting which was held in Pennsylvania.  It was an incredible event, and Chaplain Black is a powerful speaker. I took a few pictures, which I really need to post to the photo gallery.  ...