Robby Lisenby, Luke Nieuwsma and Jesse Sumpter have joined me in Richmond! Here we are in front of the Richmond WWI veterans memorial and also in downtown Annapolis Maryland before church on Sunday.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The 2006 Pest Control Gang
Robby Lisenby, Luke Nieuwsma and Jesse Sumpter have joined me in Richmond! Here we are in front of the Richmond WWI veterans memorial and also in downtown Annapolis Maryland before church on Sunday.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Rain day
Dear friends,
Now I remember why I started this blog in the first place. It was a day not unlike today, my first summer selling pest control. Once again I'm 2500 miles away from home and I don't have one Christian friend in this entire city! Normally the nature of my work keeps me from getting restless and thinking too much about home, but today it's raining just enough to keep me off the doors. I can't decide if I want to go knock in the rain or if I should get my oil changed, but I suppose anything is better than sitting in my car. Right now I'm in the Glen Allen public library. Glen Allen is probably the most wealthy suburb of Richmond and where I will be knocking for at least half the summer I'm sure. So far I've done pretty well since I've been out here. I've sold about 90 in the first five weeks. But I've got 15 more weeks to go!
Yesterday I went to a Reformed Presbyterian Church in downtown Richmond, it was a good service, but not quite like the CREC. Next week I'll either go to the CREC church in Lynchburg or the one in Newport News, both are about an hour and a half drive. I also went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts yesterday and saw an Art Nouveau collection with lots of bizzar, fantastic looking furniture and cool lamps made of all different colors of glass. I also saw some Van Gogh paintings, but the most memorable thing was meeting one of the numerous black security guards who told me to look at three different paintings in succession, saying "see if you can find the flaw in that one." I usually couldn't see at first what he was refering to, but sure enough, he would show me where the artist had forgotten to paint a shadow of something, whereas for other objects he had made a shadow, or he showed me how a dogs legs were way too long and he would look like a kangaroo if he tried to stand up. He had practically memorized every detail of the paintings he was required to guard, and this was how he relieved the boardom of the job, just standing around in an art museum. On my way out an older black lady scolded me for not wearing a coat on such a rainy day. "I ought to lay you accross my lap and paddle you," she said in a very low smoker's voice.
I know I rarely if ever post on this blog, but today I could not help but give a shout out to the world. Friends, let me know if you read the post.
Marty
Now I remember why I started this blog in the first place. It was a day not unlike today, my first summer selling pest control. Once again I'm 2500 miles away from home and I don't have one Christian friend in this entire city! Normally the nature of my work keeps me from getting restless and thinking too much about home, but today it's raining just enough to keep me off the doors. I can't decide if I want to go knock in the rain or if I should get my oil changed, but I suppose anything is better than sitting in my car. Right now I'm in the Glen Allen public library. Glen Allen is probably the most wealthy suburb of Richmond and where I will be knocking for at least half the summer I'm sure. So far I've done pretty well since I've been out here. I've sold about 90 in the first five weeks. But I've got 15 more weeks to go!
Yesterday I went to a Reformed Presbyterian Church in downtown Richmond, it was a good service, but not quite like the CREC. Next week I'll either go to the CREC church in Lynchburg or the one in Newport News, both are about an hour and a half drive. I also went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts yesterday and saw an Art Nouveau collection with lots of bizzar, fantastic looking furniture and cool lamps made of all different colors of glass. I also saw some Van Gogh paintings, but the most memorable thing was meeting one of the numerous black security guards who told me to look at three different paintings in succession, saying "see if you can find the flaw in that one." I usually couldn't see at first what he was refering to, but sure enough, he would show me where the artist had forgotten to paint a shadow of something, whereas for other objects he had made a shadow, or he showed me how a dogs legs were way too long and he would look like a kangaroo if he tried to stand up. He had practically memorized every detail of the paintings he was required to guard, and this was how he relieved the boardom of the job, just standing around in an art museum. On my way out an older black lady scolded me for not wearing a coat on such a rainy day. "I ought to lay you accross my lap and paddle you," she said in a very low smoker's voice.
I know I rarely if ever post on this blog, but today I could not help but give a shout out to the world. Friends, let me know if you read the post.
Marty
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