Hegsted Mission

  22-January-2023-Sunday With the few people visiting the site in January and the hour changes from 1 to 5, we only have two couples work on Sunday, so Dede and I had the day off.  After attending church in Rutland and with our extra time, we decided to visit the South West portion of the state.  (We took our lunch and had a full tank of gas and off we went.). This area is not easy to reach from Sharon, but fairly easily reached from Rutland, by driving due south on highway 7.  We visited 5 covered bridges.  I know you are shocked.  All are very similar looking as the County of Bennington where they are located keep them painted read.  Also each has a lattice truss configuration so that makes them also look similar.  I will show pictures of the five, but want to talk about one in particular. The third bridge we visited was the Henry Bridge.  The bridge has a nice park that allows one to take great pictures down stream from the bridge.  T...

 1 5 January-2023-Sunday How quickly we begin a new week.  The drive to Rutland was uneventful.  The sun was shining and the roads were clear both ways.  I did not make too many mistakes on the organ.  Dede led singing in primary for the last time.  I taught Sunday school class and had an enjoyable experience.  Life is so good! We did not have any visitors at the site, but as we were leaving it appears the Buswells would have a visitor.  As we pulled out Dede said she was not ready to go home (it was about 4 pm) so we took the back roads to Strafford.  Backroads mean dirt roads that had some interesting ruts.  But it was cold enough there was not any great problems.  We continued over to Thetford and then on to Norwich before heading back home again on back roads.  It was a beautiful drive.  Dede is now cooking pork chops and gravy for dinner.  What a great deal.  I drive for an hour and she cooks a wonderful mea...