The Vernon Journal

Well, this week marks the end of a busy season in the Vernon household. In fact, this is the first real down-time we’ve had since Christmas (which is why the blogs have been so quiet recently!) The past couple of months have many worthy stories of family, ministry and travel and hopefully I’ll have time [...]

When we are in the city (as opposed to the Akha village) we live in a house in a little Thai neighborhood. The neighborhood has quite a few vacant lots (due to the Market Crash of ’97) and so a herd of cows regularly saunters by to munch on the vegetation in the lot across [...]

We’re in the city this week catching up on computer work before heading back up to the village for three weeks or so. In my efforts to share a little more about everyday life, I thought I would share this picture of Paul and our Akha friend working side by side on their computers. Paul [...]

Having lived in Thailand for three years, we’ve become pretty accustomed to some of the odd sights that overseas living has to offer. However, some things still surprise me. Take, for instance, The Ladder Man. We occasionally see these guys around town, but this one happened to be selling his wares in our neighborhood recently, [...]

The reason we haven’t been updating The Vernon Shutter recently is because we’ve had troubles with our Olympus Camedia C-60 camera these past few months. For a while we had Card Error messages popping up, then our pictures would only show up halfway, now the camera says it can only take one picture (on an [...]