It's been a while since I've posted. Of course, I'd say, "Nothing really exciting!" but that would not be the case. There's always excitement each and every day. Surprises, acts of love, relationships, opportunities for service, and what not else.
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| Megan (Nathan and Holly) stayed with us last Tuesday night - always so very special. |
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| Taylor (and the other kids) loved the hats that I scrounged up for them. |
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| Abram loves tearing around the circle on one of the hot cycles. |
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| Elizabeth, Rachel, and Asher enjoy the bikes and the battery powered jeeps. |
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| Joshua loves his Green Bay Packer jacket - they start young in central Wisconsin. | | |
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| Kaitlyn enjoys the swing - we've had that now for about 10 years. She travels "make believe" on airplane rides to many places around the world. |
This weekend was wood cutting, with Andrew and with Rob, my brother. I love to cut wood, or stack it, or even split it with a splitter, but it wears on my body.
Grandchildren were over this weekend too - seven of them.(Andrew Selle's and Kolodziej's). It's always great to have them around, and Karol is the number 1 GRANDMOTHER in the whole world. Abram and Asher stayed last night, and the four Kolodziejs will be here tonight. The weather was absolutely beautiful this afternoon, so Karol and I even sat in lounge chairs in the driveway. While it wasn't 74 degrees, it was nice!!
We're so thankful for this home. The outdoors gives the children room to run and play; the driveway "circle" is great for tricycle, hot cycle, and bicycle riding. You know, of course, that there are rules. The traffic pattern is always in a clockwise manner, and the end of the route is the rail fence. It works to have some kind of order because I know it would otherwise be chaos.
Rob and I cut wood on Friday morning, into the afternoon (we only stopped when we were hungry for the egg salad sandwiches that Karol had prepared for us. We have discovered that it is harder for us to cut a HUGE amount of wood every time we go out. No longer do we take our trailers with us - only our pickups. Whatever is extra from the pickups is stacked to dry until next fall.
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| The combination lock is severely rusted, the cabin has been undermined by woodchucks, and the once frequently used spot for family gatherings and campfires has fallen into disrepair. Nathan is looking into fixing it up so that it can be used by the next generation. |
We just discovered that if we attach a rope to the logs, we can drag them out to where the roads are. In that way, we (usually me) don't have to carry the huge logs a long distance. Many of those big round chunks need to be split.
It really was a nice weekend. Tomorrow, I'm off to Immanuel, Westfield, to lead worship. The sermon title is "Advent Hope."
Nice blog. I enjoy cutting wood as well.
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