Starts with “K.”
A Favorite.
King Size.
Starts with K: Our daughter Katie and her Knight in shining armor.
A favorite: Our kids on a shore of Lake Roosevelt with the city of Kettle Falls across the lake.
King Size: King size hand next to that newborn foot.
Parting shot: My oldest sister, Kathy, who is very clever, kind and knowledgeable.
Linking up with Tom The Backroads Traveller for Weekend Roundup. Thanks Tom!
What has been the highlight of your summer so far? (It’s still summer people!)
Wow! Summer 2018 is one for the books for sure. Besides being in the process of selling/buying/moving across the state which took part of Spring and the whole summer and continues, our dear Pop died at the beginning of summer. He was 95 and ready to see his Savior, Jesus. It was good to be all together in Southern California with family and friends to bury him and remember him and comfort each other in July. Our dear Pop was known for saying, I love you, I love you, I love you, 3 times when it was time to depart after a visit. Our family has embraced that and you’ll hear us repeating his saying to each other now.
Several quick visits with this little one who is showing you her “I’m so strong” pose. We’ve traveled many successive weekends to Colville with a packed trailer and truck on Saturday morning and back across the mountains on Sunday morning with an empty trailer and truck. We managed to get all our household items in 3 shipping containers for our move from Western Washington to Eastern Washington by July 31st which was when possession transferred to the new owners. We had the month of August to empty out Dear’s shop and we purchased a utility trailer to haul behind our truck to get all those awkward shop items to our son’s property. We didn’t find a house to purchase until August 18th! We made an offer on August 19th and our offer was accepted on August 20th. Hallelujah!
2. What do you wish you’d done more of this summer? Less of?
Because it took longer then we expected to sell our home and longer then expected to find a new home there was very little relaxing in our own space this summer. Well…no relaxing in our own space. We have been homeless since July 31st but don’t feel too sorry for us because we have a beautiful space to live in during the interim at our oldest son’s house.
3. Something you’re looking forward to on your September calendar?
We close on our new home on September 11th! Our stuff gets delivered sometime between September 17th and 21st. We should have the containers emptied by September 24th. Hopefully we will have some kind of internet before the 24th. The house we chose does not have cable options only satellite options and we are still checking on line of sight options for the internet, too. Oye. Looking forward to being unpacked and mostly settled by the end of September!
In September we’ll be living only 8 miles from our little grandgirlie and her parents.
4. Best/favorite book you’ve read this summer?
The book of Ephesians in the New Testament. Thinking a lot about the Armor of God.
Favorites we listened to on CD while traveling back and forth across the Cascade Mountain range moving stuff was The Seagull by Anne Cleaves and a repeat of Louise Penny’s Still Life.
5. Share something positive, encouraging, or uplifting here.
Dear and I have been a bit awestruck that we’ve been able to push through our crazy travel schedule, our loading the trailer and truck week in and week out, our 6 hour drives each Saturday and Sunday, sleep and repeat. Only by so many answered prayers with God’s presence and help in our lives could we do it and still choose joy. Thank you to all of you who have prayed for us. “…forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead…”
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Hoping it’s all a gentle slide into the next phase from here…
Linking up with Joyce from This Side of the Pond for Wednesday Hodgepodge . Not only is the end in sight for our move but this is the end of Hodgepodge Wednesday. Joyce has faithfully managed this weekly event for 9 years and times are changing and she’s moving on.
Starts with “I.”
A Favorite.
Inside
This letter wasn’t an easy one for me but I know as soon as I visit other entries I’ll think, “why didn’t I think of that?”
Starts with I: Island
This was taken on Whidbey Island in Washington State looking towards Camano Island. Washington State has several lovely islands to visit. Some you can drive to using bridges and others you can enjoy with a ride on a ferry.
A Favorite:
Interesting scenes in Indiana that we don’t see here in Washington State.
Inside:
Inside Rory’s looking out to the Puget Sound in Edmonds, Washington.
Parting shot: From Whidbey Island
Linking up with Tom for The Weekend Roundup “I”.
I’ll try and visit as many as I can this evening as Dear and I head out early again tomorrow morning for our 6 hour trek to Northeastern Washington with another truck and trailer load. This trip I’m following behind in one of our cars and we’re leaving it in Colville just bringing home the truck and trailer to pack up the very last load!
I’m early for The Weekend Roundup. I’ll add the link when it becomes available.
Starts with “H.”
House, as in our new house. We looked at so many properties and this one just seemed right to Dear and me.
We get possession on September 20th!
A Favorite. Hobby Horse
Addy looks quite pleased holding the “reins” on this hobby horse!
Horse: The famous White Horse from Banbury Cross.
When I was a school teacher we had a training session on how important nursery rhymes were to a child’s language development and future reading skills. So take that baby on your knee and have fun with all the nursery rhymes out there. Sing them instead of just saying them. I remember bouncing our three kids on my knee with this one. Now with our little granddaughter I’ve enjoyed bouncing her on my knees and repeating this rhyme.
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes
In 2014 Dear and I visited Banbury in Oxfordshire specifically so that I could see this sculpture in the town center. You can read about this statue and some of it’s history in a post from 2014, Banbury~Oxfordshire
Thank you Tom for hosting The Weekend Roundup!
Starts with “G.”
Gramps with his Granddaughter.
A Favorite
Our Mom and Pop’s grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Great.
Great Britain and The Cloisters at Gloucestire Cathedral. Great, grand and Gothic.
And a bonus shot from Gloucestire…
Linking up later today with Tom for The Weekend Roundup ~ “G”
It’s time for Tom’s Weekend Roundup “Y”.
The prompts:
Starts with “Y.”
A Favorite.
Yellow.
Starts with “Y”.
Yellowstone National Park with it’s yellow stone walled canyon.
The real view of part of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone with the Lower Falls and an artist rendition below with the yellow stone enhanced.
This artwork is displayed in Cody Wyoming at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. One of my original posts about Yellowstone can be found here.
A favorite:
A yellow budding water lily and it’s reflection in the water.
Yellow:
A yellow fire hydrant in Coupeville, Washington. Looks like a little robot…
Joining Tom with a parting shot…
A bush filled with yellow blooms. Sorry I don’t know the name of it.
Have a wonderful first weekend of summer y’all.
1. Summer is upon us this week in the Northern hemisphere. Tell us three things on your summer bucket list.
No real bucket list type items but things that we need to have happen this summer…
1. Sell our house. 2. Buy a new house. 3. Complete our move to the new house. In the midst of all of that, spend time with our growing granddaughter, family and friends.
2. Something fun you used to do as a kid in the summertime?
In the 50’s we would go camping in the mountains close to Los Angeles. Big Bear was one of our favorites. As a child this was a fun experience. I’m the one with the buster brown haircut. The other thing we would do was spend time at the beach with our cousins and usually we’d choose Newport Beach in Southern California. Besides dodging waves and digging for sand crabs, the kids would walk around and collect empty soda bottles to take into the little convenience store to redeem the deposits. With the money we’d get by doing this we’d buy a popsicle or candy bar. So thrilling for us young ones! What wasn’t fun about the beach was coming home with horrible sunburns and having to have cold rags dipped in vinegar put on our backs to ease the pain and heat. Ouch. My dear mom was the one who would minister to us.
3. Rooftop or backyard? Why?
I’ve never really lived in an environment where I have to rely on a rooftop to be outside. A yard is still important to me. More importantly a covered deck is my preference with a view of greenery all around and some privacy. If you have a rooftop space you could invite me over to experience something different!
4. Do you read food labels? Place importance on them? Make an effort to find out/care about where your food comes from?
My label reading life has evolved over the years. Growing up we were part of a religion/cult where pork products were taboo so we made sure the salami and hot dogs we bought were an “all beef” product. My family left this group in my later teens and I am free to enjoy bacon and other pork products. MSG was the next item in an ingredients list that we avoided and still do. We avoid anything with aspartame and saccharin or any fake sugar. No diet soft drinks at my house. I can only hope the food I buy at the local grocer is okay…another good reason to pray over the meal you are about to consume.
5. A song you’ll have on repeat this summer?Philip Philip
Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring the songs I mostly have on repeat are Christian worship songs and hymns but here’s one that is somewhat appropriate for our move…
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Our son is threatening to get our little grand girlie a huge hamster ball so they don’t have to deal with this scenario. Yikes, she climbed up on that bar stool and hoisted herself up on the counter. She’s a strong daredevil.
Here she is with her Uncle. This looks a lot safer!
Linking up with Jo From This Side of the Pond for Wednesday Hodgepodge. She asks the questions and we answer…
