A fun painting to make a building look like a barn and my last from the little town of Duvall, Washington.
Linking up with the Barn Collective with Tom at Backroads Traveler.
Here we go into the great week of Thanksgiving. I’m looking forward to our Turkey meal gathering on Thursday at the home of some friends. There will be just 50 of us…LOL! I’ll be making a smaller turkey at home with all the fixins next Sunday. Hope you see all you can be thankful for! Blessings…
Joining Tom at Backroads Traveler with some barns and farm scenes from Duvall and Carnation in Washington State.
Thanks Tom for hosting the Barn Collective.
We had a very busy Halloween evening at this old house. We had lots of candy on hand an still ran out! Our daughter Katie handed out the candy getting many stares and comments on her make-up. She applied the make-up herself. She was a broken doll. I wish I would have taken a photo of one of the wide eyed kids standing and staring and being frozen on our walkway…
Did you get many trick or treaters?
A white barn with a relatively new blue roof. We saw this barn between Duvall and Carnation off of highway 203 in Washington State.
Thank you Tom for hosting The Barn Collective.
Hope your weekend is ending well.
Last Thursday Dear and I took a little drive not far from home to see if we could catch any new views of Autumn.
It looks promising as we hit the road east to Duvall and Carnation.
Along the Snoqualmie Valley Trail in Duvall.
There were still some nice flower patches filled with Dahlias.
This day started out with low misty clouds drifting in the sky.
It was a very nice day for an Autumn drive. We walked a little, shopped a little, ate a little, too. We came home with a pie from Remlinger farms and a nice bunch of carrots from Oxbow farm in Carnation. Both of these farms had pumpkin patches but I’ll wait for the letter P for those photos. We are enjoying this new season. Do you enjoy Autumn?
I’m linking up with ABC Wednesday that was started by Mrs. Nesbitt and is now administered by Roger and the ABC team!
On the road (highway 203) between the cities of Duvall and Carnation in Washington State last Thursday we saw a few barns. I found some history about this farm from 1996.
“The small tragedies that littered East King County were most evident on farms like the one owned by Jake Groeneweg.
Groeneweg yesterday tried to salvage whatever he could of a barn that collapsed, killing at least a dozen of his cows and calves.
This was the first time in the 30 years he’s been farming that he’s lost livestock because of the weather, he said.
“It’s kind of devastating,” Groeneweg said.
Despite the troubles, he’s thankful for his neighbors, and some strangers, who stopped at his farm along state Highway 203 Sunday to help him pull about 50 cows still trapped under debris.
Groeneweg said he easily lost $200,000 in storm damage. He plans to head to the bank later this week to take out a loan to help him through the winter.”
You can read more about it here.
1996 was a devastating year for our family in Washington State, too. Because of a series of unrelenting storms we ultimately walked away from our dream home. The excess of water caused landslides on the back slope. The astronomical repair costs to shore up the land that dropped ten feet at our foundation caused us to ultimately walk away and give our house back to the bank. Our county got a disaster declaration and the money we got from FEMA was a little drop in a big bucket! After living in a couple rental properties we were able to buy a home again and have been happily toiling at this old house. God has been good to us.
Linking up with Tom the Backroads Traveler for the Barn Collective.
May the Mind of Christ, My Savior
May the mind of Christ, my Savior,
Live in me from day to day,
By His love and power controlling
All I do and say.
May the Word of God dwell richly
In my heart from hour to hour,
So that all may see I triumph
Only through His power.
May the peace of God my Father
Rule my life in everything,
That I may be calm to comfort
Sick and sorrowing.
May the love of Jesus fill me
As the waters fill the sea;
Him exalting, self abasing,
This is victory.
May I run the race before me,
Strong and brave to face the foe,
Looking only unto Jesus
As I onward go.
May His beauty rest upon me,
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only Him.
Words: Kate B. Wilkinson
Ht: Cyberhymnal 1996
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Philippians 2:5-8 (ESV)
This is Timberlake Church on Main Street in Duvall, Washington.
I’m linking up to InSPIREd Sunday with Beth and Sally.
Rebecca Writes has been posting links to Sunday Hymns for years and she graciously adds my Hymn each Sunday.
Yesterday Dear and I decided to take a short road trip to the cities of Duvall and Carnation. We enjoyed beautiful fall colors in the mist, a few fun shops and some good eats. I’ll show more of what we saw soon and I’m happy to say I finally have some more barns to share along with fences and signs.
Here’s Dear, outstanding in his field. Sorry couldn’t resist that one! We had a full day yesterday and I hope to be able to visit more of you today.
Have you been to a pumpkin patch yet?
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
