March 2024

March 2024
Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Saturday, February 22, 2014

2-22-14 A Few Px

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

2-19-14 Snow Rollers

Back to Saturday morning. Just gorgeous.

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Saturday has kind of turned into our roll-making day.

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Not a bad job, made even better when serenaded by Jacob.

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Sunglasses comparison.

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How to use thread to cut rolls.

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In case you wondered.

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Nighttime plowing.

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Hard to tell here, but Sunday early morning was beautiful with the full moon shining.

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Sunday walk. That’s the fence covered by a snowdrift, in case you can’t tell.

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A few random snow scenes.

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Monday - - -

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Yesterday (Tuesday) morning we saw this snowball outside our bedroom window. It had layers of snow, like a bale of hay, and was bigger than a basketball. It completely intrigued us because there was no footprints near it: obviously no one had rolled this snowball.

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The wind had rolled it a good 40 or 50 feet; the trail is visible below.

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Looking west toward the trail. All those other snowballs are wind-rolled too, and you can see their little trails behind them; but only the one went that far and got that big. It was pretty amazing. I’m pretty sure God rolled it right there just for us to enjoy.

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**These are called Snow Rollers, hence the updated post title. Fascinating!**

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Ahhh yes. That indeed is dry pavement you see on the driveway. A sure sign of melting snow. A good thing.

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Notice another good thing – no mittens. Yeah. It was that nice!

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Somehow Tab Sister always manages to sneak her way into the house at some point every day.

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That’s it. Enjoy your day!