We were told today that the dryer the conditions get....the stronger the winds blow. It has been very windy again and YES it is very dry. In the evening we run the sprinklers for two reasons....one because it is so dry and the other is because the grasshoppers don't like the sprinkling of water on their veggies. When we arrived this July the ranchers were saying they had never seen it so green.....and it was beautiful.....but now it's back to normal. Brown is what we see now. However, we were told once that the cows still do good on the dry grasses and there is still plenty of that.
Apparently the Todd County School system is having trouble with scheduling (at least at the high school level). But that involves Ms. Lucas who is also in charge of the local Lakeview Elementary School were we are wanting to have Release Time. And so we wait.....
Yesterday we had 2 girls over for scrapbooking and 5 boys came to build a tower. Then we all sat down to some homemade pizza. :-) They cleaned up all the food.....and we had brownies for birthday cake (Mark Left Hand Bull turned 15) and then we took them home. We left with the kids at 6:45 and got back home at 8:55......2 hours traveling the roads on the reservation. Distance is totally different out here.......and that doesn't make sense because a mile is a mile.....Guess I should rephrase that......The reservation is large and kids live from one end to the other........ But we traveled through some amazingly beautiful country!!! Some that we had never seen before. It's quite interesting taking these kids home..... "Turn here....no that's not our house keep going....." So we continue on this 2 track.....open a gate surrounded by horses...and we still don't see a house. Finally we catch a glimpse of a house on the edge of the canyons....beautiful location. "That's our house". The house isn't anything glamorous but the location certainly is!!!!
Yes, as some of you read (in the church overview) it was our anniversary yesterday.....40 years of togetherness. Thinking we'll stick it out for a while yet
:-) :-)
The church had a potluck in honor of Pastor Leiter and his wife (Winnie) who are retired as of today. They will be missed very much.... Winnie was a SS teacher and also taught at the Lakeview School. Pastor Leiter always had very powerful sermons. Pray for the congregation as they vote next week on a replacement.
Thank you for your support and prayers............Gary and Barb
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
We too hope you had a Happy Anniversary and will have many more. It is great that you are having these kids over during the week for scrapebooking and tower building. I'm sure they love it.
Hi BArb,
Just keep making that homemade pizza and you'll keep them coming back. We know it's great!!! Missed you at Bible Study again.
I sent out the scrapbooking stuff so hopefully you'll get it soon. :)
Marcia
i'm typing nad holding Sawyer at the same time...so if i spell things wrong it's his fault! :) Not having luck moving picture. I'll keep trying though. Maybe email it to me so I have an "original"! As far as the comments...reply to this and we'll see what happens! Love you!
Post a Comment