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| A basketful of Marigold blossoms! For tea and also for our soap making adventures this weekend with my brother. |
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| A beautiful new wildflower that I haven't seen before in our yard |
All wildflowers
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| our tomato plants! |
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| One giant sunflower: it comes up to my neck, just about! |
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| This is another sunflower, just about to open. How gorgeous it will be! |
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| So these are the remains of my pumpkin and squash plants. Last week during our dinner club, I looked out the back window just in time to see on of the children with the hoe above his head, aimed and ready to attack my plants! I got there too late: they had already been pulverized. Oh well... pumpkins I guess will have to be next year's theme! |
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| Well, this is a foretaste of our carrots! That same child's curiosity got the best of him and he pulled up some of our carrots. To give him credit: he was harvesting his carrots in his own garden, and just thought ours were ready too! But I am going to give them a bit longer: but what hope and encouragement these offered me! |
Week 13 of deployment is complete!
Today, exactly, marks 3 months of deployment over and DONE! Praise the Lord!
Tuesday: Hosting our dinner club and having 14 people! We ate out at the park and it was such a lovely evening
Wednesday: AFter dinner Tirzah crawled up on the bench and said "Bible". She crawled into my lap for our nightly bible reading! It was precious.
Thursday: Taking a delightful 2 hour nap in our cozy fresh bed today. And then waking up to hear Daniel's voice over the phone
Friday: Arriving at Alison's house after VBS and finding that Tirzah was still napping. so Alison and I shared some coffee together.
Saturday: A good day! Picking fresh lavender in the quiet early morning and receiving Daniel's call!
Sunday: We had a really wonderful morning out in Olympia with coffee and croissants from The Bread Peddler and then we played at the park and then we played in the water. It was a beautiful morning out together.
Monday: Skyping with anna this afternoon and then being treated to a Starbucks hazelnut hot chocolate with Alison!
Have I shared about our monthly deployment "words"? Marlene and I choose a theme word each month of deployment, and focus our time of prayer for 3rd platoon around this word. Previously, we have prayed and focused on the words:
PRESERVE
DELIVER
SHIELD
and for month number 4 of deployment, we will be focusing upon the word:
REDEEM
"Into your hand I commit my spirit;
You have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God."
Psalm 31:5
Will you please join us in praying this theme word over our Soldier and his men during this month of their deployment?
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