Awaiting the harvest…

The prairies are beautiful at this time of year as they await harvest…

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Blue skies and billowing cotton balls of cloud float overhead…P1120372wheat

Amber waves of grain swell to the horizon…

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Prairie roads stretch lazily on a Sunday’s afternoon…

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Just a couple more weeks of precious heat and the grain will be dried to perfection. In the meantime the scent of sun-warmed hay and grain is heady.

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And I sit with my last-born talking of what’s to come.

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She will be wafted away shortly to the next stage of maturing.

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The harvest is being made ready, and in the meantime it is beautiful.

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–LS

“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” II Cor.9:10

Houseboating Together Again…

Houseboat vacationing means a lot of family and wet towels in one place…

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It also means gourmet meals shared in the making and the partaking. 

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It means a little swimming in the rain and a lot of hot-tubbing, 

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cuddles and cat naps.

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It means a little hiking and a lot of stone throwing on the beach.

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A first birthday,

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a first fish,

 

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and first some-mores on the beach.

 

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It even means a little shopping on the water!

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It means being together, all together for an end-of-summer’s vacation again after 10 years of growing up and multiplying, sandwiched between the first-born’s leaving home and the last-born’s flying away.

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It means celebrating a slice of shared life before parting ways again,  till next time…

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Sweet rememberings of our last houseboat vacation, when we were younger, and fewer in number…

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–LS

And you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land He has given you…Deut.8:10