Thanks to Todd and Sandy Goodman for making us this laser plaque that we built a stand to put it in!!! I sent her a picture I took from our fishing trip to Minnesota and she overlaid our names. So, we now have an official name plate with a planter. These are the same pansies that I bought in hanging baskets last year and the deer ate off all the flowers. They did the same again since we came back to Colorado, but the plant seems to live on.
We have a rabbit that is very comfortable just stretching out on our spot. There's times I think I could put salt on his tail.
Craig and I are still on beach detail and we have some wonderful views of the Rocky Mountains. My experience is that the mountains are more clear and colorful during the winter months when there is snow on them.
The geese always come up onto the beach area in the evening and find places to settle in for the night.
Through the haze in the below picture you can see Pike's Peak after the huge hail storm that Colorado Springs had. It's an hours drive from here to the Peak.
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| Hazy Pike's Peak in the distance. |
We are seeing more and more deer that live here in the 4,000 acres of the State Park.
We don't particularly like being the "beach cleaners", but the worst part of the season is over and the temps are dropping, so we should be able to coast a bit until we leave in Oct. What we do like about being Volunteers here is the free spot to park and being able to spend time with friends and family. We have been able to have time with Craig's brothers and their wives and Tana and a couple of the kids came out for a BBQ one night.
Kyra, Kathy and Cooper. I let Cooper drive the golf cart and he did a good job, even with his broken arm.
Sammy came along and got in a nice walk.
I have also met with good and faithful friends that I have known from our time in Colorado. It's so great to catch breakfast and catch up with Chris (who moved out here from Crown Point) and Sherm and Yvonne and Lynn.
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| Lynn D. (I was too busy visiting and forget to take pictures of everyone) |
We love getting together with long time friends. Craig and I went to school with the Schulte kids. They flew in for their Mom's 90th Birthday party and we met them for breakfast. We hadn't seen them for 48 years.
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| Marsha, Kathy and Andee |
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| Jerry, Craig, Marsha, Kathy and Andee |
My cousin Deb and her hubby, Bill came out for a cook out and time to catch up on life. They also brought fresh garden goodies!
Thanks for driving across the city to see us.
Tana and Barry have four kids that are all involved in sports, school and work. So we try to attend the Cross Country meets, Baseball, Football games- and Track meets when we can. The kids all excel in whatever they do.
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| Kyra finishing strong. |
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| Carter running uphill to the finish line. |
Cooper continues to run track even with his broken arm.
Collin is in 8th grade and has high jumped 5'.
I wanted to thank you all for your prayers while Craig went through the removal of three spots of basal cell carcinoma. I already posted some picture of the trauma on Facebook, so I will just say that he is healing up nicely.
Our current plans are to leave here sometime in October and be at Tier Drop RV Park in Wellton, AZ by the first of Nov.
We still miss having a home, but the Lord continues to lead us around the country. We look at places nearly everywhere we go, but we just haven't seen the place we need to land, yet.
The temps are jumping up and down here in Colorado, but overall, there is a feeling of fall in the air. Cool nights in the 50's and pleasant days in the 70's.
Love and Blessings,
Kathy
