“Summer”

Such a beautiful word.

Oh, the denotation and the grammar isn’t so exciting.

But think of the connotation. (The thoughts and ideas that are brought on by a word.)

For me, the connotation of summer is, simply put, ‘busy’.

We love to be busy because we know that busyness brings fulfillment and fulfillment brings happiness.

Thus far, the summer has brought many good things to us.

A weekend in Great Falls. (What a Treat!)

A disco with family and the employees last Sunday.

A day spent helping Tante Janice put in her garden (or at least part of it).

 

Lots of beautiful, warm weather. (In fact, it’s so warm that we are thankful for every shower that we get.)

A new barbecuer.

The time to put school books away for the summer.

(Oh, the freedom that ‘not doing school’ brings.

I want to continue with some electives through the summer, but it is so fun to be able to spend time at something else than school.)

Little snatches of time to practice photography.

(I got a new book on photography that gave me quite a bit of insight.

Now I’m thoroughly enjoying the chance to put my ‘skills’ to practice.

In fact, we’ve taken so many beautiful pictures already that I don’t know when and where to post them. 🙂 )

 

One more of God’s wonderful ‘Faithfulness’ things.

Mama thought that the one part of our neighbour lady’s yard would work so well for a garden.

She has almost more yard than she cares for and there was a big patch that was mostly weeds.

Mama never asked her because our neighbour is just renting the place.

Now, on Friday, she came up and offered that piece of her yard to us as a garden.

She doesn’t enjoy mowing off all the weeds there each week and her landlord had told her that she could have a garden there if she wanted to.

Being a newspaper writer/photographer/reporter, she doesn’t have time for a garden.

Since she noticed that we were looking for garden space, she figured we could use hers.

Isn’t it neat how God answers our prayers when we haven’t even really prayed them?

So that was our project today, tilling up the space,

putting manure/topsoil on it,

and tilling it again.

It was the perfect day.

The slight drizzle made it nice and cool to work outside.