Life on Snow Hill

This morning we woke up and began getting ready for church. We had the privilege of attending Aurora Independent Baptist Church’s second Sunday morning service. There were a couple of families there who visited for the second time, and said they would be coming back next week.

After church, we went to the Lewis family’s house for lunch, then went back to the camp to rest.

We attended church services at First Baptist Church in Englewood tonight. We received a warm welcome and enjoyed the services.

We’re headed to Dairy Queen now for some supper, then we’ll be headed back to the camp for the night.

I woke up at about 5:30 this morning, and the first thought through my mind was that we’ll be in Colorado in a little over 12 hours. I couldn’t go baco to sleep. I laid in the bed just thinking about the events of the upcoming day, and how much of a fun trip it was going to be. I was finally able to wake Becky up at 6:30, and we began getting ready.

I had a piece of cold pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut for breakfast before I started doing too much. After that, in my usual fashion, I hurried to get ready to go.

Once ready, Becky and I took our luggage over to Mom and Dad’s so that the pastor and the rest of the crew would only have to make one stop to pick us up. We loaded up in the church van and headed for Nashville.

We arrived at the airport extremely early and had about a 4 and a half hour wait before we could board the plane. We’ve all had a good time so far – on the van ride to the airport ad in the airport waiting for our flight. While we waited, we all had some lunch at the restaurants in the airport.

The time finally came to board the plane, so we anxiously waited fir our row to be called so we could get on board and get situated. It was fun getting to see first-time fliers’ reactions to the take-off and ascent through te clouds. Becky and Emily’s reactions were especially entertaining.

The flight went great, and we arrived in Denver a little early. We got a ride to the Lewis’ house and had a great chili supper and were able to rest for a little while.

Now we’ll head to Walmart to pick up a few necessities and head to the campground for the night.

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Last night I got home from work and got straight to work in the garden. I enjoy it for the most part, but it took me the rest of the night to get everything done – it was almost dark when I came inside.

The first thing I did was get the tiller and run it through the whole garden. It was beginning to look like part of the yard with all the grass..er..weeds growing in it. That by itself cleaned things up nicely.

I had 14 healthy tomato plants, plus one more that was really thirsty. I got those in the ground. We’re not planting quite as many things this year, so I had some extra room for tomatoes. I left extra space between the plants so it would be easier to get around them all once they start bearing.

I also got 4 each of some bell pepper and jalapeño pepper plants. Those all looked good except for one..it was a little thirsty as well.

I had wanted to plant some gourds, but never got any seeds from them last year. Well, where they were growing last year, some more started to come up. So I moved some of those plants to another part of the garden.

The same thing happened with cucumbers. We bought some seeds this year, but some of them didn’t come up very well. Some of the old cucumbers from last year started growing again, so I moved those plants to the cucumber row.

I planted some beans that a family in our church gave us – Turkey Craw. Everybody seems to like them pretty well, so we thought we’d give them a try.

I also had to replant the okra. I saved some seeds from a few pods last year, but those never came up.

It was a nice evening to work, and a great time to get it finished. We got some good rain last night, and the thirsty tomato and pepper plants revived and looked strong.

You can’t see much yet, but here is the garden as of this morning. (Click to enlarge)