Janet's Blog

Just last week, Meagan and I took the kids camping for one last time this year. Now, cold, yucky weather is upon us, and it's time to winterize the RV and park it until next spring. Due to the Covid pandemic that has been ruling our lives this year, we weren't able to go camping at the beginning of the summer. We didn't even bring the RV home from storage until June. Then, some of the local campgrounds remained closed for several weeks, and when they finally opened, it was just too hot to be comfortable, and there were too many reports of rattlesnakes. So, we waited. Bill suggested that we camp in the driveway, but that's just not real camping! Unless we can get outside, someplace where we can enjoy God's beautiful creation, sleeping in the RV would be disappointing, to say the least.  Stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect kn...

Last Wednesday, Meagan and I took her kids camping at Lake Minatare, a few miles northeast of Scottsbluff. We like to go for a couple of days in the middle of week, when most campsites are empty. Neither Bill nor Andy are great fans of camping overnight, so they don't mind staying home to work while we are gone.  The day will come when we can no longer fit everyone in the RV, but we have all slept there comfortably this summer.  Meagan is very conscientious about home-schooling the kids every day, even at the lake, and the kids were motivated to finish their schoolwork quickly, leaving them plenty of time to hike, swim, explore, and build sand castles. (They were especially pleased when Grandpa Stan and Grandma Deb brought their boat out the first evening, so the kids could go tubing, but that's another story.) The first morning at the lake, everyone enjoyed building sand castles. The younger kids worked on this big castle with Meagan, while Tobin designed a whole village of s...

I haven't been keeping up with my blog this summer. I'm sure some of you have noticed. No, I don't have writer's block. What I'm lacking is time. It's been a busy summer, for sure. I directed our church's VBS, the grandkids came over often to swim in our pool, and Levi had surgery, twice. We all attended multiple Oregon Trail Days and Old West Balloon Festival events. I have been excited to read the One Year Bible for about half an hour each day. I've written several songs. I try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day, usually in the cool summer evenings. And then, I've been fighting an infection for most of the summer, so that has meant extra appointments and tests, as well as scattered days when I just haven't felt like doing anything. Early this summer, Levi and I visited Erin and Reed in Wisconsin, and our family attended two family reunions in opposite directions from home. For the Wyoming reunion, Bill and I decided to take our pop-up camp...