Waking in a horse corral

July 28, 2017

I woke up early this morning (3:30 AM) in the horse corral, which was very interesting,  I did my devotions and started preparing for leaving.  As the dawn was breaki8ng, I looked outside and saw the horses sleeping, standing up, motionless, amazing!  Then slowly, as it became lighter, they began waking up, switching their tails, slowly nodding their heads, slowly looking around.  Each corral had two horses and after they got themselves awake, they slowly walked over and greeted each other with a kiss and a neck rub.  Wow, maybe we can learn something from horses.  Do we hug and greet our loved ones when we wake up in the morning?  Just something to think about.

5:45 AM, One of the young girl "hands", arrived with bails of hay on a jeep, with a bed on the back, to accommodate the bails.  She drove around to each of the Corrals and placed the hay in the troughs.  Now all the horses were awake and began eating. Good morning, and have a blessed day.  This is one that the Lord has made for you, let us rejoice and be glad in it!

I drove back to Myrtle Point, and the drive was lavishly glorious.  The sun rising, playing it's colors so wisely over the deep green, tree-covered mountain side, occasionally spot lighting jutting rock formations, above rushing rivers in the valley below.   Wow, God is so awesome!

Friends of my Sister's had invited us to breakfast at their house at 11 AM and I got back just in time, couldn't take a shower to wash off the horse and dust, but a wash-up will have to do.  My Sister, who has an amazing sense of smell, said I was OK.  That was the ultimate test!

When we arrived at Sandy & Denise's, they had the table set up on the patio, set for 8.  They had invited 3 other friends, all I knew and we had a lovely fellowship while they were preparing the meal.  They served hash browns, toast and marmalade and omlete cooked in a plastic bag.  What?!  We put two raw eggs, and fixings like mushroom, cheese, real bacon crumbles, red bell pepper, onion, etc... into a zip-lock bag with our name on it.  We let all the air out of it and sealed it.  When each of us had filled out bag with what we wanted, we mixed them up in the bag, mashing it with out fingers, and then Sandy placed them all, at the same time in a big turkey cooker of boiling water, and we waited for them to cook.  Wallah, a wonderful custom made omelet, with no pans to wash!  It was delicious!

After breakfast, we went back home and I took  nap before Carol, her daughter and 17 year old grandson came for the weekend.

Carol arrived first, and we fixed dinner.  When her daughter and grandson arrived, we ate and enjoyed the fellowship.  All of them are brilliant, her daughter is an accomplished writer and her grandson has a scientific mind and can expound on most any scientific subject.  It is so wonderful to see how God has made each of us with different, but purposeful gifts for one another.  I used to think that those gifts were about ourselves, and what we could accomplish with them, for "me".  Not so, we can only, be really fulfilled when we use them, as God intends, for the benefit of others. It took me many years to "get" that.

We had a wonderful weekend with beautiful weather.  Saturday night we had a cook-out with uncured hot dogs cooked over an outdoor fire-pit on sticks and ended it with "smores", what fun!

Sunday, July 30, 2017

I watched the streaming live, of my church in Maryland, which was awesome.  Then Carol invited us out for breakfast, the first place was packed with people that were in town from the County Fair.  The only other place in town was crowded but, there was room for us in the back.  We had a wonderful breakfast and 3 of my class-mates from High School were there and we got to talk for awhile, that was great!

Monday, July 31,2017

I am preparing to leave tomorrow, to fly back to Maryland, arrive Wednesday, spend a few days, see my friend Ronnie, celebrate my Daughter's birthday, attend my Grandaughter's graduation party, then drive to Atlanta, Ga.,(in my car) to the Shaklee Convention the following Week.  Then, I may drive back to Myrtle Point in my car from there.???  I will keep you posted, but probably not until I get to Maryland.