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Rock Mine

"But if you call God your Father you acknowledge yourselves His children, to be guided by His wisdom and to be obedient in all things, knowing that His love is changeless." MB p. 105

Wendy is going to post a photo of me and my pet rock that I spend hours with each day. It's beginning to look like a huge exclamation point without the dot. I think I'm half done exposing it. This morning I decided to make a rock pathway to the pump house too--not hard considering rock is just a few inches from the surface and grass hardly grows on it anyway.

Al is dealing with rock under the house too as he makes his trench. This house is built on solid rock so it's going to "stand firm" if and when it ever rains!

Meditation Thought

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth." Matthew 6:19 "This is the treasure for which Christ bids us labor. Character is the great harvest of life." MB p. 90

I'm reading the book Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing and am finding so many gems that I just have to share.

A rock

This area in our front yard has rock near the surface and in the past former renters have tried to grow grass on it. I decided to scrape the dirt off exposing the rock and then landscape around it. It is a very tedious job so I only work on it about an hour a day.

PUC

I was pleased to see Union College represented on the campus--set in stone no less. These blocks are on a walkway in front of the student center.

Communion

This morning we had communion at church which was nice since we've missed it at Countryside the last 2 times they've had it. We went to Elmshaven Church today. We're beginning to hear that the reason so many of the churches have lost members is because of the high cost of living here. The younger families with kids just can't afford it. For some reason all us old fogies can.

This afternoon we walked around the PUC campus which is all on the side of a mountain so lots of ups and downs. It is very well landscaped. I took many photos so maybe I'll get Wendy to post one of them. I can't seem to do it myself.

Farmer's Market

There is a farmer's market here in St. Helena (bottom of our hill)in a park every Friday morning so today we checked it out. Some of you would love it! There's a long row of booths selling fresh fruits, veggies, beautiful bunches of cut flowers and plants, food (like Mexican)to eat or or take home, bakery items, unique clothes/ tablecloths and jams just to name a few items. Lots of people were there so it must be a popular place. I know I'll be going back next week.