"Sheer unabashed delight!"

**This is one of those posts that should have been posted in June... but for some reason reverted to draft instead. I just happened to catch it while I was looking at my index of posts. Ugh.

Anyway... back to "sheer unabashed delight!"

Is EXACTLY how I'd describe the last week of my life....

It began with The Lovely Barbara coming for a stay. This always means lots of take-out from fun restaurants and Downton Abbey.

While she was here we also spent a day in McCall.... GREAT time! This always includes walks/hikes by the lake, wandering in and out of small shops, a caramel apple, a drive through Ponderosa State Park, eating at one of the towns original eateries (some time I'll write about last October when she and I ate dinner at The Brewery.... :-||| )... and this trip we decided to take a quick side jaunt to a historic little town called Roseberry... TOTALLY cool! Someday soon I'm going back after I've done my homework and learned more about the history of it.... at least more than just trying to read about it on my phone by the side of the road. There are also 4 little old cemeteries up in that area I'd love to explore. LOVE old cemeteries... cue 'Zoe's Gift' (and not the nearly porno version in some female mating series... the LDS one by Leslie Beaton Hedley)... speaking of which, I really need (and want) to read it again for the bazillionth time.

http://roseberrygeneralstore.com/

Our day...

Lunch at the Lardo Grill and Saloon (their trout mailbox)

Payette Lake

Stately Ponderosa Pines

General Store, Roseberry

Log cabins

Old homestead

First Presbyterian Church

Seminary graduation... =)

Love languages

http://www.5lovelanguages.com/profile/ I've always known the love language my children speak.... since they were little. Rob took me a bit longer. I know my parents languages and lately I've been thinking much more about my siblings, Rob's siblings, and my dearest friends. It's taken years to figure out which one I am..... since it's been kind of a tie between three.... but recently, it finally happened. And although it's one I'm not super pleased about, it is me. It's what makes me feel secure and safe and loved. And just because someone doesn't show me love in this certain way (because obviously we all have our own language), it doesn't mean I'm not going to have a connection with them. It just means that in my deeply closest, most personal and intimately emotional relationships, this area is what does it for my heart.... and it's how my heart gives and shows it to others.

In July I made a decision.....

Sort of gave myself an ultimatum. No longer was I going to hole-up.... Not because of my health, not because of my body, not because of any other insecurities that rob me of moments truly worth living. And I haven't. And August was one of the best months in my 49 years of life. And though sunflowers have always been for me been one of God's greatest creations, seeing a field of miles and miles of them in northern Michigan this summer brought me back to the symbol they have always stood for to me and this simple phrase of words "face the Son".... my new mantra.

2017

Many many moons since my last post. I do think about it every once in a while..... posting, that is. I only keep this blog for myself. And while it says that it gets visits from places like Russia, Germany, China, France, the Middle East, and the US... I think it's probly mostly people that stumble across it looking for what a sweet potato is. This blog keeps me honest. With myself. I'm pretty much an open book to the rest of the world, there are only a few things that I keep absolutely cocooned up tightly... maybe cocooned up tightly isn't the right phrase? Maybe more like tucked away in the drawer of an old dresser that belonged to an ancestor and is kept in a corner of the attic? Hmm. Now I'm thinking how tranquil and secluded that would be... quiet, still. I'd need an overstuffed chair with a blankie and a lamp... and I'd fall asleep next to the dresser, holding those things I keep to myself. But, I digress. I totally want ...

Sweet Potators

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