Lake Michigan

Saugatuck Dunes State Park

I went to Lake Michigan on Saturday.

It was marvelous.

Lilies

See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.   Matthew 6:28-29 NIV

Hosanna

Usually our bundle of energy charms everyone with her smile. She was pensive, though, the other day.

Project

I began a project this week. The paint in one of the upstairs bedrooms has been bothering me. So, I embarked on a project that might be bigger than my ability (the ceilings are really high). But, I decided to try. Slowly, the walls are and ceilings are changing from peachy-orange to white and mint green.

Berries

For free

I got a table and chair for free last week. It cost me half my cookie jar of sugar cookies.

We have two types of people in our family--those who discover treasures in other people's trash and those who duck low in their car seats lest someone glances out a neighborhood window and associates them with their recently disowned relatives who are scouring through someone else's rejected junk. 

I identify with the former group. So  on our drive home on Sunday when I sighted a chair sandwiched between trashbags at the end of the road, I wanted to stop to check it out. Dad graciously turned the van around. I discovered a sturdy, drop-leaf table with an extra leaf in the reject pile, and immediately claimed it along with the chair. Some of my siblings didn't not support my decision. But we managed to cram it into the van and then dropped it off at the Cookie house on our way to Sunday dinner at the homestead. 

Our brief stop at the Cookie house cost me a batch of sugar cookies. Even so, the cookies weren't big enough to keep my siblings from making jokes and remarks at the expense of my freebees. 

Bouquet