Busy as a.....wooly bear?

      Tis the season for wooly bear caterpillars to start stampeding across roads and through yards in search of a warm safe place to spend the winter. They're on a mission, and they don't like to be stopped and admired, but fuzzy caterpillars are hard for me to resist.

Shawn: "Isn't there a way to predict how harsh the winter will be by a wooly bear's stripes?"

Me:"Yes, the wider the brown stripe, the longer the winter is supposed to be." (it's actually if the black stripes are wider, so it's said)

Shawn: "Well I saw an all white one, what does that mean?"

Me: "It's going to blizzard all winter."   😂

     What does this have to do with our project big, you ask? Well, Shawn and I, mostly Shawn, spend this weekend driving back and forth to camp, on a mission to get some projects started now that the summer camping season is over.
    There were quite a few things that needed to be power washed, and then either sealed or repainted. Hopefully we can help get a lot done now, before winter, and before the busy spring season starts again for camp.

 
      Shawn did most of the power washing. I helped a little, did some odds and ends things around camp, and played with wooly bears.

     We make a good team. 😜 

New View

     After two busy weekends of visiting family and the county fair, this past weekend we were able to finish up another project!
   

 The frame is Birch on the top and bottom, and Cedar on the sides.

It's a little hard to see the picture through the reflection of the glass in the frame, but here's the original. Shawn took it last Thanksgiving while we were in the Black Hills visiting family.

With windows on mainly one side of our apartment, it's nice having a pretty view on the opposite side. While we know this is a temporary home, it's what God has provided us with for now, so it's fun to try and make the most of it and keep adding personal touches. It's been a lesson in patience and contentment, and being grateful for the freedom that comes with renting an apartment, and not having a house and yard to take care of yet. 

It's easy to think things would be better if we had something else, but it's important to have the right view of where God has us.

"Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content." 

1 Timothy 6:6-8