A Breathe of Fresh Air

Micah sends me a text message yesterday about mid-morning telling me that Dillon's help is needed.  Micah is out in Cornville painting a house on a beautiful ranch.  He's been staying in a little cottage on the property during the week and coming home on the weekends.  Dillon had gone the week before to help Micah but instead has befriended an older man named Jose who takes care of the ranch.  Jose had requested Dillon's help in slaughtering a goat.  So I ran all of my errands then headed to where Micah has been working this week around 3:00 p.m.  The kids and I packed up things for the night so we could take Dillon down there and spend the night.

I was happy to go see Micah and spend some time with him and I thought the kids would enjoy exploring this ranch that Dillon had checked out with his new friend Jose.  The view all around us was simply breath taking.  We hadn't been there long when Micah ended his day and headed to the cottage where were at waiting for him. 

I brought some chicken to cook out on the grill and then Jose gathered up fresh picked squash, corn, cucumbers and cantaloupe.  We gathered up some chairs and sat outside under a huge beautiful tree to visit with each other.  It was Micah and the kids and I and Jose and another friend of Micah's that was out working there too...I think his name was Salomon.   We enjoyed sitting outside talking while the food was cooking.  Dillon had taken Kyle and Sara out on a four wheeler around the 200 acre ranch.  Then the kids came back and said they were excited and wanted to go play in the creek, so they did.

It started to rain a little while the chicken was out on the grill.  We all headed for cover in the garage until it slowed down and then stopped.  The food was so good!  Kyle made a comment about how good the fresh veggies tasted.  Our dogs enjoyed running around and exploring since that is not there normal thing to do since we don't have a yard for them to run around in.  Cassie found a bone bigger than her head but that didn't stop her from carrying it around in her mouth trying to find a place to hide it.  Scrappy our toothless dog enjoyed licking corn on the cob that was thrown out in the yard after people ate all the corn off (what a corny dog)

It started to get dark, our tummies were full and now we were ready to sit and relax.  Micah and I took our chairs back outside to sit and watch the sky.  God's T.V.  He put on an awesome lightening show.  It was so nice to sit there and take it all in, the air was cool and the sky was beautiful, I was next to my husband...life was good.  Well it was good but.......the boys were so much into watching God's T.V. they were making noises and messing around in the background and Sara couldn't help but sing to herself over and over.  So much for the quite.  I guess you can't take the noise out of the kids when you place them somewhere quite and serene.

The kids were not into sitting still and enjoying the view around them.  At some moments they couldn't figure out what to do.  It made me stop and think about how busy and entertained they keep themselves.  They don't know how to relax and explore.  Maybe Mich and I should start "finding" ourselves in more quite and beautiful places more often and help the kids slow down and enjoy the moment around them. 

It started to rain again, hard now and very dark so we headed in for the night.  I breathed in the fresh air and sighed with a deep feeling of peace in my heart and headed in get settled in for a good nights sleep.  Well...between the stressed out dog Cassie that doesn't like being away from home walking, and sniffing around the bed not sure where to lay down and sleep, the feeling of bugs crawling all over me, Cassie waking Micah up and wanting to go out often, Dillon talking in his sleep and banging his head on the wall, the need to get up and pee, Kyle coughing it wasn't quite the peaceful, restful sleep I wanted but I still got some rest despite it all.

We finally crawled out of bed to get our day started.  Micah left up the road for work and we head up the road back to Flag.

I had my camera with me and didn't  miss out on the opportunity to take some pictures of the view around me.

I totally caught the lightening by accident.  I love it!   I sat for a few minutes and Micah even tried but we just couldn't get the lightening show captured.  It was an awesome show.  Thank you Lord