fossil hunt '08

This spring once again brought our special elementary group from Lawn to our little "mountain". They sent us wonderful pictures of each one of them holding a fossil they'd found. We so appreciate the fact that they "find" the fossils and then replace them for the next year's "paleontologists" to "find". What good conservation skills these teachers are teaching! Thank you for taking care of our place like it were your place....

I suppose, in all reality, it's neither ours or yours, but only the ONE WHO owns everything, right?

anyway... we love you guys and appreciate your consideration!

Lunch at the "dig site".
Things have changed regularly since we first put out these postcards... soon there will even be running water that we don't have to HAUL!!!! yeah Steamboat!
One thing that will never change.... is the "peace" prayed over this place... and the fact that the WAY in our GateWay is only His!

Our guests are friends we have yet to meet.

Our guests are the BEST.... we have had such honorable and precious friends (I call all of them friends as we feel that way after they leave as well as in our initial visits). Some people say "why would you let people stay at something that you've put so much of yourselves into?".....

my response: "the people the LORD has led to our cottages are people who treat our place as if it were theirs. They feel the 'peace' that has been prayed over these places, and they not only take from that storehouse, they leave pieces of themselves making our special place more complete by their being here."

Below are some pictures taken by a couple our our guests. (sorry I could not manage to get the first 4 to embed, so you will need to click to see... the next ones were easier with my limited tech knowledge). I do have their permission to place them here for your perusal and enjoyment of their time here.

Thanks Peter and Molly!
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Happy anniversary Chris and Jennifer!

Spring 08 is FULL!!!

We will be trying to add Feedjit into this blog asap. To those of you who have recently visited... WOW... it has been a wonderful spring at the cottages.

Fossil hunts,

birthday parties for foreign exchange students (many wonderful nationalities present!)

anniversaries

Wine Festivals

graduations

Folk Festivals and

even Flea markets!

http://jimnedvalleychamber.blogspot.com/

check out our local activities at the above site....

will be posting more pics soon!

God bless y'all lots!