Our annual trip to the Black Hills for deer hunting was a great time for both Annette & Justin. Justin got to hunt some with Dirk, and also with his lifelong friend, Leroy Larson. They began hunting on a Friday and Justin got a nice doe on the following Thursday. When he left that message on Nancy's phone we all set up a loud "PRAISE THE LORD!".
While Justin was hunting, I was enjoying the beauty of the area as Nancy and I shopped and took in lots of activities. We visited the fun Christmas stores--Mistletoe Ranch and Christmas Village, ate at Bully's Blends (always a treat), went to the hockey arena for Thor to get his gear for the upcoming hockey season, enjoyed meeting the young moms and their little ones in Nancy's interactive Bible study at church, worshipped with our brothers and sisters in Christ at Dove Christian Center,
took the quilt top in to the woman who will machine quilt it, and did lots of visiting!
Of course, interspersed with all of that was plenty of Grandma time. Liv got to know us better and rewarded us with good-bye hugs when we left last Saturday.
Anika and I played American girl dolls, and we played games with both Thor and Anika. I even was there to see Thor recognized for making the 4.0 honor roll this first quarter of school. Thor is already in 4th. grade. Like Nancy says, "he's nine and that's halfway to eighteen!" Yikes!
We enjoyed balmy temps in Piedmont, but it's almost as nice here right now. We were interested to see how much harvest has been accomplished during the week we were gone. There is still lots of water standing in fields all along the way in East River. We thank God! for the balmy days we are having now to help the harvest along.
Soon it's Thanksgiving. We love this season of fall weather and enjoy every day when the sun shines and the air warms in the afternoon.
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