‘Ink Re-Cap 137: Family Reunion on the Farm
‘Ink Re-Cap 137.
Sketches and inklings of our week.
Vacation! Family Reunion on the farm
and back to the desert for real life again.
From Friday to Friday we escaped the heat,
the rising humidity of coming monsoon season,
and its accompanying real feel of higher than the actual number temperature.
We packed our bags and flew out of the sunset
on a late evening flight over a down comforter of clouds
to Central Nebraska Regional Airport.
To a little farm on the Loup River that is only 20 acres,
yet occupies space in two counties.
And spent a week playing, eating and working together as a family.
But how was your week?
Have you had a getaway this summer yet?
Are you attending a wedding or having a family reunion?
Make this summer after the pandemic,
the infamous year of no traveling,
a summer to remember.
Deliberately plan memorable events,
and do all the things you thought of doing last summer when you couldn’t.
Isn’t it wonderful to start getting real life back again?
‘Ink Re-Cap 137 Random Inklings
The week’s blog posts:
When you’re on vacation, the only posts you write celebrate your activities.
Our Summer of 2021 Favorite Children’s Book
Cooking for a Family Reunion With a Small Kitchen
That’s it for this week, but we didn’t have a re-cap last week, so here’s the posts from last week.
17 Distinctive Wedding Table Number Ideas
Minimalist Inspirational Nursery Prints Free Download
Kim’s Birthday Shrimp Bash and Air Bake Oven Pans
A Lament of Praise: Highest Form of Worship
Floating, Feasting and Family
I think I might have shared that we had a family reunion on a little farm in Nebraska this week.
More than once, you say? Well, it was memorable!
A little farm beside a lazy river, perfect for floating in tubes and kayaking. Mostly shallow, with sandbars all along the way. And grassy, peaceful banks.
One evening 2 grown up boys (dads) couldn’t resist the water after our delicious riverside meal. They plopped the kayaks in the water and paddled upstream, with Frieda the oversized puppy energetically dog-paddling behind.
The men made it back, safe and still dry on the riverbank. Only to have Frieda Jane Myers exit the water and promptly shake a waterfall all over them.
So funny. The night was getting cold by then, so I think maybe a few disgruntled words may have been muttered toward frenetic Frieda.
But the moon was up, only days from full, and the air was clean and beautiful.
And the company so. very. fine.
‘Ink Re-Cap 137 Most Read Posts:
Father’s Day was special last Sunday, with our family altogether.
Others surely had special celebrations, and this was the most read post:
Father’s Day Tribute and God’s Gift of Second Chances
This week many churches started or were planning to start Bible School.
I hope this post helped those that read it.
10 VBS Attendance Chart Ideas Name Them 1×1
Note:
There’s a side bar on all blog pages that helps you get to the topic you most want to read about.
The main topics are Weddings, Babies, Kitchen, Crafts and Inspirational Stuff.
Top Sellers This Week
Thankfully, we got all our orders finished before we left,
so Kim, who kept the home-fires burning (as she said, someone needed to stay with Andy, her dog.)
And came home to a few new ones.
We’re especially excited about our new Sunny Bee Baby’s First Year Calendar.
Inspiring Inklings of the Best Life
Vacation and VBS.
Our grandsons’ VBS started the day after our AZ son and his family left for home.
Biggest boy g’little came out of the bathroom all dressed up, rooster tails tamed, and ready to go,
and announced happily, “I look as good as a president.”
And we told him no president, past or present, had looked as good as he.
The third evening they hurried home
with their paper projects and memory verses,
and took us to the airport.
We won’t be there to watch their excitement next week
when they attend their last 5 days.
This is the littlest boy g’little’s first year to attend.
Another rite of passage.
Inspiring Books, Writings, etc:
I’d like to read this book. I’ve read many holocaust books, but never one that took place in Greece.
We gave each of our sons’ families “The Invisible String” on Father’s Day. It was perfect for that day,
the first Father’s Day in years that we spent together. Adults and children both loved it.
I liked it so much, I’d like to order this children’s title by the same author.
Our totally useless factoid for the week.
In celebration of summer, sunshine and the necessity of ice cream.
Inspiring Quote
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