Welcome Home Kindnesses
When we stopped at Jere and Kristen’s last night on our way home, Josh and Jana gave us neat “Welcome Home” signs.
By Josh
By Jana
Our daughters-in-law went beyond the call of duty in taking care of things at our house while we were gone.
Kristen brought in our mail, watered the house plants, and made sure important mail was forwarded to the International Office. She’s the one who overnighted our passports to North Bend, WA. (She and Jere live a mile away, so they always get this job.)
This afternoon when I looked at the photos of our yard, I said to Cerwin, “It looks like someone weeded our flowerbeds.” They were just too neat for having three weeks of neglect. When talking to Jeff a short time later, Cerwin found out that Chris felt sorry for us having to come home to weedy flowerbeds.
How Beautiful is Our Valley
I had to do a walk-around in our yard this afternoon – because I have not seen it for twenty days.
The fields were barely green when we left – now the alfalfa is close to a foot high, and the winter crop of wheat (or rye) has been harvested.
When we had the Easter Egg Hunt two days before we left, the grass was brown…
now it is bright green.
Cerwin will be mowing yard this week.
I always enjoy watching our woods ferns unfurling each spring.
Our daughters-in-law told us how pretty our red and yellow tulips were while we were gone. (This was where I first noticed the trimmed flower bed.)
Some are still pretty, but definitely over the hill.
Some of the other tulips are at their peak.
I’m glad I didn’t miss the short life-span of our bleeding hearts.
The Azeala bush really surprised us. The harsh winter almost killed it a few years ago. This year it is back in full-bloom.
This is the shot that convinced me that someone had been working in our flowerbeds. Notice the pink dogwood, weeping cherry, apple, and flowering cherry.
Pink Dogwood
Weeping Cherry
Apple
Flowering Cherry
White Dogwood
This is the tree we planted in memory of our grandson, Elijah, who was born with a heart deformity, and died in 1994 at the age of five months.
A large tree hit it last summer and took the middle out of it, but the two sides are in beautiful bloom.