Merry Christmas from Idaho!

Tip for Deer Hunters

Mule deer are lured by alpaca sweater.  Here's proof!

Hahahahahahah!!!!

If you want to see deer....come visit Idaho.   Just saying.

 

Winthrop Washington Weekend

November 8 - 10, 2014

Here are a few photos of our nice weekend getaway in Winthrop Washington, a cute little tourists town.

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A very pretty and fun place to visit!  

Couer D'Alene Idaho Weekend Holiday

We arrived in Couer D'Alene about 11:00p.m. Friday night, and woke up to a beautiful morning to explore the city of Couer D'Alene.  We walked on the floating boardwalk at the Resort admired the huge, expensive boats.  We meandered through the shops at the resort mall and along Shermon Street.  We admired the very we'll maintained and pretty waterfront city park as we walked its length and sat by the water and later in the afternoon we hiked Tubbs Hill trails.  Super pretty!

Prayer for an American Goldfinch

Oh LORD God,
You see this tiny bird that just bounced off the window hard.  One of his feathers still clings to the glass.  He lays on the ground among the rocks stunned and shaking his little head.  He is disoriented and possibly brain injured.  I cry for him.  He reminds me of all the people who slam up against hard circumstances and difficulties of this life.  He lies there helpless, stunned, immobilized.  Physically his little beautiful yellow feathered body appears in tact.  Yet, as he shakes his tiny head, twitching and slightly spreading his little wings, I realize that due to the loud thud I just heard from his tiny body slamming into the glass that he must have internal injuries which could kill him.
O God,
Please let this one little beautiful American gold finch who helplessly lies in the rocks below my window survive.  Please infuse his little body and brain with the strength to fly.  Please don't let him die.

You, God, are the Creator of the world and all life.  Your Son Jesus said in Your Word that not one sparrow will fall to the ground outside Your care.  So God, please revive this one gold finch.

And God,
For all the souls (which like this one gold finch) have crashed hard against immoveable circumstances...please heal them also.  Give them wings to fly again...to soar freely away from the burdensome rock-pile beneath them.  May the hurt peoples of this earth (whether physically hurting or mentally/emotionally /spiritually hurting) find freedom beneath the shelter of your wings.  May these hurting peoples be granted the ability to soar above the accident/event/circumstances which caused them great injury and harm...just like You will free this one tiny gold finch from his injuries.

In Jesus' Name I pray,
Cindy

Fire!

Monday of this past week (August 11th)  Bryan and I experienced a wild fire which was WAY to CLOSE for comfort.  Praise the LORD, we mercifully did not lose our home or animals or belonging.  Due to God' protection, and the wonderful work of the Indian Valley Fire Department;  Midvale Fire Department;  Cambridge Fire Department; Council Fire Department;  Goodrich Fire Dept. and a helicopter from the Forest Service our home and our neighbors' homes were spared.  We do have a very black, charred hillside behind our house, however, with the stench smoke of still assaulting our senses.  And as of this a.m., there was still a small smoldering patch by the pond below us.  Here are a few pictures:

You can see our home (at the top of the hill and nestled in between the burnt hillside) in the pictures above.

We rejoice and give thanks for being spared great loss in this wild fire.