The barn, coop, and weaning shed are cleaned and all feeders filled. Tomorrow morning I'll trim hooves and I think at that point all things critter related are ready for our absence. The berries got a good soaking as did the rhubarb and fruit trees. Even Sally has a full tank of gas. Tomorrow morning we'll pack up the teardrop, close up MoHo, and head south.
The wind blew from the NNE which brought more smoke haze and drove temps up into the mid-90s they predicted. We'll have more of the same with much more smoke at our first campsite in southern OR tomorrow night, but after that we're in the Santa Cruz mountains where daytime highs will be in the low 70s with overnight lows in the 50s. Perfect camping weather!
If a man is known by the company he keeps President Trump ain't lookin' so good. Manafort's conviction, the guilty pleas of Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, and George Papadopolous, and the indictment of Richard Gates, all members of the President's inner circle at one time or another, is at least a troubling list.
You know that wonderful feeling of climbing into bed with a new crisp set of sheets?
Do goats feel like that when they lay down on fresh clean straw?
Remember Me on PBS via the BBC. Weird, spooky, and engaging. Draws you in even if you're not the kind who likes scary anything (me).
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There are two kinds of preaching: good and bad.
There are two basic kinds of sermons: propositional and narrative. My natural bent, my preference is the former. Contemporary preaching is increasingly the latter. Millennials are all about narrative preaching (and old guys not so much).
For reasons I can't really explain three of the four tiems I've preached at UFC have been narrative sermons and based on the feedback it seems they've gone well.
Does that mean I'm a convert to narrative preaching? Uhm...nope. But old dogs can, and sometimes should learn new tricks. And I can see now that narrative has its place.
We're planning on leaving mid-morning tomorrow. I don't know when we'll be someplace where we'll have the means and opportunity to get online so I can write a post. State parks don't typically have wifi and the next two days are traveling days.
I'm looking forward to camping. Being at the church in Prunedale will be great, too, but it's been at least 3 years, maybe 4 since we went camping. For those of you who are of the Holiday Inn set, camping, especially minimalist camping like we do, is uniquely relaxing. It's quiet, simple, and a refreshing change from the press of tasks and to-do lists. Walks on trails through the redwoods, reading, campfires at night, black coffee, local radio stations, a walk to the bathroom....
It's going to be a good week. And we've decided we WILL do it more next summer, even without the teardrop.
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