Cheney Seasons

I'm the only one up right now, drinking a cup of coffee, catching up on my Bible reading, feeding the wood stove, and thinking about the day ahead. Cheney is really a beautiful place to live and we're very thankful for this spot to be in for now. The snow (what a winter!) is almost gone--time to remove the studded tires. Our seasonal ponds are filling, and we'll have water in them for the next 2 months or so until things dry out. Springtime is an orchestra of colors with all the different wildflowers out and about, so we're looking forward to that.

I was thinking this morning of the Cheney 'seasons' we've experienced here over the last year. Here is a tongue-in-cheek list of them. :)

Mud (that's what we're in now, and we have to clean up the paws every time the dogs come in)
Mosquito (they'll be here soon, and until the seasonal ponds dry up)
Dust (the ground that's not rock turns into this fine Palouse dust the more it's traveled)
Firewood (to make sure you have enough for the season that follows)
Snow Plowing (self explanatory)

Back from Waxhaw!

I just got back in from Waxhaw today, where I was helping at a Check-IT-Out (computers in missions) event (my first!). Jeanette stayed back home in Spokane to handle the details for Dr Miriam Adeney's seminar last Saturday and get everything ready for our Perspectives class tomorrow night. I left the Wycliffe JAARS Center shortly after midnight (our time) for the airport, then flew Charlotte to Dulles, Dulles to Seattle (5 hours!), and then Seattle to Spokane, finally arriving back about 1:30PM. While waiting in Seattle I pulled out my mandolin to kill some time and met an Angel. OK, it was a young man named Angel who is an assistant chaplain in the army and headed for Texas. He really liked my mandolin playing and we chatted some more on arrival in Spokane, and he promised to send me an email. I am still trying to figure out why he was routed through Seattle and Spokane on the way to Texas (and he started in Florida!). Go figure.