These, four bags of green beans and more cucumbers than I could comfortably carry by myself are the perks from this week. Getting a farmer's tan is fun, but fitting in photo and video is a sleepless challenge.
Quick update: Mom, David and, now, Dad are all home. Dad arrived last night and is fighting a thirteen hour jet-lag. Paul came and went last week with eight Youth Group kids from home. It was good having a bunch of Asian kids romping around the living room. More Asians, even, than the Vander Plaats family. Take that!
Jess and I were approached and offered a job as a video production company today. Pretty cool. A rough shooting schedule was discussed, documents were passed out, business cards were exchanged... ...well, Jess and I received business cards, but it was still cool. Piper, you're missing all the magic! Let Jake plan the wedding from here out and be a part of this!
Is there a good place, around Sioux Center, to go fishing?
The Youth Group kids went camping in Colorado before they stopped here. I was just looking at some of their photos on facebook and I was drooling. I don't know, or I forget, which National Park they went to, but it is gorgeous. It makes me sad, looking at the calendar for the rest of summer and not finding a spot to be SPONTANEOUS and DANGEROUS and THRILLING and packing up to camp for a week or so... there is the farm, where I am absent enough already, a Dordt video, a Lao video, the darkroom, my da.
But I do have a fishing pole...
and a year's fishing license...
And seriously, it's the summer time. Let's go! Let's sleep outside!
My dad just came down munching on a handful of blueberries and said he was hungry. Mmmm blueberries.
Facebook tells me I have 363 friends. My brothers went to a wedding this summer with 2,000 + people. That's crazzzzzy, I said. I don't think I'd even have 363 people at my wedding. I better marry someone with tons of friends. Friends that don't suck or are boring. ALSO, she better want to go camping in the summer time.
Every morning there were planes,
the shining blades of pagan angels
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It might not be terribly exciting, but I know you can fish at Sandy Hollow. There are a lot of shellfish that are edible. I just bought a tent and was actually thinking that Sandy Hollow might be a good destination with friends on some warm nights when we all get back in town. We wouldn't really even need tents if there was no rain...Where were you for all the sleep outs in the spring? Oh, right. You Don't sleep...
ReplyDeleteRah. I'm already excited. I fished last summer but haven't yet this summer. I'd go. Four weeks...
Oh, and thanks for the empathetic home selling story. It made me feel better.
...my sister is camping this weekend. ;)
ReplyDeletealvin- you won for a single night on the asian invasion. oh well.
ReplyDeletego fishing with the kids!!! my family often goes to a little pond on an old acreage near Ireton. Its full of the buggers. call my bro Jacob and ask how to get there, and then you can borrow the small boat that is left at the dock. go for it. come visit- i'll take you camping at the Palisades where sufjan got his inspiration for the predatory wasp of the palisades...
i am jealous.
ReplyDeletethat's all i can say.