Weekend at Lake George Cabin

Last weekend we, except Jeffrey who was working, were privileged to stay in a cabin near Lake George, about an hour west of Colorado Springs in the mountains. Here are pictures of us in the scenery around there.





The Brown-Phillips cabin where we stayed.





A really scary place to stand that Jason found when we were driving through Eleven Mile Canyon!








A few pictures inside the cabin:



A puzzle Jason and I found barely started and felt compelled to work on while we were there:

How much we got done before we had to leave:

A couple of scenery pictures on the Eleven Mile Canyon road without people! The aspens were still beautiful to see, even though they were probably more brilliant the week before.


The closest neighbors--they kept coming over to visit us! This is out the front door of the cabin. We saw deer repeatedly but aren't sure if they were the same ones. After we had a campfire and roasted marshmallows and made s'mores, when the fire was cold, one deer came and licked the fire grating and cleaned up the crumbs!

We had a wonderful time, but wished we could have stayed longer!

Life Chain Sunday

October 3 was Life Chain Sunday, an event in which we try to participate every year. It is a quiet, prayerful presentation of powerful truth printed on various signs about the value of life and the reality of forgiveness. There was an excellent turnout of folks and a beautiful afternoon to give the message of life.

Johnstown Historical Society Quilt Show

The first weekend of October was a busy one for our family. On Friday night we helped set up the quilt show


and Saturday we were volunteering at the quilt show most of the day. Here I am at the registration table Saturday morning,

and Beth is at the bake sale table. Emily helped her there, but of course, she was taking the picture at that moment.

There were over a hundred quilts entered in the show this year.

The quilt my mother made me for Christmas this year. It is cross stitched and then quilted.

Beth and Kelly admiring the ship quilt that won Viewer's Choice.

Emily's quilt in the foreground

On the right, the quilt made by my sister Marlene for our 25th anniversary, and then Beth's quilt.

Three of mine on this row, not including the first one.

Too many beautiful quilts to picture them all here...




There was also a hallway of old time craft demonstrators
and a gym full of craft vendors.

A beautiful quilt was raffled off to benefit the Historical Society; the new Johnstown book was presented for sale.

Kelly and I looking over the paperwork for the sale of a quilt Saturday afternoon.

Cozy Cow Dairy field trip

Last week, we went to our local Cozy Cow Dairy for a home school field trip. We got to observe some cows being milked, watched a presentation about the life of a milk cow, ate samples of curds (squeaky cheese) and milk, and petted and fed goats and baby calves.
Here is a picture of most of our group. A few did not fit in the picture. We were in a barn where the movie was shown about the life of a milk cow and we had the food samples.

Feeding the mother goat.

Feeding the baby calf.

I think this little girl is so cute. She has no fear because her grandparents raise alpacas and she is around them all the time.