Thankful for past storms

We are fixing up the shop outside.  Getting our new sign, adding hanging flowers and looking into putting  a flower bed outside the front window.

Just love the summertime.  The Amphitheater is having their first concert next Saturday and first movie the following Thursday.  Hope locals can come out and enjoy an evening of food, shopping, music and movies.

At the house we bought some ferns for the front porch.  While watering them one evening we noticed a birds nest in one of them.  Over the next couple of weeks there were 2 eggs, then 4 and now we have 4 gray baby birds.

We had some thunderstorms last night and  I was watching out the window at the ferns being blown from side to side. I wanted to get the fern with the baby birds and bring it inside, but of course I knew I couldn't do that.  So all I could do was pray that the babies and momma were going to be ok and that they were hanging on for dear life.  The next morning I went out to check on them and they were all snuggled up save and sound.  Thank you Lord for watching over them.  The Lord watched over them just like he did us 4 years ago this month when a tornado hit our house.  I thank God everyday for bringing us through that storm and others that were going on in our lives at that time.  Neil lost his job 2 days before the tornado hit.  Courtland and I would have been there by ourselves if he had not lost his job.  The Lord works in mysterious ways.  I don't question him.  He knew Neil needed to be away from that job.  Working the night shift is no way of a happy life. You lose out on so much, but of course Neil pushed on for us and I love him for that.  

Thank you Lord for taking care of us while he was out of a job.  Neil is so much more happier now, and so are we.  They say if Mama's not happy no one is......it works that way for Dad's too.