meal plan thursday: august 15.

is it even worth posting a meal plan if the week is already more than halfway over? its not like i put any thought into this week at all. i didnt even make a list before i went to the store on tuesday after work. but i needed an excuse to post this picture that i took on my way home from the store on tuesday, at the tail end of a scattered shower:

this rainbow made me seriously giddy with happiness for the rest of the night. God is just SO good.

no segue here, and no real point in even posting this, but because i know my mom sometimes worries that i might be super overwhelmed and failing at life when i stop blogging for a while, here's proof that we are in fact at least eating this week:

Monday: taco night.
Tuesday: crock pot salsa chicken.
Wednesday: zuchinni black bean and rice skillet.
Thursday: quesadillas.
Friday: BBQ at a friend's house.
Saturday: afternoon wedding!
Sunday: pasta with meat sauce.

masterpiece.

i pulled over this morning on the same corner where i saw the pheasant, because even the small glimpse of the glowing sunrise that caught my eye in my rearview mirror was too stunning to ignore.

this doesnt even quite capture the magnificent vibrant shade of orange-red God painted the sun this morning, or the golden-red light it threw into all the shadowy corners of everything.

and then, twenty minutes later, God changed his color palette and created something completely new and wonderful.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens... when i consider the heavens, the work of your fingers... what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?... Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 8

apple picking.

the weather man said it was supposed to pour down rain all weekend.

i am so glad he was wrong.

Happy Birthday Claire Marie!

thanks for inviting us to share your birthday weekend.

down on the farm.

this is (part of) my small group. we usually meet on Thursdays, but we got together this past Saturday to help out Becky with some work that she needed to catch up on at the horse farm where she works.

the farm crew: Abi, Becky, Mark, Me, and Alex.



we shoveled horse poop. we fixed fences with varying degrees of nail-pounding skill and success. in the rain. (that felt SO nice!) we fixed holes in the barn walls. we cleaned bathrooms. we combatted rats and spiders and biting flies. we raked and hauled and tossed hay. i ended up with giant broken blisters on both of my thumbs. by the time we were done, it was 97 degrees outside. we were hot and sweaty and dirty and stinky.

and it was awesome. we chatted and joked and laughed the whole time. we didnt even realize our own stank until we decided to go get something for lunch and realized that our options were limited to places that would not judge us too harshly for having horse poo on our legs. we ended up sitting on the ground in the shade outside the front door of the WaWa up the road. it was a really fun way to spend a Saturday morning.

and then i went home and showered and zonked out for a two hour nap. and that was pretty awesome too.