Easter Blessings

We didn't get to spend Easter with all of our children or our granddaughters, but distance hasn't allowed that to happen for a long time. We did, however, spend Easter with my parents! A very special blessing, indeed. In fact, they spent the night Saturday and went with us to the early Easter service (really early, since they are on "slow" time). After a wonderful Resurrection celebration service, we packed up ham, a couple of salads, and iced brownies and headed to Upland for a unique Easter adventure.


What fun to eat dinner with Lana and Kyle and Leslie in Lana and Kyle's home. My parents had not been to Lana's home since she moved to Upland a few years ago. We dined on roasted potatoes (grown by Leslie in Washington state) and biscuits, in addition to the items we brought with us.


Following dinner we toured Zondervan library where Lana is a reference librarian. You can see her in her very nice office below.

Outside the library on a beautiful sunny Easter Sunday!

A trip to Victory Acres farm came next. We met Cora Mae, Leslie's landlady and housemate. Visited a bit with her, then went up stairs to see Leslie's newly restored bedroom. Very nicely done. It looks very modern in this 1890's farmhouse! A great space for her. Her own bedroom! How long has it been?

Leslie's new walls, windows, and closet make this room quite comfortable and cozy, with plenty of space.

Leslie took Grandma and Grandpa around in a golf cart, Lana and Kyle took the 4-wheeler, and Steve and I got our exercise as we toured Victory Acres.

We stopped first to visit with Annabelle, the goat, then on to the chickens. Look carefully at the top of the fencepost to the right of Leslie in the picture below and you will see a black and white lop-eared bunny standing up on its haunches. Leslie said someone had found him by the side of the road, apparently abandoned, and brought it to the farm. According to Leslie, "he thinks he is a chicken. " He did seem quite at home among them.

Below is the expedition group in front of the greenhouse where Leslie showed us baby kohlrabi and turnips grown from seeds, a germination box, and the heating/cooling system she has to tend. Some flats in the bottom of the germination box had to be replanted because mice ate each tiny seedling out of them. Farming is always a gamble with so many challenges! You just never know what the next problem will be. Right now the greenhouse wood stove has to be stoked all through the night to keep the temperatures favorable for tiny plants to thrive. When will the winter temperatures vanish to be replaced by spring-like nights? Leslie is hoping very soon!

All in all we had a wonderful time and we were so grateful to Lana and Kyle for sharing their table with us, and to Leslie and Lana for the tours of their places of employment. Now we can imagine them in their environments whenever we think of them. And that makes us feel more connected! We are blessed!