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Flash Flooding After the Goodwin Fire
Well I hope this post doesn’t bore you but I thought I’d let you see some photos and video footage of flash flooding in Arizona. The volume of water in this particular flash flood is specifically due to the Goodwin Fire. In Arizona, because of the scarcity of rain we love our monsoon season with its thunderstorms and the moisture it brings that waters the earth and greens everything up for a season. It brings the temperatures down and just feels so refreshing. Wednesday we had an epic monsoon storm. Without much warning (no sprinkling at all), the sky just let loose and didn’t stop for about 30 minutes. Since…
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The Goodwin Fire Showed God is in Control of Even the Elements
We arrived home from our cross country trip to Indiana where we took a group of young people to a youth camp. It was a good time as always but after we came home I was anxious to walk our property, so curious to see exactly where the fire burned. The valley where we live has been forever changed. Where once it was so thick with brush you could hardly walk through it, it is now so open that we are seeing areas that we never saw before. Before, when I saw an animal I knew it was a larger one such as a deer but now my brain is…
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How God Kept the Goodwin Fire From Burning Our Home
Fire, an evacuation, escaping out a back way and the miraculous hand of God. All these things happened in the last few days. It all started Saturday afternoon around 4pm. A fire began in Pine Flats, Arizona about 7 miles from our house. That evening we could see some smoke. On Monday it looked like this from the front of our house. There was quite a bit of activity in the skies as helicopters and airplanes flew overhead to release water and slurry on the fire that was a few mountain ranges over. We continued to watch the smoke and at times it seemed as if it…
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A Hunting Themed Birthday Party
I must have had too much time on my hands and nothing upcoming to plan because I decided to give Wesley a birthday/going away party. This coming Saturday, the 19th, he turns 22 and on the same day he’s flying to Canada. It’s hunting season once again and Seth is the hunting guide, Wesley his wrangler and this time they’ll have their own cook….. Jessica! They’ll be riding in on horses for 3 days and once in, they won’t be coming out for 2 months. This will be an adventure for Jessica to cook over a camp fire if they’re unable to get a propane stove for her. Anyways, back…
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Going to Youth Camp – An Annual Event – Part I
Believers Youth Camp in July. It’s a favorite time of year for all of us and Russell and I are privileged to be a part of it because we go as workers and since we drive a van load of young people. Even though this trip was right in the middle of all the commotion of the Goodwin Fire, we could not disappoint the kids but had to get them to camp. All these young people were not in one van but two vehicles although we would be willing to try to all get in one! Because of the forest fire, we left a day later and left in…