work, camp, life

Well things have been getting slow lately as far as work is concerned. I've added 2 clients this month, which is good, but the overall volume of work has been low and declining recently, which is not so good.

I volunteered a month or so ago to go to camp with our church youth ministry as a counsellor. That comes up next week. So from Monday through Friday I'll be gone at camp volunteering.

We had a fun 4th of July weekend. Saturday we had a whole bunch of folks over for a BBQ, which was pretty fun. I had spent all day Saturday cleaning up the yard from the past few wind storms and the yard looked great. Our guests started arriving around 4:30 and the sky started clouding up. I put up a picnic shelter, then the wind started gusting and the sky got really dark. For the next 30 minutes the wind tore at the shelter and the trees in the yard. We finally surrendered and pulled the shelter down and the wind stopped almost immediately, but not until a whole bunch of willow branches had been deposited all over the freshly groomed yard.

We had fun nonetheless, but it was a pretty crazy ordeal.

Yesterday (the 4th) we went to City Park here in Fort Collins and fished with Todd for a little while. Missy and their daughter Kara joined us and we had a small lunch picnic. It was absolutely perfect out. Lots of shade and a slightly cool breeze kept us all perfectly comfortable.

Last night we went to the fireworks display in Loveland, which was great as usual. The kids both really enjoyed it. I don't remember enjoying fireworks that much for a long time.

So now I'm faced with a short work week before being gone next week. Good and bad. Overall we feel very happy, though, I would say.