Dare
I even say it? Colorado MAY be just as good as (maybe even better) than
Minnesota.
Dare
I even say it? Colorado MAY be just as good as (maybe even better) than
Minnesota.
I was missing one thing though. Despite all the snow, and the holidays, it still didn't feel right and I couldn't put my finger on it.
When I came to visit Loveland last year (because Mt. Olive was crazy enough to offer me a job as their Christian Education and Youth Director) I drove west on Highway 34 - an important fact because that is toward the mountains, which is another Colorado bonus - and came to a curve where the road bends around Lake Loveland. For about 1/4 mile driving around the south end of the lake, I felt like I was back in Minnesota, where it seems that no road stays straight for very long because it eventually has to go around a lake. And at that moment, I knew I was going to stay, everything was about as perfect as could be.
Today, I drove the same route and to my delight and surprise, there were ice houses out on the lake. Now, I've never been ice fishing, and I have no desire to go ice fishing, but there's something wonderfully homey and familiar about seeing ice houses dotting a frozen lake.
Isaac and I will be flying to Minneapolis in a few weeks to visit family since we stayed here on our own for the holidays. But it amazes me how the Lord has provided everything I could possibly need here back home, including ice houses on Lake Loveland to make me smile.
I loved what I saw of CO at the Feast. But here I am after moving to MN. Ice houses certainly are a common sight. They were in SK too, but I didn't live right on a lake there. I went ice fishing for the first time a few weeks ago. I was missing snow and afraid we wouldn't have a white Christmas, but it snowed a few days before. We've got about 5 inches of snow now, but the temp is still hovering right around freezing.