Celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday at the Nelson home. Various Nelson relatives attended from across Denverland.
I made my famous mash potatoes and pumpkin pie. Rich made his turkey, ham and stuffing.
After dinner Pastor Josh, Rich and I enjoyed a bowl of pipe tobacco and talked of days gone by.
Today, Rich, Marge and Jeremy took off for a day and a half at the YMCA Camp at Estes Park to stay at the lodge.
The Griders and I used to rent a cabin for several days up at the YMCA at Estes Pk each year right after Christmas. We would bring food and board games with us. Some visits depending on weather we would ice skate, hike, swim, play ping pong, pool and other games.
Cabin names we rented included Shoshone, Navajo, Lupine etc. Jonathan Mardell's son and I would strike off for Moraine Park on foot and hike through the swampy grassland and then return on Ute Trail.
We once chased a pack of coyotes across the grassy plains. We have seen elk there as well as other mountain critters.
We would all meet up later in the day to eat supper then head to the rec building and play board games and/or ping pong and pool. Jonathan was fierce competition in both ping pong and pool.
One year in fact the first year 2002 we had Andrew up with us. Andrew and Jonathan got along great together. They shot hoops in the gym together and played ping pong.
I have a lot of good memories of both sets of kids in Colorado and Illinois.
Nowadays, its pretty much just me and a mixture of old and new friends. Plus, my new job journeying on foot proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God will be keeping me very busy over the forthcoming years.
You can read my column at mortontimesnews.com. My upcoming column on December 3rd deals with a possible change in my mission. I may head out in early January for Idaho Springs, CO about 40 miles west of Littleton where I am currently staying. The plan would be to stay there for 3 to 6 months to get to know people, start a public bible study and proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God. Afterwards, I would hike the little isolated mountain towns on both sides of the Divide in CO. Then after about 2 years of wandering the Colorado Mountains I would head west to the Pacific then east to the Atlantic then south to the Gulf then either back to Morton, IL or Denver, CO.
I have not yet made a decision. Once I do I shall make it known here on my blog.
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