Turtle Treasures

We left for Erie as soon as we could last Friday May 1st.  I was anxious about going and leaving my family after a whole week of family things with the death of my father and his funeral, but so anxious too, to get away!

We got to camp before sunset and so I gave John a quick kiss and headed for the beach.  It was nice out and I ran into my beach bum friend Judy for the first time this year!  We are friends by accident.  I was picking up a bag full of trash a couple years ago and she wanted to thank me, but the wind kept blowing her words away and so she chased me down and we just hit it off sharing heart stuff right off the bat and cleaning up the beach together!  We have a special, just summertime friendship.  It was great to see her and her husband too, who left us to chat away!  It was great to share heart stuff again after such a week, while the sunset helped us say good-bye to another day.

Saturday was so windy, just crazy how windy and cold.  I didn’t care and braved the elements a couple times to see how glass getting was, but it was just lousy out.  But Sunday afternoon it warmed up a bit after a very chilly, my hands are freezing morning, and was just glorious.  I found a place that was bringing me in some glass, nothing special but you know constant with almost each wave.  I didn’t have my boots on and I saw this really big, really nice piece of green tumbling in the surf and it just wasn’t getting in and I was so afraid I’d loose it so I just went in and got it!  Lake Erie is still pretty chilly but it was so worth it! I got it!  I got soaking wet for a piece of green beach glass!  Yeah, what fun!

We headed home by 3:30PM and met the family at the local summer hang out, Young’s Custard Stand.  It was Mother’s Day and I got to end my day by loving on my dear mom and getting a hug from all my kids and grand kids.  I know I’m blessed, very blessed!  Thank you Lord for green beach glass and grand kids!