Friends to the Rescue

Late Sunday night after our get together with friends I realized that our deep freezer wasn’t working. We called Mike & Pat to see if they had any room in their freezer. They said, “sure come on down”. Some food was totally thawed out but most was still frozen. Monday we woke up early and took a drive to Prescott to buy another freezer. The drive to and from Prescott was beautiful. There was still a lot of snow everywhere.

Road to Prescott


Beautiful Scenery at 6000 feet


There's nothing like snow covered mountains

Thankfully after shopping around in Prescott, we purchased a 7.5 cuft upright. We thought an upright would be better than the chest type we had. With the chest freezer it never matter what we wanted, it was always on the bottom.

Our new 7.5 cuft upright freezer

We then went to Wickenberg so we could post the blog. It seems that is the closest area that we have good service on our air card.

Tuesday morning found me rearranging the truck’s storage compartment. While I was doing this Gina was cooking. We had a lot of meat that needed to be cooked. Gina made roast & gravy, crowder peas, fresh corn and gumbo, while I cooked some pork country style ribs. Since we had so much food Gina decided to have another get together. She called Jim & Ellie to come join us. I went to the dump after getting the new freezer mounted so I could dispose of the old freezer.

Tom & Sally


Jim & Ellie with their babies Mr. Bojangles and Jasmine

Around four o’clock Tom, Sally, Mike, Pat, Jim and Ellie arrived. We all visited for a little while Gina got all of the food setup outside. We then ate and everyone said, “They were so glad that our freezer went out as the food was delicious. I get to eat Gina’s cooking all of the time, which it’s always good. However, today her cooking was perfect. For desert she baked a peach cobbler that also tasted wonderful. I’m not sure if it was in the same category as her other food since I really don’t like peaches and very rarely eat them. Right after we began to eat dessert, we were treated to the arrival of a special guest. Pat’s daughter, Terri drove in from California. What a great pleasure we had in meeting her.

Wishing you a Happy Birthday on Thursday Terri

We’re glad that everyone enjoyed the food. We enjoyed meeting Tom and Sally since we are renting their lot here at North Ranch. Additionally, we were glad that Jim & Ellie got to come up and join us too.

Most importantly, we’re thankful for Mike & Pat allowing us to use their freezer for a few days so we didn’t lose all of our frozen food. As Pat said,” God knew what he was doing by having us here visiting them, because if we were in the desert we would have lost all the food”. It is so awesome how Our Father takes care of His children.


Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.