Most people don't know that I am a hard-core gardener. My dad taught me this when I was young. I have always loved nature and outdoors, along with animals and of course minerals and fossils. In high school I even took care of the family garden, weeding and all. If I had a thousand lives, one of them would be spent as a gentleman gardener (to do it all the time would be hot and hard work, others would do the weeding!)
Tuesday was a great day, I spent half of it planting my garden. It was cool and overcast, perfect planting weather. I put in green beans, pole beans, okra, lettuce, 2 kinds of tomatillo, 4 types of pumpkins (regular, dill giant, white and jack-be-little), gourds, squash (zucchini, yellow, butternut, others), cucumbers, shallots, kohlrabi, and many tomatoes (better boy, brandywine-an Amish heirloom-the best tasting tomato, roma, polish linguisa, sweet million and a few others), which I grew from seed.
The coolest thing, which has never happened to me before, is that a box turtle was in our garden a week ago, and buried a nest of her eggs there, right in the middle! So we may have baby turtles along with our tomatoes from our garden.
If you are by our house, stop by and I will show you the garden.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Building dedication
We had a glorious celebration last Saturday. We have been in the building about 5 months now, and have it in pretty good shape. It was nearly a full house, with lots of music, speeches, prayer, food and rejoicing! The mayor of Marlboro (Jon Hornik) and the superintendent of the NJ Assemblies of God Carl Colletti addressed us. It was a memorable day.
The Board of Chosen Freeholders celebrated "this auspicious occasion and proclaims this day, Saturday, June 18, 2011 as 'Monmouth Worship Center Day'." This is kind of cool. You can see the declaration on the plaque on the welcome center.
The Board of Chosen Freeholders celebrated "this auspicious occasion and proclaims this day, Saturday, June 18, 2011 as 'Monmouth Worship Center Day'." This is kind of cool. You can see the declaration on the plaque on the welcome center.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Church location facts
Here are some interesting facts about our new location-
1. The original marl pits after which Marlboro was named are in the back of the church property. People say all sorts of fossils, including dinosaur bones, have been found there.
2. We are across from a very new development, and right down the street from the original Marlboro Village, built around the Civil War.
3. The bike path intersecting Vanderburg will be 26 miles when finished, and go from Freehold Borough all the way to Sandy Hook when completed. It is beautiful.
4. Witherspoon Street across the way is named after a famous American (not Reese!) John Witherspoon was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of the College of New Jersey (today Princeton). He was a major influence in the colonies, and a great Christian.
Question- who was Vanderburg?
1. The original marl pits after which Marlboro was named are in the back of the church property. People say all sorts of fossils, including dinosaur bones, have been found there.
2. We are across from a very new development, and right down the street from the original Marlboro Village, built around the Civil War.
3. The bike path intersecting Vanderburg will be 26 miles when finished, and go from Freehold Borough all the way to Sandy Hook when completed. It is beautiful.
4. Witherspoon Street across the way is named after a famous American (not Reese!) John Witherspoon was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of the College of New Jersey (today Princeton). He was a major influence in the colonies, and a great Christian.
Question- who was Vanderburg?
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