Our future Five Oaks Hudson campus pastor, Bob Brueggen, and Dana Hayden (Outreach Director) went to Hudson on Monday to start surveying the landscape, looking for a possible meeting location for our campus launch next fall. If you have ideas, we're all ears.
Speaking of Hudson, what a great city. I love the St. Croix. (I have to admit, though, that my absolutely favorite place is the Minnetonka lakes. I spent some summers as a kid on those lakes with my cousin Henry's family, skiing every chance we could get, swimming and having some of the best days of my life. Then in college I went snowmobiling, fishing and boating on the lake. I proposed to Lois on one of those lakes after a dinner at Lord Fletcher's (got there by boat). But I digress...) The St. Croix is my second favorite place. What a great river. What incredible vistas from the hills and bluffs lining the river. I love heading out to dinner or coffee or just about anything in places like Hudson and Stillwater.
I agree! As a little girl, I was in Hudson and Stillwater visiting my Grandparents, Aunts Uncles, Cousin's, etc. However, we
were living in Texas. I wanted to move up here. My dad told me that we couldn't. I looked at him and said, "Well I will move up here when I'm big!" I didn't even recall that statement until I moved up here in 1997. The memory came flooding back when I was driving by my Grandparents old house in Hudson. I began to laugh and told God that He was so funny because He is the One that worked it out for us to move up here. I love this place! I love the beauty of the simple things. It often feels like going back in time. Stillwater still has the neat shops. Hudson has really changed but yet it's still that neat place that I loved to visit when I was a girl.
Last December 2005 I went to Texas
to visit my parents. I also
returned to Texas when my mother passed away from cancer in March 2006. I couldn't wait to get back up here because this St. Croix Valley is truely my home. There are special places here that I can just walk around, go get coffee, etc. that give a wonderful peace. I love the river. My husband and I have often walked on the walk bridge at the River Front Park here in Hudson. It's so relaxing to eat out and then walk on the bridge across the river down at the park, holding hands...
saying "hello" to other couples along the way. It has a somewhat serenity along the river. I love to see the beautiful trees changing color. I love the soups and winter squash that they serve up here. This is my true home and I understand about the descriptions of the Stillwater, Hudson, St. Croix River, Falls Theater, and the St. Croix Valley. It's a wonderful place that you can look around and see God's creation. He did all of this for us!
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Nora Caswell
Posted by: Nora Caswell | December 03, 2006 at 10:04 PM