{"id":3920,"date":"2018-11-14T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","slug":"the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"THE GREAT OUTDOORS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soon I will post some updated photos of the house and the progress we&#8217;ve made in transforming it into a home for our family.In the meantime, it occurred to me that I haven&#8217;t posted many photos of the GROUNDS around the house. When things got stirred up last spring on the OMS campus where we had lived for five years (with the threat of imminent eviction of the mission) and we decided proactively to move towards more secure living space, we literally moved to higher ground.\u00a0Those who have been to Haiti will not be surprised by the beauty of our new surroundings &#8211; Haiti is a gorgeous corner of God&#8217;s amazing Creation &#8211; but we are doubly blessed to now live on this particularly beautiful property.It was a BIG part of what sold us on this move.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_060026665-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_060153772-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_060243200_PORTRAIT-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_060814262_HDR-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now turned around and heading back up towards the house&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mountain continues to climb upward back behind the house.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_061033677_HDR-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_062648029-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181110_062728473-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon I will post some updated photos of the house and the progress we&#8217;ve made in transforming it into a home for our family.In the meantime, it occurred to me that I haven&#8217;t posted many photos of the GROUNDS around the house. 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