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Our Week

Sunday evening through Thursday evening

Because it took six entries to post last weekend, it’s time to fill you in on a few other activities from our week.

 After getting home from taking the chapel back to TFC’s Office on Sunday afternoon, I walked through the woods to my sister’s house where she and her husband were hosting a baby shower for their youngest daughter Amy.

 I got there after everyone had gone home, and just minutes before Amy and Kevin packed up all their new items.

 On Tuesday morning, Lois & Harold Keller and Glenn & Rachel Fahnestock came to help label the single mailing of TFC’s Highway News and Good News (June issue).

 Glenn and Rachel

 Lois and Harold

 Cerwin is getting good at using his left arm and hand.

 I told him that he is becoming ambidextrous.  He has been painting with his left hand – in preparation for putting the final coat of paint on our house on Monday – when the children come back for another painting party.

 Thursday evening was “Pavilion Cleanup” for my siblings and some of our children.

 I was weed-eating, and missed getting a photo of most of the raking of leaves or washing of tables.

 After the work was done most of us took time to look at the neat scrapbook Dave and Laura made for our sister-in-law Brenda (in red).  Laura is Brenda’s daughter.  My sister-in-law Dot and stepmother, Velma, are the two looking at the book.

 Then it was time for the real reason we get together – to eat!  Everybody brings food or drink.

 A delicious salad

 Rhubarb pie

  Hot dogs always taste better when roasted over a fire.

 We don’t even bother with tablecloths on this night, because everything has just been scrubbed.

 Jesse and Jenna

 When I watch these two (my brother Dale and our son Jere), I am always reminded of their similarities.  Jere even has some of Dale’s facial expressions.

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 It’s been a warm, beautiful week.

God doesn’t come and go. God lasts. 

He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. 

Isaiah 40:28 (The Message)

A Work & Painting Party

Saturday, May 16

Part Five

Featuring “Gloria’s Tooth” and “Teaching Roy to Play Four Square”

Gloria was quite pleased to pull a tooth – all by herself – while the rest of us were eating supper.  (She reminded me last night that I still hadn’t posted this picture.) 

I was sure that you were anxious to see her tooth. 

Sometime during the day, Diana, Jana, and Jenna discovered that Roy had never played four square – so they decided this was his evening to learn.

 If you have been following our painting saga, you may remember that it was supposed to rain all day.  Supper is over and it still has not rained at our house.

I think Jenna has the four square court about ready.

Ready to go!

I’m not sure who took these photos.  It wasn’t me.  Whoever it was did a good job.  I’m thinking it may have been Gloria, because she is not in any of these pictures.

 I must ask the girls how Roy did at the game.

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Guess what.  It began raining about the same time the last car left our driveway.  Deb said they drove through a nasty thunderstorm on the way home.

Methinks that God was good to us today.

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Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; 

he’s the one who will keep you on track.

Proverbs 3:6 (The Message)

Trust God from the bottom of your heart; 

don’t try to figure out everything on your own. 

Proverbs 3:5 (The Message)

Happy 5th Birthday

You’re Our Favorite Jared in the Whole World!

A Work & Painting Party

Saturday, May 16

Part Three

Featuring the youngest children…

 While the overhang of our house roof was being given a primer coat, there was a lot of other activity going on in our yard.  Notice Diana on the left – preparing to make a running leap.

 I’m thinking how many bones I would break if I did this, but it is exactly what I would have been doing at her age.

 Jared checking out the step ladder.

 Gloria, Ian, and Jared playing a yard game of some sort.

 Jesse was content where ever there was water.

 He got this old spoon from the play area under the pine tree.

 These two buckets of water were in the yard, incase it was needed at the burn pile.

 Who says we need an expensive pool for children to have fun with water.

 He played here for a long time – dipping water from one bucket to the other.

 It was especially fun for him to give Gloria a bucket full of water for the mud pies she and Jared were making under the tree.

  That takes me back sixty years when I loved to make mud pies on the rarely-traveled road next to my dad’s barn.

Tomorrow night I will post pictures of our supper and birthday party for Jared.

Live in such a way that you are a credit to the Message of Christ. 

Philippians 1:27 (The Message)

A Work & Painting Party

Saturday, May 16

Part Two

The saga of our painting day continued…

Chris (left) talking to Cerwin and Jeff, stopped in on her way home from clerking an auction, to pick up Nathan for his evening job at the Heisey farm.

Jenna helped with scraping some of the top parts of the door, while Jana continued doing her part.

We were thankful our children decided to risk the job of painting.  It was the middle of the afternoon by now, and still no rain.

Josh and Jere came a short time after Roy and Deb.

Jere had some things to do at home first, as he just arrived home the night before, after spending a week in Poreč, Croatia.  He was there to participate in ICAR’s General Assembly and Workshop.  ICAR is International Committee for Animal Recording.

The girls putting the primer coat on the shed door.

The three men, Jeff, Jere, and Roy are on the home stretch – the north side of the house.  It was almost time for supper, and still no rain.

I don’t know how many times we said, “I can’t believe they got the primer paint on the entire house.”  Because rain was forecast, then didn’t happen, they only started after lunch.

And look at the burn pile – it is almost gone. 

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It felt so good to have these two jobs completed. 

Thank you!

Thank you!

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There was just one more thing to do.  Diana got a boost from Roy to do her inspection and clean up of any stray paint.

Tomorrow night I will show you what the four youngest children did while the adults painted.