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Broken Spear
I was up until midnight finishing a book I picked up at the Berean office yesterday. It was so good that I recommended it to Mark and he started it this morning.
I've read later series by Bodie Thoene but did not know about the Zion Covenant. Now I need to find book 2 of that series. This was in a box of books someone donated so will be taken back to the Berean office once Mark is finished reading it. If anyone else would like to read it I am glad to pass it on. Because of staying up so late I didn't wake up until 6:30 this morning I thought Mark must already be up drinking MY coffee but he wasn't in the kitchen or living room. I was surprised to find him still in bed. I guess we both slept in. It was pretty cold in the house and Mark wanted to get the fire going. He pulled out a fire starter then mentioned we were almost out of them. I still had some old candles from Diane (today is her 69th birthday) so pulled those out and started melting them. 
While those were melting I started rolling up napkins. We had a bunch of old smaller Christmas napkins that I wanted to use up and those were first.
By the time I finshed rolling about 100 napkins the wax was melted. I used my two jellyroll pans and put 2 layers of paper towels on those. Once the napkin was dipped in the hot wax it was put on those paper towels. The paper towels caught any wax that dripped off. Once they were all dipped, cooled and hardened they were bagged. The paper towel was also rolled up and bagged. I ended up with a little more than a hundred fire starters and it took under an hour. They were put up on the shelf.
The total cost of the supplies was about 60 cents. If anyone has any old thick candles they want to get rid of I will be glad to take them but also if anyone sees any at garage sales in the free boxes grab them for me and I'll share some fire starters with you! They do a wonderful job starting a hot fire. Below is the one Mark started this morning. 
Ruth sent a picture of mom and Aunt Jinnie totally getting spoiled by Diane and Beth.
Today we needed to move a new bale in for Valiant but wanted to wait until the temperature was a little warmer so went up to the apartment first to work on the closet door. On the way up of course had to stop and pet Evan.
The closet door at the apartment kept coming off earlier then once it got fixed the other side wouldn't slide well. Mark had some supplies so went to work removing the upper part.
I was able to pull the old part out and Mark installed the new. Next was to move the bale but the skid steer was a little low of oil. Mark found the oil we needed and put in about a quart.
I moved the truck out so he could get to the bales while he finished up with the skid steer. 
Below he is bringing the bale over.
After putting it in, he tipped the spear down, it hit the ground and broke off. The weather is so cold it just snapped.
Hard to believe the metal would break but with this cold it was just brittle.
We may have an extra spear around will look when it warms up a bit. By the time I went inside my feet were frozen. I'm not a fan of this cold.
Mark asked for a hair cut before church. He decided it was time to go back to his old way and had me chop it off.
Tonight was the prayer meeting instead of a sermon. It was very good to be there. We went to Culvers for a late dinner. Mike went to Middle Grove and checked on the herd. They heard his car and came down to greet him.
