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No Ducks In Church

Ahh a good restful nights sleep in our own bed. Right after gulping down a couple cups of coffee 10 pounds of hamburger was browned then divided into two gallon size bags to cool down. I needed to run up to the apartment to make sure it was ready for our guests coming in today and on the way up saw that the gypsies waterer had been moved almost off the concrete stand. That was put back on after the apartment was checked. Valiant's bale was checked. It is alfalfa but first cutting so a little coarse stemmed. He is still picking through it well and seems to be gaining a bit. Although it has only been 2 days since he was on it. Breakfast was cooked a little later, around 8:30 am which gave me about 15 minutes time to get a shower and ready for church. We had an awesome day in church. Randy and Kathy brought Nancy and they gave her a special gift. You see each Sunday Randy blows his duck call and Nancy says, "no ducks in church." Well today they gave Nancy a duck and Nancy took it in church!

Peoria was hosting the over 40 group and wow could they sing. The church rang out with praises this morning. Gregg Rumbled had the morning message and he started with Psalm 35 praising our Lord. Click HERE to watch that. Tim Roecker had the afternoon message on 1st Samuel 19 and 20 and then read Mark 10 click HERE if you would like to listen to that message. After church we stopped at Aldi to pick up a watermelon, salad mix and bread for our dinner tonight. We had Berlica and Jasper riding home with us but they didn't mind the few minutes it took at Aldi. As soon as we got home the oven was turned on to preheat for the 2 pans of brownies while the browned ground beef was heated up and the spaghetti sauce added. The watermelon was cut up at the barn and Mark helped prepare the bread. Mike, Berlica and Jasper took Sally, Jewel and Missy swimming across the lake. 

I took the picture below as we were taking food over to the barn the horses were coming back after their swim.
We had a good group for Sunday dinner with over 30 for dinner. 


After supper Berlica took all the kids horse back riding in the round pen. Below they are getting the horses tacked up.

The volley ball group played inside tonight, it was much too hot to play outside.

Amy, Ken, Mike, Diane and I went over to see the progress on Sarah and Nolan's new house. They have all the walls torn out, the carpet gone and oh my what a mess. Amazing how the youth have such energy they can take on a project and not be discouraged. When we got back we walked over to mom's to visit. Spark and Rhonda were there with Ruth, Nancy and mom. Diane and Mike came over as they were taking Nancy home tonight. Spark asked Nancy to show us her new duck.

She laughed and laughed at that silly duck laying eggs. After Nancy left for home we walked back to the barn and visited with Rebekah and Brian before heading home. What a great Sunday!