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We Got RAIN
Last night around 9:30 pm I needed to drive over to the barn as all of the lights had been left on. The guests told me they were finishing up at 9:00 pm and that this is their very favorite place for their meetings! The rain started just as I stepped outside and it didn't start with a drizzle it started with a downpour. The golf cart was put in the garage and the car driven over. There are no gutters on the barn and the rain was coming off the roof which created an actual waterfall. Of course I got drenched just running through the gym door. It had slowed down a little on the way back. Around 4:00 am another storm came through and this one had lots of lightning and thunder. The thunder woke mom up too. By 8:00 am our rain gauge was showing an inch and a half and it was still sprinkling. This is the first decent rain in weeks.
The gypsy mares were in the shelter but the others were out grazing in the rain.
Mom and I left for the Berean office right at 8:00 am and were the first to arrive. We were very busy so I didn't take any pictures until we finally sat down for some key lime pie.
Not pictured is Shirley L who left a little earlier. We had 24 Bible requests along with maybe 70 studies come in. Both Skip and Marvin were gone. We were able to get the Bible requests filled as I found some on Amazon. Twelve had arrived Sunday evening but the other 12 had not yet been delivered. We got the names printed off of all 24, mailed the first 12 then when the other 12 were delivered about 3:45 pm I was able to get them stuffed, wrapped and delivered to the post office before they closed at 4:30 pm. The couch was delivered on Monday and Mark got that taken over to the barn today. We put that together after I got home.
The color is not showing true in the pictures it is more of a light blue color. Mark said it was comfortable to sit on. This couch pulls out into a queen bed and just fits.
By the time we got back to the house the 4 sets of triple bunk beds were being delivered. I asked the driver if she wouldn't mind driving them over to the barn as they were heavy.
Below we have already taken one set upstairs leaving these 3 for another day.
The boxes were so heavy Mark and I opened one up and then just took a lot of trips up those 20 stairs carrying armfuls of hardware at a time and laying it out in the bunk room.
The foaling apartment booked right then for tonight so I had to leave and run over to turn lights on and make sure there were no dead flies or any other insect (stink bugs) on the floor. Thankfully there were none. When I got back to the house 7 of the 12 twin mattresses were delivered as were the two toilet paper holders and 3 garbage cans for the upstairs bathrooms. Those were put together and taken over. Now each bathroom has what is needed. We will need to get the other 3 bunk beds upstairs tomorrow and maybe then start putting them together.
The mattresses were left in our house and will stay there until the bunk beds are assembled and anchored to the wall.
At 5:00 pm mom and I left for the Farmington School to pick up Braelyn after her practice. From there we went straight to Gil's supper club for our supper. Joan was there with her Pleasant Hill friends. There was one of the regulars missing but these 4 went through gradeschool and highschool together.
Our food was delicious.
Mom ordered a chicken dinner while Braelyn ordered a chicken sandwich.
I ordered a cobb salad and put half in a take home container for Mark. We started our meal with fried onion rings.
It was dark by the time we left to go home and the moon is full tonight and considered the harvest moon. We could see it well when we were dropping off Braelyn but after dropping off mom it was covered by the trees. I thought maybe if I took the golf cart into the cabin field I would be able to get a picture of it but from there I couldn't even see the moon. I was able to get a picture between the trees up by the foaling apartment. Not the best picture, it really was glowing tonight.
Tomorrow Evan needs a new round bale.