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Sunset
This morning Joan and I left for the Peoria airport at 8:30 am to buy our tickets to fly to Gulf Shores. She will drive to the Belleville airport leave her car then fly down to Gulf Shores Jan 30th and stay until Feb 9th. Ruth and Fedi will fly from Gulf Shores to Belleville on Jan 30th, take the car Joan left and drive home. I will drive to Belleville airport leave my car and fly to Gulf Shores on Feb 9th to take over for Joan. She will fly back on Feb 9th to Belleville take my car and drive home. Ruth will drive to Belleville on Feb 13th, leave a car then fly to Gulf Shores then I will fly back from Gulf Shores to Belleville on Feb 13th. and take that car home. That way we each just pay for 1 day of parking at the Belleville airport. We were both able to get our tickets after waiting in line for almost 2 hours. We arrived at the Peoria airport at 8:45am and didn't get out of there until 10:30 am but it saved us each $44.00 for the round trip tickets by buying them there direct. I got home just in time to drive to Sarah and Nolan's new house, pick up their van and drive to Zion, Eden and River's school to pick them up at noon. We drove to Sam's club and bought a rotisserie chicken for our lunch along with supplies for the barn. We drove straight to the barn to unload those supplies. Taegan and 2 of her volleyball team mates were practicing in the gym when we arrived. They were only here for a short time as they needed to leave for a game. We ate our lunch then went to work. Today we were taking down the Christmas decorations. The girls worked on the tree while I put away the manger scene. Below they are removing all of the ornaments.
When the ornaments were all off and in the box, the girls removed the lights and gave each string of lights to me to roll up and place in a bag for next year. The next job was to take down the tree. They were wonderful helpers with that and would hand each branch to me to put in the box.
We had just finished closing up the tree box when Mark and Mackenson arrived ready to scrub the gym floor. They used the golf cart to haul the tree back over to the back garage then came back to the barn to start the floor scrubber. Once the gym floor was finished they brought the scrubber in the living area and did most of that too. The girls and I came over to the house and worked on homework. Nolan arrived just as Eden was finishing up the last of her homework so they went back to the new house to keep working. Joan came over before supper to drop off some paper work just as she was leaving I noticed the sun was turning the sky a beautiful red. I used the golf cart to drive behind the foaling apartment so I could see the sunset.
When we were growing up and the sky was those beautiful colors mom and dad would start singing and of course we all joined in singing the song
Sunset
When shadows grow long in the evening and birds wing their way back home, I get a heavenly feeling it's sunset and I'm going home.
God paints the clouds in the evening sky, to show me the way to the palace on high, and stars mark the pathway lest my feet should roam, it's sunset and I'm going home!
The burdens I've carried were heavy, I've prayed in the garden alone, but there'll be no crosses up yonder, it's sunset and I'm going home.
God paints the clouds in the evening sky, to show me the way to the palace on high, and stars mark the pathway lest my feet should roam, it's sunset and I'm going home!
The harvest is over and gathered, the summer is ended and gone, the laborer longs for HIS coming, it's sunset and I'm going home.
God paints the clouds in the evening sky, to show me the way to the palace on high, and stars mark the pathway lest my feet should roam, it's sunset and I'm going home!
