Busy Sunday

“Mom”, Jonathan said to me, “this day feels like it has been 2 days!”  Whew.... I have to agree with him.  We started out the day at church - we were greeters before the 2nd service.  We have sort of melancholy feelings each Sunday.... counting down until Jim and Linda retire and leave at the end of June.  It will be so hard to see them go, but they deserve a wonderful retirement.  We will just miss them and it seems like each Sunday celebrates a “last” something or other with them.

After church we all decided to go to King’s Buffet for lunch.  Jennifer came up for the afternoon and was able to join us in time for lunch, which was very nice.  The weather, especially after church, was so WARM!  It was BEAUTIFUL!  We kept commenting on how nice it was to step outside and not have to brace for the cold wind.  I think it got up to 72 degrees today!  Can you believe it???  Of course, it is now raining, with 2 inches of snow expected after midnight and a high of 29 degrees for tomorrow.  Ugh.  But, it seems as though spring can’t be held down much longer??? 

Who likes Girl Scout Cookies?” Apparently everyone! (works better than “say cheese”) 
Jackson, Jennifer and Jonathan 

We enjoyed the afternoon outside tremendously.  We had an unexpected ringside seat to literally 1000's of geese (see post here), played on the trampoline, and just enjoyed the sunshine and blue sky.  

Jennifer and Jonathan

Our road is so bad (muddy) that we had Jennifer park in town and ride out with us.  (yes, this truly is our road.... no joke.)

After I returned her to her car late this afternoon, we discovered that a lady’s car was stuck in the mud at Julie’s driveway. We worked for over an hour trying to get the poor lady out. I am using the “royal we” here.  Marvin did all the work - I just stood by and said encouraging things like “oohhh -

that was so close,” and “honey, does it matter if the back tire isn’t touching the ground?”  :)  All the while I was staring at the sky and watching the storm clouds rolling in.... wondering if it would be possible to get her unstuck before the deluge of rain came.  Literally minutes after we got her out and on her way, as I was saying something about “at least it wasn’t raining” - the sky lit up, thunder boomed and the rain began pouring down.  Poor Marvin had been in the middle of choring when he became the good samaritan, so I took him around in the Suburban to finish up.  We were still soaked when all was said and done - but the rain helped clean off the Suburban!  :)

When we finally got back to the house we discovered the boys had been working hard.  They had completely cleaned out the garage, gathered all the trash for trash pickup and had even remembered to go shut all the windows in the house when the storm came.  Whew!!  We all had showers and a late supper and are ready to crash.  It has been a busy day, but it has been a good day.


3 Comments
Donna
Laura, I can't believe your road! It's worse than I pictured it. Why wouldn't your road dept. gravel it??

I love your term "royal we" lol. I was just explaining this to my 3 guys a few days ago. When I say "we need to go to the dairy and get milk" I actually mean "I wish you would go get milk." "We need to burn the trash" obviously doesn't mean that I plan to help. :)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 -07:37 PM

Laura
Donna -
I realized I hadn't answered you here.... about our road department..... DON'T get me started. We haven't had real gravel put on this road in years! (except for the gravel we neighbors have banded together and purchased) The road department just comes out periodically to stir it up with the road grader. All the rural roads up around here are in similar shape. But, this year is the worst it has been in 20 years, easily.
Saturday, March 8, 2008 - 07:41 AM

Kristine
Your road is a MESS!

Our road is privately owned by the 20 or so residences on it. This means WE pay to maintain it. The builder did a not-so-great job grading/planning it out. We have an HOA JUST for road maintenance. Our fees went up to $400 a year for road maintenance, and we are currently voting to spend $8K to repave JUST 1/5 ofit. (The vote will pass.) It's either pay for it now a little at a time, or pay for the whole thing later, which would be $$$ all at once.

I'm not sure which kind of road is the better option==both seem not so great!!!

Lovely day, and what a great job the boys did taking care of everything while you were gone!
Saturday, March 8, 2008 - 08:01 PM