Shaking in IN

And now boys and girls....Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri shook us up yesterday at 5:30 AM. Those of us who have lived through many earthquakes in Southern California knew immediately what was happening. but the flatlander, Tim, was quite confused. We were awakened out of a sound sleep with the trailer shaking like crazy. It even woke Lumpy up. The epicenter was about 50 miles from us to the west.
Then we spent the day out in the garden. We are getting our beds ready for planting. We plan to have a lot in the garden this year. Maybe if we grow our own vegetables, it will ease the cost of eating for a while. The rasberries are doing great as are the strawberries. Now, if God will just turn off the water faucet for a while we can finish and then He can water all He wants.
We are getting ready to go up north in a week to help open the Baptist camp with Campers On Mission. I hate being gone in the spring, but they need help, so we will go for a week or so. This coming Saturday is KC's last prom...We must be here for that.

Shaking in IN

3AM

Here it is 3 o'clock in the morning and Papa is snoring and I can't sleep. We have been working on the church for two days. We are remodeling the stage area and the baptistry. When they put the baptistry in when the church was built probably inthe 50's, they didn't finish it. And so we went and put trim work all around. Also there was a mural on the back wall that was way outdated. When we took the mural off, there was a painted picture of a mountain that looked like it was in Japan. Problem was, it was mostly black. So, today, I painted over it with KILZ paint and then more paint. I think we can paint it with the regular paint tomorrow. We removed the rail that they put up for the choir. I don't think chuches have put up modesty rails for about 20 years...but we had one. Now we have the problem of hat to do with all the stuff we had back there. Now it can be seen. So I woke up thinking of what we are to do. And I forgot to take before and after pictures. Papa is going to make a cross to put there. It will look so much better.
I love all of you.
I'll try to get back to sleep now....Love you

Papa's big day

We have reached a milestone!! Today Papa took the test to become a HAM radio operator. He could only miss 7 questions out of 35 to pass, so he passed it with 100%. He is so very proud of himself and I am too. If he had taken that test a couple of years ago, he would not have remembered all the information, but I guess the medication he's on is finally working right and he is able to keep things in his mind. He has been studying for two weeks and it has really paid off. He bought a hand held radio and will have his call signs in a week. Then he can qualify to get on the North American Mission Board's Ham team to go out on national disasters. Sometimes that is the only communication that we have and it will be nice to have it at home. There are lots of rules and regulations to operating a HAM station, but he is good with rules, so it will work great for him. I didn't tell him, but with him working his mind so much, it helps to ward off allhymers {sp.}. Have a good day, all. We're getting ready for more rain tonight. I think we'll just build an ark.

finally in our home

Here are pictures of our front room. It's almost finished. Just have to put the finishing touches on the curtain rods. I crotched the edge on the blinds to match the curtains because I'm too cheap to pay $40.00 for them. We have been very busy getting things put back and deciding what we are getting rid of. Then the TV went out and we had to purchase one. That was a good old magnavox. We got it in 1992 in Green River. So because our insurance was so good to us we were able to afford a nice flat screen hdtv. It should last us the rest of our lives...
Lumpy likes his new house except for the floors. We had to put a rug in front of his perch at the window because he couldn't get a grip on the floor. Now he's pretty happy.
He had to explore the shelves before I could fill them. Then he settled down and fell asleep in the box that has a quilt I'm working on.
We may be going to Missouri next to work on the flood. They are just now getting to a point where we can help. We'll know later this week, I think.