Working the Yard.

 Working the Yard.

 

This afternoon my little neighbor came to tell me he was ready to work in the yard again. So, we found the big flower pot that is about two feet by two feet, and he began to fill it with the weeds and expended poppy plants. By the time he had dumped it three times, he had the front yard looking much better. It really needs to be tilled up just a bit, but since a roto tiller no longer makes a home here, it will just have to have what little stirring can be done with one of those metal sticks with the four tongs made to look like a square. AJ managed to use it somewhat in the front flower bed without digging up any of my flowers that were freshly planted or the “love in a mist” that is making seeds. SO happy to have the help of this young boy! He is a delight.

 

Called the plumbers today to talk to them about getting at least one sink drain replaced. Once upon a time, Hanan told me that it was more than he knew what to do. And anyone with a guess might know that plumbing is not on my skill list! If it does not take too long to repair the bathroom sink, then the plumber can look at my kitchen sink as well. Plumbers are expensive, but so very necessary! Think one of the grands is looking at an internship with a plumber. Great way to make a living without having to go to college.

 

Back a few months ago, one purchase from Amazon included some freeze-dried veggie stuff that can be dropped into soup to make a very nutritious soup out of plain ol’ Ramen noodles. Today, moving the box for the noodles showed me only two packages of noodles left! Wow! Who knew the old woman had eaten that many packages of soup. Probably a trip to Sam’s to refill Thompson’s meds will see the old woman doing a bit of shopping. Maybe they have Ramen noodles in those boxes, too. You can bet they have a lot of good buys that will be hard to resist considering how easy it is to spend money there!!

 

When we were kids in the Baptist Church, we had collections taken up every year for the missionaries. Back then, the idea of a missionary really did not make sense to me. Since then, a nephew went to some area between Mexico and South America and built a school, a hospital, and some shelters for orphans. It does not take much imagination to understand that when countries don’t have any social services, everyone suffers. That was the purpose for HIS work, but today nothing much has changed in what those folks need. That is also the reason so many of them have come to North America. Education, health care, and just housing has a great appeal to those who have nothing at all. So, Sterling let’s some women use his workshop to store all this humongous amount of stuff to sell to raise money for their mission in Nicaragua. Walmart even gives them all the “returns” that come out of their stores to be stripped of labels and resold for this situation. Let us pray that their mission will be a success.

 

This is one of the happiest times of the year for some of us. The green grass, the showers, the flowers, the lifting of the heaviness from the winter doldrums, and just enjoying seeing life on wing and a song through the trees makes life so full of expectations! Yes, it will be 90 degrees in nothing flat and just keep getting hotter as the month goes by, but at least for a little while we can appreciate the beauty that God has given us. Forget about streets of gold or harps and all that stuff. If God created these colors to soothe us, this old person believes in celebrating the soothing colors and sounds! Let us rejoice in His love.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.