Good morning all! We’ve had nothing but rain since the last time I wrote. Well, we had two afternoons with enough sun that we could do some mowing. The other night at 11 pm, it hailed and rained so hard that I thought our roof would cave in. And, last night was a gentler bur unrelentless rain. The weather bug is putting out flood warnings for the 99737 area.
Tony and his boys have planted all the fields. Now they’ve successfully fertilized all the fields and now all our grassy areas. I guess we’re going to plant the runway with oats. Tony had us go out there the other night to pick out the big rocks out of the field. We worked until 8 pm. It actually was a good family time; plus we had Kimberli’s three kids out there to regale us with antics.
Tommy, Andy, Kevin, Jonnie, and Kerri went to the fish wheel this weekend, thanks to Gerimo from Sapa farm. Kevin called on Friday afternoon and they’d gotten 95 salmon and were going out to see what they had netted for that day. They will be home later today or tonight. I guess that means we’ll be cleaning and packing fish in the rain (we like to do it outside to save any buildings from all that fish mess!).
Paul Baltrum is up from Immokalee to visit his children in Fairbanks Liz B. Woerhing brought Paul (and Michael, Charity’s 4 yr old) out to visit us on Thursday. Because Paul hadn’t been here in six years, he didn’t recognize most of the children. It was a lot of fun. Michael was trying to convince me that he’d lived here before (I think because he has heard so many stories from his family about here).
Bill Hill is in Delta visiting so he came out on Friday to visit the farm. He came down to have tea with me and show me his photos from South Africa South Africa Juneau Sitka
JoAn Maurat has gone to visit her children in various places for several weeks. Early in this week, Andy and Sarah Jane will leave to visit relatives in the states for a couple of weeks.
Ann should be coming home today. I think Merlin’s parents fly in for a visit around the same time that Ann comes home.
Bradie Cox got very sick with some sort of bug. Jo had to take her to the doctor for antibiotics. Bradie is finally beginning to feel better. Very strange! I sure hope that Jo’s bees are doing well with all this rain!
Bro John Jeffreys will be here this morning to preach. He will overnight with us before driving to Haines tomorrow morning.
Pat called from a lull in the fires. He was happy to be with Beth and Uncle Tim for a bit. They both sounded happy and well. Beth's leg is still in a cast but slowly getting better. We are praying for complete healing to take place.
Rob is doing well with his summer chores. This is something his therapists have been suggesting for a while now. It's called LIFE SKILLS. Hopefully helping him to become more independent the more he knows how to do things on his own.
He has a house keeping day with me where we clean and tidy up the public buildings, and fold laundry. A DD or domestic duty day with Chris Toby where he hangs around the community kitchen and makes himself useful as a gopher, mopper, sweeper. Hopefully he will get the hang of these things. Chris is a patient teacher.
He also has a chicken day where he helps feed, water and collect eggs.
Then 3 days of morning summer school with me. I am trying to get him ready for a grade 3 curriculum in some areas like Science and Soc. Studies. Looks like I will be teaching him all morning next year and most of the afternoon. I am using the Bob Jones curriculum and will be taking it slower. Its early days yet...but that is the plan. Found a great Science kit that goes with the gr. 3 BJ curriculum, everything comes in a box ready to use, so one does not have to go hunting for this or that...whoever put this together was thinking practicality! I cld hv done it myself, but glad that somebody else thot of it first!
Well, no more for now. Enjoy the rest of your week end.
Signing out
Gri
