Hi there...whew! What a week! We had a garage sale. No, let me rephrase that - Kurt & Jenn had a garage sale (here at our house) and I got to keep an eye on Livi (inside in the a/c) for most of the time. What fun! Garage sales are most unique, aren't they - and it's the people that stop by that really help pass the time and bring to light such humor. Don put out his mean-green-moped-machine. It's a little bit of a thing and makes a noise like a pesky mosquito when you're driving it. But he thought he'd sell it. This is the funny part - each man that looked at it had the same response - I'll go home and ask my wife. What? Really? A little moped and you're going home to ask your wife? This isn't a principle investment here. What did they think they're wives would say? Yes? One guy even came back - after asking his wife - and he said she told him he could spend $40 on the moped...Don was asking $100. Now here's the difference - I would have sold it for the $40 (don't you suppose the wife knew we wouldn't take the $40 so she was "safe" and didn't really have to say "no"...I would have sent him home with the moped on that alone!). Well, we still have the moped. Don hasn't ever "asked" to buy things - I'm not the principal, I'm his wife! I have learned, though, after 35-going-on-36 years of marriage that when he mentions buying a new car (not asking, just mentioning that he stopped to look at this car or that van, or this contraption...and getting that gleam in his eye...) NOW I say "go for it". I tell him that I think we need a new car and he should run right out and buy it. He says I take all the fun out of it!!! I still wish we'd have sold the moped to that young man!


Kurt & Jenn did a great job - and my dad was here the whole time, too. He's quite the salesman. Mom was here and brought homemade cinnamon rolls. (Really, the food is the reason we have a garage sale!!) Mia was trying to sell her stuffed animals and toys. She's saving for something special. It was fun to watch her learn from her dad & mom and grandpas how to "sell". She started greeting the customers, helping them look through her toys - especially if the customers had children with them. She got a little concerned when a couple people bought her toys for their dogs - that didn't seem quite right to her. How could I tell her that some people treat their pets better than their children? Anyway, she made a little money and was just thrilled - AND got rid of some of her stuff!


We are recuperating after the sale, trying to cool off from the hot, humid weather, and get ready for Madison on Tuesday. I've caught a little cold along the way and am feeling a bit under the weather, though still doing well. I'm just going to rest for the weekend and Monday.


We are welcoming our new preacher, Sherm Nichols, and his family this Sunday. They moved up here from Missouri earlier this week and we are looking forward to getting to know them and working alongside them for the Kingdom. They are precious folks who love the Lord and we are glad they're here. Welcome, Sherm & Carrie and Andy!

Take care...enjoy the week's end - and the week's beginning on Sunday.
Love to all,
Don & Deb