A day of tired

July 12, 2007 (12:11pm)
62º F, Sun-showers, NNW wind, 4 mpg.

Good afternoon,

A day of tired - that was yesterday. Don’t know why, but when we make a trip like we did yesterday, I am totally whipped the next day. I took a nap in the morning. Usually I would sleep for about 10-20 minutes and then up. Yesterday it was a 2 hour nap! Still was tired feeling for the rest of the day too. Didn’t really get all that much accomplished either.

I wrote a "good guy" letter this morning for my friend Dan, who is in jail waiting for sentencing. He got himself into a mess, it think without him actually realizing it, until it was too late. The situation involved drugs somehow. I don’t know what the circumstances are, but it is totally opposite of what I know of Dan. Anywho, he is looking at some serious time in Federal prison. He had asked me to write a letter a week or so ago and of course I agreed. Pastor mentioned it during Bible study on Tuesday, hoping others would also write a letter on Dan’s behalf. He will also ask for folks to write during the services on Sunday. Apparently it is a matter of how long he will be incarcerated and Judge has some discretion as to the length of time. The idea of the letters is to counter balance what has been brought up against him - the parts of Dan’s life no one in the court system knows about. Dan has so many skills and good points it is a shame to waste them. He knows he is in a bad place, will take the consequences, not liking them, and then move on with his life. I/we just hope to see him free before he has gray hair and bald. He really is a good egg.

Today we have been having off and on sun-showers, as we did yesterday. Yesterday there were some serious showers along the way too. We need the rain, but wish it would not happen when I am out the door to do something outside. Never seems to fail. The temperature is really cool the past couple of days. Like that part a whole bunch.

Margriet has had a cleaning jag for the past couple of days. She cleaned every inch of the bathroom and the eating place. Nothing was spared. Even behind the moulding on the wall I think! ;-) The floor in the eating place is made from small pieces of maple. Don’t know where they came from, but someone spent a lot of time and effort to glue them to the floor. Margriet waxed them with good old Johnson’s paste wax. First time she has used that. When I opened it, the aroma brought back a whole set of memories from years past. Lots of floors and school projects were shined up with that wax. A good, clean smell too. Probably much more environmentally friendly than the newer silicon waxes on the market.

Still have a couple of things on the truck to empty, then it is Margriet’s turn to put them away in the basement. I have nothing to do with that. It is her queen-dom since if I did it, we would never find anything. Seems she was talking of putting an addition onto the basement though! She already has commandeered a closet and a bedroom upstairs for some of the things.

Margriet built chicken with rice last night for supper. Rather than in the oven, she did it on the stove top, more like a stir fry and it really was excellent. Now we have a small hole in the freezer. Think I heard something about sausage tonight in some form. We do eat well here, but much wiser than we did at FISKLAND for some reason. She also had gotten the hang of making pancakes. I mean real cakes - about ½-1" thick! A couple of those, along with some bacon or sausage, make a pretty good breakfast. We both are waiting for winter to show up so we can put a soup/stew pot on the woodstove. That really smells good all day long. Seems to make the event last longer and more pleasurable. We like that part too.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><