Getting ready for travel very early

Tuesday was the day that we had no pressing plan for the day. Evelyn didn’t have therapy today so we had more time to work around the house. We decided to use the beautiful day to do the autumn trimming of dut into 3the shrubs around the house.  Evelyn was cooking something but came out to help.  I dragged out the extension cord and the hedge trimmer.  I used our recycle containers to hold the refuse.  Two of the shrubs are holly and they have stickers on each leaf.  I finished in a couple of hours.  Evelyn borrowed Doris’ rake and raked all the trimmings into piles for me to pick up.  I tried to find a pitchfork in the neighborhood but none was available.  Finally I put on my rubber work gloves, used Doris’ rake and picked up the piles.  I put them into the large containers that I use for recycling materials.  That was 5 garbage cans.  It was dark and we had accomplished more today than we ever expected. 

Wednesday Evelyn worked on and finished her study for tomorrow.  She had therapy at 1, so I dropped her off just down the street at Yarrington Therapy and came back to connect the trailer.  She is in a rush to get started packing even though we won’t leave for more than a week.  Gene helped me line the car and trailer up for connection.  I backed it into our driveway and set it up.  The tires were strangely full of air.  I returned for Evelyn who was a bit better than when she left therapy yesterday.  She rested for a while and then we went to choir practice.  I don’t know my part very well but couldn’t get more rehearsal time because the people who will be here have to rehearse for the Christmas Cantata.  I made arrangements with Jim Juhnke to meet tomorrow morning at 9 to remove the logs in the church parking lot.  I arranged for Ronny Dean to take the logs and promised to help load them onto a truck bed.  We came home, ate a supper and watched “Million Dollar Baby”  a great film by Clint Eastwood. 

Thursday was a busy morning.  We were at church by 9 and found Ronny and his brother-in-law there with a front loader and dump truck.  Jim Juhnke didn’t arrive until 9:30.  We used the front loader and chain to pull a large log from the brush on the hill.  Once it was out, Jim used Ronny’s chain saw to cut it into 6 ft. pieces.  They were taken to the dump truck and loaded on.  I went to some of the smaller pieces that had been cut into 3 piece sections previously.  They all fit into the front loader bucket.  We were done in about an hour.  We thank God for sending these  men with their equipment.  We would have a nearly impossible task had we been forced to do the work by hand.  Evelyn began her final Bible study of the season while I came home to take a shower.  I picked her up around 12:30 and came home for lunch.  I took her to the therapist for her 2 o’clock appointment.  I went to Lowes to buy some furnace filters, door stop and 2 bags of dirt for next year.  We packed some of our plastic tubes for transport to Texas before and after supper.  We watched a movie in the evening.