The Final Day

The big news this morning was the granite counter top was delivered and installed. Now we need to hook up the sink and dishwasher but that must wait for 24 hours. The counter top has a sealer on it and shouldn’t be touched for that length of time.
We had great help today, both with the Bible program and then with the house cleaning. Josh Ginzel came with his grandma, Eva Jean to help with the Bible program. We were able to take hundreds of Bibles to the post office. The rates went up again for them it is now $3.23 to mail out each Bible. Josh had already put the 3 dollar stamps on, we just had to go buy 20 cent stamps and 3 cent stamps. When we showed up at the post office, they were thinking we would be there for hours stamping each Bible but with the great help and organization we were done in 30 minutes and headed back to Meister’s to meet the lunch crowd. Anna and Braelyn joined us at Denny’s. Poor Braelyn had just visited the health department and got all of her shots. She was kind of in a daze the entire lunch. After lunch we drove up to Pleasant home to finish the cleaning job before the big move in date for the Waibels tomorrow and again were shocked to find the Waibels with a big group of people cleaning the house from top to bottom. What a great, no actually wonderful surprise. Mark and I are getting pretty old to keep heading back every night cleaning, for this huge undertaking to be done by so many willing workers we are so very grateful.
We headed to Sams for dog food then Lippmans to look at a sleeper couch. They are the only distributor in the area of this special couch Mark wanted to try out. I must admit it was very comfortable. We did not make a decision on that though, the couches are pretty pricey. Diane gave us some ideas to look at tomorrow. Once back at the office we had a quick cold dinner, no cooking can be done until tomorrow afternoon. We had plans to meet Phil and Anna back at Pleasant Home to do the final finish but Phil called to cancel. He drove to Pleasant Home to find the work crew had grown and the Waibels were almost finished. He drove out here instead and worked on setting up the computers, printers and the phone IF we EVER get cable. I’ll try to call Sue tomorrow to see about at least signing a contract for the farm house. Mark worked on the other closet organizer, now the winter coats can be hung up. He is now working on installing the medicine cabinet. Mike came to help get Eliza covered, SUCCESS! Molly, Kim’s mare is also still in season. I’ll try her tomorrow morning. None of the other mares on the place are in.
Mike and Diane left for Middle Grove to try to get the trailer out. It is stuck in the mud. The tractor tire went flat and everything is now buried in mud. If he does get the trailer out, they are bringing back Sally and Bunni for Karin’s youth group. We will need to take one more load out and bring back Jewel and Mika.