More Rain

 Thankfully at 3:00 am the fever broke and by morning I was perfectly normal at 98.6 AND that held all day.  Ruth and I met at the dumpster and by 7:19 am thought Diane must not be home and started walking without her. She called right then, she was going to be late and would meet up with us. There was quite a bit of storm damage with lots of branches down at the playground. Thankfully Joan brought a crew of workers and they all pitched in and got it cleaned up before the next rain moved in. 

I was with mom this morning. Mom's remote for her lift chair wasn't working so Spark arrived to fix that and while he was working on that Karin found a new one on Amazon. That was ordered and will be here tomorrow.  I filled the bird feeder and it wasn't long before the birds arrived for breakfast.

Taunya dropped off her kids first. Jack and Jace swam over to jump off Rachel's highdive.

Sarah arrived with a bunch of kids next and soon David arrived with Elisabet and Israel. Everyone was having fun swimming when the rain started. Below they are all heading to mom's basement.

They went to the barn to play in the gym until the rain stopped around noon. Ruth, Diane and Dan arrived right around lunch time so we all enjoyed a meal together.  After lunch all the kids came back for boating and swimming.

It is always more fun when there are lots of kids to play with.  I left before 2:00 pm to finish my laundry. When Mark got home he emptied the 5th wheel tanks, then cleaned up and we drove in to Peoria to go to One World for dinner. The kids gave Mark a gift card for that. Mark ordered the Rueben and I ordered the fish sandwich. 

The place was busy but then it was Friday night. When we got home we drove to the barn to get some roasts out of the freezer for Sunday's meal.  Anna had been there pretty much all day painting trim. Below is just a small sample of her work.

We got less than a half an inch of rain today but that added to the 2 inches yesterday really helped make this the million dollar rain. At least for some of the farmers, for us it means we will get a second cutting of hay and I am thankful.