It was only 9 degrees outside so at 7:45 am I went out to start my car. The driver's side door was frozen shut as was the back door. Thankfully I was able to open the passenger side, got my left leg over the seat to hit the brake pedal so I could push the start button. The heater was put on defrost and I left to go in and make breakfast. At 8:00 am I went back outside and the ice was still so thick on the front window I had to get a scraper and start scraping. I was able to leave at 8:15 am. What a waste of gas and time. I really should have put the car up in the indoor arena before the storm. I stopped at Sam's club to pick up a key lime pie for the Berean volunteers and a rotisserie chicken for us. When I arrived a lot of the volunteers were already there. The parking lot was a sheet of ice and Skip had to shovel the drift in front of the door before people could get inside. We had a visitor today, David, the director of Berean Prison Ministry arrived to spend some time this morning at this office and see what happens. He sat down with Marvin and Marvin was able to explain the problems we have been having getting Bibles and studies into the prisons.
As mom wasn't able to come Sharon worked on mom's job which was stamping the return address on each envelope, Shirley ran the postage machine and Shirl worked on applying labels on the envelopes and putting the envelopes on the studies.
Kathy was our only reader. We had 21 Bible requests today.
At 9:30 am Marvin's alarm goes off so all in the other room gather in this room for the prayer. Today David had the prayer for us.
We were able to finish and get everyone to their car safely even though no melting had happened yet. It was still very cold but was in double digits. We are very thankful for a working furnace, the Berean office was comfortable while we were working, no one complained about being cold.
After leaving I had to stop at Meister's to drop off Bible studies for Amanda's mom to grade. As 116 is closed I had to go to the Bartonville exit then take Kickapoo Creek Rd. I couldn't even drive up to the main drive at Meisters as the county had big boom trucks setting new poles.
It was back to Bartonville to drop off the Bibles at that post office. Then instead of going Smithville road I had to go the road toward Kroger as Smithville road is closed at the bridge. About then noticed my car was getting low on gas so stopped at the Circle K to find gas is now $4.00 a gallon. I'm really glad my car only took 8 gallons. As long as I was near Aldi I stopped there to pick up some fruit, eggs, tuna fish, pickles and lettuce. I had to take Lancaster road home because of the detour making it home by noon. Mark was ready for lunch and a couple pieces of chicken were just heated up in the microwave. Mark took the left over pie over to mom's to find Dan and Susan there visiting with mom along with Rachel and Ruth. Dan and Susan finished loading up all of the wedding decorations. Mark went over to start the floor cleaning. I organized the gym, then the closet. The gym looks empty now that all of those gorgeous wedding decorations are now all gone.
Mark moved all the tables and chairs over so he could scrub the floor of the living area.
My guests sent a message that they had left the foaling apartment so I went there next. They had left it very nice. I just grabbed the laundry to do at my house then made the beds.
Braelyn is coming tonight to finish the cleaning. She will need to sweep and mop the floor, make sure the bathroom and kitchen are cleaned. Rachel bought the Irish meal at Gil's Supper Club and took that to mom's house.
They had the left over key lime pie for their dessert. They all enjoyed the meal. Rhonda and Spark also enjoyed the corned beef meal down in Missouri.
They REALLY dressed up for St. Patrick's Day.
Spark said his was only $1.99 and he couldn't resist it, it even came with feet.
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