Wednesday, August 3, 2016

August 3 – “More to come …”

Water exercise yesterday turned out to be one of the best aerobic workouts we have had in a while.  But then …

We decided to mow the grass.  Not that difficult a task, right?  We went over to Nathan’s and picked up the mower.  Unfortunately the weedeater was already on loan to someone.  Trials and tribulations of living in a lawn service co-op.  He did have his chain saw on a stick, though, so I took that.  No, not to edge the grass.  See, we also decided to finish trimming back that tree that was damaged in the storm the other day.  Now before we got started I decided to run over to WalMart and buy one of those cheap electric weedeaters.  Amazingly, they had exactly zero electric ones to choose from.  Maybe Home Depot, but not today.

Chris took care of the mowing, so that left me to handle the trimming project.  And it turned into a massive undertaking.  As it turned out, numerous other branches were broken in the same twisting manner as the big one that fell to the ground.  Most of them were being held up by other branches they had intertwined with, so it was hard to reach a lot of them, even with the magic junior-sized chain saw.  Once I got well into that tree, it became apparent that I would have to tackle five or six others to do the job properly.  We hewed (always wanted to use that word in an everyday sentence) a huge pile of limbs and dragged them to the street to be hauled away.  But we missed the trash men, of course.  But that’s OK.  They’ll be back.  Next Tuesday.  And Nathan has promised to come help us with the really high branches that we couldn’t reach.  There’s always more to come …

1 Corinthians 2:14 says, “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”


Father, thank you for protecting us when that storm came through.  Amen.

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