June 18 – “Recharged …”

We had lots and lots of rain to start off the day.  It was great for Chris’ plants, and especially for the yard.  It immediately greened up and perked up.  Of course that can only mean one thing … mow time.  Soon.  Very soon.  I’ll get to it.

Christina was supposed to take Noa and Josiah to Schlitterbahn bright and early.  They won some kind of contest through the summer reading program at the library.  We were going to keep Ezra.  Postponed.

We had a problem with the minivan we borrowed for when Josh and his crew were here.  Let me hasten to say that it served us perfectly when they were here.  In fact we couldn’t have done anything without it.  But Sunday we were going to drive it to church in case the Eggler’s were back in town and needed it.  And it wouldn’t start.  Deader than a doornail.  I texted Nathan to see if he had a car charger.  He said he would be by later in the evening.  We decided that things would go an awful lot quicker if we would just push it into the street and jump it.  Nathan used his mighty Thor muscles to shove it all the way into the Geran’s driveway while I steered.  One connected to his truck’s battery it started right up.  I checked around and saw that one of the reading lights in the back of the car had been left on, probably by one of the kiddos.  We let it run for a while to recharge.  I’ll check it again today.  We’ll see …

Oh and when Nathan came by he brought Cailyn – always a treat, of course.  But they also brought me a Fathers’ Day gift.  I’m not sure what it’s called - maybe fish batterer?  It’s two plastic bowls snapped together top to top with a tray filled with holes in between.  The idea is to fill one bowl with batter, drop all your fish in there, shake it up real good, and then turn the contraption upside down.  All the excess batter falls through the hole, and you have a batch of fish ready to fry.  Very cool.  Can’t wait to try it out.  All I need now is a batch of fish.  And they also included a boxed set of the old Flash TV show.  Never got to watch all of those episodes.  Can’t wait to get started on those, either. 

Philippians 3:20 says, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Father, thank you for fish batterers and loaned cars and battery chargers.  But thank you more for the people and the thought behind them all.  Amen.