August 2. Sleep didn’t come for a long time last night—eye pain, feeling cold, flying ants falling on my face all played their part in delaying sleep. Consequently, I didn’t get up until around 7:00 this morning. But there was nothing pressing to do, for which I was thankful. More rain and cool, cloudy weather today. Daddy kept the fire burning in the wood stove for which I was thankful. It kept the house a bit warmer for bath this evening. While I was busy getting my morning vitamin drinks and breakfast, Daddy was busy sweeping up the rest of the flying ants off the floor. (We had swept up several huge piles of them before bed last night.) Then he and I finished checking Hebrews 13. Praise the Lord for helping us to complete another book. I set the little duster to soak in some soapy bleach water. Then spent about a half hour outdoors. There was some filtered sunshine, and it was much warmer outside than in the house. Fixed spaghetti for Daddy’s dinner, and I had soup. We are thankful for Mike’s coming around noon and cutting firewood. Our supply was getting pretty low as we are using quite a bit on these cool, damp days. Dallas had gone off somewhere earlier this morning and hadn’t come back yet when Mike headed up here. So Mike did the work by himself. I rinsed out the duster and hung it up to dry. Then put the dustpan brush in the same water to soak. Worked on notes for the coming quarterly newsletter, also to be used for telling my school students of our adventures. Filled the washing machine, one small bucket at a time, so it is ready for Sunny to wash clothes in the morning. This evening, I spent more time on the notes for the quarterly newsletter. Then made the corrections from today’s work in Hebrews and wrote in my journal. Practiced keyboard. Daddy installed the printer into his computer, and I was able to print out James so Daddy and I can start checking it. August 3. What a rainy, rainy day! Dirt must have washed down into the cistern at the spring because our water supply has been dirty today. We were up early this morning for lotu, but it was 8:00 before lotu even started. Amos took charge of lotu. After lotu, several of the men helped Daddy switch the new generator to the place of the old one since the new one seems to be working fine now. Then Daddy turned on the generator, and Sunny washed the clothes. It was misting when she hung them out, but we figured it would stop and there would be some dry periods to start drying the clothes. Well, we figured wrong. There were a couple times when the rain stopped, but the clouds and fog hung around all day and so did the rain. We brought our bedsheet in before dinner and hung it over the wood stove. It wasn’t dry in time for nap, but we just pulled the top sheet up to cover the bed. By the time we finished nap, the fitted sheet was dry. Late in the afternoon, we brought the wet clothes in. Then this evening, after the generator was turned on, we extracted all the clothes again and then hung them up in the house. While Sunny was washing clothes, Daddy met with the men to talk about Independence holiday meetings, and I worked on notes for Monday’s Bible class, trying to make sure everything is in order. There were lots of little things in the wash since Monday was the last time we did laundry, and there were a few things left here too. One pile of clothes didn’t get washed today, but all the little things did so it took Sunny quite a while to hang everything out. It was close to dinner time when Sunny left, and I needed to fix a veggie for dinner so peeled and cut up the other two packs of carrots. Warmed up some spaghetti for Daddy and some soup for myself. After nap, I had just started to put the clean sheet on the bed when there was a knock on the door. Daddy was busy so I went to the door. There was Silvia with her two youngest boys, Bethel and Manaen. It was so good to see her. She said she had come when we were napping, but went down to Amos’s house until we got up. She and I sat down in the meeting room and talked for quite a while. She said that she and David have not forgotten the things we taught them and are holding fast to their faith. After Silvia left, I cut up a popo for snack, and then we ate some with raisins and cream. Then, rain or no rain, I put on my hooded jacket and went out to get the wet clothes down. I was thankful I did; for I had no sooner gotten the clothes basket under the porch steps roof when the rain increased in fury upon an already wet world. Daddy had gone down to fill up the generator and brought the basket of clothes inside when he came back up. We left the clothes in the laundry room to be extracted in the evening. Finally got the bed made. Then Daddy and I started checking James chapter 1. Finished a little over half of it before someone else came to the door. Then we did a couple more verses before it was time to get supper on the table. It didn’t take long after supper to do up the few dishes that were on the sink side. I had just finished when Daddy started the generator. So I got right down to business extracting the clothes. Then Daddy and I hung them up in the schoolroom, and a few in the bathroom. After writing in my journal, I had a little snack and then practiced keyboard for a while.
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