Playing charades July 14. It’s been quite a day, and another very hot and muggy one. After putting laundry in to wash this morning, I got down to business cleaning and reorganizing our bedroom. Daddy helped me sweep the floor and move the bed the opposite direction, giving us more room on the south wall so we could stack boxes that we were packing or had already packed. That way some things could be moved out of the dining room into the bedroom to make room in the dining room for some things in the living room that take up a lot of space and don’t necessarily need to be there. Since we are planning on company tomorrow evening, we will need extra space in the living room for chairs. Took a short sit-down/snack break after doing that work in the bedroom. Then, around 10:30, Daddy and I headed off to town. We wanted to look at luggage and a few other things at Kmart while they are having their big blowout sale. We chose a couple nice pieces of luggage; but after we got home, Daddy double-checked on the web about the size limits for our plane travel, measured the suitcases, and found them too large. So guess we’ll have to take them back and get something a little smaller. At WalMart, we got some nectarines to add to tomorrow night’s fruit salad, cookies, paper plates, mark-down bread, and mark-down brownies. Last stop was the discount food mart where we got chicken for tomorrow night also. It was already 12:30 when we got home. No time to cook Daddy a dinner so he had his lunch at noon, and I cooked him some spinach and a hamburger this evening. This afternoon, I did a little more organizing in the dining room and bedroom until Christy got up from her nap. Then I worked on cleaning, reorganizing, and moving stuff out of the living room and getting it set up for company tomorrow. By then it was time to get Daddy’s supper, and then my supper. “And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” Revelation 21:6 When Christ died on the cross, He cried “It is finished.” The work of salvation was done. When the judgment of the world is complete and former things are passed away and all things are become new, again we will hear the cry “It is done.” And praise God, all who are thirsty may drink freely of the water of life, now and forever! July 15. Another very busy day – cleaning, cooking, and enjoying company. Today we worked mostly in the kitchen — swept and mopped the floor, rearranged cupboards so there was more space to put some things out of sight, made fruit salad. Connie cleaned her and Christy’s bathroom and swept the living room. Christy did their laundry. After lunch, I prepared the dough for dinner rolls before having nap. After nap, I greased some muffin tins, kneaded the dough a bit more, cut it into 24 pieces, and put it into the muffin tins to rise. In the meantime, I set out paper plates, bowls, and napkins; scrounged through the china cabinet drawer until I found enough plasticware; cut the brownies in half and set them on the table; set out a plate of cookies. Christy started washing dishes, and then the storm came, fast and furious — a driving rain with lightning and thunder. After the storm had been going a while, Daddy looked out the bedroom window and saw that he had never gone out and shut the car windows. They were both wide open. Oops! Too late now. Can’t go out when it’s storming like this. By the time he was able to go out, the front seats were both sopping wet. He took out a couple dry towels to put on the seats to sop up the water. They probably won’t be dry before church tomorrow, however. When Connie’s brownies were done baking, I put the rolls into the oven to bake. And when the storm had died down, Daddy went down to the store to get a couple disposable baking pans to cook the chicken in and some ice to put in the cooler so we could put bottled water in there to get cold. As soon as the rolls were done, I got a pan of plain chicken ready to go into the oven. Then I worked at getting the rolls out of the muffin tins, and I set them out to cool. Had a drink and snack and a short sit-down time before wrapping some of the rolls in towels on a plate, ready to be served. About 4:45, I put the barbecue chicken in the oven to get hot. It was precooked. Then about 5:00, the Rices arrived — Kevin and Dawn and five of the children. Since the chicken wasn’t done, we sat and talked for a while and played Apples to Apples. At 6:00, I checked the chicken, and it still wasn’t done. I turned the oven up, but at 6:30, the plain chicken still wasn’t done, and the barbecue chicken was barely hot. The oven didn’t even seem to be that hot so we are wondering if the big crack we heard after one of the lightning flashes had something to do with the oven. We went ahead and transferred the chicken to frying pans and put it on the stove top to finish cooking. Then we started eating the other foods. Dawn had brought pasta salad and mashed potatoes. Then there were rolls, fruit salad with whipped cream, brownies and cookies, black cherry/grape juice and cranberry/pomegranate juice. It didn’t take long for the barbecue chicken to get hot on top of the stove, and almost everyone had some of that. When the plain chicken was done, Christy had a piece of that. After we ate, we finished the Apples to Apples game with Zachariah as the winner. After that, we just talked for a while; and before they left, we played a game of charades. It was exciting to hear that Summer had been saved last week when she went with a friend to revival meetings in Salisbury. She is to be baptized tomorrow. We really enjoyed the evening together. In Revelation chapters 2 and 3, we saw twelve rewards given to those believers who overcome. Here in chapter 21 verse 7, we find three others. “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”
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