June 18

Today was one of work… in the rain. We started by riding the quads up the switchbacks behind the Smids’s ranch to scout out rocks that could be used in a fire ring. The fire ring was to be built at the “creek house” (long story… essentially, an extra house on the Smids’s property) down next to French Creek. After looking for about 2 hours we broke for lunch, then headed back out with the tractor to pick up all the rocks we had found. Most of them were about the size of breadbox and weighed about 120 pounds, which is what made the work hard. To cap that all off, the place for the ring was in a patch of sand. It’s already been established that it was raining, so the sand was wet. Let’s just say big heavy rocks, wet, sand, rain, and a not-very-well-thought-out-fire-ring-plan lead to a long, tedious and painful day. However, in the end we got the rocks arranged in a very nice looking manner. It really reminded me of Stonehenge… and the druids. No one knows who they were… or what they were doin. But their legacy lives on… hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge! Bit much? Ok… well that was the main accomplishment today. After that was done, and I had doctored all my scrapes and bruises, Linda and I drove back into town for music practice. I found out that I’ll be doing the offertory song, and I think I’m going to play “Inside Out”. Pray that it glorifies God. Pray for recuperation, and for good painting in the coming week. Thanks so much!