Cooler Nights and Life Changes

Hello,

Last night Leroy and I carted, shoved, pulled, and let gravity help get the mattress off the spare bed and downstairs. Why that mattress? It is by far the lighter of the two in the house. It was still awkward to handle. If it just had handles in the right places it would have been almost easy.

We did sleep better, but then I could not face the day with the mattress in the living room even thought I was gone most of the morning. We worked against gravity pulling, shoving, resting, and making slow progress before it was back in the proper place. That seemed to be our aerobic exercise for the day as it was hot and muggy at 5:45 while walking in the park. There were some runners out there, but it was not us.

We thought maybe tonight we might use the couch mattress again with our camping pads on it as that would be much easier to set up. It is supposed to cool down a bit by Sunday so maybe we can pull in some outside air at night.

On Sunday the church council decided not to renew Leroy’s contract so we will be leaving at the end of August. This is both unexpected and expected as we know they are getting closer to selecting a new pastor. We had begun to think we would be here until October. Now we have to turn our face in a new direction. Again we do not know where that will be, but you must not worry about us as it always turns out for the best, thank God. Leroy even went and bought a laptop computer so we will be wired while not living here. He has been wanting one and I said, “Yes, it would be nice to have our own computer ready to go with no waiting to get connected to the world.” Leroy did not hesitate even a day. He thinks I will not want to use this four year old computer anymore, but he is still going to move the old. We have decided to get rid of our stereo that plays LP’s, cassettes, and CD’s. I have not played a cassette since we have been here and only a few LP’s and CD’s. Leroy complains every time he has to pack and unpack all of that stuff. Apparently the wires drive him a little crazy. The load would be lighter, but for the fact that we bought three bookcases since we have been here.

Paula