Life is full of surprises

Hello,

On the way home from church we walked through the college campus. School may be winding down, but the geese flock is growing. Leroy took several pictures with his camera, but I did not find them in my email, so who knows where they went. You will just have to imagine this large group of geese. I counted two gathering of adolescent geese: one of 19 and one of 34. It was quite nice to be amid so many thriving bodies even with the poop on the sidewalk. Why don’t they just use the grass?

Later in the day I called a friend, who had offered rhubarb, to learn if there was any available. After telling her we would come later, Leroy thought it a good time to walk over. There we learned that she was collecting furniture for her foster care child who was moving on as well as for refugees. Leroy asked about one of our five rocking chairs. She thought that would be a great addition to her supply that was being picked up tomorrow. She and Leroy took the seats out of her van and we all drove to our house. While there she noticed all our rocking chairs and I mentioned that we had given our couch away before we moved here. She then offered a loveseat that was in her garage. I did not feel we should take it because it was meant for refugees, but she insisted it was for whoever might like it. So we traded a chair for a loveseat.

The rocking chair fit easily in the van, another seat was taken out of the van and the couch put in. It had spent some time in a basement so we left it on the back porch to air out. Leroy vacuumed it this morning, brought up the two cushions which we treated. I do not notice the smell, as I had when I sat on it last night. Our neighbor helped move, push, jam it through the door to the porch.

We would like a little sun so we could air it out more. Our landlord has offered a little wheeled cart so we could move it out into the sun if it ever shines. Leroy is home this afternoon so maybe he could do that even without me. So far it has not rained since we have been up.

Who knew that we would bring home rhubarb and a loveseat?

Paula