God's Blessings

I don't often take the time to type out my blessings. I think them, I speak them, just don't write them, but today I feel a need to do so.

We got fruit trees Monday, including an extra 90 for another nursery. This nursery is being evicted, so have no where to house their trees, so we were going to have to pot them. Yet another nursery that does wholesale business with us called yesterday and wanted 46 of them. Yes!!!!! One blessing and 46 less trees to pot.

The weather has warmed up wonderfully for this job. We've been in short sleeves all day.

This morning Stacie was called and asked if she would take a greeter's position for a month or so while the greeter is out on maturity leave. This means Stacie will work Sat-Tues and be off Wed.-Friday each week. Even though the greeter job pays .50 less an hour, Stacie will continue to get her regular hourly wages. It also means she will be off an extra day at Christmas, so she can go with us to the coast to visit Mother.

We had ordered pots for our fruit trees. When the order came in instead of 5 bundles of 7 gallon pots, we had 3 bundles of 7 gallon pots and 2 bundles of 5 gallon pots and no time to get them exchanged. The truck only runs once a week and it is too far to just take off and drive; even though it's only a 2 hour drive one way, we needed to be potting.

Well, with the nursery buying 46 trees, and us cleaning up the ground cover area and having some dumping to do, we had enough pots for the fruit trees with 10 to spare. Oh and we also had to put the 20 pears in 10 gallon pots. They were supposed to be 3'-4' trees and they are 5'-6' trees. That saved another 20 pots but they sure were hard to handle.

Our Sunday School party is tomorrow night and Stacie has to work until 8. I called the mother of a friend of Ana's and asked if both girls could stay with her a few hours and Stacie come by and pick them up. She said yes, that would be fine. Now I don't have to take the girls to the party with me, which will be all adults.

We have all the fruit trees potted and only have 75 more flowering trees to plant. They will go into 3 gallon size pots, which are much easier to handle than the 7 gallon pots.

God is so wonderfully good to us and I just wanted to thank Him for His many blessings.