Lovely ending following a hard beginning.........

Whew!!! I made it! I've had a run-around getting into my blog tonight. I guess it's been too long since I wrote last and I don't remember very well.

I think I left you last week with us donating blood and getting stung.......I'm surprised that it "took so much out of me". I was kind of dragging for a couple of days. I was going to make a post, but just didn't feel like it. We were going to go to the temple Tuesday night, but we were both too tired. Roger has a sinus infection that is really pulling him down. We will get some medication tomorrow--thankfully. He had some home teaching visits lined up for Wednesday evening. We met his companion at the church and I sat in the car while they went inside the homes. They didn't want to leave me alone at the church. I think I had a nap. The Book of Mormon "class" is Wednesday nights and I thought we were going to that, but after the home teaching Roger wanted to come home. Yeah. Tired again. Thursday was a normal day at the office--phone calls, cars to run here and there, gas logs to reconcile, driving papers for incoming missionaries to get ready for the next transfer--when they arrive. And somewhere during one of those days we received our shipment of SIXTY boxes of Book of Mormons!!! RAH!!!! I do not plan on running out ever again!!!! I had thought 30 looked like a lot. And I'm going to order more tomorrow. Pres. Hanks wants us to have lots of materials on hand before the end of the year so he can make sure the new president coming in July will have plenty of budget left for the second half of the year. (I hope that made sense.) Also, I had to order the bedding for the missionaries coming next month. I'm learning I can thinking and plan ahead.......good to know!

On Friday we went north.........some Elders in Madison needed a tiwi put in their car. Also some in Huntsville. We were kind of late getting away, and then things took a little longer than we planned, so we were later getting home than we wanted to be, because we were going north again the next day for our "senior outing". We thought about staying in Huntsville over night, but I was glad to sleep here and not have to pack things and haul them around.......I'm lazy like that.

Yesterday was really fun........we got to walk through the native deciduous forest and have someone with us who could tell us which plant/tree was what. And it was a lovely day!!! Here are some pictures. We went to Haleyville........lovely place........and lovely drive to get there...........

The year is growing old graciously here in Alabama...........I love fall..............

Some of the missionaries--Elder and Sister Robinson--came last week; Sister Jones (white sweat shirt) Elder Millyard (baseball cap), Elder Jones (facing me with glasses)

Tulip poplar leaf on a "baby" tree

 

Castor bean--and the pods below.........interesting......(castor oil comes from the seeds)

 

Our path through the woods.......her privately owned woods..........how lucky some people are!!

I don't know what these little things are.........they felt like dry wood........Carla was busy talking with someone else and a ways down the trail, so I didn't ask her. They seeped or grew out of this sawed off limb and looked like they had growth rings..........

Then we ate at this "restaurant".......run by an Amish family.....the food was totally delicious!! We had to drive down a little lane that turned to a gravel road beside a lumber yard into the gravel parking lot. Before we got there we were beginning to wonder if the GPS was guiding us right. The pot roast was to die for.......