Wednesday, 8/20/25, Cool day, but sunny, went to Melissa’s and fed the guinea pigs and watered plants, trimmed lilac bushes, and ground cover that grew up over our deck, went to Menards, ate frozen watermelon

Kim, Shannon, me and Vicki R. working on the pot pies for frozen meal prep for church freezers yesterday

Laurie Vicki, Connie, Jessica and Lisa cooking....me and others were behind them chopping up ingredients for them to brown and preparing other parts of the meal.  It sure was fun all working together at church.

People really like the recipes we have been preparing.  Such a great idea to have the ingredients listed and also the instructions for preparing it at home when they get them.  

I made this big sheet cake for Bill today.  He ate two and said it was really good.  I ate one and then checked the cocoa container because I tasted cinnamon in the cake and frosting.  Ha ha, I had used cinnamon.  It was from the amish and was in a container like my cocoa.  I don’t remember buying cinnamon in that kind of container.  I have a tall container of cinnamon on the next shelf up.  Glad Bill likes it.  It tastes good, just not like the chocolate sheet cake I expected. 

Bill moved our small shed to his deck on the big shed.  Then he parked his trailer where it was.  I couldn’t believe when I looked out and saw he had moved and was taking the dolly out from under one side.  He’s pretty amazing. 

The shed he moved is in this picture but doesn’t really show how big it is.  

We ate nachos tonight and drank out of Kimmy and Jared’s mug and tumbler.  They make coffee and water taste even better.  Hailey was just saying that she loves drinking water at our house because she always uses one of their tumblers and it makes the water taste so good.  Guess we are all great fans of theirs!

We got up at 8:30 today.  I did some things around the house, then read my Bible and Bill read his Bible.  He went outside and I put worship on and then boiled some eggs for egg salad and also made a sheet cake.  Bill loves  sheet cake (his sister Carol’s recipe) so I wanted to surprise him and have it ready when he came in.  I looked out and saw that he had moved our shed back to where it used to be on his shed deck.  He had his new trailer parked where the shed had been.  He is such a hard worker.  He had told me he wanted to do that, but I told him to wait until the boys came.  He said he might ha ha!  I should have known he wouldn’t have patience to wait.  

He came in and was really excited to see the sheet cake on the cupboard.  He ate a piece and said it was really good.  Then he took another piece and ate it.  I sat down and ate a piece after I had the kitchen cleaned up.  I tasted cinnamon, but not real strong.  I decided to look at the cocoa container label and that’w when I found out it was cinnamon.  Bill still ate more later so I guess it is going to disappear.  I limited myself to one piece today.

I went to Melissa’s and fed the guinea pigs and filled their water bottle up.  Then I watered her inside plant and the hanging baskets outside.  When I got to my road, Melissa called me and asked me to pray for Badger.  He wasn’t eating anything and wasn’t his perky self.  Of course I prayed with her right then.  We all love Badger.  All prayer is appreciated for him.  

She did let me know he ate some watermelon and some cucumber.  He loves veggies and even though he only ate 4 pieces of the watermelon and 1 cucumber it’s at least something.  Bruce cooked burger and rice, but he didn’t eat that.  

I talked to Kimmy and Bill and I are going to pick her up tomorrow after his doctor appt.  Then we are all going to the Auction in Clare.  Kimmy and Jared go every year, but Jared has to work tomorrow.  We are looking forward to it.  Eli’s workshop is coming along nicely.  He’s getting more things for it.  They went through a tool box he got after my dad passed away.  It had a hammer in it with the initials G.G.  It must have been my dad’s dad who originally owned the hammer because those are his initials.  Pretty cool!

I brought a watermelon in today to cut up.  It felt really heavy and I figured it was frozen.  It was in the refrigerator in the garage.  I’m thinking when Bill put it on the top shelf, it rolled and bumped the temperature control to coldest.  Nothing else was frozen.  Only bottled water in there and some pop and protein drinks.  Bill cut it up tonight and we enjoyed a bowl of it.  It was like eating a watermelon popsicle.  I had to eat small bites because it was so cold on my teeth.  It tasted yummy though.