May 21-31
We had filled the balloons just before leaving Sunday evening. So, things went pretty smooth (the gator bumped
off the trailer once and we had to stop to re-tie it down) in getting to
Chelsea. Then we started
waiting for the parade to start, supposedly at 10:00am, but they had a program
prior to the parade and it went on and on.
Initially, we didn’t know of a program so that is why we thought we could make two parades. |
| Waiting for the Parade to Start |
The parade finally started about 40 minutes
later than their schedule, and hour and twenty minutes later than we
thought. We did have a concern with the
float as there were some low hanging wires that we were afraid might drag on
the top of our Memorial replica but we managed to go closer to the side of the
road where the wires were higher. Elder
Osborn drove the gator and Sister Osborn rode shotgun.
The sister missionaries were handing out
candy to the people sitting on the sides of the road. Rhonda walked along side the float playing
Church songs on her accordion and it all turned out pretty neat. I walked along the side of the road with
Elder Mooney making sure we would clear the wires. Other than the gator incident, we did have a little
disappointment. The balloons we filled
with hydrogen last night went down and were hardly able to stay above
ground. At least that way they wouldn’t
float off and the MORMON.ORG which was printed on them would be more
visible. However, the sister missionaries
got too carried away handing out candy and forgot to give out many of the
balloons. By the time we got to the end
of the parade, we had missed the parade it Tunbridge. Too bad as there appeared to be a much larger
crowd in Tunbridge and we had told our members from Tunbridge on Sunday that we
would be in their parade but we missed it.
Sister Egan called as we were loading the float on the trailer and said
that the Tunbridge parade was over. I
guess it all turned out to be a good learning experience for future parades and
events. We hopefully have learned not to
double schedule!
After we got the float loaded,Rhonda and I went to the Apartment and had a little lunch and a brief
rest before taking our full shift back at the Memorial for the afternoon. Things were busy when they got there and kept
us hopping for a while. Because of the
holiday, the sister missionaries came to the Memorial since their day wasn’t going
too good so they helped us fill in for some of the tours. It seemed like we were busy until the very
end. Because of the holiday, we didn’t
have FHE.
Once we were finally home, we were glad to get our own dinner and just
to relax. It seemed like it was a long
day.
TUESDAY When we arrived at the Memorial for our
afternoon shift, we found it had been quite a slow day and it continued the
same way for us.
WEDNESDAY Today started out as a rainy/drizzly
day. There were a couple of women
waiting at the Memorial when we arrived so Rhonda helped them see some
things. One lady wanted to see and the
other wasn’t too interested so it was hard to please both of them. Rhonda
took care of the ladies while I cut George’s hair. Things were
not real busy as is usual in the rain. I
spent some time sanding on a couple of benches that we are trying to get ready
to take down the hill to the foundations area for people who walk to either
reflect or rest on them. THURSDAY There was a bus tour scheduled early this morning but Osborn’s ask Likes to assist since it was our day off. We decided to use our morning doing service and went back to the Memorial and got some rakes and axe and decided to clean the hiking train to Patriarch. We cleaned the leaves off the trail about half way. There were also some fallen trees that I had to cut to clear the path. We worked until about noon and decided the rest of the trail was good enough or at least it would have to wait for another day. We hiked to the top just checking for more fallen trees but the black flies in the grass at the top wouldn’t allow us to do much as they were really biting. At that point we were all too glad to get home and clean up. Shortly after that, we headed to West Lebanon to grocery shop. We really didn’t need much but it was at least an outing. In the evening, Elder Harman came over and showed us the black-fly nets they have for the FM employees. Rhonda took measurements and I suspect she will be trying to make some in the near future. By night time, I could feel the effects of a few hours work. My muscles aren’t used to being used quite so much!
FRIDAY After taking my morning walk, I decided to do a little washing on the car. Birds have spotted us and as the heavy rains glances off the sand/gravel in the parking lots, it splatters all along the bottom of the car. Rhonda spent most of her morning cleaning the apartment, etc. When we reported for the afternoon shift, it was threatening rain and things were pretty slow at the Memorial. The Sister missionaries came to do tours but we dismissed them as they were needing to go relief society visiting with Sister Cunningham. Elder and Sister Pettingill from the Mission office brought their son and his family just before closing so we had a good visit with them. Not many more visitors to report.
SATURDAY We had the early shift today and started off busy and stayed busy all shift. The Montpelier Stake had Father and Sons outing at Camp Joseph so there were quite a few of them that kept things stringing along all day. I think some of them came just to go to the theater so they could sleep. The Methuen missionaries brought a couple of investigators and I was almost embarrassed to show them a movie in the theater as it smelled so much like campfires. It was a cool day but we juggled patrons by taking the missionaries in the golf cart down to the foundations before they got a chance to get in the theater. Once home, we spent the afternoon scurrying to tiddy the apartment and cook dinner for the Sister missionaries in the early evening.
I am always so impressed with the beauty that surrounds this site.
Everything turned green so fast after the snow left.
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