Golden Rod has made its presence felt

I guess that the Summer is on its way out because I saw Golden Rod in full bloom.  In Pennsylvania, as soon as the Golden Rod made its presence known, there were not many weeks left of Summer and warm weather.  Of course that means shorter days here in Maine for sure.  Other states have shorter days as well as Maine, but because we are so far north, it seems that the days quickly get short here.  When we arrived in the mission last October, the mission home staff warned us that it would be dark soon and they were right.  We arrived at our apartment about 6pm and by 7pm it was pitch black and we had to find our way to Walmart after our helpers left, so that we could buy a blanket to keep warm.  We had to buy other things as well, but since we did not know where the supermarket was, we had to rely on Walmart to supply our needs until we got ourselves grounded in where things were here in Augusta.

Sunday was a blur because it came and went so fast.  I went walking on Riverside Drive and walked out to Stevens Drive and back.  It was cool and very pleasant to walk early in the morning.  Church was packed because the Guerette family had two babies to be blessed and since Grandpa had his heart attack, he does not travel much any more, so they came from all over for the 4^th July holiday and stayed through Sunday for the blessings of the babies.  I saw the family later under one of the trees taking family photo’s.  In the afternoon, Bill went with Bishop Dawson to visit some families.  One of them is Pixie Day and she raises goats.  These are a special breed and she has sent a few to Russia and she has been over there to teach the people about raising these special breed of goats.

Today is Monday and we went in early and we worked our tails off to get two folders done and that amounts to around 3,400 images.  This was quite a challenge that we have undertaken to do but now we are over half way through the 3x5 card catalog.  We found the work order for Washington County and so we will begin work on that as soon as we have the cards done.  There are 300 boxes of folders for Washington county so we had better get a move on if we want to get it done before we leave in 10 weeks.

We went to Line Dance Class tonight.  They are gaining members every week and the leaders are very happy to have such attendance.  We are getting pretty good at doing the dances but there are some of them that defy learning no matter how hard I try.

A sad note for today is from Mary.  Puffalump and Tilly cannot go to the humane society because they have too many cats, kittens and dogs and no room for these two.  Solo and Trixie may have to be put down because no one wants to adopt both of them together.  If I could, I would take Puffalump in a heart beat but we cannot have animals here and I cannot take him home with me.  He is so pretty and is a sweet little cat.  What a shame to have to put him down after all the effort that has been put into him and the other three.