June 16, 2007--Funeral

Today was the funeral. As we were getting ready to leave this morning, the phone rang. It was the lady from the 4-H extension office telling us we had baby chicks there! I had totally forgotten what with the funeral and all that we were supposed to have picked up the chicks yesterday. We got ten fluffy yellow chicks that will be fast growers for meat use. They are supposed to be ready to butcher out in about six weeks. This is for the broiler exhibit for Jay's poultry project. I'm not sure where we're going to put them, but for now they will start out on the dryer like the last bunch of chicks. Anyway, I explained that I had forgotten because my husband's great-grandmother had died, and we went to the funeral. It was a nice funeral. No one was mad at Erick for not doing the funeral, but his grandmother did ask him to share some memories of Grandma with the group, and so he prepared that and did a super job! I was so proud of him. His delivery has smoothed out so much since the last time I heard him speak in public. (The last time he preached I didn't hear him because he preached to the youth and I went to Bible Study with the adults.) He only made one little error--he mentioned WWII when I know he meant to say WWI, but that's okay. I also at the time thought he got his great-grandmother's children mixed up, but I was wrong. Silly me--thinking I knew who is who in that family of his! She had three children, 9 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great grandchildren, and I think almost all of them were there. It was a really sweet funeral. The funeral dinner was a bit crowded, and I think about fifty percent of my kids spilled something, but overall it was still nice. Erick went to get the chicks after we got home from it all. I'm not sure if I'm giong to even bother making supper. We ate such a late and big lunch. I may just serve leftover coffee cake from breakfast and maybe make some popcorn. Erick and Jay won't be here--they went to a Royal Ranger campout and will be doing the Pinewood Derby tomorrow. What a full day for Erick! Whew!