June 7, 2008--More flooding

We have had so much rain lately. I don't know if our poor tomatoes are going to make it. They were looking rather sickly yesterday when we looked at them our garden was flooded with water Wednesday. Some of them were starting to pull out of it, but, then we got eight more inches of rain last night. I haven't been outside yet to see how they look. There is more gravel from the road down in our yard.

Years ago there used to be a creek that cut down through our backyard. They filled it in and redirected it, but it looks like it's trying to cut a new creek there. Many of our roads are covered with water, and all of the county roads are closed. It's a good thing we don't have anywhere we need to go today, because we couldn't go anywhere anyway.

Jay is at a camp for Royal Rangers. I hope they are having fun in all the rain.

I'm glad that VBS is over, anyway. After the rain Wednesday the basement flooded, and we had to move our craft room to the nursery for Thursday and Friday. Last night when it started to rain again, water was coming into the basement again.

Except for the flooding problems we had, VBS went really well. We combined ours with the Baptist church in town, since we're so far out. I am really impressed with how well the denominations work together in this town. At one point during the week when I was praying with some kids at the altar, I thought how unusual it is for an Assemblies of God pastor's wife to be praying for the daughter of the pastor of the Community church at the altar of the Baptist church. In many places that scenario just wouldn't happen. It was such a blessing to be able to do that. Several children were saved this week, and it was so wonderful to be a part of it.

Erick was the leader for the 5th and 6th grade class, and I helped in the craft room. We did nametags the first day, a journal the second day, sand art the third day, nature prints the fourth day, and photo frames the last day. The journal was the hardest craft of all, because they had to lace up the spine with these cords and many of the kids just didn't get it. The youngest class especially had difficulties with it. We ended up sending the unfinished craft home with them in bags, because twenty minutes just wasn't long enough to finish it.

Our craft room was called "Wacky Crafts." All the helpers wore lab coats, but the other lady in crafts and I decided to look the part and dress wacky. I had a different wacky look each day. I even tried to dye my hair orange with Kool-Aid, but it didn't show up so I must have done something wrong. We had a fun time with it. The kids kept pointing out that my socks didn't match. They thought I was kind of strange, but it was fun.