Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Bonjour,

Joe left the house at 7:00 this morning to meet Dan Post in town. Dan
had found a couple stores that he wanted to show Joe. One was a meat
market where good beef can be purchased for much less than we pay at the
grocery stores. He showed him another store that sales things that are
just about out of date – they had cheddar cheese! Hooray!!

Gilbert had to check on his frog first thing this morning. Margie came
over for a few minutes this morning. Gilbert was showing her his frog
and accidentally dropped the frog's bucket in the mop water. We dumped
the water out of his bucket, and he is still doing fine.

Danny kept wanting to hold the frog, but we didn't want to end up with
another squished frog. Gilbert wanted to show his frog to Bonnie. I
told him that she didn't want to see it.

I have a cold, sore throat, and cough. I just had the sniffles
yesterday, but it got worse today. Bonnie has been sneezing a lot today.

Gilbert didn't take a nap today. Bonnie and Danny went down at
different times; so, I didn't get one in either.

Joe got home about 15:00. We got the meat all cut up and put in the
freezer.

We all got ready for church and headed that way. A man from the Bassam
church preached this evening. He brought his family, and they sang a
special before the message. The room was full this evening. I took our
kids in the back room to free up our chairs. I didn't hear the final
count, but there were over 45 there tonight.

On the way home, we stopped at the pharmacy to get some medicine for
me. Everyone else is in bed. I'm h