WEEK 13: Fall is in the air!

October 1 – 7, 2018

What a great weekend we are having and we didn’t even go exploring this time!  We are looking forward to General Conference. Sister Foy and I went with our ministering sisters to the city of March to tour the Parish of March St. Wendreda—the Church of 120 angels.  This church was dedicated to a woman who lived at March in the 7th century.  The famous angel roof has 120 carved angels depicting martyrs and saints with emblems while the lowest tier is of angels holding musical instruments, which is actually a bit creepy.  One expert said, “the roof is so very fine that it is, in our opinion, very much more than a roof, it is a great national possession.  It truly is one of the finest church roofs in England, perhaps the very finest!” After our exploring the church, our ministering sisters provided a delicious snack of egg custard tarts with nutmeg, grapes, and savory flapjack.  Fun treats for us to experience!

Back at the farm, Sister Foy and I spent mornings working in the office, indexing land purchasing records.  It is a tedious task involving a lot of reading and deciphering what in the world we are looking at!  Sister Foy enjoys office work,but even for her it becomes a mind-numbing experience after a few hours. I told her that this was my definition of what Hell would be like, so I found other things that needed to be done!  I made some large number templates, to use in painting reference point grids in the grain storage barns.  Then I cleaned an oven for a rental and continued painting the weight bridge over at Hungary Hall as the men finished up the gable end siding.  These jobs were preferable to reading those pages!!!!

The men were very productive this week, getting many small jobs completed.  They mowed at Salmons Farm, Salmons Shed, Grunty Fen and White Cross and while at Salmons Farm, replaced the door on the electric substation and repaired the rain gutter on a grain storage barn.  They were able to complete and install three of the six sign boards requested for the farm entrances.  An oven was replaced in Grange Cottage #2.  This involved cutting the cooktop out along with the built-in oven and installing a stand-alone range.  The garage door locks we couldn’t find keys for were replaced.  A storage shed for one of the tenants at Moat was re-roofed after the wind tore the original one.  While there, they did a burn and helped a tenant with all the large moving boxes the recycle facility wouldn’t take.  When they installed the farm sign at Hamerton,they also completed the high up painting we girls didn’t want to do on the farmhouse.  At Nook farm, a panel had come loose on the middle barn and was bent damaged.  They were able to fix and reattach it.  Then at the weight bridge at Hungary Hall, they put the finishing touches on the gable ends of the roof, caulked the door and windows, painted some of the eves, and cleaned up the interior dry wall that had been damaged by the water leaks.  It’s a significantly better building even though we haven’t finished the painting!  

Oh, we had he young elders over again this week for dinner and I finally remembered to take pictures.  Elder Henrie is from Canada and Elder Stock is from Cache Valley, UT. Great Elders! We love having them over!