This Good Friday started off like every regular Friday with the arrival of both g-daughters as their mom's both had to work to make up one of the snow days at school today.
RL couldn't understand why she wasn't going to school because her per-school was closed and IR didn't want to take a morning nap for fear she would miss something RL did.
I got chores done a little late and then had breakfast while RL had a second helping of oatmeal from my bowl .
There was 3/10ths inch of rain in the gauge from last nights rain showers that arrived late.
I started baking cakes to hopefully get them all done before the furniture delivery at #2 son's house.
I baked 3 caramel, 3 chocolate, 1 coconut and 1 pound cake . 'Son-in-love who is off today came to pick up IR after running some errands this morning.
And just as I took the last cakes out of the ovens #2 son called and said the delivery would be between 11:30 and noon. It was 11:15 so hubbie, RL and I loaded up and headed across town to son's house.
When we arrived at 11:50 the delivery truck was already there and the Hispanic driver pointed at his watch and said 11:30 as hubbie walked up to the truck. It appeared he could not speak any English or understand anything we said so hubbie just unlocked the door and waited for them to carry the couch and love seat inside. The other Hispanic couldn't speak or understand English either ?????? They acted very agitated because we were late but got things done.
This was from Ashley Furniture a big dealer in our area and it is hard to believe they can send non English speaking workers out to do these deliveries because sometimes I would imagine there would need to be some communication.
RL had went to sleep on the ride up the mountain but she woke up as we were leaving so we stopped in town and had lunch . She devoured a cheese burger and some fries and even had a chicken nugget.
That ear infection medicine is surely making her feel much better quickly.
We came home and then on this beautiful day we headed outside for the afternoon. Still hungry RL had a pear and then played with Rocky.
There is so many of the petals from these Pear blossom on the ground she kept saying it had snowed here. There are plenty blossom still on the tree, it looks like a bumper year of pears on this old Kiefer Pear tree.
After d-in-love picked RL up I sat on the front porch and thought how soon it would be that this view will be covered up with green leaves from all these still naked trees.
We have been communicating with #2 son and Tif all day and they have had a very interesting day. Tif's mail jeep quit running and she took the day off with #2 son to go buy a new one. This is the last year jeep is going to make the right hand driving jeeps for mail drivers and they are very hard to find.
Couple that with the fact that now Jeep is the only manufacturer that even makes the right hand drive vehicles and you have a shortage of the mail vehicles.
Tif had researched all around the area for one and had found one at a dealership in Virginia. She called them before they left for the 3 hour trip up there and they said they still had the jeep she wanted so they took off.
When son called me at 11:15 to tell me about the furniture delivery he said they were turning around because that dealership had just called Tif to say they had just sold that jeep ?????
She called a dealer in Alabama that also had one and they agreed to meet them 1/2 way between in Atlanta, Ga. to do the deal.
So they finally met up with that dealer at about 7:30 tonight. They and the dealer had trouble in heavy traffic that slowed them down.
She traded her 4-runner in for the jeep and will drive it as a regular vehicle .
They will get home about midnight if they don't hit a lot of traffic so I pray for traveling mercies for them.
We did chores then I iced cakes and got things ready for market tonight to finish up this very sad day in the life of all Christians as our Dear Savior Jesus Christ was brutally crucified on a cross.
Humbly thankful !!!!!
God Bless and Good Night.
