A Wonderful Day

I was right about yesterday being a wonderful day. Everything went off as planned. I made my dessert, we went to church, then our daughter asked us out to lunch with her and our grandson, Jeromy. We ate a light lunch and then came home where I did my notes for church and sent out the excess bulletins to those who did not attend.

Following that, we picked up Karan and Bobby and went to the reunion grounds. It was worse then I had imagined. The only real work that has been done there is cleanup. Greg is still negotiating with the insurance company about the way to rebuild. They are wanting to put everything back just the way it was and he is wanting it all done correctly. He is a lawyer and has represented insurance companies in his corporate past so he knows exactly what he can expect from them and is very intelligent, intelligent enough to know how to get them to do it the way he wants.

For example, when they wanted to build the cabins back the way they were...on concrete blocks instead of stem walls and slabs, he asked them if they intended to use lead based paint and asbestos too. Of course, they said "no" so he said we want it rebuilt with current technology and materials then too.

They wanted to chip and bury all the tree debris since there is no code out there in the country against doing that and that would be the cheap way to handle it. He said, "No way! If it costs you $425,000 to do it right and haul it off, that's the way it will be done."

The food was good and the worship service was also very good but the best part of the afternoon was getting to see all our friends from the Mission Center again. We had no camps there this year because of the May 10th tornado and all the damage so we missed seeing all our friends.

The top picture is the scene is looking out toward the little office building where they use to give patriarchal blessings.

The center one is the dining hall. Notice the blue tarp over the roof.

The bottom one is the men's restroom at the bottom of rattlesnake ridge. You can see the total devastation of rattlesnake ridge.

We got home about 9:00, just as I thought we would.

All in all, it was a very good day.