MONUMENTAL DAY

 Saturday was indeed monumental. Some members of a local church were coming to my home to haul away trash.

Being extremely sick for two years and eventually hospitalized for nearly three months, I couldn't take my trash to the (far away) town dump. Trash accumulated quickly and my place eventually looked like the town dump.

I piled an enormous amount of trash on the back porch. It was bagged, put in large boxes, and covered with tarps. Despite my efforts, wild animals managed to tear it apart every night. My back porch became a midnight gatherng place for possums and raccoons.

The rampant critters made such a mess that I couldn't open the back door. It was an impossible situation. Nothing deterred them.

I also had an enormous amount of cardboard boxes, for all the supplies and food that I ordered for the past two years in ordered to survive. The trash situation was a nightmare.

I assumed that the church people were merely going to take the trash from the back porch. I spent Friday night cleaning out the house and put that trash on the front porch.

On Saturday morning I was stunned to see several large trucks and half a dozen cars arriving.

They not only took away the trash on both porches, they thoroughly cleaned out the trash in the garage!

As if this wasn't enough, when they found out that I had plumbing trouble, one of the men fixed the broken pipe - - so I now have running water again - - after a long week.

And they hauled away the ancient refrigerator in my kitchen!

Their hard work and generosity was beyond belief. I can only imagine how much money I would have paid if I had hired professionals to do the work. I hardly knew how to express my gratitude.

This was truly a miracle and it buoyed my spirits immensely.

My kitchen has more room with the ancient refrigerator gone. I have the new (small) fridge in a different place. I can now refurbish the kitchen floor. I'm buying a new cabinet for the air fryer oven. And I'm getting a new freezer because I always have lots of frozen food (the new fridge has a small freezer).

I'm excited that my small kitchen now has more room and will look better when I get things finished.

Another update.

I was ecstatic when I recently discovered that the local Walmart Supercenter now delivers groceries to my rural area.

Unfortunately, I learned that there's a catch.

(everything has a catch, doesn't it?)

When Walmart delivers groceries, you are usually able to chose what day and time the delivery will be.

Unfortunately I just discovered that I can only have Express Delivery in my rural area. That means I have to have same day delivery (usually in a few hours), with a very high delivery fee.

I was assured that Walmart is "working on" getting more choices for deliveries in my area, but.......I won't hold my breath.

Well, I'm extremely eager (and desperate) to get fresh groceries so I'll comply with the high cost for express deliveries.

It's better than nothing.

Cheers, Jon

Morning fog

Trash on the front porch- - only a very small fraction of the mess I had.

New refrigerator. It's black, but the price was right. I don't care if it's purple with pink stripes.