Monday, September 04, 2017 – Duck Season, Elder Kelson, Women’s Garden Sidewalk Bricks

It’s Labor Day so most of the FM employees have the day off. But all of the Senior Missionaries and the Young Service Missionaries work every day including holidays so here we are. Also, it’s the first day of Duck Season on the Mississippi. All morning we could hear shotguns. It sounded like a war zone.

We have a new Young Service Missionary working with us at FM. He is from Orem Utah but he also is from the Mid-west. So this is close to home for him. He’s a great young man and we look forward to working with him.

Elder Jardine has been working most of the summer on replacing damaged brick in the sidewalk of the Women’s Garden. It has been a long hard process because he has other project assigned to him that have to be done first. In spite of that he is making great progress. I talked to him this morning and he said there are only two sections of sidewalk left to repair. It looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Everyplace he has replaced bricks the sidewalk looks great.

Today was a regular Monday for us; we cleaned and blew the sidewalks of the Women’s Garden, the Visitor’s Center, the Cultural Hall, the Family Living Center and Main Street all the way past the Browning Gun Shop. Along the way we also weeded and picked up downed limbs.

Next we did a thorough weeding and cleaning of the historic Sarah Granger Kimball flowerbeds. It’s been four weeks since we last cleaned there and there were a lot of weeds to pull. Then, we finished our day by doing a deep cleaning of our van. It was way past due for a good vacuuming and cleaning. It looks much better now.