Monday, September 11, 2011 - Elder Ryan Hale, Cleaning and Planting

This week started with the arrival of a new Young Service Missionary. His name is Ryan Hale and he is from Pulaski, VA. He lives with Elder Kyle Johnson and the other Service Missionaries. He was at our home Sunday night with the other Service missionaries for dinner. We have a good crew of hardworking Young Service Missionaries. 

Today was cool and beautiful. On our way to work our car dashboard display said it was 47 degrees outside. That may seem chilly but when the air is dead calm, it’s gorgeous shirt sleeve weather. By the end to our work day it was in the low 70’s and it was great weather for working outdoors.

Today we did the usual Monday cleaning and blowing routine of all of the sidewalks and high traffic areas in Old Nauvoo. This morning it took us a little longer than usual because of all the leaves that have fallen on Old Main Street. This is only the beginning; it will get a lot worse as we get further into the Fall season.

Our boss, Richard Hancock had us planting on the “Diagonal Sidewalk” this morning. When we finished planting it a month ago we knew some of the plants might not make it through the transplanting. Today we removed all of the dead “Rudbeckia” that didn’t survived and we replaced them all with Echinacea plants. Echinacea seem to be a little hardier. Next