It is quiet on the work front this morning. I made myself stay in bed until seven and they shut the plant down just as I got up. Maintenance Sunday! Yes! The night crew will come back in at one to do scheduled maintenance and hopefully the plant will come back on line around seven this evening. I have to confess, I have not even been outside my trailer this morning. Actually I have not even opened the window blinds. It is quiet, it is peaceful, it is a small slice of heaven in a tormented world.

Two weeks, fourteen days, 336 hours, 20,160 minutes, 1,209,600 seconds, one-half of a month, 1/26th of a year. That is the average estimate until we shut the plant down for lack of cotton. Everyone is looking to that day for a multitude of reasons. Home, family, weddings, quincineta, new work, rest, renewal, just to mention a few. As for me, all the above! Actually I would have to add Christmas. We have our Christmas scheduled for February 12. Votes are being tabulated for the menu.

Even though we had a rough patch in the past week, the week seemed to end on a positive note. The day was not trouble free but it was not anything that we were not numb enough to deal with. Sick truck drivers, truck problems, thankfully today was a scheduled down day. By tonight we will have an alternate plan in place if necessary repairs have not been made.

Krl is still snoozing. She has been battling the flu. Ever since we had that horrible wind it seems as though sinuses have been irritated. She has just taken it a step farther. She tells me that she is here for the duration. She doesn't want to go home without me going home too. Even the hounds seem to have resigned themselves to life on the frontier.

FATHER, thank YOU for the time off. I pray that YOU will renew me, mentally, physically, spiritually. Rest me quickly. I ask for patience, and tolerance to get me to completion of this exercise. I lift up Hag, Lillie, Rene', Carol, Michelle, Aimee, Rusty and Kim's unborn baby, and Jennifer for YOUR gift of healing. I ask for YOU to comfort them and their families. Thank you for the blessing you pour upon us, for the highs and the lows. Help us to learn each lesson as YOU intend for us to. Help us to be YOUR humble servants. Restore unto us the joy of our salvation. I pray for R2D2 and all of us in need of YOU. I pray for our spiritual family, our leaders, for YOUR will to be done.