OK! OK! I have come to the conclusion that if I do not get these winter pictures off this blog that summer will never come to Palmyra! Yesterday was the 4th of July & the high for the day never reached 70 degrees all day. Now what were you saying about global warming???? Right now I have put a sweat shirt on over my Sunday clothes to help warm me up.

The pageant begins this week starting with the Volunteer Orientation on Wednesday. We have our schedule for the week & we will be at the Grandin Press from now until after pageant. All the schedules are done, assignments made & I thing we are ready to go. The pageant crew has been here for a week & the staging is up already. The cast arrived on Friday & were rehearsing yesterday. We are getting bus tours on a regular basis at the sites & are VERY busy (just like we like it!). I decided that if I didn't get this done today......I might not get it done at all.

One bad note is that Donna got a call from Skip yesterday morning. They were on their way out to help again this year - assigned to the Whitmer Farm but he was calling from Omaha, NB. He said that they were at the hospital there & that Roberta had emergency surgery. Some how her stomach or bowl got twisted. They stopped at an emergency room & they did the surgery early that next morning. He says she is doing OK but that they would have to cancel their trip because she is going to be there for a week. Our prayers go out to them!! We hope they can get home OK. Elder Tolman got on the phone & called his brother about working in their place. They were excited, booked their flight & will be here Tuesday. Some how things seem to work out.