The Shafferland Shuffle

It's been a good week here in Shafferland! We are thankful for that and wanted to give you a peek at the fun we had!

* Last Sunday morning, we visited another church service and really enjoyed it. It was an early service, so when we got home, Ryan made breakfast, and we enjoyed our day while being on duty. There was a really beautiful sunset that night, so we enjoyed it while we took a walk!

* Remember how I loved getting the mail when we lived in Kokomo? (I was kind of ridiculous about it.) That hasn't changed. I just have to walk farther for it now! LOL!! And we were rewarded on Monday with mail for US! I made taco stuffed mini peppers for dinner that night, and after we were done with all our work (which was really late that night) we went for a nighttime walk. Grabill is just as pretty after dark as it is in the daytime!

* Our sidewalk had some grease stains on it, so Ryan worked really hard on Tuesday trying to get those to go away. Tuesday actually wasn't my finest day. We walked into the community room to find a meeting about to start - that we had somehow both failed to remember - and then we had to do online first aid training after that. The training was really, really long, and partway through it, my computer froze up and I had to start completely over!! I was not entirely thrilled about that. That night, one of our tenants made dinner for the whole building! She did a nice job and it tasted delicious.

* This week our weekend fell in the middle of the week AND it lasted three whole days! And they were delightful. Wednesday was the first day, and we had a blast. I told you a bit about it already because it was also our monthiversary! We explored the little shops in Grabill, had lunch at Panera, found a park to walk (and it had a sunflower field!!)  and capped off the day with ice cream at a local spot in the next town over. It was a wonderful, wonderful day.

* Thursday was a much busier day. Ryan began the day by joining a men's Bible study at a coffee shop. I stayed home and did laundry, my workout, and a bunch of other chores. After Ryan's Bible study was done, he tried out the world of plasma donation for the first time. It was a long appointment! He got home JUST in time for us to go grocery shopping, and then we went to dinner at the home of some of our new co-workers. Our friends Mark and Lynnette also came to town to visit their family, so we got to see them after dinner!

* Friday was the last day of our weekend, and it was a fun day, too! We started out with a kayaking trip! (More on this later.) Fort Wayne has three rivers, so kayaking life can be a thing now! We took it easy in the afternoon and then met Mark and Lynnette for dinner - and then we ended the day with an impromptu date/walk back at the same trail and sunflower farm we found earlier in the week. Sunset with sunflowers is not a shabby way to end the day.

* And then yesterday we went back to work, starting with a community day for our building! I'll have to tell you more about it later, but it was a photo scavenger hunt that went all around our little town. (It was a town-sponsored hunt, not a Pinterest idea - although that would be fun, too!) In the afternoon, we went to a birthday party for Mark and Lynnette's little girl! It's so fun that it happened right up here by us and we could actually go! A great end to a great week!