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April 26, 2004
The Book Sale Adventure
It's been a full morning already. I met Karen and Trish at 7:00 am and headed out to the book sale. I went with a plan in mind...to only spend the $5.00 or so in change that I had saved in my Arizona Tea bottle.
The book sale was actually bigger than ever. I was pleasantly surprised this year not to be elbowed or pushed in the Religion section. My bag got too full, too fast and I had to weed out some of my finds in order to keep with my little budget. I left behind Oliver Twist and couple of Madeline L'Engle books that I was pretty sure I already had among others.
For $4.24 I ended up with 2 C.S. Lewis books, 2 Charles Colson Books, a Max Lucado book, a Philip Yancey book and 2 J.D. Salinger books. My biggest problem is I collect classic literature and I keep forgetting which ones I already own.. I MUST make a list!!!
The adventure portion of this story took place when we went to leave. We were parked in the middle of this field and people had parked very haphazardly. In the past, there were some pretty serious parking guys out there, but not this year. Once we found a way out to the main driveway, we ended up getting stuck in the mud. Thankfully, a nice group of Mennonite ladies in dresses and coverings came by. When they offered to help, Karen said she didn't want them to have to get muddy, to which they replied, "We're farmers, we're not worried about getting dirty". I jumped out to help...I come from farming blood, too. I wasn't about to make these ladies push us out alone. (but in my head I was thinking, hm...not a good day to wear cream colored cuordoroy pants). After several attempts, we finally got the car out, (ok, they were definitely better at pushing than me) leaving a little mud ditch behind. I thanked the ladies, and said, "May you find the books you are looking for" in the book sale. I don't know what we would have done without them. We'd probably still be sitting in the car, in the mud.
Posted by stacey at April 26, 2004 09:40 AM
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God bless the work ethic and kindness of the Mennonite ladies! And may the rain wash the mud from us all!
Posted by: Karen Sprengel at April 26, 2004 03:18 PM