Unexpected Circumstances...

Today we had one of those unexpected circumstances...we came home from our homeschoolers park day to notice that our toilets weren't flushing properly. Long story short and $422.00 later we needed our septic system located, have the cap dug up and then have the system pumped.
As you can imagine, this process is a little stinky. Alanah was trying to enjoy some raspberries from the garden while the men were pumping the system. She said, "ewww, mama, it's stinky!"

Truck #1

Truck #2

About 30 minutes after the septic system guys left I was in the kitchen starting to prepare dinner.

The whole time I'm trying not to stress out about the money we just handed over. All I'm thinking about is I need to buy groceries this week and I don't have an extra $400 plus dollars laying around so where's the money going to come from?...Most likely the food budget...yikes, how am I going to make this work etc. etc.

THEN, out of the blue, at that very moment, a friend from Bunco calls and says that she's got all this extra food from her garden and she would love to share with us! (I'm thinking, wow, God that's fast. I was just stressing about this and look someone calls and wants to give us food!) AND they want to bring it over to us right now. Okay! Come on over!! (Wow, God. Food & Delivery?! Thank You!)

Cherries, apple butter, pickles, tomatoes, cilantro, basil, pie filling & zucchini.

Dusty said that he's going to make a composting toilet outside for the kids & him during the day! He said this should help to expand the time between septic system pumps. hee,hee