Flu and Rats

Fight with the Flu:
This past week our family has been fighting the flu bug.  Robert, Jonathan and Anna had it fairly bad and it lasted for at least 3 days for each of them.  Kyrk and I had less then 24 hours of feeling yucky, but thankfully didn't get it as bad as the kids.  We are so thankful that we are all doing well now and it seems that the bug has stopped spreading to the other staff. 

Rats:
On Saturday morning I did my typical morning routine of checking the rat trap in the back room.  I noticed that it had moved, so Kyrk went to check it out.  Yes we had indeed caught a rat and that rat had made a large mess in the back room knocking over the bucket of food for the pig.  I wasn't too excited about having to scrub the back room, but it was good motivation to clean it really well.  We moved the freezer to clean behind it and discovered a drain pipe that wasn't blocked.  After checking outside, we discovered that for the past 10 years we have had a nice open passage way for the rats to enter our house :(  Wow am I so thankful that the rat made a huge mess and we were forced to move the freezer.  Hopefully once we catch all the rats in the house, we will be rat free!!  Thank you God for a big rat mess.

Getting ready to leave for 2 months:
The next couple of weeks are going to be filled with preparations for leaving for 2 months on December 1.  It is always a lot of work to get things ready to leave, but it is so wonderful to be able to rest and relax once we are away.  We are really looking forward to seeing family and friends and to share in several churches.