day of rest

I had a busy day yesterday, chopped up some more tomatoes in the morning, lunched with a friend, then went to Montrose for a "benefit" that my friend Carey helped put on for a friend of hers with cancer.

small town SD is different... in a good way, mostly. i took the gate money for the event, so i got to see almost everybody for a moment. mostly young families with small children, from the looks of it, lots of harley and racing tshirts and cute cute little kids. but there were older folks too, sitting in their lawn chairs watching the festivities, and a ton of people in bright yellow shirts who had volunteered their time and efforts to work at the event.

the coolest part of the day was when a truckload of Hutterite women, accompanied by one sweet Hutterite man, brought boxes and boxes of vegetables and homemade items to donate to the honoree. it seems she worked at the colony last year, and made some friends. they serenaded her, and her pastor prayed over the event, and she cried.

and now, she will go about the business of living again. something it appears she has a pretty good handle on, from the looks of the people who came out to cheer her on.