It never ceases to amaze me how God takes care of us and supplies for our every need.

We have been getting our winter’s supply of seasoned wood deliveries yesterday and today. The man selling to us is brother to a baseball coach my oldest son once had. He and his wife own Morgan horses. His wife manages our favorite excellent restaurant in the next town. Most of all, the man was happy to see how our boys got right to each pile he dropped off, and had it thrown in the wood shed before he came back with the next load.

(They get 2 cents per log. It adds up!)

Yesterday, Vigorous came out with a complimentary dozen farm eggs for our wood man and his family. This morning Mr. Wood (as I’ll call him) brought us ½ gallon of his family’s maple syrup, tapped, collected, and boiled down by them this past spring, of course. It is the best we’ve ever tasted! I was just making oatmeal (organic, with our blueberries mixed in) and we poured the maple syrup right on. It was delicious!

Well, later in the day I was just realizing I’d have to go out for bread (too late to make any, and I also mean in the bread machine) when Mr. Wood came back with his final delivery, and what did he bring? A loaf of maple cinnamon bread from his wife’s restaurant of employ, along with a container of maple butter! The bread had just come out of the oven.

We had all just finished a scant tuna fish lunch, and did that bread ever go down well! I didn’t even have to leave to get more bread.

God uses people so often to bless us. It reminds me to try and not weary in doing good for others. We don’t give of our time to others as much as we used to: it’s all invested in the children, homeschooling, and life! But we still do manage to do good deeds for others occasionally. In that respect, God also provides, because often our helping of others is something laid before us suddenly.

I ran and got a bag of our frozen blueberries for Mr. Wood. Next week we plan on going to see his end of the wood operation. My boys are very curious about the conveyor belt which he uses to load his truck. Next year, they might help him load.

Since our guys count the logs to get their pay, it will be fun to tell Mr. Wood he brought us a total of 2,702 logs.

My husband and Genious are away on an overnight, but the boys at home saved them each one log to throw in when they get back (this evening). I like that! (I should probably add, yes- we saved them maple syrup, maple bread & maple butter, too.)