Let the bell ring!

Hi everyone

For those of you down south, we are praying that somehow hurricane dean settles down before serious harm is caused.

We have had tons of fun working hard on the Colby United Methodist church. The board hired me to make those repairs on the bell tower. It is now in use, the interior roof is repaired and the 8 openings have been re opened. It was very rewarding to participate in this work.

We are including some pics of the family in the backyard.

The older boys are camping with the scouts. We have had a very dry August. However, it seems if we need rain, we send the scouts out on a campout. It has become very cool, unusual for August. We did not even reach 60 for today's high. It has rained all afternoon and will continue for 24 more hours. We are to receive a couple of inches of badly needed rain.
We used the heater in the van and our house is only 65 degrees.

We bundled up and spent the afternoon enjoying one of our areas local fairs. This fair includes animal exhibits. It was a nice outing, and gave the little ones an opportunity to touch and feel numerous animals.

I stumbled into some interesting statistics about our home county. Some of you will enjoy this or even find it humorous.
Clark County, WI has human population of 33,557. Our cattle population is 63,000.
We have 27.6 people per square mile. We have 82,300 acres used for grain corn.

Our median income per household is 34,577. Our median home value is 64,700.

We love our hometown and it really is a great place to live.

Keep in touch, Call or write anytime.

Our contact info is hainesbc7@hotmail.com or phone 7156134601

The Haines family