Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 04:42

Good morning Friends. I hope all are well. It's been busy in the ER the last couple nights so haven't had time to come check in.

Finially had 2 days of cold but sunny weather. It was so nice to see the sun shining again after a bit over a week with little to none. It's suppose to rain again today. We need rain so I'm not complaining. There has been heavy frost in the morning as it's been in the low 30's. The leaves have quickly turned and are now falling just as quickly. It won't be long.....

I'm hoping to make it to church this morning as our Pastor is getting his head shaved by the Youth Group during Pot Luck. See, every summer for the last 20 odd years he has taken interested members of the High School Youth have taken a 250 mile bike trip and for the last..... oh..... say 10-15 years have done it to raise money for World Hunger. The last few years we've had a very small group but they still raise quite a bit. Last year they managed to raise $5,000. Along the way of their trip they met a very nice couple who were very impressed that these young people and 4 adults would give up a week of their summer vacation to do this. They were so impressed that they offered to match whatever was raised by our riders. Well, they matched the full $5,000!!! Pastor, being confident, announced at the planning meeting of this years ride that if the group could match the total $10,000 from last year they could shave his head. Well, a couple weeks ago that same couple called and asked how the kids did. Pastor told them and amazingly enough this couple matched this year's total bringing the end total to $10,300!!! Imagine Pastor's suprise LOL. (His wife is real impressed - not!)

After church I'll go home and go to bed for the day as I work tonite. Tomorrow I'm meeting with Jill at church to go over a cleaning schedule. I'm looking forward to the meeting for two reasons. First, the most obvious, is that I'll have a nice organized schedule for cleaning and open communication with Pastor and the Counsel.  Second, I really like Jill. She's a great person to be around, I just feel better talking with her. She's so supportive of everything.

Tuesday I'm going to my folks to make a huge pot of veggie soup and can it right away.  I don't have a stove, just a small 2 burner electric table top so for heavy duty things I go either to the church or the folks. I'm hoping to get around a dozen pints and 4 quarts. That'll last a while. I've still 6 quarts and 6 pints of chicken / turkey soup, 1 quart of chili and 2 quarts and 2 pints of stew. Guess the next batch better be chili. My mother doesn't like my chili because it has a bit of a kick to it and I put in black beans. She prefers to just dump in plain Bush's baked beans, tomato juice, lots of onions and a pinch of chili seasoning - oh, and lots of kidney beans. Then she adds a bunch of elbow noodles. Me, I like to use the spicy baked beans, 1 large can of the maple flavor or a quart of my homemade, a pkg of organic chili seasoning, lots of onions, a large can diced tomatoes, fresh tomato juice and a quart or two of black beans - pinto's too if I have enough room. MMMMMMMM good stuff.

Well, I'd better go and take care of morning chores. Have a wonderful day friends. See you soon!

Michele