The sun is shining this morning and possibility of 40 degrees, but by sunset, it will be snowing....and more wintery weather as the week progresses....so I won't get out of town in time...or maybe just in time....Thursday can't come soon enough.
I'm wondering if I shouldn't take my boots?
I had a ready church filled day yesterday....it started out with Mass at 8:30, then Gary and his Aunt Eva and I went to Nicklo's for breakfast, and at 10:30 I realized I had to be out of there and on my way to Mackenzie's birthday party....and the present was still at home. So Gary said he would take care of the bill and I could pay him later...so I rushed out, drove home, got the gift and headed to Minnetonka. I got to what I thought was the right building just a few minutes late and parked across the street in the church parking lot, like the invite suggested and walked over to the building, but couldn't get in the security door....and a women came in and asked me who I was looking for, and I told her I was looking for a birthday party and after a few questions back and forth, we figured out I really wanted to be in the building next door. So I walked back across the street and moved my car to the other side of the parking lot...walked back across the street to the next building and low and behold that is where the party was.
I had a great time at the party and spent a lot of the time holding a sleeping Sidney and even got to feed her. Visited with my nephew Dan, and Jason's mom and brother and a family that Carrie was Nannie for. Watching Mackenzie open presents was fun, cause all she cared about was the tissue or wrapping paper.
After the party I got to go home for about an hour, and then headed off to church for a choir concert....which turned out to be way more than that. The choir, youth choir, hand-bell choir, a solo by a young pianist who played Chopin so fantastically...his hands flew across the keys and never missed a note. A duet by Bill Stefl and Marion Wick of "The Prayer" got a standing ovation, and their were several instruments accompanying all the music. The whole afternoon was a great experience....but it didn't get over till about 6:20 p.m. and we were supposed to be at Gary and Carolyn Buhr's home at 6:30. The problem with that, was that almost all of the Lenten group was either at the concert or in the choir.
I had the added pleasure of visiting with friends and Carol Kline who I hadn't seen in months...and Father Chuck about the book I took over to give him on Friday, and he had already started it, he said he lived only one block away from the block the family lived on in the book. He also knew people on that block, so he was enjoying reading it too.
I hadn't eaten since Nicklo's at 10:30, and I was starving, so I drove directly to
Arby's and got a fish sandwich and took it with me to the Lenten meeting. By that time Gary and a few others had already arrived and only had to wait for Rose, cause she had to go home and get her husband Rob. We ended up starting the meeting pretty close to 7 or so....and ended by 9 or so....the meeting might have ended sooner than that...but we stood around and visited for quite a long time. Long enough for my back to start aching. Standing in one place seems to do a number on my back. It killed me at church in the morning, and I had to do communion so I really had to stand for an extended length of time and I really felt it. I need to tell Sheila about that on Wednesday when I go for Qigong...hopefully she can work on that area for me.
Got home by 9:30 and sunk into my chair and finally read the Sunday paper. I did get an update for you. Lois emailed that Sharon's bone scan was clear and that the lymph nodes they took out were also clear, so she was really relieved about that. She gets stronger each day, and family is going out to see her in the weeks to come. It's something to add to our "Thank You God List".
Today I'm meeting Mary Brue for a Smoothie at a Health Food Shop that she loves. The women who owns it also has some connection to my grandson Jack's girlfriend Rae. So I'll get to find out what that is hopefully. Then I will do a little shopping and come home and working on actually putting the clothes I'm taking into the suitcase.
So must get moving, Love and Prayers, m
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