IN Carmel

 What an easy day.  No electrical upheaval.  I call that an easy day.  And the house is still here, and the breakers are all doing their job of keeping the lights on.  I must have done something right. The morning started as usual with the birds, coffee and breakfast.  There was some ironing of burps but not much and then I was on my way to meet Heidi at church.  I started out a little late. so, I was a little late arriving.  That is a sure thing to happen never able to make up the time lost.  There is no need to try. The Sunday sermon is about Jesus' first miracle, the water into wine at the wedding.  Heidi worked on the altar.                                            Th e water into wine.  The first miracle in the ministry of Jesus.    I headed for a stack of boxes holding Christmas Can...

 Woo, What a day this has been.  This one was really rare, and I hope doesn't happen again for a long, long time.  Maybe never.  More about that later.   I will add it was an afternoon thing.  I slept in today.  Doug usually asked me if the coffee maker started up by itself.  I usually say no.  The no is because I start it myself because I'm up before he has set the time.  So today I thought coffee would be ready when I hit the kitchen.  Humm.  He forgot to push some buttons.  So, I started it once again.  And I had coffee with bran flakes and blue berries again.   The bird work was done early with only a Carolina Wren in attendance for a very short time.  It was cold outside, I prepared more burps by doing more marking, a whole lot more marking.  I did some phone calls and received one that told me the sewing machine was ready.  So at some point we were on our way to Select Sewing to pay...

 Once again Monday started with Bran Flakes, coffee and birds.  I just happened to see a Starling get in a feeder that had mealworms and black sunflower seeds.  Apparently, my fix wasn't a fix.  So, the feeder came in and I made some changes.  And of course, the Robin found a new perch on top of the feeder.  So once again I made some changes.                                                                         It failed the test.   I think I have something that resembles the TIN MAN.  My hope is that the danglers will be a deterrent for both of the birds.  Oh, dear...That was another oops. Mr. Starling fought his way through.    And once again I saw Blue Birds and their plan is a better one.  They just c...

 What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in!  It's almost like being in church!  Surprised?   A little bird watching, with a little snow scooping on the patio started the day as usual.  Bossy Robin was back.  There's more about him later.   It was church day.  And after missing that space for two weeks, I was happy to be back.  I delivered the Advent candle votive inserts, feeling good about the needs for the coming years.  The parishioner candles used Christmas Eve are out and about still in the narthex.  They need to be rescued.                          A new altar arrangement for the day.  A towel and basin are symbols of servanthood.                             That was  the theme of the morning service.  The service was planned by the wome...

This morning was a very busy morning.  It was soup kitchen day, bread and bowl day or a community eating day at church.  Maybe day isn't the real word.  I should say morning.  I left the house around 8:15 usually leaving at 8.  I thought I would take to sitting another 15 minutes.  Then off to the south land over the river and through the woods to the church.                                                                                    It's still an all-white world. Heidi and James beat me there but not by much.  Heidi immediately went to the sanctuary to strip the altar, and I went to the community room to start that exercise.  Once again, a lot of work was accomplished, and we began serving meal...

 I took care of my feathered friends this morning noticing that the feeder filled yesterday was just about empty this morning.  There was a night visitor so Doug will be bringing that feeder in when he brings the suet in overnight.  I'm suspecting a raccoon.  Most of the seed was gone but there was evidence of somebody's paw scratching seeds out of one of the openings.  These little creatures keep me on my toes.             Just more of the same.  I think we've had more snow this winter so far than all of last winter.  Mr. Robin has hung around all day. I spotted him once trying to hang on to the suet feeder.  I put some meal worms out but the snow keeps covering them up.  It would be better if Mr. Robin flew to the crab apple tree where I've seen other robins.                                   ...