IN Carmel

                                                     Darn...someone forgot the sled.  It's always happening.                                                                                                           Remember, they are birds.  Big birds at that.   Today I anticipated snow.  At least 2 inches.  Not much promised but I was ready to move from the brown season to the white season.  It didn't happen.  There was a tease but that was about it.  I heard that the Michiga...

 Another slow day.  I'm loving them.   Once again I'm sucked into the book.  Trial and error.  Success and failure.  It's all the ups and downs of learning with cheers and laments.  So, the morning was full of reading.  That is until I went to Goodwill to retrieve something that I didn't think I needed yesterday.  I needed it today!  Someone else needed it more than I is what I discovered.  So, I bought a sweatshirt.  I donated two a couple of weeks ago.  They didn't fit anymore.                                                                                                               ...

                                     Ready for Sunday.  I found her at the monastery a couple of years ago.   Up not so early after a great night of sleep.  My first stop today was at the DMV to submit my papers for a handy capped parking ticket. That went smoothly with no problems.  The forms printed from the computer were filled out correctly and I walked out about 30 minutes after arriving.  My goodness.  The DMV is very near Goodwill and of course you know where I went.                                 New heavy flannel.  What a deal.  Each sheet 3.99 and then 20% off of the total.   I used the parking sticker at Goodwill. It really was a huge help. I found two very nice new flannel sheets with the correct price surpri...

 A day all too busy but the best news is that I kept up!   I think.   The morning included trouble and then good news, frustrating news and then good news.  At least it ended correctly.  The first troubling and then good news... I was thinking about the Christmas Eve Candle lighting Service.  Do we have enough candles?  Some time ago I told Jennifer to order more and come last Sunday I forgot all about it until reminded.  She didn't order seemed to be the message.  So, this morning I headed to church with another option in mind, doing what we did years ago.  The good news is that we have enough of our first choice.  Now it's getting them ready for use which should happen with at least half of them on Sunday hiring the youth again.  We would be sunk without them.   The frustrating news... The third Sunday of Advent is normally the Mary Sunday.  So we did everything we do visually last Sunday.  Pink ...

I will admit and I'm sure you can tell that I took very few pictures today.  My mind was elsewhere.   I made it an easy morning after a night of practically no sleep.  Well, there was a bit between the hours of 3 to 6.  It was a big surprise and one that perhaps some hidden stress surfaced unexpectedly. Anyway, the morning was easy with more reading.  I read more with writer Anne Lamott that I started during the night.                                                                    I promised a picture of Mirror Mary.   I made a decision to get to the Y mid-morning to see what was up with my membership. I stopped going to the Y during Covid.  To renew, my old membership I went through all the hoops just right and I was a go.  Doug ha...

 Of course Sunday follows Saturday and of course it's church day.  The church is filling a little more each Sunday as we near Christmas and today was another example of that.  The children sang, the choir sang and there seemed to be more music for the congregation to sing.  And it's very apparent that we have a wonderful singing congregation.  There are very few listeners.        I could get all of them in the picture from where I was sitting but you get the idea.  They were on it!                          Grandparents and parents...all up front and visible.  That is certainly appropriate.                               These children are from Kindergarten age to second grade.  Tall Logan is my special friend.             ...

All the pictures today are from the afternoon holiday party at the Keesling's members of North Church and good friends in so many ways.   Another busy Saturday.  The biggie for the morning was Soup Kitchen.  Once again, I arrived 30 minutes before the other workers to get the easy stuff done which is proving these days not to be so easy.  I retrieved from the pantry and opened  six gal. of vegetables.  That is two corn, two carrots and two green been gallons. Drained them and put some in a pot to heat and some in a bowl for carry out.   Three pans of Shepherd's Pie went in the oven for heating.  Three more will be used in the take out clams along with the vegetables. I counted out 60 clams.  Filled water pitchers and put them in the refrigerator to cool.  I moved a lot of food that came in days before.  We needed the space to prepare today's meal.  I took from the freezer 60 deserts to send home and stacked enough pie...