All's Quiet

All’s quiet on the southern front. That means not much happened last week. Susie has been after me to put up some pictures so I’ve added some that go back a couple weeks. I copied these from the Lebanon Church Facebook page. But first, the boring details of my week. You know, kind of like church at the mission… you have listen to the sermon before you get the food (except the Gospel Rescue Mission in Grants Pass doesn’t do that).

So, let’s see… last Monday I finished my taxes and sent them off. I think they are correct. I hope they are correct. I’m getting money back instead of having to pay. That’s a good thing. I also sent out our prayer letter to those who have asked for it. Joyce and I are making Monday evenings (except tonight) our movie night. Last week we rented “The Hurt Locker.” It was good but in my opinion not “best picture” good.

The middle of the week I felt like I might be coming down with a cold so I took a lot of Airborne and soaked in a HOT bath. Kind of like sweating the bad stuff out. It worked. Still had to labor (endlessly??) on our cleaning and sorting. Joyce is doing really well. She actually got to the back wall of the junk (err… craft) room. Nobody’s seen it in years! She sorted, tossed, boxed, bagged, and repacked. She filled our garbage can and there are bags left over for other days; she filled our recycle barrel – then the neighbor’s; there is still stuff left over for next time. Oh yes, then there was the trunk load that went to Goodwill. When all this was over she stacked the stuff she wants to keep against one wall. There were “only” twenty boxes and totes. Only 20! Oh well, it’s a start. I almost have the office finished. Anybody want three file drawers of outdated sermon resource material? Come and get it.

Mike needed help with some supports for his grape vines so Thursday afternoon we bought, cut, drilled, and bolted. Beautiful day – sunny, in the 70s. Really nice. That evening we all went to dinner at the Taprock. That’s a new restaurant in town overlooking the Rogue River.

Saturday my sister, Beth turned 85. They had a surprise party for her so we went up to the Eugene area for that. Actually, I went. Joyce was supposed to go with me but she woke up feeling puny. So she stayed home getting well. Sunday I went to the early service at the Nazarene Church and Joyce stayed home. Later in afternoon we worked in the yard. Another beautiful day – temps in the high 70s. We did some weeding and I got most of my garden in. If it gets too cold and the seeds don’t come up, I’ll just replant later.

Today, it is cloudy and supposed to rain for a couple days. Then nice again. Such is life in Oregon. We went to Medford to get some work done on the pickup and get Joyce’s glasses fixed. And… I have to tell this because it’s funny. We have a gift card for Red Lobster so we decided this would be a good time to use it. We had a wonderful meal – a little more expensive than we would usually pay but we have a gift card, right. The lady brings the bill, Joyce and I are engrossed in conversation, I automatically get out my credit card and pay the bill – totally forgetting about the gift card. So come and see us. We have a gift card to Red Lobster we need to use someday.

And that’s the way it was – one week in our lives.

The pictures are from Wednesday night KidZone at Van Essens a couple weeks ago -- lamb petting, egg hunt, hot dog feed.