tired

today has been a relaxing day, for the most part
went to church this morning (of course)
Faith Builders Chorus was there, which i enjoyed

and then the preacher gets up for the sermon
and he starts his talk with
"does anyone know what today is? other than the day that faith builders come to church?"

pentecost
the day the Holy Spirit came
and of course, we sing, "the comforter has come, the comforter has come, the holy ghost from heaven, the father's promise given, oh spread the tidings round, where ever man is found, the comforter has come."
and
well
oh well

came home, made myself a sandwich
sat out on the deck until it started t storming
so i moved indoors to the easy chair
of course, i fell asleep, so when something woke me up
i moved upstairs to bed
and took a proper nap

b woke me up by phone abt 5 30
and i wasnt in any mood to stay up, so i went back to sleep
finally, abt 7 30, maybe a bit before
i got up, made myself another sandwich
took it out to hte deck
and ate it there
came back in, got one of mom's pecan tarts
yummy

was sitting out there, writing xanga/blog entries
listening to the creek
kc lying at the edge of the deck
my mind wondering
(aeb me writing the words to the song above)

and then, it started to rain again
so kc and i came back inside

now, i need to make my list of duties for tomorrow
then head to bed
i'm still tired
and still wishing i knew how to fix everything

work

we had cousin's night tonight
only it wasnt quite "cousins only" this time

my one cousin and her family is going to kenya for 2 yrs
they have 9 kids, ranging from less than one month, to age 16
they have a farm, and someone is going to be farming it while they are gone
so, they are busy getting stuff ready to leave

we single cousins and 2 of my single aunts have been having cousin's game night periodically
and we decided that this yr we are going to do things for others, instead of doing things for ourselves
and for the first one, we asked lois if she had anything available for us to do
and yes, she did

so, the cousins and the aunts were there
and we told her parents they could come too, and my parents
and her aunt on the other side was there too
we mulched and mulched
and we got an awful lot done in an hr and a half
i am quite pleased with what we got done

then the little girls were pitching balls
and batting them
and i got talked into batting as well
that poor elbow of mine got a workout
it didnt like me throwing the ball, at all
and i decided it was harder work batting balls, than it was mulching

and after it got dark, we had cake and ice cream
and munchies
supplied by the cousins
the only thing lois had to supply was the knife to cut the cake, and ice cream spoons

it was a good evening
a very good evening
lois told me one of her girls said, oh good, jm is coming, i like jm
wow
i didnt realize that!

and then, as we were sitting there, eating ice cream
i remembered
i had left my front door open, when i was getting flowers for hte cake
and i was pretty sure that i had forgotten to shut it
so, when j brought me home, he waited until i checked hte rooms
and there is no boogy man in my house

whoopies

j called this afternoon
they are going back to mom's to help make whoopies
and she is making spaghetti for supper
and would i want to come back too?

well, depends on if my relief shows up in decent time
and he did
so i went back to mom's
and we made whoopies
all 112 of them
plus the few "rejects"
some of them were a far stretch to be called rejects, tho

mom makes the best whoopies
bar NONE

kc

kc's version of helping me do my billing at the station