Monday morning and it is 37 degrees out there while the sun is shining brightly in an effort to warm us up a bit. Odds are not good there will be a lot of success in that department beyond 45 degree though today. Yesterday was the first day of spring and it was an odd one. On the way to church we ran through a snow cloud and it snowed like the dickens. Then while we were at church it rained, it snowed, then it quit and was just cloudy. Finally about 1600 hours the sun finally broke through.  March is going out like a lion just like it came in like a lion.

The city sewer people are out in Ms. Margaret's yard this morning with an earth mover. They are finally getting around to spreading out the dirt they had piled out there from installing a manhole out there. I can only imagine what Ms. Margaret has had to say about all of that. She is a rather crotchety old gal.  The city took over our sewer lines a few months ago. We had been on a privately owned sewer line forever here and the people who owned it went bankrupt. The city said that the lines were in terrible shape and now they are doing millions of dollars of repair to them but it is costing us all a lot of money every month to pay for it over the next ten years. Progress ain't cheap, and bureaucracy costs even more.

Yesterday was Palm Sunday which now sets off Holy Week. That means we'll have a few extra things to do this week. I have extra services to do and that means extra bulletins and the monthly newsletter to run and stuff. . Today I need to take my truck in for servicing. Tomorrow night I have a meeting to go to. Wednesday is choir practice, Thursday is Maundy Thursday service and prayer vigil, Next Sunday is Sunrise Service, parish breakfast and two more worship services. And then --- all extra activity stops and Ms. Kate and I get ready to take a vacation at the end of April. And --- at some point in there, I need to get the snow blade off of my John Deere and put the mower deck back on. The yard is really looking scraggly with the darned onions sticking up all over the place. I generally wait until after Easter to mow because ou never know; --- the Easter bunny just might want to lay some eggs out there. LOL

I also need to fill some bird feeders today or tomorrow. Anything that had bark butter in it is empty. But there is plenty of other stuff out there including suet for the sharp beaks so they will just have to "suffer". I haven't had a lot of visitors this morning; perhaps because of the workers out there.

So, I'm done for now. I hope you have a blessed day and a Holy Spirit filled Holy Week. Peace.