It's a double whammy morning! it's the first day of the work week and it's the first day of summer. Add to that the full moon we have and I reckon we are the wonder of the universe this morning. Well, the wonder of my universe anyway.

I'm waiting on our heating and air service people to come this morning. We don't have anything wrong, it is just part of the service package we buy from them. They service our HVAC twice a year; once in the summer and once in the winter. They are a good company and we like their products and service.

I had a Pilated woodpecker here this morning. We haven't seen one in quite a while. It didn't stay long. It just dropped in, had some of the high energy suet and took off. If we go out today, I need to stop and pick up a bunch of the suet cakes. I'm totally out and that leaves a half dozen feeders empty. At the moment, all I have out there is a few finches and a couple of starlings and blackbirds. They are busy cleaning out the rest of the bark butter from the feeders.  I also have a couple of squirrels out there which will most likely mean I need to fill the sunflower feeders again too; so I'll pick up another forty pound bag of sunflower seed while I'm at it.

Yesterday was Father's Day and it was a good one. I heard from all of my girls and Ms. Kate and I spent the day together. What else would I need? Ms. Kate and I watched a movie together here at the house and hen I did a little work for the next Sunday's service. We had the combined parish service again yesterday and I thought it should have been better attended. But, maybe people were out visiting or doing "Father's Day things". We only had about fifty people in church which is twenty or so shy of what could be. Interestingly enough, in this world of social media, it is pretty easy to tell where people are because they post it all over Facebook. I remember the "good old days" when if you skipped church you worried that you might run into the preacher somewhere. Now --- people throw those golf course and and amusement park pictures right out there. LOL. On the other hand, I just thank the Lord for the ones that do come and I wish blessing on the ones that don't and hope they come next week. I'm their spiritual advisor, --- not their soul keeper. I also know that the wheat is being harvested right now and some of our folks were out doing that.

Our Ms. Lauren had a pretty rough tumble on her Moto-cross bike this weekend. She failed to make a triple jump and went flying over the handlebars of her bike during practice and landed on her shoulder. She has pretty banged up shoulder. She is flying back to CA today and will get her shoulder X-rays etc. tomorow. But --- being the professional she is, she still rode in the race despite the injury. She is a touch cookie, and you would never know it to look at her.

It is time for a coffee refill and I need to get dressed. I hope you have an excellent first day of summer. Take some time and look around you and enjoy what God has provided. Peace.