It is a liquid sunshine morning and I have absolutely nothing on my schedule today; --- and that is exactly what I intend to do. Oh, sometime today I'll run the vacuum cleaner for Ms. Kate but that is about as adventurous as I plan on being.

Good morning! Happy Friday to you. It seems impossible to believe that just a week ago today was Good Friday and it has only been five days since Easter Sunday. This has been a very trying week on both our patience and our pocket books. It seems that when we weren't waiting on somebody or something to be done, we were opening up the wallet or checkbook paying for something. Yesterday put the candles on the cake. We had finally decided to have a fence contractor come by and give us an estimate on a new fence. We wanted him to tear out the existing fence and replace it where it stands. The problem is that the existing fence sets in the utilities easement on the west side of our yard. It has been that way since long before we bought this property back in 2001. The fence contractor said that he could not put a fence back in that location by code. It would have to be moved in a good ten feet, which would mean that we would have to tear out all of the azaleas and hundreds of flower bulbs that are planted along that fence and relocate them. We were not happy people. We've always known that the fence was in the easement and that if the untility company really needed to, they could tear out the fence. But, we didn't know that we would not be allowed to put it back where it is. So, we have decided to keep the existing fence because the wood is all good and just have it painted. I have someone coming tomorrow to talk to about repainting the fence. So --- that's how our Thursday started; then we went to a funeral to bury Aunt Mary.

The funeral was a simple affair. I conducted it. There were only fourteen of us present. After the funeral we all went to Denny's for lunch and conversation. One of the cousins had brought a small box of pictures and passed them around for people to share and take as they desired. It was good closure because sitting around a meal and talking and laughing was a "very Mary" thing for us to do. All of my personal memories of her include just exactly that.

The weekend is upon us and it is going to be a fifty/fifty weather weekend. Rain and very cool tomorrow and then starting to warm up again with sunshine on Sunday. That will be nice. We haven't yet talked about where we may want to go to church this Sunday but I'm in need of some church time after the week we have had. Sitting here in the sunporch always provides calm and serenity but I need the extra boost that comes with congregational worship and the fellowship of believers. I hope you will take the time to go and share in that kind of experience this weekend too.

I close today by sharing with you the blessings that God has given me. Have a blessed day.