One chicken is in the coop and another one is coming this evening. Lisa arrived right on time yesterday and we had a great visit with her during the afternoon and evening. We are up earlier than usual this morning because we knew she was up. The kids of mine that come from the eastern time zone operate on a different schedule than we do. And since they come so infrequently, we don’t want to miss any visiting time, so it is absolutely worth losing a few minutes sleep and getting up a little earlier. Julie gets out of work around 1400 hrs and will go to Indianapolis for some blood work then come down here. We expect her and Jim around 1800 hrs or so. Then the gab-fest will begin in earnest.

It is warmer this morning and the humidity is on the rise. It is supposed to go to about ninety-three today. We are hoping for a sunny weekend but it sounds like we in store for a stormy weekend instead. The sad part of that is that Julie and Lisa want to go to the zoo tomorrow. I really hope it doesn’t rain because they are zoo-people and our city does have a nice very nice and accredited zoo. It generally takes about an hour and and to two hours to do our zoo. There are enough hills to make it a healthy and challenging walk.

I think we are going to do some shopping around town this afternoon yet. We have a store here called Libs that makes some of the best chocolate candy that I’ve had. Lisa wants to pick up some to Libs to take back to the family. They will be some happy campers.

I need also to finish my sermon today. I have it about half finished and had a good train of thought going but stopped so now I’ll need to regenerate and start again. I had it half written already once but didn’t like it and deleted it. Now I’ve gone in a completely different direction and I think it will go well.

Time to quit and get on with other stuff. I pray you have a wonderful day. Peace.