Monday, June 17th. I officially have one more month of antibiotic infusions to go. A month from today I will have my last one and then they will pull the PIC-line out of my arm. What is magical about that; you might ask. I can then take a shower. I am prohibited from doing more than “sink-baths” and sink hair washing as long as I have the line in my body. They don’t want to take any chance of infection; nor do I. Between my leg still in a large full-wrap bandage and my arm with tubes coming out of it, I’m limited. I just hope someone will be polite enough to tell me if I stink!!

But —- the good news is that I am back to work. We went to church yesterday and I participated in the service. Today I conducted my regular office hours. Then we came home, had a couple of sandwiches and then it was back in the car and off to the hospital. That has been our life for four solid months. It really felt good to be back in the office. It didn’t matter that I had no one coming in to see me; I was there. I made several calls to parishioners today and that made me feel good.  I am preaching the next two Sundays. This coming Sunday we are hoping to be in the outdoor chapel again. If it is too hot and muggy, we’ll stay inside. We had 83 in church yesterday. It was a nice crowd. Of course the fact that it was Father’s Day might have had something to do with it but I didn’t see any “strangers” so maybe it was just a good attendance Sunday.

Julie and Jim and the pups came down on Saturday and stayed over night. They are both on vacation this week. This is the week that we would have all been in Virginia Beach together. But since we cancelled that trip due to my hospitalization, they all kept their planned vacation days and are each taking other small trips etc. I‘m really glad they did. My kids all work really hard and they need to take sometime to themselves. I had a good Father’s Day. Saturday night we went out to a really nice restaurant to celebrate the day. Yesterday Jim got up on the roof of our house and cleaned out the gutters and cleared a lot of tree debris off of the roof. I’m really glad he did. Last night we had a real gully washer of a storm. One of the hardest rains we have seen in a long time. Jim got the gutters cleared off just in time.

Time for the 1700 news so I’ll drop off. have a blessed evening. God loves you and so do I. Peace.