Good morning on a rainy warm (61 degrees) Monday. We’re having what folks Call “a good rain”. It is slow and sporadic meaning it will rain for a few minutes and then stop for a few minutes, and then start again. My new grass is coming up nicely and this is exactly what the yard needs. So, all praise to God for  yet another morning of blessings.

I’m doing “Pastor on Call” this morning and working from home. The office at the church is being renovated still. Right now all of the furniture is out of the office. It has been painted and new drywall has been put up but the old light fixtures have been taken down and new ones have yet to be put up. The secretaries office is the same way. I don’t know what she is doing but all of her office stuff was in our conference room yesterday stacked everywhere. I think this is the last of the renovations that we are doing at the church for awhile. I know we need to be thinking about new A/C units but that will have to be on next year’s budget. Hopefully Zoar will have a new “settled pastor” by the time they put those in. We’ll be on year six of the pastoral search come January.

We have a busy week lined up. Tomorrow we meet with or financial dude to take care of some investment stuff. Wednesday we are going to Washington IN for a “Senior’s Day” trip for lunch t a really good Amish restaurant, then Wednesday evening will be choir practice. I haven’t looked at the calendar beyond that. But, I’m still tinkering with my sermon for next Sunday and need to finish that up.

My Backyard Buffet guests are sporadic this morning. A few cardinals come by in between the rain showers as do a couple of woodpeckers. The squirrels are staying in today so far. I guess they don’t get hungry if it is raining which is too bad. It is fun to watch them try to climb wet metal poles and they get part way up and slide back down. I need to go to Wild Birds and get a bag of safflower seed for the cardinals. That feeder is almost empty. My sun flower can is down to half too and I could pick up another 40# bag of that. The weather forecast call for sunny days for most of this week sso there will be a lot of birds coming by.

Right now though,, I need to finish this up, drink the last of the coffee in my cup and get on the bike and ride. I hope you have an excellent day full of blessings.

Until next posting —- Peace.