Good morning on this sunny Tuesday. It was a bit warmer this morning when I got up; 55 instead of 40 like yesterday. I think we’re supposed to be going to may 70 or so today. Last night the weather reporter said that the outlying areas could maybe get a light frost. I don’t know if it happened or not. However, he also laid out the dates of our “normal” first frost and first freeze. Unfortunately, those days are not that far away. But then Christmas is only about 63 days away. That doesn’t seem possible  to me. I still have a long way to go to get my fall outside stuff done. The leaves haven’t really started to fall yet and the grass is still green. I guess a lot of changes are going to happen in the next thirty days or so. 

I fixed Pillsbury Orange rolls this morning. I really like them, but today I don’t know what happened to them. I’ve fixed these things hundreds of times but today they got too done on top and not quite done on the bottom. It won’t keep me from eating them but it was disappointing. Maybe I should have turned to oven to 350 degrees instead of 400 like the instructions said. I guess I will have to “practice” some more. 

With the days heading towards frost time I would normally be bringing in my flower pots for the winter but I don’t think we are going to this year. We have had those three pots of geraniums for years by now and they seem to bloom constantly. But this year they have had nothing but blooms that are fairly scraggly looking. I think it is time to give them up and plant new ones next year. Next spring I will put all new potting soil in the pots and fresh new plants. Of course our weather has been unpredictable this year and that might have affected the way the bloomed. We had entirely too much rain in the spring and then we had five different heat waves with no rain. It’s a wonder they bloomed at all. 

I’m very happy for my former parish. They are building an addition on to the parsonage at St. Lucas to house the pastor and his family. It has not housed a pastor since 2004 because I didn’t need it when I started up there. The two pastors previous to me were single and didn’t need a lot of room. However, the current pastor has several children and there wasn’t enough room. The parish decided to have a “whole hog” raffle in order to help raise the money to build on. They had hoped to raise at least $5,000.00. They actually raised $11,000.00. So good on them. I’m very happy for them. 

I think the outside has reached a comfortable temperature so I’m jumping off and going to do some outside work. I hope you have a most blessed week. Peace.