Friday evening and another week is winding down quickly. It has been an up and down week but I’m glad to say that Ms. Kate is doing so much better. Today we even went out for breakfast. It wasn’t a special trip but we were out already for an appointment and decided to stop for breakfast before heading home. It was our first breakfast run since before Thanksgiving. 

It has been a “warm” (42 degrees) day and the temps are heading back down because the sun is almost down and it is cloudy, a light rain and 4:00 in the afternoon. This was our warm day until next Wednesday. Sop what do you do with a rainy afternoon, —- laundry of course. Thank goodness the “hang the laundry out on the clothesline” days are long past us. This way all the laundry is done for the week. I do the laundry most of the time because I don’t really mind doing it. Kate has a hard time getting the clothes out of the bottom of the washing machine. She has to use a set of tongs to get the off of the bottom. Besides, I’ve been helping do the laundry since I was a kid. And in those days we did have a clothesline; outside for sunny days and in the basement for rainy or freezing cold days. In my youngest days my folks had a ringer washer with two tubs for rinse water. I wasn’t allowed to use the ringer washer. Then my folks got a new washer and dryer.  There is a lady across the way that still hangs her laundry out on a line and I think she does wash every day. She watches her three grandkids a few days a week and I guess she washes their clothes every day. 

Dis I tell you that I have a few preaching days coming up? I will be preaching at Ft. Branch at my former parish on February 1st. Then I got a call from a church on the east side of town looking for a pastor. Their pastor had suddenly retired due to health reasons and they were trying to fill Sundays especially during the Lenten and Easter season. I agreed to fill the last three Sundays in March. I’m really looking forward to that. They would have been happy if I would have agreed to serve as the interim pastor for awhile but I’m really not interested in serving in a full time position. And, I suspect that they would not have been real happy with me in the long run because I’m not in tune with the liberal policies of the United Church of Christ. I think they are an “O&A church”. Besides —— I have gotten real used to this retirement thing. LOL

That’s it for this Friday. I hope you will have a blessed weekend and I pray you will take the time to get in touch with the God that has blessed you all week. Peace.