Good morning new world! I missed any or all of the rain that we had last night but this morning is a beautiful morning. I’m sitting at my kitchen table watching the wrens come and go at the feeder just outside in the azalea bush. The eastern sun has risen over the roofs across the street and the wet leaves are glistening like diamonds. I had not realized how much the trees have leafed out. Nor had I realized that some of the trees are already blooming. A second neighbor across the street has a tree that always blooms a very pretty white bloom for about a week each spring. I have no idea what kind of tree it is. It doesn’t seem to have gotten much taller in the 20 years we have lived here because I know he doesn’t trim it back. He doesn’t do anything in his yard except mow it once in a awhile. And — I’m not complaining; it’s his yard. But the fellow that lived there before him kept a meticulous yard. People probably talk about my yard too as it goes from bad to good to bad to good. 

I had a productive day yesterday. I’ve been trying to decide about what I want to do for my Easter Sunrise service. I had thought that maybe since we no longer have a choir that I would use a CD that had a cantata on it. But, I didn’t really find one that I liked in the filing cabinets. I even asked the choir director at Zoar if they had anything. She brought me one to listen to but I didn’t like it either. Back in 2014 I put together a cantata myself. I wrote all of the narrative and found the appropriate songs in our hymnal to go along with the narrative and the choir did a wonderful job. So, —- I decided that this year we will do an all congregational cantata. I tailored the narrative from the 2014 version, changed  some of the hymns and we will all sing as a congregational choir. I needed a narrator for the event and I asked one of the young ladies to narrate it and she willingly accepted the job. Sometimes —- all you have to do is ask! So, Easter Sunrise service is ready to go. Now, I just have to prepare my regular Sunday service and sermon for Easter services and I’ll be good to go for a few weeks. 

I have a pan of Pillsbury Orange rolls in the oven at the moment. I love those silly things. I definitely prefer the orange rolls to the cinnamon variety. Something has changed about them though because they are hard as heck to take apart in their dough form. They have a “perforated” line around them so that you should be able to easily tear them apart but but they just don’t. I end up with some weird shaped rolls. This morning I just decided that I would cut them apart and put them in the pan. The trials of being a chef — LOLOL. 

We need to go to the bank today and I think we still need to go to Sam’s Club. We never did make it there. I guess it proves that sometimes we don’t need stuff as much as we think we do. My biggest reason for going is that we need more AA batteries. I know I could get them else where but they are definitely cheaper at Sam’s. Although, once you figure out the cost of driving across town in the price, —- I’m sure it is just an illusion. And I’m sure Ms. Kate will “have a list” of stuff that she has yet to tell me about. And, —- I always find something that I suddenly can’t live without. We’re like kids at the checkout lane sometimes. 

That’s it my friends for this wonderful Thursday that God has given us to do something with. Let’s make the best of it and do something good for somebody today. Have a blessed day; Peace.