Evidently a lot of the world celebrates St. Patrick's Day - it received a lot of coverage on the news, you could buy green t-shirts, hats, beads, buttons, socks and anything else you wanted - most with a leprecaun or four leaf clover on it. Both girls were to wear green to school today - the oldest found a green Christian t-shirt and the little one found a green shirt with a rainbow on it. We also had the all important stickers for her - I found some Trader Joe St. Patrick Day stickers in a book - must have been a couple of years old. She gave one to her bus driver and wore one on her shirt - the others went to school with her to give to friends who forgot to wear something green.
So the morning routine went well, the girls both wore green and the day started normally. Today was landscaping day out front - I wasn't really looking forward to it but I am happy with the way it turned out. After breakfast, I got two boxes together to ship to my wife and also two rather large clinical manuals she needed. I wound up double-wrapping them to make sure they stayed as safe as possible.
Had a good workout this morning - having the garage back to normal was very nice plus I now have an 80" screen to watch while I run!! Very nice indeed. It had been a few days since I ran on the treadmill and boy, did I ever feel it! But I survived. Fortunately I caught my breath and didn't sound like I was dying when my wife called. Her day was good but exceptionally hot.
Right after talking with her, I spoke with our pastor from the church in Maryland. We are driving up there Saturday to attend a memorial service for a friend who passed away several weeks ago - he was such a nice person and so enjoyable to be around - he would never allow me to walk to him, he would always insist he should walk to my pew and speak to the entire family. You have to remember he was in his mid 90's - I do so appreciate his character. And yes, we are bringing banana pudding.
From there it was off to the post office and then Lowe's to get the mulch. I spent the extra twenty cents per bag and got the reddish mulch that is guaranteed to stay red for one year - we'll see because last year that stuff turned brown shortly after the first rain - which around here is nearly every day! It takes 12 bags of mulch to properly fill in our landscaping beds. I also took care of that mess next to our front step by the water faucet - the builder put in these two nasty looking low shrubs and I've not enjoyed that area the entire time we've been here. I transplanted these two guys to the bigger bed next to my twisty tree at the end of the porch and I put in two rose bushes - one pink and one red. I'm hoping they bush up nicely and fill the area in - you really have to use your imagination because right now they look like hacked up stumps sticking out of the ground. I also attached the downspout extensions to the gutters. I will say all the work was definitely worth it - the front of the house looks terrific! I do have some work to the front yard left to do - in a couple of weeks I'm going to build up the bed around the two weeping cherry trees out front.
The little one got home just as I was putting the last of the downspout extensions on the gutters and she did the last one - I guess she has the right to claim the whole day's worth of projects! She had a good day at school and was in a good mood. From there, I moved into the garage and built a shelf to hold the projector and then loaded up the car for a run to Goodwill Thursday morning. The pastor and his wife stopped by to pick up the missionaries for supper and we chatted for a few minutes then they were off. They hung around long enough so the pastor's wife could welcome the oldest daughter off the bus from school and that was neat for her! Of course our dog has to be the center of attention and she just wants everyone to only pet her - what a mess she is!
Supper was good again!! I made thin sliced sirloin steaks, fried potatoes, alfredo noodles and green beans. Dinner conversation was good, got all caught up on the goings on at high school - not much has changed since I was in high school a few years ago!!
The evening service went well and the message was good. The missionary started out by showing slides and updating us on his work throughout the world. He has projects in Romania, Vietnam, the Philippines and Honduras - quite a wide spread operation. Then he moved into his message about Joseph from Genesis - mirrored my current series on Friday nights.
During the service, Dr. Yoho slipped in to hear the missionary speak. After service we had a chance to talk and he invited me to sit in on his class for a couple of hours Thursday morning which I will do.
We got home around 9pm and the girls were worn out. Their devotion was "Happily ever after" referencing Revelation 21:1-5 - it talked about how many story books end with "and they lived happily ever after" - nice to know we are aware of our happily ever afters as well. My devotion was from 2 Corintians 5:9 and titled the "worker's ruling passion." It was quite deep and talked about keeping your private life in order so your public life will reflect it.
Day Forty Four is in the books, here's looking forward to day Forty Five!
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