Well here are a couple days of thoughts from Sat. and Sun. as I skipped the Sunday morning post due to the load in at the college for BridgePoint Church. Sat. was a gorgeous day and with no humidity, bright sunshine and blue skies with a nice gentle breeze. I piddled around the house during the early morning hours before heading over to the neighbor behind me to get his blessing for removing the huge vine that was destroying the wooden fence between us with its weight and clinging ability to the old wooden slats which was actually eating away the wood. Anyhow I spent the next four hours or so in his yard (as he has some health issues) removing this vine and then tossing it over the fence so I could cut it up and get rid of it with my trash collectors over the next week or so. This vine was huge and as large around as my arm in places. I hope to get another year or so before having to put up another new fence that separates out yards.
That job kept me busy until it was time to clean up and get ready to head to the Ross's house to celebrate little Eliza Faye's 5th birthday with a supper of smoked chickens and all the fixin's as well as a party with Bobby and Gabe, the Austin Everett family as well as aunt Betsy. What a feed Amy and Tyler put on and Eliza was a diva to say the least with her crown. She is just so cute and precious as are all of the kiddo. It was going on 9 before we left and headed home as I had an early morning rise for the load in.
BridgePoint was also busy with lots of new faces and families as well as several new volunteers. We are hoping for a building where we can put down our roots as the weekly load in and load out does get old but we have a great bunch of volunteers who make it happen as we drawn new folks to the gospel. We had our largest second service ever as well as a near full house for the early service and many of our regulars where out of town. We really enjoying serving with so many folks who make this happen every week as well as the Life Groups and study courses offered weekly. We got back to the house around 1'ish and settled into a garden salad for lunch instead of eating out as we want to cut down on our carbs as much as possible as the night before we splurged with mac and cheese, baked bread and I had a bowl of ice cream but did forgo the birthday cake, oh well.
I settled into the playoff games and then we ate some shrimp with cocktail sauce for our supper around 6 and then I headed into the shower and watched the Lightning lose big time in N.Y. They played back to back games and were worn out after a great win the night before. It was their first lost in a dozen or more games and our record is still the best in all of the NHL. I'm hoping this is our year to win the Stanley Cup, LATER
