Well Tuesday after a some what chilly start turned out to be very nice day with a breeze that kept it quite comfortable through out the day with no a/c on, an as night time drew it cooled down once again to sweater weather. I started the day much the usual with a well before 6 rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet time to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding as of this post.
We had a 10 pound pork butt roasting at 250 degrees in the oven over night and I wanted to get it on the smoker for a couple hours before I headed out to the Rec for pickle ball. The meat was just about to fall off the bone when I put it on the smoker and the apple wood flavor was awesome by the time I took it off around 10:30 and Nancy pulled it apart and put the meat in the fridge until later when our group came at 5:30. We had 5 folks to cancel for various reasons but still had a large turnout with 11 of us here for a delicious meal of pork, tater salad, asian salad, roast carrots and macaroni salad with 3 desserts. Nancy wasn't sure if Patrick was able to make it and he was bringing a store bought cherry pie plus Nancy made a coconut cake and a chocolate cake, oh well. I passed on the desserts except for a piece of chocolate cake.
After the meal we gathered around in the front room discussing last weeks sermon with questions about the message from Romans where Paul is expressing that faith is the only way to salvation through Jesus, not works or the obeying of the law and that gift was available to all. We gathered until it was going on 9'ish when everyone decided to leave except Dan and Carol who hung around for another hour. We gave away lots of desserts which was a blessing as I don't need the sugar and Nancy certainly doesn't despite her love of desserts.
I forgot to mention that pickle ball was once again very popular and on the advanced players day we had several waiting, so 5 of us took the net and played outside for an hour and a half. It was sunny with a breeze which made it challenging to say the least and we all left a little after 10, LATER
