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Hosted by Susanne!

This week things have calmed down and I am feeling much better about church life.  Yes, our  beloved pastor   is still leaving in two weeks  and we will be going through the long process of  pastor  search, but I have overcome  the other  problems that were plaguing me  about  some of the  ministry issues  I won't go into.  I believe that now that covid  is  sort of behind us and people are coming back to church  things are really looking up!  I pray Lord   the usual  thing of people leaving the church  when I pastor leaves will not effect our body!  I really think I had  been walking by sight there for a while. Now I choose this!

So last week we were working diligently to purge items from our basement storage room.  This week I have been working on the book case in the den.  We have so many books from the 50 years of our marriage and I  have always had a hard time getting rid of  those Ive read or  even the ones I have received as gifts that I know I'll never read.  As long as there was room on the book case I'd just  put it in line with the rest!  Well, who knows   the future  .. Suddenly we may  need to make a home change,  and  then    what an ordeal to  attend to.  So  after a long day of it yesterday I have 5 boxes to  donate.And I've freed up several  shelves..  but I have about  4 other bookcases around the house.  I found a box load of antique books  I am hoping to take to an antique book  store and perhaps get a bit of  money for.  Several of the books a re quite nice...  not  a fortune's worth,  but I just hate to see them end up  in the trash bin at the salvation army.

I even    tossed  all of my high school and college  year books.. But not before we went back and reread all the  fabulous sentiments!  

 I have also purged  my cd's  which has  opened up both space on the book shelves, and  the drawer in the  tv center. I have finally come to the place where I am loosing my grip on  my life's  collections.  I now have 6  large bags of  books  ready to donate..   I dread the day I must  loose  my  grasp on my  dish collection.  So far  I  am able to retain those. I so wish my daughter loved them  like I do.  She probably would if she    were a bit more mature in her home  situation.   She just now is  denying   furniture from  Ikea!  Maybe one day she will appreciate  good  solid wood   traditional  furniture...  One can hope!

Next Sunday will be our pastor's last Sunday and we are planning a lovely  reception for him.  We having finger  foods  catered and I am doing two   fresh flower arrangements for the food tables.  My blue hydrangeas are blooming.  I hope  this continuing rain doesn't beat them down too much.. I also plan to get some roses from Fresh Market and  a couple of batches of fresh flowers from Krogers.  I think it will be lovely. This week  while shopping at  the consignment shop I  was so fortunate to find two  glass vases almost exactly alike for just $1.50 apiece. Thank you, Lord.

I  look forward  to  getting my flowers at the market this next week!

I am so happy,  Lynn     became enthused  over  some new dress shirts  we found on line  from Paul Frederick..  these shirts  usually  run for $ 95.00, because they are so exquisitely  made. But last week they were on sale for   $59.00  so I ordered 5 of them for  Father's Day. He needed  to replace  several shirts.. He was like a boy in a candy store when he opened  them this week.  Now to decide which one to wear on Father's Day!