I posted last Sat. and on Sunday we went to church and then left for Georgia to see Doug's brother Dee. Us old folks take two days to drive to Georgia. Makes it more fun! We stayed overnight in Kentucky and then on to Conyers by 2 pm Monday afternoon. This visit saw us staying in the Retreat house and eating in the dining room. Doug's brother Rick and Judy arrived Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday morning Dee got a golf car and we drove through the woods collecting things to make an arrangement for the sanctuary and his Wed. final vows ceremony of monk becoming. We found lots of things and put together a wonderful "southern" flower arrangement which sat on the floor next to the altar. Dee's profession cermony began Wed. around 10 and was a beautiful service which now designates him as a cistersion trapist monk with the rule of Benedict and with the accompanying name of Bro. Cassion. We still call him Dee from time to time. He had that name for 62 years. Woo...celebration followed with about 120 friends all having a wonderful lunch together. Family and a few friends went out for supper Wed. evening. We pulled out of the monestary Thursday afternoon stopping in Tenn. for the night. Fri. morning we learned that bad storms were expected to hit southern Indiana but we felt that we would be past the storm area on our trip north. Horrible storms and many tornadoes did happen and we were about 2 hrs. ahead of them driving most of the way in hard rain. Good to be home with many, many lasting memories of folks who love and care for each other.
Sat. morning once again it was back in the car with a trip to Anderson Indiana attending a wonderful bell ringing workshop with two other groups lasting the entire day. Back home by 8:30...bed time and then the usual arrival at church by 7 AM today preparing hospitality time with the knowledge that this would be the first Sunday for our new minister Darren Cushman-Wood. It was a big celebration once again with good church, good music and with good friends. And...the afternoon has been spend SLEEPING, watching a little basketball with the big game between Purdue and I U coming at six and also a little thinking about quilts.
The last patch for the quilt has been finished and the need to buy 4 yards of white cotton fabric is waiting to assemble the quilt patches together with more patches. Crazy...to make a quilt...buy fabric...cut it appart...assemble it together and then do the rest of the stuff that needs to be done. I remembered that the fabric store is stuffed with people on Sundays so that fabric buying will not happen today. I hate those long lines. Maybe sometime this week at some point I'll head on out.
The two wonderful little Indiana grandsons sang a song in spanish in church this morning. There are about 6 maybe 7 in the group. 5 year old Andrew stood tall with perfect words. Almost 3 Noah was a little hesitant but did well. The choir had wonderful anthems. It was good church.
And prayers are needed for good friend Ellen Daniels-Howell who is in chemo therapy and hospitalized with an e-coli bacterial infection which has shone it's ugly self because of her inability to fight off that bug that usually is found in all of us. Chemo and a compromized imune system allows that bug to show it's ugly self. It's a long, long treatment time, 8 weeks with 4 huge treatments are finished and now comes 8 more weeks with weekly treatments after which there will be surgery and then radiation. What a bummer of a disease. She is the third friend at church who has cancer and is experiencing a heavy cancer treatment series...Carolyn with lung cancer and Janet with kidney cancer. Bummer, bummer.
Off to another week of doing with nothing much scheduled. Woo, woo. I'm sure that won't remain such.
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