Servant Day.

Today...Saturday was servant day for many churches in Indianapolis.  About 40 folks from church fanned out to different sites to work on projects that were identified for the day.  Well...where did I go?  North's Soup Kitchen.  A bunch of new folks from church came to work and they seemed to enjoy the experience and it might be a go for this group of people when there are 5 Sat. in the month.  We had fun...worked hard and made a difference for neighborhood folks.  Then...where did I go.  Yup...Last Chance Goodwill.  This time...found yards of brown wool never used for anything.  Two wool skirts...one Pendleton Wool.  And then a stop at another store and found a wool blanket for 5.99.  Better and bigger...could be a queen size, than the one we have on the bed..So...I' adding an old blue wool blanket to the tub of wool.  Got some washing to do.  Could be a second rug coming.  Tomorrow will be a very busy Sunday at church.  Of course Hospitality time getting pastries ready for the morning.  We arrive at 7 to start the morning.  Singing both services, Taking new members on a tour of the church at 9:45 and a 10:20 choir rehearsal and then a committee meeting at 5 in the afternoon.    There is NO time to get into trouble. I hope I am at the right place at the right time. 

Wednesday.

Just got to say that the braiding continues on the rug.  But...need more wool so off to last chance goodwill again.  Now...I looked for a wool coat and found it in the first 5 minutes after arriving...Did I go home...NO.  So...kept looking...found two pr. of new dockers in Doug's size.  Snow suit for Jared when he drives the tractor this winter...or for Kimmy when she delivers sheep.  Flannel shirt for JB.  A sandwich toaster. Looks new.  I think it's makes Panenies  Humm...a pr. of fleece pants for me to wear in the house...Getting ready for winter.  I love that store...spend 14 dollars. 

This morning I once again filled two huge garbage bins with garden trash.  Got to keep going on that job.  I have another week to fill the last one.  Time to get rid of black eyed susans among other things.  Cleaning up flowerbeds tells me that the seasons are changing.  I like that.  Never bored.

Now down to the washing machine to rescue the black wool that I washed.  Coat is a has been.  More braiding soon.   

Sunday evening.

Well...after Wed. comes Thurs...So..of course...soup kitchen day.  Plenty of food and a good visit with my church neighborhood buddies.  The infection has gone away in the neighborhood buddy's finger.  He was so happy.  Saw him at church this morning and he if feeling wonderful.  So happy for him.  Choir practice Thurs eve.  Friday with the kids.  And Sat. a long day of choir retreat.  Good singing...good friends...good food and a nice cool place to sing.  It's been so HOT!  And continues until at least Thurs of this coming week.  Good church this morning.  Health and Healing Sunday.  Sang two wonderful anthems.  And then great football this afternoon and evening.  Colts won...Packers won...Can't get to much better.  The Braiding continues and today I started to lace the rug together.  Well, started yesterday but the rug wasn't looking right so did a little u tube hunting and decided to pull it all apart and start over with the lacing.  Better job the second time.  So...back to football and then to bed.  Tomorrow...visit to church to do some decorating.  I'm taking a wonderful driftwood piece that Jared found at Copper Harbor.  He thought I would be taking it to church...No way I said...It's in the garden.  So...now it will be at church.

It's Wednesday.

Since I wrote...
Humm...Monday.  :Oh, yes   Spent lunch with the girls.  We really had good talk and great food.  Rest of the day was sort of forgotten.  Humm...could be age and then could not be age.  My teacher friends say is it NOT age.  Tues...went to church and changed some of the stuff.  Ate a horrible meal at Soup Kitchen.  Those cooking folks are lazy.  No salad and no veg.  To lazy to make it and it's so easy.  Took one of my neighborhood buddy friends to the drug store to get him some ointment and band aids for a really, really badly infected finger.  Woo...he's been sick, in bed and I think the infection in this finger might have been the cause.  He said his whole hand was swollen.  Then to last change Goodwill.  Woo...sort of jack pot...picked up three wool new sport coats.  Guess those folks who shop at Goodwill don't have office jobs.  And I found a wool army blanket.  What a great find.  So...that leads to my bucket list.  I think braided wool rugs are just about the most beautiful eye candy around.  So...last week I got out my container of wool and started to braid after reading books.  And now the rug is about 15 inches across.  It's lying on the table and waiting for the lacing thread that I purchased on line.  Nothing found around here.  All that stuff comes from the New England states where braiding is king.  or maybe queen.  So waiting to lace meaning sewing the braids together.  It's really not sewing but lacing the loops together.  I learned something.  So today...getting more wool ready to braid  Lots of tearing strips.  SO!!!! To my few readers.  Send me your 100% wool.  Yes...I know...folks don't wear much wool these days.  I'll take the garment or blanket apart...wash it...tear it in strips ready to braid. Braid and lace and wallah...a rug.  And...color.  I don't care what color.  My next bucket thing is to learn how to dye wool.  The word is that it takes the dye very easily.  Humm...what's coming?  Google.  I think my Xmas list will include any old wool.  That is if I get asked what my Xmas list includes.

Sunday.

Another Colts game and we had a game until the last 10 minutes...It's not over till it's over.   Another chance next week.  Another week of stuff went by.  Soup Kitchen was BUSY and all the food was gone in 45 minutes.  Closed 15 minutes early.  Busy noisy morning.  The rest of the week was pretty ordinary.  October calendar on the weekends is crazy busy.  But...closed the last open weekend with a trip to see Jared/Kimmy etc. the weekend of the 14/15.  Yahoo.  We have a huge box of stuff I hope they can use on the loom.  Way to heavy to mail so that's one great reason to make the trip and at the same time we'll be coming home with honey to sell at the church bazaar the following weekend.  And need to get Kimmy's birthday gift to her.  To awkward to mail.
So the schedule from now until the last weekend in Oct. showing why the calendar is crammed.
Sept 23...All day Choir retreat
Oct 1...new members with tour of the church
Oct 7 and 8...Creation Care weekend.  All state conference at church and I'm decorating.
Oct 8...Andrew and Noah are acolyter's at the second service.  First time for them.
Oct 14/15...JARED and KIMMY family weekend.
Oct 21...Bazaar at church
Oct 29...big music Sunday...Stewardship Sunday.

Woo...Looking forward to a nothing doing weekend after getting through all that.

Tomorrow meeting my 3 good old buddies for lunch that I taught 1st grade with years and years ago.

Tues...need to work at church getting a few things ready for Creation Care weekend.  Always good to plan and work ahead.

Denver is whipping the Dallas Cowboys.  Yahoo.

Another Monday.

Sat...cleaned the kitchen...woo...I am determined to keep it looking spiffy.  Well all the cut zinnia's are helping in that regard.
I am worn out with hurricane news.  Way to much TV watching but for some reason I have got to know.  So much work to do in Florida and other places.  So...yesterday morning...church.  Great preaching on forgiveness and of course great music.  Choir is back until next July.  Saw lots of folks.  Watched the Colts.  What a bummer of a game so I spent most of the afternoon watching the Packers.  Now there is a team.  That is if I wasn't sleeping.  Funny how that happens on many Sun. afternoons.  This morning made a run to McFarlings for Soup Kitchen butter...greenbeans.  Got to keep that ministry going.  And I don't like to hear from our other cooking teams that we are out of something.  I can always substitute but that seems to be almost impossible for others.
The weather forecast   Rain and sure enough the sky has been white not blue all day and the clouds are from Irma.  This afternoon more white clouds and by tomorrow we should have rain.  We are desperate and my hope is that Irma behaves her self and gives us just the right amount.  We'll see.  Made chicken veg. soup this afternoon.  The first of the fall season.
That's what is happening so far this week.

Interesting Day.

Yesterday I decided to go to Last Chance Goodwill.  It's a great place to hunt through bin after bin of stuff that will eventually be packed up for somewhere else.  One pays by the pound.  I spent 3 hrs there just looking and looking and finding some really good stuff.  The bins are filled every 2 hrs and there are at least 80 bins.  Just a fun place when I'm really bored.  Spent 40 dollars and came home...looked on line for my finds and one thing was 100.00 dollars.  I bought 6 pr of jeans and discovered when I got home that 2 pr. fit Doug and 1 pr. fit me. That was not planned.  So...3 were gone from my project.  Found 2 NEW bras my size...that would have been at least a 50.00 purchase at Kohls.  And...spools of thread.  Woo...at least 30 new ones all different colors.  So...it was a fun day.  Today is Soup Kitchen...Farmers Mkt. at church.  I made 50 little bead bracelets that I'm giving to kids.  Well...probably 15 or so...And then first choir practice for the fall.  Supper provided.  That's great.  So...not a boring day.  Sometimes it's hard to keep me busy.  I hate that.  To much politics, DACA and hurricane news gets to me.  It's a sad time for lots of people.  But today the guys coming to soup kitchen will keep me busy.

Cooler days.

Yup...last night...wool blanket on the bed.  Well, the windows are open and the breeze is coming in.  So...wool blanket night for sure.  It was a cloudy, windy day.  Maybe a bit of Harvy.  Maybe not.  Not to much happening...made a wonderful black berry scone yesterday.  Yum, yum.  Took a piece to the neighbor where she added icecream on her scone for a wonderful lunch.  The entire scone was gone by supper.  Yum, yum.  At the Thurs. sale I had a blast giving little girls and boys...pony bead bracelets that came to the Farmer's Market with their parents.  So...last night made 30 more to give away in a couple of weeks.  A good place for all the pony beads that have been given to me.  So...moving them on to where they are loved.  Played Tonk with the grandsons.  They informed me more than once that it was not called Konk.  I think I've got it now.  What a good laugh.  Today we're going to a birthday party for Kat's 90 year old grandmother.  Other than that...the slate is clean for things to do.