Good Wednesday morning. Thankfully this is one of the few ease into the day mornings we've had in a while. There is always something that needs attention or needs to be taken care of. Oh, yes, there is still all those types of projects, right now they are not time urgent. Yes, for this we give thanks.
Sunday night was a special night for Roy, well I guess for both of us. He had been asked several months ago if he would consider being put on the ballot to be a deacon. He and several others were voted in, only Roy and one other candidate had never been ordained. All the years at First Baptist, he had no desire to be a deacon mainly because he didn't have any time to give to it. In his thinking he did not need another business meeting to attend, having enough of those at the office. The service was touching and heartfelt. The other man's grandfather gave a short talk on the calling and service of deacons. The grandfather, a pastor over in the Piedmont area, was truly moved and blessed by his grandson's ordination. Our pastor spoke a few words and then the whispered prayer thing over the candidates. Pastor with heart and common sense, they let them sit on chairs for the prayers. Afterwards our pastor's wife was teasing me about being a deacon's wife now and we laughed because she doesn't always fit in the pastor wife box. Roy says we are so much alike. Hmmmm....I agree, except I am not organized. I still need to give her the book Roy gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago on goals. My goal is not to lose the book and so far I have met that goal.
There are kittens galore in the garage and on the driveway. This is an adventurous group or rather groups of kittens. Tupac and Cutie are the moms and the babies are probably days apart in age. We had some pretty good rain this afternoon and today, most of those kittens hightailed it to the garage. Yesterday, Roy was out there drying off kittens left and right. In the joy of these kitties is the sadness of Sweetie. I believe she is facing her last days. She, one of the most beautiful members of the Feral Fam. A good heart, spending time with Toupee, who didn't have many cat friends. Sweetie watched over her. Sweetie lost her kittens and I don't know how or when and that deeply affected her. She constantly carried about others kittens. She fed these kittens as well as some too old to be nursed. It seems the target of KH is a cat that is male or I have shown favor toward. Neither of this is true in her case. KH is lying low these days and only shows up at mealtime. So, to counter his timing we have been serving food at different times to throw him off and keep him out of here.
It is not for the faint of heart to go to old people discount day at Publix, I mean Wisdom Wednesday. Focused and narrow focused oldies but goodies are out for the discount. Not that we aren't but you know....I would like to think we are not as bad as those observed. Add to that several Instacart shoppers as well as those shopping for a big trip or gathering. One cart of people, I called them the swarmers. It mattered not where we were in the store, whatever we were looking at was on their shopping list too. Roy made a slight adjustment on a turn to throw them off the path, we forgot bacon, and when doing so two packs of AHA water flew off the bottom of the cart and when I came around the corner, I tripped over one of the water packages and caught myself by the cart handle. So thankful that Roy was holding onto the cart or I might have sailed over to the bacon. Yes, I could bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and be in a cast from tripping over cans....cause I'm a woman! Old-woman who has been working on her balance.
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Foggy Friday morning. While we wait for Waste Pro to deliver new garbage cans cause they wrecked the ones they gave us and while they make some excuse everyday that Roy calls, we will have to make a trip to the landfill this morning. Yesterday, the excuse was the delivery truck broke and is in the shop. That's a rather good excuse and so we shall see what excuse is used today.
Last night we discovered one of the kittens who either wandered off or his mom toted him off from the others and he was in bad shape. From the look of things and after doing several hospice times with a few other kittens, he was not long for this world. He didn't need to go out in the shape he was in so we cleaned him up, tried to help him not be in pain and sat with him. I swaddled him in a couple of towels. He spent some time with his siblings who had sat with him in the past. I wrapped him up better and he pulled his paw out of the towel and touched my hand, then laid back his head. I am taking it as a thank you. Because of his condition, we got everyone out of the garage, cleaned it out once again and this time getting rid of anything we felt might draw flies and fleas. We sprayed Wondercide this week outside and inside the garage. We did it again last night for the garage and closed the door. Everyone had to stay outside last night but we reopened the cat houses for them. We also shampooed all the kittens and sprayed them with the lovely scent of peppermint Wondercide spray and put them in the heated cat house to keep them warm after a bath. They all cuddled together and we made sure their mama knew where they were. With all the work that we did, feeling buggy and sweaty, we threw our clothes into the washing machine with the extra strength, sanitizing detergent and got them washed. We both felt much better after taking showers.
I had the boys out back on the porch for most of the afternoon and now I know why. While they played and then sat and then begged for treats, I worked on the lesson for Sunday. II Kings 7 and once again I thought, Lifeway, why did you pick this particular chapter but this week as I have read and studied, there is much more than what a first read through gives. It seems the right thing to do to compare Elijah and Elisha and how they were used so differently by the Lord. Elisha had a totally different background than Elijah and moved in society with a better understanding of people and systems than Elijah.
Off to run errands and such.
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