BLACK DIRT AND CANASTA

And today we shopped for black dirt mixed for gardens and paving to build up new herb garden…8 inches or so high.


And then on to replenish larder….
How sweet it is!

And in grocery store found a new Picoult novel….Between the Lines….
Just finished large swaths of the Oxford History of Christian Worship….

Something light is now in order.

Maybe.

Found  book in the grocery book section…right near the restrooms…..

Ok, I recommended it to Dear Wife…and then thought the jacket summary sounded fun.

We’ll see.

Need to order the yard stuff…perhaps tomorrow…retaining blocks first, then dirt.
I must say, a cigar would definitely taste good.

Have to make a tobacco run.
But now it is late….and there is a canasta game to resurrect and practice before inviting friends over….friends who do not require an electronic game.

Canasta takes this Old Fella back to the ‘50’s…..

Gotta go….

More later…

47th ANNIVERSARY

47 years on 14 August.
How time flies!

Nearly half a century gone by o so quickly in hindsight.

On Sunday we worshipped in the church where we were married.
The Sanctuary had been redone seven years ago…but our wedding chapel was unchanged.

All these years, it has been so close by…and only now have we revisited.

And yesterday, 14 August, the Anniversary day, we took a day trip to a city with a 100+ year old restaurant from our past; a store we needed/wanted to visit; and as a bonus found another selling Egyptian papyrus and hand-made paper from Katmandu, to name but two fascinating joys.

We drove and talked and laughed and reminisced and prayed….

Today we’ll call Texas and reconnect with our Best Man and Maid of Honor….

Bless their hearts….
A year ago we visited….

A prayer once again comes to mind:

This is the day the Lord has made
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Amen.

NOT EVERY POLITICAL ENDOREMENT IS WELCOME

Candidate Romney is now well into his pre-election foreign tour and we have been told that not all has been smooth sailing.
We have watched respected analysts express dismay at the reactions of various foreign leaders and foreign media outlets to some Romney expressions of opinion.
And we too wondered at how unfortunate for our candidate.

And then a different thought occurred.

We remembered that maybe, just maybe, a negative reaction to our national candidate might not be all that bad.
We recalled that many foreign governments and media fairly salivated over b.o.
Some did not.

We at The Study did not and now our reservations have been confirmed by experience of nearly four years.
We were right and the salivators were wrong.

Fact.

And the foreigners who had reservations about b.o. just might be the allies with the clearest vision.

And so we suggest that maybe it is a good thing that the foreign admirers of b.o. do not care for the honesty of our hoped-for-next President.

Perhaps it is ok if those who adore the present President do not similarly adore his political opponent.

Not every political endorsement is worth having.