Weekend Review

Yesterday was Georgetown Day, the town festival. Main Street is closed off and is taken over by booth from local shops, organizations and people selling stuff along with multiple bands, a chili cook-off, bingo and much more. Bethlehem has a booth every year where we sell bake sale goodies and raise money for local food pantries.

New this year was a lollipop tree hosted by the Sunday school to raise money to remodel the basement.  I was shocked how well the lollipop tree did but it was also because among the 250 suckers were 4 that were marked to win Silly Bandz.  (If you don't know what Silly Bandz are check out their Facebook page.)  Each sucker got a prize, but most were mark with temporary tattoos, stamps and squishy animals whose eyes pop out when you squeeze them.

By the end of the day we were getting a little silly - 11:30 til 7 is a LONG time!  So Victor, one the members of the congregation need a picture of the pastor, in her clerics, under the Budweiser sign.  (The church's booth was located across from the Lion Club's beer tent)

And the kids went and collected about every freebie they could get.

Oh and titled this post "Weekend Review" not that I have much else to add about the weekend, it was pretty boring - Friday hung around the house and went and finally saw Iron Man 2 and Saturday I spent most of the day working getting stuff ready for worship and Georgetown Day.  But Saturday night we did eat the first bounty of our garden - a fresh spinach salad made with some of the 6 plus quarts of spinach we harvested earlier that afternoon.

I can't wait to eat more from the garden!

Birthday Weekend

This last weekend was my birthday.  Bob and I spent most of the long weekend celebrating (though I did work on my actual birthday on Sunday). 

Friday, I ended up working a bit since last week I was gone a lot.  That afternoon we ran some errands and then had dinner and a Dr. Who marathon with some friends.

Saturday we went to Gillette Castle with the dogs. On the way there we drove through Chester which was having a town-wide tag sale.  So we stopped and walked around and had lunch.  After a few other stops at various small stores we made it to the castle. 

I could not get over the view. 

Other than a few mishaps at the beginning of the trip, the dogs did very well in the car. 

Sunday was worship, lunch with one of the church family's and then sitting outside reading and enjoying the beautiful weather.

Monday we went to the Memorial Day parade in Wilton which is the quintessential small town parade. I think just about every kid in town marched with one group or another.  We also took down one of the bushes next to the house. 

Sorry this is only the before shot.  The tall bush is gone using the pruner and saw that Bob got me for my birthday.  Yes I am that weird that I wanted tools for my birthday.  Now only 25 more bushes to go (but those will wait till fall). 

Monday afternoon/evening we went to a friend's house for a graduation/memorial day celebration.

Overall it was a wonderful relaxing weekend.  Now onto my next adventure: synod assembly. 

Spring has sprung?

It seems that lately I have fallen a bit behind with my blogging that is not related to sermons. But I have lots to share. So hopefully over the next few days I'll catch up.

First up: my garden!

A few weeks ago I got these in the mail:

However that same day it looked like this outside: (sorry for the meshy pattern - it was take through a screen).

By my spring fever and gardening plans have slowly been festering within me.

Since then, Bob and I have cashed in our credit card points for Home Depot gift cards and went one mini shopping spree getting stuff ready for our future garden. Unfortunately it rained most of the weekend so the stuff is only our porch waiting to take form:


This last weekend we also started our first seeds; eggplant:

Soon we will hopefully have eggplants as well as tomatoes, peppers (bell and hot) butternut squash, potatoes, onions, carrots, spinach, and a variety of herbs.