This will be the fastest blog ever because I must get to bed on time.  That means I have 12 minutes.

This is Sunday Sabbath.  My favorite day of the week because I love to go to church and then spend time with the Lord in the peace and quiet of my library, which unfortunately sits quietly at my home, empty and alone.  The good thing is, is that God is here with me in Orange County California.  It is just a little more difficult to find peace and quite, not to mention solitude.  No ones fault but my own.  I don’t want to miss anything.  Even now I sit at the central location of the home, the dining room table.  Bob works on his computer at the opposite end of the table.  A big artificial fern sits in the middle of the table obscuring our view of each other.  He is quiet.  The T.V. is not.  Linda is doing what women of the house do, being constantly busy.  She has a big day tomorrow as the news crew from the Orange County Register will be here as well as her sons to do the interview regarding the Mother’s Day article to be published.

My trip to my cousin Mary in Tehachapi will not be happening.  The reason being, I forgot to call her back to confirm the date and since she hadn’t heard from me she and her husband went on a trip.  I will be so sorry to miss seeing her.  I haven’t seen her since the reunion in Russellville 4 years ago.  I told her what  I really wanted was to come and see her quilts.  She makes the most spectacular quilt designs.  I’ve only seen pictures and really wanted to see them up close and personal.  (I hope you know I was kidding when I said I wanted to see the quilts more than her).

I will be leaving So. California on Tuesday morning. I will be driving at Yosemite National Park area to see my Aunt Georgia and Uncle Jetton.  I look forward to arriving as they already have a houseful of company and it will be exciting to see everyone.  If I am not mistaken my Aunts, Vela and Annie will be there when I arrive.  Jetton told me on the phone to get there as early aspossible as they are expecting a lot of people over to their house on Tuesday evening and would be having music and a dinner.  Music means getting the guitars out and the southern voices blending into beautiful harmonies.  Lots of music in my mom’s family, singing and picking.  It is always a fun time.

Enough about tomorrow, back to today!

Up at 6:00 a.m.  Showered and readied myself for the first church service with Betts.  I actually arrived at  her house ON TIME!  I attended church with her at the United Methodist  Church in Tustin Ca.  Excellent service and good teaching.  Pastor started a new series today on “UN-CHRISTIAN”, the cause of why those who are not Christian do not want to be.  He will talk about all the reasons the unbeliever does not want to be a believer after being around those who claim they are Christians.  Very sobering.

After service Betts and I drove over to St John’s Lutheran Church of Orange to join Linda and Bob at their church.  Again, another great place to worship.  St. John’s is quite a campus.  There is a preschool there as well as Kindergarten through 8th grade school.  The school has over 700 students and the preschool has over 150 children.  We enjoyed a singing concert this morning of the entire Kindergarten class.  It was unbelievable.  Words sang with the sweet pure diction of children who are taught to speak well.  .  The children were amazingly well behaved.  When they filed down from the stage they all sat in rows of reserved seats for the rest of the service (and sermon) without a peep.  We were sitting behind them.  They then filed back up tp the  stage at the end and performed once more.  Again, once it was over they filed out respectfully and orderly all the way down the long side aisle to the outside.  There were between 50 and 60 children all Kindergartners.  Very impressive behavior for children so young.

On the way from the car to the Lutheran church Betts and I met an interesting group of…well, let’s put it this way…it was a group.  This group was on the front porch of a house.  One skeleton (with clothes on) two “older men”, one Mastiff that probably outweighed me.  His name was Newman.  Newman was a giant of a dog.  I wish I had taken a photo with him,  My face was probably less than half the size of his face and my head a lot smaller than his.  He was amazing and so docile and gentle.  This place had a detached garage full of beautiful relics of the past.  I had my picture taken in an old old buggy.  There was also a 1926 fully restored Buick that was built like a limousine inside.  It was so beautiful.  It is so fun to meet such interesting people and interesting dogs while walking to church.

By the way my time is up and I’m not quite finished.  So I’ll speed on ahead.  Betts and I came back to the house and I made a lunch for Betts.  It was a good one too but remember not all people appreciate the kind of foods I like to eat.  Cooked trout, crumbled with avocado slice on top.  The bread was some of Bob’s friends bread and so delicious.  We had salad with kale, cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts.  I also served small carrots, a strawberry and half of an orange.

After lunch we went to a Goodwill Store and had fun browsing.  I only bought one book for $.89 so I could give it to someone.  God will direct as to who will receive it.

Then,  we went to church again.  The concert was at the church Betts attends.  It was mostly middle aged to older men and women and they did an excellent job.  Quite a list of the old old songs of yesteryear”  like “Gimme that old time religion…”  It was very good.  Aftewards we went back to Betts’ to pick up my car, drove to Linda’s and she  had a delicious dinner waiting for us.  We had roasted pork, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, asparagus, bread, and oranges (fresh ones off a tree).  Oh my, it was good!  Better than good.  Betts left for home and here I am.

A fun day to let happen around me.  Thanks for listening.  Pretty boring I suspect, but still good for me to log it so I will remember it.

Good night