A Mug Wrap Sis made today

We had heavy rain and flooding in the city and surrounding area today. Some areas got 8 to 10inches of rain and lots of roads and even Interstate 90 were closed down for awhile.

There were some high water rescues and a 16-year-old boy was swept away and hasn't been found. They searched for him for seven hours before quitting for the night. This partiucular incident wasn't directly caused by the rains though. He and some friends went swimming this morning and he got pulled under and swept away in the rushing waters.

I worked this morning and it was raining pretty hard when I left work. I was glad I only had a few blocks to drive. Sis had further to go and she had more trouble than I did, but we both did get home safely. I'm wondering ow the roof at the church fared with all this rain. The situation is getting worse and worse.

The rain has stopped for now, but more is expected over the weekend.

Sis has been working on the mug wraps after seeing the one that someone else made. Here is one she finished tonight.

Rainy Day

It is a very rainy day here...9:40 a.m. and looks like it is barely daylight. I woke up to thunder and lightning. Precious wasn't a bit eager to go outside this morning, but she finally did and came back inside very quickly.

There was a joint meeting of three committees at church yesterday evening and after much discussion, they voted unanimously to sell the parsonage and put our next pastor on a housing allowance. Hopefully they will be able to get enough from the sale to replace the roof on the church. It is in very bad condition.

Starting in June we will be sharing a pastor with two other churches, and sharing the cost of his salary. It will be interesting to see how it works out. There are a lot of pro's and con's, but in our current situation we have to try something different.

It's getting darker and darker. I think I'd better shut down this computer before a violent storm hits. It looks awful outside.

My right jaw is very tender this morning. I wonder if it could be my teeth causing it.

I went to the doctor after work this afternoon and got prescriptions for my blood pressure medication and Boniva. I'll get them filled tomorrow or the next day. I wasn't totally out of meds yet but close.

We had some more of the olive cheese pasta for supper and some leftover dried lima beans.

Monday, May 10, 2010

I tried a new recipe for supper tonight...called Olive Cheese Pasta

I cooked some spaghetti and made the sauce as follows:

1 (8 oz.) pkg cream cheese
1/3 cup green olives, chopped
2/3 cup almonds, chopped
2 tblsp juice from the green olives.

The original recipe called for much more olives and almonds, but I cut it back and it tasted great.

I put the 1/3 cup of olives and 2/3 cup of almonds in the food processor and chopped them up, then stirred them and the juice into the cream cheese in a separate bowl. I warmed it a bit in the microwave, then let it sit on the warming tray until we were ready to eat. I stirred it into the bowl of cooked spaghetti when we were ready to eat. We both enjoyed it. There is some leftover for another meal. It might even taste good as a cold spaghetti salad.

We had some leftover peas and some pickled beets in the refrigerator, so we had that for supper too.

Sun, May 8, 2010

This picture of Calvin was taken Saturday, May 7th.



This picture of me was taken after I got home from church this morning.


The pastor gave each of the ladies a periwinkle plant for Mother's Day.

We went to Snogas for lunch. I had the turkey plate.

May 6, 2010 - 8:45 p.m.

I just took this picture with my webcam at 8:45 p.m. Calvin, looking very regal as he sat on end of my desk.

Before I left for work this morning I put some dried lima beans in the crockpot with a leftover pork chop. Tonight I baked a skillet of cornbread to have with them. It was very good.

I went to the bank and then got groceries after I got off work this afternoon.

The Chronological Bible I ordered through e-bay came today.