Saturday afternoon

Wed morning

We have had brief but heavy rainstorms every evening for the last few days. There has been no thunder, lightning, or flooding, so it has been refreshing to our plants and not threatening. I have been home from work before the rains came each day, so I am thankful for that too.

Williamsburg Chicken

Update: The chicken dish turned out great. I didn't put the almonds in, added a few dry bread crumbs, and sprinkled shredded cheese on the top. I'll try it again sometime to take to a church covered dish meal.

Here's a recipe I found on Nancyland that I plan to fix for supper tonight.

Williamsburg Chicken

2-3 cups cooked chicken
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped onion
3 boiled eggs
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 pkg. slivered almonds-optional
2 cups crushed potato chips

Mix all together- (save a few chips & almonds for top)

Bake @ 350 for 25 minutes. Can be served hot or cold.



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Sunday evening

Today was really busy. I went to the church at 7:00 a.m. to turn on the air conditioning in the sanctuary and then worked in the fellowship hall and kitchen helping to decorate the tables, made the coffee and tea, and receiving food as people brought it in on their way to the morning service. Sis and another lady came in and helped. Sis decided to stay and help instead of going to her own church today.

This was the Sunday that all three of the churches met for a joint worship service. There were 121 there, which was a very good crowd. We normally have from 48 to 54 when it is just our own congregation. Most of them stayed for the dinner afterward.

After it was over, several of them helped with the clean-up. By that time Sis and I were plenty tired, so we were glad for the help. By the time we got home around 1:30 p.m., we were totally wiped out.

Shortly after we got home, another rainstorm came through. I was glad it didn't happen earlier. According to the weather forecast this evening, this could continue with these sudden showers for the next few days. It has cooled the temperatures somewhat, so that is nice. That is three evenings straight that we have had short but heavy rainstorms.

Saturday evening

So far our weekend has not been particularly exciting. We received notification a couple of days ago that in a little over a week, the city will be picking up brush in our neighborhood. They do this twice a year. Early this morning we trimmed trees and bushes and carried all of the debris to the curb.

Then I cleaned the garage, changed the air conditioner filters, and did three loads of laundry. The last load is drying right now.

We just got another heavy rain. After the sudden rainstorm last evening, I thought it might not rain again over the weekend. I guess I was wrong.

I hope not to find the fellowship hall at church flooded when I go down tomorrow morning to prepare for the covered dish luncheon. I will certainly be glad when the roof project is finished. The church was built In two sections and I think the new roof is just to replace the one over the oldest section. It will be quite expensive, so it is a good thing that the parsonage was sold to pay for it.

The plumeria plant in our back yard is really looking good after the rains we have gotten lately. Rain seems to have extra nutrients that the plants don’t get by hand-watering. The rain seems to have stopped. I wonder if we will get any more overnight.

We had homemade potato-cheese soup for supper, with chunks of challa bread. It was delicious.

Friday morning

It is sunny and around 80 at 11:00 a.m. I only work a half day on Fridays and this morning has been relatively quiet. I’ve updated the checkbooks and Quick Books; typed minutes of the latest committee meeting, caught up on the filing, answered numerous phone calls and checked on the people on the sick list.

Wednesday

We got a lot of heavy damaging rain yesterday and there is a 60% chance of more today, according to the forecast. Rain blew in the church in places that hadn't been leaking before and we've got water all over the building in different places. It's a real mess. None in the office, though. It even blew in around the edges of the stained glass window in the sanctuary and soaked the big Bible that was on the altar table by the pulpit.

When Sis was going home yesterday, she turned on a side street and there was a large tree down across the street so she had to turn around and go back to another street. Many trees and large branches were down throughout the city, and a lot of people lost their electricity. Ours went out at least long enough that we had to reset the electric clocks.

There were so many roads and intersections closed due to high water yesterday that the city ran out of the road closed signs and had to order 150 more brought in.

At our house we had some smaller branches down but nothing like I saw on TV and around other streets. We got more rain with thunder and lightning during the night, but I didn't go out and check the back yard before I left for work this morning, so I don't know if we have any more down.

One lady I was talking to on the phone a few minutes ago said they got 3 inches at their house yesterday and another 3 inches overnight.

The Methodist church in LaVernia, Texas about 20 or 30 miles from here, lost its roof in 70 per mile winds overnight. It stripped it right down to the wood framework. It showed pictures of it on the internet news this morning.

We did have a sunny afternoon, but more rain is forecast for tonight and it has been thundering.

Sis bought a flag today and hung it on the front of the house.