the weekend & Monday

The 4-hour "treatment" at Beau Monde on Friday was wonderful! The problem is you don't know what you are missing until you've experienced it once -- then you know! I'm not sure whether to thank the friends who gave me the package as a gift again -- or blame them for introducing me to how "the other half" lives!

Saturday, I ended up starting to do some of the yard work needed at my new home on Glenmoor. I spent 6.5 hours triming trees & one section of hedge that had overgrown a corner to the point you couldn't mow around it. Well, really it was a little over 2 hours trimming - and the rest cutting up the limbs & pieces into sizes I could bag or bundle in a way that the trash service will pick them up. What fun! I had thought I could do all of that and the weeding "in a couple of hours" and then go do a little at the house on Stoneborough. So much for my time estimates! I was "one tired pup" (as a friend of mine says).

On Sunday, we had a fellowship dinner after church. I've been going to the church in Ark City for almost a year now and this is the first one I have been able to attend for one reason or another. This one was a cookout. It was good to get to visit a little with some of them.

Then I came back to Wichita and went by to visit my friend's brother. He had been having a rough day. He can't keep anything down, which means he continues to lose weight and get weaker.

Today, I attended the funeral for the little boy I wrote about yesterday. It was a very sad situation. The great-uncle (mother's uncle) who did the service really did an excellent job of speaking about what his short life had meant, the people it had impacted, and our Hope for the future. The whole service was very well done. It focused on worship and hope.