Wednesday and Thursday

Nancy has retired from her fellowship meal cooking at SFBC. Wow we often talked about having to face this decision the last couple of years. Really the only draw back was locking us into a weekly commitment from the first of November until the middle of May. Now with this freedom to come and go as we choose, we will be able to take off for the mountains whenever and possibly stay longer into November. We had a great time with the kitchen duties and felt it was a great service to serve many from our church and even a few non-members. What great relationships we made and will always cherish those friendships; but with 2 new grand girls and with helping out with Bobby's Element Church in Tampa, we felt it was the right time to hang up the apron's. Thank you SFBC for the generous and sweet gift cards. We will always have a soft spot in our hearts for you.

Wednesday evening after cleaning up the kitchen for the final time and getting home we had a very hard down pour of wet delicious rain. It rained off an on most of the evening and was most welcomed. This evening about 8 PM it started raining again and it continues as I write this. There have been some heavy down pours with severe thunder and lightning. Luckily we have had no damage or flooding but Tampa did sustain some flooding to the Element warehouse. Bobby said it took him quite awhile to finally get the floor moped and dried.

Thursday was much the usual with; quiet times, pickle ball for me, Nancy on the treadmill at the rec., Ava and Amy for lunch and feeding our neighbors Jim and Laurie's salt water fish while they are on a cruise(Ava loves to help me do this). After getting suitcases and tubs down from the attic so we can start to pack for the mountains, I then began calling and making address changes to our accounts, mail forwarding and magazine subscriptions. So much to do and that it really is finally getting close to heading north to the high country and our mountain cabin. It is a totally different lifestyle. I read a book here nearly everyday; there I doubt if I read one in a week.

Well I will close for now LATER