Sunday

Well the day started out with bright sunshine but cold temp's for Florida and some patchy frost. My garden was spared once again even though I never covered it with blankets. After our quiet times and a bowl of oatmeal with banana, blueberries and strawberries with a sprinkle of cinnamon we got ready to head out to Tampa for worship at Element Church. Were we ever surprised when we pulled into the parking lot to see Nancy's first cousin Tom and his wife Kathy Cumpson who were visiting the Sarasota area from Pennsylvania. They had visited Element last year with his folks(Daryl and Warnie) and seem to really like it which really surprised us. We weren't too sure how they would enjoy contemporary music but it seems to be what they were looking for. They especially liked the non formal attire, laid back atmosphere and Bobby's speaking ability as well as its content.

Bobby has been doing messages on the series "why we do what we do" and today's theme was about worship. He used a lot of scripture but the main text was from Ezekiel. We are always just blown away with his ability to communicate as well as worship with music. Awesome job son!!! After the service we gathered around and visited loving up on Annsley and Gabriel before heading out as we had to be at the nursing home to assist in the 2 o'clock service we have every other Sunday. We had a large crowd today of wheelchairs that make up the group. Our friend and neighbor Dan brought the message on Jonah today. Well we got back from the nursing home around 3 PM and the sun was warm in out of the breeze so I sat in the back yard and read for a couple hours before hand watering the gardens.

I cut my first broccoli today from the garden and picked a couple handfuls of snow peas and green beans, also picked 4 nice beets and saved the beet greens to go in the stir fry Nancy made for supper. She cooked the broccoli, peas, onions, green beans(handful) water chestnuts and beet greens in olive oil with fresh garlic and put that over rice and had a couple fried fish fillets as well as fresh sliced beets. What a delicious supper since we had a quick lite lunch of tuna fish sandwiches before rushing out to the nursing home. We buy this individual wrapped frozen fish fillets called swami which is excellent, reminds me of flounder. The only place we can get it is Wal-Mart of all places but next to fresh bass and catfish it the best.

Well after supper I cleaned up and have just enough left over stir fry and fish for tomorrow's lunch for me. Nancy isn't a big fan of stir fry, but I love left overs. Not much else is going on except the temp's are supposed to be even warmer tomorrow near the 70 degree mark. LATER