Sunday Dinner, September 23, 2007

Brace yourself. I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner this week. After working all day at church I am TARD. I opened a can of cream of chicken soup and warmed it up for my supper tonight and Lamar had taco soup from the freezer, thawed and reheated in the microwave.

I've already told Ducky and Susie that I won't be cooking tomorrow. I'll break the sad news to Cecil when I see her at church in the morning. If I don't talk to Donna before then she'll probably read about it here on my blog.

I suppose we'll go out to eat somewhere but I haven't the faintest idea where we'll end up for Sunday Dinner.

What about you? What are your plans for Sunday Dinner? What's on the menu? Just share your plans in the comments.Today we had our annual intensive cleaning day at church in preparation for our annual homecoming celebration next Sunday. Everyone always pitches in for lunch and brings something. My contribution was homemade egg salad, wheat bread, homemade pineapple upside down cake and a soda. I'm tired and sore from working all day and I don't feel like cooking tonight.

Our church is cleaned a couple of times a week but one person keep up with all the things that need to be done, so at least once a year, usually in September just before homecoming, everyone that's able meets at the church for a whole day of deep cleaning. We scrub walls, bathrooms, clean light fixtures, clean the refrigerator and microwaves, wash kitchen cabinets and toss, sort and rearrange as needed, among many other things. The men also work on the grounds and make repairs as needed and help with the heavy stuff.

I scrubbed tables in some of the classrooms and the fellowship hall, then I sat in the kitchen floor and cleaned out cabinets and washed them inside and out. Then I tossed and sorted and rearranged as I put everything back in the cabinets. Getting up and down from the floor is most of the reason I'm so sore and stiff tonight. My arthritis is making me well aware that it really didn't appreciate all the walking, bending, stretching and getting up and down I did today. Plus there's rain in the forecast for the next several days and I really think the falling barometer affects my arthritis.Thanks to all of you who've left encouraging remarks and compliments regarding my new blog design. I'm still pondering and may change some fonts and tweak a few things, but overall I'm pretty satisfied with it. I wish I could find just the right shade for my background but lacking that I'll stay with the white I suppose.

Several of you have asked about my header. I took the picture last fall in front of the Crack*er Bar*rel restaurant in Jonesboro on one of my outings with Cecil and Sue. Those are crabapples and the trees were loaded. I noticed the last time we ate there a couple of weeks ago that the trees have several crabapples on them this year, but nothing like last year's crop. If you have access to crabapples they make great jelly and birds and other wildlife feed on them when they get the opportunity.

I used some of my photo software to crop and resize my picture to the correct size for this particular template, then used another program to add my text. This is my own personal photograph so I don't have to worry about violating somebody else's copyright.Did I mention already that I'm TARD? I'm going to post this and put the blog to bed, then I'm headed to bed myself.

My prayer for each of you, dear friends and family, is that God may richly bless you by meeting all your needs, and may you have enough to share.