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So What Qualifies As Pink?

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As I started to compile  photos for this week’s travel theme from Ailsa which is: Pink

I came a cross a bunch of photos which I labeled “pink” but as I looked at them I had to ask myself, “Are these pics really pink?”

Row house in Amsterdam

Row house in Amsterdam

Or are these shudders more of a magenta?

How about this portrait of Queen Beatrix by Andy Warhol which hangs in the Rijks Museum

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Brenda in St. Bavo's

Brenda in St. Bavo’s

I am praying that what my sister is wearing here is pink but y’know  it just might be salmon.

Cornerstone Church

Cornerstone Church

I used to be confident that the color of our sanctuary was dusty rose but after this morning’s search I am a little shaky. It just might be pink!

But of one thing I am pretty certain… when the sailors of old looked for a red sky at night I am pretty sure they meant pink.

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Mel11Find some real pink…I think at

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/03/21/travel-theme-pink/

 

Spring Ahead

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We lost an hour this weekend. Did you notice? I did!

Me facing the effects of spring ahead.

Me facing the effects of spring ahead.

I started the weekend by meeting with one of my graduated interns (I have taken on at least one intern a year for the last seven years). He visited on Friday after his girlfriend(my current intern) ratted me out by telling him I haven’t been taking my days off. Truth be told who has time to take a day off when daylight savings time is almost over.

Evidently his visit effected me more deeply than I realized because on Saturday morning I woke up at 4 A.M.  It made me feel like this.

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But I did have to finish my sermon before choir practice. So I walked the dogs and then chopped at the keyboard until the sermon was finished.

By 8 I was at the church warming up. I’ve noticed that warm up has become more and more important as I age.

After  three hours of singing I was off to the Special Touch Bowl-A -Thon.

Bowlers at Special Touch

Bowlers at Special Touch

 

We raised $4400.00 for people with disabilities to go to summer camp. We have another Bowl-a-thon scheduled next week and our hope is to clear $10,000.00.

After that I visited some friends for a fellowship gathering. The sunset was lovely.

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At this point I was pretty tired. I was just sure I would sleep well. Four A.M. came and I was up (which was really three because we sprung ahead remember) once again. Sunday was two services…excellent services I might add but springing ahead has left me a bit unhinged.

So today I am taking my intern’s advice. It is almost eleven and I am still in my pajamas. I think I will watch TV and eat cookies. After all spring is here!

 

Peanut Butter Cups and Raindrops

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This post is inspired by Cee from Oregon who hosts “Share Your World”. I have not posted in SYW these last few weeks because of the way my schedule has fallen; But when I read this week’s questions I just couldn’t resist sectioning off a bit of my time so I could answer peanut butter cup- in- cheek so to speak. I  beg Cee’s indulgence as I am going to answer her questions out-of-order. Truly sorry.   🙂

The questions originally read as posted below but I am going to answer them in the following order respectively 2,1,3 and 4.

Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give anonymously to strangers?

When you’re 90 years old, what will matter most to you?

Candy factories of the entire world have become one and will now be making only one kind of candy. Which kind, if you were calling the shots?

So, you’re on your way out and it’s raining. Do you know where your umbrella is or do you frantically search for it all over your apartment/house?

When I am 90 years old the weather will be the most important aspect of my life. Aside from the fact that inclement weather will affect my lumbago, I fully intend by that time the candy industry will have used the $100,000.00 I donate anonymously (you heard it here first folks) to create the first ever peanut butter cup rain machine. the result of course will be that since peanut butter cups are now freely falling from the sky the factories will no longer have to produce chocolate of any kind, and therefore can turn their profit-making ventures toward making Boston fruit slices, which everyone knows is the second best candy after peanut butter cups. As to my umbrella… I now leave it outside turned upside down on the front lawn in anticipation of the next PBC monsoon.

To read Cee’s other contributors please jump to this site:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/02/24/share-your-world-2014-week-8/

Share Your World With Cee Cee 2013 Week 37

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Today I am posting for a second time in order to get my weekly Cee post in. Things are slowing back to normal a bit but only for a few days ( So I guess that means normal is now the busier pace I have been living for months). This weekend we have our church trunk-or treat outreach and then three days of Pastor’s Retreat in Hyannis where I will probably be away from my computer almost entirely. I will endeavor to get ahead on my posting so that you all can keep reading. You really need to check out Cee’s  friends and their take on these questions at   http://ceenphotography.com/2013/10/21/share-your-world-2013-week-37/  While you are there why don’t you check out Cee’s new website and photography as well!

 

Here are today’s questions and answers:

What is your favorite outdoor activity?

In the spring and summer and early autumn I love to take walks and to pray outdoors. There is something very connective about seeking the Lord out amongst His creation. In the late fall and winter I have no favorite outdoor activities however. I try to stay in as much as possible because the weather during this time of year is truly frigismalwegristusting that is weather that is frigid, dismal, wet, gross and disgusting!

Do you prefer your food separated or mixed together?

I eat a LOT of casseroles. If you can put it in a crock pot or mix it with noodles I am there!

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?

In spite of the fact that our winters are frigismalwegristusting I would still choose to live in the North East of the United States. Three out of four seasons ain’t bad!

What household chore do you absolutely hate doing?

I am not a big fan of shovelling the snow in the frigismalwegristusting weather.

 

Friday Fictioneers 8-2-2013

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Here we are again for another episode of Friday Fictioneers with Rochelle. Check out the rules and read almost 100 other authors at this writers forum: http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/2-august-2013/

Here is this week’s story prompt.

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Bee A Man

Mom built  the hive with money from the divorce settlement.  Always a back to nature  girl, she went positively granola after dad took up with the surgically enhanced Barbie doll who answered his office phone. A little reactionary if you ask me but who can judge?

I can that’s who! You try being the kid who lives in a giant plastic beehive.

When the football team stuffed me through the eye hole of our giant bee lawn ornament I decided I’d had enough. They don’t zone for bee hives in Florida, but they have great beaches.

 

A Little Too Busy

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I was doing my bills the other night and had just finished up with the portion that I needed to pay. Since this was the batch I don’t do electronically I had tucked them safely into their envelopes, affixed stamps and return addresses to the outside and headed them off to the mailbox. The curtains were drawn for the night (it being well into the evening); So I thought to myself “I will just put them out in the morning.”  Then I promptly threw them into the wood stove. You heard me correctly into the wood stove.

The worst part of it is the next morning when I got up and began looking for the bills I could not find them anywhere.

I kept telling my loved ones, “I put them right here on top of the wood stove.”

That’s when my daughter (bless her heart) decided to look in the wood stove. I was chuckling at the insanity of the idea until…

I guess I can be happy  it’s not burning season.

I think I may be getting just a little too busy. What do you think?

PARTY ON

Winter Puppies

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This is what happens when little white dogs meet with a little wet snow!

Nothing a half hour with a blow dryer and a dog brush won’t fix!