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Well, it has been a couple days since I blogged so let me catch up with what has been going on.
Saturday morning Kathleen and I went to watch Becca's football (soccer) match; it was really interesting to watch the youngsters play. They would all stand around and wait for just one person to kick the ball, it was almost like they were thinking that I kicked it last time so it must be your turn to kick it now.
Then when they would kick it they would kick it kind of toward the net but would hardly ever dribble the ball toward it. The defense would then run alongside the kicker and whoever got to the ball first got to kick it next. Quite different from the soccer that I remembered in jr. high, high school and college soccer, but since I did not start playing until jr. high I have no idea on how I would have done at that age.
Then on our way home we stopped at the bread store and picked up a few items and then at Western Tool to get some more sanding disks for my random orbital sander and some sanding belts for my belt sander. Then we passed a flooring place so we stopped by and looked around for a couple hours; still trying to pick out flooring for our upstairs and probably the rest of the non bathroom and kitchen areas.
By the time we got home I was ready to take a nap; I had originally planned on mowing the lawn, but the sky leaked just enough to get the lawn wet and since I had just mowed the lawn it really did not need it. I had just wanted to mow it when it was dry, but of course that did not happen.
Then yesterday the candidate for our senior pastor position was preaching so we both went to church to hear him. Then in the afternoon I just kind of took it easy as I wanted to be rested up enough to go to the business meeting to vote whether or not to offer him the position.
After some short discussion we voted and by a little over 97% margin he was voted in, so now we just have to wait to see if he is going to accept it. Early indications are that he will, but he has said that he would not be able to start until the end of July.
Then this morning I was feeling pretty good so I decided to go for a walk; I had not decided on how far I would walk, I wanted to see how I felt. I had an idea that it would be on the short side as I had not walked for a while and I did not want to over due. As it turned out my hip started to bother me so since I was about at the midway point of a place to come home I decided that I would finish going in the same direction rather than retracing my tracks.
Once I got home I was undecided whether to mow the lawn or pick up the edging; I thought that I would quickly scoop up the sod from where I had edged the other day and then mow. Well as I was picking up the sod I wound up doing some weeding and pulling out some of the plethora of violets that were growing in the back side of the berries and also in the raised garden where the cherry trees are. By the time I got done picking up the sod and weeding I was really tired and it was about 1530; since I went out there about 1030 I thought that I needed to go inside and make myself some lunch.
After eating something I decided that I needed to sit down and rest, so I plopped myself down in my easy chair and went through the Eddie Bauer catalog that came in today’s mail. I realized as soon as I sat down that I would not be getting up to mow, so now I just have to hope that the rain that is suppose to start again tomorrow will hold off until tomorrow afternoon.
I think that I will end this now; I need to see if I can get Kathleen to make something for dinner.
