In the Paper

Hello,

Sunday afternoon the few remaining stores downtown had an open house. It was interesting to see what was there. Many of them had decorative type items that are not really my thing. Moving makes all of that seem much less attractive and I was never very into it anyway. There was also a health food store that I will probably patronize. Leroy got a guitar tuner from the music store. He would like to get back to playing the guitar and tuning seems to be a good place to start. All of the stores had a drawing sign up. Leroy’s picture was taken as he was filling out the form. It would be nice now if he would win some of that money that was possible. We are happy to have seen what is available. Also some of the buildings are quite old and therefore the structures are interesting.


After church the church council and property committee went through the house to see what needed attention and care. As with many places there is often more projects than money for those projects. It sounds though that some will be addressed, such as the windows in the basement that are single pane glass and therefore leaking a lot of heat. All in all, the house has been well taken care of. I wonder if there will be many pastors who still want to live in a parsonage. That gets to be a problem for some.

Leroy and I rode to the grocery store this afternoon. I wanted to make granola and needed some items, Leroy just wanted to get out in the sun and have a place to ride. It was nice in spite of a fairly strong wind. Leroy does not have bike bags so I have to take most of the things on my bike. He did have five pounds of flour (because it was on sale), a pound of soy flour, and a pound of wheat germ on his back. That seemed like plenty to me because as usual we got more than was on the list.

Paula