Sunday, June 12, 2016

THE FIRST ANNUAL MEN'S BREAKFAST

Today was the Men's Breakfast at church.  I had ordered food for 15 but only 6 men showed up.  I was told they still had an awesome time.

I decorated the bulletin board with a graphic I found on google.


My friend, Donna, was the only one available to help me set up.  I was so glad I didn't have to do it on my own because it was a lot of work.

I made a fruit salad.  It went over so well last week for the pastors that I made another one.  There is some left over so I will put it out during Fellowship Hour tomorrow.


There were also a lot of bagels and muffins left over so I will freeze them and use them for next week.  Everything will be used up.  I think I will divide up the eggs, bacon, sausage and potatoes and get people to take them home for breakfast on Monday.


The guys trickled in and finally they were all there.



They opened in prayer...


And then it was time to eat!


At that point Donna and I left.  We were headed to another church which was having a strawberry festival.  I dropped her off, but couldn't find parking anywhere.  On top of that, I was almost out of gas.  So I went to get gas and just made it.  I think I was running on fumes by then.

After I got gas I went back to the church and drove around awhile, still not finding parking so I just went home.  I'm sorry I couldn't get there because Donna called later and told me what a good time she had.

I had quite a surprise today.  I got a call from Tennessee from a guy who had found my phone that I lost there in February.  He said he had found it today in his front lawn.  Someone must have thrown it there.  He is going to mail it back to me so I will get all my phone numbers back and the pictures I have on it.  I am very happy.  What's the chances?  Of course I deactivated it months ago and no one had used it at that time, so it was worthless to whoever found it.  This guy had found the phone's phone number and called it hoping I had the same number on my new phone which, of course, I did.  I'll let you know when it comes.  It wasn't anywhere near where I lost it.

So that's all for now.  I have to go to bed so I can get up for church tomorrow.  Have a good night everyone.


Kathy

Friday, June 10, 2016

A GLIMPSE OF PHILLY

Welcome to another Glimpse of Philly.  Hope you are enjoying these.  Here's your glimpse for today.


Yeah, that sounds right.


A lovely shot of the Art Museum at sunset.


The sun setting over the Philly skyline.  This is one of my favorite shots.  Looking at this I can imagine people of the past facing west and wondering what kind of land was out there and then heading to Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee.  My great-grandmother's aunt and uncle joined a covered wagon train in the 1800s that left from center city heading in just that direction.

More later.

Kathy

Thursday, June 9, 2016

MARIANNE STORIES #26

May 28
Pop actually raved about those weird cookies! I tried some today, and they really do taste good, once you get past the need for 2 napkins to catch the crumbles and wipe the butter from your hands. I didn't throw out that recipe yet, so I have to check again to see what went wrong. Personally, I think the fat content was too high. Maybe I read the butter measurement wrong. I will let you know if the error was mine. The cookies are very buttery and they literally melt in the mouth--as well as in the hand. Huge batch of them sitting on the wire racks. I had 3 of them and feel as though I gained 10 pounds! LOL