Very busy weekend!
5/9/06 6:16 am.
44º F, Overcast, S wind 11 mph.
Good morning,
Well my Woman is officially graduated and a Lay Minister along with her 21 other classmates on Saturday. Of course there was a proud Old Norwegian hanging around too. She has worked very hard for the past two years and the end of this set of study has arrived. Now the real journey begins. Margriet has so many gifts, most of which she doesn’t want to acknowledge I am sure. Hope she has an opportunity to use them. If every student at the school has the same experience, I know I did, the Las School is well worth all of the work and prayer that goes into it.
It really seemed weird to go though the food line and sit down with Margriet to eat lunch after the graduation service. I think it is the first time I have gone through the line. Guess I took the graduation service as the end for my being on staff too. Now it is up to the other folks to pick up my "duties," though it will seem strange.
Margriet and I do intend to continue with Lay School, but as students in the alumni class on Friday night. It will be the first time I have had an opportunity to do that since graduating. The class is taught by Roger, retired President of Wartburg Seminary, and will consist of discussions on several books, generally a different one every month on different subjects. We got a list of the books and they total about $100.00 new. I have been looking on the web for them, but only found one so far. That book is available for down loading at no cost (like that), but have not found a source for the others - yet.
The website I found the book on ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ ) is an interesting one. It is based in Mississippi, listing something over 18,000 books which can be downloaded. Most of the "old classics" long out of print and inaccessible now. It does also have more modern volumes too. I have not had all that much time to look around the site and the books they have yet, but it something I go to every once in awhile when I am searching for something in particular.
After the graduation, we rushed right home. I had been asked to provide prayer at the celebration of our church secretary and her husband’s 50th wedding anniversary. I knew I would need take a fiver before. That sure turned out to be true. I took a fiver for over an hour and really needed to do that. I slept very soundly! Margriet had to wake me, something which almost never happens.
The anniversary celebration was a lot of fun. We didn’t stay for the dance afterwards, but certainly enjoyed our time there. There were very few folks that we knew as most were family and friends of Darlene and Kurt’s, mostly from the Chicago area. Kurt had a heart attack a week and a half before and also in the middle of cataract treatment (surgeries) so was not totally up to par, but still full of vinegar! We totally enjoyed ourselves chewing the fat with the folks. Of course the food was also very good. Darlene also remembered that Margriet had graduated on the same day and presented her with a card. Cool!
Yesterday was the day to get the lawnmower cutting the lawn. It has been a bit slower in growing than I had expected, given the warm weather of the past couple of weeks. Much to my surprise, after changing oil and getting the mower ready, it started on the first pull! I let it warm up a bit and make sure everything was operating correctly before putting on the grass catcher and start cutting. The engine had to shut off to do that of course, so started it again. Again it started on the first pull, but I had the started rope in my hand and no longer attached to the mower starter! At least the mower started and I was able to fill the catcher bag once. I started to take the starter apart for repair, but it was too close to dinner, so stopped for the day. It used to be fairly easy to remove the rewind started on this style of small engine, but this one has extra covers on it to make it look pretty and parts that used to be just held together with screws, are now riveted together, requiring more to be disassembled for repair. Progress?
Another year passed for me yesterday too. Only 100 more to go. Margriet done good by preparing an excellent pork roast with all of the trimmings for dinner. I teased her that if she had put all the candles on it, she would not need to put it in the oven - there was enough heat to cook it! It was a big roast, for us, so we will have several more celebrating meals to chew on yet. Bruce (the second best man attending our wedding) has his birthday today. Often the graduation has fallen on one or the other. Bruce and I were serenaded by the second year students in one of Bruce’s classes. The staff got together and arranged the dastardly deed! Nice.
Today Bible study is eating breakfast in Luxemburg. Don’t think we will make a trip to Green Bay, even though we will be about half way there. I have to go to Algoma and take some money from the bank. I ordered some new tires for the van yesterday and they will be installed tomorrow morning. I have been able to push off the deal until now, thanx to the high price of gasoline and therefore not traveling very much. The set I am getting are of the "all-weather" variety. Should provide a bit better traction in the winter, but I really don’t have any complaints about the present set. I have been pretty careful with the present set for the past couple of months. Hope I can get an alignment before too long too.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
44º F, Overcast, S wind 11 mph.
Good morning,
Well my Woman is officially graduated and a Lay Minister along with her 21 other classmates on Saturday. Of course there was a proud Old Norwegian hanging around too. She has worked very hard for the past two years and the end of this set of study has arrived. Now the real journey begins. Margriet has so many gifts, most of which she doesn’t want to acknowledge I am sure. Hope she has an opportunity to use them. If every student at the school has the same experience, I know I did, the Las School is well worth all of the work and prayer that goes into it.
It really seemed weird to go though the food line and sit down with Margriet to eat lunch after the graduation service. I think it is the first time I have gone through the line. Guess I took the graduation service as the end for my being on staff too. Now it is up to the other folks to pick up my "duties," though it will seem strange.
Margriet and I do intend to continue with Lay School, but as students in the alumni class on Friday night. It will be the first time I have had an opportunity to do that since graduating. The class is taught by Roger, retired President of Wartburg Seminary, and will consist of discussions on several books, generally a different one every month on different subjects. We got a list of the books and they total about $100.00 new. I have been looking on the web for them, but only found one so far. That book is available for down loading at no cost (like that), but have not found a source for the others - yet.
The website I found the book on ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ ) is an interesting one. It is based in Mississippi, listing something over 18,000 books which can be downloaded. Most of the "old classics" long out of print and inaccessible now. It does also have more modern volumes too. I have not had all that much time to look around the site and the books they have yet, but it something I go to every once in awhile when I am searching for something in particular.
After the graduation, we rushed right home. I had been asked to provide prayer at the celebration of our church secretary and her husband’s 50th wedding anniversary. I knew I would need take a fiver before. That sure turned out to be true. I took a fiver for over an hour and really needed to do that. I slept very soundly! Margriet had to wake me, something which almost never happens.
The anniversary celebration was a lot of fun. We didn’t stay for the dance afterwards, but certainly enjoyed our time there. There were very few folks that we knew as most were family and friends of Darlene and Kurt’s, mostly from the Chicago area. Kurt had a heart attack a week and a half before and also in the middle of cataract treatment (surgeries) so was not totally up to par, but still full of vinegar! We totally enjoyed ourselves chewing the fat with the folks. Of course the food was also very good. Darlene also remembered that Margriet had graduated on the same day and presented her with a card. Cool!
Yesterday was the day to get the lawnmower cutting the lawn. It has been a bit slower in growing than I had expected, given the warm weather of the past couple of weeks. Much to my surprise, after changing oil and getting the mower ready, it started on the first pull! I let it warm up a bit and make sure everything was operating correctly before putting on the grass catcher and start cutting. The engine had to shut off to do that of course, so started it again. Again it started on the first pull, but I had the started rope in my hand and no longer attached to the mower starter! At least the mower started and I was able to fill the catcher bag once. I started to take the starter apart for repair, but it was too close to dinner, so stopped for the day. It used to be fairly easy to remove the rewind started on this style of small engine, but this one has extra covers on it to make it look pretty and parts that used to be just held together with screws, are now riveted together, requiring more to be disassembled for repair. Progress?
Another year passed for me yesterday too. Only 100 more to go. Margriet done good by preparing an excellent pork roast with all of the trimmings for dinner. I teased her that if she had put all the candles on it, she would not need to put it in the oven - there was enough heat to cook it! It was a big roast, for us, so we will have several more celebrating meals to chew on yet. Bruce (the second best man attending our wedding) has his birthday today. Often the graduation has fallen on one or the other. Bruce and I were serenaded by the second year students in one of Bruce’s classes. The staff got together and arranged the dastardly deed! Nice.
Today Bible study is eating breakfast in Luxemburg. Don’t think we will make a trip to Green Bay, even though we will be about half way there. I have to go to Algoma and take some money from the bank. I ordered some new tires for the van yesterday and they will be installed tomorrow morning. I have been able to push off the deal until now, thanx to the high price of gasoline and therefore not traveling very much. The set I am getting are of the "all-weather" variety. Should provide a bit better traction in the winter, but I really don’t have any complaints about the present set. I have been pretty careful with the present set for the past couple of months. Hope I can get an alignment before too long too.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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