This morning began as a lovely, sun-filled day as I headed over to meet my friends for The Breakfast Club gathering at The Club. It was a bit windy but nothing unusual for along for the river. As Randy, Carol, and I, the only breakfasters, enjoyed our time together, the skies clouded and the winds picked up. In amazement we watched the loose branches falling or breaking off, and the Spanish moss rolling like tumble weeds along the walk ways. It was wildly crazy and I was so glad I wasn't wearing a dress when I walked home! Carol offered to drive me but I knew it would be fine. The temperatures have dropped from the 80's and with the wind, the coldness cut like a knife.
Once home, I got busy at my desk, searching through files to find the name of the paint color for the Fellowship Hall. There is a group of fellows going to paint the exterior of the building Saturday which had been 'repaired' last spring and into summer. Since we have company coming, it's time to finish the job! The pastors' conference is being hosted at GS starting Monday, so not a moment too soon is the building being finished. Likely a deep cleaning of the sanctuary would have been in order, too, but it's too late now.
Anyway, the paint color being used is the one from the classroom building. I had the color selections on my computer but I was not sure if they were the final ones. We had actually done color selections more than once, varying shades of off-white, so it was hard to tell from my worksheet if this was the right one. I called Lonnie who is the maintenance chairman and told him I had a name but not certain it was the final choice. Lonnie said that Cliff had the paint already and had reported that Monday at a meeting. So, no more searching!
When I was on the phone with Lonnie, Connie was calling me. I let her call go past me until I was done with Lonnie, then called her back. She said Phil, the mail man, found a stack of letters to go out in the outgoing box with no postage. Since she couldn't reach me, he took them along. Ah!!!! I had dropped the non-enveloped mailings in with no stamps! Because he left already, while I was on the phone, she jumped in her car and chased him around the corner, his next stop, and rescued my unstamped outreach mailings. God bless her! Imagine sending mailings to prospects with postage due....That would be a huge no-no in outreach world! The other mailings were stamped, the enveloped ones, but somehow I grabbed up the whole stack in my excitement of getting them out the door.
The winds continue and it was interesting to watch the birds try to fly against it. Or are they making use of it and not having to flap so much? The clouds moved off and the sky is a pale blue, which looks cold.
Justin called me when I was at breakfast. He was working at house in Mandarin this a.m. and he asked if I was at my desk. I explained where I was, and he asked, "Can you see the beam of light coming down from the clouds from where you are sitting?" I said I could see it (I really could!) and he said, "I am standing in that light!!!" Yes, you are, my dear, yes you are!
