Vorlon Whispers

Monday, July 1, 2013

It time to catch up. I can't remember what I did on Friday. I rode my bike alone through town in the morning. The weather has been the same for days. Hot, humid, and rain. It's all a blur.

Saturday, was the Canal 5K run. I was going to enter but Sparky did not co operate and do his business so I couldn't leave him very long. I went over to Schaefer's where the race was to start. I took some bottled water over. Tina came and I helped her put our Church lable on the bottles that I brought and we handed them out to the runners who wanted them before the race. After the start of the race, I came home and took Sparky out. Then I went to the church to help with Kanal Kitchen. We have a lunch for the homeless people once a month. We served two kinds of soup, chicken salad sandwiches, ham and cheese sandwiches, baked beans, and various deserts. My Bible Study Group was hosting the lunch this time. It was too hot to cut the grass when I got home. There was thunder booming all around but we didn't get much.

Sunday, Tina and I sang a duet of "God Bless America". None of the church hymnals had it so we sang without accompaniment. I gave a little history of the song, written by Irving Berlin in 1918. He didn't do anything with it but put it in a file. Twenty years later when World War was starting again, he wanted to write a song of peace. He remembered the one he had written during WWI so he took it out and revised it. He gave it to Kate Smith and she used it as her closing number on her radio program. It was such a big hit that she used it to close every show on the radio and then her TV show. She sang it in place of the Star Spangled Banner to open the Flyers Hockey games in Philadelphia. If for some reason she wasn't available to sing, the Flyers lost. She became their good luck charm. For many years, in Wildwood, NJ, when the lifeguards went off duty at 5pm, the flag was lowered, the lifeguards stood at attention, the tram cars on the boardwalk stopped, the people on the beach and boardwalk all stopped and stood at attention facing the flags ant each street, while Kate Smith belted out over the PA system "God Bless America." It was awesome.

Everyone seemed to enjoy our singing and the little history that I gave. I helped with the offering deposit and then came home. I wanted to cut the grass on the east side and the back before the storm came. (My neighbor had cut the west side) While I was cutting the grass, something kept hitting me in the head. I thought it was bugs but it was rain drops. I was soaking wet from sweat so I didn't feel the rain on my skin. I quickly finished the east side before the downpour. Poor Sparky had to wait until it let up. I got 1.8 inches in the rain gauge. there were showers off and on all day.

This morning, I had to wait until the rain let up before taking Sparky out and it was still sprinkling. I took him out again later. It is raining again now. The spillway is high but not high enough to be concerned. There is no stream or spring that runs into the lake so the only water getting into it is from the rain. My portulacas are not doing well. They like it dry and it has been too wet.

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