Costco

 I have a Costco credit card. Every year it gives me back a small bit of what I've spent. This year it was $436.00.

Not bad. But we have to go to Costco to cash it.

I hate going to Costco.

It's too big, too busy and I never find a parking place within 50 yards of the entrance.

We went  and Bern and I couldn't find the paper products because it's so damn big!

We got a few things and I hated every minute we were there.

On the way home Bern told me she hated it too.

A good thing to hate for our relationship....

U Conn women

 They won again!

Geno and his team took the all-time record for winning the national championship away from UCLA's men.

And they won going away.

I'm not that much into basketball--except for the Lakers--but I was impressed greatly by this game.

GO HUSKIES!!!!

Church today

It was the smallest congregation since I've been at Trinity.

Twelve people and only nine received communion.

The last Sunday of Lent.

Where was every body?

Who knows?

Let's see what Palm Sunday looks like.

I'm sad about today.

 

More than well....

 The funeral for J.H. went well...more than well.

Her son did the speaking.

I told him that I hoped someone would say something that nice at my funeral. And I meant it.

Not a large crowd--30 or so--but a very attentive one.

Eucharist went flawlessly with the burial office.

Lots of food afterwards.

Funerals aren't my favorite thing, but this one went more than well....

Funeral tomorrow

 I have a funeral tomorrow of someone I never met.

Those are the worst.

But her son is giving the sermon.

She was a great member of Trinity before I got there.

I'll do communion.

There is no interment.

It will be fine.

I hate when people die....

April 'fool'

Just before I went online for my Tuesday group, I read an article in Trinity Church's newsletter.

B.S. who creates the newsletter posted about a mall being built on the Green in front of Trinity. It was fascinating.

I couldn't image how it would happen, but looked forward to watching it go up.

Then, an hour afterwards, one of the people on my facebook group who lives in Florida said: "We had two inches of snow last night."

I was amazed--then he said, "April fool."

Then I realized the newsletter was an April Fool's joke.

I am really an April Fool....

 

Tommorrow

Tomorrow is Bern's birthday.

For 15 days, until my birthday, she is only 2 years younger than me!

We were high school sweethearts. I met her because I thought I might need a foreign language for some of the colleges I was applying to.

But it was Latin 1. I was a senior and she was a freshman but both in the same class.

Latin was the only foreign language offered at our little high school

I went to college and three years later she joined me at WVU.

I then went to Harvard Divinity School and after a year came home and we were married. She went to college in Boston the next year.

Then we moved back to Morgantown and I was a social worker while she finished college.

That was a long time ago.

54 years, believe it or not!

Two kids and four grandkids later, here we are.

I love her so, so much.

She is my wife and she is my life.

Happy birthday, Bern....