The Christmas Nail
We had a Relief Society Enrichment meeting tonight. For those who are not LDS, the Relief Society is a women’s organazation in the Church. Tonight was a fun “Enrichment” meeting on keeping Christ in our lives during this upcoming holiday season, we had a skit performed for us by some of the sisters to the “Night Before Christmas” poem changed to be about Christ instead of Santa and then we did a really cool craft, the picture you see entitled ” The Christmas Nail”. I love these meetings. I miss the spiritual uplift I get from our Relief Society meeting on Sundays (it’s a class similar to Sunday School, which we also have) as I teach in Primary (children’s classes) during that time, but the children are fun too, and I get my spiritual uplift from Sacrament meeting and preparing the lessons for Primary. :)
With warmer temps coming this week end I plan on taking advantage of the wonderful 60′s while I can before our negative temps arrive in six weeks or so. Hope you all have a wonderful week end as well. :)
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My son and his friend Dustin invited me to go to the Farmer’s Market with them this morning. It is once a month in the down town area. I thought Farmer’s Market, ok, vegetables etc, plus I had seen people working on the item in the picture while driving home from work every day for the last several weeks (I will describe it better in a min.) So I thought sure. Well it was awesome, they had a rock band performing old Beatles songs, many vendors selling everything from fresh produce to meat, to crafts, baked goods, a guy who did some awesome items with those ballons you twist into shapes. I’m going back next month and taking my camera with me, and more money :P. So be prepared for an update next month.
Ok, the picture. It is a sand sculpture, yep, I said sand! It says Floodstock on it (yeah, a take off on Woodstock). It’s celebrating the recovery from the terrible flood that they had last year that devistated the downtown area. It’s a way of saying, WE ARE BACK. There are still buildings in the downtown area that are being or need to be renovated, but the work is coming along. The business I work at is right there in the downtown area and they just recently finished their renovation from the damage the flood caused.
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This small hand embroidered pillow is what I bought today, of course because I spin, but also because sheep are just so darn cute :P. Besides it was made by a friend of mine from my church who had a vendor booth set up there. :) I also bought some turnips, because I love them and it was cheaper to buy fresh ones than the ones in the store that have the paraffin covering to keep them fresh.
I do have to say that Cedar Rapids has something going on all the time. I wanted to go to the Freedom Festival tonight up at Kirkwood Community College because 3 Dog Night was going to be there playing, but there are too many things needing my attention. I’m sorry to have missed seeing one of my all time favorite Rock groups. Maybe next time.
Tags: Life
My Balcony
Ahhh, Spring!! The birds are singing and it’s beautiful with the trees flowering and leafing out here and yesterday was hot as heck!! We’ve been in the 50′s and 60′s until Thursday when we hit upper 70′s and yesterday we were mid 80′s, Sheesh. This week will be back in the 60′s again, thank goodness because the air conditioning isn’t working yet at the bank I’m working at. They are still doing repair and rebuild work after the big flood here in Cedar Rapids last year. Anyway this is a picture of my balcony. It’s not screened in like my apt in TN but it is so wonderful to have a balcony again. I have a place to put my plants outside and to sit and spin or knit (when it isn’t raining or way to hot. I didn’t go out on my balcony in TN when it was way to hot either ;P).
My life has been a bit busy this last week. 8 to 5 job and I have to get up at 5:45 (get ready, make lunch, take care of Thor) because I have to leave by 7:15. I am working down town (about 16 to 17 min from where I live) and there is no parking lot at the bank, only metered parking on the street, so I had to pay for a parking permit to park in a parkade and walk 3 blocks to work. I really don’t mind the walk (and there is a skywalk that goes from building to building so I won’t get wet if it rains, but it’s a bit of a meandering walk that takes an extra 7 min or so to walk), just hate having to leave 15 or more min earlier :P. Tons of stuff to learn in the new job (isn’t that always the case? :P) and that leaves me drained when I get home. Had a couple of evening things I had to attend to this last week and still try to get to bed between 9 and 9:30 pm so I can start all over again at 5:45 am the next morning. It’ll be much better after I adjust to the new stuff and time period. Saturdays are busy too with laundry and errands, but I’ll get a routine down, put some fun back in my life and it will all be good. :)
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This is something my sister has been working on. It’s called silver clay. I’d never heard of it but they put silver powder (yeah the real stuff!) in clay and she said you have to fire it after you have finished making whatever it is you are going to make with it. I think she did a wonderful job. She’s rather crafty too (making things, not sly - sly to me is not a good thing to be, ie decietful, full of trickery :P), guess crafting things runs in my family :).
Oh yeah, to my son who just finished his 4th blanket in the last month!! PFFFT :P I’m working on Jade’s afghan, I did some rows today :P. Should have some evening time to work on it this coming week :).
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