Longwood Garden, Misc.

Well, it seems like awhile since I wrote. Well, this weekend from Thursday til Sunday morning, I had a guest at my house. My friend/adopted sis Amy Bryant stayed at my house. It was great to see her again. We had fun shopping at the Tanger Outlets on Friday. Amy got some goodies. On Saturday we went to the BEAUTIFUL Longwood Gardens. I had not been there for a little while. I saw it over Christmastime twice and saw it in the summer once when I got my pictures taken there. So this was at least the 4th time I have been there. Oh, but it is so worth the money. Now that I have my own house, I appreciate it even more when I see all the work that goes into a flower garden. It’s time consuming and tough to keep everything in tip-top shape! We enjoyed the water fountains in the Italian garden, especially. I could write poems to that sound, if only I was left to myself at that spot. And, I would love to spend time there with God, just me and Him. I need to find that sign that they have on metal, you know, to put in a garden. The sign reads: The ___ of the ___ for pardon, the kiss of the sun for mirth, one’s nearer to God in a garden, than anyplace else on earth! I forget some of the words but anyway I love the saying. After we got done at the gardens, we ate at Applebee’s and then we went to Lancaster to a furniture shop. We found an ice cream place where they actually make the ice cream on the premises. It’s really a cute place and all kinds of unique flavors. I had a banana nut bread ice cream, so yummy! I tasted a mint sample and that was very refreshing. Next, we went to Salvation Army and Ollies. Then we went home and I had the Brill boys for the evening. We ordered Papa John’s pizza. It was a lovely evening. Amy liked the Brills like I thought she would.
This week was normal. Today I worked for my aunt. It’s been ages since I’ve been there. I cleaned her pantry. I love organizing stuff so that was right down my alley. I shopped at Horning’s a little. Found some pears for $6.50 a basket. Found some cream of chicken soup for 3/$1. I wish the bent and dent places down this way would be as cheap as Horning’s. It seems like food is more plentiful and better priced up through. GRRR!
By the way, I love living at my house. I am so thrilled we get to stay another year. God is so good! I did not want to move and it just seems like an awful lot of work to only live there a year. What will happen after that? I’m not gonna worry about that. That would be borrowing tomorrow’s trouble and I have enough in the current time to add to that! Now that Sharon’s dating, I could perhaps have to find another housemate til then but I’m not going to think about that either. For all I know, maybe I’ll be courted by my future husband til then too! Part of the adventure of serving God is that you never know what the future holds. It could be mighty exciting, or it could have a lot of grief, or some of both. But, this one thing I know: my God is bigger than life itself and because I am one of His kids, I get to inherit a mansion in the end so whatever it takes to get there is okay. I already know He is in control and He promised to take care of me and give me the best. What more could I ask for? I feel bad for those who don’t claim Him as their Daddy. They’re missing out BIG TIME!
I really had a stressful day yesterday. This is a holiday weekend and we expect to get some extra business at the store. So yesterday I was putting out the Christmas stuff. Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s ridiculous how early we have to put seasonal stuff out. I don’t like it at all. I get tired of the season before it’s even here. And, you know how fast time goes? Well, it seems to even hurry the year along! And, we got tons of stuff in and I was so tired til I was able to come home. And we had gotten a lot of Dunn plaques and picture in and there’s a bunch of walls to do Sigh! My feet were sore by lunch time already from working so hard.
Wednesday night we went to church. It was the first of 12 more meetings for the discipleship program they use for transferring membership. That will be every Wednesday night til December. I have to skip choir this time around, which really disappoints me but that’s part of life I guess.
Well, that’s all for now.