Yesterday, Easter 2012, was a beautiful day!  The sky a glorious blue as the golden globe that is our sun made it’s march across that sky.  It was, for us, a perfect day to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord.

And that’s what we did with our friends and neighbors at the country church a mile down the road from us.  An early service was followed by breakfast.  After that we had time to prepare for the 10 AM worship service, which was well attended.

We celebrated the Easter story in music, song and the spoken word.  Many folks were involved in the retelling of the story.  It was good to be there.

Afterward, Sylvia and I drove into the city.  There, we enjoyed a special meal and an afternoon of pleasant conversation with our older son, his wife and daughter.

The three Bs.

All too soon it was time for us to return home.  Briana left shortly after and returned to campus to be ready for tomorrow’s classes.

As we made our way through the country on the expressway that takes us home, I saw a cloud of very black smoke rising above the trees ahead of us.  Soon the vehicles around us were slowing.  I wanted to see what was ahead, but had to keep a sharp lookout for brake lights.

I suggested that Sylvia take her camera in hand.  She did and soon captured this image.

Ahead, flames were visible at the side of the road.

It was a vehicle on fire.  Emergency responders had not yet arrived.  We drove slowly past the scene of destruction.  Nothing that we could do.

We drove on home where we were greeted by one hungry pussy cat.  Midnight seemed pleased with the catnip I brought in to him.  (It grows beside the garage door.)  He was even more pleased with his afternoon serving of canned cat food.

The fire?  I don’t know any details.  Come back on Wednesday and I’ll show you more pictures that Sylvia took as we drove by the scene.

As I promised Sylvia, I did call the doctor’s office yesterday about the carpal tunnel problems.  They can “fit me in” next Monday morning.  In my role as patient, I must be patient.  Or as one wag put it, “You tell ’em doc.  You’ve got the patients.”  Or is it, “You’ve got the patience?”  It must be the former.  After all isn’t it the patients that have the patience?  Isn’t that why they call us that?

Looks like this will be a long week.  The raw weather doesn’t help with.  (Once again, the rain has started.)

Chuck’s carpal tunnel problems have been bothering him quite a bit the last few days.  For that reason, he has not posted anything new here lately.  He has, however, promised me to call the doctor on Monday.  He should be back next week sometime or I’ll post something for you.

Participating in:

I’m dealing with carpal tunnel problems that have brought on by too much time here at the computer.  I’m still working on fine tuning this blog and the new church blog.  It has been an interesting learning experience.

The change to WordPress has been mostly a positive thing for me.  I do miss some Blogger features–things are so easy to do there require a bit more research over here.  I miss having the “followers” widget.  There is probably a plug-in out there to handle that, but I’ve not found it yet.

The subscribe by e-mail widget is done through Feedburner.  I saw one on The Freaky Frugalite, and did a bit of looking to find out how to do it too.  Turns out that it was not very difficult at all.  Thanks Rebecca.

It has been hot!

Sylvia left a week ago to spend time with family near Jacksonville, Florida.  At times this week, it has been warmer here than there.  She didn’t go there for the weather–family is what matters, and they’ve been having a good time.  Lots of sun and fresh air with long (6 mile) walks each day.

Midnight and I are getting by without her, but we are both ready to have her return.  Less than 45 hours, and yes, I am counting.  Sylvia makes better menu choices than does Midnight!  That is unless you happen to like stinky tuna pate.  I don’t make good choices when left alone.  Do coffee and pretzels comprise a nutritious meal?  What if one adds a handful of peanuts?

I’ve got to get out of here.  My wrist hurts from knuckles to elbow.  Time for the news.  Ugh.  A nap would be better.

I’ve been some time waiting for a problem with my Web hosting provider to clear.  This morning, I had planned to log into the church account and make the switch to Linux hosting.  I recently did that for my own personal account, so no problems, right?  Unfortunately, not right.  At least not today.

When I clicked on the link to change my hosting package, the choice I wanted was grayed out–not available to me.  Consternation.  But look, there’s a link to explain why.  I tried three times and received three answers.  Confusion.  I double checked the features available in the new package, all are available.  The explanatory link was wrong.  Wasn’t it?

A call to tech support confirms that the problem is on that end and “we are working on it.”  Their service has been outstanding, so this is a very unusual glitch.  Nevertheless, frustration.

As mid afternoon approaches, I’m still waiting to perform a simple task that should have been done shortly after breakfast.  (I did eat breakfast, didn’t I.  Oh yes, a couple of those super yummy granola squares that Sylvia puts together.  Good hot Guatemalan coffee to wash it down.  Yeah, that was very good!  Thanks Hon.)

I’m going for a walk now.  The sun is shining, flowers are blooming and I can retrieve the mail, which has surely been delivered by now.  Or not.  Hard to say.

Everything is weird this year.  It’s not yet spring (by the calendar) and here we are with another week of high temperatures near 80 F.  The “normal” (a term which means nothing–or very little) high for this time of year is in the mid 40s.  At least the heating fuel bill is easier to deal with this.  For that I am truly grateful.

Time for that walk.  After that it’s feed Midnight.  While kitty attacks his food bowl, I think a nap would do nicely.  What about you?

Update

After returning from my walk with new pictures in my camera and today’s mail in my hand, I logged onto the church’s hosting account.  In just a few minutes, I had completed the process.  In a few hours, I’ll be able to upload Websites to the new servers.  They should be available to the public in about 48 hours.  Anyway, I’m happy and relieved to have that done.  AND tech support says that e-mail accounts and mailing lists will carry over with no problems.  Yes, this is a big grin on my face.

Kitty is starting to talk to me.  Don’t I know that he’s hungry?  Better go take care of my little buddy.  See you soon.