Rosh Hoshanna

We are studying the Biblical feasts this year as part of school.

Yesterday was Rosh Hoshanna~ the Jewish new year.

Also known as the Feast of Trumpets.

We blew our shofer & had a special family meal.

We set the table with our best & said the prayers & followed the traditons.

My husband declared it as good as Thanksgiving ;).





(I love this one. Look at those faces! They had just been told they had to wait until everyone sat down)



We had tilapia  for our special dinner.

I didn't get any pics of the shofer blowing or the prayers but there's your glimpse into our Feast of Trumpets :)

Blessings.

Treasures

Wanna see my new toy?



For the last 25 years or so I have cut out donuts with a glass & a baby bottle.

Hey, it worked.

I always wanted an actual donut cutter but never came across one.

This summer while we were at family camp a couple friends & I snuck into town to go junking (some folks go 'antiquing' but on my budget it is definitely junking).

We stopped by this fabulous little junk store ~ that I have wanted to go in for years but we were always on our way somewhere else~ and it was going out of business!

The owner told us everything was 75% off.

The first thing I found was this awesome powder horn~ just the type of thing my son would drool over.



It  had a sale tag marking it down to $17.50 something. A really great price but since I had about $7 in my pocket it was out of my price range.

So I wandered around & looked at stuff & kept coming back to the powder horn...

Finally I took it over & asked the owner if that was the final price or was it 75% off of that.

He looked at it & says $4.50.

SOLD!

I couldn't get the money out fast enough :)

Then we all went outside to see what treasures were hanging out in the carport.

I found the donut cutters & these



just piled up on some tables.

I don't remember exactly what I paid for them but I know it was a handful of change ;)

It was a fabulous day .

And making donuts with an actual cutter is much funner than the cup/bottle routine. ;)

Blessings.

Awkward

Awkward situation #212:

So we had a visitor in church today.

A man & his 2 kids. I spoke to him briefly but never got his name.

After church my husband & a deacon & his wife disappear into his office for a confab.

I was totally out of the loop.

Afterward my hubby says "I should tell you before you hear it from someone else" ~which ranks right up there w/ "we need to talk"

So it turns out the guy is the ex-husband of a very good friend of ours who is also the deacons sister.

Not just a run-of-the-mill ex-husband but a walk-out-on-your-wife-and-6-kids ex-husband. While you were a pastor ex-husband. Because you were having an affair with a married member of your congregation ex-husband. A never-pay-child-support ex-husband. Who remarried, cranked out a couple more kids & then left that wife. Who happened to discover some interesting facts when she did some research on the ex-pastor ex-husband. He is a real true to life Lifetime Channel movie waiting to happen. A multiple families all over the place that don't know about each other kind of Lifetime movie. A pretty much every word out of his mouth has been a lie kind of movie.

So he was in our church today.

Yep.

And pretty muchly everybody knew about but me.

Why? You ask?

Because it was pretty much a general consensus that if I knew who he was I might scratch his eyes out.

Huh.

Who me?

I wouldn't have tho.

Because despite the agony & indignity he put my friend thru his leaving was that best thing that ever happened to her & her kids.

She is married to an awesome Godly man who loves her & loves her kids.

Her children have gotten to see how a MAN treats his wife & they have been able to know what a DAD is like.

So I am sorry for his other wives & for his other children but I don't want to scratch his eyes out.

I DO want to spray down his pew with lysol but that is another deal altogether...

Blessings.

Random Nothingness...

My 2 yr old has become enamored with his Puggle "pack pack". He carries it constantly.

My 5 yr old is obsessed with vacuuming. He wants to vacuum all day, every day. I am not complaining.

We did some ''home improvements" at church today. We ripped out about a dozen, half dead, overgrown, really hideous shrubs from the front of the church.

The plan is  to replace them with shrub roses which bloom all summer here.

But everybody agrees: even with nothing there but dirt~ it already looks much better! ;)

It was actually a fun process because one of the men brought his back hoe & he had those bushes ripped out & piled behind the church in no time flat.

Nothing like the right tool for the job :)

And then he gave everyone (including moi) back hoe driving lessons in the church field.

My boys loved that!

My friends all over the country are talking about cool nights, crisp days, fall in the air...

It's been over 100* here all week.

Sigh.

I miss fall. There is no fall here. (No matter what these poor delusional Californians might try to tell you).

It will just be hot, hot, hot & then one day it will start to rain & winter will be here.

Sigh.

I miss having seasons. (other than 'Fire" & "Rainy")

Still getting tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupes & of course cucumbers out of the garden.

Picked a bushel of onions this week.

We plan to chop & dehydrate those to have all winter.

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of September 11.

Doesn't seem possible.

And how sad is it that at the ceremonies tomorrow God will be completely, purposefully left out? :(

A sad, sad commentary on the state of our nation.

Blessings.