Catching up

I simply don't have the free time I used to have... and this blog is suffering.

So while MABFP and YG hiss at each other and my artichoke cooks, I will do a brief catch up...

First, we had an amazingly successful and fun art auction this past Sunday. (I put a link to photos in a previous posting.) We raised just over $7000 which in this economy is fabulous.

I got in a bidding war with someone over this replica of an icon of the Theotokos because I could see it in our chapel. John Henry Hopkins is nice and all but we needed Mary in there. So today the sexton got it up and I removed the Mary of the Streets icon and put up one of San Romero. That little corner is becoming a favourite spot. A parishioner after the 9.00 HE said that she missed the ofrenda and the banners — she was surprised how she had gotten used to seeing them.

Today after staff meeting, a planned and then an unexpected phone call and doing a service up at the assisted living place, I drove another parishioner 15 miles to pick up two cats of a woman who died in late October and who had no survivors. We had quite a yowly drive back although the meowing came not from the Siamese but from the black cat. I stayed at the parishioner's house long enough to witness the Siamese disappear for who knows how long and the black cat explore and growl at the previous resident cat, a black and white cat. I suspect no one is going to sleep tonight.

All in the routine of parish life, no?