Many happy returns, Ginger!
I'm trying something called Pumpkin Spice Tonic. Pretty much tastes like cream soda. Not bad, but disappointing. Could be spicier, and infinitely more pumpkin-y. Not even sure I'd call it a tonic, tbh. No medicinal tang.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Many happy returns, Ginger!
I'm trying something called Pumpkin Spice Tonic. Pretty much tastes like cream soda. Not bad, but disappointing. Could be spicier, and infinitely more pumpkin-y. Not even sure I'd call it a tonic, tbh. No medicinal tang.
I'm glad to be busy, but it's been a long time since I've felt this overwhelmed by the work in front of me.
Sigh.
So the football turned out okay?
Sportsball!
So my mother's new minister is installed, and the active part of my weekend is finally over. The music was outstanding, if I do say so myself. Question for the people: Do churches other places have special installation services? This was a whole do, in the afternoon, with a bunch of visiting clergy -- reps from the denomination and different church groups and stuff. The new minister said he thought it's just a New England thing.
Well Methodist churches with the ever revolving ministers, not so much.
Do they get assigned?
Football turned out okay for me, -t, and Steph. I don't know how other people were rooting.
Yep assigned and except for very large churches that a minister grew, usually reassigned every 4-6 years.
Oh yeah, that's a whole different story anyway. Baptists just call a minister to their congregation. It's been four years and two interims! (Mostly it took that long on purpose.)
The Nextdoor website (message boards set up for cities/neighborhoods) is super useful, and the one for my neighborhood gets a LOT of posts. But I hate when the "Who else just heard gunshots?" posts show up. (We heard them, too, maybe 5 minutes ago: about 9 shots, split up as 6 shots and then a pause and then 3 more shots, that sounded fairly close, to the south of our house. Someone who lives less than a mile away posted and said they were right by her house.) (And I called 911. I apologized for not having a better sense of where exactly the shots came from, but the dispatcher said it still helps, because when people from different locations call in, they can triangulate it.)
I'm glad we have Nextdoor for stuff like this, but I hate that we need it.