Monthly Archives: February 2007

A few days ago, Marge Ingram died.

We had not seen Marge for some years.  We will remember her for her godliness — a true Christian lady.

Marge was married to Ross Ingram, Jill’s pastor and preaching mentor.  My wife grew up with their kids.  Marge kept an immaculate house and passed on a real sense of what is proper.  Fashionable in the good sense would be the way I would characterize Marge.

Ross was officiating minister at our wedding.  Suffice it to say, for Ross the balance of his wife made them a welcome and welcoming couple.  Where Ross could be a little mischievious, Marge could keep order and propriety.  The last few years Ross had cared for Marge as only a devoted husband can — her memory and even some basic abilities were gone.

Truly we can say, “rest in peace.”

OK, so the lilies are still underground.  And not in any rush to emerge.

Which is just the point.  When I awoke this morning the weather suggested a return to the warmth of a duvet.  My wife is fighting a cold so she took up the call of the duvet.  Until 10:00 this morning when the light was bright and all was right in the world.

Except its cold.

Now, a hardy prairie boy shouldn’t complain. 

But I will. 

I sat with another prairie boy this evening.  We had on sweaters and bunny hugs (which designation shows our age!).  The parkas remained on for minutes into our time together. 

All this to say, look out for the deep freeze.  And when you see the lilies come striding over the garden patch, break out the party hats and shed the sweaters — spring is just around the corner.

Yes, I was out.

Out of the house — to join with our club 756.  They are rambunctious kids ranging from Grade 5-7.  They love hard playing, strong singing, and biblical devotions.  One of the fun times of the week.

Tonight we were home by 9:00 and I continued a project of mixdown.  In the audio world that means taking a number of recorded “tracks” and trying to make them sound good.  Last week we “put down” some vocal tracks and today I put them together with instrumentals.  The draft CD still needs a few more instrumentals but its coming.

The time is now 11:13 . . . time to wrap up.  See you tomorrow!

This past week we began to announce our daughter’s wedding.  With vigor.

Our local paper has an announcement section.  So we included a wedding picture, much like I have on the blog here.  Then we added some words just to let people know the parents names.

Now, Jill has made up some nice announcements to send out to friends around the country and globe.  She is carefully addressing them right now.  And soon the mails will carry them across time zones and locations.