Saturday, and Dad’s 90th birthday celebration excites the hall. We had around 125 for a “come and go” tea. Then a family and friends supper with around 65. Roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, peas, salad, dessert. All good!!
Here’s the immediate family in portrait.
So, what happens when your camera strap accidentally joins in with the picture you are taking? Creativity happens. Witness the picture of my neice, Elizabeth (Liz) Barton.
No, I’m not talking about the drug type of “grass”!
We were in the midst of setting up some table centres for my father’s 90th birthday celebration. For all the beautiful flowers and other accoutrements we could add, something seems right about prairie grass.
My father was born into prairie farm life, and farmed for a number of years. My earliest recollection of pictures of my father are of him in wheat fields. After leaving the farm there was still a great pull of the land.
So, we pulled some tufts of grass. They set nicely into the white vases. Surrounded by white table clothes and blue highlighted runners, the vases looked quite welcoming. We may add a few more plants to the arrangement, but the grass will be an outstanding part of the mixture.
Now, just one more sleep and the afternoon celebration begins. If you are around Kindersley between 2:00 – 4:00 on Saturday, drop by the Alliance Church (74 West Road) and join us! 90 years doesn’t roll around too often!
Every once in a while, while reading very serious material, something tickles my funny bone. The Times of London put together an article on the recent Anglican Lambeth conference. Anglican representatives from around the globe meet every decade to discuss the state of the Anglican communion.
This one promised to be a bit stormy! A number of Bishops did not attend because they felt things were getting too liberal in the church. Some were not invited. Things seemed a bit precarious. A compromise was reached but who knows where that will lead — a moratorium on gay consecrations and same-sex blessings as well as a moratorium on consecrating cross-boundary bishops to minister to evangelical congregations in liberal dioceses.
Heavy stuff! Now, here is the Times Trivia that struck my funny bone:
The Lord gaveth
500 pairs of holy socks bought by bishops during the conference
120 litres of Communion wine drunk during 25 hours of worship
3,610 pints of lager consumed
10 years between conferences
1,320 minutes spent in 16 “indaba” groups
50 copies of In the Eye of the Storm signed by Gene Robinson, the gay Bishop of New Hampshire, sold
2 copies of The Truce of God: Peacemaking in Troubled Times by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, sold